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"Robin watch your 6." This fight went on for too damn long. Joker made enough venom to cover the east coast completely. That combined with Ivy deciding now was a good time for terrorism in the form of gigantic venus flytraps. So yes Bruce was pissed off at literally everything that moved. He and Robin were currently pinned down trying to hold off 20 armed men from getting close to the explosives on one of the venom tanks that they hadn't been able to reach in time. "B let's just be glad these guys didn't think to hook up a remote detonator -oof- on those tanks of gas. It could be worse than this, besides these guys are noobs. We've got this." Or well they did before he opened his mouth and said it. One of the last 5 thugs still standing managed a lucky shot on a loose fire extinguisher (why are those always laying around in abandoned warehouses anyway) and suddenly there was a lot less 'getting this' and a lot more smoke in the room. "Robin handle the bomb now, I'll take whoever is still standing while they're blind," Batman was surprisingly calm despite the thirty minute fire fight. Four men in bulletproof vests and one with a shotgun. Shotgun first, if he's got slugs we're in for trouble so best to neutralize fast. Prep smoke pellets to keep a smokescreen for longer to handle the other four gunmen. It was a quick fight, grab the shotgunner from behind knee to the head and he's out cold. Take out two more and deploy smoke, knock out the gunner nearest to Robin and tackle the last goon to the floor. Except for the plants bursting through the floor, that wasn't part of the plan. "Uh hey Batman, I think Joker made her mad somehow, we gotta make like bananas and split." At least one of us has the energy to joke around. "Get to the batmobile I'll sweep for anymore explosives Joker may have hidden in the building. We regroup with the commisioner at the gardens on Miagani Island as soon as we're clear. Understood?" "Got it Batman," Robin had to yell out since he was already headed for the exit.
Full building sweep later he had found three more charges they missed before. Two disarmed with one part way done. Fourty-five seconds left on the clock Batsy~, will you make it out in time? Oh I hope you will, I have so much fun planned for tonight. Well time for me to go, we'll talk later Batman, Joker out. Thirty seconds left and only one step to disarming the final bomb. Simple design really, Joker's been using it for months during his impromptu attempts to blow Gotham and her protector sky high. That should've been his first clue, but in the chaos of plants and poison Bruce overlooked one tiny detail in the bomb's design. There was another wire leading to the detonator that he missed. It wasn't there for the other ten or so bombs he and Robin disarmed tonight. Boom. That tiny wire combined with his running on four hours of sleep these past weeks is what caused this mess. The blast leveled half the warehouse, but just missed the main mixing chamber for the venom. Good thing Bruce doesn't go down easy. His cowl is a different story though. "Robin I'm going to need my spare mask in the car brought to me, my cowl's compromised."