Log:Warehouse Stakeout

2019/12/22 Radical Grimm 1

Grimm's shadow is still staking out the warehouse for any activity when the real Grimm Shady appears in a burst of darkness and dark whispers. She texted Radical that she was heading over there to check in.

Radical shows up a few minutes later, appearing from out of nowhere. Though it really took several teleportations to get here from where he had been prior.

Grimm finishes getting the update from her shadow in silent communion when Radical shows up. She looks a bit surprised to see him. "Oh, hey. Still no sign of activity at the warehouse," she informs quietly. There's a light, new bruise along the left cheek near her mouth.

Radical nods, "I suppose that's not necessarily a bad thing." He tilts his head, "You okay?"

"Huh?" It takes Gabrielle a moment to realize. She brings a hand to cover up the bruise. "Oh, yeah. Yeah. Just a thank you, courtesy of the woman that I assume you returned to her normal body."

Radical nods. "Ah. The woman who was taken to the hospital. Yes, likely the same person. Why'd she hit you?"

Grimm has some immediate unflattering thoughts on why. "I introduced myself and explained I helped her. Hell if I know why that deserved a punch." She lowers her hand. "I went to see if she had any statements to give at the hospital, and they said she wasn't waking up. I tried taking a peak inside her head to see if there was more tampering, and her mind and memories were all in pieces. Scattered about and shattered. I had to spend some time putting it back together."

Radical furrows his brow. "Hmm. I'm surprised that my spell didn't heal her mind as well." He shakes his head slowly. "Unless it had something to do with what actually happened to her mind...Hmm."

"Your spell can do that, too? Hmm. I don't know that she was all that together before she got changed," Grimm grumbles. "She resented I was in her head at all, even if it was to make sure she wouldn't be a vegetable. It was...weird. So I used some tricks I picked up from a detective friend of mine." Grimm smirks a little at that. Carpenter might've almost been proud of her. "I grilled her about what happened to her. I'm pretty sure she's still protecting Zero, but also knows something's up with her."

Radical nods. "It can repair a person's mind, depending on how that person's mind was altered. I used it a couple of times to do so. I fixed someone's mind who had been rendered braindead. And I also healed mental and emotional trauma that Moonshadow suffered."

Grimm listens and raises a brow at the mention of mental and emotional trauma and Moonshadow. "Right." She looks towards her feet, rubbing her chin. "I'm not really sure what broke her mind. Or how. It seemed like it was part of what changed her into a bug, but maybe it was something else. I can untangle broken minds and trauma, but I don't know if I could restore their body. Change it, maybe, but put it back the way it was? I'd...probably have to know what it was first. And even then, I'd be hesitant to try."

Radical nods. "I can't pick and choose. I can only undo what was done. It's a...restoration of order. Of a prior pattern. Think of it like...restoring a prior backup."

"Gotcha," Grimm says, then wonders, "How far does that go? Like...what if you used that on someone like Spirit if he somehow got transformed? Would he go back to normal, or...the way he was back when they say he was alive."

Radical shakes hsi head, "I'm not sure I could restore him, unless it was done closer to the event in question."

Radical chuckles. "I'm not entirely sure what the limitations of the spell really are."

Grimm tsks at Radical and smiles as she taunts, "Sounds like someone needs to do their homework."

Radical nods, "I do. I know the basics...like a recipe. But each person that I heal is a separate case, so there is some improvising."

Grimm chuckles. "I was just teasing. I hope next time the spell works all the way so I don't have to get suckerpunched by irate people." Some of the cheer fades from her. "No one's reported Zero missing officially. That woman we helped, Lien, didn't even give a statement about it when I confronted her after she punched me. I'm thinking less and less that Zero was a victim."

Radical furrows his brow, "Friends of hers protecting her, perhaps?"

"Probably. But being weird about it," Grimm states. "None of them proclaimed her innocence. Even Hawk pitched in and made it sound like I was calling for Zero to get beaten up. Maybe they're all part of it. This Hive Mother creature is devious."

Radical shakes his head, "I think that's unlikely. It's not that tricky, in my opinion."

Grimm leans against an air conditioner unit as she considers Radical. "Really? What're your thoughts on it?"

Radical shakes his head, "So far, it seems to spread like a virus. It's intelligent and adaptive. But it's not thinking two steps ahead. At least not yet."

"Hopefully not. A virus doesn't have conscious thought, though. It can communicate," Grimm comments. "The infection creates more than one type of bug thing. We've had two types reported at Starguard. There's rumor of a third type, but we only have a few statements from heroes on that."