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Chapter 6: Going on the offensive
The agent watched from afar like ordered, and waits for the missile he just fired to explode. A few minutes later still nothing happened and he realized he failed his mission. Fast as he could he gathered his stuff together and disappeared into the darkness.
In the hallway, Alfred still shielded the two teens as they realize that whatever came through that window, didn't explode. Selina shoves the butler off of her and scrambles back on her feet and enters the study. Bruce and Alfred quickly enter as well.
"Careful, Master Bruce, Miss Kyle!" Alfred says as he sees the un-exploded missile on the study and shields them behind himself as he scurries forward to take a closer look. After a long thorough inspection the butler tells them that there's nothing to worry about.
Bruce nods understandably but Selina says with a doubtful look in her eyes; "Oh sure Jeeves, except for the fact that there's a FREAKING MISSILE IN THE ROOM!"
"Not all anti-tank missiles are the same, Miss Kyle," Alfred says and tries to keep a polite look on his face, even when Selina makes an annoyed eye roll as she seems to sense what will happen next.
Even though Alfred knows Selina knows he's going to give some mentoring about missiles, he isn't taken aback and still does it to irritate the young girl a little, so, he points at the item of their topic and continues; "This one here is an M-47 Dragon Missile. It was made back in the seventies and it wasn't a very good weapon for a wide range of reasons. The main reason is the fact that it requires eleven point two seconds of flight time in order for its warhead to arm."
Selina hides noticeably a yawn behind her hand and flops down onto the couch, uninterested. Bruce however, looks at Alfred the entire time and scrambles notes down into his notebook. This info might come in handy, right?
"Now, had this been a more modern anti-tank missile like a TOW or a Javelin, we would've been blown to bits along with half the manor."
Selina rolls her eyes with another eye roll and says sarcastically as she drops her legs onto the coffee table; "Thanks for the lesson, old man. I certainly know who to ask if I'm in a desperate need of a walk-in closet in my bedroom hideout."
Alfred shoots a very icy stare at the street girl who pays no notice to it. Bruce is still scrambling in his notebook and asks, as if he had not heard what Selina said; "So, where does TOW stand for?"
Alfred opens his mouth to tell him the answer but Selina bounces up from the couch and shouts in disbelieve; "Who cares where TOW stands for! I mean, isn't it more important to find that scrawny little brat that's responsible for this?!"
Bruce frowns; "So, you think Thomas is responsible for this missile?"
"Who else?" Selina slaps her forehead and sits down again and the fury sets in on Alfred as well as Bruce starts to pass up and down the room. Selina watches her friend walk up and down for a while but gets impatient very fast and asks; "You know what I want, right?"
Bruce stops pacing up and down and turns to face the street girl and his butler as his own face fills with anger as well; "Yes Selina, I know what your next idea is and you every right to do it."
The way he said that, the look in his eyes made even a chill run down Alfred's and Selina's spine. They share a brief look and look back to Bruce, curiously.
"I mean, no real brother would ever orchestrate something like this," Bruce continues and walks over to the missile. "Spying phase is over and we try a new tactic…" Bruce turns around and faces his two friends with so much determination in his face and eyes and adds; "It's time for snatch and grab!"
Alfred and Selina both gloat with delight. They like Bruce's new thinking. The young boy walks to the study door and says as he walks out; "Do whatever it takes to capture my so called brother and bring him to me!"
Selina clears her throat which makes Bruce halt momentarily, and then asks with a worried voice; "You? What about me? I have some scores to settle as well."
Bruce turns around briefly and replies; "Don't worry, Selina. You will get plenty of claw time with Thomas during the interrogation. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to call the GCPD to bring the bomb squad and remove that ugly thing from my carpet."
Selina and Alfred both watch agape as Bruce strolls out of their sight. It's finally Selina who breaks the silence with the question; "Did he say; interrogation?"
Alfred nods and says; "I don't know whether to be impressed with his determination or not."
Selina rolls her eyes and adds importantly; "Impressed, duh. I mean, haven't you heard what he said? I get claw time with that scrawny brat."
"Yes, well, try to contain those bad boys when we are on our way to snatch that brat. The car seats have new leather and I don't want you to scratch it."
Selina simply grins at the butler as she walks past him and through the door and says; "I can't promise you anything. I mean, I do need something to sharpen them, don't I?" Alfred sighs, grabs the keys and follows her out the door.
Thomas receives the bad news. The counsel tells him the agent did not succeed his mission, that the missile didn't explode. The young boy demanded them to tell this agent name but they assured him they would take care of him soon he dared to show up his nose.
All they wanted the boy to do for now was relax and meet them in an hour at Wayne Enterprises for further instructions.
Thomas nods and logs off. They told him to relax but how could he? What if Bruce knew it was him who was behind it all? The young boy tries to shrug it off and tries to talk in some courage. After all, Bruce must be pretty clever if he'd figured out it was him. And from what he has seen from his twin brother, cleverness was not the kid's strongest point. He was safe, nothing to worry about.
The young boy grabs a bottle of orange juice from the fridge, takes his bag and swings it over his shoulder as he saunters through the front door into the hallway.
They told him to meet them in an hour but he always wanted to be on time. He knew they would freak out if he got stuck in traffic because he hadn't left the house early enough.
Thomas strolls down the hallway up to the elevator. He wants to press the button but notices it's already coming up. Obviously George is in it and Thomas wishes his house mate wouldn't keep him up for too long. Or at least, wouldn't ask too many question on where he was heading to.
The elevator door slides open and the young boy is about to walk in when he sees it's not George that's in the elevator. It's Alfred Pennyworth and the angry look on the old man's face says he knows.
Thomas throws the bottle of orange juice at Alfred's face and turns on his heels before running as fast as he can back down the hallway. At the end of the hallway he swings the door to the staircase open, ready to take the stairs down when he sees a familiar girl running up.
Instead, Thomas quickly rushes up the stairs to the apartment rooftop. It will be a difficult escape but it's also his only escape. It doesn't take long for him to reach the rooftop hatch but opening it is another thing.
Frantically he tries to open the hatch above his head and hears the girl closing in on him, down below the stairs. Thomas gives the hatch another push and it swings open but instead of crawling through it, he takes the back-pack off his shoulder and drops it down at Selina.
Selina, sensing what comes next as soon she saw him taking off the back-pack, moves aside. Sadly, Alfred didn't see it coming and the bag hit him in the face and he tumbled down a few cases.
Thomas quickly climbs through the hatch as Selina looks down to check on Alfred. Soon as she sees Alfred is fine she pursuits Thomas through the hatch.
Selina runs across the rooftop and sees Thomas already had jumped to the next which means the chase would go on for a little while longer. But she doesn't mind. A cat always enjoys the chase. It would only make her feel prouder once she returned the prey as a present to the person she loves to spend time with.
Agile, Selina makes a run up to the rooftop edge and jumps over the alley to the next building. Thomas had stopped momentarily to see if they would still come after him. Soon the boy saw Selina was able to make a far leap like that as well, he made a break for it across the roof top.
Behind them, Alfred reaches the roof top ledge as well but stops abruptly as he realizes he physically can't take that jump anymore. The butler grumbles under his breath he should have updated his physical skills a long time ago. Why he became a little slack with that after he became the Wayne's butler, he still doesn't know.
Panting heavily, Alfred watches the two teens in the distance as they jump from building to building, and the butler wonders if she had done the same thing with Bruce. Better not, otherwise his young Master had a skill he hadn't.
From the way they are heading, Alfred knows where to go to. The man spins on his feet and finds a fire escape which he quickly uses to climb down and thinks to himself; "Miss Kyle, don't you dare to have all the fun until I get there."
Thomas looks over his shoulder and sees Selina running after him and closing in very fast. He wouldn't make another roof jump, she was too close. Instead, he launched himself off the ledge and grabbed onto the next building's drainpipe, sliding down.
Selina stops and watches the kid slide down, thinking; "Stupid move, kid." The young girl jumped down onto the fire escape platform which would take her to the street below.
What Thomas just did was stupid indeed. The drainpipe happened to be very rusty and couldn't take the boy's weight. It broke and Thomas fell down, making a pretty hard landing in the garbage.
With his bum feeling very sore, Thomas looks up and finds Selina looming over him, dangerously. The cat-like girl sends a sarcastic smile at the boy and says; "Going somewhere, punk?" Then, she kicks him in the face with her boot.
A few seconds later Alfred makes his way into the alley and finds Thomas already blindfolded, duct taped and tied up against the alley wall. Selina turns and smirks; "Signed, sealed and ready for delivery to Bruce Wayne."
Alfred tucks his gun under his belt and says while panting heavily; "You can't help yourself, can you? You had to steal all the fun?"
Selina shrugs; "Yes I did but, no offence, but you really should have trained a little more on your pursuing skills or at least on the jumping between buildings. You're not only out-beaten by a Bruce look-alike punk but also by a street girl that's at least 11 inches shorter and 80 pounds lighter than you."
Alfred throws a very murderous stare at the cheeky girl what makes her smirk even more. Then, looking with once glance around Alfred; "Don't tell me you came all the way running?"
The butler gives himself a mental slap to the head as he realizes the car is at least two blocks away. Selina can see the answer on the butler's face but before she can even make another witty comment, Alfred stomps over to the unconscious Thomas and heaves him like a sack of fertilizer onto his shoulder. No way he would give Selina that pleasure to it herself. He's still strong enough to do it himself.
When Alfred and Selina left Wayne Manor to snatch and grab Thomas, Bruce made a phone-call to the GCPD and several minutes later they arrived with the bomb squad. The squad took the missile with them but the two cops stayed.
Bruce then told them to find the responsible person for firing the missile but kept the Thomas Wayne Jr. part a secret, for now. The young billionaire thought it might be better because admitting to the police you send two of your friends to retrieve your supposedly brother for further interrogation might be a stupid thing to do. He knew Jim would try to stop him before he would have laid one finger on his brother.
Jim had eyed Bruce suspiciously as if he sensed the young boy was hiding something for him but he didn't ask and left with his partner, assuring Bruce they would find the person who fired it.
Soon they were out the door, Bruce headed back to his cave and spend some time researching interrogation methods while he waited for Alfred and Selina to return with his so called brother.
After a while the young billionaire finds a few methods that stand out and says to himself with a chuckle; "The amount of fun Selina is going to have in this interrogation is going to be greatly enhanced with these methods."
Suddenly the girl of his thoughts comes down the stairs with Alfred, arguing about something which started mid-car-ride back home. It so happened that Thomas woke up in the backseat of the car and Selina was sitting with him to make sure he wouldn't make any funny escape attempts.
The young boy glared at her so angrily and started to shout very un-lady like words to Selina. Of course it was a little tricky because his mouth was taped but the muffled noises and the angrily glares said enough.
After two minutes Selina had enough of it and kicked him in the face with her boot, breaking his nose in the process. There was blood spatters everywhere which ticked Alfred off and an argument ensued.
"Well, next time I'll drive and you sit cooped up in the backseat of a car with a Bruce look-alike." Selina grumbles.
Alfred, fighting the urge to grab the shrub of her neck and strangle her like a ragdoll; "I told you when we left; the car seats have new leather."
"Well, I didn't scratch them, didn't I?" Selina spits back as she takes the last bottom stair case and walked into the room. "I'm pretty sure Bruce wouldn't mind, would you Bruce?"
Bruce, sitting in front of the computer looks up at his rage heated butler and smirking cat friend, frowning at Selina's question. "Wouldn't mind what?"
"There's blood in the back of the car, Master Bruce," Alfred explains as he throws an icy stare at Selina who flopped in front of Bruce on the desk. "I'll better get it cleaned before I never get those stains out."
Alfred turns and about to leave when Bruce stops him and asks with another frown; "Blood, does that mean what I think it means?"
The butler opens his mouth to reply but Selina is a little faster and gloats; "Mission accomplished! The little spy is securely tied in the garage thanks to Alfred's knots, because he didn't allow me the fun."
Bruce chuckles to that which grows into a grin and points at the computer screen for Selina to look as he says; "I'm sure this will make up for that."
Selina reads the text on screen and her face turns into the same expression someone has after opening their birthday present and sees they finally got what they always wanted.
"They sure will, Bruce. They sure will," Selina cries in glee as she cups Bruce's face with both hands and plants a kiss on his lips. Alfred's mouth drops open agape and Bruce's blood rushes through his body toward his face, turning it bright red.
Alfred isn't sure whether to say something or not but then Bruce breaks the kiss for a brief moment and says to Alfred with a grin; "The car won't clean itself, Alfred."
The butler nods his head a little embarrassed and starts walking back up the stairs while Bruce turns back to Selina and greets her lips with another kiss.
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