in_a_snap:

With the holidays things had been slow with the training for YJ but the current training program certainly threw them into the thick of things once more Jerry though. They were supposed to protect a transport ship from waves of robots for as long as they could. Though to make things a little tougher they had to do all of that in white-out blizzard conditions. That was just plain mean Jerry though but then again they did agree to be there for this.

the_hyper_teen:

"So..." Virgil O'Valeron, mild-mannered production intern at WGBA, sighed to himself, "--this is how the life of an ordinary citizen comes to an end." He tilted his head to watch the rapidly approaching ground, relieved to see he wasn't going to hit anyone when he connected with the pavement.

~Five minutes earlier~

"And so, excuse me honey, if you'll just let me scooch in here..." Virgil's boss squeezed herself between him and his desk, bending over at the waist as she examined something on his computer's monitor. "This is how you access the server where we keep the past year of broadcasted news segments ready for general use. Older than that and you'd have to do some digging--" Her hips seemed to move back against him more pointedly.

"Ah, thank you for the instruction, Miss Goodleigh--"

"I've told you, Virgil, call me Gabrielle.." She looked back over her shoulder at him, fluttering her lashes and smiling coyly.

"Yes, Gabrielle, it's not that I don't appreciate you taking the time to help me, but it's a bit cramped here, and..." As he tried to back away from her rhythmically swaying hindquarters, he felt a bump against the back of his knees, and his center of gravity abruptly shift. He watched the view of the office abruptly rotate before his eyes, as he found himself falling out the window.

He had two thoughts in rapid succession.

First, that the window being able to open that wide with no safety measures outside must be some sort of safety violation!

Second, how was he supposed to extricate himself from this situation without revealing his hyper powers? Mild-mannered citizen, Virgil O'Valeron, would most certainly be falling to certain death!

khym_jonzz:

K'hym was at the Secret Sanctuary today, getting a few things set up in her room there (even though she lived in Denver, she still needed a place to stay over), as well as possibly putting in a little training time.

As it was, though, she was looking to see who else might be there today. True, she could have just searched the place with her Martian Vision, but where was the fun in that?

She was singing as she roamed the halls.

" When there's trouble you know who to call
YOUNG JUSTICE!
From our cave, we can see it all
YOUNG JUSTICE!

When there's evil on the attack
You can rest knowing we've got your back
Because when the world needs heroes on patrol
YOUNG JUSTICE GO!

With our super powers we unite
Young Justice!!
Never met a villain that we liked
YOUNG JUSTICE!

We've got the bad guys on the run
We never stop utill the job is done
Because when the world is losing all control
YOUNG JUSTICE! GO! "

khym_jonzz:

So, she had a boyfriend!  That was terribly exciting news!  It had not gone exactly like the TV had said it would, but it was close enough.

News like this, of course, deserved to be shared with ones' girlfriends.  And since Petra was the first one she had shared with to begin with, she would be the first one she would share with again.

So it was that Kim arranged to meet with Petra at Warrior's once more.

in_a_snap:

Jerry took a seat on the couch in the Rec room at Young Justice's Justice mountain base and got ready to put on a movie. He had a big bowl of popcorn on the table with a couple of movie choices that he had brought from home.

It was really nice to be inside in the air conditioning instead of at home without it especially since the water wasn't really all that nice for surfing right now.

gal_gardner:

"I'm telling you Lizzy," Petra munches away at her curly fries, just behind the seats for their lane, with an open line of sight to the lane she knew her little girl-friend would be on with... her boy. "--I don't trust him. No-one just meets someone else like that. He's gotta be some kind of pickup artist." She'd gone very light on the details prior to getting Lizzy along to run surveillance/security with her. She wanted unbiased responses.

allwet:

After the help that the kid had provided with the justice league it was decided that more training for the upcoming generation of heroes might be a good thing to help them be better prepared for the future. A few months after that Young Justice had set themselves up in Justice Mountain with regular training exercises to better prepare them for the challenges of being heroes.

Their latest exercise had been set up by Cerdian who had hidden several treasure chests in the waters of Rhode Island Sound nearby Happy Harbor to give them some more experience dealing with underwater environments. Cerdian had given them coordinates for the chests and nothing more the rest was up to them. He was on hand to help out if anything went wrong but otherwise was going to leave this to them to figure out and deal with.

khym_jonzz:

(backdated to Mother's Day)

As a Martian, K'hym did not not fully understand the holidays of Earth, though she had spent both Thanksgiving and Christmas with the extended family her father had built up upon Earth.  But she was intrigued by the concept of "Mother's Day."  And greatly saddened by the fact that her mother was no longer with them.

There was a teleporter tube on Mars, put their ages ago when her father had broken down his own mental blocks and recovered the fullness of his memories.  It was from the YJ headquarters that K'hym accessed this tube.

"Great H'ronmeer," she began, speaking in the words of her people.  She let her body change and flow, assuming her private Martian form for this, most intimate moment.  "This lost daughter of Ma'aleca'andra returns to you."

She closed her eyes and reduced her density, sinking into the surface of the planet.  There, she solidified slightly, pulling in mass and matter from the planet itself.  "I merge myself with the dust of my world, and merge myself with the past, with my ancestors, and all those we have lost."

Slowly, she rose up out of the ground, transforming again to the shape she used around her human friends.  A tear rolled down her face, striking the dirt.

"I miss you, Mother.  The touch of your mind, the sound of your voice, the gentle wisdom and love you brought to every day.  Father takes good care of me, and I am happy to have him still.  He misses you deeply.  We both do.  But I have new friends, and I am continuing in the tradition of Father's heroism."

More tears fell on the ground.  "But I am still so alone.  M'gann and Father are the only ones of our people left.  The silence deafens me.  I... do not understand things the way my human friends do.  I do not know if I ever will."

She brought her head up.  "I miss you.  But this is a human day for celebrating mothers.  And I celebrate all the you were."

She turned and returned to the teleporter tube, heading back to Earth.

khym_jonzz:

(Backdated to sometime closer to K'hym's "date" with "Virgil")

K'hym, in her guise as ordinary human Kim Johns, sat herself down in a booth at Warriors.   What a strange set of experiences she'd had lately.

She needed the advice of someone with more experience doing human things that her.  Preferably someone female.  She had seen on her television shows the idea of the Girl Talk, and believed this was the solution she needed.  Avia, however, was out on tour, and Dinah was busy with the Titans, and Cindy was likewise busy.

Fortunately, Petra was still available and had been willing to meet with her.

khym_jonzz:

*backdated to sometime in early December*

Though he had been reluctant to leave his newly re-found daughter, a case had required John Jones to make a trip.  After checking that the Frees were going to be unavailable, that while Ted and Michael and Guy were availlable, Babs and Bea and Tora were not, he had found another dear friend with space and time available (and a more sensible wife who would also be home) and left K'hym in the care of Ralph and Sue Dibny in Opal City, Maryland.

It had been a fun first evening, full of old League stories and old movies.

The next morning, however... held issues.  For overnight, nearly two feet of snow had fallen in a rather short amount of time.

K'hym had risen, looked out the window, and screamed.

the_hyper_teen:

Most Excellent. Careful aesthetic manipulation and a selection from the Headship's garment dispenser, Varon was ready for his next experimentation with civilian life. With this mild-mannered disguise, none would be able to recognize him. He set out, and strolled down the streets of Denver. Despite what popular media had told him of the state of Colorado, there seemed to be only a minority of people outfitted for mountain climbing out and about, and not nearly as many people with hunting dogs as he would have expected. Also, it wasn't snowing.

dc_misc:

The Justice League was having an open house for all their current, former and reservist heroes and their friends and families. It was a nice way to show what their member did on a regular basis and build up camaraderie and to give heroes who were members of the justice league something to strive for in the future. This was especially useful with the older generation of heroes starting to retire and the younger generation stepping up to take their place.

first_son:

It was supposed to be a bit of downtime for some of the JLA'ers and family. While deep sea diving, Jon had found an underwater cave... which led to the chamber with all the runes. It was just a curiosity, but he'd spent enough time in space... he knew he'd seen some things like them.  He'd only made out a few words with super speed inference and cryptography though before there was a flash of light - and he finds himself in the midst of some sort of pitched airship battle.

The ground below looks an awful lot like the island - except where there was sandy beaches and forest, now there's a rock island with crystal formations surrounded by a massive sea of red dust.

khym_jonzz:

Many months ago, the laboratory of Dr. Erdel...

It was on this spot, decades ago, that the strange experiment of Doctor Saul Erdel had brought the Martian known as J'onn J'onzz to Earth, tearing him away from a dying world, a world where his wife and child, nearly his entire race, had perished in a horrific plague called H’ronmeer’s Curse.  Stolen from his world, torn in space, and brought to Earth, he became a hero.

But J'onn J'onzz was not the only Martian brought to Earth by Erde's machine.  The teleportation beam had struck once more, unbeknownst to anyone.  But under the weight of transporting one Martian, the other even though grabbed first, had become unhinged in space and time.  Delayed, halted, with no time passing within the beam until it would reappear on Earth.

Until this night.

The laboratory had long since been abandoned, but tonight, it lit up like a beacon as space and time bent, ripping open as a single individual fell through.  A burning, dying individual.  A Martian girl.

K'hym J'onzz.