Prompt Post - Part Ten
I am REALLY, REALLY SORRY about taking so long, guys, and about not being around much recently. I've been busier than I have in a while, and it just kept slipping my mind between uni applications and volunteering and all sorts- for some reason I thought we were much further off a new post.
If there is anything I haven't responded to, as of now, I'm ( Read more... )
Jade cinches the sash, double checks her jitte, and then hides away her face.
Cheshire slides the window closed without a sound. Cheshire is the one who climbs up, up, up and then makes her way across the rooftops.
Jade is the one to crouch at the very edge of a dilapidated roof.
But it's Cheshire who rises and performs kata after kata, drilling herself on movements she learned from the day she could toddle and hold a knife at the same time.
But the person, the woman who is both Jade and Cheshire, uses that time to wonder: What is beta protocol?
The Guardian can be as bright and happy and well-meaning and law-abiding as he likes. Cheshire knows what Cadmus is, because she knows who funds a quarter of it. Recently he was raving to her father about giant albino wolves.
Cheshire lets herself in from one of the top windows. She threads her way through the corridors and then down into the labs. Guardian isn't on duty, so she installs herself at a computer and plugs in a thumb drive.
An LED blinks green for a few moments as the thumb drive takes snapshots of every byte of data that computer has accessed in the past forty-eight hours.
When it stops blinking, she removes the thumb drive, shuffles a few papers, and leaves through a window. Let the Justice League worry about the silent alarm.
She doesn't let herself think too hard about the thumb drive until she's locked down her private safehouse. She carefully disconnects her laptop from all external networks.
If her hands shake when she starts inspecting the mined data, it's probably just adrenaline jitters.
She knows about the 'broken arrow' trigger. She's seen it in action more than once. But gamma and beta protocol?
Jade sifts through the data she found.
Glass shatters. Cheshire drops in through the window, landing on Sportsmaster's most recently broken shoulder. She rolls off before he can fling her off.
"Cheshire," Sportsmaster growls.
"Beta protocol," Jade says, and the jitte finds its way to Cheshire's hand, "is just insulting."
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