Rico cracked his knuckles as his Amazonium knuckle dusters appeared on his hands. Nightwing took up a defensive position, blocking the route to the most obvious exit. Rico dashed forward toward Nightwing. He swung his fist at Rico.
But instead of taking the hit, Rico dodged under the fist and wrapped his arm around Nightwing's body. He gripped Nightwing's shoulder and then spun his body. It resulted in him throwing Nigwing into the air. But the flexible vigilante was able to right themselves just as he neared a surface.
While Rico ran towards the entrance he saw Nightwing flinching in pain and stumbling as he landed. Rico made it only a few feet before he sensed danger and ducked just as one of Nightwing's baton flew over his head. The baton flew right out the front door and out of sight.
Rico turned around just as Nightwing began swinging his other baton, aiming to hit him on the head. Rico raised and blocked it with arm and punched Nightwing in the chest, sending him flying back with an indentation in the center of his chest. Nightwing curled up and began coughing. Rico then began making his way toward the entrance again.
But he stopped and looked up when he could suddenly hear a loud noise fill up the factory. He could then see the faint green mist that had begun to fill the facility get filtered out. The emergency fans were doing their work, so he did bring another person for assistance.
Rico activated his Eagle Vision ability and spotted another person's red highlighted figure up on one of the higher floors. A woman by the looks of it. Too tall to be the current Batgirl. So it was either Batwoman or someone else.
Rico watched as the figure began quickly moving in his direction through the facility. He smirked as he disabled the ability. He then felt his senses flare again and he ducked as Nightwing swung at him another time. Nightwing used his free hand to grab Rico's wrist.
Rico went to punch him with his free arm when he saw movement out of the corner of his eye. Spotting Harley Quinn jumping from a raised platform and dashing toward him with her bat raised. "Woah, you must be short of people." Rico joked when he moved into Nightwing's personal space and forced Quinn to freeze in surprise. He twisted his arm forcing Nightwing to let go. He then kicked Nightwing towards Harley and dashed out of the factory.
He made it almost towards his car when slid on the ground and spun around as Nightwing's other baton sailed right past his head and bounced off a part of his car then flew into the distance and bounced off of something else before it landed in Nightwing's hand. Standing opposite Rico was Nightwing in his ready position. Standing next to him with her decorated wooden bat raised was Harley Quinn.
But she was distracted by something, "Hey Nightbird, is that one of your sticks?" She asked while pointing toward Rico's feet where there was in fact Nightwing's other baton.
"Harley, I know. But focus on the foe before us." Nightwing told her. Rico kicked the baton under the car so it went to the other side of the car. Harley watched it the entire time, and Rico watched her. Intentionally giving Nightwing the opportunity to attack him.
He dashed forward and his baton sparked as he swung it. Rico slightly moved under the baton and pushed Nightwing into his car. He moved past Nightwing as he could hear a clear grunt of pain.
Rico closed the gap between him and Harley pulling back his arm to punch. She responded by swinging her bat towards his head. Rico punched forward and hit the bat before it hit him. There was an explosion of wood splinters.
"Holly Snazleberries!" Harley screamed and looked at the broken wooden stump that used to be her bat. Rico grabbed her by the arm and threw her at his car.
She slammed into the side of it, denting it and breaking the side windows. She then fell to the ground as Rico slowly moved back. Nightwing was on top of the roof of the car and jumped down, he now had both batons in hand. He used the opportunity that Rico had presented to get his weapon back.
Harley pulled herself up and looked at her wooden stump again before tossing it to the side. "Sooo… he is strong." Harley pointed out as they moved toward him.
"We need to restrain his arms while we take him down." Nightwing explained, "But in order to do that we need…" He stopped speaking as he seemed to realize something.
Rico had continued backing up to a safe distance. Which was causing both Nightwing and Harley to be suspicious. Rico chuckled and pointed at the car as he reached into his pocket and pulled out a detonator.
CLICK. BOOM!
At the last moment Harley tackled Nightwing away from the car as its rear exploded, sending it up into the air and then landing on the roof right next to them. But before he could even see if they were okay he was away. Moving to the street to move onto the next stage of his plan.
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Harley groaned as she pulled herself off of Nightwing. She looked around before looking down at Nightwing who was still out cold. Maybe she tackled him a little too hard. Only the car blew up, which was a good thing.
She looked at the street just as Nightwing was pulling himself up, "where is he?"
It was perfectly timed because a moment later they watched as the 'he' in question, this gas mask dude. Pulled out of the alley where they parked their motorcycles. Except he was racing down the street on Nightwing's bike.
"Woah, did he just…" Harley was impressed, not everyone had the chrome to snatch up one of the bat families rides.
"He stole my motorcycle." Nightwing mumbled as he stood up.
"He what?" They heard Oracle over the comms they had in. Then a moment later she spoke up as Nightwing attempted to do something with a small device. "Looks like he disabled the remote control, but left in one of the trackers. Probably missed it, do you two have transport?"
"Yes" "No" They answered at the same time and looked at each other.
"Mine can seat two, but you are in the back, Nightrobin." Harley told him and walked over to where her bike was stored and found it perfectly fine with nothing being tampered with.
"Okay, I am going to send the other three to assist you. There still is not anything on Batman, and Dr- Red Robin is too far out to get to Gotham in time. Is the factory going to be a problem?" Oracle asked as she explained the situation.
"Possibly, but he probably has a triggering device. But he was all alone this time. Last time at the theater I remember seeing him with some others. Where did they go?" Nightwing asked as he grunted in pain while climbing onto the back of Harley's Harley.
"Damn, I probably missed the switch out." They could hear Oracle sigh. "I will find out, but we are not sending anyone into ACE Chemicals until you get that detonator."
"We are on it! Like butter on toast!" Harley yelled before her Harley screamed loudly and they pulled out of the alley and onto the street following the path Oracle was narrating to catch up to this new but definitely interesting gas mask guy, "hey who are we chasing again?"
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