You ready? I mouthed to Peter, who was meters away from me behind a tree, as I was. He nodded, bow drawn. I turned my pen pad on and pulled the special glove out to be ready when the camera needed to be hacked. I gave Peter a thumbs up. He put his shirt collar over his nose and rolled into the clearing, pulling an arrow back and letting it go quicker than I could blink. He swiftly rolled back behind the tree and drew another arrow. I waited a second until the camera screen popped up on my pen pad and began to type quickly. After a few seconds I was in. I rewinded the footage before Peter rolled out and shot the arrow, and put it on a loop so we could walk through it clearly. I nodded at him and we both got up, running towards the building.
"The next camera's on the side, almost at the middle and top" I called, readying my pen pad. Peter quickly tumbled to the side and shot another arrow before jumping back into shrubbery. I quickly typed the same seventeen character code and rewinded the new camera and put it in the same loop.
"What's the point?" Peter said, standing up and brushing leaves off of him. "I'm sure that a security guard would be pretty confused to see a camera rewind.
"It's okay, the cameras are checked every seven minutes. Plus there's an unlikely chance that they would look at the camera I was working on.
"Well, how much time do we have before the check?"
I looked down at my watch, it was 12:09 a.m.
"We have five minutes exactly, let's make em count."
"Well, how many cameras are there?" Peter asked, sprinting to the side of the building. He pulled an arrow out of his quiver with a grappling hook end.
"Once you get up there, there's a camera on the side of an air vent. Go."
"What about you?" He demanded, wrapping the rope around his hand.
"I forgot to mention that a security guard circles the building every ten minutes. Go up, and I'll take the guard."
Peter nodded and quickly scaled the building with the rope. He was amazing, in my opinion, he really should have been a super hero. I flipped back behind a tree when I saw the guard square his corner. I almost gasped when I looked back at the building, Peter had left the rope dangling at the side. He must have been so focused on the camera that he forgot.
Oh shoot, the camera!
I quickly turned my pen pad face up and typed the code and did the routine redirecting.
"Hey, who's there?!" I heard the guard demand. I quickly looked up with a gasp to see him shining a flashlight against my face. I turned my pen pad light off and quickly climbed the tree- escaping the guards vision. I pulled a bouncy ball from my back pack and stared hard at the side of his head. I had to hit his temple if I wanted to knock him out in time. I chucked the ball as hard as I could and sure enough, he fell to the ground moments later.
I quickly ran to the rope when I heard his radio sound, "Alpha 10 to 9, is your check clear? Alpha 10 to 9."
I dropped from the little rope I had climbed and scrambled for the radio.
"Alpha 9 to 10, the check is clear," I said in a low voice.
"Alpha 10 to 9, understood. Over."
I sighed in relief and dragged the guards body into darkness before I scaled the building.
"What took you so long?" Peter whispered.
"I had to take the guard out, and we only have ten minutes to be in and out," I said, looking back down at my watch. 12:13. "We just need to camp here for a quick minute, the cameras are about to be checked. I didn't have enough time to hack either of the first two cams audio so we have to be silent."
Peter nodded and it was 12:14.
"Bruce," Wonder woman said in shock as she looked at the cameras. All was clear. "I'm surprised to see you here."
Batman gave a sad smile as he stepped next to her. She hadn't looked back, but she knew it was him.
"Still remember my footsteps, eh?" He gave a low chuckle.
"Yes, they're silent. Like death." She smiled. Her smile immediately faded when she remembered why he had been in hiding- the mourning of Tim and Dick.
"Bruce, I'm sorry, I did not mean-"
"No, it's okay Diana. I understand. Death is practically my middle name now. How are you doing coping with Wonder Girl?"
Wonder Woman pursed her lips.
"To be honest, it's hard without Cassie. Her mother still hasn't forgiven me," She said quietly. Bruce put a hand on her shoulder, holding her close.
"Well, it's kind of ironic," She said, choking tears back. "The Justice League has been disbanded, yet we're both here. In uniform."
Bruce quickly looked up at the camera in the top right corner, at a shining of a leaf that caught his eye. A matter of fact, it caught his eye the three times in the last sixty seconds. Immediately, Bruce's fingers began to dance across the keyboard. He needed an excuse to do so, Bruce refused to enter the Batcave since Dick's death, he couldn't take it to see his uniform hanging up.
"What is it?" Diana demanded.
"I think we're being infiltrated," Bruce growled lowly. "I'm not as good as de-hacking cameras as fast as Nightwing was, but it should only take me a couple of more seconds."
"Should we go take care of it?" Wonder Woman said cautiously, putting her hand on her lasso.
"No, there's no reason for the Legion of Doom to do this, they've already won. Actually, I don't know why they haven't staring attacking Gotham or Metropolis yet. This is low rate, because-" A second later the camera next to the one in the top right corner showed two teenage boys, sitting silently.
"Well, they're only kids," Wonder Woman said in a bewildered tone.
"They can't just be any kids, look at this," Bruce said, playing back the camera. Wonder Woman watched in amazement as she witnessed the kids hack the three cameras and the blonde boy shoot arrows as if he was trained by Green Arrow himself.
"You don't think it's-"
"Of course it's not the team, Diana. I'm offended you think that the team would've gotten caught this soon. Black Canary and I trained them better than that." Bruce interrupted. The other boy, the one with Brown hair and olive skin, looked down at his wrist. The flashing pen pad light the alert in his eyes.
"He even had a computerized glove like Robin had," Wonder Woman said in awe.
"Nightwing had the glove, not Tim," Batman sharply reprimanded. "Nightwing even created his himself."
Bruce felt a little bad about yelling at Wonder Woman. Sure, he missed Tim, but Dick had a special place in Bruce's heart.
The boy with olive skin quickly tapped on his pen pad and the camera went back to it's original loop he had set up the first time. As Bruce tried to disable it again, he saw at least seven fire walls preventing him from doing so.
Bruce and Diana looked at each other with surprised faces.
"I've never seen Dick push me out of a system and set up all of those fire walls that fast, let alone try. You stay here, I'm going to go pay them a little visit." Bruce said.
