[AT] Swooping Down...

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I watch them burn for a while and I'm brought out of my daze when I realise that their screams have stopped and their corpses have stopped twitching and it's at this point that I also realise that I shouldn't have stayed and watched them burn to death with the kid in my arms because even though I'm hugging him to my chest to stop him from seizing it making sure that he wouldn't be able to hear their screams over the crackling of the fire but even so I realise that I've stayed stationary too long and in doing so I've been letting the child in my arms breathe in the smoke and fumes which are definitely harmful even if I am holding his head against my chest to limit the smoke he breathes he's still been inhaling quite a lot so I shouldn't have stayed and watched them burn to death no matter how much I enjoyed it as I should've just left once I saw them being consumed by the flames, realising my mistake I immediately turn around and walk around while gazing up at the ceiling to find the biggest hole I can leap through so as to not risk making any mistakes when I jump out through it and once I've found the perfect spot I walk to it and look directly up from underneath the big hole to the big blue sky which I can see through the whole though it's swiftly being clouded by dark smoke from the fire with the fumes rising into the sky.

As I look up through the hole preparing myself to leap I spot something moving through the desk smog above me though I can't quite make out what it is because it's so high in the sky and small that it just looks like a dot and with all the smoke I can't make out what it is even with my enhanced eyesight but I don't worry about that anymore as I notice that while it was just gliding through the sky before when it stopped around the middle of the whole or thereabouts it started to suddenly seem to be increasing in size and after a moment my brain rebooted and got rid of my brain fart as I could now clearly see the identity of the black dot in the smoggy clouds of smoke as it was getting bigger and bigger not because it was increasing in size but because it was nearing the ground at a rapid rate and because it was nearing me it started to become less covered in smoke and I could finally clearly see what was coming down at such a high speed and it turned out to actually be the Batgirl, it seems she actually did escape the explosion though it seems that she became trapped on the other side of the debris and so her only option to get in here and rescue us would be to find another entrance but since pretty much all other access to the building has been blocked off by fire she decided to come in through one of the many holes in the roof but since the roof isn't too stable she decided to gain height and glide in the sky and when she finally neared over the biggest hole which I also coincidently decided on she immediately dive bombed so as to enter into the building without actually touching the roof as it is likely to collapse at any moment.

I don't know how she gained such height in the first place but I'm assuming that she used some kind of technology or device to gain such height so as to time her drop perfectly and still have room to manoeuvre if she judged it wrong but clearly she didn't as I begin to back up when she dives in through the hole in the factory ceiling and as soon as she is through she immediately pulls back on her gliding cape to stop her momentum and slowly float to the floor and I've got to say that it was a pretty cool sight to see though now I'll have to rely on her to get me and the kid out of here as I can't use my powers in front of her now but I'm sure we'll be fine since she's probably been in worse situation which she's resolved though it is pretty annoying since I was just about to leap out of here, she lands while retracting her glider back into a cape which begins to cover her from the shoulders down (bit weird but I'm guessing she's taking a page out of the Batman's book?) though her cape isn't as long as Batman's so it stops around midway down her thighs as she walks towards me and the kid with a smile on her face which I am guessing is because she's happy that we're okay and she got in here without collapsing the roof. "Sir, I'm glad you're okay. Come with me and I'll get you out of here." She says stopping a short distance in front of me although we are both still underneath the big gaping hole in the factory ceiling.

"Batgirl, thank god you're here. How are we getting out? The entire place is surrounded by fire, there's no way out!" It took literally all I had to not add a 'Gee Willikers' in there since I've decided to play the role of a hapless citizen who is in way over his head and is relying on Batgirl to get us out of here though I am wondering what solution she has to get out of here and whether she came up with the same idea as me or she came up with a better solution than mine which will make me a bit embarrassed since I bet it would be something simple which I overlooked, Barbara takes a moment to look around and take in her surroundings and as she does she obviously takes notice of the fact that the matron and the drug dealer have died that she decided not to talk about it and tell me her plan. "You are gonna hold that child close to you and with your other arm to going to hold onto me and in turn I'll hold onto you while i shoot my grapple gun with my other hand and attach it to the ceiling which I then retract to rapidly pull us up into the air and out of the factory at which point I will manoeuvre is to a safer location. Is that clear?" She asks at the end for my take on the subject though I think that's just for courtesy's sake and she's definitely gonna grab me no matter how I look at the solution which is favourably since it's basically the same as my plan except that she isn't jumping and is instead using a grappling gun to get into the he sky after which I'm assuming that she'll start gliding us to safety which works out alright, it might be a bit difficult with her holding onto me and the kid but I think she'll do fine as she strong and trained and I bet that her suit will also help but the roof is a bit of a worry since it will immediately start to collapse when the grapple attaches to it so she has to immediately retract the line to get off of the factory before it collapses but I bet she's already thought of this since she's a genius so I suppose I am fine with this plan.

"Yes ma'am, lets get out of here as soon as possible. Don't want to spend another second here." I say to her and in response she pulls out her grapple gun and starts aiming it while I heft the child up to get him properly stable in my grasp and when she nods her head at me I close in to her getting close at which point the wraps one arm around me while I wrap my free arm around her but as I do so when my arm makes contact she suddenly shivers and jolts and in any other situation I wouldn't have questioned it but I did find it a little worrying and so as she was aiming the grapple gun I quickly let go of her before she can fire the grapple gun at the roof and she looks at me annoyed and questioning to which I ask her. "Can you please open your cape Batgirl, I need to check something. Please.." I ask her to which she's about to talk and reject it so I continue on before she can say anything. "If you don't do it then I'm going to stay in this place with the kid and burn to death. Open your cape!" To which she looks undecided but eventually decides we can't waste anymore time and so she moves her cape to the sides behind her arms.

Fuck, she got a long metal piece lodged in her torso stuck between two of the metal platings of her suit that make it literally impossible to remove right now, there's no way she can get both me and the kid out of here with an injury like that...

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