Mistake 004 ⇒ Voice/Text

[ichoosefight]

[ Private to Bruce Wayne ]

Y-you're the techiest te-tech guy I know. Can you fix this problem wi--

[ quick switch to text ]

im being electrocuted plz help

[ Private to Tim Drakes ]

plz tell me you know how 2 fix chip problem

Comments

voice; Talon encrypts everything, including this.

[redlyreflecting]

I'm sorry. Bruce or Tony are your best shot — I'm trying to get a hold of the latter.

text; good man.

[ichoosefight]

called bruce. plz try. its importnt

action;

[a_dark_crusader]

[ For the past week Bruce has been nearly completely engaged with outfitting the cave, and when he gets her call, it takes him nearly half the time it normally would to reach her. He uses one of the outcropped tunnels spiderwebbed throughout Seattle, and in true Batman fashion, he's there both unexpectedly and alarmingly fast.

His voice has a touch of urgency to it. ]

What happened?

action;

[ichoosefight]

[ Poor Steph is sitting on the ground of her room, against the wall, twitching every now and again. She doesn't even try to get to her feet when he shows up. ]

I d-don't know. Looks like it's happening t-to a lot of-- [ The chip goes on the spritz again and the next thing she knows she's screaming. ]

action;

[a_dark_crusader]

[ He grabs her by the shoulders and lays her down against the floor to keep her from hurting herself while seizing. His jaw is firmly clenched and his brow knit with genuine worry-- continued subjection to voltage of this degree will eventually kill her. A plethora of different trauma could come from this.

He touches the side of her cheek to try to bring her back to him. He wants to take this away from her. His voice is softer, but firm enough to call her back through the pain. She's a strong girl. He knows she can take it.

He just doesn't want her to. ]

I need to sedate you, Stephanie. You're going to sleep for a little while. Everything's going to be fine.

action;

[ichoosefight]

[ She struggles to focus on his face-- or at least his general shape-- and nods jerkily. She can't breathe, she needs to breathe, and finally the electricity stops. The thing must be broken, because it's given her three quick, painful zaps in the last five minutes. Her eyes are watering and she keeps twitching, but at least the pain has stopped. Compared to this, being sedated would be a cake walk.

...A cake walk probably with needles. Why was it always needles? But she sat as still as she could manage. ]