dc_holiday:

“My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.” – Jim Valvano

gotham_rogues:

The past week in Gotham had been an interesting one. Bodies of Jokerz had been turning dead up in various parts of the city. Each killed in a different way and each of them had a smile on their face when they died.

cantcatchme:

Waiting for anything was something that Iris had a very hard time doing. So when she walked into Starbucks to grab two Hazlenut Grappuccinos and saw the line...well this was going to suck mightily. Still the need for sugar and caffeine out weighed anything else.

Iris got in line. Five seconds later it already felt like an eternity.

young_swimmer:

Cait decided to spend a day or two at the cottage before heading back to San Francisco. She needed a day or two to decompress after spending the past week in Atlantis. Dealing with Arthur was always stressful, this time being no different. Amnesty Bay was the perfect place to decompress and get some peace and quiet.

She walked out of the ocean and pulled the water out of her clothes and hair. She headed for the small cottage at the base of the lighthouse. She opened the door, stepped inside and never saw the blow. Pain spiked at the back of her neck and the world went dark.

"Bring her," a male voice said and a figure stepped out of the shadows. The man next to him picked up Cait's inert body and threw it over a shoulder. The two men left the small cottage.

young_swimmer:

Cait ducked around a corner and put her back to the wall. Her enemy was nearby and Cait wasn't about to let herself get hit. She was breathing heavy and she could hear the blood pounding in her ears. Her gun was loaded and ready. Now she just had to wait for her enemy to come into range.

crossbow_bat:

Bruce threw a curve ball, he was quite fond of them, and decided to set up a Bat Family dinner. He did this once in awhile and Maria dreaded them like a root canal. Even though she never had a root canal. Most of the time they were normal dinners, but there had been a few that would always be remembered in the annals of the Bat Family history.

Just to torment the Squirt, Maria told Damian that dinner was in costume. Of course it wasn't, but she wanted to see if he'd fall for it.

Maria hummed happily as she made her way to the dining room.

whydowescream:

It had been a beautiful service, of course. It was every week, even though Ruth had always had trouble getting used to going alone. Team Morgenstern did every service together. Here... she couldn't even bring Jay.

She'd turned down joining a covenant group at the church -- again -- because "Oh, you know, between school and work and all, there just isn't enough time." Plus the covenant group met during the time she'd allotted for helping Jay study. Which sometimes seemed to be more than Jay had alotted for studying.

But it had been a beautiful service, of course. A classic sermon, too, the prodigal son story. Her dad had done that one, too. Including reminding the congregation of the fact that the prodigal son's mistakes aren't the point of the story at all. ...It's the older brother who can't get over them. It's the older brother who has to learn that it isn't about keeping score and who screwed up and who didn't and who got the fatted calf party and who never even got that goat he wanted. It's about how families should come together. Including the family of all life in its great interconnected web.

Which is a very important and beautiful message, that she's always tried to make a point of studying carefully. Because she knows herself, and knows its one of the hard ones for her. And so she's trying hard today ... because sometimes people fall. And when they fall, the job is to get them back up on their feet and throw a figurative fatted-calf party because it's so good to have them back up on their feet. Until they fall again. ...and why didn't the older brother ever get his own goat? He followed all the rules.

It had been a beautiful service, but Ruth finds herself scowling coldly as she gets back.

underthehood:

Donna Troy had arranged for all for all of this on an at least talk to him basis and his dad had agreed with her that he should do this. Though he thought that was mainly because he dad still had a think for her but still a valid point was made and he could at least give her a chance.

He arrived at Titans Tower when Donna had said he should. She had apparently talked to them though he didn’t really know anything more than that about what was going on.

gotham_rogues:

Mark was a bit mad about the fact the Renee Montoya had taken vacation time and was going to be away for a while. She was probably training terrorists or making deals with drug lords. Whatever she would just have to be dealt with later. Besides there were still plenty of dirt cops that needed dealing with. Sure no one else saw it but him but he was going to deal with this in a rather permanent way.

He had been planning this assault on Gotham Police HQ for a while now and he and his men were finally ready in spite of the work done by Batman and those others like Red Hood. They were probably in league with them anyways so if they got lucky they might even get to kill one of them if they show up to help out those bad cop friends of theirs.

At about 6 pm two dozen black SUVs would arrive at the Gotham Police HQ fully armed and ready to kill some of those cops.

dc_holiday:

"A father is a guy who has snapshots in his wallet where his money used to be." -- Unknown

underthehood:

Marcus had a sniper rifle out and was looking through the scope scouting out the area. According to the guy he had /interrogated/ they would be meeting here soon and he might be able to figure out more about what was going on and what these Redeemer guys were planning.

He had already shot and killed a few of the goons that had been hanging around there and of course cleverly hidden the bodies. He wanted this to go nice and easy unlike what had happened last time which lead to his run in with the Bats.

dc_holiday:

A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. ~Irish Proverb

dc_misc:

It was the night of the annual Gotham Natural History Museum Gala for Charity. Which hasn’t been attack by super villains for two years a new record. All the big movers and shakers in Gotham were there and the amount of money being raised for charity and to keep the museum running was surprising.

dc_misc:

The city of Star City looked deserted. The citizens had either fled or had been turned into black lanterns. At the heart of the city was the entity known as Nekron. Nekron used the city as his base as his black lanterns ravaged the Earth.

The black lanterns increased their numbers each day and the power levels of the black lantern battery increased with each person that died.

Soon Nekron would have enough power to obliterate all life on this planet.

green_lantern:

They appeared out of nowhere in space above Oa. The element of surprise was with them and for a brief moment there were no black lanterns to be seen.

"Alright boys and girls, it's time to do this. We win here or the universe dies."

No pressure at all.

green_lantern:

The group of lanterns were gathered around in a circle not far from the North Pole. Larfleeze was practically bouncing that they were so close to the Fat Man's workshop and Dex swore he would punch the orange lantern just to make him stand still for longer than two seconds. They had business to attend to first and then they could talk to the Fat Man about getting Larfleeze the promised presents.

They were going to create two rings of each color to help in the fight against the Black Lanterns. They would make more, but as it was the rings were only at half power. They would have to make do with what they had until they could find a way to get to Oa and see why the rings were depowered.

Dex looked around the circle. Each color had two more rings, red had three, added to the ranks. It was time to send them out. He nodded and the newly created rings were thrown up into the air. They immediately took off and started seeking out wearers.

underthehood:


Marcus was pretty close to being prepared to lay low for a while given the events of the past couple weeks. He just needed to lock down a few more safe houses and weapons caches he had set up throughout the city.

It wasn’t so much that he was scared about what might happen if he stayed to deal with this it was more of a logistics thing. It was a lot of people to plan for takeout before they could take him out and over all this seemed like a better plan and besides he could scare stupid criminals in another city for a while which could be fun.

(WILL)

gotham_rogues:

Gotham City was at it's boiling point.

In the streets, the wars between the crime families had reached its breaking point, with the death of another family head that previous night. The police had their hands full with trying to break up riots.

It had taken some very careful planning on his part, but Hush had managed to break out every prisoner in Arkham Asylum. The guards were dealing with their own personal hell, as the most dangerous criminals in Gotham City were all out of their cells, and they were trying to keep them from getting out into the city.

And now...it was time to test Batman and Robin. Hush delivered a package to Terry McGinnis, with pictures of Dana Tan tied up and beaten, along with his location, a warehouse in Gotham Harbor.

Attached was a simple note:

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underthehood:

Marcus had been getting a lot of activity to suggest that something big was up with the Gotham crime families. Though what he had not been about to beat out of anyone yet. Whatever it was is was the small fish didn't know what it was so he needed to go fishing for a bigger fish which of course would require a bit more planning.

There was a lieutenant that he had in mind that would do nicely and should know what's up. But getting to him would be tricky as would be the interrogation but was definitely something he could do.

He was standing on the opposing rooftop of the building he would need to get into making sure he was all set and ready to go. He wanted this to go as smooth as possible.

underthehood:

Marcus had been scouting out a major meth lab in Gotham that he wanted to take out. After what had happened on his last big op he wanted this to go much more smoothly. He had done some plain clothes and costumed investigations to make sure he got all of the details done. It had been a bit difficult to restrain himself from going in guns blazing and just taking them all out. Still with what he had in mind it would work just as well.

Marcus had taken position on a rooftop opposite the build the meth lab was located in. His investigation had revealed that the build was otherwise abandoned so he could go all out without any need to hesitant himself.

He was looking through the scope of a sniper rifle into the building waiting for his perfect moment to strike.