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[Well, hello there. There’s a friendly face smiling at the network, nervously pushing his glasses up. He doesn’t seem to have any kind of trouble with the computers, but it’s obvious by the way he’s looking speaking to crowds (and he seems to consider whoever might be looking a ‘crowd’) isn’t really his thing.

Or that’s what he wants to make you believe, anyway. Clark Kent had always been the go to personality in case of kidnapping. He isn’t stupid enough to show where is he exactly living, but you get to see enough of his room to guess he’s in the water sector if you care enough to notice that kind of things. Seeing how calm and easy going the guy seems it shouldn’t come as a surprise.]

Um, hello. [A little friendly wave and a tilt of his head.] I’m not really sure if we’re supposed to-ah, introduce ourselves? I was told everything would be alright and everybody I’ve seen has been rather welcoming so far so I though… [He trails off, shrugging.] Call it farm-boy routine I guess.

Anyway, I’m Clark. Clark Kent. It’s a pleasure.

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The number of people from different worlds seems to only keep increasing.

It's a good place.

That's a relief. Man I gotta be more on my game! Can't believe that happened.

[He frowns and runs a hand through his hair and then shrugs.]

Shows that we won't take things just lying back. I mean, as long as they weren't killed I don't see a problem, they kidnapped our people, that's a no-go, they'd do the same if we kidnapped some kedan, right?

[Nita cracks the hell up.]

I'm Atlantean.

[She made Superman laugh. Steph: 1. World: 0]

Not sure how much useful information the general public have, but it'll make good stress relief, if nothing else.

[they're gang members, that means they're allowed to use them as stress relief]

I would have come helped them if they had asked anyway. And it's not like they have kidnapped Brainiac, or Lex or the Joker. Relax Bruce, they probably mean well.

[Nope not even Farmboys are this naive. He follows him, making sure to close the door behind them because he isn't that stupid thank you very much.]

I never lie. Ask whatever you want if you want proof, I'll answer.

[He's tamed Bruce HE CAN TAME YOU]

Just because they haven't doesn't mean they won't. New people arrive every week, between Friday and Saturday.

[Telling him to relax is like telling Clark to stop being a Kryptonian, lbr. And if Clark is going to be so cavalier about it, Bruce has to be doubly on the alert.

It's not that he resents it. Clark's optimism is as much a part of him as the

he wears. Clark's optimism gives people hope when it's the scarcest available commodity. But Bruce is well aware that his job is quite the opposite.

He watches - mostly to make sure Clark's going to lock the door - before he continues on. But they're in public now, and publicly he's Bruce Wayne. The shift in his body language is subtle but present. It changes from a man who's confident because he can do anything to a man that's confident because he has everything. A fine line.]

On your own?

I'm not sure if that's good or bad. It means they might be getting more... random with these kidnappings, I'm still trying to find a pattern.

It is, pretty similar to Metropolis actually. A little darker. [Everywhere is darken than Metropolis though Clark.]

[He sighs.]

They... got decapitated, Kon-El. To set an example.

The Emperor told me it wasn't intended to be random. But something went wrong in the summoning process.

Some parts of the city, I guess. You just have to know what to avoid.

...Not always.

...Oh, you're from Atlantis?

[His last meeting with an Atlantean that wasn't Arthur wasn't... nice, but he knows it's unfair to generalize. Plus, different worlds and all that.]

I've always been more of a yoga kind of guy myself. You get tired of punching things eventually.

Wait...do you mean the girls that got taken up on the stage? Cause, I knew about that...or is this another kidnapping thing?

Okay, hold up here. It's not like I wouldn't read a paper, but you do realise that starting a newspaper could be just as bad as putting your nose where it doesn't belong, right? I've heard about plenty of good people that got in trouble because they published the wrong thing. [She leans closer to the console, trying to read his expression.] Please tell me you're keeping it to feel-good news stories.

[Generalizing Atlanteans to be massive jerks is entirely fair. Nita's far and away the nicest of them any surface dweller has a chance of meeting.]

That's what I said, pal.

Oh, yeah. Because the word of some dude I've never met before who promises that he's telling the truth is totally someone I'm going to believe.

I wasn't born last week, dude.

[Steph's expression sort of just - twists, as she tries to picture Superman doing yoga and her brain proceeds to get all Blue Screen of Death. No offence, Clark.]

I'm not sure I want to believe that, but I'll defer to your greater experience in the field.

[Clark does indeed lock the door because wouldn't you know? They have locks in Smallville too. And he's been living long enough in Metropolis to leave some of that farm-boy naivety behind. Really Bruce, he's not a kid.]

I have bee thinking about that, actually.

[He reaches for his glasses, pushing them up. He's really glad his actual human identity isn't supposed to be dumb or he doesn't know how he could handle some of these conversations without pulling his hair out.]

If we actually know the days people appear, maybe there's some way to... I don't know, find out how. You said some foreigners were metas, I'm sure we could patrol air, earth and water to check everywhere.

They can't just 'appear', right?

Really? That's- did she told you something else about this summoning process? It sounds important.

[He smiles a bit] Same as every city, I guess.

Well, that's good. Even if you can take care of yourself being on your own can get... well, lonely.

Just that she was no master of it, and that the sudden arrival of people here was the first successful attempt.

Sounds about right.

That is true.

And if they're using a method of teleportation? If the ocean acts as an event horizon? It's not a bad plan, but you can't rule out the possibility that they do just appear.

[Clark's alternate persona may be intelligent, but while Bruce has been steadily working towards increasing his public image in the past few years, he's still seen as the profligate playboy. Here, at least, there's a malleable foundation to his public identity. No one yet who knows or can assume exactly how Bruce Wayne is supposed to act. So while his tone is light and airy, cavalier as anything, he's still being somewhat serious.

Because like it or not, they're still Superman and Batman discussing a mission. Like any other day of the week back home.]

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