one little bat

[mysunnydisposition]

Who: Stephanie Brown
Broadcast: Fleetwide video
Action: HS Marsiva
When: 2/18

[ Focus on Steph's face as she starts to wake up. She wrinkles her nose, groans softly as she rolls onto her side... and then her eyes snap open. ]

What the...?

[ The camera pulls out as she sits up, looking down at herself. She's still in her costume, hood and cowl pulled back, not in a hospital gown, no tubes or needles attached to her anywhere. The costume's even in one piece. And-- ]

Nothing hurts. [ It's muttered, to herself - she's still a little too disoriented to realize she's being filmed. ] Why does nothing...

[ She presses a hand experimentally against her left shoulder. No pain, no blood or bullet wound... A slight lump under the fabric of her costume that might be a scar, but it seems long healed. What. The hell.

Steph rolls out of the cot, getting to her feet slowly like she's afraid she'll fall over. She's fine, though. Totally fine. At least, until she finally notices the big viewing windows looking out on the void. She exhales slowly, eyes wide, as she approaches the window. ]

Okay. So either this is random neurons firing while my brain shuts down, or... we're not in Gotham anymore.

Comments

[mysunnydisposition]

It's a city. On Earth. Wherever... that is now... Getting the feeling the answer is 'very far away'.

When you say places like this, do you mean spaceships? Reality shows? Something... else I'm not getting?

[wolfuncaged]

Most likely, I am afraid.

Yes. And more besides. This is the second time that I have been taken into another world, now. There are others here with similar experiences.

[mysunnydisposition]

Oh. [ Okay, she was sort of joking, and isn't sure to go now that he answered her seriously. ] I didn't realize this was the kind of thing that could happen to people more than once. Or at all...

Did you ever get back, the first time?

[wolfuncaged]

[He is the worst for recognising joking tones ever. He gives a shrug. ] I can't imagine anyone would realize such a thing before they lived it.

No. We had earned our way back home, but instead we were transported here.

[mysunnydisposition]

I'm sorry. That really sucks.

Was the last place you got taken a ship too?

[wolfuncaged]

It is just the way of things, they could have been worse.

No. It was a city. Though there was...an incident. We had to live on the moon for a while, so I was familiar with space before I arrived here. Something I'm a little grateful for.

[He'd already got the horrible, creeping trapped feeling out of his system. He didn't need to pace here, like a caged animal. He's accepted it for what it was.]

[mysunnydisposition]

'Could have been worse' is not really....

I'll be honest, you are really, really calm about this and it's kind of freaking me out.

[wolfuncaged]

As I said, I have been through this before. I was not calm when I was taken by the Initiative. You will recover, most likely.

Or go mad.

[mysunnydisposition]

Thank you, that's... very helpful.

[ No, it's not at all. ]

[wolfuncaged]

You are welcome.

[His sarcasm detector is terrible.]