2027 VOX Box: Time In A Bottle 1

## Characters

* Redbird
* Red Hood
* Kamali
* Batman

## Location

* Gotham City, NJ (SRB)
* August 15th 2027, 1535 EST

## VOX Archive

* **Red Hood:** [footsteps: 2 instances] McGinnis! We need to talk about this!
* **Batman:** [groan, footsteps] There's nothing to talk about, Lian! I made my decision... and it's final!
* **Red Hood:** I don't like your decision so the [expletive] it's final!
* **Batman:** [groan] I don't care if you're schway with it or not! I am free to make my own choices.
* **Red Hood:** So just like that you're going to give up on us?
* **Batman:** I'm not giving up on anything. I'm just not joining your clubhouse... it's not the end of the world.
* **Kamali:** If you're not with us-
* **Batman:** I'm against you? Is that how it is?!
* **Kamali:** Pretty much...
* **Redbird:** Whoa, whoa... Seriously? Terry's our friend. He'll continue to be our friend and even our ally when we need him. Right?! He's not saying he's against us! Right, Terry?
* **Batman:** I don't know if it's my call to make. Lian's the one playing judge, jury, and executioner lately... Maybe I should see what she has to say on the matter. Lian?
* **Red Hood:** [scoff] You've gone soft, McGinnis...
* **Redbird:** Lian... Let's not-
* **Batman:** Leave her, Sam. She's made her call. [scoff, footsteps] Whatever. If you three want to be this way, I want nothing to do with you. I trust you three can see your way out of my city.
* **Kamali:** You don't own Gotham...
* **Batman:** Press your luck and we'll see about that, Liz.
* **Kamali:** What did you say to me?! [snarl, footsteps, sonic blade activating]
* **Redbird:** [frantic breathing, rapid footsteps, whack, clatter, sonic blade deactivating] No! Enough of this! Stop it! All of you!
* **Red Hood:** Sam-
* **Redbird:** No, look, I'm talking here! You three have done enough talking and nothing good has come of it! So it's my turn now-
* **Red Hood:** Sam! Look behind you!
* **Kamali:** Whoa! What the hell is that?! [temporal schism rupturing, clattering: 2 instances]
* **Red Hood:** [rapid footsteps: 2 instances] Sam! Get away from those!
* **Kamali:** But my visor is detecting life signs in distress!
* **Redbird:** Mine too!
* **Red Hood:** Yeah, and so is mine! That doesn't mean we open those things! It could be an alien menace or-
* **Batman:** Out of my way then. [rapid footsteps] If you guys cared half as much about saving lives as you did taking them- [hand smashing release switch, hand smashing release switch, whirring: 2 instances, pressurized hiss, pressurized hiss]
* **Redbird:** No way...
* **Kamali:** Is that-
* **Batman:** But it can't be... That's impossible.
* **Red Hood:** Get away from those! [rapid beeping, rapid footsteps] [expletive]! It's a bomb! Get do- [loud crackle, temporal schism rupturing, explosion, armored fabric crumbling: 4 instances, silence: elapsed time: 3 hours, 12 minutes, 52 seconds]

## Trivia and Notes

* Part of the Earth-2027 Continuity.
* Debut of the 2027 versions of Sam Kane (Redbird), Lian Harper (Red Hood) and Lizzie Dahl (Kamali).
* Story continues in ObMod: Time In A Bottle 2.
* Terry and company get interrupted by the two boxes the Anti-Monitor sent through the crack in the Time Wall in ObMod: Dangerous Ground 13.