Post by Adminenkainen on Sept 17, 2021 15:21:23 GMT
Hour-Man has excellent hearing and is able to hear the voice on the other end of the line well enough to know he did not hear that person speak in the hideout -- unless that person somehow knew he might be recognized and was masking his voice earlier. Roger is of the right build to have been one of the hooded cultists who got away, but so would a lot of people.
With nothing concrete to go on, Hour-Man has to table his concerns that something wasn't right and throw himself into helping to organize the partial evacuation. For a time he directs traffic at the parking lot exit until it becomes so congested that he uses some of his residual super-strength to rip open some fencing beside the exit so he can get another row of cars out.
An hour later (10:30 pm), Zatara and Doris rendezvous with Hour-Man to discuss.
Zatara reports: "The night security crew is 12 guards. If the saboteurs launched an all-out assault, they'd be overwhelmed easily. However, I'm hopeful the odds of that happening are pretty slim. You killed a lot of rat-men down there, and we left the devil-men -- they called themselves Mephisians, by the way -- so badly injured that they may be too scared of us to try anything for awhile."
"If you're right, that buys us time," Doris says. "I contacted the New York City police about Sandy and the Hawkman's fiancee, a woman named Shiera, who's flying out here tomorrow to collect him and what personal effects we still have. And that brings up another problem we need to discuss: the head cultist down there has the Hawkman's flying wings--"
Hour-Man had heard rumors of a man who could fly and this seemed to confirm that.
"--and the Sandman's gas gun. He's going to be incredibly dangerous when we next meet him."
"That and the fact he's mentally unstable," Zatara added. "Unless there is truth to his claim that a higher being from another world was guiding his actions. Given the creatures he keeps for company down there...I don't think we can safely rule it out."
With nothing concrete to go on, Hour-Man has to table his concerns that something wasn't right and throw himself into helping to organize the partial evacuation. For a time he directs traffic at the parking lot exit until it becomes so congested that he uses some of his residual super-strength to rip open some fencing beside the exit so he can get another row of cars out.
An hour later (10:30 pm), Zatara and Doris rendezvous with Hour-Man to discuss.
Zatara reports: "The night security crew is 12 guards. If the saboteurs launched an all-out assault, they'd be overwhelmed easily. However, I'm hopeful the odds of that happening are pretty slim. You killed a lot of rat-men down there, and we left the devil-men -- they called themselves Mephisians, by the way -- so badly injured that they may be too scared of us to try anything for awhile."
"If you're right, that buys us time," Doris says. "I contacted the New York City police about Sandy and the Hawkman's fiancee, a woman named Shiera, who's flying out here tomorrow to collect him and what personal effects we still have. And that brings up another problem we need to discuss: the head cultist down there has the Hawkman's flying wings--"
Hour-Man had heard rumors of a man who could fly and this seemed to confirm that.
"--and the Sandman's gas gun. He's going to be incredibly dangerous when we next meet him."
"That and the fact he's mentally unstable," Zatara added. "Unless there is truth to his claim that a higher being from another world was guiding his actions. Given the creatures he keeps for company down there...I don't think we can safely rule it out."