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Chapter 12 - Janus Cosmestics

[23 April 2004]

*Tell me again why are we following a Janus Cosmetics Company truck?... Didn't that company go bankrupt a few years back?...* Glitch asks Robin who is running on the rooftops following behind a truck. "Many people don't know this but Sionis used to own Janus Cosmetics before he turned Crime Boss," Robin vaults over a chimney, side flips, and jumps over to the next building. *Huh...Doesn't seem the type to own such a company...What happened?*

"Without adequate and proper testing, he rushed out a highly unsafe brand of waterproof makeup...The results were disastrous and the lawsuits ruined him." Robin stops on top of a roof and watches the truck enter a warehouse. *I'm guessing he probably threatened someone else into taking the fall and moved to Brooklyn to start a steel manufacturing company as a front*

"Sionis Industries...Talk to you later Glitch," Robin grapple hooks onto a street lamp and swings over the walls of the property. He sneaks his way around and enters the warehouse. He moves on the ceiling-hung catwalk and watches as three men unload a medium-sized white metal canister. Robin jumps off the catwalk kicking one of the men in the back of the head sending him flying into the side of the truck unconscious. He leg sweeps another and kicks him in the face knocking him out. He dodges a punch from the last guy and judo flips him and knocks him out with a kick to the face.

He makes his way to the white canister and opens it, seeing chemicals inside. He takes a sample and then closes the lid, sprays an explosive gel on the canister, and then moves the knocked-out thugs away from the blast zone and ties them up. Standing a safe distance away he detonates the explosive gel and watches as the canisters explode releasing a small green smoke that quickly dissipates in the air.

"Glitch, I'm uploading a chemical sample. I need you to run a scan of the city. Look for high concentrations of the compound. Find the source and I can shut it down." Robin says as he leaves the warehouse. *On it...I'll let you know if I find something*. Robin uses the same street lamp to grapple his out of the property.

--Line Break--

Robin swings through the air with his grappling hook and lands on a rooftop of a building overlooking a courtyard. He observes five men in masks talking amounts each other in front of a storage shed that has an electronic code lock on it. *One of the five canisters should be in that shed* Glitch informs. Robin jumps off the roof slamming one of the men out cold.

While the others are stunned, Robin spinning heel kicks another man in the jaw unconscious. He backflips into a handstand kicking another man in the jaw and also knocking him out, He flips over one of the two last men swinging at him with a bat and kicks him in the back sending him to the ground. He parries a punch from the other guy grabs onto his forearms, pulls him forwards, and headbutts him, then slams him to the ground and kicks him in the face knocking him out.

The bat-wielding guy stands up and screams in rage swinging wildly at Robin, he swerves out of the way of two swings, and jabs the guy in the face dazing him, Robin goes on the offense and hits him with a flurry of punches two to each side of his ribs, one to the sternum and then headbutts him unconscious. Robin quickly ties up the men and then makes his way to the shed, which he easily hacks open and enters. Robin finds the canister which has 'Janus Comestics' written on it and sprays it with explosive gel. He walks out closes the shed and detonates the explosive gel and hears it explode inside the shed.

*Got a hit of another canister under the Brooklyn Bridge* Glitch informs Robin. "On my way," Robin says and starts making his way to the bridge.

--Line Break--

Robin dives down the side of the Brooklyn Bridge and spots a hidden walkway and six masked men keeping watch over the canister three of them appear to have automatic rifles. He shoots his grappling hook above and swings into the walk way and kicks the one closer to the edge and sends him flying into a bunch of crates. He disarms one and knees him in the face and then elbows him outcold.

He dodges a hail of bullets by jumping in the air and throwing shock disks at the remaining electrocuting them unconscious. He ties them up and walks over to the canister and sprays the explosive gel on it. He throws a few sticky disk to contain the blast of the canister and detonates it safely. *Next one should be in a unused sewage pipe*

--Line Break--

Robin swings between buildings with his grappling hook making his to the sewage pipe. He spots two masked men standing by a large sewage pipe. He swings in kicking one into the wall unconscious and roundhouse kicks and choke slams the other knocking him out. He makes his way into the large Sewage pipe and sees the canister, he sprays the explosive gel on it and walks out before exploding it.

*Sending you coordinates to the second last canister*.