Catwoman #4
THIS TOWN – PART 4
Written by: Jake Bat
Catwoman leaps and jumps from building to building through Crime Alley formerly Park Row. Park Row, one of the safest parts of Gotham City, one of the richest parts of Gotham City and one of the best is now Crime Alley. Crime Alley, one of the dangerous parts of Gotham City, one of the poorest parts of Gotham City with nearly 49% of all homicides coming from there.
While jumping on one of the buildings she sees a banner saying "LETS BRING IT BACK: PARK ROW".
Catwoman: Heh. Why change what's not even broke?
At that moment she hears a yell for help.
She sees a man being choked and being held against the edge on a nearby apartment complex by two men.
Catwoman: Okay maybe it can use some help.
Catwoman pulls out a grapple hook and swings to get over to that side and when she gets to the other side she climbs up quietly to surprise the thugs.
One of the thugs then tips the man, skinny, young a lot over the edge with his upper chest nearly off the building.
Thug #1 (holding the man turns to his partner): Hey Mitch!
Mitch: Yeah Ray?
Ray: Do you think Johnny here will make a big splat sound when he falls?
Mitch: Ha-ha! Maybe, unless he pays his taxes. Elliot Ness ain't taking no shit no more.
They both laugh.
Catwoman walks up behind them with neither of them noticing at all.
Catwoman (in sure confidence): Hey boys! Do you think you two are getting to get an ass-kicking? If so you're correct. Let him go.
Catwoman whips at Mitch hitting him in the chest causing Ray to get Johnny away from the pavement and pushes him aside so he can pull out a gun but Catwoman just whips it out of his hand.
Soon Mitch gets up and tries to go for the fire escape but Catwoman whips his legs causing him to fall but Ray then runs up to Catwoman and manages to kick her in the chest sending her back a few feet. When he tries to run up to her again to do the same trick she ducks and nails him.
But Mitch then gets up again and pulls out a gun firing randomly at Catwoman who ducks but she turns to the man named Johnny, who's stunned in fear and ends up getting shot in his heart causing him to fall off the edge due to the reaction.
Catwoman (in horror): NO!
As she turns back to Mitch he has already gotten to the fire escape.
Catwoman turns back to Ray who she head-butts to hard he's knocked out before running after Mitch whose already running the street. She jumps on other buildings following him eventually deciding to follow him from a distance to see where he heads so she can find the head.
She follows Mitch through the darkest alleys of Crime Alley especially when he dodges some police cars coming in because of the gunshots being reported.
Ultimately Mitch, thinking he's safe looks around and soon walks into a seemingly abandoned restaurant called "The Park Row Gourmet." She swings to the roof of the building and soon climbs in thanks to a ceiling window.
There she sees Mitch running towards a table where six guys are at, including one in a red coat.
The figure in the red coat gets up.
The Figure: Do you have the money from the Johnny kid?
Mitch: No! Listen Catwoman showed up! It got all bad and…..
The Figure pulls out a large handgun and shoots Mitch point-blank in between his eyes.
The Figure then turns his attention to the ceiling roof where he shows off his face: he's white, with nasty black hair and most identifying; a robotic eye. A robotic eye red in color with silver mechanics surrounding it like it was installed into him.
He then lifts up his gun and fires at Catwoman who flips back enough to only have the bullet grace her, causing an extremely thin line of blood to come out but not enough to hurt her.
He then turns to the others.
He (barks): What are you idiots waiting for!? Kill that bitch!
The men open fire on Catwoman.
She dodges and flips back onto the ground landing on her feet.
The men then run out the abandoned building trying to hunt her down.
Three of them race from the back of the building and split up going to different sides. The remaining do the same but in the front.
Soon Catwoman hears one of them approaching and ducks behind some debry but she then hears some footsteps approaching them getting louder and louder as she thinks shit in her head.
Thug: Hey where she go!?
Another Thug: She must've bailed.
However, the mysterious figure from the before comes around and says something.
Idiots! Why not you look harder!
He then points a gun towards the debry Catwoman is hiding under and begins shooting as Catwoman tries to bend more to hide better and to avoid bullets but she knows it's only a matter of time before the figure kills her.
Catwoman (in anger): Screw this!
She then jumps the highest she can off the debry with the figure trying to shoot her but ends up kicking his face with her boot in his robotic eye.
The Figure: AAAHHHH!
She then launches off of him into the remaining field.
The Figure: DON'T SHOOT! I want to kill this dumb stupid bitch by myself!
Catwoman: Well aren't you a charmer?
The Figure: KEEP TALKING! I'm gonna ice you! Then I'll ice your boyfriend Batman!
Catwoman: Have fun with that Zeiss!
Zeiss: Huh!? How'd you!?
Catwoman: Well you see Zeiss, there's something called research. I'm not sure if you can spell research but it's where you look up information though I'm sure if you can spell that either.
Zeiss: Ah! Screw you!
Zeiss lifts up his gun and begins shooting at Catwoman who narrowly dodges it and begins doing flips to avoid bullets.
She then tries to whip him by slashing his hand but he dodges and rolls shooting the gun again except this time she again narrowly dodges getting shot but dodges. She then pulls out small spikes and throws it at Zeiss who gets up and gets hit by them in the shoulder and goes down.
Zeiss: Please all of you backup! Surrender! We lost ah!
Catwoman smiles.
Catwoman: Alright good. Now listen up….
Zeiss then suddenly gets up and shoots Catwoman in the heart at point-blank range.
TO BE CONTINUED…..