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Tim hummed, “Further up.”
“Cool go find something interesting.” Steph grabbed her drink, “Anyone have any fun gossip?”
Jason hummed, “Actually I was wondering what’s up with Dr. Freeze? I was talking with one of my people about preparing for winter and apparently, he disappeared a couple years ago?”
Tim nodded, “Alfred got sick with what Victor’s wife has but he was only in stage in one so Victor was able to heal him. B then hired him to keep doing research on the disease and set him up with a laboratory on the north pole. It is annoying organizing for him to get supplies but as the Wayne Corp CEO I get to make sure that happens.”
Steph shrugged, “Still beats fighting him. I hated fighting him and I was always jealous of the parkas his minions had.” She hummed, “Do you think he provided his minions with those parkas?”
Dick nodded, “He wanted them to match.”
Jason hummed as he watched use the column of air to get to a small open-door way that was almost impossible to see, “Huh good spot, but the coats were always good quality and a lot of them are still running around in the Alley. All of them have an extra layer of cloth over them to make them not Dr. Freeze minion colors but I was actually hoping to figure out where he got his men’s coats cause I want to flood the Alley with them since they work so well.”
Damian rolled his eyes, “It was not a good spot, Drake remembered where it was.”
“The walls all have those alcoves that look almost identical, it was a good spot to find the right empty one on the first try. I mean he shot up in the air and had to float down to the right one.”
Steph hummed, “Are you sure you want the parkas? They were really bulky. Did Dr. Freeze ever give his goons something else to wear? Parkas aren’t the easiest to fight in, well at least I don’t think they would be.”
“Not really a problem with guns,” Tim pointed out as he finished killing off a robotic monster, “And I did see them in these cyber suits once. That was a great fight.”
“Oh?”
“They weren’t able to move in them well and it was an easy fight. Wish he’d tried those a couple more times before ditching them but we only saw them once.”
Jason hummed, “Do you have like his phone number or email? I want to ask him where he got those coats.”
“It’s on my work computer; I’ll send it to you on Monday.”
“Cool. Wow that is a big light.”
On the screen Link had removed rocks in front of a device that shot out a beam of light.”
Steph hummed, “That has to be useful.”
“Yep, this dungeon has a lot of light puzzles.”
“Well, what did it unlock?”
“Nothing yet because of this.” Turning Link around the screen there was a large stone rotating circle with a part of if cut off. Through it you could see a second stone circle that also had a hole but it was in a different location. “Any ideas on how to fix it?”
“Can you like stand in the way of it to stop it spinning?”
Tim didn’t say anything but did as she said and Link was just pushed out of the way. “Any other ideas?”
Dick hummed, “Maybe one of those mirrors that are zonai devices?”
“Could try attacking them.” Jason offered.
Damian scoffed, “TT, neither of those would work.”
“Well do you have any ideas Demon Brat?”
Damian crossed his arms staying silent.
“At least we had ideas,” Jason looked to Cass who had tapped his side, “Yeah?”
“Recall.”
“Huh?”
“Arm power, recall.”
Tim grinned, “Yep. I just need to hit this one with Recall,” He grabbed the nearer stone circle with the power, “Just need to do this enough to there.” The two stone circles where now spinning with the wholes lined up.
“Congrats,” Steph hummed, “What’s the point?”
Tim rolled his eyes and made it through the two the two circles, “There’s a light target over there and when the light hits it,” Across the room from where Link was standing a target lit up green before the stone statue receded into the wall revealing a button on the ground.
“Cool, go stand on that.”
Rolling his eyes Tim started directed Link towards the other location.
Dick frowned over at Jason, “Are you really worrying about winter already?”
“Winter is basically the dangerous part of the year for the homeless or anyone with inadequate gear. If I don’t start stockpiling supplies now, I won’t have what I need when I do need them. You never know if were going to have an early frost or not. Although it is nice that I don’t have to worry about people suffering from extreme cold in an attack from Dr. Freeze.”
Steph nodded, “It always sucked when Dr. Freeze got out in the summer because no one was ready to deal with the level of cold he put out. I mean he didn’t attack then often but no one had gear ready for dealing with him. We all had to race back to the cave to get the really heated and heavier weight gear, and then once we caught them, we all died wearing those same outfits because suddenly it would be hot again and we were in heating suits.”
“Smell funny.” Cass added.
“Ugh, yeah. The sweat was horrible and don’t even ask me about what it did to my poor hair.”
Chuckling Jason reached down and patted Steph’s head, “There, there your hair doesn’t have to fear Dr. Freeze. Just remember you already called not it on fighting Condiment man so your up to fight him the next time he escapes.”
“Ugh,” Steph grimaced, “My hair smelled like ketchup for three days after I fought him. I literally couldn’t leave my house because someone would have realized I was Spoiler as I was the only one that ended ketchupped in that fight.”
Jason chuckled, “Maybe he’ll hit you with mayo next time, that’s good for your hair, right?”
“What are you talking about?”
“One of my women was recommending a hair mayo treatment when her hair started thinning because of the chemo. Apparently, it helps regrow hair or slow down the rate of hair loss. She seemed happy with it.”
“Huh, well if I start loosing hair, I’ll look into that but it looks like Tim got to the button.”