AN: *opens door slowly. Hello everyone. *Grimm 203 throws tomato. *Noir Valor dodges. Hey! no throwing produce. If your gonna throw something, throw me a party for my triumphant return. I am a busy man with a busy life, and sometimes instead of writing on the weekend, i like to play video games and take naps, because that is what adults just decide to do sometimes.
Okay, jokes over. In all seriousness, thank you all for your patience, especially Grimm 203, based of your review, you really want me to update on a more predictable schedule. Good news, for the next month or so, that is an option for me. I really want to wrap up this arc in that period of time. Anyway, this chapter is shorter than usual to get it out so you all had something to work with.
Chapter 6
The city had gone dark hours ago. The waning crescent moon has raising higher in the sky. The silver tint at the edge of the moon, gave way to the dark black of night, and grew to the dark gold caused by the light of the city. The first two colors resembled the outfits of two ladies on a rooftop beneath the gold boarder of the night.
Black Cat stood at the edge of the rooftop at night. She gazed through a pair of tinted lenses that attached to her mask. The lenses were originally designed to be able to track Spider-Man when he wore his MK.2 Spider Armor. Over time he made modifications to the lenses to allow them to see a wider spectrum of light and radiation. At this point, the Cat's Eyes (as Peter named them) had similar capabilities to the visor in Spider-Man's MK.3 Armor, to include night, thermal, EM radiation, and video link communication. The only thing that Spider-Mans visor did that Black Cat's didn't was a link to an Avenger's ID Card, and a Augmented Reality display to provide information on the fly.
Behind Black Cat, White Queen leaned against the rooftop access. She was dressed in white boots, white pants, white corset, and white jacket. An imprinted 'X' on the back of her jacket indicated her status as a superhero. Her outfit was the opposite color scheme of Black Cat's but similarly stylish when it came to form fitting, and sex appeal. White Queen checked her well-manicured nails and patiently waited for any kind of update from her leather clad partner.
Black Cat did not have the best view of the address that Stanley had given her, but it did have prime view of the roof that she would use to look case the address that Stanley gave her. She was still annoyed though. Annoyed that nothing had happened yet, annoyed that she couldn't see into the art collection, annoyed that having telepath wasn't being more helpful.
"I sorry, I have a splitting headache right now. It makes it hard enough to focus to use my powers." Emma said defensively.
"What? What are you talking about?" Black Cat asked in a confused state, deactivating the lenses and turning around to look at her partner for the evening.
"You were just think about how annoyed you were that I wasn't helping more." Emma said. "Even with this headache, you still close enough for me to get a clear idea."
"Oh. Well why don't you just do some weird mental thing and make the headache go away?" Black Cat asked.
Emma opened her mouth in mock shock. "Oh wow, why didn't I think of that?" she asked in overstated sarcasm.
Black Cat raised her hands with her palms out defensively. "Okay, I'm sorry. It's just…" she trailed off. Normally Peter would have a whole plan together, based of research, intelligence, and habits he knew from the bad guys. Black Cat didn't have his level of experience in that level of extrapolating information. She though having a Omega level telepathic mutant would fill some of the gaps.
"Sorry, but something is interfering with my telepathy." Emma said as she turned into her crystal form. He entire body became a diamond, enabling her with superhuman durability and strength. The downside was that she couldn't use her mental abilities in this form.
"It's fine. Though I wonder what has the juice to put you on the fritz?" Black Cat asked.
Emma walked up to Black Cat to look over the New York City skyline. "Look at this city. Could be anything. Latent mutant ability, supervillain plotting something evil, dimensional rift leaking alien jamming signal."
"Magic?" Black Cat asked as to provide a supplementary solution.
"Sure. Could be."
Black Cat remembered that Karin mentioned that The Tomb's Guardians were blessed by gods. She wondered if that means they held some kind of magical or divine properties. She filed that information for later.
"I caught from your mind that normally the Spider did the research and analysis for stuff like this."
"Yeah. Could be useful now." Black Cat said wishfully.
"So how would he have done it?"
"Used his brain and a supercomputer to…wait a minute. I know someone!" Black Cat said lighting up.
Emma just looked at her friend with a mixture of curiosity and surprise.
Black Cat pulled out her phone and called Peter's office. The dial tone rang a few times before someone picked up.
"Peter Parkers lab. He's not in right now, but if you leave a message…"
"Karin. It's Felicia." Cat stated.
"Ah. Peter informed me that you would be doing some extra work tonight. He informed me that I am to assist in any way possible." Karin said happily.
"Did he really think that I would need it?" Cat asked concerned.
"No. To quote, she's going after thieves, she's the expert, but if she wants help, give it to her."
Emma overheard the comment. "Ah. That's sweet of him."
"So how may I be of service?" Karin asked.
"I need a floor layout of the building at my 10 o'clock. 18th floor." Cat stated.
"Compiling." Karin said.
The Cat's Eye lenses popped back into place. A 3D model of the inside of the requested location was generated on the right side of Cat's vision. Window, furniture, art pieces, hallways, even lighting was simulated.
"Wow, how did you do that?"
"I compiled information from social media and used a 3D mapping program to generate the model." Karin explained.
"Okay, but I didn't know that my lenses can do the whole Augmented Reality stuff the Spider's can do. He said it was a limitation due to their size." Cat questioned.
"He is correct, but I am streaming a simulation of the program over your video link. It's not real time, but it's close enough." Karin said.
Emma was no longer eavesdropping. Instead she was looking at three figures on the rooftop that they were watching. They were covered in the shadow of a water tower and were fiddling with something in the biggest man's backpack. "Cat. We might have something." She stated.
"Well, well, well. What do you guys have planned?" Cat mused.
The three men pulled out a long object for each of them. And aimed them at the building with the second cat statue. Black Cat and White Queen couldn't tell what they were about to do, but they could guess. Wither they were grapple guns, and they were about to break in, or they were rifles, and the two just stumbled across an assassination. They women started to moved. The three men fired, and three black lines shot across the distance to the target roof.
"Karin, let the police know, there are three people breaking into a building at my location." Cat said.
"Confirmed. Estimated response time, 13 minutes, 43 seconds." Karin said.
"Seriously?" The Queen asked confused.
"Ha, that's actually better than average for this city for a simple theft." Cat said as she aimed her wrist to fire her grapple. The men across the way started to swing over to the ritzy building with their destination.
"So it's all on us?" Emma asked as she pulled out her own X-Men version of a grapple gun.
"Well, if the bad guys start shooting, the police might get here in under 10 minutes." Cat said as she swung of the ledge.
"Ugh, I miss upstate." Emma said as she swung off.
AN: Thanks to Celgress, Highlander, KingPlotBunny, Grimm 203, NeoTyson, and Akira-Hayama for your reviews and enthusiasm.
