#agent oracle;;

[psivn]

A Soldier's Farewell

ft. Khari Braithwaite

Adrenaline raged inside the man's chest as the engine the fueled him pumped with only a pride that his Nana would be proud of. The honor of his journey led him this far and it wouldn't fail him. Not now. Oracle's mind was mighty. Strong in every discipline. And his telepathy was far from a small pebble cast into the sea. It surged through Boudica's thoughts. Her memories. What he could decipher in the fraction of a blink was integrated into his own. But her battle violently spun out of her own control. Every passing moment Oracle was sending small psionic bombs, detonating upon contact. Her sonic screams fizzled in effectiveness. The slacked jaw. The drooping eyes. The poor ability to keep her focus. All of it made the man grin in delight.

"Run up?! Get SMACKED!" The shout barely encompassed the wave that rocked her shit. Her body slightly convulsed. Her stubbornness still preventing her surrender to be effective. She'd focus on the integrity of the structure, trying to burrow just deep enough to expose the skeleton of the beast that was Atlantis. He was careful not to harm Vulcan during his showmanship. The man rooted deep and the thrashing increase in succession. The screaming was grew intermittent- like a blinking light bulb meeting the end of it's lifecycle.

That was the highlight. Recounting the last few moments was far more difficult as staff secured the lifeless body of the Czernobog operative. He could faintly remember congratulating Vulcan on a pretty successful interception. Atlantis could stand to operate, yet again. Though, something felt terribly wrong. His own senses betrayed him. The corridor grew longer and skewed. His own legs barely capable of sustaining his own weight. His own perception corrupting the system, so to speak. He'd give way. A heavy thud bellowed in the small span of the area. Someone could think this was his way of displaying his fatigue. Though, internally, it was so much more. His breathing altered under the weak shifting of his gaze. The swiping motion made him dizzier as nothing seemed to 'catch up'. "For..give me, Ma." He barely whispered as he used the wall for leverage. He continued. Refusing to give in to whatever this influence was.

The Hangar Bay.

Khari stumbled. His feet barely capable of the steps he'd force upon them. Knees buckled beneath him. He fell forward by a few steps as he sank to a kneeling hold. His arms freely to his side as it seemed he'd already lost the functionality of them. His neck craned toward the open span of the enclosed space. He took an inhale and let his telepathic pulse consume every conscious and able PANDORA agent. "This is a final push! This is Oracle's Blight!" It was a mighty display of his abilities. He channeled all of his psionic energy and granted the agents an edge against these machines - To perform at a higher degree of their own mental capacity. And with that, the connection was severed.

Khari's eyes drifted toward the ceiling. His gaze pooling red as he felt his own body grow numb to the thrum that coursed every inch of his body. He'd let out a shaky sigh. Final messages sent out to those that needed to hear from him. At least one last time. Especially the one who he'd know would suffer the most. He'd answer those weary concerns of agents who didn't feel they were capable, dispelling any doubt in their own abilities. Those were the people he'd always care most about- the soldiers underestimated by themselves or the world.

One final push.

[the-thing-inside-your-closet]

Who Started The Fire?

From the prompts list:

“That’s my emotional support entity of questionable moral standing.”

Batman stared down the two teens standing before him. The boy was pointedly looking anywhere but the Bat’s face, finding more interest in the dirt and gravel crunching under his shoes. Meanwhile, the girl stood with her arms crossed, head held high, meeting Batman’s gaze with a defiant glare that wouldn’t be out of place on any of his own children’s faces.

Behind them lay the smoking remains of what was once a warehouse that had been used as a front for a weapons smuggling operation that the bats had collectively spent the past few weeks investigating. Although their investigation had taken longer than anticipated thanks to this group’s rather impressive security, they had been so close to a breakthrough…when the place had gone up in an inferno.

When the Gotham vigilantes had first arrived on the scene the fire had been so intense that they’d had to put in their gas masks to avoid any inhaling any of the thick black smoke from not only the fire, but also whatever chemicals may have potentially been within the building that would have been released into the air.

Batman’s initial hypothesis had been that the group had become aware of their investigation and burned the place to avoid any evidence being discovered while they moved locations. However, that theory had been shelved when Red Hood had announced the presence of charred bodies amongst the rubble, and evidence of explosives having been used in multiple area where the building’s structure had been the weakest. Whoever had been inside had not had any warning of the blaze that had swallowed the building too fast for them to get to safety, and with the structure being compromised from the explosions all exists had been blocked, preventing the inhabitant’s escape. Red Hood and Nightwing had been discussing potential suspects as Batman and Red Robin searched for any evidence that could have survived the destruction, when a clattering sound followed by the sound of voices hushing each other had altered all of the on scene bats to the presence of possibly several unknowns.

The two teens had been apprehended quickly and ushered to the side, far enough away from the scene of the fire to avoid them overhearing details of the investigation and to prevent any potential tampering. Accidental or otherwise. The teens had been stubborn in their refusal to answer any of the bat’s questions to their presence. Nobody knew why they were there, where they had come from, and they had even refused to disclose their names. Oracle, unfortunately, was sick with the flu and had been gently ordered to rest by Agent A. Batman was nevertheless confident that they would be able to discover their identities quickly either once they had returned to the cave or if they could get the kids to talk.

He would have asked Red Hood to speak with the teens, he was the best with kids. And if caught up in anything illegal they often seemed to respond better to him due to his more ambiguous morals and reputation for ensuring kid’s safety. Both from rouges and in some cases, the rest of the bats and birds. But he had been needed in Crime Ally after he had been alerted to a gunfight breaking out between two gangs who had been more hostile and antagonistic in recent months. Nightwing had accompanied him, and Spoiler had diverted from her patrol route to assist. That left Batman and Red Robin behind to deal with both the police and the frustratingly stubborn teens.

Batman resisted the urge to punch the bridge of his nose as yet another question was blatantly ignored by both kids. The boy had begun fiddling with the sleeved of his letterman jacket and the girl had taken to checking her manicured nails for any dirt or imperfections.

Just as he was about to turn the questioning over to one of the on scene police officers, a writhing mass of shadow had emerged from the girl’s shadow. Two tendrils of black smoke reached out to wrap themselves around the wrists and hands of both teens, who had in turn glanced down at their hands and smiled.

“We’re fine,” the boy had muttered quietly, “no need to worry.”

“What is that?” Batman asked, eyeing the mass with a cautious suspicion. He wanted to believe it wasn’t hostile given the kids reactions to it. But this was Gotham.

The girl shot him another glare, one hand on her hip while the other remained in the hold of whatever the shadowy mass was.

“That sir,” she spat out the first word with such venom to her tone that Batman almost flinched, “is our emotional support entity of questionable moral standing.”

[zed-sabre]

💖 IT'S A NEW ORDER FORM FOR BUYING STICKERS 💖

now that everything is done and printed, a new google forms is up for online orders of my sticker sheets! i'll be posting close ups of the metallic effect on the stickers too. thanks for your patience, and reblogs are greatly appreciated!

[lorelovinglunatic]

Each member of the Batfam has a signature color except for Tim and I’m tweaking out about it.

In age order:

Alfred (Agent A) Pennyworth is white. (Ha ha yes literally) but also he’s clean and somehow manages to be classy even when splattered in blood. Also his hair.

Bruce (Batman) Wayne is gray. Bro is the night but he’s also not born to it. He’s as close of an imitation to darkness as someone who is still undeniably hopeful can be.

Kate (Batwoman) Kane is red. But in a lesbian way. Bordering on the magenta in the flag.

Barbara (Oracle) Gordon is orange. Yeah it’s probably because of her hair. Also it’s a brassy orange. She’s strict and intelligent but also funny. Idk man

Dick (Nightwing) Grayson is blue. Royal blue. Predictable ik, but he’s predictable. He’s a (not-so) reformed crash out and I think he deserves his peaceful blue that’s also just a little too bright to really be peaceful.

Cassandra (Black Bat) Cane? Black. Actually silent. All the training of Bruce without the white, quiet joy and domesticity of being raised by Alfred. Is the night. The opposite of Bruce, who chose to emulate the night when suited up, she is cursed to be it even out of costume because of her upbringing.

Jason (Red Hood) Todd is red. Not the bright red of his Robin days, but not too much darker. The blood he’s spilled mostly absolved by his later actions and his realization of his manipulation by Talia, but still staining his conscience.

Steph (Spoiler) Brown is purple. I mean the costume is literally purple, but she’s also just chill like that. She’s funny and pretty much does anything for the plot. She’s so purple to me.

Tim (Red Robin) Drake is ???. He’s not really red despite it being in his name. I can’t figure out what color aligns to him, especially because imo he hasn’t really had his own identity. Jokes about him being the Replacement hit hard when you realize that just like the rest of the Robins, barring Dick, he didn’t have a strong emotional connection to the suit. Tim arguably had more of one than other robins, from his stalker days and idolization of Batman and Robin, probably in third behind Jason “Robin makes me magic/literally haunted by his own younger Robin self” Todd. Then, just as he’s getting his footing being Bruce’s kid after his parents die, Bruce disappears and the mantle is passed on to Damian. So he becomes Red Robin because he still doesn’t know who he is without being Robin. And then writers mostly forget about him, sticking him with being Red Robin indefinitely and also eternally 17 because they can’t b bothered to give him any decent character development. So I don’t know what color fits him and it’s really very upsetting because he’s a very interesting complex character and should get one. Anyways

Duke (Signal) Thomas is yellow. Yeah it’s his suit color and also he can literally manipulate light, but he’s also the literal embodiment of the color. He’s arguably the most normal of any of them, and a practical ray of sunshine compared to most of the family. He’s also the only one working the day shift.

Damian (Robin) Wayne is green. No, I don’t know why. In some comics he wears more green than other robins, but in others he’s exclusively in red, gray, and black. Every time I think of him in his league wear I think of it as green, but it’s not, it’s gray or black. I don’t know why he’s green, he just is. He’s feral and loves animals which gives me forest green energy but he’s also terrifyingly trained and in control which gives me army green energy. He’s a green somewhere between the two.

Anyways they all have a color except for Tim and I’m really sad about it thank you

[seilnakyle]

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Hu?

This looks so cursed

Yay clancy im so proud of u!! Also she looks so ugly with this artstyle im sorry, totally out of place :/

Whump writers be like:

But like, they didnt even begin to start thinking about torturing him before dick escaped. Total clickbate >:|

Pretty man down!

I sure do

Oh dick i love you

Oh :(

This was such an interesting oneshot with it going back in time each page

DUDE what the heck

Bruce really just looks like a grumpy toddler throwing a tandrum in this arc

Clark really just projected his period cramps onto him huh?

This caught me so off guard, it feels like he is naked without his mask on. He really is just the "people with blue eyes: OvO"

Huh??? This kid shows up and you're just automatically gonna make him a superhero??? Without asking him??? Without imforming him of all the dangers????????

Just because you have super powers shouldn't make you automatically obliged to be a hero!!!!?????

Also little ramble: i feel like this worl'd finest comic, while i love the colours and artstyle, it feels like there is no real story. It very episodic "lets defeat the bad guy with exploding colours!" With no struggle, no overarching plotline like the nightwing comics for example, it feels very uneventful/unimpactful which just really isnt for me, and i dont care about this david character cuz like, he is just there to be a copy or the supers' stories and like even the chapter where he is meant to have his growth moment its kinda judt "i cant do it!" next page "oh look at that i can do it!"

I love you cass

Bahaha actually calling it furry lol

Oh sleepy damian gives me LIFE he is so cute my heart

This arc (#71-#74) is hilarious and so fun

I always love the *deep sigh* "only in bludhaven" moments

Oh no, there she is

I knew it (it was pretty obvious she was going to be inspired by this book like tad was)

Awww he's so cute!!

Oh i love amy so so much

Also read joker: last laugh, very cool

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[geeky-nightphilosopher]

Headcanon that all the batkids gained random traits from the Justice League.

Not just any random traits, traits that irritate Alfred.

Alfred, who has tried to train these kiddos with proper etiquette - only for that etiquette to be thrown out the window when they come back from the Watchtower.

Bruce, Jason, and Damian are the only three that have yet to be affected. Bruce because he's grown up with Alfred. Jason, because he's barely welcomed - and only if another bat is around - at the Watchtower. And Damian, because everyone is beneath him.

[thebat-musicman]

Babs and Alfred deserve to be on coms judging everyone like the two old men from the muppets

[livsoulsecrets]

Azrael: Agent of the Bat #60

Babs worrying about Cass and Dick reassuring her <3

[mysecret02]

Hello lovelies!

Trapeze artists Dick and Jason.

Just imagine Haley's used to be about two families marrying together due to financial reasons but over time other issues started to rise and a generation and reaching European fame later they separate again.

Both keep the name because it's already famous and start touring on different sides of the continent.

The Haley's with the Grayson family becomes much more famous and starts touring around the world while the other Haley's stays mostly in Europe or Middle-East.

Generations are passing by and not many remembers the connection anymore, those who do only use it for marketing purposes so when the Graysons die Bruce doesn't even think about looking into the rumour about things hundred years ago.

Even if they were true the two Circuses haven't interacted in many years so it wouldn't be relevant and maybe he really wants to keep little Dickie.

Then comes the Court of Owls and nothing leads back to the other Circus in Europe because the deal was made after the separation.

Then one time Dick needs to go undercover, maybe agent 37, but the point is that he sees the other Haley's and after the mission he goes back in hopes of seeing the place he considered his home and what he didn't have anymore.

Maybe it's self-blame or curiousity that leads him to the show but he sees it and it has a very different program so he gets a bit sad, maybe it's better this way, until the trapeze artist comes on and it's nearly the same routine.

He watches intently and feeling just like a kid when he used to see his father practice his part alone than.... there's nothing, there's no part for two people.

His heart aches because he can't stop seeing the part where her mother would have jumped and caught his father's hands with love and admiration on her beautiful face.

Maybe that's why he went to find the artist. He walked through the river of people he so enjoyed getting lost in, stopping to give a pat to the friendly elephant on the way to the back.

He asked about the show and turns out they only had one trapeze artist and the trapeze. The artist wants to teacher a young couple who were brought up in the Circus and would like to take over, but they would need a pair to safely show them how to do so.

Dick wants to help but doesn't know how to. Pairs need to work together for years and trust or at least know eachother's moves and style, he couldn't do it with the old artist. There isn't anyone who would know the routines, it was only him, his mum and dad, and Jason.

Jason. He had taught him when he had given him Robin. Robin meant his family and he wanted to fly with his family again so he taught his first little brother and Jason wanted to be able to do it so much, he wanted Dick's approval so deeply he practiced until they could move in sync and do it together.

That night his fingers hover over the call button, than around three he makes the call.

Jason doesn't understand why he needs to go to some small European city where even the trains don't stop but begrudgingly agrees to go just because Dick rarely asks for help.

Two days later he stands in front of a Circus tent? and suddenly sees Dick in a God awful uniform, like it's really horrible, showing nearly everything.

After Dick explains everything -no the clothes are absolutely unexplainable and is it really neccessery?- he is floored. He travelled to the middle of nowhere so Dickie could play pretend with him, again?

-Pray tell, why can't the pretender do it?

-Because he doesn't know do routine.

-Why? Didn't you teach the new birdies how to fly?

Silence.

- It was a family tradition, to teach the younger ones. After failing Robin, failing my little brother I couldn't do it again.

And Jason is a weak man to those puppy dog eyes, even if it's a twisted kind of logic and Dick is nearly thirty, he couldn't say no.

So they start to practice again. They spend most of their time on the trapezes, when they don't practice they argue or talk to the people of the Circus.

Dick seems to be happy and Jason really enjoys getting to know all the culture and traditions braided into each other from all around the Globe.

After a few weeks they start to train the new couple. It's harder for first timers but they are learning fast and Dick and Jason gets closer to each other, finally talking instead of shooting and not having the place to run away for a long time it gets easier.

The night before the couple's debut they both find their ways to the training ground, Dick frantically checking the ropes and trying to make them strudier, trying to rewrite history, Jason worrying about his big brother who has given him something special.

They make the routine a final time. As the light shines on them being in the otherwise dark tent Dick can imagine how it was doing the same jumps with his family, now two decades later doing the same thing.

He can feel the faint smell of popcorn and dust and leather with chalk. He can hear the breaths breaking and faintly see someone cover their eyes in the coat of their loved one, feel the grip on the tape on the metal bar and he jumps.

He is flying again, it's different than on rooftops, it's a different kind of adrenaline and freedom, it's his life, it's what he had shared with a smiling little kid who was so happy to be considered part of the family, the same smile looking at him now and opening his hands to safely catch him.

The next night the new couple shows up on the stage in the air and gets to experience it for the first time. They don't talk, they don't tell on each other for crying, they don't wait until the end of the show.

They go home to Gotham and don't tell the others, it's their little secret now, one that can continue living on because of them.

If they ever go back nobody knows, if they ever disappear for a few hours nobody knows, if they donate anonymously nobody needs to know it either.

"Would you really tell on us Barbie?"

*sigh*

*click*

O: At least they are getting on now.

[psivn]

[luli-lads]

*Takes deep breath* Okay.

- Predictions and analysis of the 4 new chapters -

(If you're reading this in the future, this was made before the chapters were actually released, because I have brainrot)

"Death and Rebirth"

Just like we have "Under Deepspace", "Long-Awaited Revelry", "Prologue to Tomorrow" and "Homecoming Wings", this is going to be the name of the new main story, which will contain 4 chapters, and I'm guessing each of them will have 9-10 episodes of actual story, with some battles sprinkled in.

1 - Absurdity Unfolds

The Gaia Research Center is where Josephine worked as a researcher, and where MC (and Caleb) were being experimented on as kids.

If you remember, ruins of research centers were in the N109 Zone, so although we have no confirmation of this specific one, this is probably a Sylus chapter.

I'm guessing MC is trying to uncover more of her past, and that's why she decides to sneak into this 'laser-surrounded' place. I wonder if we'll get info about Caleb as well.

As for the 'Zoion Hunt'... Hmm... I wonder if that has to do with the little cube we saw Sylus and MC holding in the trailer. It seems to be some sort of game. Perhaps the people chasing them are trying to win the game too by snatching the cube from them, or perhaps they're guards who took notice of MC's breaking into the research center.

The last part, about the arena, seems to connect directly to the next chapter, as we can see by the next picture (it looks like a futuristic football field lol).

2 - All From Deepspace

Now, I'm not sure what's up with the arena itself. So I'm gonna leave that in the air and let y'all speculate.

Let's just focus on the text itself.

MC successfully gets into the lab where they experimented on her, and either finds records of what happened there, or has flashbacks about it. That's where the quote at the bottom comes in.

I'm also thinking that the car chase sequence might be at the end of this chapter instead, once she has gathered all the info she needs and has to escape from the Ever guards, she calls Sylus to come pick her up.

As for the thing that Sylus destroys... There's no confirmation from the voiceline itself that it's the cube (sometimes they mix voicelines and scenes that don't correspond) but whatever it is, I'm pretty sure he destroyed it because it had a tracking device or something like that. And MC gets mad because she thinks he destroyed it for no reason, and wanted to take it back to Unicorns to analyze it. OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT IDK

3 - Cosmic Speck

Immediately the fact that there's snow already tells us that this is a Zayne chapter. I'm guessing this happens a day or two after the previous two chapters, not immediately after.

And. Btw. 'Unsettling figures lurk in the darkness', that's about Dawnbreaker. If they were just talking about those 'Alterum' they wouldn't mention them in the next sentence, or they wouldn't use that first sentence. It's a nudge towards Dawnbreaker + the Alterum at the same time.

I'm really worried though. Because, you remember when Zayne's branch was announced and we saw him wearing Dawnbreaker's clothes so we assumed it was him, and then it wasn't...? I'm worried they'll pull the same stunt and it won't actually be Dawnbreaker.

So if it is... How did he get here? Or how did we go there? They're talking about Linkon City, not about Chansia, so... It means he came here... But how...?

About the Alterum, they seem to be people that are being taken by Protocore Syndrome, but not quite yet turned into Wanderers. Still, kinda monstrous, maybe? (Half-Wanderers, just between you and me)

The fountain of Atei is Ever's ultimate project. About reaching immortality. As for how the Alterum and the project are connected... The greater number of Alterum probably mean more people that Ever has used as test subjects, which means they're getting closer to their goal if they're using more resources on their experiments.

As for the plot in this chapter exactly... I'm not sure about the sequence of events. It seems like it's gonna take place around the city, helping/killing Alterum with Zayne/DB. Maybe that'll lead him and MC to break into another research center...? ...Xander? (Which leads us to the next chapter)

4 - Snow Fades at Dawn

Yet again nudging us with that chapter title huh.

Just like I said in the previous chapter, more Protocore Syndrome, more subjects, more Alterum, etc.

But it also adds something new. It seems like some of these patients, before they even turn into Alterum, are choosing to be treated by Xander Sciences using their Life Pods (I'm assuming that's what the 'cocoon' part is referring to, since yknow Ever owns Xander), to try and stop the illness, but by doing so they become willing test subjects (and maybe that's when, if the experiments fail, they turn into Alterum).

I'm also wondering if Ever is manipulating the Protocore Syndrome odds so more people will turn to them...

And then that last line. I can assure you with 100% certainty that it's said by Carter. Remember he wanted MC as a patient to test on her, but she kept refusing.

Hmm... I wonder if the situation is that he manages to trap MC and gives an evil monologue, says that, and then Zayne comes to save her? Perhaps that's when the whole trailer scene happens. Hmmm.

Final thoughts

I'm gonna be honest, I don't know if Sylus and Zayne are actually going to appear in chapters 1 and 3, but I'm 100% sure of their presence in chapters 2 and 4. (Not together. You know what I mean. Sylus in 2 and Zayne in 4)

I'm really hyped for this update, and some things it may bring: Hints about 6th LI, possibly more 3D models for important characters (Carter pls pls pls pls), Zayne and Sylus interaction if we dare dream (no way lmao), etc etc...

What do y'all think?

[holybagelsstuff]

a very important chart

[vodrae]

Imagine, Batman is lifting you with one hand without the slightest effort, suddendly he puts his finger on his ear.

"Understood Agent A/Thanks you, Oracle."

The Big Black Bat has bosses ?! You're telling me that the ER first provider is a henchman ?! Who the fuck can control that guy ?!

@igotthisaccountunderduress Badass barbara for you

[lady-de-martel]

Sassy Alfred 💅✨

bruce and jason: *both agree on something* alfred: so i see you both agree bruce and jason: NO WE DONT alfred: *smacks them with sass and common sense* alfred: pull yourselves together and use your brains to think for five seconds, maybe youll get somewhere bruce:..... jason:..... barbara whos eavesdropping from the batcomputer: *cackling*