Streets of Arkham
Chapter 1: It's Our Right to Fight

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You know, of all the worlds that have ever existed, I never once even [i]dreamed[/i] that I would end up here.  My breath was visible in front of me, the snow turned my fingers numb through my gloves, and my goggles kept fogging up.  I looked out over the train tracks elevated over the city below me from my position crouched on top of a roof.  The way I saw it, anywhere were some big crime was going down, [i]he[/i] was bound to show up.  It was only logic.

And that's when I spotted it.  My opportunity.  It wasn't hard to track this guy down.  His thugs had been put all around the abandoned subway station/packing plant he was using a train to escape from.  I heard a rumbling, and the light of the train approached.  This was gonna be tricky.  Parkour training, don't fail me now!

Timing it as best as I could, I ran.  First to a roof ahead and closer t the tracks, then onto a gargoyle perched on its edge.  Without losing a stride, I leaped.  You know how, in movies, when the action hero jumps towards a moving vehicle and everything goes all slo-mo?  It's not like that in real life.  One second, I was jumping off the roof.  The next I was on the train.  It felt like I'd blinked and missed something.  It was slick with melted frost, and I nearly slipped off, but I kept my grip.  I [i]really[/i] didn't feel like falling to the city down below the elevated tracks.  Up now, I ran along the roof towards the gap between train cars.  I jumped down onto the small walkway, looking through the door's window.  Mooks-a-plenty in there.  Better just go ahead, stop the ring-leader.  I was about to do just that, when I heard a crashing sound from the car ahead of me.  I looked through the window to that one.

[size 1]"Next, stop... pain.  Arrival time... now![size]

[size 1]"You've been waiting all day to say that, haven't you?"[size]

The first one who had spoken was dressed in red, with a cape and hood, and wielded a staff.  The other wore black, with a blue symbol on his chest, two escrimas in hand.

Okay.  Maybe I have had dreams like this.