Stephanie Brown (the_spoiler) wrote in modernage, @ 2011-01-16 23:29:00 |
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Entry tags: | dinah lance | black canary, stephanie brown | spoiler |
Who: Steph OTA
What: First time back on the streets
When: 7th January
Where: Streets of Gotham
There wasn't anything different about the streets of Gotham, even after a half a year. Sure, the criminals--small time crooks, not the superpowered types--were different, but they still did the same things, with the same bats, guns and chains, with a routine so similar to each other you'd think they were playing follow the leader.
Spoiler was perched on a roof in full eggplant gear and a pair of binoculars in her hands. She was spying on a group of three middle-aged guys, in dark colored hooded sweatshirts loitering about a block away. She could already guess that they were going to rob the pawn shop round the corner. Through her binoculars, she could see the three men talking to each other and gesturing with their hands. One of them was having second thoughts, Spoiler guessed, and pocketed her binoculars.
A quick use of her grapple later, Spoiler was on the roof directly above the three men. From there, she could easily hear the men's argument.
...and the gun poking out of a pocket of one of the men's sweatshirt.
"Hey, you. Don't you know that carrying a concealed gun is illegal?" Spoiler hollered, and somersaulted off the edge, diving gracefully downwards and using her momentum to push the one with the gun at his friend. "I bet you don't even have a license". It was good to be back on the streets, instead of being cooped up in her room under the watchful eye of Momma Brown. She'd already waited a week past her 'ungroundment', and this time, she'd really meant it when she said she wasn't going to go crimefighting again. But...she just couldn't do it.
One of the men literally knocked Spoiler out of her thoughts, and she stumbled before sending a fist into his gut and rolled away as he tried to step on her. "We don't want no trouble, you crazy broad!"
Spoiler really hated when people called her that. "That was seriously uncalled for." She sent a roundhouse kick his way, and dodged a punch from behind, nearly falling. Again.
"I might be out of practice, but you guys really need to just give up now, before I get angry."
Spoiler ducked again as a baseball bat came her way, and shoved her elbow into the man's crotch. Spoiler immediately sent three batarangs at the man behind the wailing one, and kicked the last man standing's legs out from under him, but not before he grazed her arm with a blade. She bit down on lip and knocked the knife away, before knocking him out with as much force she could muster without giving him permanent brain damage.
"That's for making me have to find an reasonable explanation about how I got a cut on my arm studying at home."