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As Bastion patrolled through the city of Gotham, sticking to back alleys and shadows, he began to notice something odd. Granted, most of Gotham could be considered "odd" but this still caught his eye. Every manhole cover he passed, every entrance to the sewers, were guarded by men. Sometimes just one guy with a concealed gun, sometimes three with their sub machine guns on full display. Finally, Bastion came to a stop behind a parked car, and observed three men, no noticeable weapons on them, patrol around a manhole.

"Why do we even have to keep going around this stupid thing? What does the boss thinks gonna come out?" one of the men asked his partners. "Look, I don't give the orders, I just follow 'em. Boss told me to watch any sewer entrances for signs of the Bat. That's what I'm doing," another man replied. Mention of Batman peaked Bastion's interest. If the mob were looking for Batman, and they found him first that might end very poorly. 

And so, faced with going home or going down into the sewers to maybe find the Batman, he made the obvious choice. The thugs didn't put up much of a fight. He sighed, kneeling down he struggled to lift up the manhole cover, finally grunting and shoving it off. [i][color=deepskyblue]Damn it that thing is heavy[/color][/i] he thought. Luckily this was a sleazier part of town, where infrastructure wasn't exactly a top priority. Anywhere else and that cover might have been welded down to keep people like him out of the sewers. 

Now that the cover was off, nothing was stopping Bastion from dropping down to the depths of Gotham. Looking down the hole he cringed at the smell of the sewers, but shook his head. This was real hero work he was doing here. He wasn't going to be shooed away by a smell. He began climbing down the ladder and reached the bottom, stepping down into sewer water. He felt around his utility belt for a small flashlight that he kept. He grabbed it and flicked it on, illuminating his path in front of him as he made his way forward, looking for any clue as to where Gotham's mysterious defender was.