<div class="floatleft">(http://i.imgur.com/FbjDXdl.jpg)</div><hr/><strong>Name:</strong>Jason Todd<br/><strong>Nom de Guerre:</strong>The Red Hood<br/><strong>Affiliation:</strong>The Bat-family<br/><strong>Time:</strong>Saturday the 17th of October 2015, 20:15<br/><strong>Location:</strong>Gotham Central Bank, Central Gotham<br/><strong>Tagging:</strong>Aquaman, Booster Gold, Flash, Thorn, Ivy<br/><hr/><hr/><strong><em>Summary:</em></strong>Jason listens to Orin and Ivy, and decides it would be best to investigate into her claims to see if there is any validity to them. Despite the animosity between him and Orin, Jason respects Atlantis and its oracles, so he'll allow Orin to interrogate Ivy in his own method. Before departing from the battleground, he gives Orin something to consider<br/><hr/><hr/><br/>His anger was slowly diffusing, replaced by confusion and frustration. He felt he had no allies here, merely other people with goals that vaguely paralleled his own. Orin was pushing his buttons, and it took resolve borne from years of training to keep from jumping him. But he had to fight down the urge that he had developed as a desperate youth from the Narrows, to physically put down anyone who tarnished his name, because back then, a name was all a street kid really had. He gave a visible shake of the head; There would be no winning if he fought Orin, but that didn't mean he had to like it.<br/><br/>As if having to listen to his spoken words wasn't annoying enough, soon the King of Atlantis began to talk into his head. Jason gave a couple sharp raps to his helmet, wondering if it was just some static he was dreaming of that he could shake loose, but no,<em>of course</em>this arrogant metahuman could telepathically communicate.<strong>"Mmph,"</strong>Jason grunted, cut off from Ivy thanks to a new golden bubble swaddling her, instead taking to angrily pacing along the perimeter of both of their golden bubbles, the popping of his knuckles loud as he cracked them within his gloves. When the mental intrusion was over, Jason had been apprised of Orin's report of some sort of prophecy or warning against Gotham. A 'Calamity'. As much as Jason despised the King of Atlantis, he knew to heed the warnings of their oracles, at least. It had been one of the last 'normal' interactions between Jason and Bruce, after Batman and the JLA had returned to the surface after visiting Atlantis. Jason had been more than interested to hear about the kingdom at the bottom of the ocean, about the society that had been just a myth for centuries upon centuries, and Bruce had spoken with appreciation about the wise ones called the Oracles.<br/><br/>Ivy's description of the 'Rot', as well as the 'Green', the 'Red', were all beginning to affect him too, and when she easily disappeared from her golden cage to reappear next to the duffelbags of money that she had appropriated earlier, he was more inclined to agree that perhaps they should consider what Ivy had to say.<strong>"All right, all right,"</strong>he finally conceded, giving one last long glance at Ivy, who had demonstrated her impressive new abilities but did not seem hostile any longer, and in fact seemed cooperative, to a limit. Jason was teetering on a decision, to stay there to help ensure Ivy's cooperation, or to leave to begin his own investigation into her claims, when a taper of flames burst through the ceiling, settling into a hover over the assembled band of heroes and their quarry for the night. Princess Koriand'r; He had known her from before his death as Dick's on and off girlfriend, but nothing more than that. It wasn't until four years after his death, in 2013, that he had actually worked with her; He was running afoul of some of Hong Kong's elite assassins, hired by the wealthiest gangs native to the city, after he had tried to assume control of them... She had helped him through a tough jam, and he emerged considerably richer from it, and had even managed to declaw some of the most dangerous outfits the trade city had to offer. Ironically, she had just arrived, and she was the soundest ally he had present... Which affirmed his decision to leave.<br/><br/>Jason's boots crunched across the rubble strewn across the bank floor by the exploded ceiling, coming closer to Orin; There were several feet separating them, but Jason was thought he was maybe an inch taller than the Atlantean, only thanks to the boots on his feet, if anything. He had previously been sure that if the two crossed paths again, he'd put the troublesome Atlantean in a world of pain, but it seemed they were going to be forced to be allies, if at least just for this case. Still, there was no love lost between them.<strong>"You do what you need to do to corroborate their stories about this Red and Green stuff. I've got plenty of Batman and Justice League archives I'll pore through back at my base, see if I can find anything more. I'll stay in touch."</strong>As he spoke, he had been turning his head, to address Booster, Flash, and Starfire, as well as Orin.<br/><br/>But he focused on the king of Atlantis at the end, hand going to his hip... To emerge with the grapnel gun.<strong>"As inhumane as you think my tactics can be, just consider what you're about to do to Ivy. You're going to strip her of her free will. Force her to answer your questions in a manner that she can't refuse. It's not ethical by a country mile."</strong>He casually tossed the gun between both hands, ready to use it, but waiting to get in his final words.<strong>"So the next time you want to talk down to me, you <em>deserting coward</em>, just keep in mind that we're not as different as you like to imagine. And next time I see you alone, let's settle this like humans; no magic."</strong>He kicked out with his left foot, scattering detritus from the ground to clash against his flickering golden shield. Then, he put his left hand into the air, and fired his grapnel; Within 1200 milliseconds, he had shot from his position on the ground up to the Bat-glider, hovering a few hundred feet above the Gotham Central Bank. As soon as he had secured a handhold on the vehicle, it began to veer west-northwest of Gotham City, towards Wayne Manor and the Batcave, where he would do his own homework on Ivy's claims.