[SP] IC Contact

[kingofrooks]

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voicemail;

[proxysearch]

I need to talk to you. It's not overly important, but... Just give me a call back.

[call]

[kingofrooks]

[ Calling baaaack. ]

[call]

[proxysearch]

[And she's picking up.]

Hello?

[call]

[kingofrooks]

Hey, Re-l.

What do you need?

[call]

[proxysearch]

I want to learn how to fight.

[call]

[kingofrooks]

[ Long pause. ]

... Clarify.

[call]

[proxysearch]

They only teach self-defense at the Academy, and not enough to get by. We know preventive measures for ourselves but not how we can help others.

I want to learn how to fight, Bruce. I want to be able to protect people. I was taught to use a gun back home because we never had to fight people. I won't take lives here. I need to know how I can fight back and how I can put people down without hurting them too much, without killing them, and without endangering others.

[call]

[kingofrooks]

[ A quiet hum. There's no background noise - there's automatic noise cancellation so people won't find him. ]

Alright.

But I need a full demonstration of your powers, first. There's no use teaching you techniques that supersedes or undercuts what powers you have.

[call]

[proxysearch]

[There's hesitation at first, mostly out of uncertainty. She's never divulged everything to anyone, not even Daedalus.]

...All right.

[call]

[kingofrooks]

Pick a time.

[call]

[proxysearch]

Night. I'll show you then.

[call]

[kingofrooks]

After Darkness, meet me outside Sector Zero.

I'll pick you up.

[call]

[proxysearch]

All right. I'll see you then.

[action]

[kingofrooks]

[ It's nearly 9pm when he reaches Sector Zero. He's on his motorbike, a leather jacket and jeans hiding his identity better than the helmet over his head.

He draws up next to her and motion to her to get on. ]

[action]

[proxysearch]

[A little anxious but ready to begin, she's outside and waiting for him, wearing jeans and a tank-top, her hair down.

She spots him and goes over, climbing onto the back of the bike and putting an arm around his waist.]

[action]

[kingofrooks]

[ It doesn't take very long, but the Darkness-tinged wind had enough time to entirely mess up her hair, at the very least. Bruce brings her to one of the bigger safehouses, at the edge of Sector ten. The door is large, large enough for him to drive the bike inside, the door slamming close behind him.

It's the same safehouse that he had- fought with Clark before. So it's still messy, half-broken down. That's the point.

Bruce switches off the engine and tugs off the helmet. He's not wearing the cowl, but the eyes that look on Re-l are entirely Batman's. ]

Show me.

[ So is the voice. ]