Leo P.O.V
one hour later
Mari was unfortunately, right it was very easy to find a rent tux store, and now here I was waiting outside of a hotel bathroom in a tux waiting for Mari to change into her dress.
"Are you almost done in there? People are begging to stare." I said.
"Give me five more minutes. this dress is more complex then it looks." She said. I no way did I want to know how a dress was complex. I was a Guardian I didn't need to know anything about fashion. In fact I am almost certain this was the first time in my nearly 400 years of life that I had worn a tux.
"So how do I look?" Mari said. I turned around andmy face instantly burnt red. Gorgeous was and understatement. She wore a bright red dress that went down to her kness. The dress huged her already generous curves and left very little to the imagination. She also had on bright red lipstick that brought out her eye color. She also had on a necklace that had several animal teeth surronding a cats head. All in all she could give Diana a run for her money. "Speechless. So I take it I look great then." She said with a smile. I shook myself out of my stupor and nodded numbly. "Great lets go." She said happily. What have I gotten myself into.
Five minutes later.
We were currently waiting in a line outside of a ballroom waiting to be let in. Everyone in the line was currently being searched and going through a metal detector and were putting any purses, metal jewelry and the like on a convator belt going through a X-ray. As well as multiple security staff with metal detectors.
"Ok I'm all for sensible security but this seems like overkill." I said.
"Yeah." Mari said. It took us around ten more minutes until we got up to the security checkpoint.
"Please remove all jewelry and accessories and place them in a bin to your right." One of the security personnel said with the dead on the inside tone I had ever heard, excluding Jalaal, in all my years of knowing the man I don't think I have seen him smile once.
"Can I keep my necklace on it belonged to my mother and I don't want to risk it getting damaged." Mari asked.
"Sorry mam no exceptions." The man said.
"Bu-"
"No exceptions." The man said cutting her off with a rather aggresive tone. "Now please hurry up your holding up the line." He said. Mari dejectedly took her necklace off and gingerly put it in a bin. "Now you sir."
"I don't have anything on me." I said.
"Sir don't make call security." He said as he put his hand on something on his hip whether it be a gun or a taser I couldn't tell from this angle. But I did have a nasty feeling it wasn't a taser. Something was definitely wrong.
"Look im not lying see I have nothing on me." I said as I pulled up my sleeves and pulled out my pockets.
"Shoes." He said.
"By the-" I began saying multiple curses under my breath as I took my shoes off and handed them to the man. This wasn't an airport this was a party. I could understand guards at the door asking for bags but this. After the man was done cheaking my shoes for whatever he was looking for he pulled out a small peice of of paper from my shoe.
"What's this?" He asked.
"It's a recet from a rent a tux place nearby." I said.
"I'll be holding on to this." He said.
"Why?" I asked.
"Just take your shoes and get moving." The man said as he shoved the bin with Mari's necklace into the machine carelessly. "We both walked through the metal detector and waited for Mari's necklace to come out. It took a full five minutes.
"What is taking so long." Mari asked with a slight bit of worry in her voice.
"The machine is very the thorough." One guard said. Thorough my butt, something was off here.
"Do you want me to look into it." A small voice said in the back of my mind.
"Yes Morgan but keep out of sight." I thought back. I shifted my leg a bit towards the checpoint and Morgan materialized behind my leg and silently slipped underneath the machine. Finally after several more minutes of waiting the bin finally came out and Mari snatched her necklace back and took a good long look at it before a look of fury crossed her face.
"This isn't my necklace!" She said.
"What are you talking about of course it is." One guard said.
"No it isn't!" She said as she threw the fake to the ground causing it to shatter. "What the hell are you playing at here!"
"What is going on over here." A very large man with a thick accent. I tried to place his accent but I couldn't place it, there as definitly some spanish in it.
"Morgan run a quick scan on the guy infront of me specifically police records." I thought to him.
"Give me details." Morgan said.
"Male, 6'8, probably in early to mid forties, caucasian most likley of spanish descent, thick accent again most likely spanish. Probably over three hundred pounds and all of it muscle." I told him while Mari was arguing with them. The beast of a man look straight at me then back at Mari, finally he let out a sigh.
"Covers blown get to work." and with those words all hell broke loose. In the blink if an eye he punched Mari in the stomach actually taking her off the ground. She came back down hard on her hands and knees and vomited up blood.
"MARI!" I yelled as I ran over to her.
BANG
A single shot ran out and something hit me in the back of the head. All the shot managed to do was knock me down. Before I could get back up I heard the I unmistakable sound of a shotgun being loaded then nothing.
Unknown amount of time later.
Leo P.O.V
I shot back up and looked around at my surroundings.
"Seriously they dumped my body in a dirty bathroom." I said.
"Yeah I know showsome respect to the dead. Or in your case undead." Morgan said as he floated in front of me.
"Did they kill Mari?" I asked trying to hide the worry in my voice.
"No they seemed content with making an example out of you." Morgan responded.
"Who are we dealing with?" I asked.
"I got a hit on the guy you mentioned. Antonio Diego AKA Bane. Wanted super villan apparently he's tangled with Batman a few times. Apparently Bane nearly killed him once." Morgan said.
"And the machine?" I asked.
"Some sort of high tech 3D printer. Shows how smart Mari is, she picked out the fake immediately." Morgan said.
"WHO THE HELL IS IN HER-" One of Bane's grunts barged into the bathroom but his voice quickly died when he saw the dead man walking.
"Morgan, armour." Instantly my armour materialized around my body. The grunt quickly started panic firing at me. The bullets pinged harmlessly off my armour like rain drops. Finally his gun clicked. Out of ammo. While he was trying to reload I pulled out the handcannnon Crimil's Dagger and shot him in the head killing him instantly.
"Well I think they know something is up." Morgan said grimly