City Lights Burn

Gauntlet stood on the edge of the roof, it wasn't a sky scraper by any means but he could feel the wind in his hair, his coat flapping in the wind. His bow staff was at full size, strapped to his back securely by a diagonal strap that went from his shoulder to his hip, anchoring his 'climbing tool' in place. He had been up on the roofs for a while, keeping his agility and acrobatics up to speed, he hadn't been around for a little while, not a time to get lazy and reckless. Gauntlet sighed "Must be about 10 stories up." He said with a whisper to himself, panting slightly from all the running he'd been doing. He jumped down to the next roof top. "Nine stories" He said to himself in his head, keeping track of his elevation. He took an emidiate left, running and jumping to a fire escape on the side of the next building. He rolled onto it and used his momentum to spring himself back outside of it, climbing the side bars parallel to the ladders on the fire escape. Gauntlet looked up, just a few more floors to go. He jumped off the side of the fire escape, keeping himself against the side of the building as he leaped. He pulled his bow staff off his back and split it into his classic two climbing rods. Sticking the rods into the building he used them like urban ice hooks to climb the side of the building, breaking through glass and bricks as he went. "Eh, that's where everyone's taxes go anyway" He thought with a guilty grin. He hopped to the top of the 15 story building and walked slowly to the other edge, looking down like he had before. He examined his dog tags closely. 'Gauntlet. T002." said the label on the face of his dog tags. "A Talon huh? Time I owned up to that name."

Phoenix ran from one rooftop to another in response to a police dispatch he heard over a cops walkie talkie. He was really booking it. The cool night felt great as the wind blew by him at high speeds. He had one thought in mind. Get to the bank. It was said that there was a robbery going on and that there were about 15 to 20 hostages. He was alone and wished that he had brought at least one other Talon with him, but he knew he could handle the job if he needed to. He leaped from a building and slipped causing him to miss his target. From his back he pulled off his sword and shoved it into the wall catching him from the long fall to the earth.

"Phew" Phoenix said as he whipped the sweat off his forehead with one hand and held onto the sword with the other. He swung up and landed on top of the sword standing on it as a platform. He grabbed the ledge at the top of the building and pulled himself up. Next, he leaned over and grabbed his blade and off he went again. With hope of Talons in the area for shits and giggles he pressed the dog tags on his necklace and started to talk as he ran. "Phoenix to Talons, there's a huge heist going down over at Emerald bank and I'm my way, any of you in the surrounding area are welcome to meet on the rooftop across the street." He looked to his left and saw Sean and Gauntlet. "But of course a few of you may know that because I'm looking at you across the rooftops." he said with a sarcastic grin on his face. He ran and leaped the gap between the two building sliding in onto the rooftop. "Hey guys. not much time to explain what's going on but we need to move I can explain it all on the way."

Walking on the streets, Amy was attracted to the flashes of red and blue from the police car lights. Though she was mostly a stay at home person, she liked her adventures outside of her guardians home. Walking closer to the commotion, Amy wondered if there was anything she could do about it. Once in a while she would mind fantasizing about being something special. Saving people. She wasn't very good at it. Quite often she got herself hurt more than she helped. Though the thought was still there.

A flash of shadow caught her the corner of her eye. A dark figure leaping from one rooftop to another. She seemed to be the only one in the crowd to notice, so she thought. Maybe it was just her imagination. Once again she saw another leap to a separate rooftop. She wondered if perhaps he was one of the bandits inside trying to make a get away. Walking down the street, she tried to project his general location. She wasn't sure if he even had a destination, he was pretty difficult to spot. She couldn't quite get a good look at who it was from the distance she was at, but she knew something was different. Only two types of people would be leaping from rooftops. People with somewhere to run, and people giving chase.

Walking along the sidewalk, she never changed her gaze from the shadowy figure despite losing him a few times. Whether she was going to pursue him in a confrontation or not was another story. She didn't want any trouble, but the young person within her couldn't help desiring seeking thrills. Making up her mind, she hailed a taxi and decided to get ahead of his projected path and climb up the rooftop to intercept him. Once again seeing a glimpse of the man on the rooftops, she noticed a tail. It reminded her of Mr. Kahn, her adoptive father. Though initially intimidating, he was a kind and caring man. All the more, it made her curious to catch him.

Once reaching a destined hotel, she paid the driver and entered the building. Climbing a few flights of stairs, she reached the rooftop, swinging the door wide open. The top of the rooftop was more windy than the streets below. Her jacket blew roughly to the east as she directed herself so she was facing the wind. If she was accurate in the projection of his jumps, he should be leaping to the structure she was located on shortly.

Kaguya jumped from rooftop to rooftop, covering the gaps by hopping off her own lunar blades. "Sheesh, can't this scum rob a bank at a decent hour. It's not easy looking this good at all hours!" She was approaching the bank building from the rear, and was only a few rooftops away. stepping on air and landing on the roof with barely a sound. One of the news helicopters covering the stories pointed it's lights and cameras at her. "Who the hell is that?" the reporter asked his cameraman, well out of earshot of Kaguya. She simply assumed it was her adoring public, and flashed a picture perfect peace sign and smile at the camera. It was only then she noticed she wasn't alone on the rooftop. 3 young men were already there. She could tell off the bat from their equipment they were here for either the same reason she was, or they were the bank robbers themselves. She was pretty sure they were American Super heroes, even though their garb was so....plain. Which was in stark contrast to the girl who stood before them.

Her hair went into an ornate golden hair ornament, and came out as a pony tail that nearly reached the ground. It was pure black, with dyed red at the ends. She wore a short white dress with black trim that left her shoulders and a generous amount of her plentiful cleavage exposed, and matching stockings and detached sleeves. Patterns of gold decorated her garments and her jewel-decorated boots that look like they came from a fantasy princess's wardrobe. Her hands were clothed in fingerless red gloves, that let her slender fingers escape. On her back was a thick incredibly ornate blade nearly as tall as the girl carrying.

She struck a quick pose, moonlight focusing around her to make sparkles-for that extra touch. "The Moonflower, Japan's most loved teen hero, is on the scene!" She ended her posed by settling her slender fingers around the handle of her blade. "If you're here to stop that bank robbery, don't worry another second! My very excellent technique will let me sneak in right under their noses and put a stop to their villainy! On the other hand, if you're here to help relieve that bank of it's property, I'll cut all of you down right now." She said it all with a photo-perfect smile, and cheerful countenance. "Better answer quick!"