Chapter 8:
"This is a bad idea."
"Yeah, I think I picked up on that the first time you said it."
"Well I just had to remind you." Jason said as he crept through the corners of the dim room. He stuck to the shadows as he made his way to the door he needed to go to. Roy was manning the comms and giving him direction. All Jason had to do was sneak in, uncover evidence, and light some shit on fire to draw the bats out.
It was late at night, or early in the morning depending on how you look at it, so it was prime bats time. With the warehouse being just on the edges of Crime Alley bordering Red Robins patrol zone, the fire was sure to draw some attention. All Jason had to do was stick to the shadows and stay in the blind spots of the cameras and make sure he got out before the thugs who were taking a smoke break came back in.
Jason was in. "I'm in."
"Ok so there should be a desk in the left corner."
Jason turned, "Yeah."
"So unload the envelope with the files from Star City," Jason took out the files and put them on the desk. He wanted to make it obvious, but that would be suspicious so Jason tucked them into an inconspicuous yet easily accessible spot for the bats to find.
Jason made his way out of the room and then out of the building.
"Roy, this has to be the stupidest idea ever." Jason breathed into the com as he climbed a building adjacent to the one he had just exited.
"Just do it."
Jason breathed and then took out the rocket launcher. He aimed in an area of the building that contained a stash of drugs and then pulled the trigger.
Red Robin was on patrol when he saw flames. "Well shit."
"Hey Oracle, call the fire department, I've got a building in flames," Red Robin launched his grappling hook, "it's right outside Crime Alley."
"Got it."
Red Robin made his way closer. Walking towards the warehouse he saw four men outside looking panicked.
"The boss is gonna kill us"
"How did this even happen?"
"We were only outside for like one minute!"
"We should run."
The men, who Red Robin was now pretty sure were actually thugs or drug runners began to flee the Crime Scene. Red Robin obviously wasn't going to let that happen. He had the four men down in less than one minutes.
"Oracle, how far is the fire department?"
"They'll be there in four minutes." That wasn't enough time.
"I'm going in, it seems like some sort of drug ring or something."
"Red Robin, proceed with caution, we don't want you dying of smoke inhalation." Batman's voice came over the com.
"Aye, aye captain." Red Robin went in.
There was no one in the building. But from where he could get to the fire it seemed like there were drugs. Maybe someone was trying to cover up their tracks. But then why have the henchman outside? Maybe to take the blame? Something wasn't adding up.
Red Robin made his way towards the back of the warehouse. There was a separate room with an office. It didn't seem to be entirely cleared out which meant that the fire was probably an accident. Red Robin began to look through some of the files. They were mostly nothing interesting and seemed all normal, maybe a little bit of tax fraud here or there. Then he found a file neatly hidden under other papers at the edge of the desk.
This was big. There was info about operations in Star City and even some that were about to take root in Gotham. This was bad, luckily though, the bats would be on it. Red Robin began to make his way out, file in hand. The bats would all go back to do a further investigation later, but Red Robin couldn't help but wonder, why did the boss go through so much effort on making all the files look normal, but put so much incriminating evidence. On one hand, it was way better hidden than all the other files, on the other, it was risky.
Red Robin shrugged it off and mounted his bike to return to the batcave.
Cas watched the shit that was going down from afar. Damn. Roy and Jason were actual idiots. She didn't know exactly what was going on, but judging by the fact that Jason blew a building up with a rocket launcher, and moments after Red Robin was there. Whatever they were doing it was stupid, granted what more could she except from dumb and dumber.
Cas turned back to the store she was in, "A turkey sandwich with pickles please." She took her sandwich and left to go back to Lily's house.
I had this written for a while, I just didn't know how to make it longer, but I decided not everything has to be 1,000 words. While it's not as long as I would have liked it to be, I think it's what needed to happen so I hope y'all enjoy.
