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With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Fourteen)
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Bobo supergirl VII when?
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Well, there is a universe where everyone is an ape, so the idea of a monkey Supergirl might be more likely than you think.
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We're All Mad Here (part 26)
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July 18th, 2013
Afternoon
It's a dog's life, being an intelligent chimp.
It's worse when the humans around you find out that you've been drinking and smoking to try and help your poor primate brain deal with all of the everything that you're now stuck trying to cope with, and make sure to cut you off. Learning new things sounds great, until one of the terms you learn is 'withdrawal symptoms'.
I liked the carnival, you know? Okay, that's a lie, too many weird smells and strange, noisy people, but I knew it. I knew the people, even if where we were set up changed from-. Week to week. Not that I had a concept of a week, but ape troupes move around the territory…
I mean, I grew up in a private zoo, but I would have done. Still got the instincts… Probably.
Anyway, I learned my cues and did my act and 'Detective Chimp' was one of the few human words I actually knew, because it was me. Only it turns out that my name was 'Bobo' the whole time. I thought that was just some weird noise they made. And 'Detective Chimp' was an act, and once I understood that, I actually got a bit angry.
Not as angry as I was when they first wired me up, and not the same sort of anger. You made me this and you don't think I can be a detective?
So let's put this cyborg brain of mine to use.
Orange Lantern, a human I sort-of like because when he realised that I wasn't all that happy about my new outlook on life offered to turn it off. And I understood exactly what he meant, because his ring lets him speak like a chimpanzee. If I've got the ability to make decisions then I should be making decisions, and some people shouldn't be banning liquor from the building. He was trying to talk Jarvis Tetch, the Mad Hatter, down. Tetch has done something with the big globe to control the robot men and probably plans to do something worse.
How many robot men are there? Don't know. I only heard about them on television. Can he get control of the rest? Probably.
How?
He was stuffed in there while the Anti-Life was broadcasting, but I was here while it was broadcasting and that didn't let me understand my implants any better. But Mannheim was trying to use him as part of it, which probably resulted in him knowing more about it than just about anyone.
And now he's angry at Batman, who I've never met, but who the news says is basically in charge of Earth at the moment. And the main thing keeping things running. I trust Orange Lantern, and he sounded like he wasn't all that keen on that, or the robot men, but Tetch wanted to do something about it now.
Which means that unless it looks like Batman is going to do something right now, then the correct thing to do is stop Tetch. And while I'm as strong as a… Chimpanzee, who's hung over, nicotine-starved and getting on a bit…
Making me the first chimpanzee to feel apprehension at the gradual approach of his mortality. The first chimpanzee with ennui.
I'm plenty strong enough to twist his head off his neck. If I could grip him, and actually wanted to do that to a person. Which I don't. Understand the 'why' of things makes them a lot less scary. They don't provoke the same threat response.
So I should talk to him. His guard have gone, and I'm less scary than a powerful superhero. And I'm not a known associate of Batman.
I take a step back into space, falling off the rafter and grabbing it from underneath with my right arm. Yeah, that used to be easier. Definitively starting to get arthritis. I'll have to ask Orange Lantern to do something about that after I heroically save the day. I swing a couple of times to get momentum, then let go and fall towards a crane arm, swing off that -ow- and then land on top of the globe thing.
Tetch looks up at me, and… Human facial expressions… Constipated? Annoyed?
"Why is there a chimp in here?"
I try reaching for a confiscated packet of cigarettes. "I was having a nap, then you started making noise."
He blinks. "I'm not crazy any more."
"I'm not an expert on human behavior. You don't smell insane, so I'll accept that. You know, provisionally."
He takes a step backwards. "I'm.. not crazy."
"Oh. Right. I used to be a normal chimpanzee, then some humans implanted thing in my brain, and now I can think like a human."
"But that wouldn't let you speak. Chimp vocal cords aren't the right shape."
"So you can accept that they could modify my brain, but not that they could modify my vocal cords?"
"Oh. Yes, that would make sense." He… Frowns? "There are so many papers on neural science that I need to read to get back up to date now that I'm sane again."
"So what's this all about? And have you got any cigarettes? I've been dying for one but they've cut me off."
"I.. don't smoke. I think the caterpillar smoked, but I could never find anyone-." He shakes his head. "Do you have a name?"
"Detective Chimp."
"That sounds like a description."
"'When I use a word-'."
He looks like something bit him. "Please don't."
"Chimpanzees don't really have names. I'm not insulted by having a description. It makes more sense than a random label. To me, anyway." I look around. I know that humans don't take being stared at as badly as chimpanzees do, but I also know what species I am. "So, do you want me to check your hair for lice, or are you going to tell me what you're doing?"
"Mannheim was using me for one of his schemes. He… Did something to me that lets me use his technology. It's evil. But if I can use it to stop anyone else using it, then I can live with that."
"Didn't I hear Orange Lantern say something about-?"
"P-hah! He running things with Batman. He's been supplying him with their devices to use for his new Justifiers."
"Alright." I don't think he's lying, and it's plausible enough not to be paranoia-. Pure paranoia. "How about Supergirl?"
"Probably a robot. Superman, the other Supergirl… They react to things in the same way that humans do. She doesn't. You can't fake instincts like that."
"If they can make Kryptonian-strength robots, why would they bother with Justifiers?"
"That's what I'm trying to find out. Now that I'm here and this is whole, I can connect to their network. Find out what they're doing."
"Okay. So what have you found?"
"Nothing. I'm not actually good at this. I'm not a detective either." "Show me what I need!"
Hm. Alright. Beats hanging around while everyone else gets to drink and smoke. "I am."
"Um."
"You got some way to move this?"
"I…" He pulls his shoulders in, a gesture that's just about the same for chimpanzees and humans. "I don't-. That's not really..."
"You can pay me in cigarettes and whiskey."
"I-." His eyes jerk up. "Damn it, they've-! Fine." He comes closer and lays his hands on the orb. "Hold on."
I clasp it with my feet. "How exactly are you going to-?"
The room shoots upwards around me!"
"Aaagh!"
Afternoon
It's a dog's life, being an intelligent chimp.
It's worse when the humans around you find out that you've been drinking and smoking to try and help your poor primate brain deal with all of the everything that you're now stuck trying to cope with, and make sure to cut you off. Learning new things sounds great, until one of the terms you learn is 'withdrawal symptoms'.
I liked the carnival, you know? Okay, that's a lie, too many weird smells and strange, noisy people, but I knew it. I knew the people, even if where we were set up changed from-. Week to week. Not that I had a concept of a week, but ape troupes move around the territory…
I mean, I grew up in a private zoo, but I would have done. Still got the instincts… Probably.
Anyway, I learned my cues and did my act and 'Detective Chimp' was one of the few human words I actually knew, because it was me. Only it turns out that my name was 'Bobo' the whole time. I thought that was just some weird noise they made. And 'Detective Chimp' was an act, and once I understood that, I actually got a bit angry.
Not as angry as I was when they first wired me up, and not the same sort of anger. You made me this and you don't think I can be a detective?
So let's put this cyborg brain of mine to use.
Orange Lantern, a human I sort-of like because when he realised that I wasn't all that happy about my new outlook on life offered to turn it off. And I understood exactly what he meant, because his ring lets him speak like a chimpanzee. If I've got the ability to make decisions then I should be making decisions, and some people shouldn't be banning liquor from the building. He was trying to talk Jarvis Tetch, the Mad Hatter, down. Tetch has done something with the big globe to control the robot men and probably plans to do something worse.
How many robot men are there? Don't know. I only heard about them on television. Can he get control of the rest? Probably.
How?
He was stuffed in there while the Anti-Life was broadcasting, but I was here while it was broadcasting and that didn't let me understand my implants any better. But Mannheim was trying to use him as part of it, which probably resulted in him knowing more about it than just about anyone.
And now he's angry at Batman, who I've never met, but who the news says is basically in charge of Earth at the moment. And the main thing keeping things running. I trust Orange Lantern, and he sounded like he wasn't all that keen on that, or the robot men, but Tetch wanted to do something about it now.
Which means that unless it looks like Batman is going to do something right now, then the correct thing to do is stop Tetch. And while I'm as strong as a… Chimpanzee, who's hung over, nicotine-starved and getting on a bit…
Making me the first chimpanzee to feel apprehension at the gradual approach of his mortality. The first chimpanzee with ennui.
I'm plenty strong enough to twist his head off his neck. If I could grip him, and actually wanted to do that to a person. Which I don't. Understand the 'why' of things makes them a lot less scary. They don't provoke the same threat response.
So I should talk to him. His guard have gone, and I'm less scary than a powerful superhero. And I'm not a known associate of Batman.
I take a step back into space, falling off the rafter and grabbing it from underneath with my right arm. Yeah, that used to be easier. Definitively starting to get arthritis. I'll have to ask Orange Lantern to do something about that after I heroically save the day. I swing a couple of times to get momentum, then let go and fall towards a crane arm, swing off that -ow- and then land on top of the globe thing.
Tetch looks up at me, and… Human facial expressions… Constipated? Annoyed?
"Why is there a chimp in here?"
I try reaching for a confiscated packet of cigarettes. "I was having a nap, then you started making noise."
He blinks. "I'm not crazy any more."
"I'm not an expert on human behavior. You don't smell insane, so I'll accept that. You know, provisionally."
He takes a step backwards. "I'm.. not crazy."
"Oh. Right. I used to be a normal chimpanzee, then some humans implanted thing in my brain, and now I can think like a human."
"But that wouldn't let you speak. Chimp vocal cords aren't the right shape."
"So you can accept that they could modify my brain, but not that they could modify my vocal cords?"
"Oh. Yes, that would make sense." He… Frowns? "There are so many papers on neural science that I need to read to get back up to date now that I'm sane again."
"So what's this all about? And have you got any cigarettes? I've been dying for one but they've cut me off."
"I.. don't smoke. I think the caterpillar smoked, but I could never find anyone-." He shakes his head. "Do you have a name?"
"Detective Chimp."
"That sounds like a description."
"'When I use a word-'."
He looks like something bit him. "Please don't."
"Chimpanzees don't really have names. I'm not insulted by having a description. It makes more sense than a random label. To me, anyway." I look around. I know that humans don't take being stared at as badly as chimpanzees do, but I also know what species I am. "So, do you want me to check your hair for lice, or are you going to tell me what you're doing?"
"Mannheim was using me for one of his schemes. He… Did something to me that lets me use his technology. It's evil. But if I can use it to stop anyone else using it, then I can live with that."
"Didn't I hear Orange Lantern say something about-?"
"P-hah! He running things with Batman. He's been supplying him with their devices to use for his new Justifiers."
"Alright." I don't think he's lying, and it's plausible enough not to be paranoia-. Pure paranoia. "How about Supergirl?"
"Probably a robot. Superman, the other Supergirl… They react to things in the same way that humans do. She doesn't. You can't fake instincts like that."
"If they can make Kryptonian-strength robots, why would they bother with Justifiers?"
"That's what I'm trying to find out. Now that I'm here and this is whole, I can connect to their network. Find out what they're doing."
"Okay. So what have you found?"
"Nothing. I'm not actually good at this. I'm not a detective either." "Show me what I need!"
Hm. Alright. Beats hanging around while everyone else gets to drink and smoke. "I am."
"Um."
"You got some way to move this?"
"I…" He pulls his shoulders in, a gesture that's just about the same for chimpanzees and humans. "I don't-. That's not really..."
"You can pay me in cigarettes and whiskey."
"I-." His eyes jerk up. "Damn it, they've-! Fine." He comes closer and lays his hands on the orb. "Hold on."
I clasp it with my feet. "How exactly are you going to-?"
The room shoots upwards around me!"
"Aaagh!"