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Ezra Durlin ([info]brotherkept) wrote in [info]dc_nextgen,
@ 2011-08-12 22:45:00


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Entry tags:evan durlin, ezra durlin, huntress, inactive - robin kane

We get the funniest looks from everyone we meet.
They'd been at it for a week. Staked the neighborhood out. Seen that indeed, there was crime going on that the cops weren't able to handle, and the area seemed to be coincidentally skirted by most heroic patrols.

Then the fun started. Ezra even had a mask (it looked cool!), and he'd made sure there were plenty of nonlethal rounds for Evan to use if he wanted to do the standard gunwork he'd long been taught.

Over the next few days, the ER got a sudden influx of drug pushers, pimps, and even a couple of abusive fathers.
Nothing fatal. Nothing even that serious, but enough broken bones for the hospital to take notice, and word to quickly spread.



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[info]brotherkeeper
2011-08-13 01:23 am UTC (link)
Evan stood beside his brother, a similar mask on his own face. He wasn't quite as keen on it as Ezra, but it wasn't too bad. Besides...

"Okay Ez, I admit it," He gave a few audible cracks of his neck. "That was fun."

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[info]brotherkept
2011-08-13 01:30 am UTC (link)
Ezra beams. "Yep. And you're good at it! We both are!"

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[info]brotherkeeper
2011-08-13 01:32 am UTC (link)
"Okay bro, simmer down a little. I think we might want to get out of here. Just to be on the safe side," Evan cautioned.

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[info]brotherkept
2011-08-13 01:35 am UTC (link)
"Aww, in our moment of triumph?"

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[info]brotherkeeper
2011-08-13 01:38 am UTC (link)
"Afraid so. Gotham's capes are notoriously territorial and it won't be long until they show up. Yes we accomplished something here and yes this area needed it, but I'd prefer not to have to explain ourselves if at all possible."

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[info]brotherkept
2011-08-13 01:42 am UTC (link)
Ezra sighed. But he had to take Evan's opinion into account. That's how it worked, the brilliant one and the hall moniter. Just like their dads.
"Okay. Let's go."

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[info]crossbow_bat
2011-08-13 01:45 am UTC (link)
Gotham was a pretty large city, but it never took long to hear word of a new cape or mask in the city. Huntress had heard whispers of two new people trying to clean up the streets of Gotham.

It was time to check them out.

She was on a routine patrol when she caught sight of them. Huntress stayed in the shadows and followed them for a bit.

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[info]raisingkane
2011-08-13 01:50 am UTC (link)
"Someone,," her mother said, "is moving in on our turf. Somebody not the Bat-crew. They're pretty well accounted for. And since everyone knows you're the top vigilante in this town who's actually willing to face the public eye, it can only mean someone's moving in."

Robin, perched on a rooftop, and allegedly watching for signs of anything, made faces while her mother talked. True, she liked helping people, but she was also fairly certain her mother was going to get her killed. Some of her crime stops, the ones her mother found... however she found them, went incredibly easy or at least challenging enough to be entertaining.

But she wasn't getting much better. When she found ones on her own, her mother's advice was helpful... but sometimes, those felt far more dangerous.

"Uh-huh. If you say so, Mom. I say more good guys is a good thing."

Hesitation.

"Well, yes, it is, of course, but you know, I just want you to be a star... and maybe one or both of those Titans teams will ask you to join, and then we can go national!"

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[info]brotherkept
2011-08-13 01:55 am UTC (link)
"...Ever get the feeling someone's watching us? Aside from when the dads are actually watching us to see how good we are at the hairs-on-the-back-of-the-neck thing?"

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[info]brotherkeeper
2011-08-13 02:13 am UTC (link)
"Yeah, I think we waited too long. There's definitely someone in the roof-hopping game following us."

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[info]crossbow_bat
2011-08-13 02:18 am UTC (link)
Huntress stayed in the shadows. Let them find the girl who loved the publicity.

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[info]raisingkane
2011-08-13 02:37 am UTC (link)
Robin scanned the night, looking for signs of anything.

"Nothing..." she muttered. "This is a waste of time, Mom."

"Not yet it isn't... we know they've been seen around your current location... We'll find them..."

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[info]brotherkept
2011-08-13 02:39 am UTC (link)
Ezra listened he thought he heard something. "....And she's talking to herself."

Without further ado, he grabs the nearest fire escape and starts climbing up.

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[info]brotherkeeper
2011-08-13 02:43 am UTC (link)
Evan shakes his head. "See Ezra, this is exactly what I was trying to avoid." He follows after his brother.

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[info]crossbow_bat
2011-08-13 02:48 am UTC (link)
Amateurs. Huntress shook her head. They were going to get themselves hurt, or even worse. She continued to watch.

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[info]raisingkane
2011-08-14 12:22 am UTC (link)
Yup, Flamebird is totally looking in the wrong direction.

"Can we at least talk about a costume with actual pants instead of leggings? I'm cold. It's way too late to be dressed like this."

"Hey, it was good enough for me, and it's good enough for you. You can bet Robin never complained about his short shorts!"

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[info]brotherkept
2011-08-14 03:09 am UTC (link)
Girl talking to herself. Ezra spots the com equipment, discreet though it is. "Hey, miss. You talking to Oracle? Tell her I said hi!"

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[info]brotherkeeper
2011-08-14 03:13 am UTC (link)
"Ezra! What the hell did I just get through saying about being discreet!?" Evan was getting a little exasperated.

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[info]brotherkept
2011-08-14 03:14 am UTC (link)
"I was just saying Hello! We can still run if we have to."

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[info]brotherkeeper
2011-08-14 03:18 am UTC (link)
"I'm just saying, on the off chance we actually run into or hear from somebody we knew as kids is no guarantee we're not going to be treated as intruders. Besides, we were tolerated as kids, none of them actually gave a damn," he mutters this last part bitterly.

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[info]crossbow_bat
2011-08-14 03:23 am UTC (link)
"Why don't you kids run along home and go play with your action figures," Huntress said as she stepped out of the shadows. "You're going to get hurt out here, or even worse."

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[info]brotherkeeper
2011-08-14 03:27 am UTC (link)
If Evan was too surprised by huntress' entrance, he didn't show it. He made a show of looking at his watch.

"See what I mean, bro? We didn't even make it past the first five seconds before of Gotham's capes gave us a lecture on what we can and can't do. I mean I'm a cynic, but even I didn't think it'd be this fast." His voice is tinged with both sarcasm and a hint of bitterness.

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[info]brotherkept
2011-08-14 03:38 am UTC (link)
"Aw, come on, like your first week was spotlessly suave, Mrs. Huntres... wow.... you.... look different, ma'am."

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[info]raisingkane
2011-08-14 03:56 pm UTC (link)
Well, crap. Now her heart was going ninety-miles an hour in her chest.

"Damn. They're good. Why aren't you that good? Are we going to have to go back to sneakiness training?"

"Really not the time, Mom..."

She looked between the Huntress and the boys.

"Um... I'm, you know, kind of new at this, but I'm pretty sure we can all get along...?"

"Pretty sure we can all get along? That's the best you can come up with? Okay, we'll add more public speaking books to your training..."

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[info]crossbow_bat
2011-08-14 10:37 pm UTC (link)
"Miss," Huntress said. "I'm the new one. As for /my/ first week, I didn't take this as a game. It's serious and people get hurt and worse, killed."

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[info]brotherkept
2011-08-15 02:48 am UTC (link)
"We seem to have done all right so far. Passel of bad people off the street, receiving medical treatment. If my professional decorum isn't perfect, well, that's something you pick up with practice."

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[info]brotherkeeper
2011-08-15 12:27 pm UTC (link)
"Don't bother debating with her, bro. Unless you're in their little clique, these Gotham capes look down on you as incompetents. Look at the flak our dads got from the Birds of Prey."

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[info]brotherkept
2011-08-15 01:08 pm UTC (link)
Ezra would like to have a more optimistic attitude, but... "Okay. Don't worry ladies, we're calling it a night."

Women. He didn't understand them at all. And the dads were no help.

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[info]raisingkane
2011-08-15 08:35 pm UTC (link)
Well, this just got weirder and weirder. Who knew super-heroes had conversations like this? And these guys got a warning and she didn't? Maybe the costume did some of the work for her...?

"Interesting," her mother said. "Not exactly competition then. More secret like. No costumes or anything. Well, their loss is our gain."

Robin rolled her eyes. She often wondered if her mother was insane. And she sometimes wondered if she'd ever actually even been a super-hero. Certainly, someone would visit if she'd been one?

"Sounds to me like they've been doing good," she said, knowing her mother would be seeing red over it.

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[info]crossbow_bat
2011-08-16 05:21 pm UTC (link)
"They're doing okay," Huntress admitted, "but they can't take this as a game. It's serious and they need to be serious about it."

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