Escape artist 4
Hey guys! Welcome back to the next chapter of escape artist, in the last couple chapters we mainly were focusing on her backstory but now that those are done we can start meeting the bat-family, YAY! I hope you enjoy and if you want me to explain something or possible change it even, leave it in the comments below. Also I know the last ending was crappy, but I was tired, it was almost 12am when I finished. I know I haven't updated in a while but I've been grounded, went to Quebec for 4 days without any Internet, and then got a mind numbing cold that rendered my brain useless, so just bare with me, I don't usually take this long.
Landing clumsy on the rooftop of the museum, I use my illusions to hide it, though it was silent I still don't want anybody to see that screw up.
Oh right introductions; my name is Melody Demerana, or just Mel, I'm a thief, or what I like to call anti-hero, I steal, but I make sure to share with the other people who don't have much, and I only steal from the rich, kinda like Cat Woman; no I'm not Cat Woman's protégé.
I live with a woman named Candince Markchester, I call her candy, she's my mentor/older sister in a way, her alias is Robin Hood, a better-known name around town then mine. I live with her in an old abandoned hotel in this even crappier town called Gotham, she technically took me in after I stumbled into the building pretty beaten up, but you already know my past.
Basically she trained me, teaching me martial arts, stealth, mechanics, hacking, anything you would need to have to be a decent thief and, in worse case scenarios, survive fights against the bat-family. In the short period of time I've actual been on the field I haven't run into them, yet.
Candy met Bats only once but he didn't make much pursue to stop her, though I don't think he would have much interest in charity burglars in truth. What we steal is pretty replicable stuff, not the most important stuff in the world. Some pretty pearls here, maybe a ruby there, nothing overly big. So today I thought I'd go a little bit more risky.
"Mel? Do you read me? Mel?" Candy called from my com, disrupting the quiet. "Ya?"
"You okay Mel, this is a pretty risky job, Gotham Museum of Antiquities isn't a great place to start when you've only been out in the field for a month, you know." "And?" I remarked back, a little over confident for a rookie.
"And?" she shot at me, "This is the type of highests that call in the bats, considering you're doing this alone you really shouldn't risk it." I could hear her waving her fingers at me, her other hand on her hip like a old lady.
I rolled my eyes, "Really Candy? I've been learning since I was 11, I'm almost 16 now, 5-ish years of training by you should keep me alive for a medium sized highest."
"With your clumsiness, you might be surprised." She pointed out. I laughed, shaking my head as I opened the skylight by the hinges. "I'll be fine, besides you're the physic, you can already see what's happening around me, probably better than I do. With your nagging, and my training I won't die."
I could feel her glaring, "mighty comforting." I grinned my joker like smile, "I'm going in, air ducts are about 2 meters below, out of the view of the cameras."
"Roger." Was all I got in response. Slipping into the building I scaled down the walls, gripping tightly with my steel nails. The air duct was a tight fit, dusty and cramped as it was, I made it through, peeking through the vents at the different rooms.
Each room had hundreds of antique objects, from different armors to clay pots to priceless jewels that had box cases made of bulletproof glass. I was after some old antique swords myself, jade designs in the strong metal, woven silk hilt, these were some of the most expensive items we've ever stolen and I had to avoid batman on top of it. Great.
Opening the vent a little I look along the walls searching for cameras, there was one on the west wall and one on the east, sweeping across the room in synchronization. There was a tall statue close to the west camera farthest from the door; there were other displays large enough for me to camouflage into.
Oh right you still don't know my powers. Well I'm a Meta, I was gifted with powers, ones close to what my parents were good at. My mother was a contortionist and a escape artist, I'm extremely flexible to the point where I can bend my bones to, but I'm not elastic I break bones and I can only bend so far.
My father was a illusionist he had actual powers, he could create realistic illusions just out of thought alone, I can do the same, sometimes making them strong enough to appear real but it requires will, which I don't always have.
I use them to cover my scars and hide my identity, changing my odd eyes to my mom's silver-gray ones and turning my hair completely brown like before. I use it for my costume as well, I wear a black Kevlar spandex suit with a hood, utility belt, black gloves and combat boots along with a large array of small weapons, but it looks like I'm wearing a magicians outfit, have completely purple hair like my moms, a more simple belt and I let my scars show.
Hiding was easy but I can only blend into the color scheme, when I move you can still see the outline of my body, I needed to get to the cameras and hack the security footage, it would only take a little time to steal the weapons. I sprayed down a mist checking for any motion censors, considering there were guards moving in and out of the rooms I didn't expect any but I checked anyway.
I waited till the cameras had moved to the opposite side of the room to expertly climb out of the vent. The drop was easily more than 15 feet but required no grappling hook, I landing in a crouch rolling to absorb the impact. Hiding behind a set of large clay jars I waited as the cameras swept over the area I sat, before moving to the opposite sides once more.
Quickly hacking into the cameras, I reused the footage in this room from the last 5 minutes giving me time before I was discovered. I repeated the process with the other camera, now I just have to be weary of the guards.
Walking up to the stand where the weapons were held, I stopped to admire their design before checking for more censors. I found two, quickly crushing them before picking up both swords. I had to use a grappling hook this time, with the weight of the swords pulling me off balance.
I struggled through the vents them being even tighter now, after much crawling I climbed free to the rooftop reattaching the skylight from before. I double-checked the swords, still amazed that I managed to get them without alerting anyone. I turned around to climb off the roof when I noticed I wasn't the only person standing on the roof.
"Interesting, did you really think destroying the motion censors wouldn't draw attention?"
Shit.
Damien's POV
Another patrol same as usual, maybe this time there would be villains worth fighting tonight, I pondered entering the bat cave for the patrol. It was Grayson's night off, so I'm be going alone unless I called for backup, which I wouldn't unless Gotham ceased it's lack of thrill. Probable just some petty robbers again tonight and the usual scumbag rapists, at least that's what I thought.
"Father." I greeted batman, I still refuse to call him dad, it sounds undignified, I was given the normal response; unlike Grayson I'm not much for small talker. "What are my sectors tonight?" He pulled up a map sending me the coordinates before getting up to change into his uniform. He stopped looking back at the computer.
His eyes were narrowed whatever happened was serious; maybe I was going to "get some action" as Grayson would say. Geez I got to stop thinking like him I might become, bubbly.
"Motion censors in the Japanese war room, at the museum were cut off on one of the displays, the security footage from the room hasn't changed though. Go check it out, they shouldn't be gone yet, can you handle them?" Or not, I just nod; another break in I could handle this easily. "Call for back up if you need it." He added making me roll my eyes, like I was going to need back up. "I mean it Damian." I frowned slightly but nodded, 16 and still being babysat. Perfect.
I climb on my motorcycle locking in the coordinates; this should be boring.
Mel's POV
"Interesting, did you really think destroying the motion censors wouldn't draw attention?"
Robin is standing 3 meters away from me ready to kick my ass, shit. I look around for batman, I can feel Candy using my senses to look as well, she usually doesn't intervene during missions but missions with Batman are different. Great, Robin is standing 3 meters away from me and I don't know where Batman is, shit and double shit.
Being the teenage girl I was my eyes quickly did a double take over his body. Note I am a teenage girl, and if you were in my situation where you were standing in front of a cute super hero you would be doing the same thing, lets be real, all superheroes are pretty sexy.
I needed to think of a distraction quick but what could I do, I have no idea where Batman is and I have to pay attention to robin as he's the main threat at the moment. This was a crazy idea, but it works for Cat woman so, here we go.
"What if I wanted to be caught?" This raised some eyebrows of course, "seeing as you still haven't noticed me yet. Stealing, I though you were against that?" I admit that's a little pushing it but, maybe this is a common thing for female super villains, hopefully I don't sound as stupid as I feel.
"You didn't draw enough attention until now, what happened, get to big for the little leagues." I was surprised he answered, let alone that he went with the flirting. Maybe I could survive this. "Just trying to be adventurous."
"You've had your adventure time to give up the treasure though." Okay a little cheesy but still cute, just like his face, damn it superheroes why are you so cute! Focus! He's likely going to attack now, check his muscle movements. I waited sure enough he lunged. I ducked under him, focusing on avoiding and moving towards the water towers. I needed to avoid actual fighting, he was more skilled than me in fighting.
After dodging for a minute, he seemed to be trying to catch me instead of fighting me, I camouflaged, moving away to edge closer towards the water tower, I leaned against it making a slight pose before reveling myself again. He was circling around slightly confused of where I'd gone, I called to him finally coming up with a plan of retreat.
"Confused boy wonder?" He spun around, facing me he raised an eyebrow, "Powers?" he commented. I just smirked. He lunged forward again engaging in our 'dance'. I spun around a blow putting my hands close enough together to be hand cuffed. He fell for the opportunity, smiling in triumph.
"So you've caught me." I was still smirking, couldn't help it, with the plan I was brewing it was too funny. "Think you need to return your treasure now." He said proudly. "Hmm.." I said like I was thinking when really I was slipping the cuffs off my wrist, a little trick from mom.
"I think I'll keep them, with a little reward for myself." I spun around and kissed him, completely throwing him off guard. He didn't resist but seemed more shocked than anything, I took that moment to put the handcuff on him and attach it to the water tower.
I stepped back quickly out of his reach, he moved toward me realizing what happened soon after. He was speechless so I took it as my opportunity to finish the act, "See you later boy wonder, and thanks for the kiss." I winked then jumped off the building grappling into the building below. It would take him a minute to remove the handcuffs enough time for me to get away.
Once I was a good distance away I disguised myself as a man and walked toward the building, sword hidden in my jacket. I didn't get jumped on the way back, so I didn't need to worry about drawing attention.
"Hey I'm back." I announced when I made it up to our floor. "Candy?" I was suddenly grabbed, I fought against them but I stopped when she spun me around to face her. "Mel, are you alright, I can't believe you pulled that off!" She pulled me into a bone-crushing hug, "don't scare me like that again!"
I laughed, "It's not funny!" She yelled frustrated, "I'm not laughing at you I'm laughing at me, how in the hell did I pull that off?" I was stumbling now, adrenalin had run out and now it was like I was drunk, she sat me on my bed making me go through what happened, she couldn't see it that well in my head.
After about ten minutes of explaining we sat in silence for a second taking in what had happened. "I can't believe your plan worked and you kissed a superhero, you lucky chick."
"Why do you call me a chick? I thought the expression was 'you lucky duck'?" I questioned leaning against her shoulder as I wrapped my knee with bandages.
"Cause you're a child." She answered shaking her head. "At least the stuff is good, you got more than one so you can keep one of them, remind you of a certain someone." She nudged me. I rolled my eyes, I didn't need one.
Shaking my head I continued wrapping; something tells me I'll be seeing a lot more of the boy wonder.
Hey guys that's the end of this chapter, what did you think, ik Damian is a little out of character at the moment, Damian himself will explain that in the next chapter where we will be seeing more of Dami's pov. I hoped you like this and ik this update took way too long but I'm super busy so this tends to happen, I'll try to update quicker but it'll be at least more than a week before I post again. Hope you favorite and follow bye.