Dark City

Jerome

"Galavan, what do you want me to do about this then?" Jerome asked, they'd received word that a hacker an unknown hacker was about to release footage of the arkham escape. "I want you to find this rat an kill it or you'll end up dead on a table like your friends.' Jerome smiled wickedly and nodded. "Yes sir." He walked out of the building. "So he expects us to find an unknown hacker and kill the person before the person shows that he sprang us?" one of the other goons said.

"That's the plan boys, saddle up." he laughed loudly.

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Sarah

"Morning Sarah," an elderly neighbor of hers said as she walked down the hall of the apartment building she lived in. "Morning..." She replied as she walked down the hall. She was headed off to work and didn't feel like being stopped by anyone so she decided to take the back way, if you will. Alley's that could take her to her work in 15 minutes provided there were no big obstacles for her to overcome.

Sarah walked around the building and froze she saw a man all dressed in black murdering someone, he looked strange to her and she couldn't help but to stare, he looked hairless and crazy, she caught eyes with him and gasped as she ran down the Alley to a cop for help.

Victor

Despite his monotone and expressionless outer shell, Victor loved his job. He liked killing in general - but when someone gave him a detailed story as to why that person should be dead? That's when he liked his job even more. He was, currently, doing a personal job - killing someone whom stole from his house.

It was supposed to be short and sweet, but when he looked up and saw the body of a red haired woman, he knew his time was now limited. As a grin spread across his features, as he started to run towards the woman. When he was close enough, he laughed deeply. "I've got a gun - you sure you want to run girlie? If you stop running, I won't kill you yet."

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Carol

The blonde sat in a café in central Gotham, laptop in front of her as she furiously typed command words and different strings of letters into the device. Her apartment doesn't have the best connection, but this café had the best connection she could dream of - making her job easier.

Now, she was so close to revealing the case of the century - who broke out the Asylum crazies. It was hard, because all the CCTV footage was either broken or heavily encrypted by Arkham, but she almost had the code cracked. Just a few more hours, and she'd find the bastard who was wrecking chaos on the city because of one decision.

Jerome

His laughter echoed through the restaurant as the power to the restaurant was cut off, "Alright, ladies and gents I need everyone on their computer to close their computers and slide em over, or i'll start kill you simple as that!" He laughed out and cocked his shot gun. "Now please!"

He counted people and laptops in total he got seven and then he saw her the girl in the back on hers, "You. Hand it over." He said walking over gun pointed at her.

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Sarah

Halting as he said he had a gun she froze in place her breathing heavy. "P-Please, just let me go, I didn't see anything, I wont tell anyone just please." she was begging she could hear the footsteps behind her getting closer and she tried to run again but gasped as she felt an iron grip on her arm stopping her she glanced at him her ocean blue eyes looking up at him as her firey red hair moved in the breeze the scent of cherries and vanilla coming off her.

Victor

The man resisted the urge to roll his eyes at her words. It was when they begged for their life and saying 'I won't tell anyone' was the thing that annoyed him in his job, because they always went against their word. Either way, Victor has evaded the GCPD for a while now, so this person wouldn't pose as a thread. "I don't think so - I might need to keep you until I'm sure you won't say anything.." He said blankly, glaring into her eyes. Pressing the gun against her back, he dragged her down into the alley towards his vehicle - a black SUV with blocked windows, and a fake number plate (of course).

"Scream, and you get shot. Fight, and you get your fingers cut off, do you understand?"

Carol

Hearing commotion, she instantly pressed a few keys in order to encrypt her work - but, alas, the gun was pointed at her before she could press enter. She panicked, and she had no choice but to slide the laptop over to the fiery haired man. Fear was placed behind her eye, alongside anger - she didn't want to die, but she didn't want to lose her weeks of work.

"What's up with taking everyone's laptops? There's more valuable stuff here." She pointed towards the cash register with a timid point, trying to act innocent. If he found out, she'd bolt for the door - and she'd run... Because this looks like one of the loonies broken out of the Asylum.

Jerome

Hearing the womans voice did irk him ever so slightly, he pressed the gun to her chest. "You know its not nice to interrupt peoples robberies. Plus we are looking for a hacker." He laughed maniacally at her and looked in her scared eyes the fear made him grin wider.

"You see--The hacker is threatening to turn in our, glorious leader of the Maniax and we can't have that now. . ." He shoved her back against the booth, "So just sit in the booth and behave." He said glaring her way as he tossed her laptop into the pile and locked all the doors.

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Sarah

Her heart was racing, her pulse so high it no doubt wasn't healthy and possibly could lead to a stroke if she was a 45 year old over weight male. She saw the SUV and gulped thickly she bit her lip to stifle her sniffles and whimpers as she had some tears dripping down her cheeks. I mean who wouldn't have that in her situation? She followed The Man's lead she didn't want to be shot, or have her fingers cut off so she obeyed.

She'd do whatever it takes to survive this.

Victor

The hairless man took her around the back of the SUV, and opened the trunk. "Hopefully you don't mind tight spaces." He looked over at crying, and simply sighed with annoyance. "If you didn't come this way today, you wouldn't be in this situation. You only have yourself to blame, girl." Trying to contain his annoyance, he lifted her up and placed her in the boot. "Buckle up." He gave her a sinister smirk, before closing the trunk with a click of the lock.

Walking to the front, he turned on the engine before reversing onto the main road and driving as if nothing happened.

Chloe

So many people in the restaurant were scared... There were even children here, and they look traumatized and frightened, and Chloe couldn't take it. Clearing her throat, she found courage deep inside of her to speak again. "Let these people go! I-I'm the hacker, just let these people go - they have nothing to do with this." At this point, she sensed all eyes on her.

They'd have some tough luck decrypting her security files to get the information, so that gave her some confidence. Just a small ounce of hope. Her eyes cast downwards, as she gulped as she heard footsteps approach her. Was that the right move?

Jerome

Jerome turned on his feet grinning widely. "Well then that was easy," He laughed loudly and swung his gun around, "You threaten some people and then the yellow bellies come out!" He laughed out. "You want me to let all these people go!?" Jerome looked at her and then shot a man right in front of her. "Sorry hacker, I don't listen to commands from someone who should've kept their nose out of other peoples business!"

The whole restaurant screamed, "Alright boys, kill them all, I'll take hacker bitch here out to the van along with her computer." He said grabbing the girl by her hair keeping a gun pressed to her back. "Grab your computer and lets go. All these peoples blood....all of it is on your head because you should've kept your nose out of this case girlie." He whispered into her ear and laughed loudly. "Kids look at this woman, shes the reason you're going to meet god soon." He laughed and pushed her out of the building and into a white van.

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Sarah

With each bump in the road Sarah hit her head, with each turn she shifted around in the back and sighed she kept her eyes closed and tried not to panic she hated tight spaces and this right here was her biggest fear, to be captured and taken hostage or even killed. She had stopped crying by the time they got to wherever the bald man was taking her. She had decided not to make another sound or even cry anymore because she knew her fate she knew she was going to die and she didn't want to be a mess.