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Chapter 13 - Unmasked

Robin lands at the coordinates of the second last canister and spots five masked men. He lunges and kicks one across the jaw knocking him out. He flips over a wildly thrown punch pushing him to the ground and tosses a capture disk at him. He leans back dodging a knife, disarms, and knocks him out with a knee to the stomach and elbow to the face. He throws sticky disks at the last two men incapacitating them.

He walks over to the canister sprays it with explosive gel and walks away exploding it. *Almost done...The last one is by an alleyway behind an Apartment complex.*

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Robin lands on the apartment complex's roof and looks down the alleyway, seeing four masked men guarding the last canister. *Robin I think you should hear this* Glitch says and starts playing a call he intercepted. *Somethings wrong. The other guys should have been there by now. If I find out those rat snake fuckers defected over to that weasel fuck Cobbelpot..* Black Mask growls in anger. *It's probably just the network, Boss. The thing's been up and down all night.* A henchman says placatingly. *You see anything funny, anything at all, you let me know. Immediately* Black Masks commands. *Sure thing. Will do* The henchmen says. *And I want you back with the others as soon as that canister's been picked up. No screwing around.* Black Mask threatens and ends the call.

*Looks like Black Mask knows some things up.* Glitch says. "Unfortunately for him, his too late," Robin says cutting comms. He jumps down slamming the henchman that was calling Black Mask into the ground unconscious. He dodges under a bat swing and grabs the man by the leg and throws him at another man. He blocks a kick from another guy and counters with a palm strike to the throat and a karate chop to the back of the neck knocking him out. He throws a sticky disk at the two guys trying to get back up gluing them to the ground. He ties the other three up and goes to spray the explosive gel on the canister and then explode it.

He grapple hooks back up to the Apartment complex. *I just got a read of one more canister over by the abandoned church*. Glitch says. "Got it,"

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Robin lands on the roof of the church and uses a window to sneak inside. He silently lands on a scaffolding with a masked man standing beneath him. Robin swings off the scaffolding hooks his legs around the man's neck and chokes him unconscious. He drops down and sneaks down a hallway and finds another man standing by what seems to be a command center with a bunch of monitors and computers. He grabs the man from behind and chokes him out.

He moves on and finds another standing by a wall looking at the magazine of his gun. Robin kicks him on the back of the knees and grabs his head slamming it hard into the wall and knocking him out. He moves on and sees two remaining men standing in the middle of the church chatting with each other oblivious of their fallen friends. He runs and kicks one by the back of the head and simultaneously grabs the other and slams his head to the ground and knocking them both out.

He ties up the men and starts looking for the last canister, he finds it locked in a cage with an electronic lock which he easily hacks and gets to work spraying the explosive gel. He moves away and detonates it exploding the last and final canister. He hears the front entrance of the church open and Black Mask enters with his four goons behind him. "I was hoping you'd show up. Saves me the trouble to having to hunt you down," Black Mask sneers holding a shotgun in his hands. "You just don't know when to quit, Sionis." Robin says coldly. "Guess we've got that in common," Black Masks frowns at him.

"One way or another, I'm taking you in. Now we can do this easy way, or the-," Black Mask cuts Robin off saying flippantly, "Yeah yeah, or the hard way. But I think you know my choice," Black Mask sneers raising his shotgun to fire only to have it knocked out of his hands by a Birdarang thrown by Robin. Robin runs at his goons while Black Mask is busy tending to his hand. Robin quickly and efficiently knocks out Black Mask men. Robin jumps over Black Mask dodging the shotgun blast. He lands behind him and roundhouse kicks and then knees him in the face knocking off his mask. He grabs him and tosses him at the table of the makeshift command center.

He walks over as Black Mask slumps to the ground groaning in pain. He ties him up and steps back saying to Glitch, "Glitch, let NYPD know that Roman Sionis aka Black Mask has been apprehended. They can pick him up at the church,". *Already on it*. Roman Sionis groans in pain not lifting his head and grunts out, "You know what's so good about you Robin? Even when I lose, I win. So go ahead, call the cops. They'll lock me up, sure. But my lawyer will have me out,". Sionis looks up at Robin and glares hatefully, "And you know what I'm gonna do when I get out? I'm going to dedicate every waking minute to tracking you down and taking you out," Sionis chuckles to himself and then smirks, "And the best part is, there's not a damn thing you can do about it. Because that justice system you love so much? It's a SCAM. And you? Well, you're the mark." Sionis laughs at Robin and then says, "Because you keep tossing us in and we keep bouncing right. Back. Out." He finishes with a smirk.

Robin looks at him impassively and then kicks him in the face knocking him out. He turns around to leave but stops and says, "Then I'll make sure the next time you get out...You regret it," He grapple hooks to the window he entered through, exits the church, and sees NYPD cruisers pull up to the church. *We finally got Sioni's ass behind bars. That's a win for the heroes.* Glitch cheers through the comms link. "Yeah that's a win for us," Robin smirks and disappears into the night.