[sequel to day 3, "Bat"]
There was a flap of cape behind Anna, and the commissionner turned with a smile when she recognized it.
"There you are."
Ice Bat smiled under her mask.
"Did you doubt I'd come?" She teased through her voice modifier.
"Never." Chuckled Anna. "You care about the city even more than I do."
She then erased her smile, in case someone from the crew would see her and suspect that they were oddly familiar friends. Nobody had to know that they were sisters. The commissionner started to feel the gazes on her now that Elsa had landed between the police cars, her arrival always making an impression, so she quickly went to the essential.
She pitched the vigilante on the current situation; a heist had gone wrong in the bank. One of the cashiers had felt very heroic and threw himself in front of the robbers, resulting in his death. The robbers had been overwhelmed by the sudden turn of events and panicked, now taking everyone hostage.
"We already arrested the guy who was waiting for them in the car outside." Finished to explain Anna. She then chuckled, to erase the general nervousness of the hostage crisis. "He kept mumbling that the others were idiots and that they should have run out as soon as possible. Apparently, they left the one with the brains outside."
Elsa nodded, trying to remain serious. She walked forward to talk with the negotiator and know his progress.
The latter sighed after doing a recap for her. "And apparently, an old lady in the hostages suggested out loud that she could stab the ankle of one of the robbers with her metal nail file, and the others shushed her before she could grab her purse."
Elsa couldn't help but chuckle, and thankfully it sounded sinister with her voice modifier. The man didn't pick up her humor. She did a quick nod to the negotiator and walked to the bank.
Police forces as well as the robbers inside widened their eyes when they saw her go through the main entrance instead of searching for a back door.
When she placed herself in front of the glass doors, the men inside raised and pointed their rifles at her, though she didn't move an inch.
"Back off!" Yelled one of them, to be heard through the locked doors.
Ice Bat lifted a sassy eyebrow, though it was impossible to see under her mask, and she didn't even need to do more than a flick of the wrist under her cape to freeze the entire glass doors.
All the witnessing persons startled when meshes appeared on the surface and it broke into thousand parts, falling to the marble ground of the bank in an impressive noise.
She calmly walked in, her cape rustling on the glass pieces, and the robbers were done with her superiority. In a collective movement, they pulled their triggers and shot her, the loud shooting echoing in the whole building and to the street. The hostages screamed at the cartridges falling everywhere on the floor, close to where they had been forced to put their heads. Police forces gasped or started to urge forward, but the negotiator raised his hand. It was part of Elsa's plan. Everything was alright.
Anna hadn't even moved. Sure, she was worried as always when her sister intervened, but she trusted her. Her eyes however didn't detach from the bank, especially when the shooting started to quiet down when all the thugs reloaded at the same time.
Elsa snorted. "You should know by now that this suit is bulletproof. And I expected you to have more experience than that as well. You shouldn't have loaded at the exact same time with the exact same guns."
The men widened their eyes when they understood what was about to happen, and some failed at reloading, their hands suddenly trembling. Before any of them could point at her again, she lifted both her arms and did quick circular gestures, freezing all of them from head to toes.
She then walked to each robber, the bank suddenly very calm, appart from the panicked panting of the hostages still on the floor, to check that none of them could do anything. Elsa then smiled and helped people standing up.
The gesture brought the police to intervene, running inside to point at the robbers. They waited for the evacuation of the innocents to be done to ask Ice Bat to melt the robbers.
Of course, Elsa had put little holes in the ice covering their faces, and one of the policemen smirked when he saw the doomed eyes of the one he was holding at gunpoint.
"Freeze, motherfucker." He smirked.
He then turned to Ice Bat while she was helping the old lady stand up and congratulating her on her reckless bravery, but warning her to never take such a risk again.
"Wait, do you have copyrights on ice puns?" He asked, worried.
Elsa smirked. "Not at all, go ahead."
