Cut the blue wire pull the red wire, dismantling the jokers bombs has become a routine thing for me now. Ever since the joker faked his own murder three months ago, I've foiled every attempt he has made for a ...thunderous return. Having a brother in is twisted gang really has come in handy though. He finds out the location of the bombs, I go and take them apart. The first was in a church, then a school, mall, subway, bank, and today a five building marketing agency. This one being the largest of them all made it a bit more difficult. So just has a precaution, I went in earlier and claimed there was gas leak and needed the building evacuated for a further investigation. Ryan, my brother, informed me that each of the five buildings had a bomb on the first level that would go in order. All the bombs had been placed a couple yards from the entrance underneath the tiles of the floor, probably put there after hours by a fake janitor. I was in the fifth building finishing up the job.
"So your the rat who has been ruining all my fun?" said a lazy voice from behind me. I looked over my left shoulder and there stood the big cheese himself, greasy green hair and all. He was leaning up against a white wall directly behind me with his hands shoved into the pockets of his worn and dirty purple coat.
Once he saw me look over at him he pushed him self off the wall and took a few steps closer. I slowly stood and turned to face him.
"You know, you have done a pretty good job of ruining... all my fun." He grinned at me in a sarcastic way.
I returned the smile, " That's what I do." I held my hands up in a innocent manner
"Yes, I can tell," his smile faded and he took his hands out of his pockets. "But considering the fact that you evacuated all the people from the building, that you have a little doubt about yourself today." He licked his lips and and pulled out a small knife examining it.
"Just a precaution." He nodded his head in agreement. I backed up a few steps not wanting to fight at the current moment.
"So just out of curiosity, did you get the bombs on the first floor of buildings one and two?" he separated each word carefully and squinted at me. I nodded in return. "Good, good...and three, four and five?" I nodded again. " Well it seems like you got me again." He frowned at held up his hands in surrender. Then he paused and looked up at the ceiling in deep thought. Not looking down he said, "What about the ones on the second floors of each building?" Now he looked back at me with a look of satisfaction. His eyes widened into fake shock when I didn't reply.There was no way,. Ryan had only said the first floors. "O... you didn't? In that case..." He held up his wrist and looked at a nonexistent watch. "I'm guessing we have about 30 seconds before this complex is...how should I put this? Blown to kingdom come?" He eyed the door in front of us and looked back me.
"Time to go!" he said has he took of towards it, me following not to far behind. I caught up to him quickly and was now directly beside him He reached over and shoved me in the shoulder. " hey!" I yelled childishly and shoved him back in a immature manner.
"Hee hee!" he giggled and shoved me again and I shoving in return. This continued until we were out side the building were we quit running and squared to face each other. I stared at him in astonishment as he doubled over from laughter. Finally, he looked up at me and returned back in to his laughing fit. Then, the first building blew up and then tow, three, four, and five. We both watched each building reduce to dust in a domino affect around us. He turned back to look at me, amusement all over his face. " You know, you might have gotten all the employees out of here, but what if... hypothetically," he said with a grin, "I brought a few people with me today." he looked at me sheepishly.
"You wouldn't"
He looked down and shrugged "Or I would"
I looked towards the ruble that was the first building and bit the inside of my lip. "How many?"
"Hee Hee...i don't know a hundred or so?"
I couldn't hold it in any longer. I lunged forward and grabbed him by his hideous coat. " You little sun of a bitch!"
"Careful there sweetheart. You wouldn't want me to mess up that pretty little face of yours would you?" He pulled out his knife again and holding up towards my face, "I can do to you what I did to myself." He said with a smirk. "By the way do you know how I got these scars? You see..."
"Do you really think I give a shit about your damn face?" I growled back at him pulling back a clenched fist ready to drive into his makeup covered self, but before I could cause any damage, we both turned our heads to look at an approaching motorcycle...eer...i guess a motorcycle. Sure enough, it was the one and only batman.