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Bowyer of Paradise
Date of Scene: 13 July 2020
Location: Labs - Titan's Tower
Synopsis: The Titans make progress on building Kate a replacement weapon: the WonderBow!
Cast of Characters: Caitlin Fairchild, Kara Danvers, Victor Stone, Kate Bishop, Donna Troy




Caitlin Fairchild has posed:
Following the Brainiac encounter, the Titans had needed a day or two to rally and recover. But it was back to the grindstone in short order, and one of the top jobs was getting a new bow pulled together for Kate Bishop, aka Hawkeye-- resident sharpshooter sans shooting instrument.

It's a team effort. A few designs are up on the wall, ranging from very traditional crescent shaped arc and recurve bows, up to some surprisingly complex mechanically assisted designs. Prototypes have been built for Kate to sample for fit and balance, making sure the bow is built precisely to her needs.

"I'm thinking if we switch you to carbon fibre shafts, we can get better durability and more range," Caitlin informs Kate. She's in a racerback sports shirt and comfy leggings, hair pulled out of a 'fighting braid' and merely gathered into a loose ponytail. She sets her hips and twists the machine infront of her, a complex vise to help 'season' the rare and exotic iron wood contributed to the project (courtesy of Themyscira). "Vic, you had any luck with that fast-swap system for the arrowheads?"

Kara Danvers has posed:
Kara was feeling mostly like herself again after that horrible encounter with the kryptonite. Some time sun bathing, some time hiding under blankets at the Titan's tower. Some time back home hiding under blankets away from her adopted parents, then some time at the Fortress of Solitude where she could really kick back and relax. But there was something she was thinking of doing... something she'd forgotten....

The Wonderbow!

No one is around to hear the sonic boom above the polar ice as she shoots her way across the sky carrying a crystaline machine in one hand and crystaline power converter in the other. She slows down in US Airspace because, according to her handlers at the DEO,.. they really don't like super fast things flying in their airspace unidentified. Really don't. Really really don't.

She lands on the roof of Titan's Tower and enters the elevator.. dun tic dun dun tic.. dun tic dun dun tic... elevator. Why must it be SO slow. She's excited to do the thing, the //thing// and now she has to slow her mind and body back down to human expectations.

Ding, she steps out in to the Labs and looks around, "Hi! I need a spot." She hefts the crystaline things in her hands, one as big as a water cooler, the other as big as a chair, "..for my things. I have an idea for the Wonderbow I wanted to share with you all."

Victor Stone has posed:
Vic leans out from behind a fabrication station ("fabristation," as he insists on calling it) and flashes a thumbs up. His other hand appears holding a circular, multileveled rack, about six inches across, that looks a bit like the shaving-cream cold storage system Dennis Nedry used to smuggle dinosaur embryos in the original Jurassic Park.

Instead of golden vials, the slots contain arrowheads of various types, and as he holds the gizmo out toward Caitlin and Kate, the motorized hotswap system whirls to a new selection, then raises the chosen payload. Little robotic arms rise and do a little mechanical dance, which will presumably attach the chosen arrowhead once it's in position.

"Plug this little friend into the bottom of your quiver, so long as it's a hardbody, and it'll sync with the selector control," he tells Kate, pointing to a bulky, purple wristwatch-looking thing that's sitting on a counter nearby.

When he hears the ding from the elevator, Cyborg turns to give Supergirl a funny look. "Why'd you use the lift?" he asks. "We've got the open shaft for fliers... I know you Kryptonians can get impatient."

Kate Bishop has posed:
Kate did her part, which is honestly coming down to the lab with the beautiful bow that Donna got her from Themyscira. She set it down on the scanners and all that for everyone to start brainstorming over when this all started. "Troia said it was made from Maned Bull, Hippogriph, and unicorn.. and no she says she is not shitting me about this."

Honestly Kate still sounded skeptical.

"I really have more questions, especially about unicorns than I did before this." she notes thoughtfully.

At which point she faded a bit into the background for the whole .. nerdapalozza Wonderbow edition to really kick off. At some point from a jacket pocket she pulled out a Nintendo Switch and started playing Animal Crossing to relax. Heck she figures they will let her know when she needs to stand up. Be scanned. Pull prototypes. Give opinions. The material sciences talk is a bit beyond her and she is perfectly comfortable it seems with that part.

When Caitlin speaks up about the shafts of the arrows she nods. "I wanted to play around with that but I didn't really have the ability without raising a lot of suspicion for the custom ordering I was already doing. I think some of the trick arrows I lifted off Hawkeye that Stark makes probably use a carbon fibre shaft. They are ridic light and durable?" she sets her switch down to pick up her tcomm. "I dropped the schematics I got for trick arrows from Hawkeye on the computer." cheerfully.

When Kara comes in she brightens "Hey Supes... oh.. those look very.. crystaline?" she has no idea what they might be. She had no idea Kara was sciency but she is good with whoever wants to help with the project. "More ideas the merrier... they decided to work on the arrows too not just the bow." she honestly seems fondly amused.

When Vic holds out a strange device she tucks the t-comm away and slides up to her feet stepping over to look it over. "Ooo..." she eyes the little bits. "Is it durable.. like if I get thrown into a wall will it stop attaching arrowheads?" she is the practical one for sure.

Donna Troy has posed:
    Troia is not as natural a flier as Supergirl and doesn't have to think about not breaking the sound barrier. It's a feat she can manage when she must, but it's tiring and feels wrong. She prefers going with the wind than smashing through it. Perhaps she's just more patient - she doesn't mind taking the elevator normally, and generally uses the empty shaft only when the elevator is in use. As Supergirl is occupying the elevator with frustration, this time she does take the empty shaft, stepping out into the lab level shortly after the Kryptonian's arrival.

    "Carbon fibre makes decent enough arrows," she calls out. "But if anyone tries adding motors to that bow, we are going to have words." The latter comment is aimed at Vic and accompanied with a grin.

    Donna steps beside Caitlin, giving her a nod and a smile, and examining the work she's doing on the bow proper. "You'll probably need to strip down the laminations and rework it. This is a lighter bow than the usual ones, less ironwood and more bone and sinew, but it's still probably about a three hundred pound draw. Kate, what's your ideal?"

Caitlin Fairchild has posed:
"Over there," Caitlin invites Supergirl, and points her chin at an open workspace in the corner. "Anything particularly explosive or flammable?" It's a legitimate question in the Tower-- right now there's a fair amount of Brainiac tech buried safely in a bunker with a Faraday cage erected around it and an EMP on standby. Adding Kryptonian crystal tech could complicate things even more!

Caitlin lifts up a heavy steel safety grate, the kind normally used to change military-grade tires, around the vise. She sets the horn against her instep, braces, and bears down hard on it with one hand. Her other hand quickly undoes the bowstring and then she eases up slowly. There's enough spring weight in the bow's frame to give even the tanks a bruise in the ribs.

"I was thinking of using the ironwood for the core and then layering the bone into the arms," Caitlin tells Kate. "I'm going to build a titanium chassis to go around the whole thing also so there's a little more rigidity on the draw."

Kara Danvers has posed:
Kara raises an eyebrow to Vic as he reminds her of the elevator shaft. "It's fine, I needed a moment to slow down my thoughts any way." She side steps out of the way as Troia joins them, "Don't mind me. Not at all heavy." She places them down in the designated spot and they make an audible //clunk//. May be they were a bit heavy.

"Not usually flammable as far as I'm aware, probably not explosive?," she shrugs her shoulders as if to say 'what can one do, it is science?'. She picks up an extension cord and plugs it in to the device Kal made for interfacing the Earth grids to Kryptonian technology. The lights in the room dim for a moment as it draws in a bunch of power and the taller device emits a bright blue ring shooting up through the crystaline structure. It repeats this, getting faster and faster as it initializes.

Kara steps back from it and motions to it with both hands, "Tada." It's almost like she expects some of the people in the room to know what it is, "It's a molecular transverse reorientator. I got those words right.. right?," she looks over to Troia. "Like when you stroke a magnet over ferium.. or..." She snaps her fingertips, "A comb through your hair."

She folds her arms and realises she's not explaining herself well. "All the different materials in that bow come from organic structures, some strong, some flexible, some particular or completely unaligned. This device can adjust the density and orientation of the internal structures of those molecules." Nope, she's probably still lost people.. "To make the bow internally aligned, so that it's still very strong and powerful, but much easier to draw..."

Victor Stone has posed:
Rearing back, Vic's eyes widen in an offended, almost wounded look. "You're killing me, Hawkeye. Look at this chassis," he tells Kate, tapping one thumb against his glowing chest with a metallic noise. "You think I don't know the value of durable hardware? I /AM/ durable hardware."

Still, he backs up his words, holding up the gizmo to point some details out. He's using hands designed for fine detail work, so his fingers are more narrow, tapered, and extensively articulated than his usual, sturdier ones. "See how the attachment arms fold down into the spindle when they're not in use? That thing'll survive a grenade explosion so long as they're retracted. As long as you aren't hit by a truck right in the /middle/ of switching, they won't break. And even if they do, everything that's already attached will stay on."

He sets the device down on the countertop and slides it toward her. "I know about avoiding points of failure. Nothing in this baby moves except when you need it to, so only when you specifically dial up a specialty arrow you didn't preload before the fight."

He smacks his own forehead (with an audible clank) when Donna starts in on the motors again. "Geez, I hang out with you guys with underclocked processors ONE time, and you lose all faith in my work," he grouses theatrically. "Kate said no motors, so no motors! We'll just use a standard compound levering system to make the draw physically possible for her."

When Supergirl starts explaining the gadget she has brought, Vic just turns and stares. Not because he's lost or doesn't understand the potential -- on the contrary, the moment 'transverse reorientator' passes her lips, his eyes widen and the lights in his artificial one roll over like a slot machine to a big, red, pixelated heart. Yes, that's a preset he has programmed in for just such occasions, when people bring him impossibly advanced technical toys.

Kate Bishop has posed:
Kate does pipe up "Definitely no motors." she is already worried enough about the arrowhead changing system. Which is god damned cool and a couple of steps from just replicating arrowheads right onto the arrows as she draws. Though that kind of stuff would be in Stark nano-suit territory, real replicators right.

She looks agrieved when Vic brings p the fact that he is durable hardware. "I know.. I know..." she mollifies. "I just.. well if I had anyone but you all making it trust me it would totally break in the field right so I... well I've just gotten use to asking these things from contractors who make big promises. I don't doubt you all honest."

She looks back over "Is Ironwood another mystical ingredient... like unicorn sinew?" yeah Kate is also still hunt up on the Unicorn bit. For someone who was a New York Princess, putting the sinew of an actual Unicorn in a bow feels like betrayel to all the Pretty Pretty Pegasus toys and cartoons of her childhood.

The lights dimming and lightshow from Kara's lab station makes Kate pivot and look worried, like she is totally wondering about that not usually flameable and maybe not usually explosive should have also been added. She is the squishiest in the room if that thing goes mini-nuke in here after all. She relaxes slowly as it seems to steady into a powerup sequence and you know not blow up. "I... have no idea what a magnet over ferium is..." she admits. She has High School Chemistry under her belt after all.

The next part of Kara's explanation makes a bit more sense, it is broken down very lay person.. "Oh like whatever they do it would retain it's strength and .. uuumph but be a smoother draw?" okay maybe she sort of got it.

Then she sort of mulls and eyes Donna "300lbs... jesus Troia and you make it sound like it is a kids bow." she just blinks. "I .. that is beyond the guinesse records and english longbows.. I've played with a real longbow those are no joke but my recurves.. they are at about 80lbs which is a miracle I could get them made like that which is custom work. I went for top end what I could get out of people and also could pull off a lot of shots in a row..." she thinks "Jesus 300lbs.. and it is a kids bow.. amazons.. eesh." it is sort of bemused.

Caitlin Fairchild has posed:
Caitlin just throws her hands up at everyone who keeps vociferously objecting to the addition of motorized tension pulleys. "Fine! No motors!" she huffs.

The redhead shakes her head in mock frustration and starts delaminating the strips of material from the Themysciran bow. Caitlin's brows lift at the impressive Kryptonian tech; she looks to Donna and Vic, then back to Kara, and shrugs. "Nothing we have here is magnetically ferrous material," she cautions Kara. Apparently the explanation made perfect sense to Caitlin. "The bone and the ironwood are both mythical in origin. Do you think you could simulate wood grain in the carbon fibre lattices?" she inquires, hopefully. A few pieces of wood peel away from the core of the bow in Caitlin's hands. She makes a noise of satisfied progress and continues striupping it down.

"A compound bow with an assisted cam system is going to give the best possible performance short of Hawkeye getting a thumb ring and taking up Welsh longbow shooting." Caitlin starts stacking the materials up in neat rows on a bench. "So the maximum rigidity needs to be in the ironwood core, then the bone flanges will add some flex, and the carbon fibre will be the last tension point. If we build it right, you'll have the performance of a two-hundred pound pull, with a feel of about eighty pounds," Caitlin tells Kate. "Thanks to the exotic materials and stuff from Themyscira, it won't break, rot, or snap on you. The unicorn hair's stronger than spider silk."

Donna Troy has posed:
    Donna nods her head slowly at Kara's explanation of what the Kryptonian device does. She's not one of the science heads, but she has spent enough time hanging around with Vic and Cait - and has the benefits of a Themysciran education. She may not react with the enthusiastic reverie of possibilities that grips Vic, but she gets the general idea.

    "We use a variety of different materials with different material properties, layered together in the different parts of the bow to... to tune the bow's properties. For example the ironwood is very rigid material, but bends without cracking. The sinew increases the speed that the bow returns to shape. We use materials that are not commonly available on Earth, and the way they are layered and prepared is an art that we have developed over three thousand years. There is a magical element to some of the materials in this bow which may mean that too drastic a change to the materials may be counter-productive. If we can use this device to target specific layers though... reducing the rigidity of the ironwood, for example, that may be a better approach than stripping the layers down completely and reforming. Cait... the bone and sinew layers should probably be left bonded as they are, that's a particularly tricky process and just cementing them back together isn't going to have the same effect. None of us have anything like the experience in bow-making that the women who made this bow do."

    Donna claps a hand on Kate's shoulder, careful to avoid her injuries from the battle, and gives her a big grin. "Amazons are stronger than the English," she says with a laugh. "It's not a kid's bow, Kate. There are very few kids on Themyscira. However the strength of individual Amazons does vary quite a bit, and normally a bow would be made for the individual. Perhaps one day I will show you the heavy bow I have at home."

Kara Danvers has posed:
Kara looks utterly delighted that people seem to 'get it'. She was told by her teachers she needed to work on her 'science communication' because 'not ever one is House El, Kara'. Success! discussing scientific stuff with Earth people. She walks over to Cait and picks up one of the shavings and holds it up to her super vision as she zooms in on it to take a look.

"Well I certainly can't say much for magic, that's not something I know anything about. But I don't see why I can't work with this wood structure. I was thinking we align it so it's elastic on the draw back, but inelastic on the release so it's easy to draw and powerful to loose."

She smiles to the gathered team and says, "This is exciting. The wonderbow is going to be amaz... no, wonderful." She approaches the quiver contraption and looks it over. "And extremely unique."

Victor Stone has posed:
Wryly satisfied that Kate has elevated him to a position trusted above her parents' favorite contractors, at least, Vic goes to get her the wrist-mounted control. "Don't think I haven't thought about possible breakage," he says. "One of the reasons it's something you mount to your quivers instead of built in is so that you can yank it off. If something does go wrong in the field, pull the fast-swap mechanism out and toss it to me. The arrow shafts are racked, so they won't fall out -- so long as I'm not busy wrestling a mammoth or whatever, I can probably get it working again."

As he hands her the control box, hopefully Kate will be satisfied at its rugged construction. No crackable, imprecise touchscreens here; an extremely durable readout shows a ring of arrowheads, distinguished by profile and sometimes an icon, that will automatically indicate both her available loadout and ammo remaining. A central dial spins to pick an arrow, and a switch on the side activates the... well, the switching mechanism. "I know your outfit is kind of inspired by 60s spy movies," he says a little sheepishly, "So I tried to go for that groovy vibe in the interface design."

Having made that hand-off, he scoots over to the reorientator, pops off one of his own fingers, and puts it into the manipulation area. "Now let's see what we can do with /this/ beautiful piece of tech," he says, cracking the knuckles in his remaining digits.

Caitlin Fairchild has posed:
"Vic, focus!" Caitlin says, and tosses a rubber ball at the back of his head!

Victor Stone has posed:
Vic glances toward Caitlin when she calls out, and his intact hand snaps up to catch the ball milliseconds later. Robot, athlete, renaissance man. "I'm focused!" he answers with a grin. "Just figured we should experiment with something easily replaced before we start zapping the wonderwood with alien technology."

Kate Bishop has posed:
Kate gives her attention first to Caitlin as she talks about the plans. She isn't opposed to a compound bow and assisted cam system. It isn't mototrs and well pulleys and all that are easily still pretty fluid technology. She has tended to stay in the realm of recurve though not compound but still not opposed. "Next thing you we will be doing gauntlet wristbows to go with this." she muses teasing. Though honestly it isn't a horrible idea by any degree.

The clap on her shoulder still makes her hiss, despite Donna being careful. So .. so many bruises on the younger Titan right now. "Okay.. I feel better that it doesn't have training wheels Troia." yeah she must be feeling a lot better with a couple nights sleep. The sass ratio is higher.

"I'd ask Raven to contribute a spell to the final product but it might just eat people's souls..."

She accepts the wrist unit from Vic and looks it over now and then nods "Okay this is spiff... " she twirls the dial and watches the motorized portion slide through selectors on the other side. She goes to get a quiver from a bench and fits it onto it and then tries again. Flipping a level then pulling out a trick arrow. "Okay this is very slick." she admits thinking about the possibilities. "Wait.. so you are zapping yourself first?"

Donna Troy has posed:
    "You know we're going to have to be careful we don't give this bow too much power for the arrows Kate's using," Donna says thoughtfully. "The sinew layers already have that propery, Supergirl. That's kind of... how certain magical creatures have so much strength in bodies that would not normally allow that much power. Mixtures of short- and long-fibre muscle that contract on the twitch-motion, and release explosively with a greater energy than the energy of contraction. If we put too much explosive power into this thing, the carbon fibre arrows might over-flex and fracture on release. We don't want to end up making it so powerful that Kate needs arrows that are too heavy for her."

    Donna hadn't got any ironwood arrow shafts sent over with the bow, and they probably wouldn't be ideal for Kate anyway.

    "But you're the science folks, not me", Donna adds, hopping up onto the edge of a spare lab table to sit there and watch. "I'm just here to make sure you don't entirely stomp all over the age-old traditions of Themysciran Bowyery." She gives the group a smirk, showing she's not entirely serious.

Kara Danvers has posed:
Kara shoots back across the room between her machine and Vic and slaps his finger like an adult slaps a childs hand away from a burning stove top, "udoluju!" She lifts up a finger and then smiles calmly, "Dangerous, very bad, much not good." She nods to Vic and glances around the room.

"This can come last, once all the other alterations are done. Sort of like a.. finishing touch to the bows interior once the exterior is to your satisfactions. Or, perhaps, whatever magic needs to be done to it can come last too, I really don't know much about that magic stuff."

Caitlin Fairchild has posed:
"The magic's done already," Caitlin explains to Kara. "It's inherent, a part of the material itself. I think with a base pull weight of two-hundred pounds, we can offset the cames and use the pulleys to get the weight down where it needs to be," she assures the Kryptonian. The carbone fibre struts are brought over and offered to Kara. "Let's reinforce these, 'cause right now they're the weakest link in the bow. I'll have the binding done first and then I can relaminate it with the carbon struts, once you're done."

She uplifts a chin at Kate to beckon the archer over. "You're gonna like this," Caitlin says with a grin, and quickly strings the bow. "There's a secondary spring mechanism in the cam arms. If you need to make a snap shot, it's a thirty pound pull in a short travel. You can fire from the hip or on the move. Once you overcome the cam internal springs, the pulleys activate, and then you've got the full power of the draw at your fingertips. Fast as a shortbow, all the power of a longbow, compact like a crossbow. Best of all worlds."

Victor Stone has posed:
Vic might be fast enough to catch a ball, but he's not even close to fast enough to avoid being knocked back by Supergirl. "Whoa, hey--!" he protests as he reaches up to nearly, but not quite, catch the detached finger. It bounces off his palm, and he lunges with the other hand to similar effect. It bounces back and forth a few times before falling to the ground. He raises an eyebrow at the Kryptonian. "What, it doesn't do metal?" he asks, puzzled. "I've got scores of spares, you know." He stoops to see where his finger has rolled off to. Looks like 'under a cabinet' might be the answer. Typical.

Kara Danvers has posed:
There's a grimace from Kara as she deatches Vic's finger, "Rao! I am SO sorry Vic." There she goes again, literally not knowing her own strength. It was important though, she had to protect him from the potentially damaging forces of the machine. "It's fine with metal, it's just the metal won't be fine with you if you stick it in there." She bends down to look for the finger too, spying it rolled under a bench. She sticks her hand under, wiggling her fingers trying to get purchase on it. "It's... right... there."

Rising back up, failed once more, she nods to Caitlin and accepts the carbon fibre struts. "Okay." A touch to her machine and Kryptonian symbols flow across a crystal clear surface. She touches them and they glow white. The pulsing circles intensify in to a bright light and then the light stops. Kara places the struts above the machine and they float there.

As she draws her hand back the blue circles burst out over the machine and around the structs, rotating above it like a fabrication machine. There's an audible humm in the air as it meta-alters the structure of the materials. "This'll take a few minutes."

Kate Bishop has posed:
"Hmm... magical creatures have magical musculature not just animal musculature... that figures." she is takingbits and pieces of what she can from the science and technology geeking going on around her now. She fidgets with the wrist piece putting it on and then hooking the quiver onto her belt and trying several different arrow fast draws while she continues to listen. "Troia has a good point about arrow weight. They need to be light enough to draw very fast and reliably. I shoot .. very fast and sometimes multiple arrows at once."

She continues to fidget with the quiver and wrist toy moving back to her seat with her switch. Though for now the switch is forgotten. This is better than video games after all. "Okay so I do get the impression I am going to be needing to log a lot of arrows with this new bow before I take it out for a spin in field combat... bit of muscle memory writing to be done over again if it will have that much more zip to the firing. I am really excited guys!"

Caitlin Fairchild has posed:
"The arrows are Vic's baby, I'm just fabricating the stuff he asks me to," Caitlin assures Kate. "We've got some ideas though-- carbon fibre shafts, titanium arrowheads. With the wind resistance simulators we can accurately predict how the arrow will travel in flight, so we can experiment with some pretty crazy design ideas. Like for, say, glue arrows-- instead of putting the payload in the head and making it completely nose-heavy, we can put it in the shaft and balance it better." She nods at Cyborg and grins. "But that's for the Arrow-Man to come up with. He's got all the good ideas. I'm just stealing pens and micromotors from work."

Caitlin's work on the bow is fascinating-- a combination of practice a thousand years old, mixed with modern materials. Titanium rivets and sinew from mythical creatures forms the skeleton of the bow in the haft and forelimbs; once Supergirl's done with the carbon arms, they can be assembled next.

"Hey Supergirl, could you give me a hand with these welds?" Caitlin inquires, and nods at the thumb-sized rivets. "I bet you can do tighter than a millimeter puddle, that's about the best I can do with the welding machine."

Kara Danvers has posed:
The blue rings rotate along the three axis as the twist and turn and speed up until it is a solid blue ball of pulsing energy. Meanwhile Kara still looks mortified that she thinks she damaged Vic. She listens to Kate's enthusiasm and then turns to her with a decisive nod. "I'm excited too, I want to see you shoot the bow in the danger room. It'll be great."

Kara nods to Caitlin, "You got it." She takes a seat on one of the bench chairs and fidgets with the corner of her cape while her Kryptonian machine words on the struts. Her eyes focus in on the rivets and then beams erupt from her eyes in microsecond bursts as she works along the micrometer line. She then blows over the hot metal, cooling it. Her eyes run over it again looking for heat stresses she might need to fix, but it looks good.

After a few more moments the blue orb transforms back in to three rings that settle back against the crystaline machine and its light fades once more. The machine says in a calm male patterned Kryptonian voice "ewuhshah.. ewuhshuse.. ewuhshuju.."

With a smile, Kara hops off the chair and takes the struts down from their hovering position and hands them back to Caitlin, "...and a berk to you."

Victor Stone has posed:
Vic gives a little shrug, smiles, and answers Supergirl, "Not a problem -- the fine manipulation arms have some handy tricks up their sleeves. Not that I put them in sleeves, usually." One of his fingertips pops open to reveal a little plier-like clamp on an extendable rod, which he pushes under the bench. Just a few seconds later, he has snagged the errant digit and can bring it up to eye level to reattach. That done, he scoots out of her way so she can work with her crystalline machine.

"Glad you're getting a kick out of it," he tells Kate, smiling as she experiments with the quiver's arrowhead selector. "And yeah, like Cait said, any more arrow concepts you think of, just run past me. I can't guarantee I can make them happen, but let's be real: I totally can. I'm just saying that now to make myself look cooler when I deliver in the end."

He rolls his shoulders quickly, then adds, "Honestly, at this point, most of the stuff I worked on is good to go. The modifications to the bow itself were more a Fairchild brainchild, so I should let her and Supes take over from here," he says, reaching over to give Caitlin a quick rub above the shoulder blades before he starts toward the lab exit. "If you do need anything from me, just ping me on the T-Comm, I won't go far."

Kate Bishop has posed:
Kate looks up from the quiver fiddling to Caitlin when she talks about trick arrows. "Okay that is absolutely brilliant... in the shaft. I mean you can't cycle out the payload with this thing if the payload is the whole shaft but I can definitely see carrying two quivers depending on the mission.. or swapping between them. I wonder why Old Man Hawkeye never thought of putting payloads in the shaft of the arrow...." she trails off then shakes her head. "Really cool."

Kate jumps a litle whene Kara's workstation talks in Kryptonian "What did it say... ?" she is curious but has no idea there.

She hops up before Vic can escape though and crosses the space to give him a hug. "Thank you for all the help Vic.. I really appreciate everyone helping with this. It is like a team project and birthday and all.. but way earlier than my birthday. Thank you guys."