E11VOXA: Honesty is the best Policy

## Characters

* Batman
* Red Hood
* Oracle
* Heretic

## Location

* Batcave Sub-Level 7, Gotham City, NJ
* November 12th, 2016 7:14 PM

## VOX Archive

* **Red Hood:** [footsteps] I gotta say Bruce... out of all the secrets that you've kept this has to be the worst out of all this. You wanna tell me why you got the [expletive] that broke into the Clocktower, stabbed Damian, and ambushed the Outsiders?
* **Batman:** This isn't his fault, Jason... Talia cloned Damian, brainwashed him forced him into this... monster. [holo display activating] I can help him... allow him to have a normal life. Don't you see he deserves a chance to prove himself. A life without pain and misery... the life I wanted for all of you.
* **Red Hood:** [scoff] Don't lie to me... known of this was about us. It.s another damn excuse for you to lie to us... tell me who else besides you, Alfred, and Barbara know? [seven seconds of silence, cynical chuckle] You... you're out of your goddamn mind! You weren't even going to say anything were?!
* **Oracle:** Jason it wasn't even that simple... me and Alfred reacted the same way you are when Cass had brought him back to-
* **Red Hood:** Jesus, are you seriously defending him? This... thing gutted Damian and he's right below our noses. And what? You though that you were protecting us? No we both know that's a lie... you did that for you.
* **Heretic:** Hmm... Todd seems to be smarter than I though... then again he's more bullets rather than brain.
* **Red Hood:** [gun unholstering] How 'bout I put a bullet in yours?
* **Batman:** Jason... stand down that's an order.
* **Red Hood:** I don't have to listen to a damn thing that you saw. [gun firing, batarang pierces flesh, pained hiss] So... that's how it's gonna be?
* **Batman:** We don't have to do this... please. He doesn't deserve this... neither did you when you came back he can be helped.
* **Oracle:** He's right, Jason. We can help him the same way we helped you... this no matter I how I feel about him and what he's done... can be helped.
* **Red Hood:** No... he can't. He's scum just like the Joker and I'm gonna be the one who puts him down. [knife unsheathes] Didn't have to be this way. Bruce... but have it your way. I'll try not to hurt that much. [rapid footsteps, cape flapping, whack, whack, thud, glass shattering, whack, whack]
* **Oracle:** [rapid footsteps] That's... [grapple, thud] enough both of you! Jason, I know that you're angry at Bruce for hiding this, hell I was when he told me and Alfred and there's no excuse hiding Heretic down here but he truly does want to help him. And as for you, Bruce... you can't just excuse all of your actions for protecting us. I came down here to tell that everything is set up for Dam- Heretic.
* **Batman:** [sigh, armored fabric shifting] Jason I-... I should've told you... all of you what I had been doing. Seeing that the League has down some much damage to you, to Damian, to him... but I'm trying to help him get better if you'd let me.
* **Red Hood:** [scoff, footsteps] We're not done with the conversation, Bruce. Not by a long shot. [elevator dings]

## Trivia

* Heretic has been gaining treatments in the Batcave for the past five months since VOX: Cassandra Cain 2.
* Jason is talking about Damian and Heretic's brutal fight in DCLUVOXA: Crippled Bird.
* Story continues in Oracle Database: Bruce Wayne 2.