Issue #3: My Doom was a Teenage Girl

[boostedfailure]

[phone]

"You know, threatening to kill someone who's already dead if I don't go out and shoot a nun or a little girl in the head is pretty sick.  We're talking worse than Max Lord level sick, this may be Darkseid level sick.  Yeah, I'm going to go with that.  So you know what, count me out.  That being said if someone's coming for me, I say if you'

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[biophases]

Oh, you're alright! I've been worried, with everything going on.

[boostedfailure]

"Hey, you're talking to a guy who was on a team with your uncle and went toe to toe against Doomsday. Don't worry about me. Worry about the powerless young gir....."

[He face palms then looks at Meg]

"You... Don't have any powers, do you?"

[biophases]

Not here, no. But whether I do or not has nothing to do with whether I can worry about you or not! ...I mean, I don't mean to say you can't take care of yourself. But I wanted to be sure.

[boostedfailure]

"No, that's not it. I mean there are some real psychopaths out there and I never HAD any powers. Ok there was a suit... And Skeets... But that doesn't matter. How many other people from your team that aren't Robin are around here?"

phone

[brbgoing2russia]

Be careful. There are a lot of people screwed up enough to do it.

[boostedfailure]

"Yeah, I kind of know. But I'm not doing something stupid like this. Do you have somewhere safe to go?"

[brbgoing2russia]

I'm fine where I'm at. Gotta look after the rest of my fakey-fake family here.

[boostedfailure]

"Well if things get out of control you know to call me, right?"

Phone

[bitemescumbag]

...I have no idea what you're talking about.

How bad is Darkside-level sick? We talking "kicks puppies" bad or "eats babies" bad on the stupidly-evil radar?

[boostedfailure]

"Forces babies to eat each other so he doesn't feed them their puppies. Or like, the guys who made new coke."

[bitemescumbag]

I dunno what new coke is. Or old coke. That first bit though? Yeah, that sounds pretty crappy.

[boostedfailure]

"If you were to make a douchenozzle scale of one to ten.. He's at least a twelve."

[Action] Around town

[flameyedhunter]

[A little girl is following you, Booster. Amazed someone is out in the daylight.]

You're pretty damn brave, aren't you?

[boostedfailure]

"Why is it that when EVER someone says that, they mean stupid? You should get somewhere safe, they're sending sociopaths after school girls it seems. I'm just out here to prevent what havoc I can."

[flameyedhunter]

Sometimes they send schoolgirls after sociopaths too, you know.

[She sighs.] I'm not sure how much you'll be able to prevent. People here are... pretty psychopathic. Me? I'm ruthless, I'll be honest there. But this is beyond the pale, and is upsetting reality.

[Quietly.]

And I have friends here.

[boostedfailure]

"Yeah, that's not fair either... But what's worse is I get the feeling that the town is just dicking with us any ways to turn us against each other."

"Look, do you need someone to help you get to your friends?"

[genkibot]

[During one the times Michael is walking through town, he might get the feeling of something large wheeling up behind him on the sidewalk, stopping just behind him, followed by a rather childish sounding voice.]

Um, excuse me, do you mind if I pass by you? I can't use the road in town because the drones keep shooing me off it like I'm a dog...

[Yes, Tachikoma is out around town trying to see what it can see. At least what the drones will let it see. At least no one has called the dog catcher on it. Yet.]

[boostedfailure]

"Er... Sure... Whatev...."

[He turns around and blinks]

"Wow.. You're a big killbot thing. Max didn't send you, did he?"

[genkibot]

[Tachikoma leans back in surprise at 'killbot,' but quickly recovers and crosses its arms as it begins to lecture.]

How rude! I'm not a killbot, I'm a Tachikoma! Tachikomas are support think tanks for Public Security Section 9 and we don't kill unless it's absolutely necessary or in defense. And even then, with the vast majority of our targets having undergone some form of cyborgization, dispatching them through means that would seem fatal to natural humans won't actually be fatal as long as the brain case is intact!

[Tachikoma gives a nod as if to say 'there' as it finishes and seems to relax.]

But no, I wasn't sent by anybody at all, I was just looking around town again. Who's Max? Is he a friend of yours?

[boostedfailure]

"Uh Max... No. He just liked using killbots. Looking around town, man, I wish Skeets were here, you two'd probably get off like gangbusters."