first solo mission

[hellofist]

Who: Cassandra Cain
Broadcast: video
Action: marsiva
When: 2/10

[All things considered, Cass is taking this weird as fuck field trip pretty well. She had learned that people could go up into space, and the very basics of what space is. It's been something that fascinated her from an early age and now, any misgivings about how safe it may or may not be are overwritten by how exciting this is.

She's standing up against a window with both hands on it, peering out into the vastness of space with an expression that can only be called wonder on her face.

She's also wearing a skin tight batsuit as she does this, like it's totally normal to walk around in something like that. The cowl is off though. Who needs secret identities when you've already been kidnapped?]

Always liked the stars. I know some... of the pictures they make. The bear, and the spoon. [Otherwise known as Ursa Major and, you know, the Big Dipper. For people keeping track.] Never thought I'd... be this close, though. It's cool.

Oh, uh. I'm Batgirl. Or just Cass. Both are fine. [And then she waves. Like you do.] Hi.

Comments

[hellofist]

[You've got a lot going on there Tim, are you alright buddy? Cass looks concerned, but also a little unsure about this. They had a good enough relationship the last time she saw him, but it wasn't something that would warrant this kind of a reaction.

He must have been lonely, she thinks, or vastly outnumbered by enemies he had trouble with. That's about all that makes sense under the circumstances.]

Are you okay? You look... [Like you really need to relax or something, but she'll just keep that to herself.] Not great.

[Yeah, that's better.]

[detectivewonder]

We've been kidnapped by an alien television program. There are reasons. Are you okay?

[hellofist]

Have been kidnapped before. It's fine.

[It's not fine, but what she really means is it's something she feels she can fix on her own when she's ready to fix it. No one has drugged her or strapped her to tables and there's no water rapidly filling the room and threatening to drown her, so yeah. Everything's fine.]

How do I... get to you? We should team up.

[detectivewonder]

In a few days they'll assign you to a ship. Probably not mine. But we can use the shuttles to meet up somewhere.

Assume everything you say is being monitored.

[hellofist]

[For a long moment, Cass just stares at him. She wants the relief and the surprise to come back into his body language, wants to see him do something other than give her orders. He has no right to, not when he refused to be her Robin. They aren't a team, he made that perfectly clear the last time she asked him to stay with her.]

Is that all?

[detectivewonder]

Plenty. But it's hard to know where to start. It's-

This place is disorienting.

[hellofist]

[Disorienting. She almost laughs, but not in a nice way. If this is odd for him, he should try living in isolation and then making a home out of a place like Gotham. She has little sympathy for his apparent struggle to adjust here, because it could be so much worse.]

There's shelter, and food. Places to sleep. We know Oracle, so technology... shouldn't be too weird. It could be worse.

[detectivewonder]

Much worse. Still, this place plays mind games. Somewhere between Riddler and Scarecrow, if I'm reading things right.

[hellofist]

Riddler?

[Is he kidding? There's nothing scary about the Riddler and the Scarecrow is only scary if you let him get his chemicals working on you, which Cass can easily avoid. If those are his frames of references for the danger of this place she's very unimpressed.]

So it's cake.

[She means a piece of cake, or maybe a cakewalk, but either way it's clear she's even less worried than she was before.]

[detectivewonder]

Like them in style. But they're tapping into our brains, Cass.

[hellofist]

[That brings her up short, but she's still on the stubborn side, not wanting to admit it. The last time someone poked around in her brain, it resulted in her losing her ability to read people. She had been useless.]

They're not in mine. [But she touches the thing behind her ear, scratches a little at the edges of it. Are they in her head already?] They didn't change me. It didn't work.

[detectivewonder]

If they use the implants to manipulate us - and evidence suggests they do - they don't do it constantly. But the uploaded knowledge, that's manipulation right there. And if they can upload... they can download.

[hellofist]

[Oooh Tim you better have something to back that up.]

Do you know that? Have proof?

[detectivewonder]

No. But the technology is clearly capable of it.