MASK OR MENACE IC INBOX

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WALLY WEST
"You've reached the personal voice mail of the Wall-man. The honor is yours! Leave your deets, I'll holla back atcha."
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KID FLASH
"This is the contact for Kid Flash. If it's an emergency, call Robin; he'll know where I am. Otherwise, leave your info and I'll get you back ASAP."
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[Wally points.] I also want to do that. But I also want to watch him. I don't trust him dude, even if he hasn't done anything here.

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That's... probably smart. Let me know if you need anything. A second pair of eyes, anything like that. He doesn't know who I am, right?

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I haven't said anything about you. And far as I know, there's no Batman where this Barry's from, so probably no you either. It might be good, if you could go on the days I can't. Or at least on some of them, but we kind of have the same schedules so I dunno how that'd work.

[performance]

Hey, you know I'm good at shifting things around for official business.

[ Dick moves to sit on the desk, legs dangling over the side, swinging slowly. It's weird, thinking of a universe without him or Wally (or at least a universe where they never met). Without a Batman; just a Flash. How different would things be? ]

I'll make it work. Maybe we could even go on the same day a few times, just so it doesn't look too suspicious, like I'm covering for you. If he's a crazy genius type, he might notice.

[runningstart]

He probably will. He already knows I'm attending. [Wally drums his fingers atop the table.] Can you do your super stealth thing in broad daylight, or do you need shadows and stuff?

[performance]

It's a lot easier at night, but I've pulled it off during the day before. Never with a whole class of people, but... it might be fun to try.

[runningstart]

Fun- Okay Rob I know how this sounds coming from me but this is serious. Thawne isn't someone to screw around with.

[performance]

Dude, I don't mean—

[ He frowns, huffing through his nose. ]

I can have fun while I take things seriously. Remember? That thing we have in common? I like what I do, and I like testing myself with the hard stuff. That doesn't mean I think it's a joke.

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Nothing about Thawne is fun to me, dude. If there's one thing that scares me more than what's waiting back home, it's the idea if Wells getting fed up with playing house and going after someone because he thinks it'd get to Barry.

[performance]

[ He so rarely sees Wally like this. It's strange... all the times he'd asked for him to take missions more seriously, and now Robin's on the other end of it. But if Wally's this serious about it, he can try to see where he's coming from.

He lifts a hand, rubbing the back of his neck. ]

... I'm too far removed, anyway. Unless you think he'd use me to get to you, and then you to get to Barry.

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I dunno what he'd do. He probably thinks I'm amusing, which is why he's putting up with me, if I had to guess. I dunno what he'd think of you if he thought you were snooping around.

[Wally runs a hand through his hair.] Uncle B came after me seriously once. Just to show me what it would be like, just in case Thawne ever showed up again- Cause he's technically still at large back home, right?

You don't even know, man. You don't know what it's like, having someone that fast come after you. Your neurons wouldn't even get a chance to fire before he'd be on you, and you'd never get away unless he let you.

[performance]

[ It sends a chill up the back of Robin's neck, the fine hairs there standing on end. What must it be like to deal with something like that? ]

I'll follow your lead on this. But you have my back. Whatever you need. [ A small tilt of his head, his brow furrowing. ] There's no way to prepare? Nothing you and I could do?

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So... weird question.

text, backdated, just because

[performance]

So I have a date!
I think she's like 18 though, and she miiight only be using me to get free cheese.

[runningstart]

[Wally droops, a little relieved. Okay.] Dude, I don't know. If he's like the Thawne from home? Not much. A gravity field would probably contain him for a while, but I have no idea where we'd even begin getting the tech to put something like that together. Or the expertise; I've got no idea.

[performance]

Then I think we should start looking into it. Or... looking into someone who can, anyway. Hope we never have to use it, but be prepared in case we do.

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ive been preparing for this my entire life

lay it on me

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DAMN son GET it

who is it

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Yeah...yeah, probably.

Look uhhh, speaking of looking into stuff, I wanted to ask you something. Tadashi- the place he was doing Porter research before I got on board kind of. Burned to the ground.

And considering it's prrrobably not gonna be legal to actually build one of these things, I was wondering if we could. Y'know. Start building it here.

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[performance]

Sasha Blouse.
Do you know her?

She's from the same weird world Annie and the others were, so she's really into trying new things here.
We're gonna get French food!

[performance]

[ And, logical or not, there's that stupid little flare of jealousy again. ]

Wait wait wait, he was building one?

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[runningstart]

uhhh maybe her face dunno her name

but if shes from annies world be careful about what u feed her cause a lot of stuff made annie get sick

[runningstart]

That's the end game, far as I know. A real, working Porter. I figure here it'd be off the city power grid, we already have security. I can use my clearance to bring him in as a guest so we don't have to give him full access.

[performance]

?????
Like what? That would be THE WORST DATE.

[boobwindow]

Let's say it's one of those special occasions, but you've never celebrated it before.
But you know, things have been a mess lately, so maybe you want some kind of downtime related to it.
What would be a fun thing to do? And don't say food eating contest.