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Post by Walter West on Apr 21, 2015 23:54:43 GMT -6
Walt paced back and forth in Marty's dorm room, chewing on a bagel, silently criticizing his best friend's choice in decor. The cluttered space puzzled Walt until he remembered that not everybody could integrate an entire tome of information in the time it would take his best friend to open the cover.
Noticing a few books in the corner, he strolled over and picked them up. "'Aerospace Engineering: A Preliminary Manual..." He grimaced and dropped it unceremoniously to the floor. He regretted not calling before dropping in to visit his friend, as he was already growing impatient. Then again, it took virtually the same amount of time to run here as it would take to dial the first digit. So instead, he exhaled an exaggerated sigh and flopped down in Marty's bean bag chair, and waited.
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Post by Marty Jordan on Apr 22, 2015 0:31:13 GMT -6
Marty landed behind the dumpster behind his dorm building and his costume faded away. He walked into his dorm in Nodell Hall. After his fiasco with Lydia, Marty took a couple laps around the asteroid belt to clear his head. Sometimes, randomly smashing rocks did amazing things for you. Marty usually liked to fly to clear his head, but he couldn't just borrow one of the older F-16's lying around Ferris without some sort of explanation. And he wasn't in the mood for that.
He swiped his keycard and opened the door to his dorm. First thing that he noticed was his textbook on the floor. He walked in, closing the door and picked it up without looking in Walt's direction. "Did you vibrate through the door again? You know that makes the lock wonky when you do it. Should really just get you a key." Marty set the book back on his desk and stuck a pen in his notebook.
Marty was still out of sorts from the whole fiasco that happened over the weekend at Titans Tower. He wasn't really sure what was going on with Lydia anymore. He was hoping that Walt wouldn't pick up on this, but he had a strange feeling that he couldn't be that lucky. Marty tossed his leather jacket on the bed unceremoniously and flopped into his computer chair. "What's cracklackin', Kid Flash? You're a long way from home. Come to take a class? Teach a class? Meet some college girls?"
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Post by Walter West on Apr 22, 2015 0:43:51 GMT -6
As always, Walt grimaced inwardly upon hearing the nickname. No, he certainly couldn't let Marty get away with that. Thankfully, they had been friends before they could walk, before Walt could run, back when, if he wanted Chinese food, he still had to get it from a restaurant in America. And this meant that he always knew how to get under Marty's skin, too.
Instead, he put on his lazy, smug smile, and wandered towards his friend's chair, slowly, lackadaisically. He stopped about a foot away and clasped his hands behind his back. He leaned in, his smile broadening, and with his voice dripping with mock curiosity, asked, "What's her name, Marty?"
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Post by Marty Jordan on Apr 22, 2015 0:55:21 GMT -6
Marty clenched his teeth. The bad thing about having a best friend for your entire life was that they knew exactly where to hit you. Marty knew how to hit Walt and vice versa. And the Flash wasn't pulling any punches. Walt got up and walked over. The moment he put his hands behind his back Marty put his hand on his face. Walt was pulling his interrogation stance. The one that meant he wouldn't relent until he got an answer.
"First of all, there's no she. I just had an uncomfortable situation yesterday and I'm a little annoyed about it. That doesn't mean anything. Second of all, objection. Defense is badgering the witness."
There was a small green flash of light as Marty's battery phased back into this dimension. It had been awhile since he topped off the charge on his ring. Might as well do it while his roommate was out. Walt had seen him do it a million and a half times already, and Marty was fairly sure he could charge it for him by this point. He touched the ring to the battery and didn't bother reciting the Oath this time. Mainly, because he didn't want anyone to overhear him charging. The ring clinked as it locked into place and Marty could feel the emerald light filling it.
"Maybe, we just drop it. What did you do this week? How's Uncle Wally? Barry? Give me something here. Other than that goofy look you're giving me."
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Post by Walter West on Apr 22, 2015 1:10:12 GMT -6
Walt was satisfied.
Grinning, he stepped back and adopted a more comfortable stance. "Well, Dad's good. Still got that 'spirit of vengeance' thing going, but after everything that's happened, I suppose that's natural. As for what I did this week, it's all the same. Read through most of your campus library while I was waiting for you. Disappointing Tolkien selection. Oh, and Barry's fine. Stick in the mud, but hey, he's family." If there was anything Walt took seriously besides his friends and biological family, it was his legacy as a speedster. This was, in part, why he had come.
"So, anyway, flyboy, I was thinking: how about you and I do somethin' stupid? There are only so many drug dealers in Coast and Central combined, and I'm getting bored and ambitious. Have you heard anything? Terrified whispers of names in the night, or anything?"
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Post by Marty Jordan on Apr 22, 2015 1:39:24 GMT -6
There was a moment to process that statement. He sometimes forgot that Walt could read an entire library at super speed. The usual complaints on literature were something he expected by this point. "I'm sorry. I'll make a request that we get more of those in for you. I am paying for those books, after all." Marty was rather confused. He hadn't expected Walt to give up like that. Usually, when he got these ideas in his head, he didn't let go. He smiled at the report on his extended family. He wasn't related to the West-Allen clan, but they always treated him like family. Marty frowned at the report on Wally. He tried to lighten things up. "We could call him 'The Ghost Who Runs'."
Walt's suggestion to do something stupid didn't really seem that out of the ordinary. Marty shrugged. "You know me. Stupid is all I do, depending on who you ask. I can see how you'd be bored. We've been sitting still a whole 3 minutes. Your superpowered ADD must be kicking in." There was a pause while Marty thought about what he'd heard on the crime front. "The only terrified whispers I hear in the night are the women you ask on dates. But, on a more serious note, I have heard rumblings from the Avengers about a smuggling ring in the Port. We could try to go break it up?"
Marty stood up and willed his costume into place. The energy collected and then coalesced around him, forming the Green Lantern uniform he usually used. "And for the love of God, let me teleport us away from Campus before you start running. I'm trying to keep some semblance of a secret identity."
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Post by Walter West on Apr 22, 2015 1:56:17 GMT -6
Upon Marty speaking the word "Port", Walt began running, by "we", he was there. By "break", he was there, and was impatiently considering calling Marty to see where in the hell he could be. He decided that a text would be faster.
8:07 p.m- Marty!!! Where are you man??? Waiting at the Port 8:07 p.m.- Seriously. Hurry up. 8:07 p.m.- Bring snacks. 8:07 p.m.- Maaaaaaartyyyyyyy X[
He placed his phone back in his pocket and groaned. From where he was standing, on a warehouse building overlooking the port, he slumped to the ground in a huff. He knew Marty would meet him soon- he usually realized that he was talking to nothing but an afterimage before too long. It certainly wasn't the first time Walt had done this.
He pulled out his phone again. As he watched the display, it turned to 8:08. He barely withheld a groan. He disappeared and returned to the roof in a split second, this time holding three pizza boxes. The place he usually went to always had their pies pre-made, and he always dropped the price of the pies plus an eighty percent tip into the register. He felt that was fair. He sat cross-legged, opened the first box, and tore into it. Chewing, he pulled out his phone yet again.
8:08 p.m.- 86 the snacks
Walt waited.
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Post by Marty Jordan on Apr 22, 2015 2:13:05 GMT -6
Marty looked over and noticed Walt was fuzzy. Blurry even. "You son of a bi... I can just talk to an empty room too. That's fine." His phone went off several times in a row. He sincerely hoped that Walt burned out the touchscreen on this one as he so often did the others. He supposed the plus side was that the speedster probably couldn't be seen by anyone else either. Maybe he'd just turn Walt's mask around. That always messed with him. Marty willed his ring to take him out of the building and into the air, high above Coast City University. The Lantern disappeared in a flash of light.
He linked his phone to his ring and flew towards the port. Another text came in and his ring displayed a construct screen with the new message. The fun thing about having his ring connected to his phone was that Marty only had to think his response and it sent it back.
8:08 p.m. - You didn't leave me any, did you? I haven't eaten yet. Jerk.
Marty slowed down, dimming his aura, until it was practically gone and changing the green 'fabric' of his uniform into a black color, making his entire uniform black to help hide his approach. The aura left him completely as he dropped to a slow cruising speed. He didn't want to give away his approach since Walt was fast enough to be more subtle. Marty landed on the roof next to him and sighed when he saw the pizza boxes. "Really? Ugh. I love Central City deep dish." He didn't even know why Walt sped off. Marty didn't even know if any action was happening tonight. He supposed they'd find out.
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Post by Walter West on Apr 22, 2015 2:24:16 GMT -6
Walt was gone and back with a single slice on a paper plate in half-second. He handed it to his friend with his signature endearing expression- eyes closed, beaming smile. After passing it to Marty, he spoke.
"Alright. In what felt like the entire Mesozoic Era since we last spoke, I've cased the place. Couldn't see anything. Until..." He sidled up next to Marty and pointed. "...That guy." A few seconds before Marty's arrival, a black vehicle had approached the docks before crawling to a stop. The man who had exited the vehicle had withdrawn a cell phone and had been speaking into it, making his way towards the large, rectangular containers which littered the Port. "I also took the liberty of picking this up." He withdrew a dictionary from the ground a few feet a way. He handed it to Marty with a joker's grin. "I bookmarked the page that has 'suspicious', in case you wanted to make sure."
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Post by Marty Jordan on Apr 22, 2015 2:43:52 GMT -6
Flash went blurry again. Marty was about to say something, when there was a paper plate appearing in his hand with pizza on it. He took the pizza, rolling his eyes under the mask and started biting into it. He listened to his best friend banter on about how slow he was yet again, but then listened to his status report. As annoying as Walt's inability to sit still was, he was actually pretty decent at scoping things out and scouting. The fact that he knew tons about criminal behavior and such was also a rather valuable asset to Marty on days like this. Though the pizza did help too.
"Do other people have the urge to punch you? Is it a common occurrence? I can't possibly be the only one on this planet." Marty looked at the dictionary after eating the last bite of his pizza and vaporizing the plate. He shook his head. "I didn't even know you could spell a word like suspicious. This is news to me. I'm going to ask Captain Marvel to update your file at the Tower to 'can read on a 7th grade level'. I just want to make sure we have that all set for you."
After the Flash retorted, Marty motioned for quiet for a second and he willed up a construct. He needed to focus and the banter wasn't helping keep the stray thoughts at bay. The man's phone started broadcasting quietly into their ear pieces. Intercepted by the ring and transmitted directly to the Titans.
"Yeah, the shipment is here. Bruno and I are going to take a quick count and then we should be ready to move this stuff tonight. I just want to make sure that it's all here." The slightly accented English came through the phone. Marty looked at Walt and gave him a thumbs up.
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Post by Walter West on Apr 22, 2015 3:19:41 GMT -6
Upon receiving the signal, Walt rejoiced visibly. Every once in a while, he had to let the devil out... but tonight wasn't one of those nights. Tonight was about friendship. And bonding. And apparently, covert high-end smuggling operations. Rather than wait for Marty's predictable response- "How d'ya wanna go forward with this?- Walt just decided to go forward. And go fast.
He rushed to the space a few feet behind the man on the phone, so that the man's back was still turned to him. He took a deep, silent breath. He loved this part.
"Tell him I said 'hi'!" Walt called gleefully to the man. Seeing the man jump made him let loose a single loud laugh. Seeing him reach for his gun didn't do much to diminish his spirits. He was standing behind the man again in a moment, this time holding his gun. Ejecting the magazine and examining the black frame of the weapon, he wore a confused expression. As the man panicked and turned to him, his outstretched hand still trying from reflex to fire a gun he no longer held, Walt spoke again with an inquisitive tone. "Maybe you can help me out with this, handsome; why is everybody packing SIG's all of a sudden? I mean, it's a fine gun. Matches your eyes." The man, who at this point was close to blubbering, managed to choke out a confused objection. "M-my eyes are green!" Walt smiled and replied, with a forgiving expression, "Well, it matches one of them." Then he rushed forward, grabbed the man by the collar, punched him hard in the face (but not too hard, knowing that he might accidentally plow his fist right through the man's skull if he wasn't careful,) and pushed him against the nearest container. The man's left eye was already surrounded with a large black bruise.
Walt hated crime. He hated the thought that men could profit off of harming people like his mother, like the mothers he saw walking with their smiling children during the day. And so he hated men like this, although he knew he usually did a better job than this of concealing it. Marty was better at asking the questions anyway.
Hearing Marty approach, he craned his neck. "Forgive me, flyboy, but it was my turn to be Bad Cop, wasn't it?"
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Post by Marty Jordan on Apr 22, 2015 13:48:57 GMT -6
Marty turned and looked at Walt. "So how do you want..." Or at least he turned where Walt used to be. He turned around and watched Walt appear next to the man. "I don't even know why I bother most days." Marty was airborne in seconds. With a thought, his uniform changed back from stealth mode to the usual green and black. There was at least one other thug around, if not more. Marty tried not to let his annoyance show as he flew down to meet Walt. He looked at the Flash.
"Actually, I think it was my turn by my reckoning. But I'll give it to you." Marty heard something move and spun around. A thug was drawing a pistol. Marty guessed this must have been Bruno. He willed up an emerald hand and slapped the pistol from the man's hand. "C'mon. Do you really think that's what's going to work on us?" The man pulled a hypo out of his jacket and there was a hiss as it used compressed air to force it through his skin.
The man's eyes turned green and he started to grow. His muscles tore through his clothing and his skin started to turn green. Marty had heard about this stuff from Lydia. Some sort of nano tech that was able to replicate the powers of heroes and villains upon injection. He had heard that Captain America was working on tracking down where this stuff was coming from. And by Marty's reckoning, it looked like he'd found Cap another lead. Unfortunately for them, that lead seemed to be looking a lot like the Hulk right now.
"Huh. You don't see that everyday." He turned to Walt. "Flash, I think things just got interesting."
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Post by Walter West on Apr 22, 2015 15:02:52 GMT -6
"Yeah. Huh. He doesn't look like a 'Bruno'" Shrugging, he turned to the man he had pressed against the container. "We'll be in touch." Then he ran to the lobby of the nearest police station, placed the gun minus the magazine in the man's hand, and left him there. He smirked as he heard an exclamation of startled surprise, followed by an officer shouting "Freeze! Put your hands up! Now!!"
Returning to Marty' side, he and his friend examined the creature, now apparently fully transformed. He seemed to be slightly smaller than the real Hulk, but that meant little to Walt, given the still-impressive stature of the behemoth.
Nodding, grimacing, he tilted his head to the Lantern and muttered, "So, um... how d'ya wanna go forward with this?"
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Post by Marty Jordan on Apr 22, 2015 19:43:51 GMT -6
"No, less like a Bruno, more like a bruiser." Marty looked at the man and then saw Walt take their other prisoner and run with him. That was good. Less chance of unintended casualties. As 'Bruno' finished his transformation, Marty noted, much like Walt that he wasn't the full size of the Hulk, but he was willing to bet the man could do some decent damage still. Then Walt was back at his side asking him to call the play.
"Well, from what Captain Marvel was telling me at lunch yesterday," There was a pause and Marty knew he let the wrong info slip to Walt. That was going to bite him later, when there was less chance of murder. "Anyway, apparently she and Cap fought one of these in Gotham. They seem to poor knockoffs of who they're supposed to be. Similar power levels, but they're flawed and burn out rather quickly. It's only a temporary transformation. We just have to keep him occupied until it wears off."
Then, the Hulk wannabe threw a shipping container at the two of them and Marty caught it with a ring beam and set it down. "I'm thinking our best plan is going to be to use a super fast distraction while I blast him. I'll leave your part up to your creative mind." Marty took to the air and started firing energy blast after energy blast at the enraged creature. From what he knew of Hulk's power set, the angrier he got, the stronger he got. He really hoped this stuff didn't mimic that, but who knew anymore. He took a page from Lydia's book and launched a construct missile. It exploded into six smaller missiles that pelted the green behemoth. It was going to be a long night.
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Post by Walter West on Apr 22, 2015 20:10:01 GMT -6
Walt smiled up at his friend in the air and shouted, "You know how much I love being the distraction!" He meant it. Running straight at the giant, he slid under it at just the moment he started to recognize that the monster began to realize his intention. On the other side, he waited until the beast whirled around to face him. As he did so, the Flash ran to his back again, this time further from the psuedo-Hulk. From what he considered a safe distance, he decided to throw a few jeers while Marty continued hurling ordinance.
"Man, look at this guy! What gym do you go to? And where in the hell does everybody get these shorts?! Is it like a Groupon thing, or-"
The beast roared and charged, leaving Walt just enough time to adopt a shocked expression and dodge. Appearing on top of a nearby container, Walt rapidly developed a plan. Running back, he ran in circles a few meters around the beast fast enough to leave several afterimages, each of which echoed his taunts as the pseudo-Hulk whirled about, deciding which to attack.
"Come one, ugly! Pick one! We're all equally handsome. I guarant-"
The monster swung one arm blindly, counter to the direction Walt was running, catching him in the gut and flinging him far into the waters of the Port. The pain was intolerable for a half second, causing Walt to vomit in the waves as he tread. Then, worrying that the beast would refocus on Marty if given the time, he rushed back to the battlefield. His smile now absent, he stared the monster in the eyes. When his smile reappeared, it was different. It was dark.
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