Characters[]
Location[]
- Clocktower, Gotham City, NJ
- January 18th 2017, 0219 EST
VOX Archive[]
- Oracle: Turn left!
- Luke Fox: Got it. [rapid footsteps, heavy breathing] I'm pretty sure I saw Mutant get clipped by that bus back there, but I can't see Heretic.
- Oracle: I doubt you lost him. I can't get accurate Sat-Feed due to the population density in the area. Oh, third door on your right... Yeah, there. Go in. Flight of stairs on your left. Your other left... There you go. Go down to the second sub-basement and then get into the elevator.
- Luke Fox: [rapid footsteps, footsteps echoing, heavy breathing] What the hell is this place? The Old Gotham Clocktower apartments? There a safehouse nearby or something?
- Oracle: Yeah... The safest in Gotham... Mu place. [shotgun racks]
- Luke Fox: Your place? [rapid footsteps, footsteps echoing, heavy breathing] You mean, I finally get to meet the mysterious Oracle? [rapid footsteps, footsteps echoing, heavy breathing]
- Oracle: Oh... we've met...
- Luke Fox: We have?
- Oracle: Okay... Close the doors, and I'll bring you up to my floor.
- Luke Fox: [elevator door closing, metal rending] No [expletive] way!
- Heretic: Hello, Luck... [whack, whack, metallic ding, thud, gasp, choking breath] Barbara, I know you're listening. You found how I entered last time and have taken safeguards. Activate the elevator and I won't break his neck. You have ten seconds to consider my offer... Ten... Nine... Eight... Seven... Six... Five... Four...
- Oracle: Sorry, Heretic... No deal. Let him have it, guys!
- Bluebird: With pleasure! [magnetic whirring, thoop, pained grunt, magnetic whirring, thoop, pained groan, thoop, thoop, thoop, thud] Now, while he's down, Boy Wonder!
- Robin: Don't call me Boy Wonder! [grapnel firing, grapnel latching, pained hiss, grapnel whirring, collapsible staff retracting, whack] Elevator is clear, Oracle. Bring Luke up.
- Oracle: Copy that, Damian. Elevator going up... Now you guys get out of there!
- Bluebird: [elevator rising] Sorry Oracle... I have a score to settle with this punk. You in, Boy Wonder?
- Robin: Oh... I'm in... and stop calling me Boy Wonder. It's Robin!
- Oracle: Look, we all have a score to settle with him, but this isn't the time. Let's regroup!
- Robin: No can do, Gordon... [footsteps, bo staff whirling] Get up, Heretic. Let's see what you got. But I should warn you... I was trained by the League of Assassins, and I am the child of two of the world's best fighters.
- Heretic: [chuckle] Oh, Damian... We have so much in common... You don't even know, do you? Very well... Let's do this...
- Robin: Where did you learn this stance?! You... You have no right!
- Bluebird: What? What so special about that stance?
- Heretic: [chuckle] His mother taught it to him... Didn't she?
- Oracle: Harper, listen to me! Get Damian and you out of there now! If he's an assassin-
- Bluebird: Look, I don't care what kung fu he does or doesn't know. I know my gunfu is stronger than his- [magnetic whirring, thoop, sword unsheathed, ricochet] Did he just deflect my- [whoosh, whack, scream, whack, staff whirring, metallic clank, whack, whack, armor deflecting blade, metallic clank, magnetic whirring, thoop, ricochet, whack, whack, metallic ding, thud, rapid footsteps, whack, whack, whoosh, thud, thud, pained grunt, pained hiss, whack, heavy breathing, blade sliding on concrete, grappling, whack, grunt, grunt, whack, rapid footsteps, metal on concrete, whoosh, whoosh, whack, whack, pained, grunt, whoosh, armor rending, flesh cutting, scream, blood dripping on concrete] No! [whack, thud]
- Oracle: What the hell is happening?!
- Bluebird: He- He stabbed Damian! [voice cracking] The son of a [expletive] stabbed- [cough, choking breath] Ehhh-ke~
- Heretic: Barbara... I take no pleasure in this... Tell Bruce I want what's in Level 7... or these two won't be the last! [whack, thud, footsteps, blood trickling, shallow breathing: 2 instances]
Trivia and Notes[]
- Part of the Judas Contract Storyline.
- Story continues from VOX Box: Meeting of the Masks.
- Heretic almost killed Blue Bird back in VOX Box: Birds of a Feather.
- Heretic previously broke into the Clocktower and learned about Server Seven in Oracle Files: Heretic.
- Babs has the shotgun. A gift from her dad when she moved out of the house... Never imagined she'd have to use it, but after her last run in with Heretic, she's not taking chances.
- Story continues in VOX Box: A Tale of Two Robins.