In A Broken-Down Shack In The Middle of Slaughter Swamp

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No, man. I told you already - the wizard heroes can't scan this place. Ley lines or some shit like that. They raid it every so often just to try and keep us down, but we just scatter before they show - same as with the Injustice Gang satellite or the Lexcorp tunnelworks or that bar in Vanity or all the other places we hang.

Fucking Trickster bothering him. Somebody's got to teach that kid how this job works.

Hey, Quimby! I heard your little laser-beam nearly did in Big Blue...

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I only built it. I didn't use it. Don't get Slade on my case about it, Mahko - I've got enough to deal with. Besides, I don't know how Prometheus got it. That was a lab prototype. For emergencies.

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God, what a spineless weasel.

Woodrue - where's the bar?

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Where it always is, Merlyn. I do not tend bar here simply because the Green is strong in these parts.

He waves idly at an ancient, enormous icebox, frozen in place by Killer Frost, stuffed with beer and liquor.

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She gives the bowman an appraising look, reaches into the icebox and tosses him a can.

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He's already half-turned away, but he still catches it without even looking back. Yeah, he's heard stories about Phobia. Not. Going. There.

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At a nearby table:

Word on the street is that Slade's considering a personal bounty on Grodd's head...

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BODY ONE: Never happen.
BODY SIX: Slade put the money out on Grodd?
BODY NINE: He'd just go after the ape himself.
BODY ONE: That one? That's personal.

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Yeah! Me and Slade, this one time - we're like that, because we're both badasses - he was all, "I'm gonna skin that ape hairless," and...

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Oh, god, somebody please shut him up.

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Literally buzzing, although quietly, in the corner is the Black Flash. Arms crossed. Surveying the gathering.

Obscuring his face so his nerves don't show.

Pushing back the urge to start a conversation - so many jokes he could make.

Last Scion of Savitar. They're not chatty. Devoted and nutty. Focus.

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Of course, many villains ARE chatty.

So. "Black Flash." Seventies reference, attempt at gravitas, what?

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There's a vibrating look on his face that is probably a sneer.

"I am the Last Scion of Savitar."

That should cover it, although the temptation to monologue is significant.

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At another table:

So, how is zat daughter of yours doing?

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She's five now. Wanna see a picture?

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Not really -

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Too late.

Here she is, she's the one on the left. She's going to Harvard.

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I zot you said she was five.

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When she finishes high school, dumbass. I set up a blind trust for her.

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...isn't she illegitimate?

[one-eyed-merc.livejournal.com]

The room hushes as a large figure steps in from outside.

Okay, anybody seen Prometheus in the last few days? I want to have a chat with him. Friendly-like.

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A lot of coughing, hemming and hawing, but finally -

Nobody's seen him for a couple days.

[fleet-feet.livejournal.com]

Prometheus. Just attacked the Brownstone, trying to kill Superman's wife and child.

Just the thought makes his fists clench, and he can taste the bile.

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The Psycho-Pirate, Roger Hayden, lurks quietly to the side, sipping a beer, listening intently.

Wotan gone, Tannarak gone -- he's alone and at loose ends.

He needs someone to serve, and Deathstroke seems a good bet.

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Major Force leans against a wall with his arms crossed.

"Why you wanna talk to him, huh? You got somethin' against him taking the fight to Superman and his JSA buddies?"

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He walks right up to Force and stares at him, eyes to eye.

Let's get something straight here, Zmeck. I don't give a good goddamn if you walk up to Superman on the street and snap his neck. But you leave the family members out of it.

I know you in particular don't get that, Cliffy. But, for the sake of peaceful relations, I'm going to ask you once - just once - to try and come around to how I see things.