𝗧𝗲𝗱 𝗞𝗼𝗿𝗱 || 𝗕𝗹𝘂𝗲 𝗕𝗲𝗲𝘁𝗹𝗲

I'm a curious, handsome bug. I'm the Blue Beetle! #BlueBeetle #DCRP #JusticeLeague #BirdsOfPrey

[𝗧𝗲𝗱 𝗞𝗼𝗿𝗱 || 𝗕𝗹𝘂𝗲 𝗕𝗲𝗲𝘁𝗹𝗲 @BlueBeetleTK]

- and simply hovered there, looking at him. Beetle leaned closer to the glass. The robot paused another second then turned and flew off into the night. Ted watched it disappear from the scanners. He leaned back in the seat.

“Well,” he said. “That’s definitely not normal.”

[𝗧𝗲𝗱 𝗞𝗼𝗿𝗱 || 𝗕𝗹𝘂𝗲 𝗕𝗲𝗲𝘁𝗹𝗲 @BlueBeetleTK]

The Bug hovered over the river. The Blue Beetle leaned over the console, frowning at a diagnostic screen.

“Okay,” Ted said. “We both know that this is not normal.” The console blinked. Ted pointed at it. “Exactly!”

A small ping sounded on the perimeter scanner. Ted -

[𝗧𝗲𝗱 𝗞𝗼𝗿𝗱 || 𝗕𝗹𝘂𝗲 𝗕𝗲𝗲��𝗹𝗲 @BlueBeetleTK]

- thirty feet in a heartbeat, causing the robot to overshoot. Ted clipped it with the nose of the Bug on the way back up. The machine spun away and crashed through the roof of a warehouse. Beetle winced.

“Okay. that one might call its lawyer.”

The last robot stopped in midair -

[Metropolis Eagle @MetropolisEagle]

#BreakingNews Once Again #BlueBeetle Struggles To Find An Active #Oracle
#SheJustWontReplyToHim
|| @BlueBeetleTK

[Metropolis Eagle @MetropolisEagle]

Our Readers As We Enter 2026

[𝗧𝗲𝗱 𝗞𝗼𝗿𝗱 || 𝗕𝗹𝘂𝗲 𝗕𝗲𝗲𝘁𝗹𝗲 @BlueBeetleTK]

@INFOJACKED - not saying it's happening to me, I'm asking if it were happening to someone, would they be the only one?"

He sighed. "If that makes sense..."

[𝗧𝗲𝗱 𝗞𝗼𝗿𝗱 || 𝗕𝗹𝘂𝗲 𝗕𝗲𝗲𝘁𝗹𝗲 @BlueBeetleTK]

@INFOJACKED Ted cleared his throat.

"Hey, quick question, and this is me asking, not panicking. Have you seen anything lately? I mean, weird stuff. Not the big flashy failures, just the little glitches. Systems hesitating. Tech doing exactly what it's told and still getting it wrong. I'm -

[𝗧𝗲𝗱 𝗞𝗼𝗿𝗱 || 𝗕𝗹𝘂𝗲 𝗕𝗲𝗲𝘁𝗹𝗲 @BlueBeetleTK]

@INFOJACKED "I had a hell of a flight over here," he said as he approached, crossing the room. He looked at the vast display of screens. "So many screens... are some of these new?"

[𝗧𝗲𝗱 𝗞𝗼𝗿𝗱 || 𝗕𝗹𝘂𝗲 𝗕𝗲𝗲𝘁𝗹𝗲 @BlueBeetleTK]

- the engines coughed, once, then smoothed out. Everything went quiet, settling down.

Ted frowned, already pulling up diagnostics. The Bug kept flying.

[𝗧𝗲𝗱 𝗞𝗼𝗿𝗱 || 𝗕𝗹𝘂𝗲 𝗕𝗲𝗲𝘁𝗹𝗲 @BlueBeetleTK]

High up in the sky!

The Bug cruised over the city at a steady clip. Ted had one hand on the controls, the other wrapped around a coffee. The console chirped. Ted raised an eyebrow. “Okay, no,” Ted said. “You don’t chirp like that.”

The Bug dipped. Just a little. Enough to -

[𝗧𝗲𝗱 𝗞𝗼𝗿𝗱 || 𝗕𝗹𝘂𝗲 𝗕𝗲𝗲𝘁𝗹𝗲 @BlueBeetleTK]

- spill coffee on his glove.

“Whoa!”

Altitude readouts jittered. Stabilizers corrected, then corrected again, like they were arguing with each other. The Bug wobbled, then leveled out.

Ted tapped the panel. “You’re fine, I’m fine, let’s all just be fine...” he said quietly as-

[T.O. Morrow @DrT0Morrow]

How is it possible that the most dangerous weapon in the world is seemingly a man (@EliteTerminator)? Highly strategic, ruthless, and always calculating the risks versus the reward. Even his jobs on the side seemed to be often testing his limits against heroes, or even elite -

[𝗧𝗲𝗱 𝗞𝗼𝗿𝗱 || 𝗕𝗹𝘂𝗲 𝗕𝗲𝗲𝘁𝗹𝗲 @BlueBeetleTK]

- He was completely unaware that somewhere else a very intelligent man (@DrT0Morrow) had just put his name on a list.

[𝗧𝗲𝗱 𝗞𝗼𝗿𝗱 || 𝗕𝗹𝘂𝗲 𝗕𝗲𝗲𝘁𝗹𝗲 @BlueBeetleTK]

Upside down under the Bug's open fuselage, one hand holding a wrench, the onboard AI flagged a fluctuation in the guidance system that Ted had already noticed six seconds earlier and corrected four seconds after that, which was why he sighed and told it to log the issue anyway. -

[T.O. Morrow @DrT0Morrow]

Morrow sits alone with the lights low, the room quiet except for the soft, constant hum of systems that are meant to reassure him, and he thinks about patterns without naming them as such, about how certain men vanish from the center of the world once the world stops needing -

[T.O. Morrow @DrT0Morrow]

Morrow sits alone with the screens dimmed, not dark, never dark, no, no, no, because darkness implies rest and rest implies vulnerability, and he has already accounted for vulnerability three different ways and rejected all of them. @TornadoSentinel's refusal keeps replaying, -

[T.O. Morrow @DrT0Morrow]

The hilltop was a poor choice, Morrow thought, a soaked crown of rock and scrub where the wind came in sideways and the rain was a perpetual drizzle, and yet @TornadoSentinel stood there anyway, perfectly balanced.

Morrow arrived breathing hard, shoes already ruined, umbrella -