9526/Knightfall: Shadow of the Cowl

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Knightfall: Shadow of the Cowl
Date of Scene: 10 October 2019
Location: Batcave - Wayne Manor
Synopsis: Babs gives Damian some marching orders in the shadow of Bruce's injuries.
Cast of Characters: Oracle, Robin (Wayne)
Tinyplot: Knightfall


Oracle has posed:
Babs has changed, but it is also very clear that she's relocated to the Mansion for the foreseeable future. The Clocktower is on lockdown during that time, but all access to her powerful Array has been routed here to the Batcave and the massive computer upon which the bank of servers at her home is designed. She's sitting at that computer now, red hair pulled back out of her face in a messy bun, tendrils hang around her pale features. The frames of her red glasses rest on the bridge of her nose while green eyes scan the news files surrounding the build of hostilities that led to yesterdays brawl between Batman and Superman.

Bruce is still in critical condition. Likely no longer in the cave. Details to be determined later.

She's wearing a long sweater, several sizes too big for her, and yoga pants with bare feet. One foot is up in the chair with her and her elbow is resting lightly on the knee, gingerly plucking at her bottom lip with the tips of her nail.

Robin (Wayne) has posed:
     Damian had changed as well, out of the wounded Robin uniform, and into a pristine version. He was mostly silent during the attempts of Doctor Thompkins to save Bruce's life. She both failed and succeeded in saving Bruce, after a slight episode of death, he'd been stabilized and moved. It was a rough night, and Damian hadn't stayed at the Manor that night. He opted to keep himself with Goliath for the night in the Batcave, like old times, the red beast had covered Damian in his wings, and kept awake, guarding the boy. Though even Goliath knew Damian would be safe. Eventually, Damian woke, and tried to occupy his time, it wasn't working that well. He came up to the batcomputer, it's mistress at the helm of the beastly technology.

Oracle has posed:
Babs doesn't sense Damian coming, so much as see it on the cameras fed to the monitors. When he steps up beside her, she glances up and back with a wrinkle appearing across her forehead, "Hey Damian, have you eaten?" She wonders, turning back to reading files with a staggering degree of alacrity for how quickly she's clicking through articles. Her eyes twitch side to side, left to right, power reading.

"Any word from Dick? I haven't been able to bring him up on Comms." Alfred, dutifully, has tried to keep them all well fed and taken care of, but he has limits. Where those limits begin, Babs steps in like any Older Sister should.

Robin (Wayne) has posed:
Damian was quiet as he spoke, not a shy quiet, a withdrawn quiet. "I am not hungry." He commented, as he read those files as well, catching what he could.

  "Not as of yet." He along with others knew he'd show himself once word got out more. Even if they didn't get along that well these days, Dick still cared about Bruce, and cared for every one of them, especially Damian.

  Robin's soft spoken voice sounded...distant. He was trying to figure out what to do. His package from Batman was still in its box, when he came back, he wasn't interested at all in seeing what was inside it. He just knew his father could (and did) die.

Oracle has posed:
"You still need to eat." Babs says as quietly, not as commanding, but she makes up for it with affection for the burlesque son of the Batman. "Alfred.." Keying the comms to the upper levels of the mansion, "Bring down some sandwiches when you have a chance, please." The affirmative is in a quiet tone as well. They're all feeling the weight of this loss.

Babs just does a better job of hiding it than most.

She has to.

Bruce's last word to her, one word, dictated to her the role she had to play in all of this. How she could help in a time where he wasn't there to do so.

Lead.

She was no Bruce Wayne, though. She did things in her own way.

"He'll be fine, Damian. We have to protect Gotham for when he returns.. You know that and Bruce knew that. You're not doing him any good ignoring food and letting your strength sap.. have a sandwich, sit with me, and help me figure out what our next move is. And someone needs to go find Dick.. we need him here now."

Robin (Wayne) has posed:
     Damian knew Barbara was right, he just felt like he was going to throw up at all times. "We need a cover for Bruce Wayne." He comments, it was one thing to make it seem like Batman was still around, but the Billionaire Playboy Business mogul, was another story. "We need to update Fox, there should be contingencies in place."

  As far as Bludhaven is concerned, he looked to Babs. "Brown should have a way to contact him, or know more than us."

Oracle has posed:
"I've worked out with Lucius that Bruce was on at a Business meeting at Wayne Tech Metropolis." Babs says over her shoulder to her little brother, "I took the liberty of changing his itinerary to indicate that his car passed through the site where the brawl took place..." Flipping through to said documentation, "The Wayne Foundation will be making a sizable donation for identifying Bruce Wayne when he was brought to their ER and transported to an undisclosed location for advanced medical treatment."

Bobbing her head slowly, the expert hacker tugs at her bottom lip, "I'll contact Stephanie and see if she can't get in touch with him.. but I need you out on patrols. Without a Batman right now, I want people fucking terrified to do anything that might bring him out... that means the most deadly Robin just got let loose... There's only one rule, Damian.." Turning green eyes to look at him. "There are no other rules. You understand what I'm telling you?"

Robin (Wayne) has posed:
     Damian balls up his fist, her words were encouraging. But he also needed to know what the plan was, which obviously has many more layers than what Damian had thought. "One rule..." He felt almost disgusted, they didn't show Batman that mercy. Superman didn't pull his punches. So why did he need to?

  Robin slammed his fist into the counter adjacent to the large I/O of the batcomputer, the metal had a fist imprint in it.

Oracle has posed:
Babs cuts her eyes up to Damian, "You done throwing a hissy fit?" She can read it in his face, and she feels much the same. The Bats play by rules that aren't being shown them, "The fact that we keep fighting afterwards is what sets us apart, Damian.. We stick to /our/ beliefs now, especially now... but alive has varying degrees."

She turns a little now to face him, swiveling in her chair until she's pointed in her youngest brothers direction. "I want Gotham's criminals afraid of you. If they're thinking Batman is gone, while we figure that out? Then I want them to //wish// he were back... Just don't kill them."

Robin (Wayne) has posed:
     Damian left that imprint in the table, if Barbara wanted criminals scared, that is what she will have. "I will start tonight. Goliath and myself." He says, looking to the snoozing blood red Bat-Dragon in a distant corner of the cave.

  "Anything else?"

Oracle has posed:
"Eat a sandwich before you go." Babs adds with a nod towards Alfred coming down the stairs afew dozen feet behind the young Son of Bruce Wayne.