<div class="floatleft">(http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/11119/111195216/4557194-8073001623-18868.png)</div><hr/><strong>Name:</strong>Richard ‘Dick’ Grayson<br/><strong>Nom de Guerre:</strong>Nightwing<br/><strong>Affiliation:</strong>The Bat family<br/><strong>Time:</strong>October 17, 2015; 2020 hours | Saturday<br/><strong>Location:</strong>STAR Labs | East Gotham<br/><strong>Tagging:</strong>Oracle, Superboy, Batwoman, Spoiler.<br/><strong>Mentioned:</strong>Riddler, Two-face, Joker, Catwoman, Bane<br/><hr/><hr/><strong>Summary:</strong>Nightwing feels that this is familiar somehow, but can't place it. Internal frustration and fear of the unknown make him act more serious. Fondly Remembers an old memory of Bruce while leading Spoiler through the south entrance (Loading Dock) and investigating the area.<br/><hr/><hr/><br/>Dick was riding up to STAR labs when he heard Conner’s report about the state of the scene. All of the guards were still alive, just knocked unconscious, and only their key cards had been taken?<br/><br/>This wasn’t about sending a message, which meant that most of the Gotham City regulars were off the list of suspects. Riddler would have announced his intention hours beforehand. Two Face wouldn’t have been nearly this subtle, and some of the guards would have been killed thanks to his damned coin. Joker was long dead, but if he somehow was alive, which Dick wouldn’t put past the crazed clown, he didn’t know the meaning of the word quiet. Or Non-lethal for that matter. Catwoman could do it, but she wouldn’t let herself get noticed in the first place. And besides, she’d been quiet since even before Bruce’s death. He’d heard a report of small scale heists here and there across the country, but Dick knew that it would take a hell of a lot for Selina to come back to Gotham. Bane might have been capable of this level of stealth and subtlety, but Dick hadn’t heard anything about the masked mercenary being back in town.<br/><br/><br/>“Batwoman, you probably already came to the same conclusion, but I think we’re dealing with an out of towner. None of the Gotham regulars could ever be this quiet. And even if they could, we would have heard something from one of their henchmen. This is somebody new, someone who's not using the established Gotham Networks.” Nightwing spoke into his comm receiver, his jovial demeanor replaced by something more serious.<br/><br/><em>‘So we know next to nothing. Fantastic.’ </em>He thought to himself with a bitter taste in his mouth. The experienced crime fighter couldn’t shake the feeling of familiarity, like there was something obvious he was missing. An out of town criminal, clearly incredibly professional and skilled, coming into town for a job,that didn’t seemed to be contacted by anyone in Gotham, and they weren't relying on the Gotham underground network to hire extra hands. It was so familiar he wanted to slap himself.<br/><br/><em>‘Bruce could have figured it out, why it felt so damned familiar.’ </em>Dick’s mind spat at him, angry at himself for not being able to put the puzzle together.<br/><br/>Still, there was no time for Self-flagellation. There was a mission, and he had been given tasks; watch over Spoiler and move into the building through a different angle. Which angle though? Where might the villain have<br/><br/>“Spoiler, We’re going in through the south entrance, where the loading dock is. And we’re going in with full stealth. We wouldn’t want to spook our new playmates too soon.” Without even trying Dick found himself slipping into a strange combination of his own joking nature and Bruce’s more serious intimidating speech pattern.<br/><br/><em>‘I guess the old man rubbed off on me more than I thought’</em>He thought to himself with a small uptick at the corner of his mouth. It felt good to know that Bruce wasn’t completely gone, that some of his personality had been passed along with all the skills that he’d hammered into his young ward.<br/><br/>Dick Grayson had learned quite a good deal from his time with Batman, but stealth had been one of the foremost things that Dick had gotten drilled into him. According to Bruce, too many people, superhumans among them, were so focused on themselves that they missed the obvious things. Sleight of hand, a footstep on the floor above them, the feeling at the back of their neck trying to tell them that someone was coming up behind them..And it was a lesson Dick had taken to heart, constantly improving his skills until he could finally sneak up on Bruce himself.<br/><br/>It still put a smile on his face whenever Dick remembered that moment in the cave, when he’d burst out from his hiding place and Bruce had let out an involuntary scream of surprise that Dick suspected no one had heard since Bruce had been a young child; when he’d still had his parents. And that was to say nothing of the time that Dick had managed to sneak up behind Wally West, the fastest man alive, and managed to pick his pocket without the redhead rush ever being the wiser.<br/><br/>And while Spoiler hadn’t had nearly as much training or practice as Dick in the area, her invisibility belt and her small stature would make anyone short of Conner look over her if she was hiding. The real question for this mission would be how quiet she could be while moving and pursuing a target. Being hard to see wasn’t worth much if she sounded like a baby elephant when she walked.<br/><br/>Silent as a specter, Dick slunk into Star labs through the open loading bay, confident that Spoiler knew enough to follow behind him without question. As he made his way through the facility, it became painfully obvious that this wasn’t the way their target had come through. Everything seemed in its place, with nothing recently disturbed. And most interesting, if this was supposed to be heist, which all the signs were pointing towards, there didn’t seem to be a getaway vehicle.<br/><br/>“Batwoman, the target didn’t come through the south entrance, and there’s no vehicle waiting to pick up the cargo at the loading bay. Which means whatever they’re trying to take is gonna be small enough for them to walk out of here with.”