"Sounds like you're going to have your hands full Blondie. I'll see if I can't find anything else for you on these łajdaki " Silvertongue muttered through the earpiece after Olympia had listed the details of the crooks and what they had demanded. All in all it wasn't much for Volt to go on, but at least none of them sounded like they'd be especially insulated, which meant he could hurt them as easily as they could hurt him. [I] Still, as silver linings go I've heard better.[/I]

	Not long after the VTOL touched down with a lurch. Hi-Voltage followed Olympia and the others out, his experienced eye running over the scene quickly. The police had cordoned the area around the bank off, but were now locked in a Mexican stand-off with two of the villains, one with a knife to the neck of a hostage. By his dress and age the hostage was probably a manager, and looked like he was seconds away from pissing his pants. Tommy wouldn't have blamed him if he did, the Lightning-Slinger was afraid himself. Volt stood close to Olympia as she conversed with the police commander who outlined the situation. The Greek Demi-Goddess turned to him.
	
	"Can you knock out the villains without harming the hostages?" she asked. The Lightning-Slinger thought about it, running scenarios through his head. He was confident enough in his ability to aim and fire that he was certain he could hit the hostage-takers without hitting the hostage's themselves, and he knew he was quick enough off the draw to do it before the villains could react. That avenue wasn't free from problems though, namely being if he did hit a target the danger was the electricity arcing from either villain to the hostages they were holding. The shock would be lessened, but would definitely still hurt, and if any of the hostages wore pacemakers or had a weak heart then the outcome could be fatal. The other option was for him to use his control over magnetism to fire off some metal objects at the crooks. That had its own perils though. Due to the concentration required his aim wasn't as good when manipulating metal, so he could end up missing, or just striking the hostage. Neither option was particularly golden, so it was a good thing that the hero Olympia referred to as Sonja came up with an alternative plan.

	It was almost brilliant in it's simplicity, to use the cover of being pizza delivery boys to enter the bank and take the villains down from within. [i]We've just plagiarised the Illiad. Hope Homer doesn't sue.[/I] Sonja asked how his American accent was. 

	"Forget about it," Piped Szymon in his ear, quoting Donnie Brasco to make it sound more like Fohgettaboutit. Volt, trying to keep Silvertongue's existence a secret from the League for now, had to stop himself from pointing out that Donnie Brasco was set in New York, not Chicago, so the accent was drastically off. 

	"It's passable." Tommy responded out loud, approximating a Chicagoan accent he could. Truth be told it wasn't great, but then hopefully he wouldn't have to say much. 

	Olympia jumped on the plan and ran with it, volunteering Volt to bring in the pizza. He had to agree that he was probably the best choice, even if the thought of entering the band alone with all those hostiles gave him the shakes. Apart from Olympia he could probably take a punch better than anyone else in attendance, and with his firepower he could distract the villains long enough for his teammates to extract the hostages then save his ass. . . Hopefully.

 A hero in a mask, Volt had heard Olympia call him Wenchang earlier, offered up a small amendment to the plan. By also gassing the place Wenchang figured they could make the job easier, 'calming' the hostages and discombobulating the crooks. Volt couldn't say he agreed with the methods, but if the pay load was as good as Wenchang indicated then it could be a major boon. 

	"I like the way you lassies think," he grinned, trying to show a bravado he didn't entirely feel, "Olympia, it's you're call. If you want to go with the gas I could smuggle that in with the pizza. Wait until the numptys are all good and gathered, then hit the fuses to Wenchang's 007 gas. Same time I can start blasting, keep em all busy and concentrated on me until you can bring in the cavalry. Some of you guys get the hostages out, the rest come running and make sure I don't get nutted!"