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Featherman Neo In Lukeoghamm City, the taller the building, the richer you are. The higher you live, the better off you are, etc etc.

In his quest to gain secrets from the financial elite to blackmail or sway them, Featherman is currently scaling a skyscraper with suction cups and a grappling hook and one of those window-washer platforms. He's invited Elites to help him, if they'd like, and reaches an overhang at the pentthouse.

"Inside is the city's biggest banker and a council member. If anyone's going to know all the secrets, it's him."

Grappling hook sways, and he kicks in through the window. Hopefully, the alarm doesn't mean an evacuation, or his helper can find the fatcat tycoon!
Kirishima Having heard only about the existence of some kind of plan prior to showing up, Kirishima's working on pretty scant amounts of detail. She's unfamiliar with this region, this person, and the only thing she has to base any level of trust in this Featherman is his costume.

Good enough.

"Let's finish this quickly, then. I've no sympathy for politicians or their minions, but I imagine there's plenty of room for security if we're this high up." She recommends while scaling the skyscraper by just walking right up the side, one hand held in front of her face with two fingers pointed upwards while the other just dangles behind her. Even when they're on the roof proper, she keeps her face-hand in place, and she  doesn't even move when the window gets kicked in.

In fact, she doesn't even move for the first few moments. Kirishima's eyes remain closed as she just stands there menacingly, inhaling slowly to get herself psyched up. Once she's ready...

"Ninpo!" And then she disappears in a puff of smoke. From there, it should be relatively easy to start dashing through the upper floors, relying on her visual invisibility to get around potential responders to the breakin.
Featherman Neo Featherman thumbs up at Kirishima. An actual ninja! "I'll need him alive, conscious, and hopefully minimally unharmed. I also need to be close to him so I can get inside his mind!"

Kirishima can easily get to the actual guy, who as the alarms go off, is trying to flee the dinner table to his helipad. He doesn't spot her.

Featherman is left to fight through guntoting security, using his knife and gun to disable them and a smoke grenade to distract them long enough to catch up with her. Once there, he points his gun at the tycoon. "Halt! I want to know all your secrets!"

"W-what? You monsters, so uncouth, and insane at that!" The man replies.

It's enough to start the mindread. Now for Kirishima to hopefully be able to deal with the Payday-esque security swarming in while Featherman does his thing.
Kirishima "Unharmed and close by for access to his mind. That's... Normal." Kirishima blurtso ut the first thing that comes to mind, and it's clear that it doesn't sound normal to her. Still, if that's theplan, then all that's left is searching and defense.

With the search taken care of, Kirishima's quick movements means she can keep inconveniently getting in the man's way long enough for Featherman to reach them. Throughout the whole process, her hair and scarf billow dramatically, even indoors!

"Monsters? How laughable, coming from one who's gotten rich through the suffering of the weak. Consider your next words wisely, as I may not be as kind as the masked warrior if you prove yourself unworthy of kindness!"

While Featherman gets to work on the weird thing he's doing, Kirishima shifts gears into doing what she's really good at doing: Rushing down the security and making loud noises while beating the crap out of them. Like any respectable ninja, she hollers and grunts with each hook to the face or bodyblows to the gut, and she facetanks everything they throw at her while hurling writing supplies and furniture at them with pinpoint accuracy.

Or as pinpoint as a chair can be.
Featherman Neo "L-look, he's a birdman! How is that not a monster?!" The tycoon hadn't realized it was a mask until now, so he's sticking to his guns.

Featherman is dancing around the gunfire from those focusing on him, rolling around and trying to keep concentration on a mindlock. He's getting blackmail details on many people in the area, but isn't done yet.

Kirishima, on the other hand, went into melee, so the guards are using their fists and batons. Or were, until one gets KO'd from a chair to the face, so another starts shooting at her.

"W-what can I do to convince you to stop...?" Featherman says nothing to the tycoon's question, but Kirishima might have thoughts.
Kirishima "And I, a ship!" The ninja with the horns exclaims as she takes gunshots and strikes without missing a beat in throwing so many boxing-styled punches at those guards one after the other. It's not until more of those batons and more of those guns start coming out that she brings out her own weapons out: Short swords, chains, and knives to start disarming the guards.

It's usually in the figurative sense, but not always.

"You wish for mercy? That will be up to him to decide." She gestures at Featherman via snapping a baton out of a guard's wrist, then flinging it over with just enough distance that she won't end up nailing him in the face as long as he doesn't step backwards at the wrong moment.

"The sooner you reveal your associations, the sooner this night will be over. And if you do not want us visiting again, then renounce your conspirators to the public and start working for the people you claim to represent!" Indeed, Kirishima is skilled at the art of having sick action sequences and talking at the same time, but there's not enough time to show it all here.
Featherman Neo Featherman winces as the baton clatters through another window from the force, barely missing the guy. But, it's a good sign of force.

This man doesn't know Featherman doesn't kill people, so as he holds the gun forward, he's unaware it's subtly pointed at his leg. "M-my associations? I'm associated with everyone who's someone!"

Good, good. Featherman almost has the last bit of data.

"Tell me! What *would* get you to renounce them?"

"T-they'd ruin me! I would never...!"

He's lying. Locked in, Featherman gets his data. Featherman laughs, but the last of security is here. "Kirishima, let's get through them. You, if you know what's good for you, you lie about this. Hard. I'll be back."

And then Featherman moves to kick off a man's head and through the window, onto the window-washing platform below, taking a bullet in the shoulder. Luckily Kirishima is there, or he'd have taken a lot more.
Kirishima More action sequence, more punches to the face and shots to the body that barely seem to be making a dent in Kirishima's armor. Or is that just her being unnaturally hardy?

Either way, it seems like the work is done as Featherman starts moving to evacuate the premises. Kirishima follows after him while making sure to punch or stab the crap out of the remaining guards just to make sure everyone gets at least one, and she stops at the window even while being shot at.

"Think long and hard about what you want your legacy will be. If it's to be a long one, make sure we have no reason to return." After issuing that vaguely ominous threat to the guy, she throws down a smoke bomb, then starts running down the side of the skyscraper to complete her own escape.