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[freedomofreach]

WHO: owwmyspine and freedomofreach
WHERE: Just outside the Porter building
WHEN: This afternoon! The 10th.
WARNINGS: Possible violence or mention of violence
SUMMARY: The Negotiator gets Ported in and gets stumbled upon.
FORMAT: UH, WHICHEVER

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[owwmyspine]

One more week.

Jaime couldn't grin too much, flying as he was (it was cold, okay), but he really couldn't help. One more week and the semester will be done. It hadn't actually been as big a deal before, starting college and picking a class here or there. But with all that had happened over the summer, trailing into the fall...He was really wiped. Really wiped. The prospect of an actual break sounded amazing. Heck, he was even considering taking an actual break - no superheroing or anything for maybe a few days. Fly south, like a friggin' goose. Get some warmth to fight off the crummy, crummy cold.

And thinking like that, he couldn't not grin. Even in the face of the latest Joker attack, he was feeling hopeful.

Street level, Citydwellers already learned well to crane their necks now and then - moreso since that hideous blimp had roamed around the day previous. But near the lab and MAC area, it wasn't big and bad - it was blue. But it wasn't the "Look! Blue Beetle!" that caused Jaime to slow and hover high above

[freedomofreach]

Now that his fingers were more manageable, the Negotiator started flipping through the Network. It appeared to be mostly inane chatter, but perhaps he could glean some useful data from it. So far there were quite a number of posts about people being transported random places, which might offer some explanation as to why he was on Earth and not - -

Did someone just say Blue Beetle?

He looked up from the device and around. There was no possible way Jaime Reyes could be here, so soon after being on his knees and powerless before him. Not unless whatever technology that brought him here also brought Reyes - or if it was Reyes' fault after all.

[owwmyspine]

The closer he got to street level, the more obvious it became. Even if Jaime and his AI pal didn't recognize him, he definitely stuck out and produced some stopping and staring. He being...

Being...

Being not a good thing to be here. But Jaime couldn't rush to too many conclusions right away; aliens weren't really a natural-born thing in this universe, as far as he knew. The odds of this guy being the first of many were...uh...

Well, he didn't know that, either, but one crisis at a time!

He waved a little at some of the folks who spotted him, slowing his hover when he was in earshot. Or...whatever constituted ears on a Reach guy. Whatever.

"You get blasted all the way into another dimension, huh?" he called, yellow eyes narrowing to slits already. "That must suck."

[freedomofreach]

"Jaime Reyes."

The Negotiator immediately focused his attention on the hero hovering above him. He started to figure out the odds. He was alone and weaponless. Reyes had gotten the Scarab back and functional somehow.

And this talk - another dimension? Not dimension shifting, something different. Whatever it was, Reyes knew what was going on. Not that it would prevent Negotiator from trying to assume the upper hand.

"If you think that getting pulled to this other dimension, as you called it, is going to prevent our victory - then you are more foolish than I thought."

He practically spat out the words.