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[asterbatics]

 

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Please leave your message after the beep—"

BEEP!

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voice;

[asterbatics]

[ yeah, except robin doesn't know that. so spoilers for everyone! ]

Grandpa? Dude, how far in the future are you from? Cause Barry definitely didn't have any kids last I checked, and five years is a little too crunched for a two-gen time-span.

[ maybe, but at the same time, wally's his best friend. if you don't think robin can keep up with a speedster-level speed-talk then you have another thing coming. ]

voice;

[pits]

Try 2056.

[ He already spoiled his grandfather about his parents... oops. ]

voice;

[asterbatics]

[ . . .

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Well, that's whelming. [ take it in stride, robin. take it in stride. ] So you went backwards to my forwards?

voice;

[pits]

You got it. By now, I'm pretty used to people being surprised at me.

[ He says as if he's done this more than twice... ]

voice;

[asterbatics]

I wonder why.

[ a beat, and then- ]

So d'you come back for a reason, or is time travel another addition to the speed-force power list?

voice;

[pits]

Definitely a reason. My bro Blue needed my help, so I dropped in. And then got stuck there.

[ That's the abridged version, anyways. ]

voice;

[asterbatics]

Blue?

[ sounds like an abridged version, but rob's not really sure how much of it he can handle. ]

Dude, you seriously need to work on your time-travel. If this is the second time you've back-peddled and got stuck?

voice;

[pits]

Blue Beetle. You'll love him! ...Eventually.

[ ...Well, he knew it was a one way trip, but still. ]

I was too busy trying to even time-travel in the first place. It doesn't really come with the powers, unfortunately.

voice;

[asterbatics]

I'll have to take your word for it.

[ well that's only kind of depressing. ]

You mean it's not an every-day science thing yet? I'm disappointed in our future scientists.

voice;

[pits]

Yeah, I guess they didn't get around to perfecting time-travel yet. You heard it here first: alien invasions hinder technological advancement!

...Even if everything in your base was basically an antique to me.

voice;

[asterbatics]

You mean a different kind of alien invasion than the ones we're used to?

[ which is totally a joke. last robin checked, they were dealing with teams of super villains. ]

Does this mean you've got a bunch of future-tech for us to play with?

voice;

[pits]

More or less.

[ ... well, he's actually fresh out of crash tech, sadly. ]

Err, yeah. About that. I kinda jumped into the time machine with just me, myself and I. I don't even have anything from your future here. Unless you count stealth mode.

[ He's pretty sure they had stealth mode before, though. It saves him having to pat around his chest trying to find it again. ]

voice;

[asterbatics]

Aw, man. I could go for any kind of tech right now.

[ he's getting a little...yeah. restless isn't really the right word but it's close. ]

Stealth mode was definitely an 'our-time' thing unless it does something intense, like turns you invisible. Otherwise, I'm pretty sure we're all on the same level.

voice;

[pits]

[ A long, dramatic sigh. ]

Nope. It was a 'Bring-Your-Own-Invisibility' party.

voice;

[asterbatics]

[ ouch. ]

Sucks. [ a beat, and then: ] So you didn't have any kind of tech-ture shock? [ get it? culture shock. technology. he's so clever. ]

voice;

[pits]

[ ... okay, that wasn't bad. ]

Well, yeah. A bit. Your showers are so outdated.