Metaheroes Inbox

[helpdesk_hero]

This is David Alleyne, I'm not available at the moment.
Please leave your name, contact information, and what this is regarding after the beep.

Comments

[helpdesk_hero]

You know I'll react if I pick up on anything. Leverage some favors if I need to.

I'll say this, Bart. No one is born evil. Which means people have the choice to walk away from it. So no, I don't think you're being too hopeful.

[kid_flash_found]

He was created in part because Grandma Iris rescued me and got me out of Thawne's reach. So he got raised to be my replacement. But he's from when he actually managed to do that, I think. For a couple of months or so he had me trapped in a VR while he was me.

I think he wanted that life, but not as Bart Allen. The pretense broke something loose. And then the next time I saw him was...well, not long before I died.

[helpdesk_hero]

And you think that maybe here he can find the life that he didn't get a chance to get otherwise? Something he didn't have back home?

[kid_flash_found]

I hope so. At least nobody's forcing him to conform in the same way.

[helpdesk_hero]

Freedom could be useful for him. I hope it works out.

[resurrxion]

hey.

[ there's a very, very long pause. it's not unusual. josh's texting has gotten more and more sporadic as he dug deeper into his research. and, well, he's just prone to hermiting in times of stress. the rising tension between metahumans and baseline humans has been nothing but that, reminding him far too much of -

well.

and of course it happens once morning. he rolls out of bed and knows, because he can't sense her. he wasn't fast enough. didn't find a means to securely get them all back. so he sends the text and just... sits. until he pulls himself together and finishes the thought. ]

laurie's gone.

[helpdesk_hero]

Can I come over?

[There’s so much pain in him over hearing that, a shattering pain that makes him want to curl up and hide. While he wasn’t as prone to it as Josh, he too would hermit when in pain. But right now he knows there is something far more important than that. Josh would always be more important than that.]

Text

[unkindled_madness]

I would like to request your assistance.

[helpdesk_hero]

Should I presume it relates to your OurPowers post?

[unkindled_madness]

Yes.

Would you consider accompanying me?

[helpdesk_hero]

Me? I admit, I hadn't expected that question to be intended to bring me with you.

[unkindled_madness]

You may not remember it, but you assisted me with something similar before, and you were discreet.

Your skills would be helpful.

[helpdesk_hero]

There's only so discreet I can be in a strange world, but I will try my best. I need a few days to a week, though. Something came up with my best friend. I have to address that first. Is that okay?

[unkindled_madness]

That's fine. I am not in a rush.

And, it isn't in my world that I would require your discretion, but afterwards.

[helpdesk_hero]

You would have discretion afterward of course. But I don't think standing out there would be a good idea. I'd hope for a briefing.

[unkindled_madness]

Of course. I will make certain you know what to expect.

[Actually, on that note.]

I intend to kill someone. Will that be an issue for you?

[helpdesk_hero]

I suppose it depends on who and why.

[unkindled_madness]

Is it enough to say he deserves it?

[helpdesk_hero]

To me? No. I would request the same from even Balthier.

[unkindled_madness]

He calls himself a scientist. The worst sort, I believe you would say.

He will do, and has done, anything in service to his goals. He has no regard for human life, or life of any kind.

[helpdesk_hero]

Human experimentation?

[unkindled_madness]

Yes.

[helpdesk_hero]

Without informed consent or ethical boards to make sure people aren't being abused and hurt?

[unkindled_madness]

[He has to laugh at that. Ethical boards?]

Nothing of the sort.

His subjects are rarely willing, and even more rarely informed of what is being done to them.

[helpdesk_hero]

Can I break his leg first?