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MadeOfGoesFast ([info]madeofgoesfast) wrote in [info]dc_nextgen,
@ 2010-04-01 18:19:00


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Entry tags:inactive - mickey rayner, inactive - wendi tyler, steven garrick, team - jsa, will freeman

A world he never made
Run.
He wasn't even sure what he was running from, or to. It never mattered.
Run.
To run was to exist. To remember... something. Even if the images came in flashes and flickers.
RUN
He pushed, faster and faster, harder and harder, lightning crackling around him as he went. It didn't matter that his whole world was red-tinged shadows and ghosts of a life. To run was to live, to be.
RUN!
He pushed a little harder, moving at the wall that always turned him back. As he approached it, as always, he saw the most real images, every time he approached, he briefly felt something other than speed. He saw people, places, faces he knew that he remembered, somehow. But it always turned him back, even if it looked clear, like he should be able to pass right through it.
RUN!!
Not today. Faster, he had to go faster. He wasn't sure how he knew that, but he did. He gritted his teeth against the pain, and ran for the wall for all he was worth.

And then there was light, and gravity, and colors that weren't red and lightning. And there were walls.

All of it was startling. The light hurt his eyes, the sudden pull of gravity made his steps feel heavy and slow. A sudden awareness of a heartbeat threw off any rhythm he might have had. But despite it all, the wall was what hurt most of all. The one he hit at a high rate of speed after tripping over the edge of a tub, tearing through a shower curtain, which he's now wearing - only thing he's wearing, he half-realizes. The porcelain wall is full of cracks, and while he's as immune to heat as ever, he's smoking faintly, as he sits in someone's bathtub.

"Ow!"



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[info]geekgreek
2010-04-01 11:49 pm UTC (link)
Will didn't know how to introduce himself. he had made it his whole life to stay comfortable, and going out of his way (let alone a third of the way across the country to New York City) to meet new people was not one of those things. Will Freeman liked his comfort.

This was not making him comfortable.

Even in Marvel form, there were lingering doubts in the mind of Will as he made his way to the famed Dodds Mansion, the Justice Society of America Brownstone, when something tells him that somethings is...off.

The Wisdom of Socrates tells him something is amiss. Will hangs there, just above the brownstone itself, waiting for a hint ot...

A whiff of smoke and a faint "ow" comes across the his conciousness, and the speed of Hermes takes him there in an instant.

And he instantly regrets it, as he goes through a wall of the brownstone to find someone wrapped in a shower curtain 9and nothing else)

"Uh...hi."

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[info]3x2_9yz_4a
2010-04-01 11:52 pm UTC (link)
Wendi had been downstairs when she'd heard the noise and reacted well. "3x2(9yz)4a!" Being a threat in their own home, so to speak, she chose strength and power over speed, hurriedly making her way up to where she heard the crash.

She flushed red when she saw what was going on. "...I'll... come back later..."

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[info]madeofgoesfast
2010-04-01 11:58 pm UTC (link)
Reacting with tremendous speed, Steven's hand blurs to make sure the shower curtain has him suitably covered. It did - good. That's something, anyway.

"Wait, this isn't what it looks like!" The guy he doesn't know. The girl... looks familiar. Why?
"I'm not sure what it is... but its not whatever it looks like."

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[info]greengenes
2010-04-02 12:07 am UTC (link)
Mickey was in her room when she heard the crash. She bolted over to the bathroom. "What's the-" she stopped short when she saw the guy in the bathtub. "Situation?" A smirk crossed her face. "Honey, if you want to take a bath, a little less noise, please."

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[info]geekgreek
2010-04-02 12:09 am UTC (link)
"Sorry! Sorry! I just smelled...I mean, I felt something was burning, so I...uh..."Marvel managed to stammer our, averting his eyes until he just dived out of the door left open by the girl.

"Man, i just wanted to talk with the JSAers, not go crashing into peoples bathrooms when they're getting ready for a shower..."

But then the Wisdom of Socrates pointed out all the fallacies of his train of thought. The cracks on the wall, the whiff of flame still in the air, and the speed at which the boy wrapped himself up all spoke of something off.

"Wait a second..."

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[info]3x2_9yz_4a
2010-04-02 12:42 am UTC (link)
Wedni blinked at the scene. "Okay, somebody needs to explain what's going on here, because I am all confused."

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[info]madeofgoesfast
2010-04-02 12:44 am UTC (link)
"You think you're confused." He mutters. "Uhm, well, let's see... my name is..." he has to think a moment, racing through millions of thoughts in that time. He knows his name, but its never mattered before. Only speed.
"Steven." he replies at last. "Steven Garrick. And you're..." he has to pause again, names, faces, voices. "Wendi, right?"

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[info]greengenes
2010-04-02 12:45 am UTC (link)
Mickey raised an eyebrow. "Garrick? As in Jay Garrick?"

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[info]geekgreek
2010-04-02 12:50 am UTC (link)
"I just came here to join the JSA. i mean, I'm a little new, so...wait," Will began, but what Steven said started to bug him. Garrick was the name of the original Flash. But Jay garrick never had kids. How did he get a name like Garrick?

"Wait. You don't know her? Does that mean you don't live here?" Marvel asks Steven.

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[info]3x2_9yz_4a
2010-04-02 12:56 am UTC (link)
Wendi frowned. "The Garricks don't have any kids," she said firmly. "And how do you know my name?"

"If he does," she told the Marvel, "I've never seen him before."

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[info]madeofgoesfast
2010-04-02 01:09 am UTC (link)
"No." he replies, looking down, trying to make the images into whole memories, or something akin to them.
"They had one. A long time ago. He died of pneumonia when he was barely old enough to remember his parents' faces."
He remembers watching the flashbacks of his funeral, and how sad they looked.
"And you're part of their extended family... I've seen you, heard your name. Not a lot else."

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[info]greengenes
2010-04-02 01:14 am UTC (link)
Mickey itched the top of her head. "So are you supposed to be a version of that kid or something?"

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[info]geekgreek
2010-04-02 01:31 am UTC (link)
Wow. The Speed Force was always a really confusing subject.

"But if you...he...were dead, how did you get here?"

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[info]madeofgoesfast
2010-04-02 01:33 am UTC (link)
"Not a version of that kid. I /am/ that kid. Except I died... and went into the speed force. I'm not the only one who died and came back... Barry... Bart..." Those names were a little stronger in his head. "I don't know how it worked either."

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[info]3x2_9yz_4a
2010-04-02 01:38 am UTC (link)
"People have come back from it before..." Wendi mused. "But usually under really special circumstances."

She didn't know much more. She was only a part time speedster. "But that... could happen."

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[info]geekgreek
2010-04-02 01:43 am UTC (link)
"All right, before this gets any more confusing..." Will says before moving away from the group.

"SHAZAM!"

A flash of lightning, and the tall, gawky form of Will Freeman stood there.

"Hi, I was coming here to join the JSA. I'm, uh, Will Freeman."

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[info]greengenes
2010-04-02 02:06 am UTC (link)
"I will never understand the Speed Force, no matter how easy Uncle Jay tries to make it sound." Mickey shook her head.

"Mikaela Rayner. Call me Mickey."

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[info]madeofgoesfast
2010-04-02 02:14 am UTC (link)
He extends a hand, the other staying on the shower curtain.
"Well, I'm sure they'll want to put me through all sorts of tests to determine the truth and all. But that's the truth as I know it. I grew up in the speed force... except, I guess, those first few months. I don't know the science behind it. And while I know some people, I have a dozen different, conflicting memories about them, and my own life... the way you can move through time via the speed force. Its... complicated. For right now, I'll have to figure out which parts are true here. I should... uhm, probably talk to Da... Jay and Joan, if I won't give them a heart attack."

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[info]3x2_9yz_4a
2010-04-02 02:24 am UTC (link)
"I can call them," Wendi said. "And maybe Max too. He knows more about the Speed Force than anybody else."

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[info]geekgreek
2010-04-02 03:05 am UTC (link)
"Well, lets get this all taken care of, then. I mena, I needed to see someone, too. Right?"

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[info]madeofgoesfast
2010-04-02 03:08 am UTC (link)
"Sorry for, uhm, stealing your thunder and all, Will. I'm sure the JSA'ers will want to talk to you. I'm afraid I have no idea who you are... but the lightning thing was pretty impressive."

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[info]geekgreek
2010-04-02 03:22 am UTC (link)
Will snorts.

"Heh heh. Pun-tastic, are we?"

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[info]3x2_9yz_4a
2010-04-02 03:27 am UTC (link)
"We should... probably get you some clothes," Wendi realized.

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[info]madeofgoesfast
2010-04-02 04:08 am UTC (link)
"Hmmm, that's probably a good idea, yeah. Any ideas?"

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[info]geekgreek
2010-04-05 07:38 pm UTC (link)
"Huh? Oh, wait, you don't have any clothes. Uh..."

Will averts his eyes again, the conversation distracting him from the fact the person he was talking to was clad only in a shower curtain.

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[info]madeofgoesfast
2010-04-05 07:45 pm UTC (link)
"Yeah, I, kind of don't own anything. Including ID of any sort. I'm still trying to put enough memories together in coherent enough order to try and make all this make sense."

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[info]3x2_9yz_4a
2010-04-05 08:47 pm UTC (link)
"...Got to be some place open we could get something for him," Wendi said.

Wait, was she trying to get clothes on the hot guy? What was wrong with her?

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[info]geekgreek
2010-04-06 08:16 pm UTC (link)
Awkward, Will very much was. Although he could get through a social situation, his disorder and his overall personality made them events to avoid.

But that did not make him unobservant. he was still rather intelligent, and his ADD called to attention more things than most people would suspect.

This was one of those situations. In his eye aversion, his attention went to Wendi and he saw...something. It took a second to register. The flick of her eyes downward. The subtle increase in breathing. The aversion of her eyes after the flick.

"Hey, uh...Wendi, was it? I can help you out with that. The clothes thing, I mean. He looks to be about my height, just a tad bit smaller, er skinnier. You find something that fits me, it'll probably fit him."

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[info]greengenes
2010-04-07 05:29 pm UTC (link)
"If not, I have a bathrobe he can borrow." Mickey smirked a little, "If he doesn't mind baby blue with rubber ducks."

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[info]madeofgoesfast
2010-04-07 05:41 pm UTC (link)
"So, probably too much information, but, uhm, everything I know is sort of through speed-force 'could have been' timeline glimpses. I've seen a few people who can touch the speedforce, seen flashes of dozens of lives and experiences I could have had, have about two dozen false memories of the same events, with only shadow images of anyone who couldn't touch the speed force... so my comprehensive knowledge of social convention is limited. So baby blue with rubber ducks? Bring it on. The only reason I even thought that far was I know enough to get the idea people wear clothes, not any real sense of modesty."

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[info]3x2_9yz_4a
2010-04-07 05:48 pm UTC (link)
Wendi snapped out of her semi-daze. "Uh, yeah. It's Wendi. Will, right?"

She shook her head to clear out those last pesky cobwebs. "Okay, so me and Will will go buy things, and Mickey can keep an eye on him for us."

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[info]geekgreek
2010-04-08 05:51 pm UTC (link)
"Uhh, I wasn't thinking about shopping. I was just thinking of borrowing someclothes off of someone. I mean, the JSA is pretty big, right? We can put off shopping until later.

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