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video; backdated to the morning of the 14th

[Once again, Tony's all business and all sourpuss. But this time, he's just gotten out of bed: his hair's still sticking up in places, and careful viewers might notice that he's presently missing an ear. This week's thieves somehow managed to take something of his.

...N...not the ear.

Either way, for a guy who's notoriously anal about knowing where his things are all the time, this is a Big Thing-- particularly when Tony's got some sentimental things tucked into the wallet that was pickpocketed away from him last night.]

I've gotta hand it to you, whoever you are-- you're way more than just a petty thief. [He sniffs in distaste.] You're pretty good to slip under my nose. But three thefts on Foreigners in a row, all within a few days? Unless you're trying to show off, you're just making yourself obvious.

Sooner or later, you are going to get caught.

[Tony adds, coldly:]

By the way, I keep my juulan in a bag-- not my wallet. You've just wasted a whole lot of effort making one more enemy. Unless the Emperor's set up a currency exchange and I haven't been paying attention, have fun with my useless American dollars. Asshole.

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[If Clark notices the lack of an ear, he doesn't make any comments about it. The journalist gets ready to take notes- this sudden rise of thefts can't be coincidental.]

We shouldn't completely rule out the possibility that the Kedan are the ones stealing things.

[He hums in a resigned sort of agreement.]

Still. All in the same week, from the same relatively central group of people?

From what we've seen, the people they have stolen from aren't exactly standard careless, easy-to-mug victims. Using shape-shifting would make it easier- but that would raise the question on why would they start stealing from us I guess...

What's the relationship between us and the kedan, anyway? On a larger scale. If it's one of them they could be trying to send us a message. An intimidation thing.

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At a risk of sounding cliche I'm afraid I have to say 'it's complicated'. They seem nice enough, they give us a house, they give us jobs, they give us- anything we need actually as long as we ask nicely.

But a while ago the powers that be had to set some strict food rationing when the turtle fell ill and the Kedan blamed it all on us wasting their resources. It's calmed down a bit now that everything is more or less back to normal but all that anger didn't just come out of nowhere.

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[Fingersteeple. Crime! Gosh he loves crime. Well, solving it. This is a little below his standard paygrade (those being, you know, a superstitious cowardly and criminal lot) but it's something to focus on, and so. Here he is.

Acting, of course, the idiot.]

They aren't leaving a calling card, are they? I saw that once in the cinema.

[... These thefts do coincide rather neatly with Selina's arrival, but she wouldn't, surely.]

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[Very funny, Bruce.]

Please. No one's that glamorous in the real world.

No? I have to say, I'm a little disappointed.

Well, I'm sorry to break it to you. The ones who actually do try to be dramatic like that are usually really off-kilter, anyway.

Oh, I know. There's one group of-- well, scoundrels that are always in the news in Gotham.

[He says it with a particular detachment, like someone relating an interesting story that doesn't affect them in the slightest. 'Scoundrels'. Infuckingdeed, Bruce.]

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Poor Tony.

Someone wants your treasure.

[Oh, it's... the guy who flirted with him at the party. Uh.]

Not like there's much to be had in my wallet. Never did get paid much back home.

Maybe they're after your jewels.

[WAIT

WHAT]

M-my jewels aren't for anybody on this damn turtle, thanks!

Well, that's very selfish of you, Tony.

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Good job, Ton. A+ police work, buddy.

Shut up, John.

A federal agent. A fucking federal agent gets pickpocketed. [MUMBLE GRUMBLE.]

Only you would be dumb enough to get pickpocketed too. Whoever did it sure has your number.

Need a hand getting it back?

Maybe.

[He's still super embarrassed that this happened to him in the first place-- but it's John. Even if he makes fun of him for this, it's not like he wasn't going to for literally everything else anyway. He can't really do much more damage.]

I was walking through the Fire Sector.

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[Black mask, black and blue suit? Check, and check.]

What kind of wallet was it? Sometimes people go for flashy, even if nothing is actually valuable. They just think flashy means money.

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Just a typical wallet, brown leath--...

[Tony stops, staring. Guess whose universe has literally every weird element EXCEPT for superheroes.]

What are you wearing all of that for?

[Standard question, apparently, but hey, Dick has done this enough times to know how to do it.]

It helps blind bad guys into submission. [That answers it, right?] I'm Nightwing, and I'm here to help. So, brown leather wallet? What's in it?

[NOT AT ALL, but he gives up-- he's on a freakin' giant turtle, there are bigger fish to fry than Dick's spandex-clad butt.]

Uh... Credit cards, driver's license, somewhere between forty and forty-five bucks, pictures? Belonging to an Anthony Chu.

[he pauses, flustered, before continuing--] Listen, I've worked enough cases to know what to do for a little pickpocketing. I can handle this.

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Dear officer, Your wallet and your American dollars are safe with me.

Return it. Now. And I have a colleague who can trace your location if you don't cooperate.

[He's only half bluffing because he doesn't know that Colby would just blow up the console trying, but still.]

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