Rory walked out up out of the basement with a mischievous twinkle in his eye. "Welcome to my humble abode. How may I help you?"

Sal was surprised.

"Well your not what I was expecting." the cowboy looked like he might have the wrong place.

Rory seemed slightly confused by the situation as well. On the other hand, he seemed intent on getting to the bottom of the situation as he continued playing on his fake persona. "Did you come for anything specific?"

"You wouldn't happen to have gotten any weird metals lately have you partner ?"

Rory continued his act. "Sorry, I don't have anything that could help you. If you are looking for unusual alloys, your best bet is to contact Wayne enterprises, I hear that they do quite a lot of work in high-tech experimental materials. I'm a bit confused, why would you be looking for rare metals here?"

"Just, thought. Something ain't sitting right. I guess I just made a mistake. Might attribute it to not being around these parts for a long time." He tips his hat to Rory looking confused as he wanders off.

Rory carefully watched as the man walked away, a knowing smile momentarily making its way across his face.

An hour later Zoey shows up.

Still feeling emotional as she walked up to the door of Rory's house, Zoey opened the door as she walked in and called out, "Rory! You here?"

Rory was in the basement again busy working on the metal Allura had acquired for the project. As he heard Zoey, he put the metal away and made his way upstairs again. "Zoey! How are things going?"

Zoey wrapped her arms around Rory's neck in a tight hug. "Are you okay? There is some next level crazy stuff going on. Like, remember when Allura was in a coma? Well, now she's not and she's healed. Oh, and they guy that did it, is some crazy cowboy.  How's your night going?"

"Allura in a coma? Better? Well, at least she's ok now." Rory breathed a sigh of relief. "Sorry to have missed all the excitement. I don't always get any signal in the basement."

"A cowboy? I think that I know who it was. He came by earlier but I wasn't able to get much information out of him. I didn't think that it was that important at the time." Rory was silent for a few moments. "I think that I should talk to Allura. Where is she now?"

"He shot her a few times and Amanda got her to the hospital, she was in a coma up until about an hour or so ago."

"What did he want here with you?  We thought he was looking for Allura again.  She's with Susan, hiding out from that guy."

"I think that I know what is going on..." Rory seemed to be cursing under his breath. "Sorry, if I had realised that all this was going on I could probably have dealt with the situation earlier."

Rory seemed to compose himself. " We might be able to fix this. Do you mind waiting here for a minute? There is something that I need to pick up in the basement."

"Really? You dont honestly think Im waiting here do you? I mean, come on, there's a killer cowboy on the loose," she narrowed her eyes at him, "and you know something about it. Or part of it. So lead the way and start explaining."

Zoey smiled at her best friend as she placed her hands on his shoulders turning him towards the basement.  "You have no idea how weird tonight has been."

Rory offered Zoey a conspiratory wink. "Just another night in Arkaham."

He then gave his friend a nod and began making his way back to the basement. "Fair enough, we'll go together."

The teen walked in silence for a few moments before talking again. " Well, it's a private matter between Mr cowboy and Allura. Sorry, I can't really tell you much more than that."
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"Seriously? What's going on Rory?  Allura says she doesn't know why he shot her or why he went back to the hospital for her. Other than the dark obvious, but now Im not so sure. So what's down here that you needed to get?"

Susan, having been caught at several red lights, finally pulled up at Rory's home.   She was annoyed with traffic,  and people in general,  especially ones who insisted upon traveling in front of her at the speed limit.

"Look Zoey and Amanda are already there, and Rory looks alright."

Rory turned around as he heard the car approach. "Well that's convenient it seems that everyone is here now."

Allura looked around, "Susan you sure your magic senses are not on the fritz ?"

"I don't see Six Shooter Scumbag."

In reply to Rory Terrance (msg # 23):

"Good, it'll be safer that way. So what did this cowboy look like? Besides the hat and gun I mean."

Rory did his best to give Zoey a description of the cowboy while they waited for Allura and Susan to make their way to the door.

"Hi Rory ! We were worried about you."

Zoey called up to Allura and Susan from the basement, "We're down here!"

She looked back to Rory, "Where's your dad?"