Lucien and Bell in Worm canon
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"Aw, I don't even have to guess which Protectorate hero?"

Possibly-Calvert is one floor below her, in the non-hero portion of the high security HQ section. His taxes are suspcious, she can probably get him on that? It'd be enough to get a warrant but not enough to arrest him.

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"Maybe if I bring him in on this. - okay, I have a search warrant, where am I sending the flock."

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... She really loves the lair.

What about this auxiliarly branch? It has a few mercenaries and probably some evidence that he's been paying them to watch people's houses. 

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Stealth bots book it. She tucks Tattletale into a holding cell for the time being.

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"How exaclty does putting me in this cell prevent Coil or a mole from noticing I'm here."

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"Dad's on his way. He can teleport you without having to touch you, so if you stay near the force field, he can get you out if things go sideways. Once the bots have enough evidence I'll be able to arrest Calvert. When will he be settled on a timeline?"

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"He's going to keep this timeline because his power will have predicted nothing will go wrong here and he was planning to keep this one. He'll branch again in maybe an hour? Could be longer."

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"Bots will try to have a case for his arrest sewn up by then. Other loose ends?"

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"Not really. Flock will get you evidence of crimes but not him."

She can handle the other stuff herself.

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"Do you need to be in person in person to determine if the guy in his office is him, or will a video feed do it?"

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"If the video feed is really high def it might work? But I don't think any of the ones you have are good enough."

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"Few different angles at once?"

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"My power needs enough to make out microexpressions, angles don't matter."

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"Does he know your face?"

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"Yeah."

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"I could have a bot see if Armsmaster's got a better camera, unless you have some reason to think he's a mole."

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"I'd bet our lives that he's not, if that's the best option we have."

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"Next best option, assuming you don't think a bot will be able to buy something good enough at a normal store, is I go up and whip up something real fast, but it's not very firmly in-specialty."

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"Armsmaster is almost definitely not a mole and wouldn't sell you out even if he was I think."

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"Sending for a camera from him, then." A bot zips through the halls to bother Armsmaster.

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Armsmaster is tinkering in his workshop.

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"Lorica needs to borrow a higher resolution camera for me! Do you have anything suitable?" the bot asks when he's looked up for a moment and it won't be interrupting too badly.

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His foot presses a pedal and a drawer pops open across the room. There are a few cameras in there, but nothing higher res than Lorica has.

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"Thank you anyway," says the bot after assessing the available items.

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Right then. Transit shows up and Lorica leaves him with Tattletale to go put something together as fast as she can in her own workshop.

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