Oswald followed her gaze downstairs and saw several figures rising from their seats in the shadowed section of the audience.
They wore dark formalwear, blending in with the crowd, their faces covered by black owl masks. One of them was raising a machine gun, aiming straight at the second-floor box.
Before Oswald could scream, Talia swung her elbow across him, knocking him flat onto the floor of the box.
Dropping to one knee, she raised her rifle with both hands, aimed down at the assassins in the audience, and pulled the trigger.
The bullet passed through a gap in the railing and struck the gunman's wrist with pinpoint accuracy.
The audience fled amid panicked cries.
At the same time, the guards who had been lying in wait behind the box emerged together, their rows of dark muzzles tracking the Talon Assassins moving across the ceiling as they unleashed heavy suppressing fire.
In a dark corner of the stage, a black figure stepped out from the shadows of the curtain.
Wearing his Bat Suit, Bruce hurled a Batarang at a Talon Assassin clinging to the wall.
Through the infrared monitor beneath his bat-shaped eye mask, he saw Ririko dragging Oswald toward the narrow door at the side of the box that led to the stairs.
Several guards formed a moving protective ring around them, covering their retreat down the staircase.
Ririko and Oswald crossed the second-floor corridor and raced down the emergency stairs to the parking garage on the lowest level.
Before they could reach their car in the empty underground garage, a Talon Assassin dropped from above and landed on the hood in front of them.
The toe of the Talon's boot shattered the windshield.
The guards quickly stepped forward and opened fire, their bullets striking the Talon's combat suit