They spent only half an hour setting up the explosives at the amusement park before they moved onto the next location. An abandoned movie theater. They parked down the street, because when they drove by it they could see some goons in white face makeup smoking in the alley.
As Rico walked into the alleyway he moved quietly up behind the Joker goons as they made their way up to a side door that leads into the theater. They had jammed it open with a piece of metal.
But before they could open it up he kicked the back of the knee of one of them. Causing them to collapse with a grunt. The other one turned just in time for an upward palm strike to the chin to knock him out. Then before the first one could call out a warning, Rico kneed him in the face. There was a sickening crack as the goon's head slammed into a metal dumpster.
Rico then checked through the crack in the door before opening it up all the way and leaving Coin to hold it open. He walked inside through the side door. Which had led into the backstage of one of the theaters.
According to Edgelady, this theater had two show rooms and a main floor. There were also a few other rooms as well. Like the backstage which both show rooms had. There were also projection booths in both theater show rooms. Then there is the basement which was connected to the backstage through a staircase and hatches and the main room through a single staircase behind a pair of doors. Then finally there is the attic, that was only accessed through a staircase that was on the main floor.
Rico walked into the backstage and looked around for only a moment before finding more goons. They were in the main hall, he could see them through the destroyed door. It seems like there was a gathering in this building. "Go take them out. I am going down to set up the explosives in the basement. Then I will go up to the attic and set up some more."
He got a thumbs up from T-Dog while Sweetie and Vine pulled in the two goons that he knocked out outside. Rico walked to the staircase and walked down it. As he walked down he cringed as he could hear the creaking of wood under foot.
As soon as he was down there he moved over to one of the locations that Edgelady told him about. He then set up the explosive and began moving through the creaky wooden basement. After setting up two more explosives he moved toward the stairs that would lead him to the main floor.
But he stopped when he saw the condition of the stairs. Except you can't really call a pile of wooden boards laying on the ground stairs at this point. It was more apt to say that there was a pair of rickety wooden doors at the top of the drop.
After a few seconds he began climbing using the few stable bricks and pieces of wood he could find. Then when he arrived at the doors it was in time to see the rest of his mercenary unit burst in through three different entrances. Two of them came from each theater show room while two came in from the back door and two came in from the front.
He waited a few minutes until it calmed down when he kicked the door and it swung open. The person nearest the door, Coin, spun around and pointed her gun at him. But when she saw him she chuckled.
"Did something happen? Why did you not join the fun?" Coin asked, looking out the door he just came in through. "Woah! That is not a staircase. Did you climb that?"
"Yes, and unlike the rest of you. I do not like to carry around a gun." Rico answered and moved through the main room and headed right toward the staircase leading to the attic. These ones at least looked a bit better. "Did you manage to set up the explosives in the projection booth?"
"We did, go on up. We will tie these people up and then we can head to the next location." Vine confirmed as Rico began moving up the stairs but he stopped when he saw one of the Joker goons who was pretending to be unconscious pop up and fire a gun at Vine.
Vine grunted and collapsed to one knee. Then as the Joker goon made it to the front door there was a muffled pop followed by the goon collapsing in a pile of his own brains and blood. "Sorry, I know you do not like killing Rico."
"It is fine. They are followers of the Joker. They knew they had forfeited their lives already." Rico told them. "Sweetie, get Vine to the cars and get him patched up. We will only be here for a few minutes."
"Understood." Sweetie then began carrying Vine out through the backdoor.
Rico moved up into the attic and began setting up the last four explosive devices at each corner of the abandoned movie theater. As he came back down the rickety staircase he could hear grunting and intense movement. He walked down in time to see Nightwing fighting his mercenary team.
It looked like Window and Mich had already been knocked down for the moment. But Rico ignored them as his Amazonium Knuckle Dusters appeared on his hands. The wood creaked as he walked and Nightwing spun around to kick him. But instead of dodging the strike he caught Nightwing's leg and followed it up with a punch to the vigilante's thigh.
"Argh!" He groaned in pain as there was a crisp snape. A clean break. Then as he fell to the ground, Rico spun and tossed him out of the front door of the theater.
Rico looked at the others, "grab Window and Mich it is time to go." He then led the way out the back door. Once he was out of possible earshot of the vigilante he spoke to Edgelady. "Once we are clear of the sight, blow up the theater. If we do not do it now, there is a chance police or vigilantes could get caught up in it later."
"Understood."
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Dick groaned as he pulled himself out of the pile of… trash that he found himself in. "Dick are you okay? What happened?"
"Yeah Babs, I am good." He flinched as he pulled himself up. "That badger dude definitely broke something. Then he literally threw me clear of the building."
"Badger? Do you mean the guy that blew up the Sionis building?" Oracle asked in shock. "Does that mean he will-"
BOOM! CREAK! CRACK!
He was thrown slightly back by the explosion. He then watched in shock as the building began collapsing in on itself. There were no excess flames or damage to other buildings. It was almost surgical in the way the building collapsed.
"Dick are you-"
"I am fine. Although I am injured." Nightwing sighed as he looked over the pile of bricks and wood that was once a building. It was slowly sinking down to the lower level. It seemed like the basement of the building had collapsed as well. "But you should call the GCPD and whoever else needs to respond to explosions." He clicked something on his baton and a noise was emitted as a motorcycle came toward him.
"Yeah I got it, what about this badger guy?" He could hear her fingers tapping against keys on her keyboard.
Nightwing sighed and then flinched in pain as he climbed aboard his motorcycle and began driving it in another direction. He would have to pick up their trail. He knew he was knocked out for at least a few minutes. "Can you also… get me some backup?"
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