Made Of Steel

Chp 15

The Drop Off

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I am HELLA BAD at writing action so please bare with me, and try to us all of your imagination for the butt kicking parts. You have be warned.

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Ace jumped nervously from his sleeping spot at the end of the stairs barking, aggravated at the offensive sound blasting throw the cave. Bruce snatched the mic phone from his ear and slapped the feed button off. Bruce could hear the tapping of Ace's claws pacing the rock floor behind him as he reached forward and paged the jet.

Batman reconnected communication between the two computers. " Did it work?" He asked calmly. He brought the jet to a stand still in mid air. The water fell heavily from the sky on to canopy and windshield

Bruce started working something on the computer. " No." He answered. " The signal wasn't strong enough." He sent the top view map to the jets computer. " She's still in Gotham, somewhere here."

" What if we get Commissioner Gordon in on the action?" Batman asked.

Bruce had thought of back up after Terry filled him in on the details about Trevor. There was to much of a possibility that with Trevor's temper, harm may come to Maxine before anyone could get to her or they would run. When people are faced with unseen problems, they get nervous, irrational. No one needed that at this point. " To many complications could accrue." He stated.

There was silence between them. He could tell Terry's skin was crawling under the suit. He's been in the same spot before. The kid doesn't have to come right out and tell him that there is something more between he and Max then the "friendship" he proclaimed it to be.

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" Where's Todd going?" She asked handing the tickets back.

" We have to send the Sacc on an earlier flight, customs wont touch...it." he trailed off.

Trevor's hand rose to Maxine neck, he moved the collar of her jacket away and gently touched the marks he personally left on her skin there. From his expression, Maxine saw remorse.

" It's fine now." She told him. His eyes moved from his handy work to hers.

There was a knock on the hotel room door. " Room services." announced the voice on the other side.

Trevor stood, " I got it." He told her walking out the room. Maxine looked around the room waiting for her 4.0 grade point average to kick in. A crack of lighting from outside got her attention. She watched the raindrops hit the patio ground and exploded. Run like hell...that's what her mom always told her. She thought standing up.

If she could get to the door... Trevor had a semiautomatic, she remembered. Get the gun, get to door. She was now standing under the door frame.

" Maxine?" Trevor called.

She looked over to him. Standing by the set table, he looked at her crazily. She smiled and quickly walked over to him. " It was nothing," She dismissed. " This all looks good." She complemented, sitting down and laying her cloth napkin in her lap. Trevor pushed her seat in for her and then sat down on the other side.

" This is a lot to eat before dinner." She joked and ate a french fry.

Trevor smirked " Dr. Parson is very punctual. Right after dinner we are heading to the airport. I know how slow you eat." He told her proudly. " Wouldn't want you to up-set him."

Too late! She thought. "What else do you know about me?" She asked, looking over the table to him. Trevor sighed thoughtfully before answering " You get bored easily," He started. " You do other people's work in class, not for the money but because you can. In spite of your hair, you cut it off and dye it pink even though you hate the color. You haven't worn anything pink since I've been here." He babbled on. " You're much older then your age and when you think no one' s paying attention zone off into your little world." He finished, taking a drink.

"You got something wrong," She explained.

He smirked, set his glass aside, crossed his arms and sat back in his chair. "Do tell."

She stood up and started walking towards him. " I own a pair of lace thongs. Pink." She told him as he stood up to face her. " You should have known that, judging by the way I woke up four hours ago."

She pressed her hands to his chest, pushed herself to him, felt him start to breath a bit faster.

Trevor's hand came up to her face, his thumb ran across her bottom lip. She took his other hand and pulled it around her waist. " I could give you another look before we go to dinner." She offered.

Trevor's mouth captured hers aggressively. His hand around her waist tightened. Adrenaline flowed into her body, she brought her arms around his neck then down to the belt in his pants. She felt both his hands on her back, pressing her to him. One hand slide slowly around to the gun in his pants. She took hold of the handle and pushed him away. Trevor stumbled backwards confused until he saw the gun in her hands. Maxine recognized that raged looked that slowly melted on his face.

He glared at her and said. " Maxine, you don't want to shot me."

She cocked and loaded the gun. " But I will." She told him returning the hatred he gave. Maxine backed up to the door, keeping the gun and her eye on him she reached behind and pulled the locks off and opened the door. He slowly walked to her as she backed out the door.

Someone grabbed Maxine from behind in the struggled she dropped the gun.. Fix's arms clasp around her body pulled her up. Maxine saw Trevor rush forward for the gun, She kicked him back and elbowed Fix in the groin. He dropped her and fell to his knees. Maxine stumbled her way up and started running.

It seem to be the only thing going right at this point.

With one hand holding a bloody noise Trevor picked the gun up, and fired at her. Maxine ducked from the bullets she heard hitting the plaster walls and ran around te corner.. On the wall the small bright red painted box marked FOR EMERGENCY ONLY. She pulled the lever down and kept running.

Trevor turned and ran to Parson's hotel door. He banged until Parson open it. He gave a displeased expression at his bloody state " We got a problem, meet me down stairs at the limo."

Parson grabbed Trevor by the collar snatched him forward. " I thought I told you watch her." He growled.

Trevor pushed the Doctor back. " It's under control! He yelled and started running down the hall.

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He sat above the city, doing the hardest thing he ever had to do.

What was that she told him that night at her house. "It would have turned out differently if you were there, There to protect them, because that's what you do. You can make it all better, You and only you can fix it, make it right. You have to because it's what you do." He mumbled to himself. She also told him that she would ask for help if she needed it.

The police radio signal came through into his ears. " All units preceded to the Hilton Grande. We have possible fire emergency." The address of the hotel flashed on the vid screen.

"It's her." Bruce heard him say.

Bruce brought a building lay out on the screen in front of him. " Go in from the roof."

Batman fueled the jet through the storm clouds towards the red neon Hilton Grande sign. He hoovered shortly before landing. The black canopy slide back, Batman jumped out, walked towards the roof emergency exit.

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"Wait!" She yelled at the closing elevator doors, as halted in front of them. She could hear the foot steps rushing up the hallway she just came from. She frantically looked for another way out. There were painted red arrows on the wall pointing left, she quickly followed it to the emergency doors further down the hall. She burst them open and started down the flight of stairs. A hand closed around her mouth and she was pulled back up against someone. She started fighting off her capture.

" Max! It's me, It's me." She recognized his voice, turned around and saw Batman.

A big smile crossed her face as she wrapped her arms around his neck. He heard her whisper an exhausted " Oh my God."

"Are you ok?" He asked her.

She released him. " Yeah, we have to go, their coming."

"We're going to the roof, come on." He told her pulling her up the stairs. A spry of bullets fired at them from above. Maxine dropped and covered her head, Batman pushed her to the side of the stair case, using his jets he torpedoed himself in Trevor at eh top of the stairs.

The two of them crashed into the wall. Batman sent his fist into Trevor's jaw. Fix stopped him from repeating the blow by lifting up by the neck and throwing him through the door into the hall like a rag doll.

Maxine saw the gun laying four steps in front of her. She saw Trevor start to get up. She rushed and picked up the gun. Trevor stood up to see Maxine aimed for him. He boldly walked down to her. She pulled the trigger but nothing happened. He yanked the gun away from her hands, grabbed the her by the shirt and violently slammed her in the wall.

" You got have bullets for these things." He angrily yelled. The empty clip fall from the gun, he produced a new and loaded it. He then knelled down to her, pressed the barrel to her temple.

" I've run out of patience Maxine." The handle of the gun slammed into the side of her face. He pulled her up and started dragging her down the stairs. " If you are finished here, we have a flight to catch."

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Fix waited for Batman to stand before pounding him in the spine back to the ground. Batman sent an upper cut in the giant's jaw, disorientating him . Fix wrapped his massive arms around Batman in a bear hug.

His chest began caving in on itself by the force of Fix. Batman's hand pulled a palm sized static shock prong from his utility belt, slapped it to Fix's shoulder. A electrical charge surged Fix's body but had no effect. Fix sent Batman crashing through a hotel room door. Fix laughed and ripped the annoying thing from his arm. Batman pushed the broken wood off him and slowly stood up. Fix grit his teeth and charged at him.

Batman flipped over him, maneuvered in the air and landed a kick in his back, pushing faster. Fix's momentum sent him smashing through the balcony window and over the rale.

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Trevor had the barrel of the gun pressed into Max's side as she dragged her through the hotel lobby. People in the hotel walked around them trying to exit the building, the fire department ran past them as the pushed the revolving door around to the rainy weather outside.

Dr. Parson stood directing the bag boy to pack their remaining luggage in the trunk. Trevor literally threw her up against the side of the limo. He snatched the door open and through her in. Parson stopped him from going in after her. " Call your brother, tell him dinner has been canceled."

Trevor stuffed the gun in the belt of his pants and climbed in without answering. Max shock the dizzying feeling from her head. Trevor shut the door flip open the phone dialed a number. The only thing heard was rain hitting the car. Maxine sat on the opposite side. He didn't get answer. She watched him shut the phone, and throw it across the limo in her way. In reflex her arms went up, she looked over at him, glaring at her.

The bright flourescent lights of the awakening city that shone through the sun roof over there heads shadowed over. They both looked up, Max screamed and dropped to the floor of the limo. Fix's body imploded on the limo top, sending glass flying everywhere. Max forced the bent and broke door open, she squeezed out of the totaled car onto the pavement. Fix's body lay mangled and imbedded in the limo roof.

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