zoning | ʀᴇᴅ ʜᴏᴏᴅ ʀᴀᴅɪᴏ; ʙʀᴏᴀᴅᴄᴀsᴛ 1

Good morning, 'joys and boys, this is your favorite deejay-slash-local nerd-slash-informant, Red Hood, proudly presenting yet another broadcast from WKIL-109 FMX. Been a while, I know you all missed me to bits and pieces!

For anyone listening, the weather sucks, and that's the closest you're getting to a forecast, because I'm not a meteorologist and that's not my job. [ You can practically hear the grin in his voice as Red Hood slides across his broadcasting setup, tapping away at some sort of machine--either to play tracks, or to do something else entirely. This is becoming a weekly thing, and his position as, literally, shock jockey, is one that Red's attached to, dangerous or not. ]

What is actually my job is to play some ridiculously shiny tunes for you guys while you're off triumphing over evil, which I'll get to in a minute, after we talk about the other kinds of tracks on the radio.

I'm taking all callers for the next two hours. Update me on your position, and I'll update you on who's on your back. Keep safe out there, because if you're surviving acid rain, might as well survive being a revolutionary. I'm keeping an eye out for the Big Bad Wolf--this is Red Hood, over and out. Let's get this thing rolling.

[With that said, he turns up a loud song and sits back, radio mic resting on his chest, feet kicked up on the desk. ]

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[She's managed to hide out in the metal head for long enough without a Draculoid finding her yet, and she pulls the radio close to her chest, speaking quietly. Hopefully the metallic sounds won't give her away too much.]

I'm called Canal Cat. In...

[Where was the Nest again? She had to think hard, her mind was clouding.]

Zone 3.

Hey there, Canal Cat. [ Wow, she sounds young. ] Welcome to the broadcast. Gimme like two seconds and I got your back.

[ There's a moment of "silence"--you can hear Red talking quietly into another doom box, like he's touching base with someone, then he returns to the call, turning down the music a touch to talk to her. ] Right now, there are three dracs in Zone 3, but they're spread around--looks like they're wandering around looking for something, Cat. Sounds like you're hiding out somewhere safe, but you should probably get someone in your group to run a watch every now and then, got me?

Okay.

[Her mother always scolded her for not thanking people properly. Even in a place like the Zones, she said, it was good to know your manners. You never knew who or what would be after you, and if you minded your p's and q's, it just might save your life.

But it didn't save theirs.

She lies through her teeth as she speaks back to him.]

I've taken first watch.

[ Red's mouth draws into a line, and he fidgets his fingers a little. Something's not right here. Maybe it's the fact that the girl is answering the line alone--that she sounds so frightened.

The fact is that maybe she's the only survivor of that horrible massacre a couple days ago. Clearing his throat, he adjusts the microphone. ] There are all kinds of things out there, and the last thing I think anyone wants is a Cat to get snagged, no matter how sharp its claws are.

But they've got to die, Red. They must.

[She's speaking quietly, and he might even be able to hear the rustling sounds her jacket makes as she turns from side to side, keeping a lookout and practically praying, to any gods that can hear her, that they don't find her, too. It's the last thing she needs.]

Believe me, I am one thousand percent on board that train. [ For a minute, he thinks of his mom, and shakes his head. ] But you don't wanna end up in a body bag before that happens.

Especially because I think you sound like quite the badass. [ He smiles a little on the other end; ponders sending Big Bad her way. ]

I definitely couldn't tough it without Batgirl and Robin at my side. My friends became my family, cause that's what we all gotta do is take care of each other. And you've gotta find someone you can take care of, too.

Until then, I'm right here with you, padawan.

[She's listening to what he says and taking it to heart, every word. It really was true what Grey Wind said about this DJ, though. He was smart, and he knew where the Dracs were almost as soon as they were spotted, somehow. She always thought it was Batgirl and Robin telling him everything, but Summer and Shaggy told her it was magic. For a time, she even believed it. But boy, could this Red Hood talk. His mouth went a mile a minute, almost as if the words came out before he knew he was saying them.

Then Summer and Shaggy got lost, and she stopped believing in magic all together.]

What is a padawan?

Something my mom used to call me. [ Red can't help his grin, imitating cheerfully: ] Learn well you must, young padawan. It's from an old movie.

[ He feels awful for the poor girl. He's barely heard from any of the members of her little wolf pack--occasionally shared a communication life with Grey Wind, a proud sounding man who used some of his tracker information and even patched back in to say thank you.

There's not much he can do besides keep the dracs off her tail, and by off her tail, he means literally as far away as possible. ] Tell you what, Cat, I'm gonna send you some backup.

[She hears Red's voice take on a slightly more whimsical tone, and she can't help but crack a little smile. It reminds her of something Ghost might do.

He mentions the word 'backup', though, and that peaks her interest. Her hands and feet are practically itching to move, she's been hiding out in this metal skull all day. She'd like nothing more than to find something, anything to eat and to stretch her legs.

But she wonders who he would even send, since there was no word from any of them. Maybe he knew Ghost's location, if he hadn't been dusted.]

How will your men know to find me?

[ He ponders that for a second, then shifts across the small space and presses a button on a transmission, catching up with exactly the man for the job and muttering something into it before taking the mic and pressing it to the other doombox.

Sure enough, there's a long, elegant, almost inhuman from the other end, crackling to life through his speakers, and he waits for Big Bad to stop being such a drama queen and finish, then brings it back to his mouth. ]

Pack finds pack.

Edited 2013-06-13 05:23 (UTC)

[Somehow, as she listens to the deep howling on the other end, Cat can't help but wonder if it's the same scratchy-voiced man who spoke to her earlier, after she'd hidden in the skull from the rain. She sounds off to Big Bad with her own little howl. It's certainly not as long or as convincing as his, but it'll do.]

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