Robin's long night 2

[Robin's POV]

"What do you want?" I asked, not letting my guard down for a moment.

"Nothing much… not here anyways. But say what, meet me at this address in an hour. Trust me, it is the most fun thing you'll do this week." he said, before throwing me a piece of paper with an address on it and subsequently disappearing.

'What the hell was that about?' I wondered, before Alfred spoke into my ear.

"Master Damien, I have managed to trace the cargo. It belonged to Stagg Industries.If what I'm reading is correct then it was a shipment of their proprietary nimbus cells, headed to their headquarters from a maintenance facility on Founder's island." he explained.

'Interesting. I should investigate the cargo to gather more information.' thinking along those lines, I approached the semi-truck. After looking inside I immediately contacted Alfred before asking "How many nimbus cells were being carried by this convoy?"

"According to a record of the manifesto of the Stagg Industries maintenance facility… about 10 nimbus cells were being transported via this convoy." Alfred answered.

"Is that so?" I mused.

"Is something the matter, Master Damein?" Alfred inquired.

"This container… It's completely empty. He somehow moved all of the nimbus cells without taking them out of the container." I replied.

"Do you suspect teleportation?" Alfred asked.

"Unlikely. My suit's energy sensors did not record the energy pulse that accompanies a typical teleporter. My guess… some sort of pocket dimension. Or maybe he disintegrated the nimbus cells completely, but that's unlikely." I hypothesised.

"Then what shall you do now, Master Damien?" Alfred asked.

"Only one thing I can do. I've gotta go meet him." I answer, launching my grapple in the direction of the address I was given.

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"Master Damien, I once again implore you to contact Master Dick before taking further action." Alfred chimed through my communicator.

"I don't have the time, Alfred. It's already time to meet and Dick will take at least 2 hours to get here from bludhaven. I can't wait for him." I explained

"In that case, please proceed with utmost caution Master Damien. I shall be here to assist you." Alfred relented.

"I know alfred. Now, where would I find a ninja cosplayer?" Robin wondered. And soon enough a man wearing an all black ninja outfit appeared in front of him.

"Long time no see. Have you put on some weight?" he said sarcastically.

"Why did you call me here?" I questioned in a stern tone.

"GEE. I WONDER. Why the fuck would I call a superhero? To fix my fucking sink? Of course it's to punch a couple of dirtbags. Y'know, the entire "I am vengeance" shtick." he sarcastically answered.

"What do you mean? The only dirtbag I see here is you." I stated.

"Ooh, so little boy wonder's got a sharp tongue eh? Well I guess I can respect that. Look at that building there." he said, pointing to a building a couple of streets away.

"That entire building is a front for an illegal arms racket. The second biggest one in the city actually. The entire place is super exclusive. It can only be accessed through connections to some very well respected people in the crime world. Some of which have a LOT of beef with your sugar daddy or whatever he is. Hell, the only reason it's been hidden so well is because the biggest gangs in Gotham would lose a third of their guns if that place disappeared. It's taken me weeks of extensive research to find it." he explained.

"I've been to that building. It's nothing more than a hiding place to keep kidnapping and human trafficking victims. The only reason it's still around in the first place is because it's a lot more convenient to save the victims from a place we know we can find them rather than having to search the entire city for them. I highly doubt they would host such a large-scale operation out of here.If it were, my systems would have tipped me off." I answered.

"It's run out of here alright. Or to be more specific, they're running it out of here today. The actual location changes every time it opens for business. Today it just happens to be here. As for your systems, they won't be able to find it, it's completely off the grid. Only way to know where it is is via a telephone line phone call, or a letter. As for whether or not it's here, that you can see for yourself once we're inside. NOW, shall we or does the baby want a nappie first? " he stated.

'THIS FU- No, calm down damien… this might be a tactic to bait me into getting careless and walk into a trap. Gotta think carefully.' I thought. I had to act carefully, to prove that this suit belonged to me.

I stood quiet for a second, thinking about the right carefully, before replying "All right, I'll bite. What's the plan?"

On hearing this, he froze for a second before murmuring "Could've sworn you were supposed to be a lot more hot-headed than this."

Having an acute sense of hearing, I obviously heard that and questioned "What's that supposed to mean?"

"Oh nothing much, just… oh yeah plan, um how about you hit me with one of those?" he requested.

"Wait, you don't have a plan? So you're telling me you planned on having us attack a hideout with potentially the same amount of firepower as a military base without a plan!?!" I asked, flabbergasted.

Unbelievably surprised by my statement he spoke up "Well, to be specific I planned on you attacking it. And it sounds way worse than what it is when you put it that way… but don't tell me you've never charged into such a situation a plan, I mean, you must have had some emergencies."

"Yes I've gone into fights without a proper plan. But nothing like what you're saying, even then i go in knowing the exact amount of people present and even the weaponry i might have to go up against. I don't just charge in guns blazing, that would be a violation of every principle I've learned ever since I was a child." I explained.

"Well I'll be damned. Guess I misread ya buddy." He said apologetically.

But in a few seconds, he spoke up once more "This place will be moved by tomorrow so… what's your move, boy wonder? OH and lest I forget, I have a couple more locations I wanna hit today so you speeding things up would be appreciated." he stated nonchalantly.

'HAAH… This is gonna be one long night.' I sighed, before contacting Alfred for some support.

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A/N: I sorta wanted to portray Damien's Robin as more than just an overconfident brat with an ego problem. He's my favourite Robin afterall.