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One of the spirits grinned back at CJ. "Alright. After this we should well make our quota. We'll be able to have a nice, long vacation." he said. Then he carefully pointed towards the door that CJ had turned into a flat bug zapper. It clacked loudly, then slowly slid open. Pushing the man that lay on the floor back across the hall as it opened.

The other men that were standing in the hallway stared at the door, then inside. The first thing they noticed was the late doctor lying on the floor. And then the only other visible being in the room, CJ.

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"I will do my best to locate them, Madam." Alfred replied from the other end of her communicator.


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"Let me guess, he's on one of the floors that the big man has all his customer friendly guards on?" Electro replied from the other end of the comm. "Alright, I'll see if I can find him before he gets too far."


/// Sorry for short posts. Dying battery is dying... ////

((A role I LOVE having him ******** yeah! Grim Reaper!!"

C.J. . . . don't get too cocky. After all. We gotta get US outta debt.

"Right . . . I'm SO gonna have a talk with Misty about this when I get out."

Don't you mean "IF"?

"Nobody asks if I die, I ain't gonna croak."

((We didn't ask if the doctor was gonna go . . . just FYI))

*gulp*

C.J. looked at the others. "Some days, I REALLY wish I had a gun!" he growled to himself . . . then looked at the mooks. "Just give up, guys." he said before eying his surroundings. Plenty of torture devices . . . hmm. We can use something with this . . . hey, I got an idea. That door stripped a few wires loose off that torture thingy. I think we're in an area with lots of metal.

"Whaddaya getting at?"

I'm saying we can make a BIGGER bug zapper!

"Nah, we already used that joke. Let's light something on fire!"

Okay!

C.J. darted and started chucking fist-fulls of scalpels like darts at the bad guys with a cry of "HADOUKEN!!" before looking around, trying to find . . . wait, just WHAT are you trying to find? Let's just set the room on fire!

"NO! I got a plan!"

As it turned out, Aiden was, in fact, nearly finished with the guards, who it seemed were holding back for a reason he couldn't identify. He didn't really bother to try, however, and settled for just breaking heads with his fists.


Meanwhile, Brenda was silent as the elevator she was in continued to head down... right past the floor Yuriko had thought she'd stop at, and down below to the sub-basement level, where the power grid was located. Once the doors opened, Brenda was more or less a shadow, moving to the nearest dark vantage point and quickly locating a large mass of switches and blinking lights on the other side of the room. Apparently, the Kingpin hadn't bothered to renovate or improve upon a design that he had already deemed efficient enough. His loss.

Brenda moved silently, scanning the area to see that, thankfully, she was alone on the floor. Good. That made things that much easier. She moved over to the power grid and briefly looked over the various switches. If she wanted to, she could just flip switches and push buttons at random, and that would achieve her ends anyway. But she was looking for something more specific... Turning things off one at a time, both for a psychological factor and to try to isolate where Misty was. So she got to work... And one by one, floor by floor, the lights of Fisk Towers began to turn off. She kept her own elevator active, as well as a few isolated others for easy transport, while most others were brought to sudden halts. This would trap those inside them, though judging by her access to the base schematics, most of the elevators were empty, and thus simply wouldn't respond to commands to open.

Not all of Fisk Towers was brought offline, however; she left things like air conditioning on, and more casual areas, such as where the public was allowed to be, were mostly left intact apart from the lights turning off. What Brenda did not yet realize was that Electro was present in the building, and while he could use his own power to override all of the offline parts of the building, and thus turn them back on... this would considerably weaken him, since he wouldn't be able to maintain a serious level of personal power while simultaneously trying to power the entire building.

Once she was satisfied that she could move unimpeded and locate Misty in one of the trapped elevators, Brenda turned on her heel and proceeded to walk back to her elevator, activating her earpiece.

"Do you have anything yet?" she asked Alfred, her tone low.

Bullets zinged past C.J. as he ducked behind another torture device. One barely missing his head by INCHES. "Y'all can't hit the broad side of a barn!!" he hissed as he found a vial.



C.J., I don't think that'll work.

"We defy logic all the time. SURELY you know not to say that!"

True . . .

C.J. took the top off the vial and sniffed it. Sweet! This oughta be potent. He thought and put the top back on, sneaking from his cover spot to get closer.

"Alfred? Alfred!" Brenda said into her comm, but she couldn't get anything but static. Annoyed, she wheeled around to see the odd electrical surges, and her eyes widened a bit behind her cowl, before narrowing in that analytical manner that said that she was thinking of possibilities for why this had happened. As she was unaware of Electro's presence, she assumed it was Livewire, or perhaps some other electrical-based villain she knew of, preparing to come through... and she slowly began backing to one of the few darkened corners of the room... but not to hide.

Brenda narrowed her eyes behind her cowl as she watched Electro's flashy entrance, and once he appeared, she recognized him from the files she had read on the Batwave.

"And now you're going to sleep." she said, her tone deadpan, before she casually moved her arm over to the fire alarm right next to her and activated it. An alarm rang out over the sub-basement, and water from the sprinklers came down in a rainfall-like torrent, coating the area around them, and cascading onto both Brenda and Electro. Unfortunately, only one of them actually have protection from electric shocks in this case, since the water would fry Electro enough to knock him out for a good while.

As Electro did actually predict, Lady Deathstrike got his message about the basement. And with a moment of concentration, Yuriko keyed up the HYDRA teleport ring to port to the location....

The expert assassin was a little surprised by the active sprinklers, as her eyes fell on the now shorted out Electro. Resisting the urge to roll her eyes, Yuriko began to size up her opponent in front of her moving out of the shadows, "Interesting move, Helena... if I don't miss my guess. Anyway, Huntress or Batwoman or whatever you are calling yourself, it doesn't matter. You are annoying my employer, and I have had a very long day." With that Yuriko unsheathes her long adamantium claws standing in an easy stance ready to move in almost any direction for the coming fight. Internally, the Japanese cyborg mentally reviewed known tactics and equipment within the Bats repertoire from what Yuriko had earlier gleaned from an old JLA database she had hacked into -- revealing various strengths and weaknesses of the heroes listed.

Instead of looking Batwoman in the eyes, Yuriko was reading body movement for insight as to what the dark knight may do -- but she didn't wish for Brenda to come up with a calculated plan action so.... Yuriko closed the distance with three experimental slashes to gauge her opponent. Even though these are measured strikes were swift, they may or may not strike or glance Batwoman; however, Yuriko's true goal was to neatly sever the utility belt around Brenda's waist with her fourth attack.....

As Lady Deathstrike appeared and said her piece, mistaking Brenda for Huntress-- which would have been amusing in any other situation-- the Batwoman took a wary, combat-ready stance as she, too, mentally went over files she had read regarding Deathstrike; she was one of the most formidable martial artists of the other universe, and not to be taken lightly.

Brenda parried the first few strikes with her gauntlets, the sharpened fin-like attachments serving to deflect the blows of Yuiko's claws, and by the time the fourth strike came, Brenda backed up just enough for the strike to avoid hitting her utility belt by millimeters. It took a fraction of a moment for Brenda to realize that that wasn't a random strike, and that Yuriko was likely trying to go for the belt itself. Determined not to let this happen, Brenda decide that she might need to play a little dirty if push came to shove; and she didn't have time enough to play around. So, as the water continued to fall down around them, Brenda moved her gloved hand and essentially slapped some of it toward Yuriko's eyes, hoping to temporarily blind her enough for Brenda to improvise a plan of action to take Deathstrike out of the equation.