Dude, where's my Batmobile?

[daaayum.livejournal.com]

"You ever think of picking up a sidekick?"

Idle chatter is idle, but meeting honest-to-God superheroes is interesting, and she has questions. Leela and Terry are wandering through the ship to the transport tubes to get to the Weapons and Possessions Lockers to look for Terry's batsuit. (And are both completely open to conversation with anyone else).

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[beyondgotham.livejournal.com]

"She'd kill me if I said it, but I think of Max as a sort of sidekick. Except she doesn't fight, and I kind of yelled at her when she almost got killed after trying to help me out with Curare." Seemed he yelled at girls a lot.

"Besides," he said, giving a slight shrug, "there's no way Bruce would let anyone join me. Not after Tim..." He then grinned, and laughed. "And I think he'd go nuts with two teenagers around the manor."

[daaayum.livejournal.com]

"I never got the whole sidekick thing to start with. I mean, with Robin? There's jokes on the internet about him all running around in bright colors while Batman's in black, where people call him 'Robin the Boy Target,'" she explains. "Or 'Robin the Boy Hostage.' If I was a superhero, I'd forgo the whole child endangerment thing, even if the kid was good."

[beyondgotham.livejournal.com]

Terry nodded. "After what happened with Tim... I think he figured that out, too."

[daaayum.livejournal.com]

"So why you? No offense or anything, but you're, what, in high school? Instead of sticking you in the bright colors, he's sticks you in the batsuit itself?"

[beyondgotham.livejournal.com]

In all honestly, Terry really didn't know for himself. Bruce had accepted him so quickly, and let him take on the title of Batman. It didn't make all that much sense.

"I dunno." He finally managed to say. "Maybe. Maybe he saw something in me that he didn't see in the Robins. Or maybe he knew Gotham needed Batman, and I was the only person who stood up to do it."

[daaayum.livejournal.com]

"What made you wanna do it? 'Cause I just fell into this whole thing. Literally. It was 'learn to pick up a sword and kill some shit' or I wasn't gonna survive."

[beyondgotham.livejournal.com]

"It was my dad." Terry said quietly. "Growing up, I was such a stupid little punk to him and my mom. And then he was murdered for trying to do the right thing. I wanted to get justice. And... I wanted him to be proud of me."

[daaayum.livejournal.com]

"...That's a damn good reason."

[twelvevoltman.livejournal.com]

Inside the Weapons and Possessions lockers, someone is already rooting through stuff.

"Drinking horn, no. Speargun, close, but no cigar. Cigars . . . nice. Cuban. Aha!"

A cargo-jeans-wearing, +1 AC shirted beanpole stands up, a pair of twin antique revolvers in his hands. "My heat! Score!" He spins the guns once before tucking them into the holsters on his belt and catches sight of the new people in the room, who he nods at before turning to look for ammunition.

Then he does a double-take.

"Leels?"

[daaayum.livejournal.com]

It takes her a second. Because he's a little older, and it's been a long while.

But she recognizes him.

"Screech?"

[twelvevoltman.livejournal.com]

"Goddammit, it's been 11 years and I still hate that." Allen spreads his arms as wide as his grin. "Look at you! All little and from completely the wrong point in the timeline! Gimme a hug, you barely-legal scamp, you!"

[daaayum.livejournal.com]

"Aw, fuck, you're from the future, aren't you. No hugs. I don't want your future germs."

Still. STILL!

"Fuck it! Screech!"

Super-hug!

[twelvevoltman.livejournal.com]

"The future doesn't have germs, Bricks-for-Brains, I invented them out of existence."

She'd be getting hugged whether she wanted to or not! Even though Allen has to bed over nearly in half to get his arms around her, just like usual. "Man! I'd ask how you're doing, but I already know how you're doing, so I'm just going to hug you and look smug about it."

[daaayum.livejournal.com]

"Terry, this is Allen, a friend of mine from back home--and apparently the future. Allen, this is Terry. He's Batman."

[beyondgotham.livejournal.com]

"Hey, thanks for telling people my secret identity." Terry said sarcastically. "Not like I need that to stay alive or anything..."

Still, he grinned a little and held out his hand to shake Allen's.

[twelvevoltman.livejournal.com]

"To be fair, I would've figured it out anyway." Allen taps the side of his head as he shakes Terry's hand. "I got serious kidneys."

Plus he's, uh, seen your show. Not that he's going to say it.

"Anyway, I can keep a secret. You know she used to keep an action figure of your mentor on her desk at work?" He jerks a thumb at Leela. "She and my wife would make him fight Hellboy during slow hours."

[daaayum.livejournal.com]

Leela punches Allen on the arm.

"It ain't a secret anymore if you tell people."

[beyondgotham.livejournal.com]

Terry just gaped at Allen, one eyebrow slightly raised. "Bruce is... an... action figure." Hellboy was, too, evidentially, but Terry had no idea who that was.

"Man, at least she -" he gestured at Leela, "at least she tries to break it to me gently that I'm not real in your world."

[twelvevoltman.livejournal.com]

"Ow! Hey, it wasn't a secret when you did it in front of Dr. Crippen, either. I kept thinking she was gonna fire you. She was evil enough, she coulda done it."

To Terry, he adds, "I didn't say anything about you or Bruce not being real, I just said he had an action figure. Isn't merchandising about as opportunistic as a vulture in your Gotham, too?"

[daaayum.livejournal.com]

"Nah, I bet it's Superman that gets all the action figures. He's more kid-friendly."

[beyondgotham.livejournal.com]

"Gotham PD thought Batman was a public menace. They still do. There's no way he'd get action figures. And trust me, I never hear the end of it from my brother."

[twelvevoltman.livejournal.com]

"Ah, everyone loves a loveable scamp. You know, from a couple worlds away. Hey, you know Superboy's here?" Allen jerks his thumb towards the door to the lockers. "Iron Man too, and I think I saw a few X-men. This is pretty much the best abduction ever so far."

[daaayum.livejournal.com]

"Said like a true comic nerd."