The bass shakes the floor, on and off the light flashes and with it the dense crowd of dancing women are revealed in the light and obscured in the darkness. Here, in the penthouse of a lone skyscraper of twisted chrome is where the Hornet makes her Nest. Girls in cages dance to the beat, gang members consume the spoils of their latest raid, but the Hornet herself readies herself elsewhere.
A shorter girl walks through the dancing crowd, pressing close against various women she passes, wearing a pleated red skirt, a black bustier with silver trim over a dark red tank top, black boots, and a black steel bracelet patterned with silver rose etchings on each wrist. Her black hair fades to dark red at the tips, and her eyes are a bright silver. She takes her time, dancing with some of the girls around her as she goes, enjoying the closeness, making her way toward an enormous window.
She blushes a bit and lets herself grind against people for a bit here and there. She's not in a hurry to get to the window, she just needs to get there while the party's still fully going, and while the Hornet's still busy. This is an infiltration, not a sprint.
Little by little, she makes her way over.
It's night, and dark, not that that is enough to impede her senses. Thirty-two people, two in power armor, though realistically only Hornet's matters. The other is a nobody clad in a blunt brick of a suit that is about as basic as it comes. The most notable thing about it is that it allows her to effectively wield a minigun, though it is across a room from her as somebody else tinkers with it. Hornet is another thing entirely, her suit is biological in nature, with insectoid wings granting her fast and agile flight. She is a long ranged combatant, using her Quill Rifle to pick off distant targets with heavy supersonic bone darts. Six shots before her suit needs to generate more ammo. She also has two shoulder mounted weapons, an Acid Launcher and a Bone Shard Rifle. She is currently indoors, along with a bunch of her goons, but the warehouse she's in has a fairly thin sheet metal roof.
It's like a bullet, passing almost unimpeded through the fragile material. The sound is basically unheard, and only a couple of women near her that were actually paying attention even notice that something happened. Cracks spiderweb through the glass and one person has the wherewithal to pull her companion away from the window they were just leaning on before it gives way entirely.
She pumps her fists as she falls, mentally triggering her suit.
Metal slides out from her bracelets, wrapping gauntlets around her hands, bracers around her arms, and sliding upward to swiftly encase the rest of her body.
A skintight suit of black power armor forms around her, with red and silver accents, glowing silver eyes, and collapsed weapons adhered to her back and hips. An etheric cloak of her signature red power trails behind her, flapping apart into small motes that curl like rose petals as she falls.
She reaches behind her back to grab one hilt in particular, the weapon unfolding in her grip to form a grenade launcher. Ballistic curves flash through her HUD as she aims.
With a soft fwhump fwhump, a pair of tear gas grenades shoot into the air above her.
Then she stows the launcher, collapsing it once more, before twisting through the air to get her feet under her and her back to the building.
It's common knowledge that people don't look up as much as they should, especially in a world where some enterprising youngster in a power suit could fall like a meteor into your place of residence at any moment. The ancestral environment has failed humanity once more as each and every one of them is caught off guard.