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Alina ([info]collateralmagic) wrote in [info]dc_nextgen,
@ 2012-11-25 14:24:00


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Entry tags:alina vasquez, avia free, firestorm, jon kent, margery grundy, plot - "chaotic order", sam weaver, team - jla

Not What YOU Might Call "Fun"...
It starts as a normal day at YJLA headquarters.

Most of the team is already present; there's a meeting due to start in about half an hour and a training session after. Only minor beeps and alerts are coming through over the computers, nothing that can't be taken care of by local law enforcement. Outside, it's sunny, and there are even birds chirping and twittering to each other. It's almost blissfully quiet.

Until, very suddenly, it's not.

There's a near-tangible shift to the atmosphere as a wave of something blooms from somewhere within YJLA headquarters and travels outward through the building. It passes through walls and furniture and people with equal ease, bringing darkness with it as the lights go out and electronics abruptly fail to function. Openings to the world outside of headquarters -- doors, windows, escape hatches -- are consumed by the walls around them, vanishing entirely in some cases or scarring over as if they were old wounds. The emergency generator hums to life for a moment before it too fails and plunges headquarters back into darkness.

A glowing fog begins to rise, barely enough to see by. It's purple, and parts of it glitter. Faint, abstracted laughter floats down the halls; and Alina's voice trails after it like a handful of ping-pong balls down a staircase:

"That's more fun."



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[info]seesaw
2012-11-25 09:42 pm UTC (link)
And Margery's... just going to start screaming now.

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[info]first_son
2012-11-25 10:12 pm UTC (link)
Jon looks confused at first - starting out looking about for Alina via x-ray vision, until he hears the screams. Then he heads that way, ending up having to go through a couple walls when doors stop responding, or simply aren't where they should be.

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[info]seesaw
2012-11-25 10:20 pm UTC (link)
Margery's staring around wide-eyed. She starts a little but manages to focus on Jon through the dark and fog. "She really is Mothgirl,"

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[info]masterofmatter
2012-11-25 11:06 pm UTC (link)
Okay, he was there just for the meeting. It was time to unwind from finals, and he had plans right afterwards, but...this. What the hell? The Matrix is immediately activated and Michael starts moving to see...just what the hell is going on.

"Okay, who the hell let Wonkas factory loose in here?"

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[info]ms_miracle
2012-11-26 12:48 am UTC (link)
"Foxy Mama, lights, if you would?" Avia asked. A ball of light appeared in her open palm, accompanied by the pinging of her Mother Box.

"...Something's definitely not right here. Got my Mother Box all nervous."

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[info]angryarcher
2012-11-26 04:45 am UTC (link)
"What the hell is going on here," Sam says walking out of the training room rather annoyed.

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[info]collateralmagic
2012-11-27 02:04 am UTC (link)
A moist popping noise comes from the open door behind Sam, like an overlarge toad being ejected from a lubricated vacuum tube. It's all the warning they get before a wave of orange goo surges into the hallway, smelling of cucumbers and wet dog.

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[info]angryarcher
2012-11-27 02:14 am UTC (link)
The look on Sam face after the slime hits him is one of pure rage before calming down. "What fuck was that."

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[info]first_son
2012-11-27 02:17 am UTC (link)
Jon avoids the worst of it by lifting off, exhaling a freezing blast to freeze some of the liquid surge.

"Chaos magic. Has to be. Something's wrong with Alina." Oh yes, he knows his girlfriend's voice - and that did not sound normal.

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[info]masterofmatter
2012-11-27 02:20 am UTC (link)
Michael had been flying forward, trying to figure out just what the hell was up with Alina when he was submerged in...this crap! He had no reaction, nothing more than being covered in the stuff. He managed to fly back out before Jon froze the rest, but he is covered in the stuff.

"...she slimed me."

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[info]seesaw
2012-11-27 03:28 pm UTC (link)
Margery stands there shuddering as she tries to wipe off some of the slime that got her.
"Can't track it, can't predict it, can't stop it," she mutters. "Mothgirl can do anything she wants and even what she doesn't. Best thing we could do at home is somebody play decoy while the others got away, but..."

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[info]ms_miracle
2012-11-28 02:17 am UTC (link)
Avia had executed a perfect flip upward and popped her Aero-Disks, mercifully avoiding majority of the goo, though some of it had covered the edges of her cape. She popped the shoulder clasp and let it fall.

"Orange is your color, Firestorm," she teased, before turning serious.

"What do you think's happening, Superboy? Alina's magic is unpredictable sometimes... but not like this."

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[info]first_son
2012-11-28 05:00 am UTC (link)
"Severe chaos backlash, it has to be. We need to get to her as much for her sake as our own."

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[info]seesaw
2012-12-02 02:47 am UTC (link)
Margery's silent for a moment, and then, bracing herself slightly just to make sure she'll make it, runs right through the wall screaming again. This time, she loses any emotional stability rather on purpose. Bring Mothgirl Alina Mothgirl inward towards the freaking out. Let the others act from there.

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[info]collateralmagic
2012-12-03 12:15 am UTC (link)
"Finally!"

Alina's voice doesn't seem to be coming from any direction in particular. It rolls back and forth along the hallways like escaping marbles.

"Margery is so my favorite. Really, what were the rest of you doing, planning? Boring! MOVE!"

If anyone wants to know what room-temperature liquid flooring feels like, all they have to do right now is not be flying as the surface beneath them suddenly fails to hold their weight.

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[info]first_son
2012-12-03 12:24 am UTC (link)
Jon, thankfully, can fly. He grabs who he can out of the goop, and starts looking for Alina via x-ray vision.

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[info]ms_miracle
2012-12-03 12:36 am UTC (link)
Avia's aerodisks help keep her in the air as well, her Mother Box pinging all the while.

"Foxy Mama... see if you can find Alina..."

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[info]angryarcher
2012-12-03 02:37 am UTC (link)
"Shit. God damn it and Buddha too," Sam says a the floor gives way. He fires a line arrow up to the ceiling to hold onto.

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[info]seesaw
2012-12-03 05:03 am UTC (link)
Depending on how far out and how deep the effect is, Margery will find herself sliding or swimming as the case may be.

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[info]collateralmagic
2012-12-03 08:50 am UTC (link)
Margery doesn't have anything to worry about -- she's already being entertaining, the liquifying floor doesn't reach her.

Avia's Mother Box doesn't seem to be picking anything up except for some sort of rippling static traveling to and fro. Jon's x-ray vision is strangely blurry, but slightly more useful. Alina shrieks and the ripple-effect and blurring briefly cease, allowing Jon and the Mother Box to locate Alina somewhere in the area of the kitchen. Both start up again almost immediately.

"Big spider!" Alina's giggly near-calm seems to have been rattled, if only for the moment. "Ugh, I hate it. Jon, you deal with it."

The spider in question appears in the fog. Alina's not kidding about "big". Right now, it's about three-feet-tall big.

And growing.

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[info]first_son
2012-12-03 08:55 am UTC (link)
"Kitchen." Jon comments in Alina's general direction, trusting her and her escape powers to find a way to get to his girlfriend - while he deals with the giant spider.

Trusting that if its not dealt with fast, its going to get a whole lot bigger, he heads right at it at speed.

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[info]ms_miracle
2012-12-08 02:03 am UTC (link)
Avia sped off after Jon. She really didn't like what little info her Mother Box was providing.

She really didn't like this.

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[info]collateralmagic
2012-12-10 03:09 am UTC (link)
Jon's right, the spider is visibly getting larger. It doesn't seem eager for a fight, though -- it scuttles back away from Avia and Jon's attacks, body-language defensive to anyone who's familiar with the body-language of spiders.

"You know," Alina says idly, "if not for magic, it wouldn't be able to get that big. The square-cube law would snap their bodies right off their legs. It would probably suffocate. Isn't it great that I can just flip physics the bird whenever I want?"

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[info]first_son
2012-12-10 03:13 am UTC (link)
Jon works on cornering it somewhere he can bend some of the metal reinforcing walls around to trap the spider - even if its retreating, there's enough arachnophobes around that he can't have it running free - then turns his attention back to his girlfriend.

"Usually, its wonderful. Right now, how about we let physics settle down and catch its breath, sweetie?"

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[info]seesaw
2012-12-10 06:08 am UTC (link)
Margery was being left alone. As much as she really, really liked that, she also knew it wasn't good for everyone else. It's still chilly enough that Margery can think that out straight, her self-preservation warring with her brain. She'd heard, in the distance, Superboy mentioning the kitchen. Probably where Mothgirl Alina was. Still not hearing anything precisely from over there, she starts to make her way around.

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[info]angryarcher
2012-12-10 11:21 pm UTC (link)
Sam swings over away from the slime floor not all happy about this stuff. Once he lands on more solid ground he makes his way to the kitchen at well.

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[info]ms_miracle
2012-12-11 12:08 am UTC (link)
Avia works on being as calm as she can. "Good vibes, Alina," she said. "Good vibes. Feel the good vibrations. Nice, calm, good vibes."

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[info]collateralmagic
2012-12-11 02:16 am UTC (link)
The spider seems to have stopped growing at this point -- luckily for all of them, because it would probably be pushing the ceiling if it got any bigger.

"No," Alina says. "Physics can bite me. I am feeling too good to deal with its crap right now. I am so glad you're doing stuff now, watching you all stand there was boring. Microwaves, even ones being enhanced by magic, are no substitute for television."

The ceiling above them trembled under what sounds like hundreds of running feet on the floor above them.

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[info]collateralmagic
2012-12-17 07:51 pm UTC (link)
Anyone on the team who's seen or read Alice in Wonderland probably has much more sympathy for the eponymous Alice by the time they get to the kitchen. Hallways growing or shrinking, stampedes of strangely-colored creatures that have never existed, invisible pockets where the oxygen has been converted into helium or sulfur...Alina doesn't seem to be trying to kill anyone, but it's definitely the weirdest version of a training course any of them have ever been on.

They do survive to reach the kitchen though, and the interior walls look like a rave on acid. Appliances scurry to and fro, except for the toaster which seems busy trying to escape the jaws of the refrigerator. Alina herself lies sprawled on her back in the middle of the floor, eyes glowing like brand new headlights. The remains of a toaster pastry are smeared across her face and up into her hair.

"Oh, you made it," she drawls, sparing them a bright glance before returning her gaze to the swirling globes dancing over the ceiling. "Yay for you."

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[info]first_son
2012-12-17 08:10 pm UTC (link)
This place is really, really hard on super senses, in a big way. He is going to have a massive headache later - but he has to handle this - help his girlfriend.

And to do that, he has to be the big, shiny distraction so the others can get to Alina. He rushes at her, knowing something is bound to interfere - figuring that once the trap is sprung, Avia can figure out the way around it.

Go, go teamwork.

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[info]collateralmagic
2012-12-17 10:58 pm UTC (link)
The refrigerator loses interest in the dying throes of the toaster and moves to intercept Jon, door gaping open wide.

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[info]ms_miracle
2012-12-17 11:02 pm UTC (link)
"If this weren't so dangerous," Avia muttered, "I'd be enjoying how far out it is."

She sprang and kicked off the kitchen cabinets, bounced off the dishwasher, and landed near Alina.

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[info]collateralmagic
2013-01-06 01:58 am UTC (link)
The cabinet doors spring open as she kicks off of them, spraying forks after into the gaping maw of the dishwasher. The dishwasher, in turn, sprays irredescent soapy water out all over the kitchen, trying to douse all of the YJLA.

Alina is soaked, but entirely unconcerned. She absently swats at Avia's ankle. "Did you bring pie? I really want pie."

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[info]first_son
2013-01-06 02:05 am UTC (link)
Jon hates to do this, but they have to stop her. And she's the one who got water spraying all over the place.

Jon exhales hard, redirecting the water with his breath, then focusing it to turn it to ice, trying to entrap Alina before she can get a new spell off, or just freeze her on general principle.

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[info]ms_miracle
2013-01-06 04:07 am UTC (link)
Avia leaped out of the way and back into the air as Jon did his trick.

Now she was wet and cold. Great.

But what she was really worried about was Alina. Who or what had done this?

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[info]collateralmagic
2013-01-06 06:55 am UTC (link)
Alina wrinkles her nose at the sheet of ice covering her body and pinning a large portion of her hair to the floor.

"If this is an invitation to talk bondage, mi cariƱo, I thought this wouldn't be a talk we had with the whole team refereeing." The ice on the floor around her crackles and breaks, and she floats upward and onto her feet, as delicately as a snowflake.

...And then immediately crashes to the floor again, shattering the ice and giggling like she's heard the world's best joke.

"Vertical is not happening today," she observes as the few soap bubbles that haven't popped or shattered turn into dead moths. Whatever she's doing, she doesn't seem to be casting spells -- not like she usually does, at any rate.

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[info]seesaw
2013-01-06 07:09 am UTC (link)
"What... what happens now? What do you do here when somebody's... magically unwell?"

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[info]first_son
2013-01-06 07:19 am UTC (link)
"We have to... knock her out."

Sadly, no one present seems to be the ones with knock out darts or supernatural martial arts maneuvers. He could risk other means - but with Alina being, physiologically, human, his girlfriend, and possibly already under mental duress, he doesn't want to concuss her.

Leaving one option.

One option no one is going to let him live down.

And so, to all appearances, he scoops up his girlfriend and kisses her. In actuality, its a matter of reverse mouth-to-mouth, using Kryptonian super lungs and senses to precisely modulate exactly how much breath he's stealing from her, and being prepared, and in position, to reverse field and feed her oxygen again the second she goes out to not do any lasting harm.

But yeah... provided he pulls this off right, the boy of steel is going to kiss her unconscious.

Right after the bondage comment.

Lovely.

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[info]collateralmagic
2013-01-06 07:38 am UTC (link)
He pulls it off perfectly. There's a moment when it looks like Alina considers flailing, but all that happens is a brief shower of confetti. The light glowing out of her eyes snaps off like someone throwing a switch and she goes completely limp in his arms.

Then, like magic (ha!), everything is back to normal. The appliances are all back in their right places, the walls are normal, there isn't even water on the floor from the dishwasher. The only mess is a broken plate and the part of the toaster pastry that isn't smeared in Alina's hair.

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[info]seesaw
2013-01-06 07:55 am UTC (link)
And we have an awkwardly blushing big rock girl now.

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[info]masterofmatter
2013-01-06 03:23 pm UTC (link)
Damn did Michael hate magic. A *lot*. Nor did he have words on that comment.

"...yeah, I got nothing."

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[info]angryarcher
2013-01-06 03:43 pm UTC (link)
"Looks like I missed an interesting fight," Sam says coming into the room.

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[info]ms_miracle
2013-01-10 01:00 am UTC (link)
"...Ugh. Much as I hate to suggest it--and please, no one tell him it was my idea--I think we're gonna have to call in Zachary Zatara for some magical know-how."

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[info]greatest_zatara
2013-01-10 07:10 pm UTC (link)
Speak of the devil, and the devil will appear. Every cellphone present abruptly rings, all receiving calls from the same number. As soon as at least three of them are answered, there's a flash of light, and Zachary Zatara appears roughly in the center of things, holding a notepad and a magic wand.

"Excellent... have to let the others know it worked like we theorized-- Oh. Well hello there children." Zach looks around at those assembled, and then at Alisa. "Oh... oh dear. Worse than a thought." He sighs and touches the bridge of his nose, the discarded notepad floating in midair as eh takes his hand away from it. "All right then... who wants to explain?"

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[info]first_son
2013-01-21 05:49 am UTC (link)
Alina is his girlfriend. There's nothing Jon would like to do more than be there for her now, to try and stay with her. But he's also YJLA leader, and, well, a Kent.
He stands, moving towards Zachary.

"We're not sure. She occasionally has trouble with chaos surges, but this was far worse than any I'd witnessed. Chaos magic, somewhat at her direction, possessed the base. We made our way here, and things returned to normal, other than a lot being broken, when I knocked her out."

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