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Hieronymus sat in the hideout he had made of the high school's chemistry lab. This entire floor was dedicated to harder sciences, for some reason, so the materials he could use best were in this floor. He looked around the room, and thought back. Things had become chaotic sooner, rather than later. There was a building on fire, lots of screams, and gunshots already. The chemistry lab had a good amount of materials, and Hieronymus brought more equipment from other areas of the high school. A few computers and cables, a crowbar, wrench, and other tools, along with a few fire extinguishers.

Hieronymus sat back, and stared at the ceiling. He had managed to use a a few laser sensors he had gotten from the physics lab to produce make-shift motion sensors. These would serve to help him greatly. And even better, he had found ear-buds that he took apart, and rebuilt with a few additional pieces of plastic and circuitry to produce an earpiece in one ear that could play a sound to alert him of whether his motion sensors sensed something come by. So far, only other criminals came by, and they paid him little mind, and he paid them little mind.

Hieronymus had run to the high school when the blare rang out through the city. That was where he estimated would be where he could make the most usable devices. Before he came here, though, he stole a suit, hat, and coat from a locker in the city after he broke it open. He jsut didn't feel comfortable in anything else, and it was chilly anyway. He found these clothes easier to move in, for some reason. Whatever the case, he now had a change of clothes, if that was necessary. The hat was a nice addition for the rain, though.

When he had first come here, he had looked from his vantage point at the mess that happened in front of the Hospital nearby. He couldn't see much from the hospital blocking much of his view. After fortifying the base, he looked again, and saw how messy the front of the hospital had become. What really got his attention was the pink-haired woman hiding in the bush. She picked it, and used it to poison a villain. He would think about forming an alliance with such a person, but that was probably not the best course of action, considering the green armband she wore. Whatever the case, he saw the pink-haired woman enter the hospital, and thought it best not to go there, just in case of poison. Speaking of that...

There was one other tool Hieronymus had with him. It was a nail-gun found in the school, and he had found it with about 100 nails. While not exactly a weapon, it was usable. The best thing he could do with it, though, was to take some of the chemicals he had available to him in the chemistry lab, and make a tranquilizing agent to coat the nails with. that was when Hieronymus's stomach growled.

He forgot to bring food.

Looking out the window, again, at 3rd Avenue, he loaded the nail-gun with the tranquilizer nails, and brought with him 3 vials of acid, and 3 vials of explosives. This should be a good help. Hiding them all beneath his coat, he turned to exit the door as he heard the motion sensor go off. He remained next to the closed door and waited for someone to burst in. He heard hushed voices for about a second before the door was kicked open, and 2 men entered the room. There was a quieter way to deal with this. Maybe everyone around this place only heard someone kick open a door. As the door swung to his side, Hieronymus slowly shut it as the 2 men, both with green armbands, began to observe the room, and the equipment in it.

Before both realized that this was not their domain, they heard the door shut behind them, barely audible, and the man standing there, in a suit, having been the one to shut the door. It took a short time for one of the two men to raise their pistol to fire, and that was all Hieronymus needed. He had grabbed the top of the pistol as he saw the man's finger begin to pull the trigger. Before he could pull it all the way, Hieronymus had pulled the top of the pistol off. The armed man look at his weapon incredulously, before Hieronymus kicked his face with enough force to knock him into his partner, who stood there unsure of what to do when he saw the pistol taken apart. The two men fell, and Hieronymus reached for his nail-gun, and fired two rounds, one for each of them. Within seconds, they had passed out. That was when Hieronymus visibly frowned. He didn't want to kill these two, since the smell would be horrific, at some point, in his hideout. He didn't want to waste time either. So he did the next best thing. That pink-haired woman seemed to know her medicine. On one hand, this may draw her to him. On the other, this was a good way to get rid of these two, and make sure they lived. After all, if the game ended when all the criminals died, there was no need for a single hero to die. And this base of his was only a temporary solution, and he would be out of here soon anyway, once he built what he needed. There was not much chance of these two finding him again. The solution was simple. He tied a rope to their ankles, and the other end of the rope to the eye-washing station, as he lowered both of the men to the ground in view of the hospital. The process was done haphazardly quickly, and when the two had reached the ground, Hieronymus burned the rope with a Bunsen burner before grabbing the limp end connected to the two men and dousing it in the eye-wash station, getting rid of the fire, and then doing the same for the other end. Fire was dangerous, and he didn't want to catch the room, or the two heroes down there with fire.

That was when Hieronymus left the room, and mentally kicked himself for forgetting to check the two men for food. And thus began the journey for a sandwich.