Time it was and what a time it was
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jla_watchtowerRight now Oracle wants nothing more than to hail the Watchtower and talk to her husband, find out how their daughter is doing, find out when they can both come home. But she has to satisfy herself with occasionally glancing at the medical records as they're updated in the Watchtower sick bay. It's not enough. But it's all she has time for.
Emergency services dispatched to the STAR lab in upstate New Jersey. Doing what she can to pass along promising lines of data to the right researchers. Resisting the urge to flame a few thousand idiots to a crisp because they can't stop blogging about stupid stuff that doesn't matter even when there isn't a crisis going on. Every once in a while she permits herself a bite of the sandwiches Zinda has been making for her.
Then all of a sudden, emergency channels erupt. Department of Corrections--New Jersey, Louisiana, California. Federal, state, local--
Mayday, mayday, prison break--oh, God, please help us--they're everywhere--there was this monster--there were these things--Blackgate--Belle Reve--Alcatraz--they're heading for Arkham--for San Francisco--for us right now--is anyone receiving--been trying--been jammed--20 minutes--lifetime--they're laughing--screaming--shots fired.
Officer down, officer down!
Chicago lights up her inputs next: no prison break, but something going on. Magical? It doesn't make sense. She hates everything that doesn't make sense, which means she hates a lot of things right now.
She goes wideband:
"This is Oracle to JLA, JSA, Titans, all affiliated groups. We have multiple prison riots. Locations known to include Blackgate, Belle Reve, Alcatraz. Law enforcement communications jammed 20 minutes ago. Multiple metahuman fugitives, all locations. Reports still coming in--"
Emergency services dispatched to the STAR lab in upstate New Jersey. Doing what she can to pass along promising lines of data to the right researchers. Resisting the urge to flame a few thousand idiots to a crisp because they can't stop blogging about stupid stuff that doesn't matter even when there isn't a crisis going on. Every once in a while she permits herself a bite of the sandwiches Zinda has been making for her.
Then all of a sudden, emergency channels erupt. Department of Corrections--New Jersey, Louisiana, California. Federal, state, local--
Mayday, mayday, prison break--oh, God, please help us--they're everywhere--there was this monster--there were these things--Blackgate--Belle Reve--Alcatraz--they're heading for Arkham--for San Francisco--for us right now--is anyone receiving--been trying--been jammed--20 minutes--lifetime--they're laughing--screaming--shots fired.
Officer down, officer down!
Chicago lights up her inputs next: no prison break, but something going on. Magical? It doesn't make sense. She hates everything that doesn't make sense, which means she hates a lot of things right now.
She goes wideband:
"This is Oracle to JLA, JSA, Titans, all affiliated groups. We have multiple prison riots. Locations known to include Blackgate, Belle Reve, Alcatraz. Law enforcement communications jammed 20 minutes ago. Multiple metahuman fugitives, all locations. Reports still coming in--"
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