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Post by Walter West on Apr 28, 2015 23:33:48 GMT -6
Walt turned and looked at Marty with a flat smile and his eyebrows raised. He turned slowly and withdrew two vials of the mixture. Then, turning back to the Lantern with his eyes shining, he smiled and ran off.
He was in the cell inhabited by Bruno, who was passed out on the cot on the left side of the room, and... "What's your name?" he asked the other man, still smiling after watching him leap nearly a foot off his cot. "R-Ruth. My name's Ruth." he said, holding his hands in front of him. "Ruth. What a lovely name." Next, he turned and knelt down to Bruno's unmoving head and clapped his hands, vibrating them and snapping them together so that when they did, it emitted a noise loud enough to shatter the bulb fixated to the ceiling of the cell, as well as to detonate a frenzy of activity outside it. Bruno shot up, shouting, and reached for both of his ears at once, which had started bleeding. Amidst calls of "Jesus! What the hell was that?" and guards and inmates calling out to each other, Walt dragged Bruno up by the collar and threw him to the other side of the cell so that he collided into Ruth. Then he withdrew the two vials from his costume and held them forth.
He smiled plainly. "Gentlemen... I don't like you. You, especially." He cut his gaze towards Bruno. "But there's one thing I like less than you two, and that's waiting." He paced with deliberate, painful slowness towards the two of them. "So if I have to wait for any more than two seconds before you answer my next question... well. I almost want you to test me. I hate you that much." He leaned in. Inches away from Ruth's face, he whispered, "Where are the drugs from?"
One second of silence. Bruno started. "We don't..."
Walter vibrated his hand so that it simulated a density much greater than its own, and then he slammed it into the wall a millimeter beside Bruno's head. It left a small crater and made Bruno leap and yelp. Then he took one of the vials and cracked it open in his hand. Watching the two men, he vibrated gently, forcing his body to absorb the liquid seeping into his skin into his bloodstream. The two men looked on in horror- Ruth, who was trembling and tearing up, beside Bruno, whose mouth was agape. The Flash started shuddering.
Locking eyes with Bruno, his whole body shaking, his voice gravelly, he spoke.
"One. More. Try."
This time it was Bruno who broke. "ALRIGHT! Jesus, man! The guy we got the stuff from- he didn't say his name, but he worked for AIM!! Alright? He said he worked for Advanced Idea Mechanics!!! We picked it up from a warehouse on the south row! Oh, Jesus, you gotta get outta here, man, you're gonna kill us all!"
With a roar, Walt ran just outside of the building and started vibrating his whole body, trying to eject the formula from his system. When it resisted, he shook so violently that his bones began to feel loose. Finally, he felt it seep out into the air. Panting, he took a moment to breathe before he started running. Returning to Marty, his chest still heaving, he held out the remaining vial. "AIM," he said, panting.
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Post by Marty Jordan on May 10, 2015 21:36:40 GMT -6
As Walt grabbed two vials and ran, Marty yelled out. "Flash! Wait!." He continued scanning the contents of the intermodal containers for any clues. He wasn't going to let any information slip away. The disappearance of Walt with two vials concerned him. As much as he trusted his friend, Walt could be a bit of a loose cannon. Coming from Marty, that said something.
A few minutes later, when Walt reappeared, he was out of breath and looking like he rode under a bus. When he showed Marty the remaining vial, the Lantern snapped. "Are you out of your mind? Did you dose yourself with that stuff? Those are super drugs. You didn't know if your system would reject it. Or worse. It could have killed you!"
The pain in his arm was surging and Walt's apparent stupidity wasn't helping. He focused his will and tried to calm down. AIM. Okay. Marty looked at him. "Lydia is going to kill you and I'm going to stand and watch. Now, let me scan you. I need as much data as I can get from you, moron."
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Post by Walter West on May 10, 2015 23:31:58 GMT -6
"Don't tell Mom." Walt flashed his goofy smile, wobbled, and fell down.
He wasn't unconscious, but as he lay on the ground with his eyes closed, panting, he had nightmares. He dreamt that he was crouched above a man, smiling, driving his fist into his face again and again with the strength and speed of a sledgehammer. Then, when he was finished, he looked down at the face he had demolished and recognized a mangled version of his own.
He was called back to his senses by the sound of Marty's voice. The Lantern was saying something about wanting to test Walt- that was fine. Walt realized that his blackout must have lasted for only a few seconds. Typical. No rest for the wicked.
Walt knew that he had a mean streak, but he wasn't afraid of it... which scared him. He didn't often let it show as much as tonight. But when he did... he shocked himself. And sometimes, like tonight, when he saw firsthand the damage- to his friends, no less- that these people could cause... he enjoyed it.
He looked up at Marty and smiled. "Do what you have to, Doc! But no needles. They make me antsy."
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Post by Marty Jordan on May 20, 2015 23:03:49 GMT -6
Marty went to work scanning Walt's body. The moron dosed himself with unknown meta drugs and was hoping that it wouldn't kill him. Even Marty knew not to use that sort of thing if you didn't know what the results were. His ring was analyzing Walt's body as fast it could. Walt's body could purge itself faster than a normal person's could, but Marty's ring could scan as fast as he willed the ring to. Walt was suffering, but Marty knew that every ounce of data would be useful for curing the reaction of the drugs.
"We'll see whether or not Mom gets a call. Maybe the needles will come in a bit." The ring was telling him on the display that Walt wasn't suffering any fatal reactions. Nothing triggering anything like an allergic reaction. As far as he could tell, Flash was going to have a bit of a hangover and that was about it. That worked for Marty. He didn't want to lose anyone on this mission. But the down side to a strike like this was that, they had to move on the information that Walt got tonight. It didn't matter what kind of condition either of them were in. If they didn't, the place would be cleaned out by tomorrow.
"I've got bad news, Flash." Marty said gravely. "You're still you. I couldn't find a cure in the database for that. Other than that, you're going to have a horrible hangover for a bit. No cell damage or damage to your DNA. So, it looks like you'll live. Until, Lydia gets you, that is." He reached down and picked him up off the ground. "Now, we have to move. You have all the info and we're both in lousy shape, but when news gets back to certain parties, where ever they told you is going to be empty. So, fortify and lets get moving."
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Post by Walter West on May 21, 2015 0:31:43 GMT -6
Upon hearing Marty's diagnosis, Walt beamed. Another successful blurring of the line between "stupid" and "inspired".
Walt consulted Marty. "Alright. This is your territory. Where do the bad kids hang out?" Walt could hardly wait to get moving. Despite the steady pounding in his head and the subtle sting of what felt like venom in his veins, he was ecstatic. Speedster adrenaline was a difficult thing to explain. While Marty thought, Walt took a practice lap around Coast City. When he was finished, he zipped through the shadier avenues, tuning his senses to anything regarding the meta drugs. Ultimately, he found nothing specific.
Walt returned to Marty in about a half a minute. He was irritable at having found nothing on his first pass. Back at home, he knew all of the popular resorts of the criminal underworld, but not here in Coast City. "C'mon, Marty. We just need one person from the inside- an AIM employee, or somebody who moves a lot of stuff on the docks. Any ideas?"
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Post by Marty Jordan on May 26, 2015 15:45:40 GMT -6
Walt was a moron. Marty was fairly sure of that. After this entire incident, he was starting to wonder if there was some kind of permanent brain damage that had occurred at some point. He'd have to scan Walt and make sure his higher brain functions were in tact at some point. Marty watched him get up, wobbly. Flash looked like he was sick. The red costume really just highlighted the fact that his skin was really pale. He probably had never experienced a hangover before and this was a special sensation for him.
Marty pondered the question and noticed the Flash went running while he thought. That was a good question. This was his city and while he did know where some criminal elements hung out, this was out of a lot of their leagues. Walt reappeared and seemed irritable. That was great. The speedster was probably going to be wonderful to deal with. Between his throbbing arm and Walt, this night was shaping up to be an amazing train wreck.
"I don't know. I don't keep a Rolodex of all the criminal activity in the city. I mostly deal with the cosmic stuff. I don't really get involved down here unless the police can't handle it." He looked around for another moment thinking. "And don't get irritable with me. I didn't inject you with the crap that's making you feel like that."
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Post by Walter West on May 27, 2015 11:35:10 GMT -6
Walt grew even more impatient. Most people who thought he was an idiot (which was most people) just didn't understand that he was often processing information at a rate that would embarrass his teammates. Trouble was, he was often far too impatient to explain his reasoning, preferring instead to dismiss their criticism and leave them in the dark. But whenever Marty in particular got uppity, Walt was generally more forgiving. He spoke his mind, swiftly but calmly.
"Can't you just fly up above the city and will your ring to conduct a scan of the whole thing at once? That'd be the quickest way to find the greatest density of whatever elements you found in the drugs!" By the time he finished speaking, he had begun to hurry his explanation due to his mounting excitement. That, and the fact that his super-hangover was already beginning to fade, were making him jittery and ready to move.
"That is, only if you think you can make it more than four feet off the ground without breaking your other arm."
Walt couldn't help it.
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Post by Marty Jordan on May 29, 2015 11:59:06 GMT -6
Marty stared at Walter for a minute. That actually was a good idea. He could fly up and scan the entire city for the traces of the rare elements that he found in the drugs. There were all sorts of traces of alien elements and tech around Coast City, but the combination of two and the unknown one would be a good way to pinpoint the exact location of the drugs. Marty always had trouble remembering that Walt's brain worked faster than his own. It wasn't that he considered his friend to be dumb or anything, he just always assumed that Walt's brain worked on the same level as his own and that wasn't the case at all.
"Oh, I think I can manage to do it without breaking my arm. Do you think that you can help me stop the bad guys without making as many poor life choices as possible along the way? I know that's part of your power set. Making bad choices at the speed of light, but I do have to ask." Marty was partly joking, partly annoyed from earlier. The throbbing in his arm was dulled by the ring, but he was still aching and grumpy.
There was a momentary flash, while Marty accelerated several hundred feet upwards. He hovered over the city and extended his will through the ring. Normally, he would have made several fancy constructs to do the job, but he didn't feel like it. He just willed the ring to find what he wanted. There was an emerald wave that shot out of Marty's ring and his mask lenses showed a glowing warehouse in the distance. He activated his comm.
"I'm sending you a set of coordinates. Scout it out and wait for me. Try not to sample any of the wares while you're there."
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Post by Walter West on May 29, 2015 22:32:59 GMT -6
Walt jumped eagerly upon hearing the transmission from his friend, and he laughed at Marty's joke. "Well, I'll try anything once," he responded, Then he was at the warehouse.
Looking at it from a distance of a few hundred yards, Walt could see nothing out of the ordinary. No laser defense array. No laser-wielding superhenchmen. If there was anything special about this place, it was almost certainly underground. Walt huffed, disappointed. He touched a finger to his ear to activate his comm console.
"Marty. Bad news. No lasers."
Stimulated at the concept of encroaching danger, Walt decided to try his favorite method of infiltration.
He walked up to the front entrance and knocked. Hearing nothing, he phased through the wall and observed the interior. Seeing nothing, he knelt and placed both hands flat on the floor of the large, empty room. Attuning his vibrations to that of the foundations of the building, Walt could sense every movement in the building for several stories down.
He felt a frenzy of activity only a few hundred feet below.
"Marty," he said into his costume's comm system, "We found the candy stash. Now I'm gonna go see if they've got any other flavors." He was joking, of course. Marty should know better than to worry. Still, he was holding out hope for something interesting besides the drugs down there, and he wanted to have a joke ready by the time the Lantern caught up with him. He started looking for an elevator.
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Post by Marty Jordan on Jun 2, 2015 0:44:32 GMT -6
It took a few moments, but Marty moved towards the warehouse at mach 2. He shed his speed a bit before he arrived to throw off the sonic boom before it gave them away. As Marty dropped down, he heard Walt's voice in his ear. "No lasers? How unusual compared to our usual evenings. Maybe these guys aren't as good at what they do as we think." Marty floated down to the front of the warehouse and phased through it. He willed his ring to send out an energy pulse and map it.
A moment later a 3 dimensional map appeared of the building. Walt's supposed candy stash was a hundred feet below them. That made sense. No one in their right mind would build on the surface level with this level of production. "Try not to eat all the circus peanuts on me. I like those things." He floated around the warehouse and scanned the upper floor, quickly cataloging any evidence that was in the room before floating after Walt.
Marty saw Walter looking for some sort of entrance to the lower levels. "I know it goes against your religion, but I can actually find us a way down there. My ring could safely phase us down. If we use an elevator, they'll know we're coming and could hurt us."
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Post by Walter West on Jun 3, 2015 0:20:12 GMT -6
"Y'know, for once I might take you up on that offer- granted you can do it in the next three seconds." Ordinarily, Walt wouldn't have wasted that kind of time, but he remembered Marty's arm with a pang of guilt. But if the Lantern wanted to soldier on, then so be it. Besides, if Marty couldn't keep to Walt's timetable, he would phase down there himself and save Marty the trouble.
He stood close to Marty and interlaced his fingers behind his head in his classic fashion. "Ahhh... I'm thinking about those circus peanuts now..." he started, and shot Marty a sly grin. The jokes kept impatience at bay.
"Alright!" Walt shot his hands up. "You take the lead on this one. I'll run interference. We'll be home before bedtime. You got classes tomorrow?" Walt also liked to cater to Marty's less heroic priorities whenever possible, and was wondering how much it would hurt to finish all of Marty's assignments for the next day, realizing that they'd get home late.
Walt began to shudder with excitement, his stomach rumbled, and he waited.
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Post by Marty Jordan on Jun 7, 2015 23:57:22 GMT -6
There was a roll of his eyes behind the mask. He doubted Walt would see it due to the lenses in his mask, but he promptly willed a bubble around the two of them. It was a simple act to make the bubble phase them both through the floor of the warehouse. All it took was an act of will. Marty blocked out all distractions: the dull throb of his arm, Walt's impatient bantering. All of it. Because when it came to phasing through solid matter, the slightest distraction could kill them both. Marty wasn't in the mood to die today. He doubted Walt was either.
The bubble took them through the floor and he muffled their voices, by making it sound proof. "Which ones? The ones here or the ones you've been stealing from me and eating since we were kids." He gave Walter a pointed look. "Not that I mind or anything, but I've been finding the empty packages for years now. And you live a few thousand miles away."
Marty set them down near the elevator and dissolved the bubble. "Fine by me. You want to run the perimeter and keep everyone from getting out any extra exits? Take out the stragglers?" He looked up at Walt. "I don't think they offer Sunday classes. So probably not, but I should be okay. You ready to do this?"
Green Lantern flew out of the shadows and started forming constructs. His voice boomed through the large space. "You're all under arrest. Stand down and put your hands up." He was met with some resistance as a few of them fired at him. His ring aura blocked the shots. Marty wasn't taking any chances. He was tired of getting hurt. He focused his will and started disarming and restraining those who tried to stay and fight with constructs, while leaving the stragglers for Walt.
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Post by Walter West on Jun 8, 2015 0:33:37 GMT -6
Walt looked at his friend as if to chastise him for even asking the question. Then he started.
While darting back and forth across the large, dark room, Walt reflected upon the differences between himself and his friend. For one, Marty enjoyed a life that was a little more structured than Walt's, who hadn't even known what day it was until Marty pointed it out. Being homeschooled, self-educated, and mostly independent, Walt often forgot that his best friend's arrangements were so radically different.
Marty was also a bit more orthodox when it came to his methods of law enforcement. Walt considered this as he continued to zip between the minority of criminals who were attempting to escape, disarming them, rendering them unconscious, and restraining them with any ropes, pipes, or miscellany he could find, humming cheerfully to himself and smiling as he did so.
But perhaps the greatest difference between them was that Marty lacked Walt's showmanship.
"Alright, everybody!" Walt was suddenly standing on top of a large piece of equipment, several feet off the ground. "Hark! Listen! Hear me now!" Several of the thugs had stopped shooting after they noticed their comrades fall to the ground in various states of consciousness. They looked at him now with grim resignation.
"As you all may have noticed... you're screwed." Walt offered a car salesman's smile. "My buddy here is a green god, and I'm the guy that can kill you and bury you in Madrid before the next time I blink." Now they simply looked at him with dedicated fear. "But you can help us, and it just might save your lives, because, to quote the immortal Freddie Scott, you got what I need." One or two of the weaker men now looked about ready to start sobbing, so Walt decided to finish his sermon. The room was silent as he looked at each of the few remaining men in the eyes.
"Now, my friend is pretty pissed that I've been eating his circus peanuts, and I'm frankly not the most patient guy to begin with, so I'm only gonna ask this once." He waited until after a single criminal let slip a single, manic laugh and the room returned to silence before asking, in a slow measured tone...
"Where... are... the drugs?"
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Post by Marty Jordan on Jun 9, 2015 1:27:49 GMT -6
The glare from Walt made Marty put up his hands as a silent apology. After disabling and disarming a bunch of the thugs with constructs and blasts, he noticed that Walt had taken out his share of the thugs as well. Then he watched Walt jump up on a machine of some kind and start talking. Well, that was good. Walt's 'showmanship' as Marty liked to call it never really got them anywhere good. It usually just let to them getting into even more trouble than they were usually already in.
He floated above them, listening to Walt's calm speech. He was playing the bad cop a lot more often these days and Marty was starting to notice. He made a mental note to speak to the Flash about this when it was over. After the events of today, Walt was starting to cross lines that made even Marty raise an eyebrow. He was concerned for his friend to say the least.
A momentary scan of the room revealed what Marty had thought. This was some sort of production facility or distribution facility. "Flash, the drugs are all around us. They're putting them in these crates and smuggling them out from here. My ring's got a lock on them. Hidden inside things inside the crates." And then Marty heard a tell tale hiss. The familiar sound of someone injecting the drugs. Last time, someone turned into the Hulk, Marty couldn't wait to see what they got this time. He tapped his mic twice to signal Walt. "Show time."
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Post by Walter West on Jun 9, 2015 1:51:11 GMT -6
Walt heard it, and in the time it took for it to beat twice, his heart sank. Then, he sighed. "Too late," he said softly, and he felled each of the few remaining thugs with swift blows to the temple.
He found the man who had injected the drug sitting with his back against a nearby crate, hidden from where Walt had just been standing. Noticing the empty syringe near the man's hand, and as the man began to shudder, Walt spoke.
"Aw, hell." That about summed it up. "Ace, he's over here! I think I can get him out of here b-"
Walt saw the man's eyes flare red and shoot open a millisecond before a pilar of flames erupted from his outstretched hand towards Walt's chest. Walt had time to retreat to the top of a nearby container, but he still felt singed, and there was a note of well-contained panic as he shouted to his partner.
"Hey, we've got a live one! He shoots flames. No puns, please." Walt had resolved not to let this one lay a hand on his friend, and in accordance with this decision, he rushed back at their opponent, aiming to knock him out cold before the fight had a chance to escalate.
Walt's punch connected.
Upon contact, the man erupted in a miniature explosion that threw Walt and several nearby containers agaibst the wall.
Hitting the ground and rolling sideways, Walt looked up and noticed the man was also recovering, attempting to get on one knee after Walt's punch.
Walt smiled a devil's grin, relishing the newly-formed burns he could already feel on much of his body.
This one was going to pay.
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