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"The Archer?" Penguin asked as the elevator finally reached the bottom floor. "I'm not familiar with any Archers in Gotham. Though with all of the other new faces, I wouldn't be surprised to have someone new move into Gotham." he said with a slight sigh.

When the door open, the guards let Penguin out first. Then one followed behind him. The others let Edmond out next, then two more followed after him. The last exited the elevator, but took his post outside of it. From the looks of the basement, the only way in or out was the elevator.

The room was large... half of it looked as though it were for lounging, the other for keeping very expensive items, and the far back half for storage. There were several rooms lining to wall to the left. All open, all for storage.

But... there were a few rooms with metal doors. Very secured, very far out of the way. Penguin began walking towards those rooms. A few of the doors had scratches, and one was open and had a blood stain on the inside of it. A worker was inside the room, trying to clean up splattered messes on the metal and built-in soundproofing.

"Well, lets hope it stays that way." Cobblepot replied as they neared an empty room. "He may well get in over his head if he tries for anything bigger. And if the Bat returns, he may well be booted from the city if he tries so."

Penguin motioned for the guard to open the room. One of the men moved forward and unlocked the metal door next to them. He pulled the door opened and motioned for Edmond to move into the room first. The room was clean, but had a few stains that looked as though they hadn't been cleaned up yet. Soundproofed walls. No cameras. And a well secured door.

Cobblepot followed into the room after Edmond. Then followed by two guards. The third one remained outside the door and locked up after them.

"Well, I will of course need to see the diamonds you have brought. I trust that you have them, but I'll need to make sure their worth." Cobblepot replied, his eyes moving from the briefcase and back to Edmond. "I have had past deals go sour due to people trying to pass off low-quality jewels for top-quality prices."

Cobblepot walked up to the table and carefully glanced over the contents of the briefcase. Satisfied that there was nothing abnormal about it, he moved to pull out a diamond to better inspect them. Finding one, and finding that none of them appeared to be badly cracked or scratched, he drew one closer to his eyes.

"Well, they all appear to be in good shape. Once cleaned up, they should be very good quality." he said as he moved the diamond back and forth in front of him.

Oswald looked over the diamond in his hand once more, then glanced back down at the open briefcase in front of him. ”Well, they all seem to be in excellent condition. By just a glance I would say a few hundred. With some of my equipment I could give you a better estimate.”





The guard hadn't moved from his position outside the elevator in the basement. On the one hand, that was a good thing. She still had plenty of time. On the other hand, she had no idea what was going on. It was more than a safe guess that they were in one of the “break rooms”, and there was no security cameras for her to bug in those rooms.

Emily watched the small monitor on her wrist, then sighed and turned her attention back to the computer system. The suit she was currently wearing was mostly made up of the same chameleon skin that her stealth suit was covered in. What parts weren't covered were perfectly visible. That included any screens, wires, or extra equipment she had needed to bring with her. If she hadn't kept crouched down behind the desk and chair, she'd likely look like a bunch of floating wires and screens.

Luckily, this was a blind spot from the cameras in the room. Also lucky... she didn't need to actually turn the main computer back on to get into it with her equipment. She could remotely control it through her helmet and tablet. All she needed to do was go through everything to try and find what she needed. Which was... a LOT of hidden files. The information SHE wanted would be easy to find. She only needed to download any information and files that had been brought up over the last few days. The information that the COUNT wanted, she'd have to shift through or take a guess. The firsthand information that the Count had gathered was the first Emily had ever heard or seen of the organization, so she wouldn't even know where to look to find any hidden files Penguin had on it. She'd never seen anything like it brought up on the computer before. Though she supposed she knew what files wouldn't have any information, so that was a start at least.

Find files that might have it and download them all. Go through them back at her base or at the rendezvous point. She didn't have the time to try and look through all the hidden files, so she'd have to take them all with her and figure it out later. What she didn't have room for, she'd have to switch over to the spare hard drives she brought with her. She had at least three in her back pack, so she should have plenty of room.

"Really?" Cobblepot mused, looking back towards his guest. "And what sort of information would you be interested in trading the diamonds for? It wouldn't do well for me to agree to give you the information if I don't know the answers you need... or if the information is simply too expensive."

"An illusiion projecting cube?" Oswald repeated, then gently placed a finger under his lip in thought. "I can't say I know much about it. The only such technology I know of would belong to someone named Mysterio. I believe they are his own private items though." he said, then looked at the diamond in his hand. "I could find out more about it in my office if you need." he said, placing the diamond in his pocket as payment for the information."

Cobblepot looked down at the drawing and frowned thoughtfully. As Edmond explained more about the plant, the man's thoughtful frown turned into an actual frown. "I can't say I've seen anything like this before." Penguin began, the tone of his voice changing a bit. "But... a plant that sedates people by putting them in a trance... The only plant like that I know of is... not for sale." he said, then looked back at Edmond.