the tech knight returns

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Terry didn't really understand how he had wound up running around weird mazes in his own head while being watched by an AI. But he was out of it now. And he was done with moping around in a fake Bat-cave. He'd been hiding and feeling sorry for himself since the yeerks. After running around in GLaDOS's mazes, though, he'd realized that he need to just get over himself.

So he was training. The Sensorium had created a Gotham street. His Gotham. And he was doing what he normally did on an average night - cleaning up the streets. He was currently hunting a group of Jokerz, but in without the Batsuit. He needed the practice of tracking and fighting without his suit. It was becoming to much like a crush.

He wouldn't mind some company. He needed some practice working with teams, too.

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Even though he'd been careful, Terry wasn't expecting that. He almost didn't have time to react, but he managed to tumble out of the way of the falling gangster. A few bits of glass pelted him, but none were big enough to do any real damage.

He straightened and peered into the window. He kept his distance, just in case any more clowns came flying out, but he was close enough to see what was happening. Someone was horning in on his patrol, and he wanted to know who that was.

[crusades]

No more follow their pal on his flight. The new guy had spent a couple of minutes diverting him away from the rest of the pack, isolating him before he finished the job.

Whoever he is, he's clearly smart. And fast, too, since there's already someone else screaming further down the street.

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"You've gotta be kidding me," Terry muttered when he heard the scream. Either there was someone else working his beat, or this was all one guy. And if it was all one guy, then they were good.

Terry jogged in the direction of the sound, keeping to the shadows. He was curious as to who this person terrorizing Jokerz was, but he was still going to be careful. He knew the gangs well enough - a few might have gotten away from the mystery person, and if they did, they just might want to take out their fear on anyone they come across. With their fists.

[crusades]

When he rounds the bend he'll have found the rest of the Jokerz gang. A lot of them are already strewn comatose across the scenery. The rest are desperately trying to defend themselves from a lone, albeit ripped, man.

Not that he needs help or anything, but there are rather a lot of them...

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Terry wasn't really sure how to react. However this guy was, he certainly had things under control. It was really kind of impressive.

One of the Jokerz seemed to be making one last, desperate move though - a rather cowardly attempt to ambush this mystery-fighter from behind. Terry noticed it, though, and leapt into action, tackling the clown and pining him to the ground. A few strong punches to the head, and the gangster was out like a light.

"As my boss would say," Terry called out to the stranger with a sarcastic grin as he climbed back to his feet, "you ought'a watch your back."

[crusades]

"Or as I prefer to put it," Bruce replies, swinging a fist that passes Terry's ear and connects with the nose of a second thug hoping to outmanouevre the pair of them, "Never let your guard down."