Chapter Twenty-Four: Little Wings
The sudden power outage did not make the trained security guards panic too much, only made them more vigilant.
"The power room has been vandalized"
When this phrase came over the walkie-talkie, Nightwing knew that it was impossible to disguise himself as a security guard.
Hiding in the dark with a few boxes stacked and looking at the noticeably more security personnel in the hallway, Nightwing pondered for a moment and moved his gaze to the vent directly above him...
"What did you find?"
A security guard carefully inspected every nook and cranny, including the few boxes piled up in the corners, and looked around with a flashlight in his hand, the light slipped through every corner of the dead end, including the garbage piled up on the floor and the air vents in the ceiling.....
“... Nothing out of the ordinary"
After a closer inspection, the security guard left the place and walked somewhere else.
Nightwing crouched in the ventilation duct above, waiting for the light to fade before he began to scrutinize the map on his computer.
Judging by the strength of the signal from the transmitter installed on Jason's body, the place where the children were being held should be the basement, which made it easier for Nightwing to pass along the ventilation pipes.
Adjusting the map to stereo navigation mode, Nightwing followed the computer's instructions to the room where the signal was located.
Turning the goggles to night vision mode, I roughly scanned through the vents, and found no signs of people.
“... Odd? Taken away? ”
Nightwing was a little worried, and while he had hidden the tracker stealthily enough, he couldn't rule out the possibility of it falling off.
"If it does, it's going to be a problem..."
He took out a special tool and removed the screws on the vent, carefully removed the railing of the vent, and poked his head out of it to look around, but still did not see half a figure.
“... This sucks up... Where can I find this? But the signal shouldn't be too far away here, hopefully not because "
Nightwing carefully slipped out of the vent and pondered where to find Jason when he suddenly felt an attack from behind.
Instinctively, he bent down to dodge the flying kick, but suddenly felt a little grip on his shoulder.
Nightwing knew who it was at once that was familiar with the attack, and with the help of his strength, he took advantage of the momentum and grabbed the calf that failed to kick him in the face, threw the assailant out with a backward lean, and then said when the assailant pounced again:
"It's me Jason"
The figure who was almost about to pounce on him again paused, and asked uncertainly:
"Dee...."
"Hey, hey, hey! Call me Nightwings! ”
Before Jason can call Nightwing's real name, he is covered with a hand over his mouth.
“.... It doesn't matter what, people will think I'm just swearing anyway."
Nightwing crawled out of the ventilation duct that he hadn't used in a long time, and the smell of something he didn't know what it was on his gloves made Jason frown.
"Call me Nightwing!!"
Repeating his words, Nightwing insisted.
Jason nodded under the threat of a taste that almost caused Jason to pour everything he ate last night out of his stomach.
"Good!"
After the episode was over, Nightwing was finally able to take a closer look at Jason to see if he had been harmed, although Jason's attack from Batgirl was enough to prove that he had not been physically harmed. Although the night vision device caused the visual color to deviate, he still saw that Jason was dressed at the moment, and after a little flurging, he almost used all his strength to restrain his almost burst laughter.
“.... What are you doing? ”
Although he couldn't see clearly, Jason could still feel that a guy was bent over and almost knelt on the floor at the moment, and the occasional laughter that leaked out from time to time made Jason inexplicably uncomfortable.
“.... Giggle... Hee-hee.... Angel.... Ha..... Huh...."
Jason wears a costume of the same style as the angel on the church mural, and has a pair of cute little wings on his back, although they appear a dim yellow color under the filter of the night vision device, Nightwing bets that once the light is turned on, it will definitely be a pure white outfit. If he was not mistaken, Jason must have had an aperture on his messy hair.......
“..... Hee-hee.... Little wings.... Haha....."
Hearing Nightwing say this, Jason froze for a moment, and finally realized that someone could see it in this barely lit room.... The blood slowly concentrated on his face, and through the night vision device, Nightwing could clearly see Jason's little face slowly reddening.
“..... Laughing fart!! You!! Madan! These damn perverts!! ”
Jason angrily ripped off the decorative wings that were behind his back, and wanted to rip off the fabric that didn't actually cover much of his body.
“.... I advise you not to take it off."
Nightwing finally stopped laughing, and hurriedly and kindly stopped Jason's behavior.
“... Why? You want to see it, pervert! ”
Jason's affection for Nightwing has plummeted to the point where he is basically the same as Himmler's pervert.
"Of course not, but I didn't bring you any clothes to wear, if you want to run around naked..."
“........ Why don't you bring me a piece of clothing, the one in the cupboard will do....."
"Hey, hey! Boy, don't think about that dress, if you want to wear it, you'll have to get Batman and my approval..."
Hearing Nightwing say this, Jason decides to divide the guy behind Himmler......
"Humph!"
"Alright... Hurry up and we're going to get down to business, you know where the kids are going."
Seeing that Jason was really angry, Nightwing hurriedly diverted the topic.
“.... I know, but I can't see it."
Before he could finish speaking, an eyepatch was placed over his face, and the blurred outline in his vision became clear:
“... Then lead the way! Little wings! ”
Nightwing's smiling face magnified in front of Jason's eyes.
"Don't call me that! Dickie Bird! ”
A noise at the door interrupted the argument between the two men, and the two looked at each other and quickly hid on either side of the door.
Soon the door opened, and a security-guard-looking man walked in with a flashlight and looking around.
Without giving him any chance, Nightwing quickly and decisively took him down.
"What happened?"
The person at the door poked his head in when he heard the movement, but Jason slashed the back of the neck with a knife in one hand, and fell down before he could say a word.
"Oh, good job"
Although Barbara said that Jason's talent is very high and he is improving quickly, Jason's ability to accurately slash at vital parts with a knife still impresses Nightwing.
After dragging the two into the room and tying them up, Nightwing and Jason stand in the hallway.
"Which way?"
Jason looked around and pointed to the side and said:
"Over here"
The two men ran all the way but unexpectedly didn't see a single person, which made Jason feel strange.
"Strange? What about people? ”
It stands to reason that there should be a lot of security guards here, and there were almost a dozen of them when he came in.
"Batgirl is doing something in front, I guess I'm attracted to it."
"Troublesome? Why? Didn't he just want proof? ”
Jason was a little strange, didn't he say that he would record the auction process so that he could preserve evidence.
"The plan has changed, and the scarecrow has intervened,"
Nightwing said the name with some concern, it was not a simple matter of storing evidence when it involved the scarecrow, in order to prevent the guy from doing something similar to killing everyone, the plan was changed to save the children first.
“... That idiot, he doesn't know who he's working with."
Even if he is just the lowest gangster, Jason is very aware of the bigwigs of the Gotham underground empire that must not be touched, including the scarecrow.....
Only a madman would want to make a deal with these psychos, Himmler's mind must have been caught in the door when he was a child.
Jason mentally summed up Himmler's IQ.
"Cloth .. What does Batman go to do? ”
"He's going to find clues to the scarecrow, he's been tracking the scarecrow before this case, but there's been no clue"
“... Are scarecrows more important than children? ”
Nightwing didn't answer Jason's question, he suddenly stopped, turned around, tripped Jason with a sweeping leg, and threw the stick in his left hand in the direction of Jason, and a burst of electricity accompanied by the smell of burnt protein came from behind Jason. The unsuspecting Jason was stumbled and slammed to the ground, and the curse that he didn't have time to complain about was choked back into his mouth.
“... Electric rod?! ”
"Uh-huh!"
“... Cruel! ”
"Haven't we arrived yet?"
"Turn right at the front and you're going to get to the innermost door!"
“ok!”