Clothed in our grief

Chapter Forty Six

  "Watch out!" Lea yelled, wincing while gritting her teeth together. First time for everything, right? Well there's always a first time for lots of things. This was one of them for her. Sure, she's grown up in pageants. Of which include more than just putting on expansive sparkly clothing. Talents, and she spent most of her childhood in between gymnastics and ballet. But Lea's pretty sure she's never going to see herself putting on anything in the future. She's pretty much dropped both of those two things, but they've come in handy for her during the past month. She's not as physically weak as she looks.

She's of an average height, but her body seems uncharastically small. Upon first glance, it's pretty easy to see how most people would consider her not even worth their time or a grain of salt. But she's grown pretty fond of using her physical appearance as an excuse to take advantage on it.

Abuse turns around upon hearing Lea call out for the needed attention, and grabs the thug behind him by his wrist. Sliding his fist across his chest by catching his wrist, then proceeding to turn his arm around behind his back and use this thug he just countered an attack for as a shield to the one that's been attacking him.

Gang related crime around the orphanage. It started with a drug deal, then this one guy got hooked and kept going back to this dealer. Apparently, the dealer stopped selling what the client was buying, and the client got angry. Brought a gun into the mix and shot his dealer. Turns out it was all an organized plan to introduce a new drug on the streets of Gotham, and the drug that was being sold was just as a test. Abuse needs to know what drug is about to be sold on the streets of Gotham, especially if it's starting around the Orphanage. Because his other persona, Colin Wilkes, has heard a bunch of things from the older kids in the orphanage. Something about the drug coming in a light green liquid form that you can inject, or something about it coming in a powder form that you can mix with water and drink. Or just straight up inhalation. Whatever it is, it's going to be a big thing that he knows he can't handle on his own. Calling Robin for something like this is what he normally would have done. But he knows pretty well why Robin's not in Gotham for the moment.

"Hey, on your right!" Abuse yelled back to Lea, having to use as much control as he can to refrain from even calling her anything that remotely starts with an L. The two of them completely skipped over codenames and more so into what's been going on. They also spent as much time as possible going over every single different possibility of what could happen. And because Abuse was such good friends with Robin, he had some tech that could help with the usage of guns being used against them and other weapons.

An electromagnet emitter that if you stick it on something that's taken pictures, it corrupts the entire system. Therefor, Abuse knows he won't be endangering Lea if anyone of these guys decides to whip out a camera or their phone to take a picture of her because her face is being visibly shown. Abuse on his end, it doesn't matter if his face is being visibly shown or not. In this form, he's an adult. The Venom in his bloodstream made it so that whenever he's able to activate it, he doesn't even look like his real fifteen year old self. His one big concern was somebody getting a clear picture of Lea, since for the past month she's opened up quite a bit about why she wants to help with all of this. She has a specific concern of her own that she has a huge issue with explaining. She thinks that it might be connected to whatever drug related problem is going on, and as long as he knows he can keep her safe? Who the hell is he to tell her no. He did the exact same thing that night all those years ago when he and Robin teamed up for the first time.

Some other EMP tools that for some reason, manage to jam any gun that's in the radius of the EMP going off. Something about the frequencies and the mechanism of the gun. This has been only to been proven to work on guns sold and moved by Black Mask, but even though the man's in Blackgate right now? His guns aren't all confiscated. Most of them are still out on the streets. And it's mostly around where the Orphanage is at.