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PALMER PENTHOUSE
Andrew Palmer
“Deathstroke says that Black Canary and Oliver Queen interfered but the task was accomplished.” Dante says as I stand in the living room watching the news footage of Black Canary taking down the men in the motorcycles.
“What about the men they arrested?” I ask as they could pose a threat and be a lead to me.
“He said and I quote: They would die before talking.” Dante says and I chuckle in my head as Deathstroke is one of a kind. There is no better business partner than him.
“Where does he find these guys?” I ask rhetorically and walk towards another room. “Hey, can we get some people in here? I want a party!” I walk into the room opening the door but as I do I’m greeted by a man wearing a red suit with no undershirt and platinum blonde hair. He grabs on to me and throws me to the ground and I watch him walk towards me as I begin to realize who he is.
“Careful for what you wish for.” He says and I quickly get back up going to attack him but he moves fast. He punches me in the rib and then kicks me against the wall. I quickly take a gun out of my waist but he disarms me quickly and takes out a blade pressing it against my wrist and choking me against the wall.
“What you’re amazed by my song? You haven’t heard me sing yet.” Silver Siren, the Drake Lance twin chokes me out looking at me with a small smile. Dante failed to kill him the other night, and I thought he would’ve been smart like his Russian counterparts and leave Star City.
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Silver Siren
“You’re a dumb ass.” Andrew tells me and I tilt my head giving him a sad face.
“No one ever accused me of being dumb.” I tell him mocking him still and he struggles as I tighten my hold around his neck.
“You’re dumb for coming here.” He says continuing to mock me and I press the knife against his wrist getting deep into his skin. A little deeper and I’ll pop a vein.
“I want what you owe me.” I say as he promised it to me. I want my ticket back home, the teleporter. I then hear a gun click behind my head and I sigh being disappointed that these American men on Earth-1 are still as naive as can be. I won’t stop until I get it, and they will never understand that.
“Want doesn’t get.” Andrew says and I turn my head, looking behind my shoulder to see Dante aiming the gun at my head.
“Nice outfit. Do those pants make it tough to move?” He says mocking the tightness of my pants around my thigh. I slowly let go of Andrew and then kick Dante in the knee as he’s weak.
“I don’t know. Do they?” I ask as I whip out my own gun and aim it at Andrew’s head to threaten his life for what I want. If not, torture will have to do. “So where is it?”
“Where’s what?” He pretends not to know and I’m getting impatient.
“The teleporter. My ticket to Earth-2.” I say angrily grinding my teeth together.
“The ultimate escape for a master spy like you.” Andrew says buying himself some time and it works. The doors to this room slam open and I quickly grab on to Andrew and put the gun towards his head.
“Hold it right there!” I hear his bodyguard shout and I hold Andrew tight as he struggles a little. I look for ways of escape and I figure one out.
“SCREEE.” I screech a small blast towards the windows and it shatters for me. I throw myself and Andrew through the window and we both fall down together a couple stories until we land on a platform for the window cleaners. I catch my fall while Andrew body slams on the platform. I lower the platform on to a rooftop and then throw Andrew on the ground.
I get on top of Andrew as he’s panicked and I’m exhausted playing his games. I aim the gun under his chin as he has no one to save him now. “Where is it?” I ask one more time before I get bothered by him and blow his brains out all over the rooftop.
“The teleporter?” He smiles as he thinks he’s said something unbelievably funny, and I’m not laughing. “The one where you activate it, and select whatever alternate universe you want to go to and go there?” He says explaining it to me and it’s real, I just know it is. “Sound a little bit too good to be true?” He breaks it down to the only way that I can understand it.
“You’re lying!” I shout as he’s playing me again, it’s real. “Mercury Labs took it to prototype stage!” I shout again to get him to talk fast.
“That’s why I bought them!” Andrew explains himself to me and I’m getting frustrated. “But they had nothing.” He says disappointed as I’ve been lead on. I get disappointed as I know he’s telling the truth, I am just in denial. “Sorry sweetheart.” I get off him and as I do I hear footsteps approaching us and I look towards a door to find mercenary men walking out towards me. Deathstroke’s men.
I pull Andrew off the floor and put him in a headlock with my gun against his head threatening them to stop. “Stay back!” I shout as they might not understand the concept and I look around to find myself outnumbered by 6 mercenaries. I could take them down myself, but it’ll be a tough one to get out of. “I’m not bluffing!”
“They know. They just don’t care.” I hear my voice and look up at the sky to find Black Canary standing on higher ground. I get irritated as he’s here to stop me probably, and I throw Andrew off me and shoot at one of the mercenaries, which takes him down. I start a fight and begin kicking the mercenaries down and Black Canary jumps down taking one down and fighting alongside with me.
“This is surprising.” I say to mock him and he grabs on to a mercenary and I aim at the mercenary for the shot and he kicks the gun out of my hands. “You’re kidding me.” I get irritated by him as we’re the exact same person with different stories, and different pain.
“No guns, no killing.” Black Canary says as we stand next to each other starring at each other’s faces.
“Where’s the fun in that?” I shout and we both help each other and fight together taking down the mercenaries that are determined to get their job down and kill us. We kick them all down together fighting together with different fighting techniques and styles. I begin to hear a riffle shooting towards us and they miss as they hit the ground, and I make a run for it as Black Canary follows from behind. We run across the rooftop until we get near the end and stop not knowing what to do next.
Black Canary turns around as I do too weighing out our odds and we both see Deathstroke walk out towards us. Black Canary sees him and gets confused as he believes Deathstroke to be someone else. “C’mon!” I say saving the hero and grab on to him as we both jump off the roof top. We run off to other rooftops and crash through the windows of an abandoned office building where we hide.
Black Canary takes a look out of the windows checking for any followers while I take a break and feel a gunshot wound on my arm. I ignore it as it doesn’t hurt me and I’ll get to it later. I brush my white hair off my face and Black Canary walks towards me.
“You’re welcome by the way.” Black Canary talks tough and I roll my eyes, sighing out loud.
“I had it under control.” I lie to him as I don’t need him anyways. I am trained by the best, to be the best. I can handle anything that comes in my way.
“Those weren’t street thugs. They were trained killers. I need you to tell me what you did with Oliver’s finger prints.” Black Canary asks me and I scoff with a small smile.
“I sold his prints to Palmer for something that doesn’t even exist.” I say disappointed in myself as I should’ve known better.
“What’s he planning to do with them?”
“I don’t know.” I tell him the truth and he believes me. “But Palmer seemed pretty interested in the robbery of your husband’s company.” I tell him as much as I can as Black Canary could become a possible ally to help me.
“What about Slade? Why’s he here?” He says and I chuckle as he’s completely off.
“That’s not Slade. That’s his son, Joe.” I explain the difference to him. “Slade went MIA after the Ra’s situation. Guess he was pretty broken up that you chose a dead man instead of him.” I mock Black Canary as I know everything about him and everyone. It’s what makes me dangerous.
A helicopter flies through the building and its light shines through the windows. Black Canary gets distracted and I disappear leaving him behind. “Silver?-” He speaks up and realizes I’m nowhere near him. “Just like Bruce.” He sighs.
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