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(( Which man? Just in the time that I'VE played him, he's spoken to several people, and I can only remember which ones they are when he runs into them again ))

Roxanne slipped back into her shadow, and moved to an alley closer to where the man in the black suit was. He still looked a little familiar to her for some reason, and once she found out where Misty was, she could just slip out of her shadow to rescue her.
Roxanne stepped out of the alley a bit, and was close enough now to notice the man's shoulder. Lost quite a bit of blood from the look of it. And...what was he doing?

Roxanne watched him dissapear, then turned and glanced towards the stores. She was still searching for the exact location of Sapphire's so she should have time to check this out. She wasn't sure why she was so curious about this, but if nothing else, perhaps he could help her later. Besides, Sapphire could hold her rather well. She'd be fine for a few minutes.
Again, she slipped into her shadow, and dissapeared, this time trying to follow wherever the man was heading.

Roxanne reappeared inside the tunnel and watched the man take off down it. She took another quick look back, then turned and slipped back into her shadow to follow after him.

EXIT to Batcave

Sapphire yelped as she roughly hit the stairwell back first, bouncing off and tumbling down the rest of the way to the bottom floor. Groaning, she forced herself onto her elbows and tried to sit up. She was soon met with a forceful kick to the face that brought her up a few feet and against the wall. She was then slammed against it, and struck repeatedly with a spiked fist before being tossed again into the stairwell.
Riku, fully in his new K style Blood, stood and stared at beaten and bloody hero. What was left of the blue dress she had gone to try on over her costume lay shredded and stained around her. He turned and moved towards her, glancing up with a slight grin at the trail of blood that had followed her down the stairs. She tried to move out of the way, but could only apparently move a few inches. He gave her another swift kick to the face, then latched onto her hair and forced her to her feet. "Really, I'm a bit dissapointed. I was expecting more of a fight out of you than this. Tossed me around at the shop, tried to run and that was it." he said quietly, then quickly brought her back and hurled her back up the steps by her hair.
She yelped when she hit the corner of the top step, and skidded to a stop across the next floor. Chaos made it to the top of the stairs with one leap, and slowly made his way back towards her. "But I guess all it took was a nice little surprise."
Sapphire groaned and struggled to crawl away from him far enough that she could get to her feet again. As hard as that would be with an open stomach and number of puncture wounds. Healing abilities kept her from bleeding too much, but everything was still open. She made it to a wall and tried to crawl up it to get to her feet, her back towards Chaos.
"One little surprise and you're-" he started to say as he stopped right behind her.
She suddenly spun around, shooting a fist out that hit him hard enough to spin himself half way around. She then latched onto one of his arms, and spun again, slamming him into the wall. Before he had time to react, she grabbed onto the spikes of of his back, and with whatever bit of strength she still had, threw him over her head and down the stairs, stumbling forward and onto her knees. She stayed there a moment, trying to catch her breath, and listened to Riku crash down the stairs with a small grin. "Surprise..." she said a bit weakly.
Less than a minute later, Chaos landed on the top of the stairs again, his expression a mix of anger and amusement. "Well, it's about time. Shame to kill you without you putting up any kind of a fight."
"You kidding...I've been wanting to do that....to someone since....breakfast." she replied.

Sencing someone else in the hall with them, Riku quickly turned, thinking it was Alex again. He paused and stared a moment when he realized it wasn't. It was his old suit. That was the girl who stole it from him. He half wanted to just turn his full attention onto her and try to get his suit back. But....the other half of him was a little hung up on what the monkey had said. What if he was right? What if he had the better deal now? It wasn't like this one was trying to leave him.
After a bit of a pause, he turned his attention back to Misty, who was also staring at their uninvited guest. Taking advantage of both her dissadvantage and distraction, he moved and latched onto the back of her neck, forcing her to her feet again while digging his clawed fingers into the side of her neck to ensure that she wouldn't try to fight back just yet. Either way, he knew he had Misty under his control. That was good enough for him at the moment.

Riku paused a moment just to see what the woman would do, and found nothing. Smirking a bit, he turned back to Misty and wrapped his other hand around her neck as well. "Thought you were going to put up a fight." he said quietly.
Misty only responded by trying to claw at his armored arm.
"What, no webbing to attack me with? Or are you still trying to stitch your stomach up?"
Misty's mouth opened, but nothing came out but a gasp as he squeezed harder.