What if life is a waste of time because all you do is die at the end?

    “Sir, I’ve made a complete scan of Mr. Kennedy’s house. It seems Hydra has exposed him. There are about ten armed guards on site. Most of the original invasion team left with Kennedy as a prisoner.” Carson reported, giving me orange and blue holographic blueprints of Joel’s house and marking the location of each Hydra agent.

    I nodded, “So, the bat was right.”

    “I would caution against an assault. One of Hydra’s protocols, a thing I accessed from the internet, when holding a location is to place a few snipers around the area. If you rush up to the house, you may find a sniper bullet colliding with your head.”

    “Thank you, Carson. I will keep that in mind.” Hopping from the residential rooftop I’d been surveying the street from, I landed in the front yard. A vehicle slowly crawled down the street, its headlights cutting through the darkness. As it began to pass me, I rolled underneath it and lifted myself up off the road, “Now that is something I could never’ve done in a million years without these abilities.” I exhaled with relief as adrenaline pulsed through my veins. When the car started to pass by Joel’s house, I dropped off and hurriedly rolled behind bushes in the front yard. “Scan for heat signatures.” I ordered, looking over the onlooking houses.

    “I’m reading one, two, three, four, and five signatures, sir. Two of them are positioned in your direction.”

    Outlines of each sniper appeared where they were located whenever I turned my head in their direction, “Hm, hopefully I can make it to the front porch.” I spun to face the porch and leaped for it. Due to my weight-reduction factor, I made it in one leap, landing gracefully. With a brief glance back at the heat signatures, I maneuvered my way to the front door.

    “The front door, sir?”

    I rolled my eyes, “Fiiine…” I then ducked down and shimmied to the side of the house where I hopped the fence that separated the front yard from the back yard. I then approached one of the windows I that I knew Joel always kept unlocked. Carson automatically put up outlines of heat signatures for me to locate the operatives. I gently tested the window to see if it budged. Fortunately, it was still unlocked.

Carson’s alarmed voice suddenly cut the quietness of the moment, “Sir, an agent is rounding the right corner. My best suggestion is to bound off the wall behind you and go onto the roof till he leaves.”

    Without hesitation, I did so. I watched him as he patrolled the area I’d just left. He stopped and bent down to look at the ground. I realized he saw a foot print of mine that I forgot to patch back up. As the operative’s hand slowly rose to activate his communication device in his ear, I jumped down and gutted him with a blade while covering his mouth. He struggled for a moment but soon lay motionless on the rocks. I quickly checked to make sure the heat signatures hadn’t yet moved and then resumed my progress on opening the window. Once opened, I soundlessly slipped in and exterminated the agents one by one with stealth. After taking out the last guy, I felt a strange, yet familiar presence in the room. My eyes fell upon the figure as it stepped into some moonlight.

    “Really, Batman?” I hissed angrily, “You followed me?”

    “No. I arrived before you.”

    “Quiet, you moron. You’ll be heard on Hydra’s sound equipment.”

    “I hacked their network. We can talk normally now that you took care of those guys.”

    “Why didn’t you handle them?”

    “I would’ve caused a bit of a commotion. Besides, why waste energy when I knew you could do it effortlessly with your enhanced strength.”

    I groaned, “You’re terrible.”

    “Terrible enough to find clues Joel left for you.”

    My interested perked, “What were they?”

    “Well, most of that is irrelevant. They led to this.” He extended an open palm with a thumbdrive resting in the center.

    I swiped it from his hand and looked it over, “Thank you.” I glanced up from it to him, “So, why are you here? You obviously have a reason.”

    “I need Joel’s computer. Hydra’s sending a pick-up team here tomorrow to clean the house out of everything. I have to take it now.”

    I nodded, “Well, I’ll be seeing you. Thanks for the thumbdrive.”

    “No problem.”

    I raced out into the backyard and blasted off into the sky.

Ha ha. Why's that?

And thank you! I will try and keep it up.