"You're... going to start an eyepatch-themed clothing line?" he asked incredulously. But, he thinks, not everyone has a billionaire adoptive father funding the night-time activities of a troop of caped crusaders. "Might not be such a bad idea, really. Some people are obsessed with heroes."

Punchy, if someone who talks like a gangsta can be trusted not to exaggerate, has just handed Tim more evidence that whoever is behind this is technologically skilled. He hadn't seen anything that couldn't be pulled off by a highly competent band of kidnappers yet. Suppression of meta-human powers, however, took a combination of biological knowledge and tech savvy. Who knows what other tech they might have.

How many functioning Mother Boxes were out there anyway? A boom tube... would explain a lot.

"I've never had any 'mojo' to miss," Tim explains with a shrug, "so I can't help you figure that one out. I just get by on my own. What did you do?"