Wait, You Have Three Jobs?!

Chapter 4 The Message

Chapter 4: The Message

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It'd been a few days since everything had been set up, Roy had an Italian restaurant in the roughest part of Mobile Alabama while Jay was a bar manager in the roughest part of Atlanta Georgia while Ann was in Tallahassee Florida working at an illegal gator farm which she almost decided to close down before realizing the owner was the top dog of the Tallahassee underground.

Nightwing and Henry had started taking shifts of monitoring the computer and sleeping and getting food and using the bathroom, they were both always there for the reports of what the three field heros had found which allowed all of them to talk.

The three field heros signed off after a while and the two computer boys yawned, they hadn't been outside for the past days and felt worn-out when a light started flashing which Henry noticed first so he stood up and leaned over Nightwing's shoulder making the older notice as well.

It appeared to be coming from a small thumb drive inside the computer itself, they both carefully popped the back off of the computer and slowly took the drive out before replacing the back and set it back up correctly.

"Should we truly plug it into this computer?"

"Only Kate would know her handmade computer well enough to place it there, plus, if this could possibly help us find her we can't just wait until tomorrow night's meeting, unless you want to wait that long?"

Henry sighed, defeated, he held the drive out to his senior who plugged it in and nothing popped up asking about it, instead, there was a projector camera that the computer camera raised up to allow through, it looked at Henry first and he was covered in the red lines that turned to green, then it scanned Nightwing which took a few more seconds to green light him before retracting into the computer.

They both looked at each other before hearing a robotic purr behind them, they both instantly turned around from shock as particles of light slowly started to come together, almost like a hologram that doesn't have an image so it builds itself.

It begun to speed up since the bare feet were done and it was creating a long dress that had no patterns and fell naturally to show the curves of the person in the dress, a familiar form to the both of them, the hands and sleeves were graceful, then the neck and face started to materialize very slowly.

Nightwing stood up since the hologram was almost done and the face was hard to see since it was coming in and out of focus until the familiar haircut appeared, the Hologram looked up at him with fearful eyes, she started trembling and crying, the man who was in a state of shock tried to comfort her until his hand passed through her as she shook her head that he couldn't.

"The hologram just responded to your actions, Nightwing."

The hologram moved over and pointed to a speaker connected to the computer that they had turned off, Henry turned it on and the hologram nodded and said "This is a part of the girl that went missing, long removed by Zatanna, part of Catelyn's mind and conscious that she left in the carizma charm that holds her powers, she programed me to help find her if possible, but I'm part of this computer so I won't be able to do anything else outside of this place."

They both stared at the image with mouths hanging open, she raised an eyebrow and the two boys noticed what made the image seem off the most, it was wearing glasses that seemed to be hipster, the girl they met had never worn glasses before as far as they knew, she looked at their setup and frowned slightly before making a few adjustments by moving her hand this way or that before nodding in approval.

"You guys were looking for the wrong type of power surge, only really big surges would've set off the alarm the way you had it set up, now it's honed directly for the power readings of her and only her, whether voluntary or involuntary use, I also got rid of the one for me since I'm obviously here and part of a forgotten her."

The boys both snapped out of their gawking states and checked her calculations and nodded, impressed, she started sitting down as a holographic rolling chair materialized for her, Nightwing cleared his throat slightly and she turned her attention towards him.

"When did she make you? And part of a forgotten her, does that include feelings that she's forgotten or something like old crushes?"

The hologram didn't like his questions but had been programmed to answer them, "She made me when she first built this place, or a rudimentary version of me, the first version was when she originally got her powers and that was just a computer interface. As for the second question, she transported some of the more hurtful memories she has to me, so that it wouldn't affect her as much on the job, but I don't think I should share the second half of the question for your sake."

She glitched slightly when she refused and the two men noticed, they were quiet for a while before Nightwing did something with his gloves and stole her glasses and put them on his face which made the hologram angry as she took them back, they started fighting over the glasses when there was a small blemish on the screen, none of them noticed since it was temporary and disappeared quickly.

Roy had been practicing nonstop to work on his Italian, it wasn't coming along very well as he read an English to Italian dictionary, the bells hung on the door rang and he glanced up to see a person that looked like one of the big dogs of the underground, he straightened up and the person who had entered nodded in recognition.

The person sat at a table and put their muddy boots on the table, Roy didn't appreciate it, but he didn't argue.

"'Ey, Nicollet, you have a pizza ready tonight?"

The voice had been modified, he recognized it from when his adoptive father Oliver Queen used one, but it was impossible to tell how it was modified.