<div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Arms and Espionage</strong></span></span></div><div align="center"><strong>25th October 2017 - 3:00 AM </strong></div><div align="center"><strong>The Arizona Desert</strong></div><div align="center"><strong>Tagging:</strong> Batman and Zatan</div><br/><div align="center">(http://ak7.picdn.net/shutterstock/videos/4659407/thumb/1.jpg)(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vk2ir6UMOjY/TGqDPJtyZRI/AAAAAAAACLg/XjZEK1jWbac/s640/military+academy+in+kuwait+3.jpg)</div><br/>Batman and Zatan had been out investigating the background of the Metropolis terror attack for three days now. Days were for information assessment, planning entry points, reviewing gathered evidence and checking names off the list. Everything from paramilitary groups to arms manufacturers and traders. J'onn's now working communication system and highly efficient teleporters let the pair work out of anywhere in America all day before being transported thousands of miles in a second when night fell. Even when working fast there were a great deal of suspicious people in the world and it was difficult to see which shady operation was the right one. Even then finding enough evidence and not being caught was a huge challenge even for superhumans. So far everything had mostly come up blank. Well, there was a good deal of illegal activity, but not the illegal activity they were after. And the other things would just have to wait for now. The past ten hours had been spent attempting to make sense of a particularly strange factory in Arizona.<br/><br/>The place seemed to be building conventional firearms and other small-scale military equipment. Things like guns, explosives and vehicles. It was unusual in itself to be responsible for construction on all these things, particularly in a single facility. The business was also very distinctly absent from many Government registries. On reaching the nearby outcrop to look down on it it became immediately clear whatever was happening here was a far cry from the place's labels. For one thing it looked to be ten times the size the blueprints listed, and have absolutely no correlation. For another all satellite images had been distorted. From initial surveillance none of the buildings carried any form of signs or evidence as to who owned them. The business itself was registered as 'American AAE' but gave no evidence as to what the acronym meant. The thing that'd clued the two investigators onto the operation was a recent payment of over $100,000,000 from an anonymous source. On further inspection the money had been passed through so many business and personal bank accounts across the world that nobody could possibly work out who's it was or why it was given to them. But it coincided well enough with the Metropolis attacks, being a few weeks prior.<br/><br/>The goal was simply information gathering. The more the better, and there was a vast wealth of it to be obtained. What was happening in this place was anyone's guess but it was definitely the most suspect location yet. There was a large perimeter fence surrounding the warehouses and other buildings, which was topped with barbed wire, flooded with armed guards and every thirty yards or so there was a watchtower with search lights and cameras everywhere. Beyond that it looked like there was one huge building nearby with a large open entry point, transport vehicles and men were bustling in and out of it despite the time of night it was incredibly busy. Many of the men on site looked to be military personnel and almost everyone was armed and wearing body armour. Whoever did own this place was incredibly serious about protecting their factory. Beyond that there appeared to be several more smaller warehouses on the right, and then behind those a set of smaller buildings likely offices or R&D departments. Moving to the left there was what appeared to be a furnace or power generator of some description with several smoke stacks, but it was hard to tell with such misleading blueprints and from such a distance.<br/>