Part of Damian was surprised everything was going out so well. It could be because the ones around there were only the fall guys and they weren't that intelligent but he was thanking every part of the universe that everything seemed to be going fine. Or, as well as it could go.
Going back to the storage without them suspecting a thing was easier that he had thought it would be, even with Rick trembling.
The two guys left them where they had been and continued to talk to one another, but Damian wasn't even paying attention to them. He was more concentrated on Tim, who was at that moment by himself and he couldn't find Dick anywhere.
A bit afraid, he approached Tim.
"Where's Richard?" he asked.
"Some of the real members appeared and took him around five minutes ago or so" he groaned a bit "Quite the strength they have, though"
"You tried to fight them?" he asked, shocked.
"Well, anyone in a similar situation would have do it if they are about to take your brother somewhere" he said and coughed a bit.
Damian shook his head and sighed "Anyway… I've got some stuff from the bathroom with a little help from my friend. We have an adjustable wrench, sticky tape, razor blades, scissors, a homemade sedative and my knife. How's B going?"
"I haven't checked yet, but I'll call him and see" Tim told him, pulsing his comm "Some of the things can work as weapons but we should wait until B is closed from here"
"I don't like that. Not while Richard is being tortured" Damian scoffed "Besides, B is still…"
"I know, and you don't have to like it, but we'll have to trust them… Trust J with B" he sighed a little. A pause later, and Tim looked passed Damian "How's your friend?"
"Scared, which is normal, considering the situation and the thing that he has half of the stuff that I took" he shrugged "But, apart from that, I think he is okay"
Suddenly, the comm made a noise and Tim put a finger on his lips "B?"
Bruce thanked mentally to the Batcomputer for always being that fast (around fifteen minutes) on reading descriptions and finding possible buildings: With the description that he had gotten and with Miller's intel, it had been easier to find the place where the White Face and the people kidnapped were. The place had been of the Stagg family before they had built the new better one and had a main door and a back door and three flours, counting the one in the ground.
According to the Batcomputer, the place was far enough from any buildings, not counting two more of industry that belonged to the Cobbs. With how the building had been done, there was some possibility on rescuing everyone if they covered the entire place. There would be people around the windows, others at the main door, a few on the back door and some in the roof, so… With Stephanie, Cass, Kate and Jason… They could do it.
Suddenly, he looked up to the screen and saw that there was someone in a comm trying to communicate with them. Bruce took his comm in one second and put it in his ear, pulsing it.
"B?" he heard.
"Tim" he almost whispered "How are you? Is everything alright?"
"… It could be worse. Some of the real members of the White Face appeared and took Dick around five minutes ago" he responded "On the bright side, we have an adjustable wrench, a sticky tape, some razor blades, scissors, a homemade sedative and a knife"
"Not a lot of weapons, but enough to escape most possibly. Just wait a little longer, we've already figured out where you are and I have called for help to Oracle. We'll be there in fifteen minutes, just keep hanging there" Bruce told him.
"I am more worried about Dick, but we'll try to keep waiting. Be safe" Tim told him.
"You too"
And they turned off the comms.
Bruce turned in his chair and got up to where all the others were. Jason seemed about to light a cigarette if it wasn't because Cass stopped him in time with her hand while Kate tried to keep them in control, Stephanie deliberately ignoring her.
"All of you, listen" Bruce called them and the silence fell into the cave "Tim called again and Dick is in danger so we have to act now. They have some weapons with them, but with Dick out, it's only two against a place full of people"
"Where can we get in?" Kate asked "I refuse to go by the main door as Jason suggests"
"It's that or the roof" he shrugged with a smirk.
Bruce didn't even listen to them "Steph and Jason, you go through the main door. Cass and Kate, you go through the back door. I'll take the roof. Babs will be calling the shots. Any questions?"
"Are you serious?" Jason asked surprised "Not that I'm complaining, but…"
"If I cover both ways of going in and going out, we'll have a better chance of them leaving the windows unguarded" he answered.
"Which is where all the kidnapped will leave with Tim and Damian leading!" Steph almost claimed.
"Correct" he nodded "Now, come on. We have a job to do"
They all got dressed quickly, Batman calling Tim to tell him their plan, and they got out of the Batcave with their vehicles, with Barbara in charge in their ears.
Batman knew that he could trust all of them to follow with his plan, even if they didn't always agree on their methods. He knew Jason was loyal without fault and protected everyone, mostly always almost getting himself killed. Stephanie was always sharp and had a tendency to wear her heart in her sleeve, but it always gave her the compassion that Jason lacked and would need. As for Kate and Cass… Kate had been a soldier most of her life and giving and following orders was in her nature, as well as recovery and infiltrating missions… But she lacked versality in other arts. Cass had been a child meant to be an assassin; she was silent, careful and was open-minded… But she was still learning on resting her hands on another person or a team.
Part of him almost knew that Damian, Dick and Tim would be disappointed that he was attacking alone, since they would say that he wouldn't be on the right mind yet to be left alone. In a matter of terms, he knew that they were right to some extent, and that was the reason of Barbara calling the shots... But, in any case, he needed to protect the rest of the team and he needed to rescue them. There was no time to waste anymore; he knew he could do it. For them. For himself.
He would save them all. This time, he wouldn't fail.
&&& I'm back and I'm deeply sorry! (But two chapters for reading so... heheh) I should have published earlier but... I've been a disaster, as always ^^"
We should be more closed to the end, though... Probably there'll be 30 chapters in total for this story, approximately. Maybe they'll have some unfinished issues, but... That's life (?)
Anyway, I've also been busy doing my own NaNoWriMo this year (it's the first time I tried) with an idea of POTC fandom that I had somewhere abandoned in my docs and since I went back again into the fandom, I decided to give it a try and gosh, I reached 20k approx. Maybe it's not the goal or a lot for a whole month, but since it's me, I think I did quite well and I'm happy with the results ^^
My idea is to upload it once I finished this one. Most possibly, I will post first in Spanish the 1st chapter and maybe two weeks later the English one and so on. This is mostly because I miss posting in my own language, believe it or not XD (Technically though, I write the English version first in my docs because it's easier that way for me LOL).
And that's all! Thanks for sticking by, giving kudos, reviews, follows, favorites, following me, etc. :) Lots of love! :3 &&&
