Swallowing The Spider

[After Transition]

So.. What do I do now.. Let's review the current situation.

In front of me is a pissed of butler who is pointing a 12-Gauge(I don't actually know what kind of shotgun it is, all I now is it's going to riddle me with shells and fill my body with holes) at me and currently has his finger on the trigger. Due to this my hands are in the air next to my head, why does my F.U.C.KIN spider sense not work anymore, god f.u.c.kin dammit.

Selina meanwhile is about two meters to the left of me and she is currently out of site and Alfred isn't able to spot her, he only sees me so he possibly doesn't know that another person is in the room. So one of my options is to calmly comply with whatever Alfred wants me to do(his finger is still on the trigger, all it would take is a twitch and I'd be a goner) and wait for Selina to take him out when he isn't expecting it but this comes with a lot of risks.

Selina might actually leave me here as she already has what she wants(she still has the camera with her), I mean it would be stupid of her to do that as I know her secret identity and could easily sell her out but I can't rule out that she wouldn't do it. It's time I started to sort my shit out and stop moping over what happened before I left the Marvel Multiverse, all I've been doing since I came here is reacting and it's time to start acting, literally.

I make sure I have my best American(Southern) accent ready, though Earl was rusty and he did his best teaching me to fight he mostly taught me espionage and spying, things like misdirection and accents and the lot, things that are very useful especially now. "Excuse me Mr butler but I don't take kindly to folks sticking guns in my face. If you could be so kind as to lower your weapon and I can just up and skedaddle on out of here without harming no one. No need for violence I'm just a god fearing man like anybody else." God damn my accent is good, I got all the slang, mannerisms and articulation of a southerner. This will just help add to the misdirection that stops Batman from finding out my real activity, all I've shown so far is my height, build, dark skin and my South American accent. No one is gonna connect it to me with my similar build but with lighter skin and an English accent, there is also no reason to connect the two so I think I'm in the clear so far.

He raises an eyebrow in question. "And why should I lower my weapon against a intruder such as yourself? Please, enlighten me." Wow Alfred sure does a lot of sarcasm, I guess you can only do so much humour when your master goes around fighting criminal nut jobs dressed as a bat.

"I am unarmed, I ain't no threat to you and if you let me go nobody ain't gon find me anywhere. I swear I won't come back, I learnt my lesson I swear." I've just gotta keep talking for now, lead him into a false sense of security. Make him think that he has the upper hand.

He steadies his grip on his shotgun and lowers it till it's pointing at my c.h.e.s.t rather than my face but his finger is still on the trigger. "You aren't a threat to me? I'm just a frail old man, just a butler, how do you expect me to defend myself from a strapping young man like yourself?"

I just look at him and answer. "I can see how your holding that their gun, your steady, calm. The type of calm that can only come from experience and on account of your age I can only assume that it is a well of experience, something that I wouldn't be able to handle." That's right make him think I'm weak and cautious, this just further cements the scenario I'm trying to force onto him.

He regards me evenly. "What you say is correct. Even so I will not lower my weapon, we will wait here till the police arrive and only then will I do so." We then descend into silence as he finishes talking with me but I don't let the silence last for long.

He believes me weak and cowardly, that he has the upper hand and only needs to wait for the police to arrive to be done away with me. Now is the perfect time to act, I quickly think about the taser I made and make sure that I set it to the lowest setting which is stun, I don't think Alfred would survive the higher settings.

And then I act like a viper striking its prey at the most opportune moment. At a speed that the butler can't keep up with, my left hand quickly snakes out and takes a firm grip on the barrel of his shotgun before pushing it up and towards the left just in case he manages to fire it. My other hand also strikes- his finger twitches and he manages to fire of his shotgun but it is already pointed away from me- it moves at a speed he can't react to and settles on his right shoulder. I risk a quick "Sorry!" towards him before activating my taser and funnelling my 'Venom Shock' into it.

Blue electricity flashes for a moment before it dies down. I look towards Alfred and see that his eyes are whited out, he proceeds to let go of his shotgun(I let go of it at the same time) and it falls clattering on the floor. My hand is still gripped on to him and I can feel his start to lose his balance and collapse on the floor, I quickly use my now free hand to help me steady him and lay him gently on the ground. It wouldn't do for him to fall and crack his skull open, that sounds like a good way to have a vengeful bat come after you with a vengeance(though I think this will still get a angry bat to try finding us).

Selina walks around the corner and I look at her. "Let's quickly get out of here before the crazy butler wakes up again!" She says a bit frantic, I think it just dawned on her that it could have been her that was held at gunpoint.

I walk back into the office. "The butler knows we were in here(knows at least that I was in here) and when he wakes up so will everyone else. We have to cover our tracks so they don't know what we came here to steal, starting trashing the place with me. If you see anything valuable take it, it will provide a different reason for being her than the blueprints and so won't lead to us in the future." We both start to trash the office with Selina taking anything she thinks might be valuable.

After a few minutes trashing the place I remove a painting from the wall and throw it to the floor, behind it is a safe. "Hey Cat, how long would it take you to break into this safe?" I question, she walks over and starts to examine it.

"Hmm, I'd say about ten minutes" That would take to long, without bothering to give her a response I quickly go up to the safe and rip the safe door of it hinges and throw it to a random direction. There are a lot of strength enhanced guys around so it wouldn't be too much of a problem to reveal my strength, this also wouldn't reveal the limit of my strength which is good.

Peering into the safe I quickly pull out the contents and begging to pour them into a burlap sack, apparently Selina just carries these around with her but I guess she is a kleptomaniac and does need to have somewhere to store the stuff she steals temporarily. At least she is better prepared than other kleptomaniacs.

With one more sweep around them room to make sure we didn't miss anything and that the blueprints are scattered beneath the desk we flipped over to portray that we didn't care about them. Quickly checking and making sure that Alfred is still knocked out we start to make our escape, leaving the same way we came in. It's been less than an hour so we don't have to worry about the Batman at the moment but it doesn't hurt to be cautious.

I better get my f.u.c.kin memory stick once we're back at her apartment it or I swear imma beat the shit out of her.

What.. I'm all for gender equality.

I will kick the shit out her just like I would to anyone else that pissed me off no matter the gender...

Wow, I'm really progressive...