On upcoming plots.

[batmanschmatman]

You know, being bitten by a poisonous snake and being taken hostage, interrogated about stuff I don't have the answers to anyway, and then rescuing myself? Isn't a normal day at the office. Even for me.

If this is your solution to feeling kind of burnt out right now, I really hope it doesn't turn into some kind of tradition.

Comments

[sixthanimorph]

Turn into? From what I remember, you getting taken hostage happens pretty often.

[batmanschmatman]

I've been hostage free for going on three years now.

[sixthanimorph]

Guess you were due then?

[batmanschmatman]

Hilarious.

[sixthanimorph]

You're gonna be like this the whole time, aren't you?

[batmanschmatman]

What, a little bitter and sarcastic?

[sixthanimorph]

I was going for 'sulky' but that works too.

[batmanschmatman]

Well I think right after it happens, I'm probably going to be more focused on trying not to throw up or pass out, but yeah, I'm probably going to be a little sulky.

[sixthanimorph]

Oh, good grief. It's gonna be a little bitty dose, don't get your panties in a twist. It's not like you would've just come quietly, you know.

[batmanschmatman]

You could have just asked. Do you actually know how dangerous rattlesnake bites are?

[sixthanimorph]

Oh, sure, that would've worked out. "Hey, Dick, tell me where the bridge is so me and the boys can go mess up the Admiral's shit"? And I dosed a Controller once before, and he lived. You're a lot tougher than that guy was.

[batmanschmatman]

Yeah, living doesn't mean it's going to be pretty. And kidnapping me and poisoning me isn't going to make me talk. I don't even have the information you want, neither does Jim or Capa.

[sixthanimorph]

There's a lot on the Barge that ain't pretty, Dick. I'm not gonna flinch from getting my hands a little dirty if it means going home. And I'm gonna find out what I need to know, one way or the other. If not from you, then from someone. I'll find it.

[batmanschmatman]

If you go after either of them, I'm coming after you.

[sixthanimorph]

You think that scares me anymore? Besides, you're gonna come after me anyway.

[batmanschmatman]

No I'm not. I'm going to be lucky if I make it to the infirmary on my own.

[sixthanimorph]

Then I guess I can go after Kirk and Capa after all, can't I?

[batmanschmatman]

Take it up with Tim and the other wardens. And Jim's apparently going to be my ambulance.

[sixthanimorph]

Oh, I'll take it up with Tim all right. I've got a lot I'm gonna take up with him.

[batmanschmatman]

Pretty sure he's going to have a lot to take up with you, too. What with the almost killing me and all.

[sixthanimorph]

So let him. I don't wanna hurt him, but I'm not gonna let him stop me, not this time. And I can take him if I have to, I just never wanted to.

[batmanschmatman]

Wow, you are really just burning bridges lately.

[sixthanimorph]

Look, Dick, this is it. I'm going home this time, I don't care what I have to do. You can hate me and Tim can hate me, I don't care. You'll be back in Gotham and I'll never see you again. But I'm done letting everyone else control my life but me.

[batmanschmatman]

I don't hate you. I'm just disappointed.

[sixthanimorph]

Yeah, I know. You wanted to train me to be the good little inmate who does what he's told and goes along with the program. You wanted to control me, just like everyone else here. But I'm done letting people control me. From now on, I control me.