Re: SUBTHREAD - Nightwing arrives!
The crash came and immediately the Riddler jumped to his feet to face his opponent. He cackled, madly, snatching from the side of the desk a remote control that he'd set there earlier, holding it up high in the air for both Nightwing and Cypher to see.
"I wouldn't come closer if I were you," the Riddler warned in a sing-song voice, then, without taking his eyes off Nightwing, he pointed at Cypher. "And I wouldn't stand up, either. There's a bomb attached to the bottom of your chair. If you rise, it'll detonate." He then slowly turned to look at the boy, his expression twisting with hatred. "Did you think I wouldn't hedge my bets?
"As for you!" The Riddler turned to look at Nightwing again. "In my hands I hold the life or death of approximately fifty people." As he spoke, he began slowly backing away toward the exit. "Passengers on a travel bus, on the road. I can detonate it right now! Or I can do nothing, and it will detonate in fifteen minutes, unless I type in the key to keep it from doing so. Either way, you are going to let me go free to prevent fifty funerals. Fifty one, counting the driver." The smile upon the Riddler's face was nothing short of evil. "You better see to helping Cypher, though. The bomb on his chair is going to blow up..." with a simple moment of his thumb, he touched a button on the remote. "... in two minutes. He'll be able to escape by the seat of his pants!"
With those words, the Riddler fled out the door and into the night.