Sorry, I was taking a break from writing, I'll be writing more chapters later on today.
"Woah, that sure is tall" Skipper whistled, he was standing directly in front of the palace. Its five towers reached for the sky. Skipper stood staring at it for a moment before reminding himself to look for any points of entry. Skipper glanced at the coil f rope he had stolen from the warehouse that was now tucked underneath his flipper.
"I bet this could make it to that statue above the main entrance, from there I could use the rope again to make it to one of the towers and climb in. Then I just have to find the bomb and disarm it, but how I'm going to do that, I have no idea. And if I find Deadshot, I'll find a way to stop him permanently" Skipper talked himself through his plan as he uncoiled the rope and tied part of it in a slip knot and flung it at the statue, barely missing it.
"Ugh" he spat, he threw it again, this time succeeding. He tugged on the rope, ensuring it was sturdy before he started climbing. It was harder than he had thought. Back when Slade had been training him, they had had a rope in the training room that Slade had had them climb several times. This was much farther up than that rope had been and Skipper's muscles were starting to ache as his exhaustion slowly took over.
"No! I have to do this. For Slade, my family and everyone else that was ever hurt by him" Skipper forced himself to keep going, he was only two yards from the statue now. Skipper climbed the rest of the way up and slowly, agonizingly managed to pull himself up onto the statue and rested there for a moment before untying the rope from the statue and flung it at the closet tower, the one directly behind the statue. It caught, barely. Skipper tugged once on it and it came loose, he looked at the tower and realized with dread that there were no holds that were strong enough to hold his weight.
"I'll have to scale it" Skipper whispered hoarsely. I can't, I just can't! Slade hardly covered that part of our training, and this like ten times bigger than anything we scaled in training! There's no way I can do this! But I have to, if I want to stop the bomb going off.
"And how are you going to stop the bomb from going off; you don't know the first thing about bombs or anything like that smart-one" the voice of doubt suddenly became loud in his head. Skipper started to tremble with uncertainty and fear.
"Come on Skipper, get a grip. You can do this!" Skipper shut his eyes and took a deep breath. He opened his eyes and started towards the edge of the statue closet to the tower; he took one look down and felt himself freeze. It was much higher up than he had ever been before.
"Come on, Slade would say you're being a big baby, just jump and start climbing that's all you have to do, climb up to the tower's balcony and that's it. Skipper forced himself to move and got ready to jump, he found a small area where the stone was rougher than the rest; that would be where he would start climbing. He closed his eyes and took a leap of faith.
"Oof!" Skipper hit the tower, and started to fall but he managed to find foot and hand holds and rested there a moment, shocked.
"I-I-I did it" he smiled. "I did it". He instantly recalled Slade's words that the eagle used to say all the time.
"I can't do it Slade!" Skipper had yelled staring up at the rope he was supposed to climb.
"Skipper, listen to me boy, you're stronger than you'll ever know, and when you're scared sometimes it's for good reason, other times it's your heart telling you to take a leap of faith"
"You were right Slade" Skipper said, and started scaling the tower and eventually made it to the balcony where he slipped through the railing and into the palace.
The next chapter is going to be really long so I decided to make this one short. Please comment on what you thought of this chapter.