Insanity-chapter one

It's night time in Jump City. All the criminals and crazy people come out at night. It's not a good idea to be wandering around this city at night, unless, of course, you're one of them.
A solitary figure walks what is left of the rooftops. He is an old man, old, but definitely not weak. It is strange, the city has been destroyed, the heroes have been defeated, the man should be satisfied and yet he feels strangely empty. The man looks across at the remains of the tower with his one good eye, perhaps this emptiness is due to the fact that he was not the one responsible for the fall of Jump City. The man sighed behind his mask, he did not need thus mask, not anymore, he didn't know why he still chose to wear it, what was the point in hiding your identity when there wasn't anybody to hide it from. The man closed his one good eye as he remembered the children that his life had centered around for years, the children that had regularly got in the way and foiled his plans. The children who had worked for years trying to put him behind bars. Things should be so much easier without them around. The man couldn't help but think about them, about what had happened to them. It was a truly terrible thing and the worst part? Those children were no older than his own son.
The masked man stood on the roof top surveying his surroundings when something caught his eye, a young girl, no more than about eleven or twelve. He didn't recognise her, this was strange, no one new ever came to Jump City, not since what had happened, but this girl was new, he'd never seen her before and no one who knew anything about the city would go wondering about the city at night, especially not in his territory, it was too dangerous. The man looked down at the young girl curiously. She had no clear aim, she was just wondering around. The girl looked tired, perhaps she was looking for somewhere safe to sleep, not that anywhere in Jump was safe, no, there were criminals everywhere, criminals who would slit a little girls throat because they were bored. Luckily for this particular child he was not one of these criminals. Perhaps he would kill her eventually, but for now he was interested, he wanted to see what she would do; a little girl lost and alone in a city full of criminals. She wouldn't last long.

It was very dark here at night, of course it was dark, everywhere was dark at night, but this place was darker and this darkness was different, more threatening, than the darkness she was used to. Of course the lack of working street lamps wasn't helping much. The girl yawned. It was getting very late now, she needed to find somewhere safe to sleep, though that wasn't very likely, not here, here there were criminals lurking round every corner, just waiting to pounce, she needed somewhere to sleep. The girl wandered around for a little while before coming across a sheltered doorway, she curled up on the tattered welcome mat that lay in front of the door. The girl wasn't afraid of the dark, she wasn't afraid of most things, which was a good thing in a city full of psychopaths. Though then again, in a city full of psychopaths perhaps she should be afraid, any sensible person would be, good thing she wasn't sensible either then. The girl closed her eyes. Yes she definitely wasn't sensible, no sensible person would wander around a city alone at night, no sensible person would choose to sleep in a doorway, no sensible person would come to Jump City in the first place, but she needed to know, she needed to know what had happened here, what had happened to this city, what had happened to it's protectors, what had happened to her friends. Tears came to the child’s eyes as she thought of all the people whom she cared about, all the people who had lived here and all the people she had left behind.