Casebook #002 | Idle hands make the Devil's work [Voice] | Damian Wayne

[until_i_say_so]

[Damian sounds dreadfully, dreadfully bored over the communicator as he delivers the following message:]     I'm still waiting for something interesting to happen, Fortuna.


[Oh Damian, haven't you ever heard of the saying, 'be careful what you wish for'?]

Comments

[hackingyoursensors]

[Okay, seriously, what's going on now? He was just minding his own business, patrolling Marina and now he's... wherever this is.

Wherever this is could probably use some, uh, TLC.

Oh, hey, that kid looks bored; maybe he's from here and can explain what's going on.]

Um, hi! [Smiles?] Could you tell me where I am?

[until_i_say_so]

[Long stare. Why do you seem familiar, annoyingly chipper person?]

Fortuna.

[hackingyoursensors]

So I guess if I ask the way to Gotham, I'll just get a blank stare.

Can you tell me the way to the Eloquois Ocean, then?

[until_i_say_so]

[Startles, ever so slightly, and his stare is much more penetrating now.]

Why do you wanna know how to get to Gotham?

[hackingyoursensors]

Well that's where I'm from. You know, Batman and Robin, protectors of Gotham.

Wait, you know about Gotham?

[Color him surprised! A lot of multiverse people think he's nuts.]

[until_i_say_so]

[Shit, he knew that outfit looked sort of familiar. But it's also not a variant on the Robin costume he's seen before- what the hell is going on? Take it carefully now, Damian...]

I live in Gotham.

[hackingyoursensors]

Really? Then how did you get here?

[until_i_say_so]

[Vague hand gesture.] Scientists.

[hackingyoursensors]

Funny. That's how I ended up in Marina, except they prefer to be called the Engineers.

Still trying to figure out how I got here, though. You know, besides the power of science.

[until_i_say_so]

[Somewhat irritably.] A lot of weirdos just started popping up today, maybe one of the scientists spilled a soda on their computer bank or something and the technology all went haywire.

[hackingyoursensors]

Ah, the old soda can of fate. I'm guessing I can't go back until they fix the console, if I can go back at all.

[until_i_say_so]

[Confused look is confused.] There's a soda can of fate?

[hackingyoursensors]

You know, like in the movies. The clumsy scientist or the lazy guard spill soda on something important and it messes up. Then crazy things happen that can only be stopped by an outsider.

[until_i_say_so]

I don't really watch movies.

[hackingyoursensors]

[Don't tell him that. He'll make you watch bad movies and eat pizza and it will be horrible.]

Really? You're missing out.

[until_i_say_so]

[The only way you'll be able to make him is if you time him down and sit on him, Dick. And even then it's still iffy.]

I doubt it.

[hackingyoursensors]

[He has an entire team. They'll manage.]

You have to have seen at least one movie. And maybe it was a terrible movie that made you hate every other movie in existence.

[until_i_say_so]

[If you use someone with super strength, that's cheating.]

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I don't know, Grayson might have had something on in the background at some point, but I wasn't watching it.

[hackingyoursensors]

[All's fair in love, war, and brotherly bonding times.]

[His eyes go wide behind his mask. Wait, crap, Grayson be cool. He'll suspect something.

His voice totally doesn't crack when he says:] G-grayson?

[until_i_say_so]

[Narrowing eyes at Dick, because, uh yeah, not so smooth there buddy.]

Problem?

[hackingyoursensors]

[Totally not smiling nervously.]

No, no problem at all.

[until_i_say_so]

Really? Because it sounded like you were at least passingly familiar with my older brother, just now.

No. More than passingly.

[hackingyoursensors]

[Fuuuuuu. Well now he's all freaked out, good job.]

Older brother?!

[until_i_say_so]

[Damian is quite good at that, yes.]

Yes. My older brother Dick Grayson. How do you know him?

[hackingyoursensors]

[Get it together, Grayson. He's just trying to freak you out. Ohgodhe'sontomehowamIgoingtotellBruce.]

I know all of the well-known people in Gotham. I-I just didn't know he had any siblings.