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Shielded Bats
(Eddie/Babs/Effie)
Sparrow wrinkled her nose as she gazed down over the city..her city. Well, once upon a time.
Gotham still smelled; the bizarre combination of fish and sweat that was...unique to the city and the people that inhabited it.
She reached up, adjusting her mask, ignoring Hawkeye's running commentary on just why he hated Gotham, it's inhabitants, it's criminals and even a few colorful curses regarding certain red-clad teen vigilantes that nearly sideswiped him in the air.
"Get used to it, bird brain, Gotham's lousy with heroes," she called, wanting to laugh.
"Yeah, yeah, but you still need traffic signals up here, Spar-row," Hawkeye called over the coms and Effie had a moment of a stiff spine, her mind swirling into the past. For just a moment...he sounded like Red Robin and she suddenly felt sixteen again, trying not to be thrown across the training mat by Tim once again, trying to prove herself.
"Oy, stop spacing out, kid," Tony's voice cut through her com and she made a face. "A, not a kid, B, not spacing out, C, stop hacking the mics."
"I'm bored, your boring, why are you in Gotham anyway?"
"Family reunion," Effie muttered. Granted, she hoped that wouldn't come true, the drama that seeing her father would cause like she needed to listen to yet another lecture on why she could not be an actual hero and was better as an S.H.I.E.L.D. asset than following the Avengers (even if she totally did save certain people's asses the last time).
"You have a family? I thought they made you kill all of them when you became a super secret assassin...Nat, do you have a family?"
"Shut up, Tony."
Sparrow wrinkled her nose as she gazed down over the city..her city. Well, once upon a time.
Gotham still smelled; the bizarre combination of fish and sweat that was...unique to the city and the people that inhabited it.
She reached up, adjusting her mask, ignoring Hawkeye's running commentary on just why he hated Gotham, it's inhabitants, it's criminals and even a few colorful curses regarding certain red-clad teen vigilantes that nearly sideswiped him in the air.
"Get used to it, bird brain, Gotham's lousy with heroes," she called, wanting to laugh.
"Yeah, yeah, but you still need traffic signals up here, Spar-row," Hawkeye called over the coms and Effie had a moment of a stiff spine, her mind swirling into the past. For just a moment...he sounded like Red Robin and she suddenly felt sixteen again, trying not to be thrown across the training mat by Tim once again, trying to prove herself.
"Oy, stop spacing out, kid," Tony's voice cut through her com and she made a face. "A, not a kid, B, not spacing out, C, stop hacking the mics."
"I'm bored, your boring, why are you in Gotham anyway?"
"Family reunion," Effie muttered. Granted, she hoped that wouldn't come true, the drama that seeing her father would cause like she needed to listen to yet another lecture on why she could not be an actual hero and was better as an S.H.I.E.L.D. asset than following the Avengers (even if she totally did save certain people's asses the last time).
"You have a family? I thought they made you kill all of them when you became a super secret assassin...Nat, do you have a family?"
"Shut up, Tony."