Kasumi waits with graceful patience for her tiara to return to her hand.
"Is there need to chase the Kaiju snake? Or should we not concern ourselves unless it returns?"
Cap'n Bill squints, and has concentric circles of aquatic telepathy come out of his head."Down, boy! Down! There's a good boy! Come back and go to sleep just as ye was, with no more moil nor broil wi' any a soul. Back down to the dark deeps with ye, there to sleep until Judgment Day! Worry no man no more, nor cause no splash nor wave when ye go down. Spit out anyone ye've et up. Spit em out now!"
And so on in like manner.
The Midgard Serpent, halfway to Saturn, describes a slithering arc and returns to the Earth, there to slumber until Judgment Day. It doesn't even snap at Vina on the way.
"Okay, so THAT's what you did!" Ultra Boy says. "We just wake up the sea-snake when the Wolf comes back. Gosh, do we have an undersea telepath of our own?"
"I am right here," says Tellus. "I have been in the Legion for two years."
"Oh, right! Good job, new guy," says Ultra Boy.
Tellus sighs. Bubbles fill the visor of his water-globe helmet.
"So I guess our work here is done," says Karate Kid. "See you in the future, Leaguers!"
And the Legionnaires step into their Time Bubble, which does not start.
"Heck," says Ultra Boy. "What's wrong with this crazy thing now?"
Then the Legionnaires, inside the half-transparent Time Bubble, turn into cavemen as the Bubble fades into a Mesozoic landscape.
Kasumi also expresses her condolences to the Green Lantern man for his upcoming heroic demise.
"To do our duty is the best we can do with our life. You are to be commended."
"Oh, well ... there's a lot of Green Lanterns," says Roy. "The brown-haired one, the young black-haired one, the blond one from the Forties ... It's not necessarily me ..."
"Now, now!" says Chin-Su, clapping Roy on the shoulder. "Don't be modest; it's your death! You only get one, you may as well enjoy it!"
"Oh," Kasumi looks extremely embarrassed. "You die an ignominious death? I...had not meant to draw attention to your family's shame."
She bows low, twice, and quickly hurries away to stand over by someone else, looking busy.
"...Well!" Chin-Su says, breaking the perceived awkward silence. "Are introductions in order? Or should they wait until we're all on solid ground?"
ReplyDelete"Yeah!" says Roy gratefully.
ReplyDelete"I'm Roy Thomas, from Gotham. I edit a fanzine and take one class a year at community college. And I picked the Green Lantern ring, obviously! I'm really more a Marvel guy, so I don't know a whole lot about real-life super heroes, just what everyone knows. Like the Annals of Atlantis, the key to the Fortress of Solitude, what the Elongated Man drinks to become stretchy ... the basic stuff."
"Pfft." Chin-Su scoffs at the name of the 'Elongated Man'. "We all drink to loosen up a bit, but that's just sad. Someone should hold an intervention."
ReplyDeleteChinBob-Su will slap his stomach and tie himself in a knot again. "I'm JimBob, the Soft Pretzel! And before that, I was just a guy. I know, that's a bit of a THIN backstory, but I'm not one to STRETCH the truth and tell TALL tales!" He unties himself. "I also go by Chin-Su, as I'm still in my cosplay, and quite frankly it's kind of part of me, now."
A slender young woman in he late teens/early 20s flies up. Literally, with wings. Hawk Police style wings, that apparently can take her through space.
ReplyDeleteIn addition to a crime-fighting belt, she also has a lute. And, when she lifts her hawk mask, what appear to be elf ears. Fans of STOS might think she bears a close resemblance to ...
"Hi, I'm Vina."
She has pale blonde hair, green eyes, dimples, and an all-American girl smile.
"I was on the way back from the convention with these guys when the source of powers appeared."
Oddly, although she is wearing mostly the Hawks' gear, there's something woodsy going on with it. Including a camo S shape.
"Um..." Kasumi blinks. "Those people who turned into cavemen. Do they need help?"
ReplyDelete"Maybe... how could we get there?" asks Vina.
ReplyDeleteJust to clarify, we are all in the same location at this point, right?
ReplyDeleteYes, on Earth in Metropolis.
Delete"Since we are introducing ourselves, I am the world famous magic debunked Sam Skeptic. I am currently holding the powers of Zatana, and on the run from inter gang, I think." he shrugges not knowing if he still ows any monie to them or not since he pain his debt of right befor he got the Zatana powers, then bet on them lusing him more money. "Anyway, I'm here becuse I lost a bet with the Fantom stranger who should be here somewhere. as for Miss Toru's point... yay thous guys probibly nead our help. any one got any ideas?"
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