Since RMC talked about 'Named guys' as a title that didn't include them, he knew RMC must be nameless. They were also well educated, but he still wondered if she would truly get it, as Katie could have trouble sometimes, though that was mostly a focus problem. "Precisely, when I said system I did not mean the governmental system or even the hierarchy system. I meant the system that defines even these things. What society sees as right and wrong, change how people think, what they'll fight for. The system that controls it all is the human belief system. You can topple a corrupt leader or government and see it rise again if the people don't realize that they themselves have to work with something else. If you go and expose the corruption that lies, and the problems the government tries to hide. Showing and proving the wrong that exists and that there is a better way, then the people will fix what is destroyed using better ideals.” Afterthought was trying to explain that the government may perpetuate and use the system in place, but the system based off public beliefs needed to be taken care of just as much. The best way to do that would be to expose what evils the people that support this system have, while showing the good you and your system do.<br/><br/>“A fight against the government has to be a fight against what they’re trying to indoctrinate people to believe. If you win against the government but have the people’s hate, you will have nothing. You can’t make them martyrs, you must be heroes in the people’s eyes, every battle won should either boost your reputation or be done in secret. The root problem is always in what the mass majority believes, because if enough people are against something, it will not stand or rise again. It’s true there are worse systems, but they usually don’t last because it’s obvious they are bad, but this type of system is the worst because a large amount of the populous are prospering while being against others that suffer, it divides and conquers,which is what makes it so bad. This system must fall, but this is a fight that can only be truly won if you have the majority of people as allies. That isn’t the only way to win this, but it’s the most certain to. I don’t know if you understand all of that, but I am resolute in these beliefs."<br/><br/>___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________<br/><br/>Katie was just sitting there crying when she noticed the three men in the corner of her eye. She didn’t really want to deal with them or anything else. She didn’t really see that she could just straight up fight 3 guys like this, it would take too long to get her gun out, a bullet would go through her before then. So she didn’t react or acknowledge their existence, just kept crying seemingly unaware of it all. She decided that once close she’d try something, anything, against the thugs. But Q came first, she was shocked, him coming out of nowhere and when he through the powder, she couldn't stop herself from naming the chemicals and the reaction that took place. This made her feel a little better but she was still pretty down. Feeling a little more capable she grabbed her bags planning to use the diversion to get a weapon. But then he grabbed her by the shoulders and picked her up, the chemical she had gotten out fell out of her hand, breaking once hitting the ground.<br/><br/>They were then off and Katie couldn’t help smiling while being carried through the air, being saved by some mysterious man was kind of wistful. Back at the three men, they were all coughing on a gas that came from the vial. Once they landed and she looked back at the man, her smile faded being back to her melancholy state where she felt like everything would always go wrong. Something was off about this man to her, he didn’t seem like a hero, and she had a feeling that she should be careful around him. This upset her because she always seemed to have to watch who she trusted. But when she saw that he was wounded, she went straight to him and started working on the wound, being very gentle.<br/><br/>This took her out of her sad state, being able to help someone meant a lot to her and gave her a sense of control, so she became more normal, for her. She was now back to being somewhat mentally detached again. Katie spoke to Q in a cute friendly tone, while her concentration and hands didn’t waver even from the distraction. “Thank you ever so much Dark Catalyst. You saved me from the evil kill happy government, that make me so grateful. Like Torgano getting broken out of prison by Azariah in The Runabout 2. Is this wound from friendly fire, that’s how the movie went. It’s not a great movie, or maybe it is, I don’t remember. I’m Katie, I don’t know why those guys were after me, kind of scary right? You were pretty amazing, I loved the use of chemicals, so good and explosive, I’m a chemist, or I was. I like blowing things up sometimes, I’m good at it. Did you know I’m a genius, it’s true, though my mind isn’t what it used to be. I’m like Jeremy Reynolds in Broken Hearts and Broken Minds.” Dark Catalyst was a super villain nameless in one of the Holy Protectors movies, a propaganda filled film about catholic church sanctioned superheroes. Dark Catalyst used explosives and usually fictional chemicals and powders in his goal to take over the world, the movie worked hard to show him as a very despicable criminal.<br/><br/>She stopped talking for a moment as she took some supplies out of her case and bag to help with mending his arm. “I still need to get my turtle though, and maybe a few rats, do you like rats? I hear they taste delicious when brushed with a moonshine glaze and then barbecued.They’re kind of cute, I’d like to have them around my lab, my lab is awesome, you’d like it. Maybe you could come by sometime, I could make you a nice dinner too, you saved my life, i’ve got to do something for you. Are you busy saving people all the time? I’m usually busy researching conspiracy theories, if you want and have time I can tell you all the theories I have and believe in, it be nice to talk to someone about it other than Afterthought, and in person. But it’s also probably dreadfully boring to a man of action as I assume you are. That’s good too, action is good, gets things done. Oh two more thoughts, the most important ones: Are you trying to do good and save this corrupt world, like I am but in a more save damsels from government baddies sort of way? And second, do you have any hot peppers?” Katie didn’t really get she was talking too much, she said whatever popped in her mind, her ability to filter things out have been lacking since the accident, and her thoughts spawn from more random things. She could keep important things to herself, things the government wouldn’t already know, but everything else had a risk of being blabbed out.<br/><br/>___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________<br/><br/>Brian smirked, speaking coolly and without a hint of sarcasm. “Yeah, I was delivering a baby and those little guys come out all covered in blood.” He stretched for a bit before continuing. Now he was serious, but he talked in exactly the same way, but he used more hands gestures and there was passion in his eyes. “Family means nothing, I look at people in their own right, I’ll either like or dislike you based on you and your actions. How can a title mean anything when it has no real presence, it’s what you make of it, so it doesn't matter. You can tell me that my family name makes me better than I would be without. Just as you can say the sky is green until your lungs collapse, it won’t make it true. What we do matters, if you somehow made a device that could make the sky green, then it’s no longer just talk. Same with everything else.” The rich and prosperous liked rare things, especially vintage rare things. The rarest things were illegal, so the worst offenders were the higher up families. Brian didn’t care for that sort of thing, didn’t have any desire nor time for it. But he still knew some thanks to people he socialized with, he had heard about and watched one show and movie in particular.<br/><br/>Firefly and Serenity, a science fiction with space travel, so it was very far fetched and Christopher, who had him watch it, had to pay an arm and leg for it since the government is really strict on even fictional shows that involve space travel. Most people accepted this as being because a large amount of money had been wasted in the past on space programs when it then proved to be impossible to actually get there, America alone spent around 500 billion dollars in total. The show itself was similar to the state of the world now, except seen as bad, enough to know that they feared this and it used to be better, he strived to get back to that. Any ‘earth past’ stuff, as he called it, that he had gotten and researched was in order to find out what they used to do right, his goal was to get back to that.<br/><br/>But he barely knew of batman, mainly that he was a born billionaire who used gadgets and training to fight crime, Brian believed he came from earth past movies. He didn’t like that comparison, he wasn’t a glorified cop, and most importantly he wasn’t born into wealth, he worked his ass off to get here, barely surviving sometimes but he pushed through until he reached his goal. Of course he wasn’t going to watch an innocent get hurt, but his goal was bigger than stopping a handful of criminals, he wanted to save the world, bring things back to how they should be. “Oh no my dear, batman wishes he were me. It took a lot to get where I am today, because I didn’t get things handed to me, I fought for them.” His voice was still level and calm, he acted as if he could easily handle anything without even getting stressed. But when she talked about not up to roof hopping because of all it took not to get caught, he seemed a little sad, almost sympathetic.<br/><br/>“Yes, because I do have a high family name, with a lot of power, it’s sadly easier for me to do things. It’s why I’ve worked so hard to get here. Being able to be seen by cameras and the authorities and just seen as a thrill seeking rich kid, is one of the many ‘privileges’ I get as being a Rasputin. My worst worry is some small fine, but that’s rare as I have more power than them, so why risk me being spiteful from it. I hate it, truly I do, my adopted name should mean nothing, even my wealth and land shouldn’t, do you know how hard it is to get out of your poverty level? It’s a sad state of the world that you have to have money to get land which you need to make money, and even small business’ can’t get to where I am without some extremes happening because they don't have the extra money from profits to put into expanding the business. I’m not even proud of how I got here, usually if you do everything right with your business and your lucky with things going your way, best case and I really mean best, is that your business is doubled, that's it for your  whole lifetime. Marrying to a higher family is your best bet to get ahead, increasing your business with their assets and then when you divorce, your business has benefited and can now thrive with more land on it's own, that's how I did it, because I don't let anything get in the way of my mission." He seemed somewhat emotional now, he looked passionate about it. Ever since he was young he had been doing what he had to in order to never be crushed by the world.<br/><br/>Brian was used to just acting a certain way, never letting anyone know what his true goals were. It was good to be able to talk about it, he had been holding it all inside for too long. This was the first time he had a chance to talk to someone about it all without worrying they would try and use that knowledge against, she could try but he had far more influence than her and it would be his word against his, so she couldn’t do much. Though he had a feeling that he didn’t have to worry about her as an enemy,  and since he already told her so much, he might as well tell her the things she wanted to know. “My mission is not to stop rapists or thieves, it’s to make the world right again. I’ve done so much, sacrificed so much so that I would actually have a chance to do it. Doing little things isn’t enough, and to do big things you need power. I just won’t stand by when I see a need. My name is Brian, and it is very good to make your acquaintance.”