Elle a raison. "Tout ce qu'on a en ce moment, c'est dans cette pièce. Mais je veux changer cela... » Il déroulait une affiche et la collait sur l'un des rares endroits laissés sur le mur qui n'était pas plâtré d'informations sur Patterson. Il a pris un marqueur pointu de la table et a commencé à écrire les noms de la liste en haut de l'affiche. De gauche à droite, il lisait : Red Hood, Cheshire, Grace, Thunder, Deathstroke, Deadshot et Calculatrice.
« Il ne sera pas facile de communiquer avec certaines de ces personnes. Les convaincre de nous aider sera probablement encore plus difficile. Mais nous devons commencer quelque part. Je dis que nous commençons ici..." il a pointé sur le nom de Red Hood avec le coup d'oeil puis a commencé à écrire des informations sous son nom, en commençant par son vrai nom: Jason Todd, "Red Hood, alias Jason Todd. Un ancien Robin, pris et entraîné par le Batman lui-même. Il est allé voyou quelque temps avant que Anarchie prenne le relais, apparemment il a eu une chute avec Bruce, les détails ne sont pas clairs pour moi. Mais la dernière fois que j'ai entendu quelque chose, il est toujours quelque part à Gotham, et c'est l'un des rares héros qui a réussi à rester masqué, pour autant que je sache Anarchie ne l'a jamais démasqué. » Il a sauté au-dessus du Cheshire pour le moment et a fait un geste au nom de Grace.
"Grâce Choi. Métahumain. Son pouvoir? Renforcement de la force. Elle et moi revenons en arrière, je l'ai rencontrée la première fois que j'allais encore à Speedy. C'était un videur pour Chaney, un bar à Metropolis. Je ne sais pas si elle est toujours là, mais ça vaut la peine d'être examiné. Nous pourrions utiliser le muscle supplémentaire." en parlant, Roy a écrit quelques-unes des informations qu'il racontait sous le nom de Grace, indiquant que chacun aurait une colonne de notes et d'informations de contact qui leur seraient dédiées. Il est passé au nom suivant.
"Anissa Pierce, alias Thunder." Roy a écrit son vrai nom sous le nom de code : « C'est une méta avec des pouvoirs de foudre considérables. Son père est Jefferson Pierce, alias Black Lightning. Vous avez peut-être entendu parler de lui. J'ai bien peur de ne pas en savoir plus, mais une méta éclair serait très utile contre la technologie d'Anarchie." Après avoir noté ces notes, il est passé à autre chose.
"Slade Wilson..." Roy a dit, presque avec un peu d'hésitation, "... mais vous le connaissez probablement mieux comme Death Strike le Terminator. Wilson a rejoint l'armée à un jeune âge, où il a ensuite été recruté pour un projet expérimental de super soldat qui lui a donné des compétences de combat améliorées et un facteur de guérison. Il est allé voyou quelque temps plus tard, vendant ses compétences mortelles à des clients qui pouvaient les payer. Il a été une menace connue à la fois pour la Justice League et les Titans." cela a certainement expliqué pourquoi Roy en savait autant sur lui, ayant traité personnellement avec l'homme aux côtés des Teen Titans, "Slade n'est pas le genre d'homme qui se plierait le genou à l'anarchie. Je peux presque garantir qu'il est toujours quelque part. »
"Floyd Lawton, alias Deadshot." Roy avait repris le nom suivant : « Après avoir tiré et tué son frère, Floyd est devenu l'un des tireurs d'élite les plus meurtriers du monde. Il s'appelle Deadshot, et c'est un crack avec n'importe quelle arme à feu que vous pouvez imaginer. Il a peut-être commencé comme tireur d'élite, mais il a passé plus qu'assez de temps sur la "Task Force X" de Cadmus que je sais qu'il est capable de faire bien aussi. Quelqu'un avec un œil aiguisé comme le sien serait idéal comme un guetteur pour les opérations."
"La Calculatrice..." Roy a dit, après avoir évolué, "...le meilleur hacker sur la planète, ou du moins c'est ce qu'il pense de lui-même. Son vrai nom est Noah Kuttler, mais ne laissez pas l'ego vous tromper, Kuttler est vraiment l'un des meilleurs hackers là-bas. En fait, c'est un toss jusqu'à ce qu'il ou Oracle soit le meilleur. Il va sans dire qu'avoir un "Oracle" à nous serait inestimable. Cela suppose bien sûr qu'Anarchie ne l'a pas engagé en premier. Mais je connais le type de Kuttler, il ne voudra pas rester dans une cabine longtemps. Tôt ou tard, il voudra être à nouveau indépendant. C'est là que nous lui faisons notre offre."
Depuis qu'il est devenu évident qu'il a ignoré Cheshire, Roy a finalement dit, "Laissez Cheshire à moi. C'est une assassine, l'une des meilleures qu'il y ait. J'entrerai en contact avec elle moi-même, en plus... si je la connais, elle ne voudra parler à personne d'autre que moi de toute façon."
Name: Roy Harper
Super Name: Arsenal (formerly Speedy and Red Arrow)
Powers: None. Roy is, however, trained in archery by Oliver Queen himself. In addition, Roy has become a skilled hand-to-hand combatant and adept at using a wide array of weapons both standard and improvised. Thanks to some of his previous... connections, Roy speaks fluent Japanese and can also understand Russian, though he still needs to work on speaking the latter. Thanks to his time spent along side both Green Arrow and various members of the Bat-family, Roy has developed a keen analytical sense and has since become quite a detective in his own right.
Technology: Compound bow capable of folding in on itself for portability, some diamond-tipped arrows as well as a few "trick arrows" capable of taking down opponents non-lethally. These generally include compressed nets, blunted tips (most think of the famous boxing glove arrow), taser arrows capable of discharging an electrical current to stun attackers, among others. Roy's other weapons include a pair of Glock 41's, two combat knives hidden in his boots, and finally a pair of titanium batons. Roy's prosthetic arm - made of a synthium alloy - can also be used as a makeshift weapon or shield but he prefers to avoid potentially damaging it if possible. His commonly used utilities include a Batman-inspired gas-powered grapple gun, smoke bombs, flash bombs, and a voice modulator worn under his hood to distort his voice and prevent someone from recognizing him.
Acquaintances:
Oliver Queen (Green Arrow) - Former mentor and surrogate father-figure.
Dick Grayson (Nightwing) - Fellow founding member of the former Teen Titans. Batman's former student adopted Ward.
Vic Stone (Cyborg) - Another former Titan, and was the one who built Roy's prosthetic arm.
Jade Nguyen (Cheshire) - An infamous assassin and Roy's ex-lover.
Personality: If one were to describe Roy in a single word, "stubborn" would likely be their first choice. Roy's stubbornness combined with his opinionated attitude - one he likely picked up from being around Ollie for so long - can and has made him difficult to work with in the past. In recent years, Roy appears to have to realized this flaw and finds himself actively trying to improve his attitude, with varying degrees of success. Despite this, Roy still has a few "berserk buttons", as it were. Chief among those being drugs, heroin in particular. Having had a history with heroin himself, seeing others letting themselves be dragged down by has a way of setting him off and making him more eager than usual to take down whoever selling the drug. Ever since Anarchy's takeover, Roy has found himself getting progressively angrier at the world in general, as if it somehow betrayed him for letting Anarchy take over so easily. None has earned his ire more than Oliver Queen though, whose insistence on continuing to support Anarchy's efforts may as well be like putting a knife in Roy's back.
Bio: Roy was born of Navajo descent, even bearing a tribal tattoo to represent that fact. In his early childhood, Roy was adopted and raised by Broken Bow, a Navajo medicine chief who taught the young Roy the basics of archery. Roy didn't know his biological father that well, but he knew the man was a forest ranger that died tragically in a forest fire. After Brave Bow's death, and thus having lost two fathers, a grief-stricken Roy found himself lost. He was falling in with the wrong kinds of crowds, even becoming a heroin addict in the process. Needless to say, Roy's life was at a low point. That changed when he met Oliver Queen.
Roy first met Ollie when the latter approached him as Green Arrow, convincing Roy not to go through with robbing a nearby convenient store. Oliver could have just left Roy's fate up to the system, but instead decided to help the young teen himself. He took Roy in, gave him a home and essentially adopted him as his ward. Noticing Roy's existing skill with a bow, Oliver decided to train him further. Before long, Roy was fighting alongside Green Arrow as Speedy.
Sometime later, Speedy met and became friends with a number of other teenage sidekicks. Robin, Kid Flash, Aqualad, Donna Troy and himself started a team of their own called the Teen Titans. While in the Titans, Roy had a brief relationship with Donna that, frankly, didn't last long. The Titans themselves didn't last forever either, due mostly their roster constantly changing with people coming in and out of the team. Soon even Robin, who by then had rebranded himself as Nightwing, left the team he had helped create along with his then-lover Starfire. The Titans disbanded shortly after, and Roy found himself turning to heroin once more.
It didn't take Oliver long to discover Roy's relapse, and angered, he threw Roy out. Roy wasn't on the streets for long, instead he was taken in by Black Canary, who helped him break the addiction once and for all. But by then his relationship with Oliver had become strained, so Roy borrowed a page from Dick's playbook and rebranded himself as Red Arrow.
As Red Arrow, Roy found himself once again among the ranks of the Titans. Vic Stone - aka Cyborg and a member of the former team before it disbanded - asked Roy to help him start a new Teen Titans, and even Nightwing approved the idea despite politely refusing the offer to join the new team. This new team of Titans lasted all the way until Superman's death, only disbanding because Anarchy forced them to. During this team's tenure, Roy met the assassin Cheshire during an undercover mission meant to take her down. Instead the two ended up falling deeply in love with each other, and so Roy couldn't bring himself to take her down when the time came, instead letting her go.
After Anarchy's takeover, the New Titans lost contact with each other. Roy at first tried take Anarchy down on his own, but found himself defeated and dismembered for his troubles. He was forced to go into hiding after that, but during that time he reached out to Vic and his former teammate built an advanced prosthetic arm for him, but advised Roy to stay hidden and to give up on taking Anarchy down. Ever stubborn, Roy's response was to sever all his previous ties, forever discarding both Speedy and Red Arrow. He donned a new mask and hood, started carrying and wielding more weapons than just his bow. With such a small arsenal of weapons he always seemed to have on him, it wasn't hard for Roy to earn a new name... Arsenal.