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Batgirl and Green Arrow have been riding for a few hours now, on their way to Slaughter Swamp: the last sighting of the mutated, truck driving zombie dubbed "Gingross." The red-tinged air pollution of Gotham fades behind you, giving way to the muted moonlight of a cloudy night sky. The swamp carries something of a supernatural reputation, as you're well aware- if the "hauntings" in Connor's building can be traced anywhere, Slaughter Swamp is as likely a point of origin as any.

Eventually, you run out of road and park the Batcycle. The nearest source of real light is coming through the window of a nearby, small wooden shack right on the edge of the swamp.

Date: 2014-10-23 05:38 am (UTC)
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Oh, that's not good. Connor considers taking a shot at the turrets, but they look heavily armored, and so, trusting Starfire to take out the other two, he picks a man in the window and fires an arrow at his hand.

Date: 2014-10-23 05:49 am (UTC)
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"I need a jetpack," Steph decides, yanking the remains of her cape off. She flings it away from herself and hopes one of the turrets decides it makes a better target than she does now.

Connor's got the right idea; it'll be better for them to take out the people and Starfire to take out the turrets. She pulls a stingerang out and aims; it's full of a jellyfish toxin serum, so if it hits, it'll cause a lot of pain in short order. She aims at one of the gunmen and lets fly.

Date: 2014-10-23 06:21 am (UTC)
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Kory decides to go a little more up close and personal with the remaining two, flying at high-speed towards them, fists extended for a double-punch, fists glowing with just enough energy to really make it sting... though probably not as much as Steph's little invention there.

If she happens to be able to disarm them while she's at it, all the better.

Date: 2014-10-23 06:37 am (UTC)
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Connor takes a moment to assess the field. He's not really sure where the best place to make their stand is - with Starfire inside, they're splitting the team just by being here, but at the same time, forcing them to send the "subjects" out divides their forces as well. Not to mention that there could be any number of unknown traps inside - he'd already gotten more than his fill from that trap in front of the door.

Then again, he's also seen full well just what those turrets can do. The way they've been following him, though, makes him wonder if there isn't a way to gum up their targeting system.

"Batgirl!" he calls out. "Do you have anything that can take these out?" As he speaks, he looks over the turret nearest him as best as he can, trying to see if he can spot a camera. If he can, he'll try to put an arrow in it.

Date: 2014-10-23 06:43 am (UTC)
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"I'll give it a try," Steph yells back. She's got a few kaboomerangs left. Now seems like the perfect chance, so she pulls one out and aims for the turret that got her poor cape.

Better her cape than her, though. She's glad Operation: Matador was a success.

Date: 2014-10-24 03:06 am (UTC)
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Starfire realizes she's gotten a little too far ahead of the group, and falls back, deciding that facing "test subjects" alone is probably not the best idea. Time to regroup, and make sure she's there to take any further shots aimed at her teammates. That burn Connor's sporting should have been deflected by her.

Date: 2014-10-24 04:46 am (UTC)
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"There's gotta be a way to disable those things," Steph says, digging in her belt until she finds a taserang. Hopefully it'll be enough of a shock to short the turret out. She takes aim and hopes for better results than last time.

Date: 2014-10-24 06:39 am (UTC)
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"I'm sorry, I should have done that earlier," Starfire says, calmly, after the turrets exploded. She picks a few stray pieces of one out of her hair.

"Now, I'm fairly certain there's some sort of gooey zombie mob on its way. We should probably prepare for that." She looks between her two comrades. "For the record, zombies mean I'm allowed to use lethal force if I have to, right?"

Date: 2014-10-24 10:25 am (UTC)
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"They're being controlled. They're not mindless," Connor replies.

He glances cautiously back at the fortress, trying to see whether they're planning on sending the "subjects" out or trying to lure them in. He rolls his shoulders gingerly, and is surprised by how little the burns hurt, which is either a very good or a very bad sign.

Date: 2014-10-25 05:34 am (UTC)
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Koriand'r gives Green Arrow a sad look before turning back to the approaching grotesque horde. "I don't think these subjects survived the testing process," she says. "But I'll do my best to simply incapacitate them."

She doesn't sound like she has much hope that will work before she starts in on Longlegs with a flying double-starbolt-charged-fist attack to his front limbs to try and throw him off balance like an AT-AT.

Date: 2014-10-25 05:09 pm (UTC)
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Every now and again, Connor really starts to think he's gotten the hang of this whole "superheroing" gig. Coming off some mission or another, he will decide that this, finally, is the point at which his path is clear and he is comfortable with his life.

The last time he'd felt this way, life had thrown him against a literal dragon.

This, somehow, is actually worse.

Connor clamps down on his initial "panic" response, trusting Starfire to be durable enough to handle herself. Instead, he elects to get some distance, circling around in the vague direction of the shack behind them, and fires an experimental shot aimed at the stomach of the one with the longer legs.

Date: 2014-10-26 02:40 am (UTC)
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Steph shudders as she looks at the... she can't call them people anymore, but she feels bad calling them monsters. She decides her best bet is to go for the puddle-person, so she grabs a glue-arang and tosses it. Hopefully it'll gum things up, or maybe stick them to the floor.

Date: 2014-10-26 04:00 am (UTC)
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Starfire can survive in space. That doesn't mean being inside this thing is... pleasant, or isn't scaring the hell out of her.

Inside the dark, fleshy tomb of the inside of the zombie's mouth... stomach? Whatever it is, Starfire goes for a whole-body starbolt explosion.

She lets it build up in her for quite a bit before letting it finally go off, making it one of her stronger bursts, hoping it will burn and/or break through the thing trapping her inside it.

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