I don't own Victorious.

Almost there.

She keeps motivating herself, racing the rooftops in a fit to escape the Quins, law enforcement agency with a frightening sense of skill and strange abilities.

She leaps off the edge, turning to face the sky with her arms stretched out as she plummets, deep red hair streaking in the wind.

The Quins, three in number, screech to a halt. Their titanium capped boots sending sparks from the metallic roof. Their uniform consists of a high collar studded jacket with fingerless gloves, and a pair of tight frocks. The large clock worn as a belt is of a similar alloy to the knee guards and the collar edge.

The one in the middle, tall and fiercely gorgeous, wears a pair of aviation goggles, pulled to rest on top of her raven locks. She turns to her partners, one a curly haired male, the other an attractive brunette female. Both in similar uniforms.

"Do we let her go?" Tori asks, adjusting her pigtails.

"That's the force's job. Our job is to fix that" Robbie replies, smirking and pulling his goggles over his eyes.

Both pause and look to the girl in the middle, her blue green eyes seem indifferent, but from her from her gaze at the point the red head had fallen, it's obvious she's in.

"Are you waiting for me?"

They leap off the edge, holding in arms and legs so they descend like spears at wind breaking speed.

"Got her in my sight" Tori calls over the wind, watching the girl make her way through the crowded market.

"Break!" Jade orders and they all spread out, stretching arms and legs out to slow their descent.

Tori whips her hands, then aims an open palm at the metal of a nearby scaffolding, sending out a metal impression of her hand to act as a grappling hook.

The others follow, attaching themselves to the scaffolding and continuing the chase.

Cat halts, making a hard right and bolting down an alley.

Her outfit, a black turtleneck with a large watchlike belt worn like a sash over her chest and a full knife holster around her waist over a dull red knife pleated skirt and a pair of metal studded combat boots with heightened soles.

The alley seems to get tighter as she moves further, watching the crack above.

She stops at a dead end, cursing and reaching for her weapon.

"Stop!" Robbie calls landing behind her, a mechanically adjusted rifle in his arms, aimed at her.

Cat smiles to herself.

'Of all the ones to get her, they sent him' she thinks to herself, keeping a grip on her blade.

"Robbie, whatever you do, don't let her leave" Jade orders through her headset.

"Got it" he answers then turns to the girl in front of him, "Hands where I can see them".

"What are you, the force?" she quizzes jokingly and he cocks the rifle, shutting her up.

"Hands. Up".

"Oh, you mean like this?" she asks, raising her hands above her head and stretching in a suggestive manner, bringing his eyes lower.

Almost certain he's distracted she swiftly reaches for a knife, and Robbie, noticing the move fires.

Both moves were a gamble and Robbie, almost certain he'd got her was already feeling the guilt at his random act.

Then again, he was almost certain.

It misses by a whisker, whizzing past Cat's arm as she shoots upwards using a similar grappling mechanism.

"Robbie! Did you kill her?!" the fear in Tori's voice has nothing to do with guilt of taking another life, but rather their contract with the force, which specifically asked for Cat delivered alive.

"Worse, she escaped" he growls, jumping after her and swinging his rifle back over his shoulder.

"Worse!? You could have broken the contract you fool!" Tori yells into her headset, swinging after the red haired bandit, a shock gun firmly in her grip.

"Quiet! She has the stolen gear and she's using it" Jade informs, watching in amusement as the girl swings recklessly with the advanced movement device.

"Pssh! obviously a novice" Tori comments, retracting her gear arms and balling up allowing herself to drop into one of the slits between building, "I'll cut her off".

Cat pulls back her shirt sleeve turning over her watch to show a small screen at the bottom.

A brown haired male shows on the screen, a frustrated look plaguing his handsome features.

"Where are you?" he ask, gritting his teeth to stop from yelling.

"A block away" she answers, looking up. In her sight is a medium sized chimney breathing sky reaching fumes.

Her only chance.

"I'm on my way, keep the tract open" she informs him and looking around, both Jade and Robbie can be spotted at her sides.

She sprints for the end of the building, sending forth the hands and using them to sling shot herself into the air, heading straight for the smoke, from where it's supposed to be a smooth ride down the chute and into Base.

"I am never doing this again" she says, and suddenly a form shoots out from the streets below, aiming straight for her.

She sidelines it narrowly and focuses on the smoke, starting to doubt her chances of escape.

'Once I reach the smoke, I'm in the clear' she repeats to herself.

A bullet whizzes past her shoulder, grazing her lightly but it's still enough to distract her as she stumbles.

"Now!" Jade orders, holstering her pistol, and Tori fires the shock gun.

Cat turns to the approaching chute, frightened beyond belief.

And as the the electric net gets closer, Cat wonders if this is the last time she'd ever see the chute, much less the loving people hidden beneath.

The net wraps round and she reaches out. So close, almost into the fumes.

Almost.