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Batman, Nightwing, Red hood, Robin, Orphan and Spoiler were being led by Oracle for a gang bust. The gang "forever forgotten but never alone" (long name, and red Hood made fun of it sounding like a cringe emo faze name) had been a neutral gang, but as of recently they've been more violent. Stealing cars, mugging, bribes, fights were normal gang things, not mass murder.
The gang was old, around 37ish, but recently the gang killed a where house full of people. The sudden spike of violence made the vigilantes step in. Batman didn't allow murder in his city.
Back to the bust
Spoiler kicked a goon in the gut, then jumped back into punching another goon's lights out. Their home base was an old apartment building, she was on floor 4. The gray carpet looked worse against the peeling, stained walls. The popcorn ceiling looked even more ugly and out of place. She looked around at the crates and gang members littering the floor.
She opened her com line and said "Done! And 38 down so suck it!". "Tt! You're only finished first because you have almost no one on your floor, I however am almost done and have taken down 42 people" damian shot back. "Doesn't mean I don't win on being the first done!" She replied. "Sorry to burst both of your bubbles but I win, 48 members and finished 4 minutes ago" said Jason. She could hear the smirk on his face. "Tt" grumbled Robin. She agreed.
Then Dick joined the line. "Done! How did everyone do?" He said. "I finished a few minutes ago" follow up by "Tt successful" and "I beat these losers and finished first".
Then a "hn" was heard by none other than B. Oracle who had been keeping silent chimed in saying "since everyone is done we just need to do a general look over of the base, look for anything important. The apartment building is filled with many weird areas and most haven't been used in forever so try to skip those ,and yes hood, since you win you get to choose the movie tonight." Her voice went from business to complete and utter defeat. (Ha utter)
"C'mon! I don't want to watch Hamilton again! I'm starting to have PTSD from it" she said shivering. "Tt, I prefer that than Highschool Musical for the upteenth time" Damian complained. "Now little wing, it's not that bad" comforted Dick with the same positivity that rivals kryptonians. "Speak for yourself" replied a robotic voice over the coms. "Cass! Not you too!" Shouted Dick. "I may not be able to speak ,but text to speech was born to be made if it means I can rebel against the horrors of his movie taste" said the same robotic voice.
Stephanie tuned them out as she looked around the floor. It was just big empty rooms or lots of crates. One after another. The same shitty walls and basic rooms. She passed room 403 but stopped. She looked at the door next to it. "Room 405" she red. "Wait. Where's room 404?" She wondered. She started to think, was it hidden? Was something important hidden there? Or is it religion based? Like no room 666? Or 444? Maybe something else?
Caught in her thoughts she failed to realize that she was being called over the coms.
Then a hand suddenly appeared in front of her. Surprised she took a hold of the hand and twisted it. Stopping when she heard the yelp from.... dick?
"Told you not to do that Dickie" said Jason. She looked around and realized everyone had appeared around her. Jason was going through some crates, Cass sitting on a large pile of crates. Damian was staring daggers at her and Bruce was brooding in the corner.
"Wait. When did you guys get here?" She asked. " Just got here, after you ghosted us for a hot minute, B got his cowels in a twist and thought you were hurt. Oracle signed off though, she apparently had to get "mentally ready for tonight" or whatever " answered Jason.
"Oh" was the only thing she said.
"Soooooo, what's got you so deep in thought?" Asked dick.
"Room 404 is missing, I've already searched the other rooms ,but I realized the room was gone" she said. "Hmm that is odd" dick replied. Then Cass suddenly hopped off her crate and started knocking on the wall in-between the two rooms. "Tt, what are you doing?" Damian said. Cass continued to knock high and low then stopped, knocked again, then punched the wall twice.
"Oookkkay, please don't hurt yourself" dick said worriedly checking her knuckles. Cass smiled at dick and then took a dagger out of her belt and cut the wall diagonally. Batman walked over and did his usual "hn" as he started to peel back the wall paper. Cass smiled softly and helped. Jason walked over and now started to explain. "Pretty sure there's a hidden door, she was checking to see if it was hollow with the knocking. If your brains are too slow". He said mockingly.
Then with a big *RRRRRIIIIPPPP* reviled an old brown door without a handle. The door looked new, without that much dust or wear like the other doors.
"Ooo, this is going to be some fun shit" said jason with a big smirk