Traya Smith (tiny_tornado) wrote in dc_nextgen,
@ 2011-01-30 21:40:00

Entry tags:

firestorm, inactive - traya smith, npc - jai west, plot - "blackest night"

Memories Come Back to Haunt You
Traya was on monitor duty in the YJLA HQ, her helmet resting on the control console while she paid attention to the various broadcasts.

So much death and destruction in the world lately. So many heroes who had died. Superman. The Blue Beetle. Metamorpho. Cait. Cerdian. Jai.

It just seemed like the world was heading to hell in a hand basket. The darkness encroaching in.

But she couldn't believe that. Couldn't. They were the heroes. They always won. Good would always triumph over evil, so long as they held onto hope. Just like her dad always told her. No matter what happened, you kept right on trying until you got it right.

She leaned back and sighed. No major emergencies that required responding to since Gotham. Even with whatever was going on in Atlantis.

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	masterofmatter 2011-02-01 03:43 am UTC (link)
	"Traya!" Michale blasts the plasma as fast as he can. But he knows how fast Jai is. (FEAR) (WILL) (RAGE) (LOVE) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	tiny_tornado 2011-02-01 03:51 am UTC (link)
	Oh... It hurt. It hurt more than Traya could ever remember being hurt before. She screamed. (FEAR) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

dareyoutorun
2011-02-01 04:09 am UTC (link)

Traya lights up like big beacon of fear and Jai is close to tearing her heart out, once again, when the Michael starts in with the plasma blasts.

"Okay, /that's/ it!" he says, dropping Traya to the floor without taking her heart.

"Don't move a muscle, honey. Back in Flash." he jests.

He races up behind Firestorm.

"You missed, man. Some boyfriend /you'd/ make! You can't even defend your girl from her abusive ex!" Jai taunts, trying to provoke Michael.

"But I always wondered somethin' about you Firestorm guys. There's always supposed to be /two/ of you from what my old man used to say.

How do you decide who gets Traya on what night? Do you draw straws? Guess numbers?

Hey, why don't I just ask the other guy in there?" Jai queries, beginning to vibrate and top speed, before leaping /into/ Firestorm.

/Now...where is that other guy...? Ha! There he is!/ Jai announces triumphantly, moving faster and faster.

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	masterofmatter 2011-02-01 04:14 am UTC (link)
	"AhhhhhHAHHHHHHHHHHH-!" In a second, Michael isn't in the Monitor Room with the devastation all around him. He's in...well, it feels almost like an abstraction. But he knows this place. It's the Firestorm Matrix. But it was what Jai says that gets his attention. /What the hell! You leave him the hell alone!/ (WILL) (RAGE) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	tiny_tornado 2011-02-01 04:23 am UTC (link)
	Traya hurt, struggling to draw breath. If someone looked closely, though, they would see the wound starting to slowly close as the nanites in her bloodstream went to work. Oh, Jai... what have they done to you... (FEAR) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

dareyoutorun
2011-02-01 05:20 am UTC (link)

And smash that weak point, Jai does, until he sees Ronnie's clever signage.

"YOU GUYS ARE CHEAAATERRSSSS.....!" he bellows as he flows back into the real world and smashes face down into the floor of the Monitor Room.

If he wasn't already dead, that would hurt a /lot/. Even more than regrowing his hand did.

"Dammnit!" he snarls, looking around for Michael.

"If you can't beat 'em...then beat 'em to death." he says, trying to find Firestorm so that he can, indeed, pummel Michael at super-speed.

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masterofmatter
2011-02-01 05:27 am UTC (link)

God damn did that hurt expelling Jai out of the Matrix!

Michael recoils in pain, but reacts to Jai leaving immediately. He sees him getting up and as fast as he can sends two blasts: One of hyper-compressed cold nitrogen in a wide mist to hopefully freeze NotJai and his other blowing a hole in the wall leading outside.

"Traya, we have to leave! NOW!" Michael yells this as he pulls himself up, the pain for the invasion and expulsion great.

Still, this will not stop him.

(WILL)

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	tiny_tornado 2011-02-01 07:53 pm UTC (link)
	Traya clutched her wound with one hand, forcing herself to stand. Even with her armor and healing nanites, that hadn't felt good. "I don't... I don't feel so good..." (FEAR) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	dareyoutorun 2011-02-02 02:55 am UTC (link)
	"Aww, babe, don't go! I can make you feel all better." Jai grins with his ruined mouth. Michael forced him out of the Matrix, but he didn't break him. Jai breezes toward Michael, aiming a speed-enhanced punch at his face. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	masterofmatter 2011-02-02 03:15 am UTC (link)
	"Oh shi-!" This is all Michale can get out before he is punched. Jai has a good four inches on Michael and a longer reach, and with the superspeed... Michaels vision goes red as the fist connects with his face, centered on his left cheek. Michael flies back, landing in an unceremonious way, conscious but hurting. "Ow." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

tiny_tornado
2011-02-02 03:22 am UTC (link)

Traya has always been a nice girl. The YJLA would probably have called her the heart of the team. She's always held her own in a fight, but it was her hope and personality that carried her through more than power.

No one had ever thought to ask what happened when she got angry.

"STOP IT!"

The air around Jai whipped into an incredible frenzy, like a billion tiny needles.

(RAGE)

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	dareyoutorun 2011-02-02 03:28 am UTC (link)
	Not one of the memories the Black Lantern possesses contains an instant of Traya's anger. It was as if she didn't get mad. Ironically, Jai sees her better now than he did minutes ago. "What the...hell are you doing...?" he asks, feeling the wind begin to prick, then slash upon his skin. It doesn't hurt so much as surprise him...at first. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	masterofmatter 2011-02-02 03:36 am UTC (link)
	Michael pulls himself up enough to see what happens when the winds whip up. Seeing an opportunity Michael pulled his hand up and began to agitate the molecules. "Sorry, Jai." With that, the agitation increases until the molecule ignite. The air around Jai have now become a literal firestorm. (WILL) (COMPASSION) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	tiny_tornado 2011-02-02 03:41 am UTC (link)
	Tray rose up into the air, currents swirling around her like a terrible storm. "I don't know who you are... but you're not Jai." She closed a fist, increasing the frenzy of her attack. (RAGE) (WILL) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

dareyoutorun
2011-02-02 03:50 am UTC (link)

Jai tries his best to counteract the attack, spinning fast enough to blow the heated air back at Firestorm and Traya. Monitors shatter and burst at the heat and flame, and the computer systems are scorched from the pitch of the battle.

In the end, however, it's a losing cause.

The Black Lantern comes to a stop, burning to a crisp, but not before he speaks one last time.

"Hope you two are...happy...now that I'm...out of...the picturrrrrrre...."

And Jai West is reduced to a pile of ash.

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	masterofmatter 2011-02-02 03:55 am UTC (link)
	"I'm sorry, Traya, but we had to do it." Michael pulls himself up, feeling like he had been run over by an elephant driving fire truck. He's sure his cheekbone is bruised if not broken. Still, he tried to comfort Traya. "We have to go and warn the others. Send out an alert. Do we have access to any other facilities?" (COMPASSION) (WILL) (LOVE) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	tiny_tornado 2011-02-02 03:58 am UTC (link)
	Traya's breath came in ragged gasps (her wound had all but healed). She set herself down for a moment. It had to be done. It had to. Whatever that was. It wasn't Jai. But at least it was dead. "The Hall of Justice," she said, quickly. "It's mostly just a museum these days... but the equipment there still works." (WILL) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	masterofmatter 2011-02-02 04:07 am UTC (link)
	"Okay. Lets get going. I made an exit just in case," Michael said, motioning to the hole he made. "You okay?" (WILL) (LOVE) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

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	dc_adult 2011-02-01 04:44 am UTC (link)
	Ronnie is struggling as well, fighting to keep coherent and in control. /Michael... he's trying to split the matrix. He thinks faster than we do - we're not going to get anywhere unless we work together./ he responds, trying to keep calm, wishing that he could be the junior mind again and have someone walking him through this, for once. FEAR WILL (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

dareyoutorun
2011-02-01 04:46 am UTC (link)

/Hey, we're all guys here, right? We can all have a mature conversation on who gets Traya when. I'm okay with sharing!/ Jai says, looking around for the other guy who's supposed to be the brains of this operation.

The vibrations continue as Jai tries to undo the bonds between Michael and Ronnie bit by bit.

/I wonder what happens if you two don't split up just right. Think we could trip the light fantastic?/ he says, trying to get Ronnie's and Michael's shared concentration to slip.

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masterofmatter
2011-02-01 04:49 am UTC (link)

No, can't get distracted. Think back, use an anchor. Find your foundation.

"I suggest you pull away from there, Jai. I guarantee you it will not be good."

Michael also put on a smile for the other man. His name, never clear before, was obvious now.

"Good to see you after talking with you so many times, Mr. Raymond. Not lets get this thing out of our minds."

WILL

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dc_adult
2011-02-01 04:53 am UTC (link)

"Let's" Ronnie agrees, letting Michael work on distracting Jai and keeping him occupied while Ronnie, the more experienced with transmuation and the matrix, works on rebuilding bonds, creating false ones to distract the Flashlet, and otherwise impede him with the matrix itself without being too obvious, trying to dull his fears and keep some optimism.

WILL
hope
fear

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dareyoutorun
2011-02-01 04:58 am UTC (link)

/What are you two doing?/ Jai spits, feeling a change in the energies around him. He doesn't know the first thing about the Firestorm Matrix, but he's always been of the impression that the Speed Force trumps all.

The vibrations should have torn both of these clowns apart by now...but instead, Jai can feel something is wrong.

He tries moving faster, attempting to tear them asunder as fast as Ronnie can make them, but he doesn't know that he's being corralled, tricked and played.

"Let's see what you got, Choi. Maybe this time you'll actually get me and not waste Traya through collateral damage." he sneers.

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	masterofmatter 2011-02-01 05:02 am UTC (link)
	"That was an accident. I never intended to hurt anyone else! And you know I won't endanger any one of my friends that way again!" Michael, while not as skilled as Ronnie in the Matrix, still has skill enough to personally impede and throw off Jai until they can finally get rid of him. WILL "Now, Ronnie!" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

dc_adult
2011-02-01 05:06 am UTC (link)

Now its time for veteran experience to pay off - Ronnie thinks back, getting an inspiration - Barnum. Manipulating the matrix, he finally opens what appears to be a weak point, something Jai can strike and break through, shatter utterly - play his trump card.

Specifically, the exit, just not making it obvious that's what it is until the doorway is broken. A second too late, he even does a bit of fancy transmuting to flash
'THIS WAY TO THE EGRESS'.

"Your wish is my command. Nice work, kid."

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