Chapter four - Thief!
As the alert sounded out through out the halls of the Watchtower, a thin, athletic woman dropped out of the air vents. She landed lightly on her feet and looked around the room she had entered. A puzzled look came over her face and she tapped her communicator. "C here, am I supposed to be in their trophy room?"
"Yes. Remember they said Flash hid it." The computerized woman replied. "It should be behind the Green Lantern display."
"Green Lantern. Got it…" The woman tripped over the floor as she scanned the numerous displays. Suddenly she stopped and turned to look at a certain display marked with the bat insignia. Within the display lay numerous trophies of the battles Batman and his team had won. Yet none of these trophies drew the woman's eyes. Instead, at the end of the display lay a tattered Cowl, broken and scorched. She bent over the glass, transfixed by the sight.
"C, number 2 is finished and prepared to meet you." Her guide announced breaking the spell the broken hood had cast over the sneaky woman.
"Alright… I'm here at the display…" The woman skipped past the Superman display and came to the first of four Green lantern displays. Her computerized guide informed her of a hidden latch on the upper left hand corner of the middle panel. The panel opened to reveal a safe. Drawing out a USB drive, she plugged it into the safe's computerized lock. "Plugged in and ready for your magic."
Several minutes later, the door opened. "Wow. There is a veritable rainbow of rocks in here. Couldn't we take the red one? It's like a ruby."
"NO! We want to de-power him, not send him into a frenzy that could kill us!"
"Oh, right. Blue you said?" The woman took hold of the blue rocks that were shatters of Superman's home world. She took the smallest sliver and replaced it with a similar sized pebble from her bag. She slid the kryptonite into her bag, closed the safe and then the panel. She danced back to her waiting rope, shimmied up into the vents, drew her rope up after her and closed the vent. As she finished coiling her rope and stuck it into her bag, she glanced around and met the waiting eyes of the shadow figure who had bugged the lounge room.
"Gah!" The woman hissed. "You are getting too good at this game."
"I've always been good at the sneaking part." The youth smirked. "Do you have the kryptonite?"
"Yes. Here you go. Now what?"
"Stalk the upper levels. Wait for the signal. It could still be a couple hours."
"How are you going to get it onto Big Blue?" The woman asked as she closed her bag and looked up. She was alone. "Right. None of my business."