Greg and Ian teleport down into Metropolis. As it happens, the teleport tube is in the back room of a gym on Siegel Avenue, one of the main drags. So they’re only a couple of huge Metropolis-sized blocks from the problem.
But they’re not. Because the street is wall-to-wall people fleeing the actual disturbance, a few blocks away.
Now, that’s the cross street leading east. The north-south avenues are just full of cars, like they always are, except now, they can’t move because of the fleeing crowds.
Metro Police officers in white shirts are directing the drivers to stay back, so the crowds can escape. They’re good at crowd management here.
Then, as they watch, one of the shining towers on the skyline lurches sickeningly forward, as though pinched at the base. Office furniture sprays from shattered windows, but no people, so perhaps the evacuation serves a purpose.
So. Three blocks from the disaster. About six rows of buildings between you, depending on how you choose your path. Line of sight utterly obstructed.
Plans?
Ian comes through the teleporter after Greg, fully expecting not to see Greg. "Okay, whatever it is that's causing... that," he pauses, as the unending wave of civilians continues to rush past, "is probably going to take a little bit of muscle to deal with."
ReplyDeleteIan looks for a picture in the gym of a boxer or other suitably strong person, maybe a poster of Ted Grant, and tries shifting his muscles to emulate the pugilist's body. "I guess gyms really are the place for getting fit," he quips. Finding a mirror, he quickly grows a short beard, tweaks his nose and chin, and changes his eye-color before heading out the door.
As for the obstacles between him and the disturbance, the new Martian Manhunter finds himself with a plethora of options. Unless Greg is waiting to give him a lift, Ian will phase-fly up over the disturbance and buildings to get a better look at what he's facing.
Using his ultra-sonic super-speed, Greg dashes up the side of a building, races across the top, leaps the building tops one by one using the same speed-jumps he's seen the Flash use SO many times on the news (remember, used to be big into parkour before blowing out his knee his senior year in high school).
ReplyDeleteGreg heads straight for the building that seems to be falling down, and once he's in line of sight of the ground beneath the tilting building, he does his best to zip endangered civilians out of the way.