Chapter 3
When peter walks it's impossible it's impossible to think. He didn't know why, but he was just so distracted whenever he stepped outside anymore.
Maybe he should have brought his web shooters at least. Not that it would have mattered. If he had his web shooters and something went wrong, then chances of him actually using them for help are zero to none. But wearing his web shooters even when he doesn't need them makes him feel safe for some reason.
He makes it to the library and sees Ms. Gordon at the front desk. She looks up from her laptop, smiles at Peter and waves her hand.
He musters a smile and waves back. Barbara Gordon has to be one of the nicest civilians he has met since he has been in This city. She didn't try to rob him or jump him right when peter met eyes with her like most did. She seemed like a genuinely kind and trusting person and it's given Peter a sense of comfort just walking into the library.
"How's it been Peter?" she asks, typing on her laptop. She didn't need to keep an eye on him so she went back to her work typing and keeping conversation at the same time. God, he wishes he can do that.
"Meh, it could be better." He shrugs, smiling. He walks backwards pointing his thumb behind him "Mind if I use one of the computers?"
"Go for it, I just gotta handle some more stuff in my office real quick. You be okay"? She asks, already picking up her stuff ready to leave.
He plops down in the seat and puts his notebook and pen down cracking his knuckles. "Okay as all ever be" he grins
She shakes her head and leaves him alone.
First he searches for weather weekly; it won't be too bad next week. The highest it'll get is 49 so he can manage it for now.
He makes a chart in his notebook of the weather, the highs, the lows and the changes of rain. Yeah.. maybe peter should start bringing an umbrella.
He's about to log out but he stops. He clicks his pencil rapidly thinking. Maybe he should see if the internet has picked up any kind of hints about anything he needs.
He goes to Google and turns on the location. He searches for Gotham News.
It's all typical Gotham stuff about rich people, new street lights are due to be adjusted soon, some Snow guy escaped Arkham again? Yeah some of this stuff is good but it's not what he's looking for.
He taps his chin with the pen. Strange activity in Gotham? No he deletes that. There is always strange activity in Gotham. Uhhh, 'green liquid machine?' he types. Nothing. The results are about green vacuums.
'Doctor strange' he types slowly, biting his thumb a little shaken up about what the results could be.
UGH just results about some old psychiatrists.
He x's out the window out of anger, throws the mouse, gets up and walks around.
He inhales
Then exhales
Inhales
Then exhales
He walks straight forward looking down, not watching where he is going. He does this until he crashes into someone and falls down on his ass.
He winces and looks at the hand that has been whipped in his view offering to help him up.He takes it and it pulls him with some force that he slightly loses his balance.
He smacks a hand on his face so maybe they won't see his flushed face and drags it down slightly. "I- Uh I'm so sorry about this, I wasn't looking where I was going and-" then he gets a look at their face.
He recognizes then
No
He knows them.
"Cassandra?" He tilts his head up a bit
She smiles and waves at him. Cass wasn't much of a talker, Unlike Peter who bables too much. But she is always great at listening to you and saying the right words when you need to hear them.
SHe did use sign language a majority of the time. Not that it was a problem for him, he learned a little bit of it back home.
He ponders on what the duke had told him at lunch. "°Not that I'm not happy to see you, but aren't you in another state for something. Duke had told me that at school today°" he explains
Her smile fades for a millisecond. "°I just didn't want to go to school, and it seemed like a good excuse to use at the moment°" she signed , smiling bashfully
"Oh" he laughs
"But I am going out of state today. I came to visit a Friend before I do" she signs
"Oh well I'll leave you to it. I was just about to walk home" he tells her, walking back to the computer to grab his things in a rush to get back and fix his broken suit from the last patrol.
He's about to walk out when she grabs his arm, halting him. He looks back at her.
"°It's dark outside do you need a ride?°" she signs with caution in her eyes
He looked out the door and jeez, did it get dark fast.
Ehh he'll be fine. The dark is not really a problem with his spider sense.
"Don't worry about me, I will be fine. I promise you" he tells her truthfully
She sorta scans his face and nods she lets go of his arm "°Be safe°" she signs with a small smile
He jumps down the few stairs and waves and jogs back to the firehouse and gets to work.
He finishes his suit in a good 40-55 minutes. It's not like his normal suit he had back home but it's close enough. It's red, blue with a hint of black lines with a gold spider symbol flowing to his sides and up his neck.
The mask has a whole made voice modulator. It's a little choppy, it works good enough. It's not like any alien tech is just lying around for him to jack in the dumpster like back in New York.
So he made due with what he had.
He crawled to the top of the building and stared at the town below him. It's not so bad really from this high up. He can't see the blood stains all over the city, the smell of gunpowder that seemed to follow him everywhere, even in school.
He closes his eyes and hears gunshots from not too far away. He leaps off the building and swings away.
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Felicia runs and jumps across the sky and lands clean on the top of a building. She continues this until she finds the right building. A Wayne Enterprises building. Bingo
She safely opens the window and climbs in. Jumps down in a slit position. She gets up and dusts her Combat suit off, flips her tied up hair off her shoulder and gets searching.
She opens doors with computers and closes them. Right now she doesn't have the spider to Deactivate any of the security footage so she needs to be extra careful about this. Wayne has been known to keep very high up security in his more 'important' building may she say? At least that's what Selina had told her.
She stumbles across a locked door. She looks in the window and it seems to be a lab. She smiles and closes her eyes. When she opens them, they flash an unnatural green and the door is unlocked.
She creaks open the door and walks in.
She opens cabinets, drawers, folders, and nothing
She bangs her clawed gauntlet on the table in frustration. The table moves and an empty Glass test tube shatters.
Felicia rolls her eyes and kicks the glass out of the way. She walks over to the computer and debates whether she should take a whack at looking through files.
Nah. She'll keep looking for anything else.
She keeps walking around the building until she sees a closet. She blinks and thinks and it's unlocked. She opens the doors and she can't believe her eyes
It's the Anti-grav puck in all its unfathomable glory.
Felicia ended up losing it a couple break ins ago. Pete was a bit mad because he was the one who made it. But he was lucky Felicia took It In the first place or someone else would've stolen it. He better be glad it was her and not someone else.
She runs her gloved hands together in anticipation. She grabs the puck and a horrible beeping noise echoes through the floor
Oh Fuck
She smoothly yet rapidly avoids the cameras and finds the exact widow from which she came. She claps her hand and her claws come from out of her gloves. She jumps from the building and turns on the puck and lands smoothly on her feet.
She picks the puck up and smirks "oh how I've missed you"
At least that wasn't a whole waste if time
"What is it with cats and thievery" a voice echoes behind her.
A stupid, stupid voice echoes behind her
She turns her head a bit and rolls her eyes.
It's Gotham's justice flock again.