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Chapter 5 - HIRED HELP

Later that night, Dick is at his hideout, working out. He does a hundred handstand pushups before he gets a call. He flips to his feet and look towards his screen. Dick not only sees where Henry Sanders is, but that the tracker he put on William Drake is heading that way.

At a wearhouse near the docks, Henry is sitting at his desk, surrounded by two security guards. Nightwing climbs through the window near the roof and watches on as someone else walks in. Black mask comes in with multiple guards by his side. Henry and Black mask shake hands and start a conversation while Dick listens in with his ear piece.

"What's going on, Mask. How was Gotham?"

"Let's just say I remembered why I left. I heard about the body that was found in the water. Mind telling me what the hell you were thinking?"

"...Look one of my employees got wise of our little "arrangement". He was gonna go to the cops, I got to him before he could."

Black mask smirks at Henry.

"I have a lot invested in your docks, Henry. It's how I move drugs into Bludhaven and because of that, I allow you to keep half of the profit...Don't screw it up by getting caught."

And with that warning, Black mask and his men leave the wearhouse. Dick thinks to himself that he wishes he could take down Mask right then and there but this is the best he can do for now.

A few minutes pass and the lights turn off.

"What's going on?" Henry asks."

When the lights turn back on, Henry is shocked to see his men unconscious on the ground. He is then chopped in the back of the neck, and knocked out cold.

Henry wakes up hanging upside down, infront of Nightwing.

"I was wondering when you were gonna wake up. I was worried I hit you too hard."

"What the hell is this?!"

"This is an interegation, Henry. You should be lucky I'm not holding you upside down off a building, I know a lot of people who do that."

As Henry tries to squirm free, he stares at Nightwing, realizing who he is.

"You're him, you're the new vigilante in Bludhaven. You're causing a lot of problems for my business partner."

"Oh I know. I'm sure that if you get put away, it'll severely inconvenience him and his operation, And I gotta tell ya, I love that idea."

A kunai is then thrown, cutting Dicks arm. Multiple blades are then thrown, but he quickly backflips, dodging them all.

Cheshire, a deadly assassin drops down infront of Dick and Henry.

"Hello, boy wonder. Long time no see."

"Cheshire. Sanders hired you for protection?"

"Girls got to eat. Well, I would love to stay and chat, but we gotta run."

She throws a smoke bomb down, but Nightwing quickly throws a wingding into the smoke. As the smoke clears, he sees the wingding lodged into a pole, Henry and Cheshire gone.

"Damn." Dick says to himself.

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