Gotham City

Crimson stood on the rooftop staring out at the city. For five days he's been searching for Kraven but has had no luck and it was starting to piss him off. He had required a new suit; similar to his older one but this time he had a voice modular to disguise his voice from everyone. Crimson hadn't realized that things had changed so much since his incarceration in the pit. He read up on the how Nyssa's nephew Jayden and his group called the Shadow Warriors defeated some guy named Adrian Baron who summoned Trigon. Jayden and the Warriors had defeated Trigon as well. Crimson shook his head; he wasn't surprised one bit that Jayden and his crew had survived the ordeal. He wasn't surprised when he read that they recently had defeated Adrian's father Cornelius Baron. Crimson stood at the sound of the communicator in his ear going off.

Only two people had the line to his communicator but he knew that it was neither of them.

"You have three seconds to tell me how you got this line," he growled.

The person on the other line introduced herself as Miranda. She was looking for Talon and would pay him for any info he had.

"Yeah I know where Talon is, I will tell the location for a reasonable price of course," he said.

She agreed to the terms he told her. He would wait for them a few blocks away from Talon's location. Crimson ran then leaped from the rooftop landing on the next one. He continued running and jumping until he reached the destination. He leaped down through the hole in the roof to the room below. He didn't have to wait long for four men to enter the room. He analyzed the group. He took a longer look at one, which made another start to jump at him only to be stopped by the one Crimson had been staring at, the leader of the group.

Crimson turned on the modulator in his mask before speaking,

"Why contact me? Why not the warriors, or are they not in your leader's good graces right now?" he asked.

The leader of the small group stepped forward and tossed a briefcase at Crimson's feet then said,

"That doesn't matter, all that matters is that we need to know where Talon is and if you keeping up your end of the bargain."

Crimson stared at him then nodded his head before he grabbed the briefcase at his feet, he opened it to see the contents inside and let out a laugh from under his mask.

"You put in 1 mil more, how thoughtful."

"That's payment for keeping this between us" the leader replied with a raised eyebrow.

Crimson smirked then nodded his head and said,

"All right, your target will be staying in the lower end apartments in the narrows a few blocks away. I'm just warning you that this guy is paranoid as fuck so don't go jumping the gun when you get there."

"Understood, and?" Crimson let out annoyed grunt for being interrupted then said,

"I'll keep the bat and the warriors distracted with an explosion at one of Scarecrow's stashes across town. That should give you maybe an hour or more, depending on when Shadow and Batman put the pieces together."

"Thank you."

"There's no need to thank me. You already paid me." Crimson stood back then aimed his arm into the air. The grappling hook attached to his wrist fired then launched him into the air.

(!)

Crimson knew they didn't give him real money, he wasn't stupid he could spot fake cash but he was going to keep his end of the bargain up so he would be in Marcus's good graces in case he ever met them again with Slade in order to exact his revenge. Crimson stood across the roof from the target, he licked his lips then pulled out an arrow and shot it. He watched as the arrow flew through the air hitting the brick right above the window, he attached his bow to the line then leaped off. He zip lined though the air going though the window. Thankfully the entire day wasn't going to go to waste, as there happened to be some of Crane's thugs in the room. Crimson ran and slammed his knee into the side of the head of the first thug. He turned his attention to the remaining four,

"I'll give you two seconds to grab your buddy and walk away clean," he said and they do just that.

He wastes no time checking the entire apartment finding no one else was around. He placed a bomb in each room then left through the window he had entered. He made his way his way across the line to the other roof and then cut the line before pressing the button on the detonator. He stood there and watched as the explosion blew out the windows the massive flames could be clearly seen for a mile or more. Crimson looked over just as the League and Warriors arrived, right on time. He shook his head then watched as they looked to save any victims in the rest of the abandoned building but he didn't go unnoticed as Batman landed on the rooftop behind him making him turn around.

"I was paid" Crimson said cutting to the chase not wanting to fight the Dark Knight.

"They were looking for Talon and I told them where they could find him, in the lower end apartments in the narrows, you can catch them now if you leave" he said and Batman left but the minute he left Shadow appeared. "I will tell you the same thing I told Bats if you do something for me" he said to the Warrior of Peace who let out a chuckle before saying,

"What's so important to an assassin?"

Crimson's eyes narrowed at the young warrior before saying,

"I need you to keep an eye on someone, someone close to us," he said.

"Who would that be?" Shadow asked clearly interested now.

"My son…. your cousin. I don't want you to interact with him, just make sure he's okay and staying out of trouble. That doesn't mean you can recruit him for anything do you hear me Jayden?" Crimson said sternly.

Shadow nodded his head then said,

"What are you doing in Gotham?"

"I'm looking for Slade's son Kraven… he was the man who killed your aunt by order of Vandal Savage and your grandfather Ra's Al Ghul" Crimson replied with anger clearly visible in his voice.

Shadow nodded his head so Crimson told him the same thing he told Batman. Shadow turned to leave,

"Shadow wait…" the Warrior stopped then turned his head to face Crimson as he said,

"When you see your grandfather…. Tell him I said hello."