Meanwhile, back in the Cave...

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Dawn has come and gone, midmorning approaches, and Bruce is still reviewing what he might have missed during his visit to Metropolis, City of Tomorrow and Too Many Damned Glowing Things, to investigate the real estate that local business man/tycoon/slimebag Max Shreck is considering purchasing.

Yes, he should be in bed by now. He should be getting food. He should be doing something other than what he is doing now, which is going over data he recorded in Metropolis and reviewing an eye on the police reports as well. Price of taking time away from his patrols to try to contain Gotham scum within the city limits.

And his coffee's cold. Damn it.

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Ted's on the Watchtower now, in person - the robotic surrogate staying stowed away for the moment.

"I've got all my latest data on these things and the chips we recovered from the Opal City lab. A lot of them have actual biological material - some of them actually contain human brain matter. We need to let everyone know to be careful out there.."

His arms are filled with disks and printouts in a disordered jumble as he makes his way to a console.

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Batman looks away from all of the computer displays to glance at Ted and his disorganized data. A corner of his mouth twitches, then he goes back to surveying the various battles. "Clones?"

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"Nothing to indicate that so far."

Ted shakes his head as he takes a seat, unburdening his arms onto a part of the console.

"I suspect Brainiac thinks one organic is as good as another. The organic parts in the one I fought in Opal City were harvested from a dying man. Of course, this has all the hallmarks of a randomized parameter experiment - Brainiac may have thought to use cloned matter in some of them."

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"If we go on the assumption it's Brainiac, agreed." Batman's expression hardens even more than usual when he adds, "I need a complete composite breakdown of one of them. See if anything can be traced or established as a weakness. And make sure these replicants are inhuman. Otherwise...."

He grunts, stares angrily at the screens. Hate bleeds from him.

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"Here are my notes from the one we captured in Opal City, and the Toyman replicant."

The schematics are made available on Batman's monitor.

"It's hard to project a plan of attack that will work on all of them. Some of them are partly organic, some of them aren't. Many of them make use of small pieces of human brain matter. I had good luck with sonics against the one in Opal, but Brainiac may have compensated for it. See if you can isolate a communication signal that he's using to coordinate the replicants.."

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"So far that route hasn't provided any firm data. The source isn't easy to track. I've been reprogramming the tracer to track on a cross-band spectrum with variable signal alterations to compensate. Anything else?"

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"One of the Green Lanterns should be able to isolate the signal - the rings are better detection devices than anything we can build here. Brainiac is certain to have overrides that he can use on the replicants - if we can stumble on the communications frequency, Oracle and I can start working on hacking our way in.."

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"I'll see if one can be spared. Good thinking."

Yes, that was Batman saying something nice about someone else. Don't get used to it.