Iris West/Impulse (catchmeifyoucan) wrote in dc_nextgen,
@ 2010-07-12 16:38:00

Entry tags:

cait curry, dinah kord, iris west, npc - mitzi storm, pippi peppers, plot - "end of innocence", team - teen titans

Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!
Iris made her way back to Keystone from Titans Tower. She'd had fun with just the Titans girls and Pippi and Mizti. While she wasn't too sure about Mitzi just yet, Iris thought that Pippi was a good person, and once she'd spent some time with her and the rest of the Titans, she'd stop hanging out with the Raiderettes and robbing shopping malls. Maybe Mitzi would, too.

Iris was on her way home, running down Keystone's main street, when she noticed something...well, downright odd.

After all, it wasn't every day that you saw a stampede of giant wooly rhinos in a city where there wasn't much of a rhino population to begin with. Iris served to avoid being trampled.

People were running in every direction to avoid being trampled to death.

Iris pulled out her comm. She was going to need some backup. Again.

"Titans? It's Impulse. I've got a problem...."

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	young_swimmer 2010-07-12 09:50 pm UTC (link)
	"Aquagirl here. What's up Impulse?" (Reply to this)(Thread)

	catchmeifyoucan 2010-07-12 10:34 pm UTC (link)
	"There's giant wooly rhinos stampeding down main street." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	young_swimmer 2010-07-12 10:37 pm UTC (link)
	Iris wasn't talking at the speed of sound and Cait still wasn't sure she heard her right. "Say that again?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	catchmeifyoucan 2010-07-12 10:44 pm UTC (link)
	"I'm serious. There's a whole stampede of giant wooly rhinos running down main street." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	young_swimmer 2010-07-12 10:50 pm UTC (link)
	"Oookay. I will gather the Titans. Where are you?" Were they cursed to get the weird stuff? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	catchmeifyoucan 2010-07-12 10:52 pm UTC (link)
	"Keystone City, in an alley off of main street. I wanted to avoid being trampled." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	young_swimmer 2010-07-12 11:00 pm UTC (link)
	"Okay. We'll be there shortly. Just try to keep people from getting hurt." She hit the alarm to assemble the Titans. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

bobblehead
2010-07-12 11:23 pm UTC (link)

Pippi leaps into action... sorta.

As she approaches the bizarre situation, things inexplicably change. There's still rhinos, but innocent bystanders start to glimmer indigo for just a second when rhinos rush at them, and the rhinos inexplicably go around.
Cars get overturned, but they too glow indigo for a second, and they just stop instead of skidding into buildings. All around, there's flashes of light and the collateral damage drops dramatically.

Pippi herself doesn't seem aware she's doing anything, the tiara just flashes and things happen. The purple cheerleader herself just approaches the head bull at the front of the herd head on, absolutely fearless, extending one hand towards its nose.

"Look Iris! They're all fluffy."

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	bwa_ha_ha 2010-07-13 12:15 am UTC (link)
	Dinah was above the others in the Bug. She could do way more good from up here than her little powerless self could do on the ground. "I can use the Bug's legs to move them... but that'll be one at a time and slow." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	catchmeifyoucan 2010-07-17 05:36 pm UTC (link)
	"We don't have rhinos at the zoo," Iris said, "At least...not of the wooly kind, I have no idea what could have caused this." She looked around. No more rhinos. "Whatever it was...it seems to have passed over." Or so she thinks. The second Iris finished speaking, a woman screamed. Iris turned her head...to see giant grasshoppers landing on the buildings. "Oh come ON!" (Reply to this)(Thread)

	young_swimmer 2010-07-17 11:02 pm UTC (link)
	Cait didn't like bugs. She didn't know why, but she just didn't like them. The surface was strange and bugs were the strangest things on it. Now there were giant ones. She grabbed some water from the air and sent it flying toward the giant BUGS and tried to encase one in ice. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	bwa_ha_ha 2010-07-18 12:56 am UTC (link)
	"Grasshoppers. My God." Dinah's fingers danced over the Bug's controls, bringing up the microwave emitters. "I'll put a couple shots across their bows, steer them toward you guys." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	catchmeifyoucan 2010-07-19 01:35 am UTC (link)
	"Ew," Iris said, running about to round up some of the grasshoppers. "Ew, ew, ew, ew, EW." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	bobblehead 2010-07-19 04:14 pm UTC (link)
	Pippi either hasn't noticed the grasshoppers, somehow. She has more pressing matters on her mind than fighting giant bugs. "Awww, where'd the fluffy rhinos go?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	young_swimmer 2010-07-20 05:43 am UTC (link)
	The grasshopper was encased in ice for just a few moments before it broke free. Cait growled and sent the shards of ice flying toward the grasshopper, aiming for the eyes. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	bwa_ha_ha 2010-07-20 04:39 pm UTC (link)
	"I swear to God, if all this is because Riley screwed up the timestream, I am going to kill him," Dinah muttered. "Kill him until he is dead from it." She swatted at one of the bugs with the Bug's manipulator arms. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	young_swimmer 2010-07-22 06:58 pm UTC (link)
	Cait blinked when she saw it. A ship...flying through the air. She left Atlantis to get away from the insanity only to have to deal with this. One or the other Cait guessed. "Guys, we have a problem. That," she said and pointed up. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	bwa_ha_ha 2010-07-22 09:10 pm UTC (link)
	"Oh, for the love of..." Dinah brought the Bug about face and opened fire on the ship with its lasers. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	callmemissstorm 2010-07-23 12:20 am UTC (link)
	Mitzi sees the pirate ship and just blinks. That was certainly weird. "Um...does this sort of thing happen to you guys often? I mean, the whole, running-into-weird-stuff-on-a-regular-basis-thing? I just wanna make sure I'm prepare for the future." Mitzi asked. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	catchmeifyoucan 2010-07-23 03:21 pm UTC (link)
	Iris shook her head. "Not normally. I think I might just be cursed." She ran up the side of the pirate ship for a closer look of what they were up against. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	young_swimmer 2010-07-24 04:14 pm UTC (link)
	"Weird seems to be a reoccurring theme," Cait said. She sent ice shards flying at another grasshopper. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	bobblehead 2010-07-24 07:09 pm UTC (link)
	"Whoa! Pirates....NEAT! I want to go see if its Captain Hook's ship!" Pippi boots her riding grasshopper in the side, and leaps from ground level onto the ship. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	bwa_ha_ha 2010-07-24 07:11 pm UTC (link)
	Dinah shook her head as she brought the Bug around to engage the pirate ship. "I swear, this is way too silly to be a Titans thing. This kind of stuff only happens with Riley." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)