An Unforgiving anniversary part 7

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Dick's POV

LOCATION: Wayne Enterprises Labs

My shoulder still hurts from bursting through that ice that was trapping Black Widow and Jack Ryder,

I rub it but that was definitely going to leave a bruise in the morning.

I climb into the back of Ryders News van where he and Natasha sat in an awkward silence I wonder what is up with them

"Here" I say as I place a police blanket over the shoulders of an ice cold Black Widow even though it hardly bothered her did she have to be such a bad ass all the time

"Thanks" she says in a soft voice because her mind was obviously elsewhere.

The car park was now swarming with emergency vehicles providing medical attention and taking statements and although Wayne Enterprises new secret project was gone Victor took something else too,

Wayne enterprises financial information this consisted of all of the security information for Wayne accounts someone could do a lot of damage to the company with that information.

I turn to Natasha she might know what to do

"Victor took all of Wayne Enterprises financial information too and if somebody knew what they were doing they could critically damage Wayne Enterprises enough to carry out a hostile takeover" whoever concocted this definitely has a grudge against Wayne Industries.

Natasha's face lights up slightly as the pieces of the puzzle begin to come together

"Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't the only data input for the security data here and at Wayne Towers" Natasha says and she was right the robbery this morning that's what Scarface was after.

Natasha attempts to stand up

"Someone get me a laptop" she says much against Ryders attempts to sit her back down

"What Why?" I ask her frantically but she looked like a woman with a plan

"When I stung him I transferred a tracking device on to his suit, come on lets finish this".

The screen from the laptop sheds an eerie glow across Natasha's pale face as she types away on the laptop that the police had kindly lent us

"Found him, huh he's held up on a warehouse down town and get this the warehouse is one that is privately owned by Roland Dagget" Natasha looks at me quizzically although it was nothing conclusive Dagget held a grudge against Wayne industries and he certainly held the influence to get Scarface and Mr Freeze to do his dirty work for him

"Never the less if Dagget is behind this we need evidence that could lead to a conviction" Gordon reasons and he was right we needed to catch Dagget red-handed.

Natasha stands up and heads to the driver I cant make out what she says to him but all of a sudden the van begins to speed out of the car park, but not before Bullock jumps into the back of the van

"Hey don't leave without me!" he exclaims as he shuts the back door

"Seriously why do you keep tagging along?" I ask him as I still hadn't forgotten about our previous argument

"This is my case too Birdy Boy" I look at Gordon but he simply shrugs in response.

The journey was extremely silent Natasha and Ryder had barely said a word,

I couldn't help but feel like I've missed something but whilst things had calmed down a bit I couldn't help but think of Barbra she was away at the moment in Metropolis helping Super girl track down Poison Ivy who has been unusually quiet since she tried to kill every man in Gotham City.

But I really missed Barbra I couldn't help but think what if she met someone else I mean I know that we were not together but man I still loved her with all my heart,

I think about her all the time but would she take me back after I harshly dismissed her as Bat Girl.

We stop all of a sudden and again everyone slides to the back of the van crushing myself and Natasha, 

"We're here" the driver announces,

<Yeah no shit>

Widow Turns to the others "Stay here we'll take care of Freeze then Dagget's all yours" she tells them, they didn't seem too happy about it but nobody argues.

As we leave the van Ryder stops Widow and hands her something

"Don't worry your secrets are safe with me" he says she smiles at him gratefully, huh I wonder what that was all about.

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LOCATION: Downtown Gotham Warehouse Yard

Natasha's POV

I look at the recorder in my hand and in a moment of frustration I smash it to pieces in my strong grip,

It made me feel a bit better.

Dick looks at me I see a strange combination of fear and concern in his eyes

"Let's go" I say as if that just never happened.

I observe the area thoroughly I see a black Rolls with two men sitting in the front,

Lookouts I think to myself "I got this" Nightwing says confidently,

He swings over and lands on the roof of the car alarming the two men he pokes his head through the window

"Sorry but this is a no parking zone" he jokes and smashes their heads together

"Good work Nightwing" I tell him.

I find the security circuit box and deactivate it

"The roof?" Nightwing suggest it was the best way to approach undetected.

It was beginning to get dark now I could barely see Mr Freeze standing down in the warehouse he looked very agitated even more so when he is approached by a middle aged man in an expensive suit, Dagget

"I retrieved the information you requested a fair trade I believe" Victor passed the storage device to Dagget he looks very smug it makes me furious,

I take a throwing star out of my utility belt and I throw it at his hand.

The man screams and drops the device as the blade goes all the way through his hand.

We both jump down to the floor

"Ugh Kill them" Dagget yells at Freeze who looks very tempted to kill him instead but decides that Nightwing and myself are the bigger threat,

We split up so Freeze can't decide who he's going to attack first.

Out of the corner of my eye I can see Dagget on the floor searching for the device he dropped but I'll deal with him later,

I take a stun grenade out of my utility belt and throw it at Victors feet,

He is too slow to react and the impact sends him flying into a heap of crates,

Nightwing rushes to collect the freeze gun that Victor dropped

"Take it out of the equation" I yell to Nightwing he nods and begins smashing it to pieces

"No!" Freeze cries as his main weapon is destroyed but even then he was still more than a match,

He lifts one of the crates above his head and with all of his strength lunges it in my direction but I dodge the attack.

As I look at the ceiling I see some sort of contraption for moving heavy cargo it gave me an idea,

I look at Nightwing and motion upwards, he sighs as he realises it's his turn to play distraction again.

Nightwing begins to proceed with the taunting

"Hey Freeze you wanna build a snowman?" Nightwing narrowly dodges an incoming concrete block

"Jeez maybe you should just let it go" he proceeds with the Frozen puns as I reach the controls of the crane device,

I grab the controls and use the crane to pick up what looks like some very heavy cargo and hoist it into the air.

Nightwing following my plan lures him under and I hit the release button and suddenly the crates plummet onto a terrified looking Mr Freeze.

After the dust settles I head over to see an unconscious but alive Victor

"Guys we've got a mess in here for you to clean up" I say into my radio as I pick up the plans for the weather device that victor stole

I should return this to Wayne Enterprises then I remember

I turn around to take care of Dagget but he's gone and so is the Wayne Financial information.

We run outside when we are nearly run over by that black Rolls, but before Dagget can try again a yellow figure jumps on the roof and pulls Dagget out of the car just before it can crash into a brick wall.

Dammit Ryder!

We rush over to help but Dagget is out for the count,

The Creeper recovers the storage device and holds it out to me

"Happy Birthday" he jokes as I take it

"Thanks" I tell him although I'm still annoyed he allowed himself to lose control so I crush the storage device in my hand.

As Gordon and Bullock approach the Creeper runs off into the night

"Hey where did that reporter go?" Bullock asks,

Nightwing and I smile at each other "Oh he's fine" I reassure.

Today has been a rough day I turn to Nightwing as they drag off Freeze and Dagget

"Ugh lets go home" I suggest

"Heh good idea".

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Hello thank you so much for reading this far I thought you should know that the next chapter will be the last one in this book BUT THERE WILL BE A SECOND!!!

 I will post a teaser chapter for book 2 soon in the end of this book I'm really excited for it will bring in a new storyline and a bundle of new characters!!!!!!!! 

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