Before The Storm

Chapter 7

Once dinner was over I walked up to my room and got ready for the night. I put on the new suit. It was made of some sort of leather material, making it sort of cling to my body. The suit stopped right under the start of my neck with a v going down a few inches showing a little cleavage. I put the mask on my face and placed the bat blades in the golden belt around my waist along with the tazer and pepper spray. I then attached the grappling gun on the back with the baton on my side. I slid the black gloves on my hand and held them out. I nearly jumped when the black cape on my back followed the way my arms did making them look like bat wings.

“Cool” I breathed and stepped out onto the window sill.

Now that I had a way of flying, I didn't need to use my bad sheets as a rope. So praying silently I jumped from my window and glided to the ground. I stood up and ran to the garage to get the black motorcycle. I got on and drove quickly to Gotham.

Reaching the city I drove around a bit, until I saw a cop car with it's lights and siren on. I looked behind me to see that they were chasing me. I bit my lip as I drove faster trying to lose them, but they stayed on my tail, until drove down a dark alley with my lights turned off. I turned down another alley and drove out onto a different street. I hide the bike behind a garbage bin and climbed a fire escape to watch the city.

“Help!” I heard a woman scream.

I ran jumped to another roof to where the cry came from. I stopped at the edge and looked down to see a group of men surrounding a woman. It kind of reminded me of when I first had started out. It felt like it had been a long time ago, but really it's been only a few days. I jumped down from the roof and landed behind the men. I grabbed the baton and cleared my throat.

“Don't you know it's not polite to pick on women” I growled in a low voice.

The men turned and laughed at me. While they laughed the woman ran away. One of the men tried to go after her, but I hit him in the gut with the baton quickly making him fall to the ground coughing. I smirked as the other men glared at me.

“I'll give you a chance. Leave now and never harm anyone ever again, or” Before I could finish one of the man tried to punch me.

I dodge and punched him in the face.

“It's always the had way with you guys” I muttered to myself as the man stumbled backwards a bit and spat onto the ground.

He grinned and went at me again. I kicked him between the legs making him fall to the ground. I laughed and turned to the other men. There were about three others waiting for me to kick their butt. It was going to be a long night.

I fought the men quickly and climbed a fire escape that was close by. I ran along the roofs of buildings and apartments.

“Haha! Who's afraid of the little black bat?” I heard a man chuckle from one of the alleys.

I stopped and looked down to see a man wearing a green suit jacket, and pants along with a green hat with a black mask covering across his eyes. The man was all alone as he walked down the alley with a golden cane.

“I'm not afraid of some girl” A man said walked out of the shadow.

“Me neither” Another man said walking out of the shadows standing next to the other man.

They were both tall and must had been twins, because they had the same face and bald heads.

“Really now? And who might you two be?” The man in green asked.

“They call us the Clones” The two men said together, “Who are you?”

“Answer this question and I will tell you” The man grinned, “To unravel me you need a simple key. No key that was made by locksmith's hand. But a key that only I will understand”