Hi guys, another chapter, the avalanche chapter, which will be really long, and loads of Bruce, Selina and Sean in it. Also, this chapter will be different then the previous chapters. There will be still funny parts, but also lots of action, especially in the second chapter:D
Chapter 37: Switzerland – The avalanche - Part 1
Somewhere in Switzerland, in a abandon hangar a man waits by his small airplane when two men walk inside and over to the man by the plane. Dodgy, they shake hands.
"Do you have it?" The man by the plane asks the two strangers. They grin in reply and one of them takes something from his inside pocket, showing a small box. Slowly he opens it, revealing a large quantitiy of diamonds.
The man slowly picks one between his thumb and index finger and checks the quality. He eyes it impressively.
"Do you have the money?" the other stranger asks and the man grabs a briefcase from the plane, opens it and shows the money. "Nice doing business." the guy takes the briefcase and his friend hands over the box with diamonds.
"Likewise," the man grins, turns around and hops into the plane, starting the engine and rolls out the hangar before taking off, leaving the other two dodgy men behind.
Meanwhile, somewhere else in Switzerland, a certain butler had enough of a young cat-girl's antics and decided it was a nice idea to send the children out the door to lash out in the mountains. That way he also has the change to do something in and around the chalet without them interrupting him, constantly.
"I"ll packed some lunch for you lot!" Alfred strolls regualry into the dining room and stares at the gang of children. A certain elk has popped his head through the window, again. "I say you lot strap some snow shoes on and go exploring."
"Where to?" Sean eyes the butler suspiciously, taking a bite from his toast with jam. Suddenly the young street boy spits it from his mouth back to his plate, a disgusted look all over his face. "Who replaced the jam with Ranch sauce?!" Selina's grin says enough. "You monster Cat, you know I hate that stuff!"
"Well, anywhere you want!" Alfred replies, rubbing his forehead tiredly when the two street kids starts to kick one and another from under the table. "Pick a direction, it's all gorgious."
"I say we head up the ridge behind the chalet," Loïc suggests, handing Sean the Ranch sauce, which was now the jam. "Spectacular view up there."
"Any wild life?" Bruce asks, taking a sip from his orange juice before making himself another toast and taking a bite from it.
"Sure, lots of caribous in the valley below."
"You really seen them?" the young billionaire asks excitedly. Then, his face turns soar because Selina's foot just kicked his instead of Sean's. Selina mouths apologized to Bruce and throws another kick to Sean, hitting her target this time between his legs.
"Really, Cat monster?!" Sean bellows, cupping his down area with his hand. "You had to kick my nutts?!"
Alfred rolls his eyes, turns on his heels and strolls regally out the dining room, getting himself a paracetamol for his headache that was just about to come up.
Quickly gulpin the paracetamol down, Alfred stares out the kitchen window, noticing the gang of kids scramble out the front door and heading into mountains. Alfred sighs relieved.
It doesn't take long for the kids to reach Full Moon Mountain, packed with Alfred's lunch and snowboards.
"Get away from MY Bruce!" Selina suddenly cries over protectively. Her friends share a worried look before watching her race across the mountain to a certain silver haired girl that came into view, in the distance.
Silver, seeing a cat-girl running upon her, turns on her heels and scrambles away. Her screams of fear echoing through the mountains. Selina pursued, making sure the silver haired backstabber gets as far away from Bruce as possible.
"So, while Selina is off hunting again, we can hold a snowboard race," Sean suggests. They all nod agreed, turning their backs to the little brown and black dot, and the little silver and blue dot in the distance.
The five children climb to the top of Full Moon Mountain and strap in to their boards. Bruce however, needs a little help.
"Are you sure you won't start at the bottom of the run, B?" Sean asks, helping Bruce to get up and stand stable. It really shows it's Bruce's first time on a snowboard.
"I'll be fine," Bruce assures the street boy, puffing his chest proudly, who glances back at Bruce, doubtfully. "Really. Don't wo- AAHH!" the young billionaire screams loudly when he swoops down Full Moon Mountain, his arms swaying wildly because he can't find the breaks.
"B, watch out!" Sean bellows as the billionaire heads with the speed of 30 miles per hour toward a tree. "Try to stop on your toes!"
Bruce does what's told and... slides penguin like on his belly further down the mountain until he comes to halt in a pile of snow at the foot of the tree he almost collapsed onto. Bruce sighs relieved.
Selina grins to herself. She's a genius. No way that the little silver haired backstabber dared to set foot close to Bruce, ever again.
"And stay, AWAY!" Selina bellows from the top of her lungs, watching the silver and blue dot disappearing between the town houses. After that, the young kitty-girl turns on her heels and darts back into the mountains, back to her friends.
While Selina returns to her friends, a small airplane flies over her head and when she looks up, she notices a person jumping from it with a parachute.
For a moment the young cat-girl follows the plane with her eyes, which grows with fear in seconds as she sees it heading toward a mountain. Five seconds later, bursting into flames as it crashes onto the mountain.
Selina looks in shock at the mountain as she watches the person land into the snow not far away from the plane's crashing side.
The young cat-girl was about to run to help the person but a roaring sound filed her ears and when she looked at the ground under her feet, she felt in started to shake a tremble.
Horrified she looks up at the mountain where the plane crashed and that's when she notices an enormous landslide, heading toward her and… her friends! She has to warn them.
Sean and the gang had noticed the plane too and they also heard to loud explosion when it crashed, but more fear strikes their hearts as the see Selina running upon them, swaying wildly with her arms while screaming something they couldn't hear. Her screams gets drowned by some strange rumbling noise.
The young street boy is about to run toward Selina but then the ground under his feet starts to tremble. The other kids feel it as well and they share a worried look.
Sean, suddenly getting it; "AVALANCHE!"
Selina runs like the wind, the avalanche closing in behind her.
"Guys, run!" Annie screams, pointing behind them. "There's a chalet over there, quickly!" Her friends obey immediately, and all of them, including Selina, run toward the chalet the young speedster mentioned.
Loïc opens the front door, letting his friends run inside first before closing and locking it behind them just in time. The enormous avalanche collapses with the chalet and everything inside starts to tremble and shake.
The windows, not build for the large quantity of snow, breaks and starts sliding inside the chalet. The six children scramble across the floor to find a save spot to hide behind or under as more snow finds its way inside, covering stuff and blowing small things out of the way. Suddenly, everything gets dark.
Alfred Pennyworth is still at the Wayne Chalet, doing some responsible butler stuff which involves throwing garbage out. Regally the silver haired butler trotted out the back door when he suddenly hears a loud explosion.
Immediately, the Military Ninja Butler Assassin darts his eyes to the mountains. Fear fills his heart when he watches a gigantic avalanche heading toward Full Moon mountain. He's 100% sure the kids are out there.
Elliot comes bouncing around the cliff and toward the Military Butler, hiding behind him. Fear all over the poor animal's body.
"Stay!" Alfred orders the elk, scrambling around and back into the chalet to get the phone and make a phone call to Gotham.
Meanwhile, in the GCPD, detective Bullock and detective Gordon have some troubles of their own in the form of Edward Nygma. The forensic keeps bugging them with stupid riddles. And though Bullock kept hollering in his face to stop with the ridicules riddles, Nygma just grins like he doesn't hear the lackadaisical cynic.
Relieved to have an excuse to get away from the two men, Jim picks up the phone and strolls away for some privacy. Behind him, Ed keeps shooting riddles at Bullock like bullets.
"This is Gordon," Jim says, taking in a long deep breath as he rubs her forehead, tiredly.
"Detective," Alfred sighs relieved that the cop picked up the phone so quickly. "Avalanche, kids are in the mountains. Get your butt over here, this instant! Two tickets are waiting at the airport!"
Jim Gordon blinks confused, staring at the phone in his hand after Alfred bellowed some words and hung up.
"What's up, Jimbo?" Bullock growls, trying to push the forensic away from him.
Jim turns to face them, plastering a smile on his face to hide the fear and worries. There are still lots of dirty cops around.
"Bullock, I just won two tickets to Switzerland. Wanna come?"
A certain forensic blinks stupefied as he watches a very happy, and drunken cop, dashing gleefully out the door and onto the streets, hollering; "I'm going to Switzerland!"
"Guys?" Sean coughs, popping his head from under his hiding place, the dining table. His eyes dart around the chalet as they adjust to the darkness around him. A few meters away from him he can see someone moving.
Slowly the young street boy crawls toward the person, who sits in the corner of the room with his legs pulled up, rocking back and forth.
"B?" Sean whispers, recognizing the small boy and starts to shake him awake from the shock he's in. "B, calm down! I need your help to find the others! Bruce?!"
Slowly the young billionaire lifts up his eyes, staring into Sean's. He nods slowly as Sean helps him to get onto his knees and together the crawl through the snow, shouting for their friends.
"Over here!" Loïc's voice sounds from their left and they look up alarmed, scoping the room. "My leg is stuck!"
"B, the kitchen is that way!" Sean points into the kitchen direction. "Check the kitchen drawers for a flashlight. Bruce nods, crawling on hands and knees into the direction his friend mentioned.
"Guys?" Annie shouts from across the room. "Is everyone okay?"
"Yeah, me and Bruce are fine," Sean replies, finally reaching Loïc. "But Loïc's leg is stuck! Try to crawl over to us and help me."
Annie slowly crawls from her hiding spot, scrambling over into the direction of Sean's voice. Suddenly, her hand touches something soft and warm.
"I think I found Selina!" the speedster says as she feels her friend's sticky curls. "I think she's bleeding!"
"Is she breathing?!" Sean asks, trying to lift up the heavy cupboard that had fallen onto Loïc's leg. "B, how about that flashlight I asked you? I could really use it right now!"
"Yeah, coming right up!" Bruce scowls, pulling one of the drawers out and tosses the stuff in it onto the snow covered floor. Quickly he searches with his hands through it until he feels something that has the same size as a flashlight. "Found it!"
"Yes, she's breathing!" Annie replies Sean's previous question, her hand close to Selina's nose so she feel the air coming from it.
"Good, make sure she stays warm!" Sean orders firmly, taking the flashlight from Bruce's hand when he had crawled back toward them and turns it on. He beams the flashlight onto Loïc's leg, ordering Bruce to hold it right there while he lifts up the cupboard.
Loïc quickly crawls from under it and pulls up the sleeve of his pants to check the damage, whispering; "Has anyone seen Rikki?"
"Yes, there she is," Bruce replies, aiming the flashlight across the room and upon the blonde girl. She wasn't moving, at all.
Quickly the three boys scramble toward their mermaid friend, pushing the snow off of her. Rikki looks really blue, but they can see she's still breathing. They sigh relieved.
Annie was still busy with rubbing Selina's hands, body and legs to get them warm. Her eyes start to tremble slightly.
"Selina, are you okay?" Annie asks, wrapping a blanket around her cat friend. Selina looks up, groggy. Carefully she touches the bleeding wound on her head, nodding slowly. "She's fine!"
"That's great," Bruce replies, crawling over to the two girls and hugs Selina, tightly. "But we can't say the same thing about Rikki. She's breathing but she's looking really blue."
"Bruce, Annie, put the dining table back on its feet so we can carry Rikki over to you guys and place her onto the table. "Selina, more blankets!"
Annie orders Selina to stay put and clean her head wound while Loïc and Sean carry Rikki over to the dining table, laying her down onto her back, her tail flopped down beside it. Quickly they start to rub her tail and body dry with the towels Bruce gave them. Annie staggering toward them with a pile of blankets.
Soon as Rikki's tail disappears and her normal clothes appear, they wrap her in a bundle of blankets. Though she's dry and slowly gets her normal body temperature back, Rikki stays unconscious.
"B, you stay here and watch her. Soon she wakes up, or if something else happens, you yell," Sean orders the young billionaire, who nods agreed, taking a seat while Sean, Selina and Annie head upstairs where Loïc was shouting for them.
"Are you okay?" Selina asks, slowly sitting down onto the landing beside Loïc.
"Yeah, I'm fine, but it seems all exits are blocked," the mountain boy replies, slowly crawling closer to a large pile of snow that found its way through the roof, inside. "But I think I found us a way out of here. We dig our way out through here."
"You know what?" Sean says, looking thoughtfully as he sits down as well. "I think this might work. If we dig carefully and support the structure we can give it a go. We have food and dry clothes. I'll get started."
"Great idea," Loïc nods, standing back up onto his feet, dusting the snow from his clothes. Sean starts to dig snow away with his hands, tossing it somewhere behind him. "But we need to keep this landing clear."
"Is there anything I can do?" Annie asks, slowly stepping down the stairs again.
"Loïc nods; "Find me a broom so I can sweep the landing." Annie rushes down the stairs to what's told. "Selina, find something to dig with, anything." Selina rushes off too.
Alfred packed two backpacks with blankets, dry clothes and other supplies. One for him so he could get a head start, and one for the detectives when they arrived at the chalet. All they needed to do was read the note Alfred left them, saying they had to follow the elk.
Carefully, the Military Ninja Assassin takes the steep cliff path up the mountain and from there he only needed to follow the path that lead to Full Moon Mountain.
From afar Alfred can see it's going to be hard to find the children, because there was no sign of them. Worries strikes his heart. What if they hadn't been fast enough and the avalanche had buried them. No, he had to stop thinking like that. The children are fast and smart and they probably found an empty chalet to find protection.
With firm steps Alfred continues his search to find the chalets and check them before heading to the next.
In Gotham, the two detectives arrived at the airport, asked for their tickets and went aboard to take a 7 and a half hour flight to Switzerland.
Meanwhile, in the buried chalet Bruce keeps guarding Rikki, who is still unconscious. He keeps checking her pols, if she's breathing and if she is still warm. Luckily she is. To pass the time, and to let Rikki know he's there, the young billionaire talks softly.
Then, one of the windows can't hold the large amount of snow that's pressing against the wall and crack open. Snow starts to pour inside like sand in a hourglass. Bruce looks up alarmed.
Slowly the young billionaire rises onto his feet and watches at the snow, piling up underneath the window. But that's not what worries Bruce. The young boy doesn't know what is, but there's certainly something out of the ordinary.
Curious, his heart beating in his ears like a drum, the young boy takes small steps toward the half open window. His flashlight illuminating the walls and floor around him. The closer he gets to the window, the more worried he gets and a part of him screams to turn around and yell for his friends.
Bruce swallows, collecting all his nerve, pushing the scared little boy inside him to the background. He's brave, just like Sean. He's strong, just like Selina. He's fast, smart and… The young billionaire swallows the lump down and reaches his hand out to the window handle, slowly.
He feels the cold metal of the handle in his hand. Bruce closes his eyes to collect more nerve and takes in a long deep breath and pulls the window further open.
Bruce's heart skips a beat when snow starts to get inside quicker and… an arm comes in view. The young billionaire drops the flashlight to the floor, backs away from the window, screaming.
The young boy sinks to the snow covered floor. His four friends running down the stairs to see what's going on. All equally scared something's wrong with Rikki.
"What?!" Selina asks, sinking to the floor beside Bruce, wrapping an arm around him. Bruce points anxiously toward the window. Sean picks up the flashlight, trying to turn it back on. Luckily it's still working.
The street boy points the flashlight on the window, illuminating the thing that made Bruce freak out. They look all in horror as they stare at the hand, popping through the open window inside.
Alfred staggers through the piles of snow, reaching the foot of Full Moon Mountain when he suddenly trips onto something. Quickly he scrambles to his hands and knees and starts digging out the thing that made him trip. A few seconds later, Bruce's snowboard comes in view.
"Master Bruce!" Alfred says in tight whisper, quickly digging further down but he finds nothing else. That's a good thing, right? Alfred isn't sure.
The butler stands back onto his feet, spinning around while trying to decide which direction to take. Quickly he cups both hands around his mouth.
"MASTER BRUCE!... MISS KYLE!... MISTER ORNELAS! …MISS VISSER! …MISS CHADWICK! …MISTER KÄGI!"
Nothing. The only reply Alfred gets is the echo that ricochets through the mountains. There's no time to waste. He has to find them, and quickly.
Jim is sitting beside Bullock's empty seat. The lackadaisical cop is siting a few rows in the front, flirting with some single ladies. They either seem to like his company, or the drinks he shouting. Jim is burning like an angry volcano.
A 7 and a half hour flight is way too long. Especially if you're worried and Jim wishes the children are alright. He would never forgive himself if something happened to them. After all, it was his decision to send them to Switzerland.
The cop slowly takes a sip from his own drink, scowling at the lackadaisical cop in the front, laughing like's nothing going on.
"You know, Jimbo? That blonde lady over there has the hots for you," Bullock cries merrily as he scrambles back to his partner, flopping down beside him. "You really should go over and say hi."
"Bullock, this is not a fun trip, you know?" Jim grinds between his teeth as his partner stops a stewardess and asks her for another drink. "There's been an enormous avalanche and we don't know if the kids are fine."
Bullock rolls his eyes, bellowing to the stewardess; "Don't forget the peanuts!" With a huge grin on his face, the lackadaisical cop turns toward Jim, patting on his back; "You really need to learn how to relax."
"How can I relax when five children and their new friend are buried alive underneath a large amount of snow?!" Jim growls angrily.
"It's Cat-face and her gang we are talking about," Bullock snorts, taking the drink from the stewardess. "I mean, she survived on Gotham streets for like seven years or longer. That Ornelas kid lived all over the place, on his own. That Chadwick girl is weird, maybe scary even, I don't know and I'm telling you, that other girl runs with the speed of light!"
Jim looks at his friend with a 'of course-that-girl-can't-run-that-fast' look and shakes his head, turning away to look through the window.
"Yeah, I know that sounds crazy but I saw her doing that once," Bullock growls, taking a sip from his drink. "She even can travel through time."
"She can't," Jim replies annoyed, glaring through the window. "But maybe you're right about Selina, Sean, Annie and Rikki. But what about Bruce?"
Bullock opens his can of peanuts, pours some in his mouth and starts to chew loudly as he talks. "Do you really think that Cat-face girl will leave her billionaire toy all on his own?"
Jim scowls at his partner when peanuts start to fly through the plane and lands onto his lap. The detective dusts them off, clenching his teeth; "Do something useful and go back to the ladies in the front."
Bullock shrugs, rises back to his feet and staggers back to the ladies in the front. They giggle gleefully.
In the chalet, Selina and Bruce make the living room floor snow free while Loïc and Sean dig the man out the snow and drag him through the open window inside. Annie keeps a close eye on Rikki, who's still unconscious.
"Take it easy, take it easy!" Sean orders firmly, holding the man tightly under his arms while Loïc carries the feet as they walk over to the spot that BatCat swept clean. They lay him down gently. "Get something for under his head.
Bruce nods obeyed and turns on his heels, heading up the stairs to search through the bedrooms for pillows. He found them pretty quickly but he also found an empty suitcase, laying open onto one of the beds.
The young boy tosses the pillow into the suitcase, closing it and grabs the handle to lift it up from the bed. As Bruce heads back to the door, a part of the ceiling can't hold the snow pressure and collapses right in front of the young boy.
Bruce drops the suitcase and recoils to the floor, screaming as he tries to find cover behind one of the beds. Outside he can hear someone running up the stairs and down the hallway up to the bedroom.
"Bruce, where are you?!" Selina's voice rings in his ears and he can see her appearing in front of the open door. "Bruce, are you in there?"
"Yes, but I'm fine!" Bruce replies back and he can hear Selina sigh in relief. "I jumped out of the way in time, but I have some scars and bruises when I fell to the floor."
The young boy scrambles back onto his feet and staggers to the door, which is blocked by wooden beams. Selina reaches her hand through one of the holes and Bruce takes it, rubbing it gently. They share a smile.
"Can you climb through?" Selina whispers. Bruce nods slowly, letting his friend's hand go and carefully, without touching the beams, he crawls through them. "Being smaller than other boys of your age, can be quite handy, right?" Selina grins.
"Funny," Bruce replies, rolling his eyes with a smile and hugs his friend tightly. "But I can forget the suitcase thing."
"What did you wanted to do with it?"
"Well, my idea was to tie a rope around the handle, and while Sean digs a way out, we could haul the suitcase out when it was filled with snow."
"That is a brilliant idea, B," Selina cries gleefully, patting the young billionaire on the back. "Maybe we can find a suitcase in one of the other bedrooms."
Downstairs, Loïc and Sean take some of the man's wet clothes off and try to get him warm by wrapping him into blankets. Then, suddenly the man takes a deep gasp, jolting awake. Fear all over his face and in his eyes. But as soon his eyes opened, they closed again.
"He breaths out of himself, that's a good thing," Sean says, freeing his hand from the man's tight grip. "We need to get him warm and get his blood circulated. It's all we can do until he wakes up."
Loïc nods, wrapping more blankets around the man; "I stay with him while Annie keeps an eye on Rikki."
"That's great. I'll be upstairs, digging us a way out. Tell me if anything changes. Anything at all." Sean turns and heads back up the stairs, all the way to the attic where he finds Bruce and Selina.
"Is everything alright with Rikki and that man?" Bruce asks, looking up at Sean while scooping the snow with his hands into a suitcase. Obviously they found one in another room. Selina lies on her stomach, digging the snow away. It looks like she made progress.
"I'm past the roofline!" Selina gasps in pain, slowly crawling back to sit up. Her hands and fingers look really cold. She blows against them, wrapping them around her to get some warmth.
"Are we through?" Bruce asks excitedly, crawling over to Selina and peeks through the snowy tunnel.
"We're getting there," Selina replies. Sean flops down on her other side, peeking through as well. The young street boy sighs disappointedly.
"It's breaking if we keep digging," Sean says, sitting back up. Bruce rubs Selina's hands into his. "Also, there's a huge tree. Probably fell onto the roof when the avalanche collapsed into it."
"Yeah, but we can dig around that tree, can't we?" Selina asks, flopping back onto her stomach to continue the digging. Sean stops her.
"We need something to support the tunnel, otherwise you'll get buried, again." Selina and Bruce nod, standing back onto their feet. "You two try to find something we can use for support, while I clear the snow out."
"Uh, why can't you find some wood and I clear the snow out," Selina snorts, placing her hands in her hips. Sean looks up, his face slowly turning angry. "Or do you think a girl isn't capable of doing men stuff?"
"Do what I asked you!" Sean hollers angrily, piercing his brown eyes into Selina's green eyes. Bruce already trailed off. "Well?!"
"NO!" Selina puts her foot down. "I can dig too, you know! Also, you're not the boss of me!" Selina burns her green eyes into Sean's brown eyes and a staring contest follows. Sean slowly rises onto his feet, glaring dangerously.
"Help Bruce to find wood, or else I kick you all the way through the mountains and into Gotham!"
"You can't kick that far," Selina scoffs. "Also, try to touch one hair on my head and I'll spank your butt until it glows up, bright red."
Selina has to run for that one, because this time the young street boy isn't scared of Selina's treat as he hurls himself on top of her and starts to spank her butt with his shoe. Selina giggles, saying it tickles.
A few hours later of digging, keeping an eye on the unconscious Rikki and the man, the children take a small break to eat something. Suddenly something starts to change with the man. He starts to shiver, uncontrollably.
Loïc quickly stands up and walks over to the shivering man, wrapping the blankets more tightly around him. But soon the mountain boy touches the man, he jolts straight up, gasping for air while his eyes dart around the room, anxiously.
The man keeps shivering like crazy and when Loïc tries to push him back, gently, the man pierces his eyes into the boy's, grabbing his arms tightly and starts fighting.
Fear fills Loïc's eyes, not knowing what to do.
So, what do you think of this chapter so far? Let me know by review:D
Next chapter: You will find out some new background information about Sean:D