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At the Opera Tonight

Dec 30, 2010 18:38

The city of San Francisco is VERY accommodating when they broadcast that two Titans are aboard and that there's a impending terror attack at the peace conference ( Read more... )

"filthy lucre", fauna, changeling, mento, robotman

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green_menagerie February 15 2011, 04:07:38 UTC

Gar charges the basement in manticore form, hoping to intimidate his opponents out of his way. Quiet seems out of the question now...

nation_doomp February 15 2011, 04:12:38 UTC

He was hoping to focus the gunfire on him. Well, first rule of superherouing - no plan suvives contact with the enemy.

God, he can practically hear Caulder over the coms, the Chief's calm voice and dry wit, always just a few seconds ahead of everyone in perception...

He waves his hand and the helmet hums as the incoming backup is thrown against the wall.

green_menagerie February 16 2011, 05:12:28 UTC

"Seriously, Mento," Gar asks as they move towards the basement, "do you really believe all that stuff about the Chief?"

nation_doomp February 16 2011, 05:58:12 UTC

"I had all his notes, and over fifteen years to study them. I didn't want to believe it at first, but..."

He turns around, waves his hand, and sends a heavy prop cart to block the door behind them.

"The Chief was a lot of things, Garfield. But most of all, he was right, and he always could see that second ahead of everyone else."

green_menagerie February 16 2011, 06:00:08 UTC

"There was one thing he was wrong about," Gar replies, using the moment of respite to return to human and poke a finger in Mento's chest.

"You."

nation_doomp February 16 2011, 06:05:56 UTC

He scowls hard, and for a second, looks like he's about to lay into Gar.

"I've made my mistakes, and I'll pay for them. When this is over, the key to Dr. Caulder's files is in the same cabinet as my helmet. Look over them yourself...unless you're still inclined to accept some pleasant lies over the harsh truth."

green_menagerie February 16 2011, 15:34:05 UTC

Gar doesn't flinch. "I'll take the truth every time. But I'll believe the Chief before I believe you every time."

nation_doomp February 17 2011, 04:45:54 UTC

"You still think I wasn't following Niles's plan to the letter? He wanted a big change, Gar. He wanted to make the world a better and stronger place through tragedy. The Patrol was a test run. You know why the Brotherhood was after us? Those were his attempts that failed - Rogue, the Brain, all of them."

"It's all there in the damn files."

He's still pushing ahead as fast as he can.

green_menagerie February 17 2011, 05:24:53 UTC

Gar keeps up behind him. "You just can't believe that someone would do something without an ulterior motive, can you? Is Rita the only person you've ever seen as honest? Or do you think she just married you for your money?"

nation_doomp February 17 2011, 05:34:07 UTC

He whips around and you'd swear his eyes went red. Gar finds himself at the receiving end of a hard telekentic shove.

"You little punk. You do NOT talk about Rita to me that way. Ever!"

green_menagerie February 17 2011, 05:41:09 UTC

Gar transforms again, becoming a green gargoyle that shoves Mento back.

"Hit a little too close to home?"

nation_doomp February 17 2011, 06:16:16 UTC

"I should have been there - at Codville - with them!" he roars. "But I wasn't, and I've spent my entire life trying to carry out the work in their memory - in her memory. So no one else would be enduring what she did - what we ALL did."

"Wouldn't it be nice, just for once, to be in a world where people aren't making comments behind your back? Where people aren't ridiculing us, except when they want us to die for them?"

green_menagerie February 17 2011, 06:27:06 UTC

"It's not about what'd be nice, Steve," Gar replies, snarling back. "It's about what's right. You do what's right and don't do what's wrong. Simple as that."

nation_doomp February 17 2011, 06:39:01 UTC

He sighs. "It's not always possible."

Forget the kid. He's headed for the bomb.

green_menagerie February 17 2011, 06:57:56 UTC

Not alone, he's not.

"Yes," Gar replies. "It is. It's not always easy. But it's always possible to do what's right. And that's not something you ever understood."

nation_doomp February 19 2011, 03:18:45 UTC

"Look around you. Society is moving backwards. Scientists are ridiculed. Religious nuts and fools are running the show. Those who are 'different' are still in danger every day of one little piece of legislation taking all their hard work away. Your girlfriend and her idiot hippies think that social change is waving signs and chaining themselves to the fence at a nuke plant, but that crap was quaint in the sixties. The world needs its bad men at the gates. And if I have to be that bad man because Niles isn't around to be - then so be it."

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