Gotham City General Hospital

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The hospital ER buzzes into a flurry of activity as EMTs try desperately to peel the battered armor of a man who, mere moments before, apparently fell from the sky, crashing into Robinson Park. Ultimately, maintenance crews with welding torches were called in, and at long last the helmet comes off, revealing the battered and moustached face of a

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[anotherknight]

A police presence at the door will not be enough to keep him away.

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It's late, and industrialist and former Outsider Geoffrey Barron -- sometimes the battlesuit-wearing superhero known as Technocrat -- lies asleep.

His medical chart rests on the foot of his bed -- he's been in and out of consciousness, after what seems to be a brutal beating. Considering how powerful his battlesuit is, the assailant must have been superhumanly strong.

[anotherknight]

The meager lighting does little to mask the livid bruises present on the man before him. The force required to inflict such damage isn't lost on the towering figure. Nor is the significance of the attack itself. Geoffrey Barron represents the second in a pattern of assaults. The circumstances of Looker's surfacing were suspicious in and of themselves. Barron's present state solidifies his concerns.

He steps closer to his former teammate, searching for signs of awareness.

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The movement seems to stir him. Groggy, barely aware ... he moves his head to the place in the darkness where he would expect someone to be.

"B ... B... Batman?" he asks into the night. His throat seems parched, his voice, thin.