Chapter 19

Inside a room in a tall skyscraper, a man was sitting on a chair and typing away on his computer. He was wearing a black suit with white stripes and a red tie and a white glove. Under his suit, he wore a white shirt, and the most apparent feature of him was the skull mask he was wearing.

The door to his room suddenly opened and another man who was wearing a zombie mask came in. "Black Mask, the Cryo cube is missing."

"What do you mean?" The man named Black Mask asked, looking up from his computer.

"Sir, the cube mysteriously disappeared after a purple streak passed by. We don't know what happened to it." The man hurriedly said.

"What!!!" Black Mask shouted, slamming his fist on the table. "That thing took me many sacrifices to finale steal it from the Wayne Enterprise and now yo-you LOST IT!!!"

"We didn't lose it. I think someone must have..."

"Must have? Must have stolen it?" Black Mask asked, blaming his fist on the table. "Who could steal something so fast that no one noticed and only saw a purple streak... Carnage."

Black Mask stood up and walked to his window before looking down at the street, just in time to see a purple streak pass by at supernatural speed.

"This new guy thinks he can move in here and do whatever he wants. I will show him how it is done around here." Black Mask said, cracking his knuckles. "Gotham is my bitch."

-Rick POV-

After Mister freeze left, I changed into black pants and a black short sleeve shirt then went for a run through the city. I quickly reached my former max speed but was able to go faster confirming my suspicion that I got faster.

Seeing this, I increased my speed more, and like a bullet, I shot forward reaching almost twice my former speed. I wish I can see what my speed is... Wait.

I ran to the nearest watch shop and stole the most expensive one before running to the Internet cate, went to the room at the back, typed in password on the keyboard, then went down the stairs to the hidden room.

"You are good at programming right?" I asked the woman who was eating pizza.

"Yea *Glup* Yes. I can code complex algorithms and software, hack, engineering, and an Expert tailor." The woman proudly said.

"How old are you?" I curiously asked after hearing what she said she could do.

"27." She answered before biting a piece of pizza.

"Then how do you know how to do all those things?" I asked genuinely confused. I mean, it takes years just to learn how to hack.

She pointed at her temple and said, "Photographic memories. I can remember everything thing since birth even the face of the doctor that delivered me. A blessing and a curse." She said sighing. "I just read every book I can get about those subjects and it becomes child's play but some experience is still needed."

"Interesting." I said, staring at this young girl in front of me. Her ability is really useful and if used correctly can be deadly. "What's your name."

"Felicia Smoke." The woman named Felicia said.

"Felicia, with your ability, you can join NASA, Wayne Enterprise, FBI, CIA, ARGUS, or all those great companies in this world. Why are you here in this city of crime working as a criminal underground hacker?" I curiously asked.

Felicia suddenly stopped eating and looked up at me. "I worked at Star Labs for 9 years, since when I was 18, and after December 11, 2013, when the particle accelerator, something I worked hard on, exploded, I came to Gotham to do something different and fun and this came to mind." Felicia ate the last piece of pizza and threw the box to the corner before cleaning her hand with a napkin. "I have been working as a criminal underground hacker for 10 months now and I love it. The things people ask me to do are interesting like when this guy asked me to hack all the technology in this female house so he could see through any technology with a camera for as long as he needs. I get 10,000 dollars per week from this guy."

"If you get that much money then why are you still here?" I asked, looking around the room.

"You think I live here? Hahahaha..." Felicia started laughing but when she saw my serious face, she stopped laughing and cleaned her eyes. "You serious? I don't live here. I work here."

"Oh... Ok. So I came here to ask for something. Make this Rolex watch able to calculate my speed while running." I said, handing the watch I stole early to her. "You should be able to do it, right?"

"I can do that in 25 minutes." Felicia said picking up the watch, "Hers is your fake bank account card. It can assess any bank in the world."

I took the card and looked at it. It was a black card with a green fancy writing of Carnage. I put the card in my pocket and ran out of the Internet cafe to do what I wanted to do with the card.