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"I believe in life, and liberty, and freedom," Question Kid said. "But I don't know. Is the life of someone like the Red Bee really worth as much as yours? Why do we have to be merciful to those who show no mercy?"
I am really scared of Emily with prep. This could be very bad if we get her angry. I don't like to judge by a person's heritage, but all those super-villains in her family tree are top-tier evil geniuses.
-------------------- Go with the good and you'll be like them; go with the evil and you'll be worse than them.- Portuguese Proverb
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Dev looked between Question Lad and Cobalt Kid.
"Why are we even having this discussion?"
He turned to the door. "Red Arrow. I know you can hear me, and I know that you truly believe that you are doing the right thing here. I can empathize with that...but things are not as clear cut as you want to think. Think back to whem I went against you all and helped Cobalt escape...why did I do that? Because it was the right thing to do, and it led to us finding out who was behind this whole thing a whole lot faster and without Cobie and his group having to battle friends again needlessly. The end result was that Lardy reinstated me to the Security Office and made me acting Chief in his absence. In doing so, he gave me the authority, as your Commanding Officer, to tell you to open these doors right now and begin shutting down these 'Lard Bots' immediately. If you do not then you are defying a direct order by your superior, and I know that you do not want to do that. These 'Lard Bots' are not the answer to our problems and are causing more trouble than they are going to fix. The populace of Legion World is already in shock and starting to panic at their presence, and it's going to be worse if the bees attack again."
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Fine, you win. I guess we'll have to test these out some other time. Good thing my other orders haven't come in yet. She said, "You many enter, sir." Red Arrow was really disappointed because she spent hours on the programming, but she didn't want another civil war. If her collegues wanted to be stupid, she was going to let them. But she refused to let anymore of them die.
Red Arrow had her hair loose for once and grabbed several arrows and gadgets just in case. This could be a trap. And she was going to let Question Lad have it! Nobody was a bigger hypocrite in this matter than Sebastian.
-------------------- Go with the good and you'll be like them; go with the evil and you'll be worse than them.- Portuguese Proverb
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<Cobalt ceases discussion as the confrontation has now begun.>
Somehow my actions and words have been misinterpreted. The Red Bee's life means nothing to me and I hope this ends with it at an end. He is a clear enemy that needs to be defeated once and for all. But in a way that creates no further threat.
<Cobalt's omni-com goes off; he checks it and his face grows angry.>
The Lard-Bots have begun attacking citizens in the streets! Apparently there is a curfew to clear the streets so the the search for the Red Bee could begin! The citizens refused an now the robots are 'escorting them' to their homes...with force!
Dev, QK, you two handle Red Arrow. I'm off to do what I elsewhere!
<flies off>
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Red Arrow silently gazed at the laboratory. It was very much improved since she handled it. And when this was all over she would contact her Knight and Sivana uncles and get the funding to pour in.
Which reminded her she had to visit her father after all this was over, to testify that she was alive and her mother died accidently. Yes, Red Arrow beieved in justice. And it's weird, but I still love him. I feel bad for loving him, but I do.
She had everything in her hands and on the long table. She said, "If you are shape-shifters or telepathic spies I want to let you know that I have purchased shielding and chemicals which can make your powers mute."
-------------------- Go with the good and you'll be like them; go with the evil and you'll be worse than them.- Portuguese Proverb
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Dev replied, "Arrow, we don't have time for this...the Lard Bots have adapted their programming and are attacking the citizens of Legion World...you need to shut them down now!"
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Question Kid says, "I'll help." He then turned to Red Arrow and said in a hushed tone. "The DNA scanners were effective. It was the codes that were bad, next time use a combination of letters and numbers, okay?"
"I knew you would say that. But do you really want to go through with this? I do know you have dossier files on everyone. I took the liberty of copying them and deleting them off the mainframe," She smiled, holding up a wireless device.
"I'm two steps ahead of you, girl. I copied everything into multiple servers days before this whole thing began," He said with a blank expession. The hacking was not going much of anywhere, but he was trying backdoors. Red Arrow was deleting what she could, but some of the Sivana programming she used was very advanced.
"Wow, you are good at prep,"She said. Question Kid was getting deep into the mainframe.
"Okay. This is going to be either very good or very bad depending on how you interpret it. It will stop the robots though," Question Kid said. He entered in some code. The lights began to flicker and everything electronic began to shut down.
"You shut down the electricity?!" Red Arrow shouted.
"Yes, along with the telecommunications systems..." Question Kid said slowly.
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"Sebastian here just knocked out the electricity and telecommunications systems on Legionworld," Red Arrow said. "That's kind of like throwing a nuke on a bank robber."
"Oh, come on. The robots are stopped and we can get the mainframe back up and running after we dispose of the robots," He said. "And I know what you are thinking, Emily. You can't tell what effect a blackout will have on security, it could actually help us."
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"No, I understand that part...even the possible futility of it. I'm talking about the dossiers you two are keeping..." Dev smiled at them, "you can't whisper around a Daxamite...you two have some explaining to do." He says as he positions himself at the doorway, blocking their exit.
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Question Kid and Red Arrow looked at eachother. Red Arrow looks down at all the stuff she brought and seems to be thinking, but Question Kid shakes his head. It's too late for that, Emily.Too bad it wasn't me with prep.
Sebastian. Your idea, your explanation first," She said in a scary judgemental tone.
"Alright. I started creating the dossier files back when my...Chief Lardy recruited me full time. Whenever I would use my power I recorded the power effects and information for future use. Like Tournaments on the planet where I come from, I assign individuals point-values based on powers and abilities. By creating dossier files you can be prepared to fight beings more powerful. This laboratory being an excellant example," He said, totally getting lost in his own thoughts.
Red Arrow addded,"Sebastian and I have been sharing information since he joined. Between our unusual lives and our memory problems we have alot in common. After the death of Sir Roy, I collected the information because it's becoming clear that you guys need more strategy. In fact you guys got lucky, other super-villains would have target the powerful members first." Red Arrow then froze.
"Emily's family has been in the super-human community for a very long time," Sebastian said.
"Yes, that is true. But I can count both Mist and Starman as relatives. I wish I could see the world in black and white like you do Sebastian, it must be a pretty world. My parents were on a super-hero team called the All-Star Squadron. Growing up it was like a second family, and I loved them all. But they were betrayed..."She stopped again.
"By your own father. Your mother sent you to that marvelous other dimension before accidently dying," Sebastian explained.
"Yes. The Thunderbolts, which is half-superhero team and half-support group for people with super-villains as parents. Then Nrrev got ahold of a cosmic cube and I ended up back. I will not stomach the loss of another super-team," She finished.
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Dev looked from Question Lad to Red Arrow. "Alright then, we need to have a further discussion about this later with The Chief, but right now..."
He's interupted by a message coming in over his Omnicom.
"I have to go...remember, we're talking about this later," he says as he takes off at full speed.
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"Well, he didn't kill us. That's a step in the right direction," Question Lad said.
"I am turning back the power on, Sebastian." In moments everything lit up. "We're going to shut down this lab and transfer all the files to multiple servers."
"Of course," Question Lad nodded. "I'm kind of glad a discussion of my childhood wasn't launched. Alot of it is non-canonical fanfiction, I simply absorb so many people's identities that mine changes over time. I do remember living in a state of impunity though and that my fathr abandoned my mother to die of disease..." He had finished fixing the servers and all the appropriate files were being transferred.
"We're lonely people Sebastian. And they think we're paranoid and crazy, but that's only because they cannot see what we have seen," She says. They finish sealing off the laboratory and headed away.
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