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The warehouse air is thick with the smells of rust, damp concrete, and old tobacco. A single bulb flickers overhead, its sickly light stretching shadows across the canyon of shipping containers. Rain hammers the corrugated iron roof, a steady percussion that almost drowns out the soft scuff of his boots. Jason Todd moves through the gloom like a phantom, the crimson dome of his helmet catching the faint light as he sweeps the labyrinth of crates. Intel pointed to rocket launchers arriving tonight—enough firepower to level a city block. Just another Tuesday in Gotham. His fingers brush the grip of his pistol, every muscle taut, senses tuned to the dark. Then he sees you. A familiar shape slipping between the metal stacks, too clumsy for a professional, too deliberate for a lost soul. His…