The man looked up as gunshots rang out and men's screams were snuffed out by swift thuds. The man watched warily as gunshots continued to ring out in different directions sometimes flying over the railings.
"What's happening?" The man asked into his walkie but nothing came back.
As the gunfire died down and the room went silent he jumped down into the room with the hostages and the leader of the heist. He landed with a thud as his boots collided with the marbled floor. He extended his legs rising from his crouched landing position looking at the man.
"What are you supposed to be?" Vance asked as he scanned his surroundings.
"Hahaha, i could ask the same thing... but i am the goblin, here to take everything from the world and make it mine... as it should be." The man sad as he held his arms out putting his entire self on displace.
His mask was green with pointy ears and amber like yellow eyes and unsettling sharp yellow teeth. As any could guess it is in the likeness of a goblin the very symbol of greed and depravity. Beneath his mask is a neat and ironed black business suit, that exudes intelligence and professionalism.
No gun, no knife, hands are easily visible and away from any potential hidden weapons, and he is an arrogant prick... should be easy!
He lunged forward at maximum speed throwing his fist forward at the mans face intending to end this in one blow. The next moment his entire bodies momentum is halted dead in its track, a possibility that never once crossed his mind. The goblin stood there holding Vance's fist in his hand casually.
"You didn't think i would stand here out in the open with no way of defending myself did you... oh you poor thing, you're shaking in your boots." The man pulled Vance's fist aside before slamming his fist into his face.
Vance is thrown back several dozen feet colliding with a marble wall and breaking through it. His nose sits in his mask bloodied and broken, he wipes the blood away from his eyes as he tries to collect his thoughts and stand up.
What... the fuck!? So... strong... how did i not think of... that!
Vance climbed to his feet using the front desk as a stand. He looked around as the world spun around him, he tried to find the man and did with the help of the big green mask he was wearing being easily noticed even now.
"You may be a Meta like i but unlike me you are frail, malnourished, and ultimately undeveloped... so i will give you a chance, i will hold back about 75% of my power." The man said as he began walking forward.
Vance rushed forward at the man struggling to maintain his footing along the way. He slams his fist up at the man but is counter with a jab to the face that despite its light nature put him on the brink of unconsciousness. The man throws a flurry of light attacks each hitting like a truck. Blood paints the bank floor as each punch throws his head in another direction. The man stops and allows Vance to regain his footing.
"Try again..." The Goblin said as he put his arms behind his back.
He pulls out a gun taken from one of the robbers as he traversed the bank floors but as he was about to shoot the man he quickly turns around attempting to shoot at the air but his arm is stopped mid air. Soon after a boy wearing what aplears to be a downsized halloween ghost costume on his head materializes out of thin air with his hand gripping Vance's wrist.
"Care to tell me how you noticed me?" The boy asked.
"Various sensors using various sensing types connected to many nodes all on my body that vibrate a specific spot when something is near it like a danger sense... and you had my entire back lit up." Vance explained.
"Hahaha, you're smart kid... want a job?" He asked but before he could get an answer the walkie given to him by the police for communication came to life.
"We did it, alright now let the civilians go." The police said.
"Ope seems like times up boys." He said as four men came from the bank of the bank duffel bags filled with money.
In that moment the ghost uppercut him and then slammed him down onto the desk destroying it. Vance lay there defeated and bloodied as the men began packing up.
"Ooh~ you're a looker... I'll be taking you too." The Goblin said as he had one of his men grab the womans arm and drag her along with them.
He crawled after them up the stairs leaving behind a trail of blood, as he crawled some energy returned and be managed to climb to his feet and stumble. He pushed open the door to the roof of the bank and found the goblin and the ghost getting into helicopter. He rushed forward as it was taking of and manage to grab the bar on the helicopter dangling off it as it rose above the city.
"Kekekee you're a persistent little fuck aren't you... well nonetheless this is your loss." He said as the helicopter disappeared.
Invisibility!?
The goblin stomped on his fingers causing him to lose his grip and begin free falling.
"Try your best to survive!!!" The goblin yelled.
"You Greedy Goblin!!!!!" Vance yelled as he fell.
"Huh... kinda on the nose but i like it." He said as they flew away.
Vance flipped around facing the ground as he rapidly approached landing. He looked around and found nothing but solid flat surfaces like cement or steel.
Shit... the way i fell means i have virtually no angle of momentum and there's no grass... and with a fall height of around three hundred feet... i might just die here...
He tried his best to aim himself into a safer spot but ended up colliding his upper half with the edge of a roof flipping him i to a clothesline then i to a dumpster before landing on the ground of the alleyway.