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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."
[ BEEP. ]

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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I think it mega ultra sucks and isn't fair, but I don't think it's weird. I mean- all the imPorts, we come here the same way. [KF holds up the wrist with the tattoo on it, though it's covered by his glove.] Easier to tag your cattle when they're already lined up.

Oh, we're tagged all right, but that doesn't mean we have the same reason to be loyal. None of us really care about this world the same way a native hero might. I know it's a matter of powers, but why don't they ask us to develop means to create powered people here? [All of it lies on loyalties. At the end of the day, registering doesn't mean someone is loyal, even if they can spout off the oath.]

Okay, so...basically, they don't think their own citizens would be loyal to them. I mean, that's the only reason, right? I dunno, in my experience the only people who're scared of someone being disloyal are the kinds of people already lying to them.

No, that's not actually what I was getting at. I think they think it's better if their own citizens aren't being sacrificed for a cause. It's tidier that way.

You mean they think we're expendable? [Of course that...makes sense. Since there's that 'revival technology' thing and the whole thing with those heroes going overseas for that mission and then dying horribly...

Doesn't mean it doesn't piss him off though.] Because of the revive stuff? Why don't they just put nanites in their own heroes and revive them if that's what they're worried about?

See, that's the thing. The revival stuff only works because of the fact that the nanites only work for us because of what the Porter does. I'd be willing to bet money, and a lot of it, that it comes from a different dimension or one of those lovely mythological references. [Though there may be less of those given that it turned out the Hornets were knee-deep in creepy experiments.

But she doesn't actually explain it.]

Then again, it's really tidy that it doesn't work. Not that the tech's been around forever. It was good for about a year before the Russians nullified it, which ... makes us expendable if we do go up against them, right?

Okay okay okay. [KF holds up his hands.] We keep going back and forth on this. I propose we go find some criminals to apprehend and then maybe talk about this later with spreadsheets for all the pros and cons.

[After he gives up on the back and forth, she actually visibly droops.]

Would you believe that after a year of this crap, I'm really sick of it? Helping and explaining and all of it. [There's a point to what Kate's saying.]

So ... let's kick some ass. That's never been complicated. [That's why she's here.

She really wants uncomplicated right now.]

[He almost offers. It's almost there. He's never been one for that sort of thing; collecting data, figuring out the whys and what ifs of a politically charged situation. If he was honest with himself, it's because he doesn't have a knack for it. He doesn't have a knack for understanding how other people think.

But she looks so tired.

A siren screams below them and he starts, snapping on his night vision to peer over the edge at a car careening down the streets, taking sidewalks and running red lights to avoid the two cruisers on its tail.]

...duty calls. I'll tag 'em, you bag 'em? [And he takes a few steps back before running right over and down the side of the building.

Later. He'll talk to her about it later.]

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