zoe_torres (zoe_torres) wrote in dc_nextgen,
@ 2011-06-06 19:02:00

Current mood:	frustrated
Entry tags:	green lantern dex, zoe torres

Practice makes perfect
Her aim was instinctive and always perfect, but getting used to wrist mounted silencers was a different story. The roof top she practiced on was away from her usual haunts and mostly deserted. The guns were unload because she didn't want the attention. It was the cursing that was about to give her away.

It should've been easy but never having seen them used made it harder for her to make them do what she needed. Gritting her teeth, she tried again.

"!@#$%^&!"

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	green_lantern 2011-06-07 12:20 am UTC (link)
	Dex was doing a patrol of the planet and was over Star City when he heard some pretty interesting language. Curious, he landed on the roof next to a hot babe. "Problem?" he asked. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	zoe_torres 2011-06-07 12:25 am UTC (link)
	Surprised, Zoe turned and instinctively shifted both wrists to smoothly extend the silencers. She gazed down the unloaded barrels at the visitor. "Don't I know you?" she asked warily. "I've seen you before." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	green_lantern 2011-06-07 12:33 am UTC (link)
	"Green Lantern Dex," he said. "You have?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	zoe_torres 2011-06-07 12:47 am UTC (link)
	Now she placed him. He'd been one of the few that had made sense during the whole color war. "During the zombie invasion. I had a red ring. It disappeared after it was all over." Zoe realized she was still threatening him with unarmed weapons. In a move that was all luck, she managed to get them to retract. "I'm Zoe." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	green_lantern 2011-06-07 02:05 am UTC (link)
	"Right. I remember you now." Dex smiled a little. "Nice to meet you." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	zoe_torres 2011-06-07 02:13 am UTC (link)
	"Nice to meet you. I didn't realize there was a Lantern around here. I heard rumors, but the only ones I've seen were fighting zombies." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	green_lantern 2011-06-07 02:16 am UTC (link)
	"There's a few of us," he said. "Two greens, two violet and one blue." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	zoe_torres 2011-06-07 02:32 am UTC (link)
	"For the planet or the galaxy or however you divide it up?" She remembered bits from the others talking and all the arguing. Not a lot, but everything she could find out now would help later. Somehow. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	green_lantern 2011-06-07 03:06 am UTC (link)
	"Only greens are assigned sectors," he explained. "Blues are partnered with greens. The others work where they want." "You didn't answer my question about the cursing." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	zoe_torres 2011-06-07 03:21 am UTC (link)
	"I was just a little frustrated." Zoe pushed back a sleeve to show the gleam of metal. "They didn't come with instructions and I'm trying to get them to work right. It really is all in the wrist." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	green_lantern 2011-06-07 03:32 am UTC (link)
	Dex nodded. "Same with my ring." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	zoe_torres 2011-06-07 03:49 am UTC (link)
	"No instructions or all in the wrist?" As jokes went it was lame, but it was a try. GK's company was having that effect on her social skills. "I guess you can't unload yours to make it safer to practice." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	green_lantern 2011-06-07 02:36 pm UTC (link)
	"No instructions," he said. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	zoe_torres 2011-06-07 02:54 pm UTC (link)
	"The red ring arrived with no instructions," she said, looking up at the sky as if a streak of red would flash across it. "But using it seemed...instinctive. Like I had the knowledge but needed a way to let it out of me." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	green_lantern 2011-06-07 10:18 pm UTC (link)
	"Red may be different. It was easier for me to use." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	zoe_torres 2011-06-07 10:51 pm UTC (link)
	Zoe gave him a surprised look. "You had a red one?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	green_lantern 2011-06-07 11:10 pm UTC (link)
	Dex nodded. "Both for awhile." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	zoe_torres 2011-06-07 11:13 pm UTC (link)
	She'd hardly talked to anybody about the experience. GK would listen and had, but he couldn't have known how the ring spoke to something so deep in her she didn't know it was there. "How does somebody go about getting one?" she asked abruptly. "Is it just luck or does the ring pick you?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	green_lantern 2011-06-07 11:16 pm UTC (link)
	"They pick you," he said. "After they find you." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	zoe_torres 2011-06-07 11:27 pm UTC (link)
	She thought about that, looking at the silencers on her wrists. Suicide Squad had picked her. A red lantern ring had picked her after it found her. What was wrong with her that violence sought her out? What was wrong with him that he'd been picked for both? "Is there any chance of that happening again? Why don't you have it now?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	green_lantern 2011-06-08 12:21 am UTC (link)
	"I hope not," he said. "Rose took the rage out of me." Not all of it. Dex always held on to some rage. It just magnified when he thought Rose was dead. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	zoe_torres 2011-06-08 01:10 am UTC (link)
	"Rage. That was it. Guess I have some rage." She smiled. "Nobody ever came back to explain or anything else. Why did you stop here tonight?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	green_lantern 2011-06-08 01:50 am UTC (link)
	"Some? You wouldn't have been a red if it were just some." Dex shrugged. "Was patrolling and heard cursing." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	zoe_torres 2011-06-08 01:57 am UTC (link)
	"I tried to be quiet, too." She didn't address the rage issue again. If one of those rings ever came her way again, she knew she could channel the rage the way she had before. "I thought a little practice away from my normal patrol areas would help." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	green_lantern 2011-06-08 01:59 am UTC (link)
	"I have good hearing," Dex said with a grin. "Feel up to a beer?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	zoe_torres 2011-06-08 02:01 am UTC (link)
	"I could go for a beer," she admitted. "You know your way around the bars here?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	green_lantern 2011-06-09 03:59 pm UTC (link)
	"No, but I'm sure it ain't hard to find one," he said as he changed from his uniform into normal clothes. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	zoe_torres 2011-06-09 04:05 pm UTC (link)
	"It's not." She watched his uniform disappear. In normal clothes he looked, well, almost normal. "You mind a place that's a little rougher than usual? It's dark, dirty and somebody will get their ass kicked before closing time." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	green_lantern 2011-06-09 04:14 pm UTC (link)
	Dex grinned. "My kind of place. The rougher the better." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

zoe_torres
2011-06-12 03:14 am UTC (link)

The place she had in mind was run by a client of her mother's, so Zoe didn't get hassled if she went in on occasion. Her ID was the best money could buy, so there was no fall out on that issue either.

She signaled for two drafts and led Dex to a table in a corner. It was the best spot to see trouble coming before it landed on your head.

"What side of the law do Lanterns fall, anyway? It is justice or the letter of it?"

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	green_lantern 2011-06-12 02:48 pm UTC (link)
	"Thanks," he said for the beer. "Both, but not your Earth laws. Though we do help to uphold them. Lanterns, the greens, think of a much bigger scale." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	zoe_torres 2011-06-12 04:02 pm UTC (link)
	"How big do the other colors think? Just for reference if I ever find any of them in my territory." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	green_lantern 2011-06-12 08:50 pm UTC (link)
	"Most think on universe wide scale like the greens." Dex took a long drink of his beer. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	zoe_torres 2011-06-13 03:17 pm UTC (link)
	"Big picture people. Got it." She made a face. The heroes were all big picture. The little people fell between the cracks. "What do you guys do out there in space for fun?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	green_lantern 2011-06-14 02:26 pm UTC (link)
	Dex shrugged. "Dunno about the others, but asteroids are fun to bash around." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	zoe_torres 2011-06-15 04:29 pm UTC (link)
	"I think that's an old video game. I saw it in a video parlor once in their old guys section." Zoe grinned. "I think it even had green lasers to shoot the asteroids with." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	green_lantern 2011-06-19 08:01 pm UTC (link)
	Dex shrugged. "Beats me. I barely know the stuff that was put out in the last year. Don't know anything about old stuff." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	zoe_torres 2011-06-19 08:19 pm UTC (link)
	"You ever come back around, I'll take you to a video parlor. They can be fun if you don't get hung up on what's out there now and let yourself enjoy what used to be popular." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	green_lantern 2011-06-19 08:53 pm UTC (link)
	Dex smiled. "I may have to take you up on that offer." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	zoe_torres 2011-06-19 09:27 pm UTC (link)
	Leave it to her to get a space guy to relax with an updated version of Asteroid. Eh, he was a nice guy and you could only shoot so many things before you had to take a break and reload. "You can't have beer in there because of the kids, but this place is good for that." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	green_lantern 2011-06-19 09:41 pm UTC (link)
	"I don't need the beer," he said. "I like it, but I can do without it. What do you do to relax?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

zoe_torres
2011-06-19 10:18 pm UTC (link)

That took some thought. She really didn't do anything to relax except target practice. She didn't date, didn't have any hobbies outside patrolling the Triangle, and the occasional play or movie with GK, mostly because he seemed to suggest things in a way that made it impossible for her to say no.

"Not a whole lot," she admitted. "There isn't a lot to do in the Triangle. I take online classes and help out at my mom's law office when she needs somebody to answer phones and file paper."

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	green_lantern 2011-06-19 10:38 pm UTC (link)
	"That means we'll have to find something for you to do to relax," he said with a grin. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	zoe_torres 2011-06-20 04:05 am UTC (link)
	"I don't think I'd be any good at breaking up asteroids," she said, grinning back. It was hard not to. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	green_lantern 2011-06-21 11:16 pm UTC (link)
	"I'm sure there's somethin' we can find for you. Sports? Hobbies?" (Reply to this)(Parent)

	green_lantern 2011-07-01 12:01 pm UTC (link)
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