The guards had chosen to evacuate. They grabbed their friends and left after turning on all of the possible alarms that they could so people would leave the building. Ricky placed the explosives in the bag in several places around the security room.
He left a few in the bag he could put on the floor above. He then grabbed a pistol and a single clip. He then took the elevator up to the next floor. When the doors dinged and the elevator doors opened he was surprised to find it was empty.
He looked around suspiciously before moving around the floor that looked like a normal set of offices. But he quickly realized that the central meeting area was smaller than it was supposed to be. He found a button on the underside of the table and the wall popped open. Inside he found the weapons the guard mentioned.
He placed the bag with explosives on a case of grenades. He then stepped out of the chamber and closed the door. Once it was closed he walked out of the meeting room and then arrived at the elevator lobby for this floor.
But then he stopped in his tracks as he saw the person run out of the stairs. But he stopped as soon as he saw Ricky.
"A gas mask and that jacket… you are the guy from earlier tonight." Nightwing grunted in annoyance. He then pulled out his nightsticks, spinning them in his hands before the ends of them sparked with electricity. "Last time you got lucky."
Ricky chuckled and pressed the button for the elevator. Nightwing dashed toward him. Going for a leg sweep with his nightstick. Ricky responded by kicking forward toward Nightwing's head.
But instead of continuing with his attack, Nightwing did a flip by putting his hand on the ground and flipping himself over Ricky. He then jabbed his nightsticks down toward Ricky's head but instead of taking the hit, Ricky reached up and grabbed the sticks and pulled downward.
"Woah!" Nightwing slammed into the ground on his back with a grunt of pain. Nightwing spun on his back and kicked Ricky's knee. Causing him to slide to the side and grunt in pain. Nightwing took the moment to grab up his nightsticks. He then mumbled under his breath, "Oracle, that was not funny."
Ding!
The elevator opened up and Ricky stepped into it. But before Nightwing could, Ricky pulled the pistol he grabbed from the guard and fired at him a few times. Nightwing had to dodge and roll behind the reception table. The elevator doors closed and he started heading down to the ground floor.
He looked at the gun, there were only about one or two more bullets by his count. But before he could reload he felt the elevator jolt and rock as it stopped. Ricky groaned and then tore off the electrical panel, he then pulled out a handful of wires and after a moment the elevator started again.
But before he could do something else the hatch in the roof of the elevator swung open and Nightwing dropped in. Ricky aimed the gun and fired the last two bullets, but Nightwing dodged and then kicked him in the side of the head. Causing Ricky to slam into the elevator doors.
Ricky grunted in pain but he still managed to release the magazine from the gun. He then pulled out a magazine as Nightwing closed in for a double downward attack with his nightsticks on Ricky's shoulders.
Ricky kicked off the elevator wall behind him and full body slammed into Nightwing. Sending him crashing into the elevator wall. Then Ricky managed to back up and reload the gun only for Nightwing to kick it up into the hatch leading into the elevator shaft.
Ricky groaned and then took a stance to prepare to fight hand to hand combat. But Nightwing suddenly froze and then jumped off the wall and in through the hatch as the elevator doors opened.
Ricky understood why he ran now. As he stared down a number of barrels. There were several people with guns standing at the entrance of the elevator. They were all wearing various types of black masks.
BANG! BANG! BANG!
They began firing and the bullets hit Ricky in the vest and body. He flinched at each shot and fell backwards after a few seconds of being shot. The shots were thankfully all aimed at hsi chest. So he collapsed backwards and went still.
"Check him!" One of them yelled. A pair of the black mask goons moved forward. As soon as they were right by him he grabbed them by the scruff of their vests and slammed their heads together, there was a sickening crack followed by them going limp.
Ricky pulled the rifle off of one of them and began firing it as he stood up. Hitting the other goons as they had already turned away. He walked through the lobby firing until the rifle was empty. He then tossed it at the last one that seemed to be giving the orders.
Ricky kicked the one giving the orders through the broken entrance of the front. He then walked out and walked across the street and into an alley. He then materialized his phone and called the others. "Come pick me up, I am on the first floor of the car garage." He then hopped over a short wall and a moment later a black car pulled around. He jumped in the back with Coin. "Let's go," he then looked at Sweetie. "You can set it off now."
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Nightwing ran onto the roof just as the helicopter with Black Mask pulled away. He cursed under his breath. "Sorry Oracle, Black Mask got away."
"Damn… okay you need to-"
BOOM!
The building underneath Nightwing shook as he heard three explosions occur. "Oracle what just happened?"
"The car on the first floor, the explosives on the fifth, and something on the sixth floor exploded. A large number of black mask casualties. The police are only now arriving so they were safe from the blast. It looks like civilians evacuated the region." Oracle explained.
"So that subordinate of Jason's got the last laugh before he died. But I definitely disarmed the bomb in the car and those on the fifth floor." Nightwing moved toward the edge of the building.
"I can not account for how the bombs triggered. But it looks like that guy in the jacket and gas mask walked away." Oracle explained with a voice of surprise
"How? I thought he got gunned down."
"So did I." Oracle waited a moment. "It looks like he faked being injured by them shooting and then took one of the rifles and gunned them down when they turned their back on him. Ruthless. Then he walked out the front door."
"Bruce is not going to be happy with me." Nightwing jumped off the roof and hooked onto a nearby building with his grapple before flipping away.
"When is he happy?" Oracle asked jokingly.
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