Terminate by Ann Sorelle
Disclaimer: Batman, Nightwing, Robin & associated Characters belong to DC Comics. This is an Original piece of fiction - for Non-monetary purposes with no intent of infringing the copyrights & trademarks mentioned above.
Terminate: Story Copyright - Ann Sorelle 2001
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Prologue
Location: Bludhaven Tuesday 22nd Feb 2 AM
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Midwinter's night. Cold and even colder .The weather had out predicted the forecasts, 22cm of freezing rain and the city of Blud was feeling the effects of it. Car crashes happening on every left, right, and center corner in the city.
An Electronic Eye the size of a walnut continued to make sweeps on the intercity bridge. It sought its target at the high end of the overpass. A male figure in the shades of black on robin's egg blue perched on the periphery of the metal beam
"Why don't people sit tight and warm at home in this weather," grumbled Nightwing. "God only knows that I could use a break. Okay, Grayson enough with the bad grousing it surely isn't going to make you feel b......"
BOOOOOOOOOM! Nightwing jerked his head back from his musings and stared at the Highway 11 leading out to Gotham City . A truck advertising Wick's Oil and Fuel was overturn screeching and hissing tearing onto the opposite lanes ,...into a blue beetle swerved to get out of its way ..that ran into a red dust mustang, which crashed over the railing into the Gotham River.
Nightwing leapt into flurry of motion, at the first soar he dragged the unconscious driver of the oil truck far away to the vicinity of the rest of the upcoming traffic that was slowly coming to halt. A few of the boys in blue were already on the scene halting the rest of the traffic. He left the man there and started running towards the railing.
Pieces of the rust coloured mustang were deeply imprinted on the black railing, bits of glass were scattered like crushed gems awash with tears of blood already starting to solidify. He took a jumpline from his gloves tying it to a solid vertical support beam, pulled hard on it -testing it for durability and slowly making his way down.
Nightwing turned on his nightvision glasses and adjusted to go ultra red - intensifying the magnifying properties so that he could pick any spec of heat, human or mechanical. Wind was battering him with the fury of a temperamental child, attempting to tug him away from his quest into the chilly embrace of the waters below. Opposing it he started his descent. Water sloshing down his 'wing suit like milk on cornflakes.
Every so often he found himself slammed against the bridge bruised and bashing open old wounds turn the water into a pinkish hue. Cursing all the way down he forged ahead with the phrase no pain no gain hammering into his brain. He could barely make a few dots of red making through the specs in his mask..
"Mechanical, he muttered to himself, then where's the person driving the 'tang?"
He came to a horizontal landing into form of a small slope that led of the river's edge he cautiously approached the vehicle, "Hello can anybody hear me?"
As he came close to the windshield a small note was attached.
A BAT FOR THE PRICE OF TWO.
A Whirling sound and a tape played DESIGNATE NIGHTWING TERMINATE
"OH S#!+!!" Nightwing had two seconds to move then a boom reprised an encore for the night.
The eye transmitted a harvest's worth of images and returned to its slumber.
And the darkness fell............