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Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2010 8:02 pm
Octavious looked back down at the girl. He thought for a moment before replying to her. "...hnnnn. Not just yet." then he looked back towards the man. "Can you get a key to one of these trucks?"
The man hesitated a moment.
His hesitation was all Octavious needed to believe he could. "Start up one of the vehicles then." The arm released the man, but followed him towards one of the trucks. Octavious kept his eyes on the man, but addressed the girl. "Why exactly are you here, girl?" If there was a morgue in...wherever this was, then it certainly wasn't the place for a child.
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Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2010 9:33 pm
For the first time, the expression that flashed across her face was one of honest fear. "I don't know," she replied softly, "I was... in a fight one second, and then I was here. Upstairs, though."
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Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2010 9:37 pm
Octavious glanced away from the man and looked down at the girl with an arched brow. "You were in a fight...?" His expression and tone suggested that he was more interested in what kind of fight she was in, rather than being skeptical that she was actually in a fight. The costume and blood all over her was evidence enough for that. And he wasn't going to question her being somewhere else one moment, then here the next. He'd had quite enough of that himself on this planet.
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Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2010 9:42 pm
She shuffled a little bit and finally met his eyes, her expression shifting towards surly once again. "Yeah," she confirmed, her tone challenging. This a*****e didn't need to know the details-- they weren't any of his business. After a moment or two of thought, she grudgingly added, "... I was losing a fight, actually. If you really want to get specific."
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Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2010 9:57 pm
Otto fell silent once again as he stared down at her, the wheels obviously turning in his head. Before he could comment further, or give any hint as to what was going through his mind, the revving of a vehicle engine caught his attention and he turned towards the car the man had gone towards.
The man had started one of the trucks, then stepped away from it. "There's your truck. There's still no way to open the doors though." the man said, his voice a bit calmer than it had been before.
A faint smirk crossed the doctors lips. "Unless of course they're not functioning properly. Move the car towards the exit. I'll see to it that the door opens." He glanced back down at the girl. "I'll need you to follow for just a while longer. Should you keep up with your excellent behavior, you'll have no problems from me." he said, his tentacle gently nudging the girl forward again.
Inside the truck, while the doctor hadn't been looking, the man activated one of the buttons under the passenger's seat. Both a silent alarm and tracking device.
In another part of the room, out of the doctor's line of sight, was a man wearing a long blood-red trench coat. He stood leaning against some of the crates in a rather dark area of the room.
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Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2010 9:59 pm
The little girl nodded curtly and did as she was told. Hopefully she'd get the orderly out of this in one piece... and then...? Honestly, part of her wanted to take this guy apart.
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Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2010 10:08 pm
Otto led the girl up to the door, and waited while the other man stopped the truck in front of the door. Octavious let two of his arms slip behind the truck and pry open the doors. A few crates were still sitting in the back of the truck, but they seemed to be well secure. Glancing down, he ushered the girl into the back of the truck.
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Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2010 10:12 pm
Hit Girl blinked up at him. "But-- you said--" He was going to take her WITH him? That wasn't part of the deal! This was a hospital, meaning that there were medical supplies here. Medical supplies that she NEEDED.
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Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2010 10:26 pm
"I said that I needed you to follow along for just a little while longer." Otto replied calmly.
The other man stepped out of the truck and looked back at them with a bit of concern. "Come one....she really doesn't need to-"
"You will be driving us out of this place. The sooner you get us a safe distance from here, the sooner we can all get on with our day." Otto said, cutting the man off. A metal arm snaked around rather insisted that the man get back into the truck.
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Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2010 10:32 pm
"Don't touch him," Hit Girl ordered him in a soft, deadly voice. She was quickly nearly the end of her rope. "Let's get one thing straight right now. I'm behaving because it seems like the simplest, least painful way to go about this. My beef isn't with you, anyway. That said, you are a giant p***k, and my tolerance for giant pricks is extremely low. I'll drive the truck, and we'll leave him here; I'm trained for commercial vehicles, and he probably isn't, being a freaking orderly. No offense," she added to the man, "Now give me the damn keys, and lets get this over with."
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Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2010 10:42 pm
Octavious turned his attention back towards the girl, his expression showing definite interest. In contrast to his face, however, his robotic arms seemed to hiss as they arched around him. The orderly simply stared back at the girl with a slight bit of surprise on his face. Slight. He did work in Arkham after all.
"And should we come across guards on our way out?" the villain questioned. They would certainly run into a bit of trouble there. Especially if someone who looked no more than ten were driving the vehicle. And people who were not scheduled to be driving on the grounds.
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Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2010 10:46 pm
"I guess I'll knock them out," Hit Girl said dubiously. Better unconscious than dead. That said, her specialty lay in killing people. She'd never attacked someone without the intention of making them very, very dead. Coolly she reached out, grabbed a nearby and very innocent-looking phone book, and tucked it under her arm. "So? Are we going, or not?"
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Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2010 10:52 pm
Otto fell into a moment of silence again as the wheels spun in his head. The next moment, the arm that had been forcing the man back into the truck wrapped around him and lifted him off of the ground. It didn't wrap tightly...just enough to pick the man up. The arm moved the man half way across the room and set him down ontop of a large crate. "Don't move from there until we're gone." Otto commanded.
With that, he stepped to the side to let the girl past him and into the drivers side of the truck. Now, he wasn't taking his eyes off the girl.
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Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2010 10:55 pm
Hit Girl paused just long enough to shoot the orderly what she hoped was a fairly reassuring smile, then carefully slipped past the doctor to set the phonebook on the seat. Then she sat down on top of it, buckled herself in, started the truck, and calmly put it into gear. Everything was done quickly and efficiently-- she'd clearly driven a big-rig before. Multiple times.
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Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2010 11:02 pm
Fairly impressed, the doctor lifted himself up and over the top of the truck thanks to his extra arms. He lowered himself down along the passenger side of the car and slid inside. He used one arm to buckle himself in, another turned and seemed to be on guard duty as far as Hit Girl went, and the other two sank inconspicuously behind Octavious and between the seat.
Otto wasn't the only one who was impressed with the girl. Reaper emerged from the shadows just enough that he could continue watching them. He really shouldn't be taking an interest in anything other than looking for heroes. But...he really wanted to see how this turned out.
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