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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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Well, they put oxygen tanks in there with you, so you at least know they'd like to keep you guys alive even if the sub gets sunk. ...though the pressure would probably kill you first.

[Dryly.] Well that's reassuring.

So they don't want us dead, but they clearly don't want us at peak condition, either. Too much time in these conditions and I don't know how any of us are going to be able to fight back if an opportunity came.

Guess the question is: are we just leverage or is there something else they've got up their sleeve?

If this is a kidnapping to get new 'weapons,' then... [Kid doesn't want to say it but she had to have thought of it already. Or if she didn't, someone else will think of it, or they'll actually do it-

Urgh.] If they're planning to use you guys, there's gonna be brainwashing. No way around it. This is strong arm tactics to the max, here.

[There's silence for a moment as she digests that. It makes sense.

What the hell is with people and brainwashing? Crane, Pan, Russia. What do they expect to gain?!]

No. Hell no. I've been through enough of this. I refuse. They can try whatever they want. I'm not going to let them take my mind.

If you want help knowing how to withstand the standard stuff, talk to Robin. [that's all he's got for that] Apparently the US is all pissed off about this 'stolen property' business so at the very least, the military's working on getting you guys back too.

I'll probably just get told to stay out of the way and trust the 'real' heroes to save the day. [There's a long enough pause for her to shrug off her own bitterness and return to the problem at hand.]

Good to know that my home country doesn't want to lose its toys, at least. [I'm sorry, did I say lose the bitterness? I mean replace it with salt.]

I tried talking to the AI that's keeping us here.

[YEAH a stony uncomfortable silence there because he's gonna get in a fight with her if he opens his mouth.]

Yeah? How'd that go?

Poorly. Their programming is very young. I don't know very many AI, but Baymax was created to learn. LACKEY...was created to do a job. I don't think we can convince them to let us go. I couldn't even get them to choose a name that didn't imply servitude.

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