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Dash is an unusual officer, even for Gotham PD standards. Yeah, he's not the smartest but that's normal. What gets Dash the promotion to the bat spotlight and bat informant is that almost nothing scares the guy.
Dash has been dispatched to rogue attacks a lot within his 3 years at the GPD. He's one of the officers they call first for when Scarecrow attacks. The gas has little effect on him and he has the best gun safety on the force, even with fear gas in his system. Some of the officers asked why he wasn't afraid of any of the rogues.
Dash laughed at them, shaking his head a bit. "My hometown is scarier than anything Gotham has. Hell, the kid I bullied freshman year of high school is scarier than Scarecrow and we ended up being friends after I got my shit together."
"What the hell, man!"
"I should invite him over. It's been awhile since I saw him last." with that said Dash was walking away completely disinterested in the crisis he caused in the officers behind him.
Here he was on top of the Gotham PD building with the bat light on and report in hand. He can tell that a good bit of the bats & birds are hiding close by, waiting for the signal probably. It's The Batman who approaches First, silent from behind. Dash turns quick, meeting his masked eyes. Batman seems to almost jump.
"Nice to see you again Batman. Sorry to surprise you." Dash smiles.
"It's fine, Officer Baxter. Where is the Commissioner?" Batman's voice is gruff, more than it was last time they happened to talk.
"He's downstairs working on some cases. He promoted me to being your contact here at the spotlight, are you ready for the report now?"
Dash is relaxed during the report. It's unnerving to the bats and birds. He didn't even blink when Robin popped up, just nodded at him.
"That should be everything, hope y'all have a good night. Stay safe out there." Dash turns to walk away just to find Black Bat in front of him, he doesn't flinch.
"Ah I see some more of you have come out of hiding." Surprisingly Dash is signing while He talks now. He knows Black Bat isn't deaf but he figures it's a good way to let them know that he can communicate with her.
Batman walks to face him again. Robin doesn't follow but Dash can hear the sound of a grappling hook being fired behind him.
"I have one question for you; where are you from?" Batman asks like the answer would give him all the he needs to understand Dash.
Dashes smirks, knowing that the bat can't let anything be. Amity Park is cut off from the world By the GIW for the most part. So, maybe someone will do a fucking thing about it.
"My hometown is Amity Park, Illinois, sir."
Dashes answer gives the bat nothing, yet everything. The itch to know more is appearing in the back of his mind, Dash can see it in the way the man's shoulders twitch. Batman isn't going to get any sleep tonight, is he?