Over The Edge

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The water currents ripped past the sides of Batmans submarine/ speedboat vehicle. The night was dark so he had to make use of his sonar to keep track of where he was headed. He had been tracking some drug traffickers, and found the source of their shipments. They were being snuck in through a huge carrier to the docks, where the crates would be loaded on to various semis and then taking to distribution centers. Was it penguin? Crane? Bane? He did not know, but surely the evidence on the ship would point him to the right direction.

As the giant carrier came into view on the sonar, Batman slowly surfaced the ship. The latch swung open, exposing Batman to the wake and breeze. Reaching down at his side, Batman pulled out the binoculars and observed the deck. Tall watch towers all over the place, with spotlights. On the deck, men with armored vests patrolled with sub machine guns and shot guns. This boat heist would be different from anything hes done, but this was his only lead.

The boat slowly rifted towards the carrier till it was only inches from the side of it. With a steady aim with the grappling gun, the hook was shot straight up, and wrapped itself around a metal siding. He hooked the gun to his belt, and slowly ascended up the side of it, till he reached the top. Doing it this way he would be able to infiltrate the ship without leaving a water puddle, that would make the guards aware there was an intruder on board.

Poking his head over the edge, he saw that the area was clear. On deck were a bunch of boxes, as well as other pieces providing plenty of shadows.

In a swift motion he hopped the side, and retreated into the shadows. There was a stair case at the nose of the boat, but the spotlights would pose a problem. To the other side, there was a door, but several armed men patrolled around it, in a precise pattern that would prevent him from sneaking through the door. The men would have to be taken out.

In the darkness he took a knee, till he figured out the correct way to go.

[The Joker]

The Joker was observing the ship since some time and he managed to be one of its passengers...even though he thought to be one of its boxes first.

He was on the nose with some other guys, the clown looked up for a moment and let the darkness' coldness itch his face's skin. The Joker couldn't help himself and smiled, luckily the guys didn't see it because the clown was turned away from them.
The smile lasted longer than it should, but again the clown couldn't really control it.

Why was here? Well, he needed drugs and he knew that this ship could bring him to much more drugs for all the time he needed them.
He just had to make a deal with the drugs keepers.
Not a big deal if you knew how to do it and the Joker here was pretty sure of himself.

The clown was hiding in plain view...he likes more this way.
He was wearing the same outfit and guns as the others, his white skin and green hair covered, he was wearing a disguise.

Where he took the disguise was another story: just killed one of them with one of his Joker's cards then he stole the outfit and guns, his purple suit was hidden somewhere in the ship while the guy was hidden somewhere in the ocean.
On the Joker's persona were hidden his toys ...and a captain hat in a pocket...for the show.

The Joker thought again about his plan...he imagined the ship's spotlights on himself with the guys' attention on him...Joker's plans had always a part that went like he had planned it, but then there was always a part that went by its own...but that was the funny part too...most of the time.

The Joker disguised as one of the mercenaries was looking at the sea.
He took a deep breath "It's showtime!" he thought and he was ready to show himself to his public. Well...no-stage-suit, but he had his business card at least. With some blood on it.

He didn't know that the ship was infested by a killjoy-bat.

 

[Dick Grayson - Nightwing]

Ok, so maybe he was tailing a ship in the Gotham Harbor...big deal. No one ever told him the water ways were off limits to the Bludhaven jurisdiction. Ok, that was a lie, but who was to stop him from intercepting the ships anyways, the police?

Nightwing had gotten word through the Outsiders' vine on this vessel. And was taking the challenge on as his own. There wasn't much of an argument over the debt of his actions. Then again, he had gotten the information and ran with it.

Just one hunch and a a sighting from a few hours ago. Supergirl had made mention of a ship that was not on the shipping schedule for that afternoon.

Nightwing was slightly impressed with the amount of work Supergirl had actually taken into learning some of the transport schedules of Gotham to help narrow down unwanted visitors to the town. Maybe the influence of Arsenal and Nightwing's training sessions were kicking in. Ha, more like study sessions for the rest of the team. That or just more busy work.

Either way, Nightwing told thanked her and said he'd handle it.

The advantage to the team was being able to have more gadgets to play with now. Not only weapon wise but transportation wise as well. And Nightwing had taken the mini-sub out for a test run. More so on a mission run.

The small vessel was quick and stealthy was it sped over the surface of the water to start out to get view of the harbor. Nightwing then took in under. The computers picking up on the ships location in the dark as he steered it there.

And now, he was almost alongside the ship from below. The radar picked up another ship along the other side. Looks like he wasn't alone that night like he thought he would be. He could tell by his own equipment that it was one of the Bat's water equipped vehicles.

Nightwing look a more strained approach to getting onto the ship. Super magnets to the side of the ship to climb after he was was launched from the cockpit of the vessel. This left him air born with some free fall time to get the magnets out to cling onto the large ship.

Not a single sound was made with his actions, as he climbed his way up to the deck. Sure it was a bit more work, but worth the workout and burn some time.

Climbing at an angle along side the ship, he made it round back to the stern and climbed aboard.

The vessel was set to stealth and auto as he was to set to work. He knew he'd run into Batman sooner or later. But he wasn't expecting much else than the drug smugglers.

Nightwing stayed out of sight climbing to a slightly higher vantage point to get a better view of the ships deck.