When You're Given a Little Robin

Chapter 12: Hunting My Family's Killer Part 3

As dusk started to fall upon Gotham Harbor, Dick sat exhausted from his search. For hours he snuck through every building, shack, ship, and tent but unfortunately found nothing that helped him find Tony Zucco. So he took a short break to catch his breath, but also because he felt discouraged. Despite all his training and skills he was unable to find the man who literally destroyed his family, making the poor little boy feel like a disappointment and a failure to his beloved deceased parents and his daddy who'd put so much effort into his training.

However after a while of sitting, Dick heard voices coming closer to where he was causing the boy to panic and hide in a roll of thick long rope. Seconds after he did so a group of men in black fedoras and trench coats walked by and up to a metal warehouse door. Curious and having a hunch as to who these men were Dick sneakily and stealthily made his way from the spot he was in to one where he had a closer and better look at the men. There he waited patiently till one of the men came up to the door and did a special little knock. Almost immediately the door cracked open slightly for a deep voice to speak up.

"Identify yourself bub." The deep voice borderline demanded.

"I'd be careful with the people you use that time with bozo, you never know who they might be." The front man said as he raised his head and fully exposed his face.

Immediately the deep voice gasped and responded in a very nervous and intimidated fashion.

"Tony Zucco sir! I'm sorry I didn't recognize you, come on in we're waiting for you Mr. Zucco!"

At the mention of the name Dick's blood began to boil and his ears rang with the sounds of rage and grief. There he was the man who killed his family and made him an orphan to begin with. Dick watched carefully as Tony Zucco and all his goons walked into the warehouse and disappeared. But before the last henchman went through the door Dick sneakily threw a tiny bird-a-rang with a tracker on it at him, which immediately attached to his long trench coat. Knowing this was his moment at last Dick got out his suit and found a place to change, then headed off to make his family's killer pay for his crimes.

In the Ventilation System

Knowing no other way to sneakily get into the warehouse Dick decided to go through the vents. He was very small so it was easy to fit through them but they were very dusty and cold making him shiver and quietly sneeze. Nonetheless he persevered and  followed the tracking device to where it led. This went on for about an hour until at last it went still, in which almost immediately Dick heard voices. He looked forward and saw a light where the sound was coming from. Crawling ever so quietly Dick eventually found himself above a vent opening and looking down upon a meeting of the mobsters.

As Dick looked down from up above he watched as Zucco made his way into a plush leather chair on a raised platform. Immediately he noticed how all the men in the room had an intense look of fear in their eyes, all looking afraid to even breathe. For what seemed like hours there was a moment of silence as Tony Zucco lightly twirled a knife in his hands, till he at last spoke up.

"So, I hear that some of you have been complaining about me to the boss." Zucco said with an accusatory tone.

It was then two of the other mobsters, with large bruises on their necks, froze up.

"Would anyone like to fess up to that!" Zucco yelled as he then threw the knife he was twirling into the group of men.

All of them quickly dodged, causing the knife to hit the wall behind them with a loud thud. This was nothing new as Tony Zucco was prone to erratic actions such as this. So wanting to spare their fellow brothers the two mobsters that had tried to tell the boss the other night if their concerns stepped forward.