Disclaimer:
Spiderman is the property of Marvel comics, Crow and all related characters belong to James O' Mar. And the kidnappers belong to me! (ATLAST!)
CHAPTER 6
"This is your second warning! We know you're in there!" The Lieutenant screamed with that microphone as the words coming from it once again echoed, as they finished.
"GIVE US DA MONEY 'N WE'LL FREE THESE HOSTAGES!!!" One of the burglars yelled back from inside the Black-Out building.
The Crow was still on the roof, still unseen by the crowd and still memorizing every single word from above. But the splashing December rain on his face and the screams from beneath, was the least of the Crow's concerns. He was studying the figure crouching down in front of him. The figure looked like a man, but the darkness disguised his skin and everything, only his big, flashing eyes were viewable, the figure looked like a 'Spider' man. One that was heard of since last may. The figure's eyes were most probably made out of glass, because they flashed as he stared back at Eric. And then . . . with the masking light of a lightening and the growling sound of a thunder, 'Spiderman' disappeared into the shadows. Eric still stood there, without a shock. He himself would have done the same. No doubt the figure jumped into the ventilation shaft that leads to the inside of Black-Out and more importantly, the kidnappers.
'Whose side are you on?'
The Darkness was still Eric's own mask, for he did not move a muscle . . . yet.
He looked down about 80 feet to see the crowd still rattling in fear. They were too pre-occupied to notice the slight movement . . . and even if they did. What could happen? Without a second thought, the Crow flew across the building as if he had wings! And landed safely on top of the roof of Black-out. Of course . . . this caused attraction . . .
"LooK!" Cried out a man, pointing out from the audience.
"What?" Yelled another.
"I . . . I saw someone move!"
"Where?" This time, the Detective spoke.
"Up . . . up there! On the terrace!"
Everyone, including the burglars, looked up . . . but they found nothing, only the silence of darkness and screams of the thunders.
The clouds growled.
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Eric had his back against a generator, hiding from the people; the last thing he needed was people pointing at him. Of course, nobody could've seen his face even now, due to the wetness of his long dark hair covering his scary, cool, yet scary face.
The noises of many people talking at once came to an end when they saw Eric leaping from one place to another, at this moment, the silence seemed like a noise, the silence meant that people were searching for him on the roof.
The noise started again, some people . . . no . . . many people, all talking, saying common things, at once.
Crow got to his feet, the noise assured the crowd wasn't interested in him anymore. He slowly walked towards the ventilation shaft, where his mysterious 'spider' man was supposed to be located, and even if he didn't, Eric needed to go down that way and kick major punk-a$# too.
But, just as Eric was about to climb down the vent . . . something, or someone, hit him the face causing Crow to tremble backwards and hit his head on the generator. The figure emerged from the vents, revealing that he had red, cloth like, skin, and a spider symbol attached on his chest, the legs of the symbol covered his whole body like a webbing . . . his eyes were indeed glass white. It reflected everything. And according to the newspapers, which Eric wouldn't normally read, made it sure that this is the Amazing Spiderman.
Crow quickly flipped to his feet and proceeded with a perfect round-hose kick. But Spiderman ducked out just in time and kicked Crow in the face from beneath. He flipped back up as Crow took a few steps back due to the impact. The Wall crawler tried to backslap the lost soul, but only got a reversal instead, a chop to the neck. Crow quickly hit his opponent in the mid-section, causing his enemy to bend down in pain. The Crow then hit an uppercut to Spidey's easy hitting chin.
The might of the uppercut made Spiderman stand in another easy hitting position with hands wide open. The Crow again kicked at his mid-section and this time, the superhero fell down the ventilation system!
The lost soul followed his opponent's lead and stood just in front of the vent. Suddenly, something came out from the vent in rapid speed with a 'thwyp' sound, something gooy and string like . . . it caught Eric's shirt and . . . in no time, he was yanked down the vent too!
Crow fell down the vent yes, but he landed on his enemy who by this point rolled out of the way a little, but both of them fell down another line! Both of them landed on top of each other in an awkward position with so less space still inside the vent.
Spiderman's left foot was just centimeters away from Eric's head, while Crow's right foot threatened to choke out Spiderman's throat. One slight move could do massive damage to both the mission and Eric's head.
The man decided to take matters on his own hands and kicked/pushed Crow on the right-side head, making him do a little roll and finally . . . fall face-first on a vent cover which was weak enough to break due to Eric's body weight! But instead of falling down to ground on the appropriate floor, Crow's feet stuck at the edge of the vent tight! This caused Crow to just hang there – up side down from the ceiling. Like some bat but he wasn't any 'Bat' man now was he?
But due to stupid lack of luck, The Crow was hanging down in the same room the kidnappers were!
Everyone looked up, skipping a heartbeat, a man was hanging upside down from the ceiling!
"SHOOOOT HIM!!!!!!!!!!" Shouted the leader with all the might in his lungs . . . and it followed by the cruel sound of gunfire!
Crow was defenseless in that position, bullets rushed from everywhere!
Head shots, leg shots, body shots. Eric's body shook wildly like an animal as the impacts from the bullets did their damage, killing him once again.
The bullets were fired for about a minute and as soon as they stopped . . . Eric's body slammed to the ground.
Gunpowder circled the room and made it foggy. One of the three men swallowed hard in fear.
"Is . . . is . . . he dead?"
"Of COURSE he's DEAD!" Yelled the leader of the gang, trying to hide his side of fear too.
"I'm WARNING YOU! If you HARM ANY HOSTAGES INSIDE . . . I SWEAR I WILL BREAK THE DOOR!!!"
" . . . Whispering That was the cop!"
"I KNOW that was 'da cop'!"
"No! No! I mean, if the cops didn't sent this . . . guy and . . . he's not one of us . . . then . . . who is he?"
The leader, Albert Ronchoyo, widened his eyes at that.
'That little twerp is right!'
Suddenly . . . someone spoke from overhead: "Mind if I drop in?"
All three thugs looked in fear up to see Spiderman land on their faces! One of the thugs got up quickly and tried to pick up his M16. But as he touched it . . . Spiderman sent another one of his string-like webbing. The Burglar had his hands all covered up in these white cocoons, he looked up to see the Spider grab him by the collar and head-butted him, breaking his skull.
By this time, another thug got to his feet, it was the youngest one, the scared one. The thug aimed his 9mm handgun and targeted Spiderman's head.
"Pulling the trigger, whisperingc'ya."
The bullet was shot . . . everything was like slow motion as the sound of metal against metal clinked out . . . the bullet started to fly towards the target . . . the end of a hero was assumed to be near . . . and just at the last available nano-second! Someone grabbed the bullet in mid-air!
The thug felt he had a heart attack when he saw who was holding the bullet!!!
"It's not nice to squash a spider y'know." The Crow smirked with a deadly grin on his face.
"Scared like an idiotBuh . .. buh . . ."
"SmileBut."
"But . . . I . . . I . . . killed you!"
"Wide eyed evil smile with a tilting head No nodding . . . you can't kill me . . . I'm already dead Grin!"
The man fainted like a baby, with a long moan.
The Crow kept his grin and turned to see Albert Ronchoyo, the leader, crawling on the ground just to reach his gun. "Don't even . . . " The Crow whirled around in lightening speed and threw the speeding bullet. IT hit Albert's arm and he clinched his teeth in unbelievable pain . . . the feeling of loosing sense gurgled inside of him.
Crow looked on his left to see The Spider targeting his own arm as if shooting another strand of webbing
Crow quickly punched the super hero square in the jaw!
"WHAT!? I'm one of the good guys!" he said and back flipped to stick to a wall.
(A/N: You must have saw SPIDERMAN right?)
"Nice move there, Parker."
"What? How . . ."
"I'm a dead guy . . . I know lots a' stuff."
"But exactly how did you survive all those bullets?"
"Long story."
"Please tell me! Oh please please please!"
"Sigh"
Just then, the two, now allies heard footsteps coming from outside the doors.
"Look, the cops are on their way, they'll handle the burglars AND the hostages, please, I need to know how you survived."
"I think you want to speak to the devil guy Draven."
The Crow said mysteriously shaking his head a bit.
(TO BE CONTINUED – Next week)
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Author's Note:
Okay, so know its really short and might have grammar problems … … I didn't have the time to revise the chapter … guess I was busy! Sorry that I updated after such a long time and not with a reasonable chapter . . . sorry really sorry. But, I sort of experimented with this one . . . were the fighting scenes ok? Or do I need to put more feeling in it? it would be really appreciated if you tell me more about it. I think from now on, I'll update once a week, or maybe sooner (hopefully). So keep reviewin' cause I'll keep writin'!
(ALSO: I submitted Chapter 5 @ Jan 1st 2003 (the very FIRST day of 2003) AND that EXACT chapter had 2003 words!)
