Trouble ahead...

[comic_awareness]

Bruce sat in the mission war room, bringing up various pieces of data on the computer, projecting holographic screens into the air.

"In prison... in prison...  last know crime... last known crime..."

He manipulated some more data, looking over countless records and pulling the files into sections.

Something... something definitely wasn't right, and a pattern was beginning to emerge.

"Okay," he said aloud.  "What're you trying to tell me...?"

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[wateronthebrain]

"Well they likely have some sinister plot to break someone with a big name out," Erin offers.

"I mean. That's totally a thing. Right?"

[comic_awareness]

Bruce shook his head. "Maybe," he said. "But the ones in prison have been there a while now, and there's too many who have just fallen off the map completely."

He leaned back in his chair. "I don't think it's a breakout... but I don't know what it is."

[wateronthebrain]

Erin chews her lower lip thoughtfully.

"What about the big name groups? What numbers do we have on them right now? .... AIM? HYDRA?" Erin tucks her hair back.

"My Dad had trouble with HYDRA years ago. Someone tried to strong arm him. I've wondered why we haven't heard anything in like..... two years. Nothing big in the news feeds anyways. Seems to me someone is hiding things from us."

[comic_awareness]

"AIM, HYDRA, ULTIMATUM, the Sons of the Serpent, plenty of big name organizations," Bruce agreed. "SHIELD's got pretty solid intel on most of them, at least, that they're sharing with us."

He moved some images around. "It's just been... too quiet lately. Meta-crime has been steadily going down the last several months."

[wateronthebrain]

"That makes no sense." She brushes her fingers over her hair as she thinks.

"I heard my Dad mention in passing that there are less illegal weapons being moved around too. One of the things that came up during a summit he was at a few weeks ago in Germany. It seems impossible. You can't hide that stuff easily. Now with SHIELD or the other organizations out there."

She frowns mostly to herself. "It's like we're flying blind into something. The biggest thing that happened recently that everyone was on deck for was the Frost Giants with the Cask."

[comic_awareness]

"I know," Bruce agreed. "And that's not even a domestic threat."

He frowned. "Which means this probably goes back at least that far."

[wateronthebrain]

Erin chews at her lower lip thoughtfully.

"All hands were on deck for that. Not just us. The Foundation, and X-Men were involved." She wonders about it.

"Almost makes me wonder if it was a test."

[comic_awareness]

Another frown. "Maybe. Loki likes to mess with the Avengers, but this doesn't seem to contain his usual elements."

He looked over the data. "Someone's preparing for something. But I can't see the forest for the trees."