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Post by Marty Jordan on Jun 9, 2015 2:03:42 GMT -6
There was a burst of flame from Walt's position. Marty sighed. He hated pyrokinetics. They were a pain to fight. Luckily, Marty had been working on a new tactic to deal with this sort of thing. Or at least he had been coming up with a plan since the Hulk want to be tried to snap his arm off. He willed his ring to protect him from heat. The man exploded in a flash of light as the scarlet speedster hit him.
Marty saw Walt go flying and saw that he was burned and some of his suit was singed, other parts of it missing. That was special. He saw Walt get up. That was good. He wasn't in shock or anything. Hopefully, that wonderful speed force enhanced metabolism would have him completely healed by the time they left. He didn't want his friend to look like a partially melted wax figure after all was said and done. The barrage of fire was getting annoying and Marty had had enough of this. He pointed his ring at the man and willed a bubble around the thug's head. His powers were all well and good, but last he checked they didn't replace his brain's need for oxygen. All they had to do was wait a few moments and hopefully, the man would pass out.
A ball of fire shot past Marty's head. He dodged, drawing the man's fire. Literally. He just needed to get him worked up a little. Marty looked down at Flash and grinned. "A little hot under the collar, champ? I bet this guy's got you a little steamed. Take a minute and cool off before you rush in."
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Post by Walter West on Jun 9, 2015 2:32:25 GMT -6
Walt grinned widely, his fury dissipating instantly. Marty's strategy was enough to lift Walt's spirits, and the puns certainly didn't hurt, either. Walt gave in to the jittery excitement that often accompanied a nearing victory. "Smug bastard," Walt muttered, still smirking, before he rushed back in.
All he had to do now was ensure his friend's safety until the pyro passed out. This he achieved by cutting across the man's path again and again, striking him lightly, aiming only to exhaust him. Before long, he succeeded, and the pyro fell over, eyes closed, breathing shallowly.
Walt slowed to a stop beside him, and, after briefly considering what to do with the unconscious criminal, decided to consult Marty first. After all, his partner deserved at least half the fun.
He gathered each of the unconscious criminals and secured them to one of the chairs he found lying among the debris, lining them up in a long row. Those without chairs were simply secured to each other with pipes, which Walt molded to fit his needs by way of vibration. Examining his handiwork, he spoke to his partner.
"My turn to be bad cop, right? This is it! The end of the line. I'm actually excited to see where this ends up!" He hoped this would be the last interrogation of the night. He was hungry, he was curious, but most of all, he was excited. He hoped this would be his and Marty's biggest pull yet.
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Post by Marty Jordan on Jun 9, 2015 20:12:23 GMT -6
Marty gave Walt a grin and willed his shields to full. A blast or two hit, Marty, but defused around the shields. After a few moments, he watched him drop at Walt's feet. He floated down next to the collapsed Pyro and released the bubble. "Huh. All the power in the world and you still need air to breathe. Go figure." A quick scan allowed Marty to gather information about the drugs in a normal person's metabolism. This information would later be put alongside Walt's own data so that Marty could compare them.
"I think he's out for the duration. We can probably just tie him up. I don't think he'll wake up before the drugs wear off." Marty fashioned a pair of hand cuffs for the thug with a ring beam and a length of pipe. He waited for Walt to finish rounding up the bad guys which, probably took him all of 30 seconds. He gave it to Walt because they were heavier looking men. While they did that, Marty gathered up their weapons with the ring and put them in a pile. He didn't want to destroy any of the weapons in case they had been used in prior crimes. That was the space cop in him. These guns could probably be connected to various other cases and Marty didn't want to sully that evidence.
He looked over and rolled his eyes again beneath the mask. It took less than a second for Marty to slip back into the good cop routine. "Easy there, Hot head. We don't even know who the boss is. Do you think that one of these fine upstanding citizens would be willing to volunteer information to us? The only thing they wanted to volunteer was bullets tonight." There was a momentary exchange of body language between Marty and Walt. "You look hungry. Do you want me to go get a pizza or three for you?" Marty made a show of looking like he was going to leave them alone with the short tempered speedster.
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Post by Walter West on Jun 9, 2015 20:48:42 GMT -6
Since none of these idividuals had done any real harm to him or Marty, Walt decided against his usual bad-cop tactics of punching his subjects into Africa, breaking into their jail cells to attack them, or injecting strange drugs into his bloodstream simply to terrify them.
But that didn't mean he wanted this to be boring.
"Yeah, y'know what, partner? That might be for the best. You wouldn't want to see this anyway."
When Marty retreated, Walt spent a few seconds silently regarding the row of restrained men, smiling. Then he stopped in front of the man sitting in the center of the row, and looked down at him. Before the man could notice Walt moving towards the pile of stacked guns, he was standing above him with one of the larger ones.
Walt regarded the thing with theatrical wonder. "Wow. These things just keep getting bigger!" He shared a conspirational grin with the man, who was beginning to shake with fear. Walt found that interesting. He was beginning to get a reputation, even here in Coast City.
He shook the bullets out of the cartridge so that they fell into his hand. Then he casually tossed the gun back onto the pile.
Walt leaned close, just as he did earlier when asking Marty about Lydia, using the look that was apparently reserved for asking about his friend's love life and making grown men cry.
"Talk to me."
The man said nothing. Walt grinned wider. He loved it when they didn't comply.
Moving slowly so that the other men could see the force of his actions, Walt dragged the chair and the man to the wall. Then he retreated, again slowly, a few paces away without turning away from the man.
"Just so you know, my aim is terrible."
Then he began hurling the bullets in his hand like fastballs.
They embedded themselves in the wall around the man's head with a sharp /thunk/ every few seconds. The man shivered, then yelped involuntarily. Then, when he and Walt locked eyes, Walt grinned savagely, and the man finally cried out.
"ALRIGHT!!!," he shouted, and started sobbing.
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Post by Marty Jordan on Jun 10, 2015 15:19:09 GMT -6
Marty moved away, using his ring to will himself invisible. The way Walt was going today, he didn't actually want to leave. He scanned the area with his ring, adding more info and data on the location and its contents. He watched Walt pick up a gun. Not really the Flash's style but Marty knew that Walt could easily outrun the bullets. He wasn't expecting Flash to toss them at the man's head. That was... interesting? Terrifying? Marty didn't really know what to say here. The fact that Walt used the same head lean to question a criminal as he did to find out details on Marty's life was mildly concerning too. This night was very odd.
Then the man broke and Marty willed himself back into existence with a trio of protein bars from the box he kept in his extradimensional storage space for his battery. They were usually good when he wanted something to munch on in space. He tossed them to Flash. "All I could find on short notice."
Marty leaned down. "Sing me a song, or I leave you alone with him again." There was a slight whimper. "Who are you guys working for?" Green Lantern listened for five whole minutes as the thug went on about a man in a domino mask and combat armor and how he arranged everything and made sure that the money and shipments were always in the right place. "And where do we find this gentleman?"
"You don't. He finds you. Pray that he doesn't. Oh, god. He's going to kill me." The man started crying hysterically. Marty realized that was about all they were getting out of him. He touched the thug's head with the ring and willed the man to sleep. He did. "That description sound like anyone you know? Because I'm drawing a blank."
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Post by Walter West on Jun 10, 2015 20:56:25 GMT -6
The Flash looked at the protein bars and the Lantern with a worshipful gaze. Walt caught the snacks and tore into them before anyone else could record his movement. Two seconds later, he missed them. Unfortunately, Walt's trained criminal mind was also drawing a blank.
After hearing the pitiful criminal spill his guts, Walt shared his ideas. "Well, we could follow the money. See if any of these guys remember where and when they got paid, and check around. But what I recommend is simple: you bring me to the dirtiest, least reputable bar in the city, and we ask around with the description we've got. Someone's got to know him. This isn't his first job. Judging by how hard Henchmen #3 here was crying, this guy's a big-timer."
Then Walt suddenly remembered his friend and himself were standing in the place with the greatest composition of the metadrug in the city.
"Hey, wait- that guy would have been here. He had to check on the drugs themselves at some point, right? So can you use your ring to find anything that could lead us to him? Retroactive reconnaissance? A forensic sweep of the lab for prints, deterministic residue, anything we can use?" It was a long shot, but Marty had impressed him before. Besides, Walt wouldn't mind attempting a time jump. The thought excited him, and he half-hoped his friend would fail.
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Post by Marty Jordan on Jun 17, 2015 14:42:39 GMT -6
"Hm. Not a bad idea. Problem is, what if he used a middle man for payment?" The mention of Walter going into a bar made Marty wince mentally. He didn't really want the Flash around anyone tonight. Walt was starting to scare him. He had to have a conversation with him. Then Walt suggested what Marty was about to suggest he could use his ring for.
"Great minds." He held his ring out and willed it to scan for finger prints, DNA, any sort of evidence that the man existed at all and wasn't just made up. While they waited, Marty looked over. "Say, Flash, what's going on? You're starting to get scary tonight. Like bordering on Hulk scary. The Flash isn't supposed to be tossing bullets and going bad cop so often. You're supposed to be the good cop. What's gotten into you?"
While he waited for his answer, the ring sent a ping. "Uh... My ring is detecting a signal. Ring, play back."
"Bravo, boys. I've been watching you tonight. Very impressive. You been messing with my operation. Listen. I know that you're both very tired. A little hot maybe? You're probably definitely thirsty. Especially with the way that Walter eats. Listen, kids. You two should have a drink. On me."
The signal ended and Marty looked at him. "What the hell did that mean? And how did he know...?" Marty was cut off by entire sections of the wall exploding and the rush of water from the Pacific Ocean rushing into fill the room now.[/i]
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Post by Walter West on Jun 17, 2015 22:16:43 GMT -6
Walter grapped Marty brusquely and ran straight up the nearest wall. The ceiling he penetrated with a runningback's tackle, using one of his favorite techniques: manipulating his own density. The momentum as the wall exploded outwards was enough to propel the two of them to a solid part of the building on the ground floor, but before that became relevant, they were out. A second later, there was a haphazard arrangement of semiconscious criminals layed out before then as well, but Walt ignored them for the moment.
Panting, soaked, and angry, Walt took a quick second to let his friend catch his breath before answering his question.
"You want to know what's changed in me? I had my eyes forced open." he growled. Then his tone softened rapidly to utter tenderness before his locked eyes with his friend. "You know what happened the last time a Flash lost a Lantern? I lost my dad."
This was the first Walt had spoken of how Wally had changed after The Battle.
"He lived. But he damn sure wasn't the same on the other end. So when I see somebody who wants to do you dirty.... And then I think, 'Why is it only /my/ friend that matters? These guys would be willing to hurt /anybody/. And then I think of all the things I could do to prevent that. If your mind was like mine, Marty..." Walt trailed off. This didn't matter.
Walt was close to tears, but only for a moment. It was replaced, before anyone except perhaps Marty could notice, by resolve.
"It makes me angry. I hate that our kind of people have to wait to be hurt before they can prevent harm." At this moment, Walt's voice became almost casual, though it was still nearly trembling, as he had thought for thousands of hours about what he said next.
"The fact is, I'd kill to protect you. And Marty, if it was somebody who had tried hard enough, I could do it with a smile on my face."
He waited a few seconds to let them both consider his words, and their implications. He had only known things were different. At least Marty knew it now, too.
"Now tell me about this *new* asshole. He's good. He knew we were coming. He knows who we are."
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Post by Marty Jordan on Jun 24, 2015 21:04:23 GMT -6
One moment, they were in an underground chamber and the next, Marty was standing in the warehouse above, next to some very wet criminals. Walt was explaining his behavior and Marty stood there quietly listening to the reasoning behind his best friend's irrational behavior. He knew Walt was having some issues, but the speedster rarely mentioned it, hiding behind his jokes and his lighthearted act. Marty then did the exact thing that he knew Walt needed. He reached over and tried to smack him upside the head.
"You complete and utter jackass. I don't need a bodyguard." Marty said after a moment. "Mr. I'm-Super-Fast-and-Can-Remember-Anything-I-Read forgot the most basic rule. You're not alone, you super-sonic idiot. You have friends. A whole Tower full. You could talk to any one of us. Hell, you could talk to me or Marvel. We all grew up together. You think you're the only one that's lost people? Marvel lost her parents, Batman loses a Robin every couple of months. I swear he's got a cloning tank." He looked Flash directly in the eyes now as well.
"Do you think that adopting their methods, that crossing that line and striking first is going to make us better than them? Because let me tell you something, Mister. I've seen that before. Sinestro started acting like that. There are still people on his homeworld who fear Lanterns because of him. And I'm damn sure not going to start calling you Reverse Flash or Flashillax anytime soon. So, you want help talking about it, ask one of us. Stop doing your best impression of the Hulk and acting like an ass. I don't want to lose my friend to the darkness."
Marty wasn't one for speeches. He gave Walt a minute to let that sink in before addressing the last question. "Damned if I know. He mentioned you by name. I thought maybe he was one of yours."
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Post by Walter West on Jun 24, 2015 21:55:16 GMT -6
Walt did them both a favor and took the hit.
Rubbing his cheek, unburdened from his demons, and once again indebted to his oldest friend, his smile started small, just an upwards twitch from the corners of his mouth, and then grew larger. Before long he was smiling as wide as he had been when... he couldn't remember when.
This was a new level of gratitude, of optimism, and of unbridled happiness.
Still rubbing his jaw, still smiling, Walt spoke slowly at first, then sped up, as was his custom.
"Y'know, flyboy... sometimes I forget you're the smart one." Then he clapped a hand, lightheartedly, on Marty's shoulder.
"Thanks, Marty." He spoke it softly enough that the men on the ground behind him wouldn't hear, and as he spoke, he looked at him with renewed reverence.
He owed a lot to the Lantern.
He turned now to them. He paced softly to the man he had... interrogated most recently. Looking down at him, a small, nearly humble smile on his lips, he bent down to the man's eye level. The man flinched violently away and closed his eyes. By the time he opened them, Walt was holding out two square, white boxes towards him. Most of the men were still fastened to some piece of warehouse debris, so Walt freed the man (who was still tied to the chair) and spoke gently.
"I'm sorry. Take these, feed your friends." Then, with almost noncommittal humor: "I hope this doesn't reflect badly on my performance report." Then, still bearing a small smile, he turned again to Marty. The man wouldn't run. So what if he did?
He shook his head slowly.
"He wasn't mine, Greenie. Id've recognized that voice if I'd heard it before."
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Post by Marty Jordan on Jul 3, 2015 1:18:26 GMT -6
"Well, you know. Some of us have to have something fall back on in case the warranty on our powers wears off. I have my looks and my brains. You've got... Your mouth." Marty had to lighten the situation up with a joke at some point. They were getting a little too serious tonight. "Anything for the fastest man alive. That's what I'm here for. To shine a light in the darkness." Marty looked down into the hole, Walt had punched through, watching the lab fill up.
"I'll give it to the guy. He really knows how to clean up after himself. Destroyed the whole operation, just to tie up loose ends and destroy evidence. Very thorough." He heard Walt untie the guy and offer him food for the others. That was the Flash he knew and loved like a brother. Marty watched the hole and finally looked up. Walt's admission that he didn't know who the voice was, bothered Marty. It seemed so familiar, bu the just couldn't place it.
"No, not one of mine. Though I will say the guy was a professional. Something about his voice was rather familiar, don't you think? I suppose we take solace in the fact that we shut down one of his operations in a rather permanent manner. I don't know if this place was a factory or a distribution center. We'll see if we can get this information back to the Avengers or the League."
After he stood up, Marty made a decision. He wanted to keep chasing the villain, but he looked down at his ring and his broken arm in it's sling. "Ring, power check."
Green Levels at 37.6%
"As much as I want to try to catch this guy, I think I might just call it a night here. I need to get this arm checked out. And not have my mother flip out on me. That okay with you?"
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Post by Walter West on Jul 3, 2015 1:40:01 GMT -6
"You know it is. Yeah... I can take care of these guys. Tomorrow I can take whatever we found here to the attention of one of the power players. Cap or Bats, maybe. Won't they be happy to see me!" Walt shone with a bright, weary smile. The night wasn't a huge failure after all.
With the criminals restrained in the lobby of the Coast City Precinct, (many still holding slices of pizza or attached to debris from the building,) Walt adopted a thoughtful expression again at Marty's side.
"Hopefully, one of them'll know what we're dealing with here. And besides, if they don't, we can always rouse the Titans. One of us will find this guy, sooner or later. I have to admit that after all this, I'm curious. We started something, Mart." Walt looked around at the newly-delapidated building, finally resting his gaze on Marty's injured arm.
He wore a sheepish smile. "Sorry about that, man. I'm sure you'll hear about that from Mom." Walt's expression brightened suddenly.
"If you want, I could play it up for you! 'Oh, Danvers- you never would've seen me again if it weren't for Marty! I mean, I was pinned down- there were like a thousand of 'em!- and them Marty came from out of nowhere, and he was like "Halt, criminals!", and then he...'"
Walt went on for a while. As he joked, though, his mind went back to the voice from the warehouse.
/This is new territory,/ he thought.
He was ready to meet this guy.
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Post by Marty Jordan on Jul 15, 2015 18:17:21 GMT -6
As the thugs disappeared from the area, Marty stood there, thoughtfully, waiting for Walt's clean up. His mention of taking it to the big powers made him wary. "Take it to Batman. I'm not sure that Cap sees us as anything other than screw ups at this point in our lives. I'll get it all for you on a portable. Just swing by my parents place tomorrow morning." He was going to have to see a doctor and get something to help with the pain. The ring wasn't going to do it alone. He trusted Walt's skill enough to know it wouldn't need fixing anytime soon, but the pain was definitely going to be a factor.
"You're not wrong, Walt. We definitely started something. I just don't know what it is that we started. We might have to bring the team in on this. As much as I hate to admit it. This is just one small part of a larger plot, I think. This goes beyond anything the Flash and Green Lantern can do." He paused and looked around. At least they had documented everything properly. If nothing else, they weren't shoddy on their police procedures. There was enough evidence here to put those folks in the jail away for a long time. Marty looked at Walt.
"I meant my actual mother. She'll kill me." He shook his head. "Why would I need you to play this up to Lydia? I'm not looking for her approval or trying to impress her. I'm just doing my job. She wouldn't be impressed by that. She's not that kind of person. Nor is she interested in me, if that's what you're implying."
"Now, on that note, why don't we go back to my dorm. I need to head home for the night."
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Post by Walter West on Jul 15, 2015 19:22:51 GMT -6
Walt smiled at Marty's tame reaction to the Lydia prod.
"You're the boss, hoss!"
Walt hoisted his friend up on his back (which he knew Marty hated), taking special care to cradle his friend's damaged arm, and as he took off, grinning, he spoke softly, mostly to himself, knowing that the rush of wind and the ambient interference associated with super-speed would make it impossible for Marty to hear Walt's prediction of his next words: "'No, Walt, c'mon! You know how I hate being piggybacked at mach whatever!' Hey, no problem, pal, happy to help," Walt retorted good-naturedly to himself. Then they were both on the roof of Marty's dormitory.
In the seconds before Marty composed himself upon their arrival, Walt organized a statement he'd been hoping to share for some time. Their superheroics tonight had proven, if to Walt alone, that they were ready for what he, Walt, had been hoping to achieve for some time. With any luck, tomorrow Batman woud agree.
"I have to know your thoughts on one thing, buddy," Walt said, stretching his arms behind his head. "I mean, I gotta know." He attempted a tone of seriousness.
"When I talk to the big guy tomorrow, I want to share your thoughts as well as mine. I want to know how badly you want to move up, Greenie. Because I for one am tired of sweeping up after the administration. I'm ready to do some real good."
His attempt at sternness evaporated and was replaced by a massive goofy grin.
"I mean, wasn't tonight boring?!" He broke into spontaneous laughter.
God, he loved this life.
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Post by Marty Jordan on Aug 9, 2015 12:12:50 GMT -6
Before Marty could make a comment, Walt had thrown him up on his back. Marty hated this position, but frankly was too tired to care. He dropped his head against Walt's shoulder and closed his eyes for a few minutes. The strain of maintaining his all the constructs and the anesthetic aura, had taken a toll on him. For probably the first time in his life, he didn't mind a mach 4 piggy back ride. Not that he was going to tell Walt that or let anyone see his armor slip.
There was a brief rush of wind and then they were on top of Marty's dorm again. He got off Walt's back and looked around. "I hate it when you do that. I can fly you know." Marty listened to Walt's pitch. They'd decided that Flash would go to Batman with this information and now Walt wanted to know if Marty wanted to move to the big leagues too.
"It's a good idea. There are some things to consider, though. We've gotten so many new Titans members, don't you think we should stick around and help train them? And I'm not saying that I don't think we're ready. I just feel like we have a responsibility to the team. Our leadership is okay. I mean, I like Rapidash well enough, but I don't really know him well enough to have formed an opinion yet. So, I don't know how he'll train the rookies. Lydia... I mean yeah, that makes sense. She was trained by Cap, so you know she knows how to train people." The Lantern shrugged.
"You get what I'm saying right?"
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