wannabelantern (wannabelantern) wrote in dc_nextgen,
@ 2010-05-02 23:22:00

Current mood:	calm
Entry tags:	dinah kord, goldstar, inactive - henry jordan, inactive - scott rayner-west, jerry carr

Watch Repairs (open)
The cars drive by outside, the birds chirp, and inside twenty-four separate clocks tick in perfect unison. A small get away lair for Professor IQ back in the day, taken over by Clock King afterwards, and now in the possession of one "Scott Bartholomew West" or, as his real name was, Scott Bartholomew Rayner-West or Knight-Rayner-West, depending on the side of the family, and forever known as Highball to his grandmother.

Calling him Scott would be much easier. And in this era, money is everything. So Scott is ready not only for alerts from Scooter (downstairs in the lab, watching The Shawshank Redemption), but also for customers with broken time pieces.

Just another day at Western Time Watch Repairs.

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	lantern_kid 2010-05-03 03:40 pm UTC (link)
	Henry raises an eyebrow. Right. The Booster Gold path... pretty much what he suspected. "Riiiight," Henry replies a little skeptically. "Well, the help is certainly appreciated. What sort of tech did you bring back?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

wannabelantern
2010-05-03 03:47 pm UTC (link)

Scott looks around. Sonic dampener is up, door is locked. Scott aims his makeshift flashlight thingamajig, and the bookshelf on the wall slides over. A small golden robot flies up with a small sphere under him.

"Got your costume sir!" Scott grabs it and grins.

"Thanks, Scooter. Let's see... cold ray, centrifuge ray, lasers, stun blasters, flight suit, wind control device, force field and magnetic field generators, strength increaser. Nice spread, over all. I'm trying to work on a few other gadgets, recreating my old favorites and a few new ones. First priority should be the Elixer Mixer." Scott nods, and Scooter bobs in the air, acting like a nod.

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	lantern_kid 2010-05-03 03:48 pm UTC (link)
	Henry nods. "Not bad, not bad. And you're descended from the Flash family, huh? Any of that mojo end up in you?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

wannabelantern
2010-05-03 03:53 pm UTC (link)

"From what the Lifeforce guy says as well as any future scans, no. I can think a little faster than normal, but that may have just been trying to catch up. Well... Mom's side of the family is all Flashes and your Corps, and Dad's is most of the Starknights and he himself is actually a Quick, taking over for his old college professor. I figure since my whole family is open identity, that won't be a problem to tell you.

"As for what I got? Nothing. No speed, no ring, no formula, no Star device. I had to make all of this by my own two hands.

"What about you? A Jordan? Wait... Yeah, I met a relative o yours growing up. My family is the Rayners and the Scotts. That's where I got my name, actually. So... what's it like? What's it like to have that ring on your finger?"

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	lantern_kid 2010-05-03 04:02 pm UTC (link)
	Henry smiles. "It's..." He considers a moment. "Hang on. The shop is closed, right?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	wannabelantern 2010-05-03 04:04 pm UTC (link)
	Scott flips a switch, and the neon sign in the window goes out. "It is now. I'll have to take Mrs. Lebowitz her Timex later so she doesn't get angry though. Why?" For a genius, Scott sure is slow sometimes. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

lantern_kid
2010-05-03 04:11 pm UTC (link)

Henry grins. "There's a story my dad told me once about when he was working with the Flash and a particular ancestor of yours when he was still Kid Flash. Wally had lost his powers temporarily and still wanted to help out. So Dad... well..."

His ring glows for a moment, and Scott's clothes transform into that of a Green Lantern.

"I can loan out a bit of it, for a little while." He grins at Scott. "Welcome to the Green Lanterns... for a few minutes, anyway."

Is this a particularly smart idea? Not if it was exactly what it looked like. But Henry isn't so much loaning Scott his power as he's transformed Scott's clothing. He's also setting the ring to scan Scott's mind for strong impulses of focused will, so that he'll be able to create effects through Henry's own ring -- as long as Henry wills it so. He won't be able to do any real damage.

Henry grins. This will actually make a good test to see if this guy is trustworthy or not.

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wannabelantern
2010-05-03 04:16 pm UTC (link)

"Woah. Woah woah woah WOAH!" Scott can feel it. The suit. The solidified will power. Different than the hands his mother or sister would use to catch him from great heights, more... intimate.

Raw power, raw will. Raw creativity.

"Oh, man... I mean..." Scott focuses his mind outward. Attempting to create one thing he knows. A perfectly working watch, every gear in place.

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	lantern_kid 2010-05-03 04:20 pm UTC (link)
	The watch forms in front of him, each piece creating individually and sliding into place before the back closes. "Not bad, not bad..." Henry nods. "But... how about this?" A glow envelopes Henry as his street clothes become his uniform, and he begins to rise into the air. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	wannabelantern 2010-05-03 04:32 pm UTC (link)
	"Ah, see, flight I'm used to. Though..." Scott flies up as well. "This doesn't tingle like my suit does. This is... extreme. Crazy. I chose the right era to come back to. I mean, there's barely a dozen Lanterns back home. Here, the rings must number in the thousands..." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	lantern_kid 2010-05-03 04:35 pm UTC (link)
	Henry grins. "Yeah, there's a huge difference between ringed-flight and mechanical flight. But..." He pauses as the other thing Scott said registers. "Wait, what? What happened to the Corps?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

wannabelantern
2010-05-03 04:52 pm UTC (link)

"No one really remembers. Too many Crisises in the future, one after another. The 23rd century was a big one, before the Starknghts formed. I think the Crisis in the Stars took out one of them, but no one remembers which one. The Greens are the only ones left by the 2600s, and there are only a dozen or two left in the universe. My mom and my sister are two of them, and that Yat guy runs the show. They said "Without the Blood of Maltus, the Lights shall fade for a million moons." That's how Mom always put it. Some big prophecy mumbo jumbo. The Starknights have been trying to work with others in space, setting up... not a Corps, but something to fill the void. My aunts and uncles are normally off doing that.” Scott looks at Henry.

“Sorry. I guess that's all a bit much to take in.”

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	lantern_kid 2010-05-03 05:03 pm UTC (link)
	Henry frowns. "I'll need everything you can get me on that period. Maybe we can change things -- help some of the other Corps survive. At least the blue, maybe the indigo and violet..." He's not too happy with the idea of destiny. Frankly, Henry would rather write the future himself. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

wannabelantern
2010-05-03 05:08 pm UTC (link)

Scott nods. "For that... I'll need some Yttrium 113 to repair my Chronoporter. It'll take me a while, but once I can get back to the 26th century and get my gagdets, I can get more than a full report. Until then, we'll have to go off of the minor reports Scooter has."

Scooter flies over and hands a disk to Henry. "Dot pdf format of all of my Lantern history files. Sadly, I was a Flash Museum drone, so I won't be of too much help. And there will be minor temporal anomalies based on our inclusion in the past time stream." Scooter nods and hovers back over. Scott frowns.

"Sorry man. I didn't think about it... I mean... It's gotta be much harder for you to learn that than it was for me. For me it was the past. For you... it's a highly probable future..."

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	lantern_kid 2010-05-03 05:13 pm UTC (link)
	Henry purses his lips in thought. "It's only the highly probably future if I let it be," he replies. "But with what I can learn from you... that's just a heads-up warning of stuff coming our way." He ponders. "Where can we find Yttrium 113?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	wannabelantern 2010-05-03 05:16 pm UTC (link)
	"Um... outside of a Large Hadron Collider, circa 2234 or later... nowhere in the natural world. Unless... I have some Yttrium 77 in the back... could your ring cause enough of a reaction to create the 113 isotope?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	lantern_kid 2010-05-03 05:18 pm UTC (link)
	"Probably," Henry replies. "I'd just need to know what to do to it." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

wannabelantern
2010-05-03 05:28 pm UTC (link)

"Scooter! Protocol NTAR-Y 113!" Scooter nods and flies off. He comes back with a Erlenmeyer flask filled with a wiry, silvery white metal.

"This is Yttrium 77. We need to bombard this with beta particles until we can make enough of this Yttrium 113. Roughly 7 grams. I can use this for a new Chronoporter circuit, then take myself back to the future and get you a history report. Assuming I don't miss but more than a day or two...

"Oh, and just a warning: once we hit 98, this baby's going to go crazy radioactive."

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	lantern_kid 2010-05-03 05:32 pm UTC (link)
	Henry uses the ring to refresh his memory on what exactly beta particles are, and aims his ring at the stuff. "No problem. I can keep the radioactivity contained. You got something else to keep it in once it's made?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	wannabelantern 2010-05-03 05:39 pm UTC (link)
	"Scooter! Protocol RMP-Y 113!" Scooter sighs. "I know sir. Already done. QTC Unit ready." Scooter carries over a small blue cube. "Fantastic. I got a glider beam ready for the containment. And thank you Henry. I have a few other artificial isotopes I'd like if you wanna help me out afterwards." Scott puts on his beam gauntlets and aim them at the flask. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	lantern_kid 2010-05-03 05:41 pm UTC (link)
	"Maybe," he admits. "Depends on how long this takes." Okay, so science generally bored the crap out of him in school, but this is heroing science. And he focuses his will into generating a tight beam of beta particles. Focusing his effort, he does take the Green costume off Scott, returning his appearance to the clothes he had just been wearing. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

wannabelantern
2010-05-03 05:46 pm UTC (link)

Five minutes later, and the yttrium is transformed. Scott uses his Glider Beam to insert it into the blue cube, and Scooter flips the lid shut.

"Haha! Go Team!" Scott picks up the cube and his eyes start to glisten. "We can get back to the future with this... it'll take me a few weeks, but I'll gladly hand over the report to you. I don't want anything happening to that Avalon either. Seemed like a nice enough fellow."

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	lantern_kid 2010-05-03 05:49 pm UTC (link)
	Henry nods. "Not to him, or to his Corps," Henry nods. "Some of the other corps are crap, of course. The red, the orange, the yellow... or the black, the nastiest of them all... but there are some other good Corps out there, and keeping them around is important." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	wannabelantern 2010-05-03 07:39 pm UTC (link)
	Scott nods. "Yeah. If we can keep the Corps going... Then maybe the Crises in the future will be easier to deal with. I mean, last time Mom came around to your time period, there was only one GL, and now there is a full Corps again. Maybe we can make sure the same can happen to the other Corps too. Or stop them from dissolving, of course, that'd be best..." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	lantern_kid 2010-05-03 07:41 pm UTC (link)
	"Exactly," Henry notes. "Some sort of way for them to survive." He considers. "So you came back to help out, and got stranded, huh?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)