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Having followed Tia back into the main room and listened to… Everything, Oscar couldn’t help but be taken aback by just how much it was. Most of them wanted to go after Peacekeeper. Trask had even pinned down a location, but some of them were still scared. It was an overwhelming majority that had taken initiative already. Taking into account from the literal robot among them, and the two people who who could turn into much tougher, less damageable things, Monolith was the sturdiest. A tank could be pointed at him and ordered to fire, and Oscar would only be jarred where he stood. They weren’t so fortunate in their abilities to take brute force attacks like they were nothing. Their anger was justified. They were supposed to be the second coming of the Robins and Batman. They couldn’t just stand around, but they were all so vulnerable. As far as Oscar was aware, few of them had experience like him in combat. But what was he supposed to do? He [i]knew[/i] Gemini.

[color=5499A8]”Everyone, slow down,”[/color] He said, suddenly and sternly. [color=5499A8]”I don’t know what you all have seen before, but Peacekeeper and I have faced each other a few times by now. I know he expects people to look for him, especially the teammates of the hero he killed. He [i]will[/i] be armed and his “supervillain lair” [i]will[/i] be riddled with traps meant to take out multiple types of metahumans. He’s out of his mind, but he isn’t stupid. He’s unpredictable when he wants to be. I think it’s a bad idea to go after him him, but I’m not letting you do it alone. He knows me better than he knows all of you, but that works both ways.”[/color]

Monolith felt an obligation to be the rock in this situation. The anchor, the voice of reason, the thing that keeps people from doing stupid things.

[color=5499a8]”But I refuse to let any of you get yourselves killed for no reason. You need a strategy. If this blimp is his HQ like Trask says, I can’t join you on it without sinking the whole thing to the ground like a damaged jet,”[/color] He warned. [color=5499a8]”Poisoning him or electrocuting him is too easy, he’ll expect that. Before we set foot outside this room, we need a cohesive, solid, [i]bulletproof[/i] plan. If you all go charging in without one, I’m going to do the uncool thing and tell Oracle that I’m leaving to drag all of you back here, by any means necessary.”[/color] Oscar didn’t consider himself the team leader by any stretch of the imagination, but Avalon had burned the absolutely paramount nature of strategy into him for the better part of a decade. If these people wound up hating him for pulling them away from that blimp by force, Oscar could live with that so long as they didn’t get themselves killed by acting stupid.

He wondered what the chances were that Oracle didn’t stop listening to their conversation this whole time.

[color=5499a8]”Start planning.”[/color]
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