Geminislay in Gotham Part 1: Is it really murder if they started it?
Gem didnt know how she got here. One moment she was gathering resources for her season 10 base expansion, the next she was POOFED into a random, grimy back alley that would put even the darkest corner of the Goblin Empire to shame.
“What the- oh!”
She was also being cornered by four angry looking guys with guns.
“Okay…hey dude. Whatcha guys doin’?”
They glanced at each other and glared at her.
“The hell did she come from?”
They raised their guns. Gem glared and drew her sword and shield. She took a defensive stance. She didnt know what was happening, or who these people were, but they didnt look like they were playing nice.
“Does it matter? Get rid of her, she’s in the way.”
Oh, I’ll show you in the way.
This was a free-shift server. She let her redlife skin wash over her.
“Wait! Stop!”
“What the-“
Gem darted to the man on her far right. She raised her shield to knock the barrel of his gun away from her and whipped the edge of her sword across his neck. He dropped the gun to claw at his slashed artery. Gem kicked it out of the way.
She rushed the next closest guy, this time shoving his gun upwards with her shield while still blocking shots from the others. She stabbed him, but he had the audacity to fall before she could retract her sword from his stomach.
No matter, she drew her axe from her inventory…
“The fuck-“
“She’s meta!”
…and slammed a crit into the third mans chest cavity. The last man fired until his gun clicked uselessly. He scrambled to reload.
“Come on, dont tell me you’re out of arrows.” Gem teased.
“STOP!”
Gem cleanly beheaded the man. His headless body collapsed, and she caught sight of the person behind him who had shouted from the entrance of the alley.
“What are you doing?”
He looked a few years younger than her. He held a bo staff. He was wearing a pretty cool outfit, black with a red vest and a cape. He had short, straight black hair parted down the middle. His eyes were hidden behind a domino mask.
And he had her trapped in the alleyway. Gem didnt trust his calm demeanor, but she shifted back to her season ten skin. She switched her axe for her Loyalty III trident, clearly ready to throw it at a moments notice.
“I was defending myself. Honestly, who just points a gun at someone they just met?”
The boy didn’t say anything. He looked down the tip of her trident and let the irony set in.
“Look, Im not gonna hurt you.” Gem paused. She spun her trident out of the overhead throwing grip. It swooshed through the air as she planted the nonlethal end into the ground. It landed with an intimidating thunk.
“Who are you?” He asked.
Gem glanced down at the bodies and giggled. Weird that they havent despawned yet.
“Well, I guess now you can call me Geminislay.”
“…Okay. Are you a meta?”
“I- no? Whats a meta?”
He looked shocked. “A person with like, superpowers. Or something.”
Gem thought for a moment. “Oh! Like Tango?”
“What do tangos have to do with anything?”
“He’s a really nice blaze hybrid, you probably dont know him. There was one time Jimmy kissed him on the cheek and he nearly burned down my house.”
The boy smoothly masked his confusion. “Yeah, like that.”
“Nope! I dont have anything like that.”
His eyes narrowed. “You can change your appearance at will and pull weapons from thin air.”
“Uh yeah? Cant you?”
He didnt answer. “What are your intensions in Gotham?”
“I dont know! I’m honestly just trying to chill, but these guys really seem to have a problem with that!”
“So you decided to murder them!?”
Gem shrugged. “Yup. I mean they’ll res-“ wait a minute, the bodies havent despawned yet. She looked at her hearts, realizing for the first time that they were hardcore colored. “Oh dont tell me there’s a life gimmick here.”
“Um, excuse me?”
Maybe it was like X life or secret life. Really, any of the life series gimmicks could be bad. Hell, with the way they were acting it could even be like lifesteal. “How many hearts do you have?”
“One?”
Gem gawked at him. “Holy- oh my god dude!” Gem chucked a piece of bread at him. He caught it, looking thoroughly confused. “You’re like, one stubbed toe away from dying! Tell me you can at least regen!”
“I dont know what you-“
Footsteps approached them. They both stiffened. The boy turned so his back was to the wall, facing the footsteps but not turning his back on her.
“The fuck is taking you so long?” Said the man who entered the alley. He froze, and then smirked upon seeing the boy. “Well well well, what do we have here? A little birdie.” He glanced at Gem. “And you found a friend.”
Mystery boy raised his staff. “Leave her alone if you know whats good for you.” Well that was kinda nice. Unnecessary, but nice.
“Fine. We’ll let your little friend live, as long as you come quietly. I bet the Joker’s gonna pay reeeaaal well for a new Robin to play with.”
The boy just barely tensed. The comment clearly put him on edge, and he looked ready to attack. Gem decided she had seen enough. She launched her trident into the mans skull, probably piercing a few inches through to the other side. The boy’s eyes followed it, whirling back to her as it returned.
“What was THAT for!?”
“Dude are you crazy? You have ONE HEART!”
“Yeah, and it works perfectly fine!”
“A slime could probably take you out right now, you have one heart.”
He rolled his eyes. She couldnt see, but she could tell.
“Well how many hearts do you have?”
“Ten! Like how you’re supposed to.”
He sighed. “Okay pause. Where are you from?”
Gem blinked. “I’m from Hermitcraft. But I’m not sure where exactly here is. Do you guys have access to a server hub? I was kinda in the middle of something before I got teleported over here.”
“No, we dont have whatever that is, but I need to arrest you.”
“Do you really need to though?”
“You murdered five people in front of me!”
“Im sorry, I was defending myself! Honestly, GOD FORBID women have hobbies.”
He sighed and tapped an earpiece. “This is Red Robin, I have a powered individual who killed five people in less than five minutes. Requesting backup.” He looked back at her.
“Either you come with us and answer our questions, or we take you by force.”
Gem considered her options. She was still trapped in an alleyway, so getting out on foot wasnt an option. And this Red Robin guy had seemed ready to throw down to protect her, so she didnt really want to hurt him. That left two options: up, and down. She could pull out her pickax, but digging straight down was a bad idea to begin with, and he would probably just follow her. So her only option was up. She cursed herself for wearing her chestplate instead of her elytra.
Well, that wasnt a difficult issue to solve.
“I’ll pass, thanks.” She effortlessly shifted into Princess Gem of Dawn, spread her Monarch wings and flew out of the alley.
She saw a few more masked people trying to follow her as she made her escape. They were fast, but her wings were faster. One she lost them, she shifted into a very different skin model, which was her most subtle look. She had much shorter straight red hair and a white jacket. A flashlight was perched on her shoulder. Gemma Taylor, GIGS crew ghost hunter.
PART 1.5 :Tim developes a healthy fear of tridents (Part 1 with a bonus scene from Tim’s perspective) https://www.tumblr.com/paradoxicalli/786365272183472128/geminislay-in-gotham-part-2?source=share
Part 2: The murderer is a friendly cottage core bookworm https://www.tumblr.com/paradoxicalli/786719029778841600/geminislay-in-gotham?source=share
Geminislay in Gotham Part 1.5: Tim develops a healthy fear of tridents
(Part 1 but from Tim’s POV)
This was supposed to be a normal patrol. Right up until Oracle checked in with a weird alert.
“We have a potentially supernatural disturbance in sector 12. Red Robin, you’re closest.”
Tim sighed. Always normal until the spook-o-meter goes off. “On it.”
He changed course, swinging towards the coordinates that Oracle sent to his communicator. He caught sight of a potential altercation at the end of an alleyway that was still a good ways away. It looked like four armed men surrounding a red haired woman in a strange blue outfit. She was holding a shield… and was that a sword? God dammit, was she a new vigilante? He was able to just barely hear a man’s voice through the quiet side streets, “Does it matter? Get rid of her, she’s in the way.”
Shit, he was too late. Panic shot through him, but just before he shouted, “Wait! Stop!” The womans appearance shifted. He barely had time to blink as her teal tunic turned into a jet black undershirt with blood red sleeves. She had a red heart across her chest that reminded him of Jason’s bat symbol. Most disturbingly, one of her eyes turned bright red.
The thugs were shocked too.
“What the-“
He didnt get to finish his sentence before the woman slit his throat. This was getting bad fast. She stabbed the next man and Tim still wasnt close enough to stop her. At least the man fell in a way that tore her sword from her hands. The other two had a a chance.
Until the woman pulled an axe out of thin air.
Sure. Why not.
“The fuck-“
“She’s meta!”
The axe swung down onto the third man. God, this was a massacre. The last man shot desperately until Tim heard his gun click empty. He heard her voice, a higher pitched, deceptively sweet sound.
“Come on, dont tell me you’re out of arrows.” Tim had to try and save him.
“STOP!”
She sliced his head off. There was blood splattered across her face, but she didnt seem to care. The mans decapitated body flopped to the ground and the woman locked her gaze onto Tim. Jesus, she was terrifying.
“What are you doing?” Tim asked. Why did you just kill four people?
Her appearance changed back to a sailor pirate queen or something. Her axe disappeared, replaced by a wicked trident held over her head, poised to throw. She glared.
“I was defending myself. Honestly, who just points a gun at someone they just met?”
Tim stared blankly at the trident pointed at him and chose not to comment on the hypocrisy.
“Look, Im not gonna hurt you.” The woman paused, but spun her trident out of her overhead throwing position. It swooshed through the air before the blunt end landed on the ground with an intimidating thunk. Tim would take any peace offering he could get.
First things first.
“Who are you?” He asked.
The woman glanced at the bodies and honest to god giggled.
“Welp, I guess now you can call me Geminislay.” What the fuck kind of name is that?
“…Okay. Are you a meta?”
Confusion drew over her face. “I- no? Whats a meta?”
Was she for real right now? “A person with like, superpowers. Or something.”
She thought for a moment. “Oh! Like Tango?”
“What do tangos have to do with anything?”
“He’s a really nice blaze hybrid, you probably dont know him. There was one time Jimmy kissed him on the cheek and he nearly burned down my house.” What?
“Yeah, like that.” Mental note: the Geminislay lady knows a ‘blaze hybrid’ with fire powers.
“Nope! I dont have anything like that.”
Was she being for real with him right now? “You can change your appearance at will and pull weapons from thin air.”
“Uh yeah? Cant you?”
Okay, this is getting weird. “What are your intensions in Gotham?”
“I dont know! I’m honestly just trying to chill, but these guys really seem to have a problem with that!”
“So you decided to murder them!?”
Geminislay shrugged. “Yup. I mean they’ll res-“ she froze. “Oh dont tell me there’s a life gimmick here.”
“Um, excuse me?”
“How many hearts do you have?”
“One?”
Geminislay’s jaw dropped in shock. “Holy- oh my god dude!” She hurled something at him, which he caught on instinct. It was…a piece of bread?
“You’re like, one stubbed toe away from dying!” Okay rude. “Tell me you can at least regen!”
“I dont know what you-“
Tim heard footsteps. He tensed, and turned his back to the wall to the face the sound. Geminislay tensed too, and he didnt let her out of his sight.
“The fuck is taking you so long?” Said a random goon who entered the alley. He froze, and then smirked when he saw Tim. “Well well well, what do we have here? A little birdie.” He glanced at Geminislay. “And you found a friend.”
She probably didn’t appreciate being referred to as that. She seemed more lost with a side of stabby than malicious.
Tim glared and leveled his staff at the man. “Leave her alone if you know whats good for you.”
He grinned. “Fine. We’ll let your little friend live, as long as you come quietly. I bet the Joker’s gonna pay reeeaaal well for a new Robin to play with.”
Oh god please no. Tim wasnt doing that. Not after what he did to Jason. He would fight like a bat out of hell to avoid that, and he wasnt going to let this strange, lost murder lady get hurt either. He prepared to attack when-
Thoowp-CLAAANG!!!!
Jesus, was that sound her trident!?
“UGH-“
Shiiiiiiiiiing!!!
Tims eyes snapped onto Geminislay as her now bloody trident flew back into her hand. Instead of furious red like before, her eyes blazed with a deathly calm blue.
“What was THAT for!?”
“Dude are you crazy? You have ONE HEART!”
“Yeah, and it works perfectly fine!”
“A slime could probably take you out right now, you have one heart.”
He rolled his eyes. She really needed to chill about his singular heart.
“Well how many hearts do you have?”
“Ten! Like how you’re supposed to.”
He sighed, because that is just not how that is supposed to work. “Okay pause. Where are you from?”
She blinked. “I’m from Hermitcraft. But I’m not sure where exactly here is. Do you guys have access to a server hub? I was kinda in the middle of something before I got teleported over here.”
Tim fought the urge to pinch his nose. “No, we dont have whatever that is, but I need to arrest you.”
“Do you really need to though?” She asked, amusement dancing in her eyes.
“You murdered five people in front of me!”
“Im sorry, I was defending myself! Honestly, GOD FORBID women have hobbies.”
He sighed. He has to make sure this woman never meets Stephanie Brown. He tapped into his comms, “This is Red Robin, I have a powered individual who killed five people in less than five minutes.” He could feel Batman growling about no metas in Gotham. “Requesting backup.”
Oracle spoke into his ear. “I’m sending Black Bat and Robin. Red Hood is already en route.”
He looked back at Geminislay. “Either you come with us and answer our questions, or we take you by force.” And please dont spear me like a kabob.
Geminislay narrowed her eyes. (Thankfully not glaring) Her gaze locked onto him, then shifted to the ground, and settled on the sky.
“I’ll pass, thanks.” She was probably a flight risk, but its not like she could actually grow wings.
That is, until her outfit shimmered into a light pink dress worthy of a fairytale. He didnt actually know the full extent of her powers, did he? Monarch butterfly wings flipped out from behind her. With a few powerful flaps, she was gone.
Tim cursed and grappled after her. “Uh guys? She just sprouted wings and flew away.”
He heard Oracle sign, something that his siblings probably echoed.
“What are we looking for?”
“Caucasian female in her twenties, long red hair, light pink dress and butterfly wings flying northbound.”
“Cant catch a butterfly Replacement?”
“If its so easy you do it. She also might be wearing dark blue, or black with grey overalls.”
“You guys got a butterfly lady and didnt invite me!?” No Stephanie, we did not invite you.
“In pursuit.”
“Copy that Robin.”
“Damn, she’s fast!”
“Fucking TOLD you Hood!”
“Yeah yeah.” Jason said from beside him. They caught up to Damien and Cass a moment later.
“Silence, we’re loosing her!”
“I’m on my way to intercept and corner her.”
“B, you’re on the other side of the city.”
A single grunt, translating to “Not anymore.”
They continued tailing her, until they were standing on a rooftop facing Bruce, who had come from the other direction.
“Oracle. We’ve lost the visual.”
“You’re not gonna like this, but I’ve got a whole lot of nothing on the cameras. She’s a shapeshifter that found a crowd of people.”
Tim groaned. This was going to be such a headache.
Part 1: Is it really murder if they started it? https://www.tumblr.com/paradoxicalli/786030415065530368/geminislay-in-gotham-part-1
Part 2: The murderer is a friendly cottage core bookworm https://www.tumblr.com/paradoxicalli/786719029778841600/geminislay-in-gotham?source=share
