"Why can't we go now or tomorrow?" Cate asked with a hint of disappointment in her voice. Touring The watchtower and meeting all the superheroes especially the young ones was at the top of her list of things to do.
Diana noted the sad tone in her voice and looked over at her gently smiling because all of Cate's attention was on the ground not even concentrating on where they were flying to.
"There's a lot going on right now in the tower after the fight with doomsday." Diana offered an explanation but saw it wasn't enough for her sister. "Okay…what's a couple more days right?.." Cate supplied with a forced smile.
"Tell you what, the battle against doomsday caused a lot of destruction in the city…" Diana began.. "I'll do it" Cate cut her off accepting whatever suggestion Diana was trying to bring up.
"You haven't even heard my preposition "
"I don't have to hear it, I will still accept." The genuine smile she supplied forced a smile upon Diana's face. She was about to respond when four police cars with sirens were seen speeding towards a certain direction. This got her attention, always ready to save another life.
Several police cars had surrounded the small town bank for close to an hour now. A group of armed robbers were barricaded inside the bank holding hostages waiting for their demands to be met; One helicopter, all the police officers withdrawn from the area and an official signed pardon from the president of the United States of America for the crime they were currently committing.
"What do we do if they don't agree with the demands?" One robber asked into his walkie talkie.
"We do what we promised we'd do" the leader answered in a mechanically altered voice. All the robbers wore masks and were completely anonymous to each other. All were mercenaries contacted and instructed by the mysterious voice in the walkie talkie to take the bank. Not often do a mercenary take a job without knowing the contractor but in this case the money involved was too much to pass on. They could be set for the rest of the year without having to work.
The plan was simple, carry out every instruction given by the voice concerning the bank heist which was currently on track"
The minutes ticked down to the agreed upon hour for the demands to be met…
"Fly above the clouds, do not be seen" Diana instructed her sister after learning what was going on in the bank. Cate not wanting to mess up floated up past the visibility range of a normal persons eye site and observed Diana in action.
One spin and Diana was in her Wonderwoman costume then floated down to the police command center outside the bank.
"Who is in charge?"
"I am." Came from a man dressed in an expensive suit screaming I am important
"The situation is under control Wonderwoman, if we need any assistance you will be notified." The man stated in finality adjusting his dark shades.
Wonderwoman smelled bureaucracy a mile away…probably a CIA officer or something, she thought. "I can clearly see the opposite of your statement Mr…" she said hoping to put a name to a face.
The guy narrowed his eyes but before speaking the walkie talkie came alive diverting all their attention to it.. "You have 10 minutes to meet all the demands before we start painting the walls red" a modulated voice spoke up.
"As I said…" stopped talking when he noticed Wonderwoman was gone. "Shit"
"Report!" An authoritative voice commanded in one of the surveillance vans.
"The White House has stated they do not negotiate with terrorists and instructed you should handle it." Yvonne relayed the information.
"Shit! This is going to get messy" Waller spoke to no one in particular.
"The justice league have yet to arrive sir!" She told her boss already familiar with her line of thought. This was a robbery her boss wanted the justice league to not get involved in because all the right questions would be asked and Amander Waller never liked right questions unless she was the one asking them.
"Have they accessed the safe yet?" Amanda Waller asked Tech 2 currently going over the banks cctv footages, the ones that weren't shot down.
"Not yet." Flickering of lights suggests they are still cutting through the safe. "Good."
Amander Waller had been in her apartment going over her projects files when she received the call, The Bank was infiltrated. Dropping all files, putting on her coat, going to her bedroom then opening the safe integrated into her bed, she pulled out her personal untraceable revolver and walked out of the apartment with her phone in hand.
"Come on! But You promised!" Tech 2 sternly reminded her.
"I did no such thing," Yvonne defended herself "there is no way I would accept sitting around for hours infront of a screen immediately after getting through that most of the day."
"Really? That was the same reason you gave last time." Tech 2 argued. His partner was going to drive him mad one of these days, there wasn't a deal she couldn't wiggle out of only this time, he was prepared for that. Every time they were off work she always avoided hanging out with him.
Pulling up cctv footage from his phone, a video was played showing two of them talking with the audio clearly picking up Yvonne agreeing to try the game.
"Aha! I agreed to try but did not promise or specify the day to try it" came a smug reply from her.
Tech 2 was about to retort when both their phones received incoming messages. Looking up at her with the same mirror of confusion on her face, they walked to the car and drove towards the bank. Since when did two off the books, clandestine operatives respond to a bank robbery.
"Sir! The vaults integrity is down to 40%" tech 2 informed Waller who was deep in thought. Anyone who is anyone in the industry either illegal or legal knew not to mess with that particular bank. It housed funds from all sorts of people and organizations, cartels, dictators thus was not on many criminals lists of where to rob. Waller used the same bank because it provided the security she was looking for, not being robbed or when it became infiltrated it won't lead back to her. That's why she stored it here and had a suspicious feeling that was the target. If that vault was penetrated it would set her back considerably. Tapping all calls currently being received in the area suggested the parties invested in the bank know of the situation. The bank manager had lots of explaining to do and was the only person Waller ever felt sorry for since she was sure he wouldn't make it passed the week. Failure was not tolerated in these peoples line of business, especially allowing the bank to be taken and getting the police to be involved. She had to deal with this situation before the justice league got wind of the robbery especially batman since she is sure the masked crusader was aware of the banks reputation and activities.
The two robbers guarding the hostages occasionally peeked through the window to survey the situation with One of them swearing every time he looked out the window the number of police officers and journalists increased.
"What's the ETA on the extraction?" He asked his partner via a voice modulator.
"28 minutes." He nodded and returned to his position only noticing his partner collapsing on the floor when there was a loud THUD! Of his body hitting the floor. Before Reaching to his earpiece to warn of the breach, darkness enveloped him and he collapsed.
"Activate Suicide squad." Yvonne looked to her boss confirming the order which was further confirmed by her nod. It is the only way, Waller thought with finality.
"That won't be necessary sir" tech 2 got their attention pointing to the monitors. Two robbers were unconscious on the floor with the third falling from Wonderwomans blow. She proceeded to head down the basement to the vault room where she disarmed all the robbers who were close to breaching the vault.
"They weren't able to breech the vault sir," Yvonne confirmed. "Good…call the transport team asap. I'll brief them on the new location." Waller ordered before exiting to the command center behind the van.
Avoiding the army of reporters waiting for her statement, Wonderwoman joined Cate above the clouds and surveyed the area.
"I swear I heard Amanda Waller's voice while talking to the CIA," Diana murmured to herself. She was among the few justice league members to have personally interacted with her so she was positive about her voice.
"Who is that?" Asked Cate "and why is there no sign of the justice league? By the look of things this looks to be a big deal." From the sky she watched all the various police factions hard at work coming up with strategies to liberate the bank. For something not a big deal very many police officers were involved.
"That's what I don't understand. The watchtower is connected to the local police frequencies and should have alerted the leaguers of the robbery." A puzzled Diana explained. "Waller is a consultant for the government."
A smug smile creeping up Cate's face "so it's a good thing you were there to foil it." She was really looking forward to her stay in mans world.
"I suppose so.." Diana agreed still lost in thought. "Come on, let's go."
"Sir, we are picking up two signals heading north at high speeds." Yvonne reported looking at the radar, the two dots quickly heading out of their range.