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dcau: jason todd

Welcome to the gunshow

Who: Chris & you [open], plus a closed prompt to Hibiki and Maria
What: Getting Used to New Surroundings
When: Late September
Where: Excelsior, Central City
Content Warnings: N/A, will update if there are any

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"Nice," Chris replied, standing up. She grinned, and glanced down at his holsters.

"I see you're carrying. What kind of pistols are those?"

Despite his helmet, Jason can't help but smirk back at her.

"Jericho 941s. Nothing too fancy but they usually get the job done," he replies. His arsenal is large enough that he's free to switch to whatever type of handguns he wanted. A vigilante with a reputation like his needed the variety, lest he be too easy to identify. Tonight just happened to be a Jericho mood.

"I've never seen your gear before."

"A solid choice," Chris says with a nod. At his statement, she grins yet again, and holds up her weapons.

"As for my gear...it's custom," she explained..right before morphing them into a pair of heavy chain-guns, which she lifted seemingly effortlessly.

Jason makes a low whistle, impressed by Chris's weapons. It seems very useful to have transforming weapons.

As he looks over them and Chris's armor, it dawns on him that it somewhat reminds him of Hibiki's. Sure, the armors' colors, weapons, and even fighting styles are different but it's not often that armor looks the way Hibiki and Chris's do.

"No kidding. I've never seen gear like that before," Jason says. For now, he won't mention Hibiki. Even if he was absolutely sure Chris and Hibiki are from the same world, Chris is understandably protective about who her allies are and he doesn't want to reveal his cards on the table. "Ever had problems reloading them?"

Chris wonders if that's true, since Hibiki mentioned being a famous hero. Wouldn't lotsa of people have seen it by now?

"They reload themselves," Chris explained with a smirk. It was actually more complicated then that; her phonic gain turned energy into matter and auto-generated whatever ranged weapon her imagination could create. "I never have to worry about running out of ammunition."

"Well now I'm jealous," Jason lightly jokes, though still impressed. "Do you know how expensive it gets to keep buying ammo?"

Jason guesses that there must be a catch to having that type of ammunition but he also makes a mental note that this means Chris could be a very tough opponent if they ever fight each other. He has to be careful.

"How long you've been using those guns?"

Chris raised her hands again, and the chain guns seemed to fold into and disappear into her armor.

"I imagine it must be," she said, rubbing her wrists. "And I've been using them for a while...at least since I was 14."

Jason's helmet hides the slight furrow his brow is making. 14 is too young for a lot of things, including fighting.

"That's a pretty early start for anyone," he says in a neutral tone. He assumes there are reasons why she started young.

"...It's a long story," she sighed. "And...what's done is done. But I use these to protect now, not to destroy my enemies."

"Clearly," he says calmly and not surprised. "Been doing that job long?"

"A couple years now," she replied, wondering where the police were. But this guy seemed decent enough to talk to. "I just came in through the confluence in this world, though."

"Seems like the case for a lot of metas in this world. There's a new batch every month as far as I can tell."

Jason's unconcerned with the cops' response time for now. It's typical for them to be this slow and at least the criminal they apprehended isn't going anywhere anytime soon.

"...every month?" Chris asked. "What, it's not all at the same time, is it?"

"From what I've seen, they seem to show up towards the end of every month," Jason replies.

He's lurked at the Diadem Hotel's lobby often enough to notice the pattern now.

Chris blinked several times, before gritting her teeth and clenching her hands into fists.

"Okay, I can't speak to what exactly, but...that shit is definitely planned! It can't be random!"

"Your guess is as good as mine as what's going on. This world has a long history with Confluences," Jason says calmly. "They're related to why we have a guild system too."

"I don't know what's going on, but I know a pattern when I see one," she said. Then, after a moment, she sighed.

"Though I doubt it has anything to do with this guy."

And she nudges the caught supervillain with her foot.

Jason barks out a laugh.

"Yeah, no. It's not. Central's just full of costumed weirdos who wanna make a name for themselves. He won't be the last one you deal with."

Chris nodded.

"That's just great. Going from dealing with alchemists and Noise to weirdos in spandex...that sounds like a fun time."

Her tone is clearly indicating she's being sarcastic.

At the mention of Noise, Jason further suspects Chris being connected to Hibiki. Her statement has a little ambiguity and could mean the more common definition of "noise" but considering her armor, Jason doubts that.

He also hasn't forgotten what he saw in Hibiki's memories. What should've been a good day for a concert went horribly wrong. The brutal attacks. The casualties. Of course a special defense force had to be made afterwards.

For now he keeps these thoughts to himself. Though he's become more sympathetic to Hibiki after sharing memories with her, he's still wary about how to deal with her.

"At least you won't be bored," Jason says in an amused tone. "Didn't know alchemists could be a problem."

Chris scoffs, none the wiser of what Jason knows.

"Oh they're the worst," Chris replied. "We've had to deal with different groups of them at least three times in my world. I mean, I could sort of sympathize with some of them, but..."

Her voice trails off. She did feel sorry for Noble Red. And Saint-Germain and her two companions had helped them. She couldn't bring herself to say "you just have to deal with them" like she wanted to at first.

"And I'm guessing these alchemists go beyond turning lead into gold," Jason says, imagining if alchemy has anything to do with the unique armor.

"...Creating gold was just one small part of all that," Chris said, with a shake of her head. "Let's just say that we dealt with multiple groups of them, alright?"

"Fair enough," Jason says simply. He doesn't expect her to say everything when they only just met. "You'll probably meet plenty of other supervillains while you're here."

"Oh joy," she replied. "Are they all as tenacious as this one? Because if they are, I think I already prefer them to the alchemists."

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