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Characters: Kyle & various.
Date: Nowish.
Location: Earth, Metal, and Wood Sector.
Situation: Various.
Warnings/Rating: Mind control related trauma, discussion of mass murder.

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[imaginate]

[what

no seriously just what.] What kind of idiot would leave a power battery lying around like that?

[He had as a rookie but.. oh no did he seriously just play the rookie card with himself? Life was weird.]

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The same idiot who leaves the Helmet of Fate just laying around.

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Are you even-- [then it hits him] you're not kidding.

[Face, meet your old friend Palm.]

[backwordscompatible]

No, Kyle, I'm not kidding.

Would you believe the best part of the story is that Batman has it now?

[imaginate]

[But it's safe with him, he nearly says. Safer, or something. He doesn't know. Anyway Zatanna did have a beef with his Bats so, okay. Caution first.] Is there a reason you wanted it?

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[Safe enough. She would never not have beef with him--and she was a vegetarian, even--but they were on debatably better terms now than before.]

I...never did tell you what I was doing just before I was brought here, did I?

[imaginate]

Should we... sit down for this?

[backwordscompatible]

I'll stand, thanks.

But if you think you might faint or something, sitting down might be a good idea.

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I'm good. [He does stop and look at her.] Okay, go.

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[Pause.]

[Deep breath.]

[Then, just for good measure, another one.]

I was wearing the Helmet.

1/2

[imaginate]

[what.]

2/2

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[what is this even] How?

[backwordscompatible]

I picked it up and put it on.

[She can't even force a smile, despite the matter-of-fact response.]

[imaginate]

Okay, am I going to get the story behind this or should I just go punch Nabu?

[backwordscompatible]

You punch a lot of people, don't you?

[Again, weak humor disguised as an actual observation. But in the seriousness of the moment, she crosses her arms over her chest and offers as genuine an explanation as she can give. She trusted Kyle, and he deserved to know the truth.]

We were fighting Klarion. Or, rather, he was wiping the forrest floor with us. My magic had almost no effect. Robin and Artemis were out cold. The others were barely holding on.

[She'd lost count of how many times she'd had to talk about the encounter by now. Too many times. Each worse than the last, because she knew how wrong she had been, and what would come of her rash decisions.]

I had no choice.

[imaginate]

Hey, it's my job to hit things. [Some attempt at humor, too.

He listens, his expression neutral, considering everything.] Where was the League?

[backwordscompatible]

Parallel dimension. Same as everyone over the age of 18. Including my dad.

[imaginate]

So there was no one to come and help you, and you had no other choice.

[He doesn't like it, necessarily, but he understands.] What happened then?

[backwordscompatible]

Well...I blacked out, and woke up with a lungful of seawater and the worst headache since having to listen to Harm ramble on about himself in the third-person for hours.

[In other words, putting on the Helmet was her last memory. Meaning she was brought here from the moment she was still inside.]

[imaginate]

Wait. I have no idea how your body could have been pulled here like that, unless you're actually a clone.

[backwordscompatible]

[Funny you should mention clones]

Jury's still out on that one, actually. [No, really] But it would explain why the Helmet's here, too.

[imaginate]

I have no idea how cloning would work with my ring, either. [Not that it couldn't...]

[backwordscompatible]

[Shrug]

Anyways, to make a long story short, either the Emperor's summoning magic split us apart in the trip over here...or, like you said, I could be a clone. Which would mean my soul is still trapped inside.

[imaginate]

If you acquired the Helmet, would you be able to tell? Or get it out?

[He has no idea how this works and he comes from comics, ok.]

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I have absolutely no idea.

It radiates power as it is. I can sense it, but I can't tell whether the power's coming from me or Doctor Fate. The only way to actually tell what's inside might be to put it on again, which...yeah.

[So not happening. For once, she actually learned her lesson.]