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“If you’re gonna insist on being my eyes and ears Alec you need a code name,”.
“I don’t need a code name,” Alec’s voice buzzed in her ear as she jumped from one rooftop to another. “You’re about to reach the meeting point by the way. ETA five minutes.”
“Dude, okay, what about Cookie? Cause you know-“
Alec groaned on the other end of the communicator. “I will not be called cookie. I don’t really care about having a name Bolt.”
“Communications can be hacked little brother.” Catharine scolded. She stopped on the edge of a glass business building.
“Not mine, but if you insist. What about… Crypto?” Cat rolled the name on her tongue.
“I like it, Crypto.” Cat smirked. She liked having Alec in her head. It was a surprising calm among the intense storm that was Gotham’s crime. She knew her brother despised the hero front and she herself wanted him as far away from it as possible but he insisted that if she was going to risk her life fighting crime she might as well do it with some back up. Speaking of back up where was-
“Nice suit.”
Cat turned to the girl in the lighter blue suit hovering behind her. Most of her face of her face was covered by a blue domino mask, and the familiar blue lantern symbol was placed on her chest as it held up more of the blue fabric. Her brown hair was put up behind the hood she wore.
‘Now that is how you do disguise’. Catharine thought.
“You like it? I personally think the boots are way to heavy.” Catharine gestured to her black combat boots.
“It would be appreciated if you didn’t insult the suit I spent hours designing. I’m so sorry I couldn’t manage to make your converse bullet proof.”
“Shut it Crypto.” Cat noticed the odd look the lantern was giving her.
“Alec finally got a code name.” she explained.
“You know it’s not much of a code name if everyone knows.” Alec pointed out.
“Relax baby bro, its just Jamie. Lloyde with you?” Catharine asked.
“He’s in Gotham yeah, didn’t bring him along though sorry.” Jamie set her own boots on the building and stood closer to Catharine. The younger girl grinned. Jamie was still about an inch shorter than her. Although she supposed some of her height was due to the boots, but she really couldn’t complain.
“The extra power would have been nice. Pretty big deal going on at the docks and I’ll be damned if I miss a chance to piss off Blackmask.” Catharine heard the small tone that indicated that Alec-sorry- Crypto had sent her the location and details of the deal they were about to bust.
“What about Jupiter?” Jamie asked as she read the information over Cat’s shoulder.
“He’s hopefully going to meet us down at the docks.” Catharine closed the holographic map and grabbed a grappling hook from her side.
“I could just fly us there.” Jamie offered, creating a small platform of blue energy.
“No thanks. Last time you threw me off WE.” Cat aimed for the building across from her and swung down. Jamie followed and flew next to her.
“I didn’t throw you off, I pushed you. Totally different. Where do get all this tech anyways?” Jaime began dodging lights and telephone wires with intricate loops and dives.
“Not everyone in the batfamily is a jerk. Red Robin and Red Hood are pretty cool and they’ve been hooking me and Alec up.”
“Not for free I suppose?” Jaime asked.
“Eh, a few team ups and info swaps here and there. It’s Nightwing you gotta look out for. Showed him my place once and was nearly adopted the next day.” Catharine jumped from another building and was up in the air before Jamie could blink.
“Would that be so bad? Being adopted I mean.”
“I’ve taken care of Alec and myself for years. I don’t need their sympathy. Plus the Bat would either make me hang up my cape or follow his rules.” Cat realized she didn’t have a cape but a black leather jacket instead. “Yeah I mean in most cases, it goes great. Like yours, you got two awesome dads and a best friend and super chill super powers. But I also know that it doesn’t always work out like that all the time. If it did maybe I wouldn’t be Bluebolt.”
The rest of the way to Gotham's coast was relatively silent, minus the occasional check-ins with Crypto.
Cat checked the clock on her wrist. It was only 10pm and the deal wasn't planned to happen for another hour.
"Jupiter on route to your location. " Crypto spoke.
"Is it really that hard to say; 'Jupiters coming bro'?" Cat yawned. Maybe she could get Alec to do her math homework for her.
"It sounds cooler my way." A small sound came from Cyrptos mic. "Message from Hood. He's asking if you two want help with Black Mask."
"I don't know Lantern, do we want help?" Cat opened up Hoods contact.
"Hm, I'm kinda in the mood to punch some people myself. So I'm gonna go with no. I really don't need another guy telling me what to do with my powers." Jamie shrugged and cat responded to Hood, adding that he should keep his phone on, just as backup.
"GL still bothering you? If you want I can talk some sense into him. " Cat offered.
"Yes and no Cat please don't. Hal's great, even if Jordan gets me better, but.."
"He's not your style? I feel you. Everyone deals with what we do differently."
"Hal enjoys being a lantern and it's not that I don't love doing this but I mean I have school and a job and a family. I mean, is it bad that I have all this power but I don't actually wanna use it?" Cat blinked. This was different from their usual conversations. More often than not Cat was asking Jamie for advice. She was older after all. She had never assumed that Jaimie's problems ran this deep.
"Jamie you know-"
"I have arrived ladies, please don't throw yourselves at me all at once!" Cat glared at her other friend. Oliver stood on the edge of the building in his black spandex with the cross straps covered in diffident chemical gadgets. His brown hair was lose and messier than usual and his blue eyes were covered by a domino mask.
"Jupiter. Glad to see you actually made an effort.” Cat smirked.
“So not my fault, they had a sale going on at that pizza place we love.” Jupiter rested a hand on his stomach.
“No obviously the pizza had complete control over you. You cannot be held accountable.” Cat rolled her eyes and turned back to the open dock area. Her eyes scanned the area and saw a truck moving in slowly on the west side of the unloading docks.
“They’re late but they’re here. West wing, unloading. Blue you take above; J and I will take down below. Try and distract them for the time being but keep yourself out of the way of major fire.”
“And what about us, oh Captain BlueBolt?” Jupiter said sarcastically.
“We, my friend, are going to blow up a truck."