Closed(ish) Investigation team tinies

[demon_brat]

Characters: Robin (Damian Wayne), Robin (Dick Grayson), Zatanna Zatara, Bean, Ender Wiggin, Sadie Kane
Date: During the investigations times!
Location: Around Keeliai, mostly Water Sector
Situation: The tiniest self-organized investigation team in action?
Warnings/Rating: Tinies dealing with adult things; violence possible.

Damian had seen Evandau's message, of course. He had reported - as Robin - for at assignment work, but there was nothing for him. Then he waited around for the assignments to be completed.

Neither Bean (or Ender) nor Grayson were put into teams.

Well, then. At least this way he was going to keep an eye on them. And he was sure they could find something odd to investigate. If there were, what, two dozen and more things wrong? There would be one more, he was sure.

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[demon_brat]

Damian was keeping an eye on people. Which meant that, once somebody of those he kept an eye on was settled (such as Bean and Ender), he went out looking for the next one.

Like Grayson.

He caught up with the older Robin when the other boy was still and waiting for his kedan to come out of a building. Damian was still for a moment, then.

"I'll look around for other exits."

[hackingyoursensors]

He's not surprised to see Damian. The younger Robin was practically his second shadow, and Dick knew why. So he couldn't exactly begrudge Damian his little bit of safety, but it still sometimes felt like he had an overprotective nanny following him around.

Dick nods.

"There is one on the side, a back door, and a garage door around back."

He did scope out the place, tyvm.

[demon_brat]

Good. Damian nods, approving, and perches beside Grayson, implicitly approving at his current vantage point and at the same time ready to spring into action at the fall of a feather.

"Has he even left the sector?"

It's maybe a relevant question, okay?

[hackingyoursensors]

"Arrived an hour and a half ago, hasn't left since."

He rolls his stiff shoulders.

"Find anything on your end?"

[demon_brat]

"Not much. Their actions still don't add up. And don't make sense. Why report something you do to yourself?"

Damian might be a trifle frustrated by the whole situation. But he is frustrated quietly, his attention still partly on the house they're watching.

Beat.

"And, while they keep on doing what they do, they don't... extend it to friends or family."

Usually, at least some of the types they are watching would be feeding somebody else what they're taking. Offering it to friends, coaxing girlfriends to take it...

... wouldn't they?

[hackingyoursensors]

"They definitely know what they're doing is dangerous. Any evidence that they're being coerced?"

Dick has tailed them, both in and out of costume, and hasn't seen anyone threatening the sick kedan.

[demon_brat]

"Not overtly."

Beat.

"At least not anymore. Maybe that's how it started, however."

[hackingyoursensors]

"Let's keep that in the 'possibility' department."

Dick has several possibilities, actually, but not a lot of evidence for them. He can't jump in half-cocked. (He learned not to. The Team taught him a lot. Tu Vishan taught him the rest.)

"Any luck obtaining some of this stuff?"

[demon_brat]

"Affirmative."

Beat. And then, ever so slowly, Damian grins a little.

"That's scheduled for later tonight."

[hackingyoursensors]

"Gonna let me in on the plan?"

Because like hell he's going to let you storm a warehouse without him. Or take on a mob by yourself.

[demon_brat]

"Simple. One of them is likely to administer it on himself tonight. The plan consists of an ambush."

One on one. Not that much of a problem, right? But he doesn't mind sharing ... with Grayson.

[hackingyoursensors]

"You'll need a lookout-- someone to make sure nobody happens upon your ambush. We don't want to draw too much attention."

Putting them on alert would be very, very bad for their plan.

[demon_brat]

"That'd work better."

He might have, possibly, assumed that Dick would be up for something like this course of action.

"On the other hand, I'm not sure how much attention they would like to draw."

[hackingyoursensors]

"Depends on how stupid they are. Causing a scene won't help them either. Not that that's stopped people before."

He speaks from a lot of experience.

[demon_brat]

"What if their goal is disruption and confusion? Then it wouldn't be stupidity, would it?"

It's a random example.

As far as Damian knows.

[hackingyoursensors]

"I'm not sure they want to draw Evandau's attention. The police breathing down their necks would put a kink in their operation."

The front door to the building opens, and three kedan walk out. Two stand near the door, trying to look casual, but they're clearly lookouts. The other is walking around back. Another lookout, probably.

[demon_brat]

"If there are no charges to hold them on... Hhn." But the sound is quiet, and cuts off as soon as the door opens.

Damian's attention snaps to the kedan down on the street, and he lowers himself closer to the roof, watching.

He doesn't look over at Dick, but he knows that, if there is any motion, they'll do what needs to be done. It's how they have been trained, after all.

[hackingyoursensors]

Dick crouches down lower on the roof, watching intently. So far, nothing's happening. But there are definitely lights on in the warehouse when, theoretically, no one would be in there.

"How do you want to play this?"

He's gotten better at working with other people since the Team was founded. Even if Damian knew him well and had similar training, it didn't hurt to communicate.

[demon_brat]

Damian tilts his head, slightly.

"With or without the house searched?"

... what. They could totally do the search as well as tracking... or taking down.

[hackingyoursensors]

"Search before, take them out after. That way they won't get a chance to 'clean up' before we go in."

If they cause a ruckus, the kedan are likely to know something's up and start hiding the evidence.

[demon_brat]

"Affirmative."

He's quiet as a shadow when he hops across to the rooftop of the house in question. Maybe he had less flair, but he is efficient.

[hackingyoursensors]

Dick can't exactly turn off his swag flair. But he stays in the shadows and follows Damian silently. Fortunately or unfortunately, there's no skylight, but there is a door to access a stairwell. That's one possible entry point.

[demon_brat]

Damian nods, moving ahead, to look over the edge on the other side of the building, just in case. Then he steps again, guarding Grayson's back, batarangs at the ready.

[hackingyoursensors]

Dick checks to make sure the coast is clear before quietly descending the steps. He could rappel down the stairwell, but that would make him a target, if there were a bunch of guys at the bottom. No, he'd play it smart. Proceed patiently.

About halfway down, they hear voices.

"I told you not to go flashing it around! You're gonna get us noticed."