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[It's the default request to leave a message that comes with every voicemail. Accelerator hasn't bothered to change it.]

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[levelshift]

An alien?

[.......... Oh, that's kind of cool? He's never run into an alien before.

Of course, Accelerator being Accelerator, he can't just text that back.]

Well, whatever. If we get into a fight I'll be able to take her.

[robintohood]

Hopefully it doesn’t happen but good to know

Recon on the place first so we have an idea of what we’re getting into

[levelshift]

Alright. Anything I need to bring for that?

[robintohood]

If you got anything for stealth, use it. Otherwise, nah

We’ll see how a typical night shift looks like for the place from when they switch and close to when they open again

[levelshift]

Got it.

[Black clothing it is! Good thing most of his wardrobe is black.]

That sounds really simple. I'm guessing you've done a lot of these before?

[robintohood]

Yeah. In this kind of work, you spend more time intel-gathering than actual action

It’s how you don’t get caught

[levelshift]

[That sounds so boring....]

Didn't have to worry about getting caught back home. Everything my group did was signed off on by the city's board of directors.

[robintohood]

Lucky. It’s the dead opposite for me. You develop a healthy sense of paranoia if you got a life like mine

[levelshift]

I wouldn't call it lucky.

[He was still doing horrible things, killing people and the like.]

Were you ever caught?

[robintohood]

Nope. I’ve only gotten “caught” when it was on purpose

[levelshift]

So you've never been to prison?

[robintohood]

Been to juvie but that’s it

[levelshift]

What was that like?

[robintohood]

It’s kiddie jail so it’s exactly as shitty as it sounds like. I wasn’t even 10 yet when I went

[levelshift]

Fuck, you were still a baby.

[That's Last Order's age. That's nuts. It's almost impossible to picture a kid that young getting locked up....]

What'd you even do?

[robintohood]

Got caught stealing. I was also mouthing off at the cops so I was charged for resisting arrest too

[levelshift]

And they thought juvenile hall was the best place for a kid that young? The American law system doesn't have anywhere better?

[robintohood]

There’s a lot of things wrong with the system. How kids are handled is only part of the problem

Also, there’s a lot of corruption in Gotham

[levelshift]

Fuck.

I guess I can't say it's that surprising. Shit's fucked back home, too.

[robintohood]

How bad?

[Besides experimenting on kids and making them child soldiers…]

[levelshift]

Because it's a closed city a lot of parents like to take advantage of that system to dump their kids. The kid gets assigned to a school, and their parents just disappear. Guardianship is supposed to be taken over by the city and their school, but it's common for certain research institutions attached to the schools to grab those kids and use them for prohibited experiments. Usually they end up dead, or worse.

No one's going to miss them, so who gives a shit? The city definitely doesn't.

[robintohood]

It’s a whole city doing this? How do they get away with that shit?

[levelshift]

Academy City is a fucking sovereign city-state. Even though it's located in Japan it isn't really beholden to the Japanese government.

Their marketing for the Power Curriculum Program, the thing that produces espers, is really strong. Most families will line up to register their kid, since they think the worst that'll happen is that their kid might not end up strong enough to manifest any kind of ability and still get an education at a city that's thirty years ahead of the rest of the world.

But I know there's been a lot of growing unrest in the rest of the world recently. It's mostly been from a growing contingent of parents who don't think the city's safe, and religious organizations.

[robintohood]

So it’s the same old story

Rich psychopaths who are above government control

How’s that resistance going?

[levelshift]

Fuck off. I'm not trying to change things from the inside. I've attacked some of the board members before for my own reasons, but I still technically work for those psychopaths.

I'm not the good guy in this situation.