DC Next Generation


Attack of the Flying Bricks (and the 50ft Robot) @ 01:14 pm

[info]geekgreek:
Current Mood: anxious

Will hasn't had a lot of time to get to know his new JSA compatriots. It was still a bit of a blur, with people randomly appearing in bathrooms and getting to know everyone, then his grand tour of the Big Apple. It may be no metropolis, but it was still amazing. The food, the girls, the architecture, the bustle, the girls...he said that one already, didn't he?

Well, Will now sits at the top of one of the buildings, the one called the Sony Building. It is large, but what draws him hereis the ability to sit and look around without getting bugged for an autograph or a date or a marriage...

Boy, that was a weird day. Crazy lady threw herself off of a building to have a hero save her. And then she would propose. Well, it may have had a more experienced hero possibly wave it off as a crazy lady. But it doesn't work so well when said hero is really an awkward 16-year-old like Will.

But, the woman was rather cute. Out of her mind, but cute...

Gah! too much to think about. He'd only been at the hero business for a little while, so how would this kind of situation work?

Will sits to ponder, but in his solitude he seems to make out a sound that seems not unlike water, and a lot of it, being displaced. Will looks up, then towards the Harbor. A few seconds go by, and Will thinks it may have been nothing...

...until a gigantic robot slowly emerges from the harbor, moving slowly towards Mahattan.

"Saved by the robot, I suppose," Will mumbles to himself before flying towards the gigantic robot. After a few flybys, the Wisdom of Socrates tell Will that this is an automaton. After a few seconds, Will realizes what it means: It doesn't have a pilot. Its just a robot. So Will hovers in the way as the oddly humanoid figure moves slowly towards him.

"Uh...Big...robot guy! Stop!" Will calls, the giant robot unmoved by the plea.

But, almost as if an aside, the robot gives Will a second glance over.

"CAPTAIN. MARVEL? MY. PROGRAMMING. INDICATES. THREAT! ELIMINATING.  NOW!"

Will barely has time to respond before a gigantic robot hand swings at him at an alarming speed. But it's no match for the speed of Hermes, and Will flies out of the way of the gigantic hand and straight at its forehead. Wills fist balls up and swings at the gigantic metal head, confident that it would be removed in a single swing.

It wasn't. Mr. Atom did stumble backwards into the surf, Will was now holding a throbbing hand. That hurt!

But his second reaction wasn't to just wait for the robot to catch its bearings. Quickly, Will summoned his JSA communicator and inputed the command to call for assistance from everyone who was available in the vicinity. Then he flies forward, trying to ensure that Giant Robot Man (or whatever his name is) from getting back into the city.
 

Moms Just Don't Understand @ 05:00 pm

[info]dareyoutorun:

"Jai, we need to talk...about you and Traya." Linda says, having cornered her son in the kitchen of all places, setting down her purse. She doesn't want to fight with him, but he's too much like her; stubborn as all get-out when he feels that he's right.

Jai rolls his eyes and sighs deeply, knowing what his mother will say next, or some variation of it.
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