Dinah Kord (bwa_ha_ha) wrote in dc_nextgen,
@ 2011-01-02 21:14:00

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FOR SCIENCE!
The woods near Gotham City

Other than talking in her head and occasionally popping up scans she couldn't understand, Dinah had yet to be able to get Khaji Da to work for her. She'd tried its name, tried "Shazam", tried "flame on," and several other catch phrases without success. Even reading over the notes her dad, Dani Garret, and Jaime himself had written hadn't turned up anything.

It made sense, of course. The Scarab wasn't meant to transfer hosts the way it had. The trauma of Jaime's injuries had surely been passed onto it as well. But there had to be some way to reactivate it fully.

So Dinah had gotten Riley to take her out where the could do a reasonable amount of property-free damage experimenting. She was a little worried that he'd brought the book with the list of ways they'd tried to see if he had the metagene though.

"Okay, so maybe we need some kind of threat?"

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	boosted_gold 2011-01-03 02:11 am UTC (link)
	Riley nods. "I can get Dad's folder of emergency room records for me. Your experiments should give us some ideas." (Reply to this)(Thread)

	bwa_ha_ha 2011-01-03 02:14 am UTC (link)
	"I just want it on the record that I apologized for every single one of those." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	boosted_gold 2011-01-03 02:17 am UTC (link)
	"Yes, I know. You know I don't hold a grudge. We Carters are a hardy folk." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	bwa_ha_ha 2011-01-03 02:24 am UTC (link)
	Despite herself, Dinah smiles. "That what we're calling it, eh?" "Okay," she goes on. "So... maybe you try and shoot me?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	boosted_gold 2011-01-03 02:33 am UTC (link)
	Riley frowns. "Like... with a gun?" BB gun induced scar, back of his left thigh. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	bwa_ha_ha 2011-01-03 02:47 am UTC (link)
	"Well, I don't think a nerf gun will set it off. But yes, with the BB-Gun. Low power, but enough to register as a danger." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	boosted_gold 2011-01-03 03:00 am UTC (link)
	"Head-shot, center of mass, or a limb?" Riley headed back into the Bug to dig out the weapon. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	bwa_ha_ha 2011-01-03 03:08 am UTC (link)
	"Let's start with a limb, and work our way up from there. See what happens." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	boosted_gold 2011-01-03 03:10 am UTC (link)
	Riley nods and gets the BB gun, approaching her. "You're sure about this?" He takes careful aim at a leg. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	bwa_ha_ha 2011-01-03 03:19 am UTC (link)
	"Ready as I'm going to get," she says, drawing herself up straight. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	boosted_gold 2011-01-03 03:28 am UTC (link)
	Riley squeezes the trigger, and a blast of compressed air shoots out. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	bwa_ha_ha 2011-01-03 03:42 am UTC (link)
	"OW!" Dinah slaps a hand to the sight of the shot. "...Well. That didn't work." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	boosted_gold 2011-01-03 03:43 am UTC (link)
	Riley flails and rushes over to her. "Are you alright? I'm sorry!" He bites his bottom lip, trying to think of what to try next. "...maybe we should just try lighting you on fire? That's lower impact." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	bwa_ha_ha 2011-01-03 03:46 am UTC (link)
	"...Now, see, lighting me on fire is a bad idea. Remember the burns you got?" She indicated the gun. "Chest shot." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	boosted_gold 2011-01-03 03:47 am UTC (link)
	"...seriously, we're sticking with shooting you?" He shrugs and walks back, aiming again. He tries to designate the shot towards... well, he tries to set it up so that there's more natural protection. He fires again. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	bwa_ha_ha 2011-01-03 03:51 am UTC (link)
	Something chirped in her head. This time, she got a glimmer of meaning. And the meaning was duck. Unfortunately, it didn't come in time. The blast struck Dinah in the, well, padded area, and knocked her on her butt. "...I kinda of understood it that time!" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	boosted_gold 2011-01-03 04:08 am UTC (link)
	"Are you okay?" He runs up again. "Did I hurt them, I mean you?!" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	bwa_ha_ha 2011-01-03 04:10 am UTC (link)
	"I'm fine," she tells him. "But tell you what, if you want, later, you can check for yourself." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	boosted_gold 2011-01-03 05:02 pm UTC (link)
	Riley blushes. "..okay." He then clears his throat. "Okay, next test? Push you off a small, very small, cliff?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	bwa_ha_ha 2011-01-03 05:55 pm UTC (link)
	Riley was so easy sometimes. She nods. "Okay, yeah. That's actually a good idea. Gets the adrenaline going, might be enough to kick start something." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	boosted_gold 2011-01-03 06:00 pm UTC (link)
	Riley very nearly has alternate suggestions of how to boost adrenaline. "Okay..." He looks around. "We'll have to settle for jumping from a tree for now." He scoops Dinah up and carries her up to a reasonably strong limb thirty feet up. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	bwa_ha_ha 2011-01-03 06:19 pm UTC (link)
	Save it for later, big boy. Dinah looked down. Three stories was a pretty far sight up, but probably survivable. Especially with Riley there to catch her if it failed to work. "Okay, here goes nothing..." She jumped/ (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	boosted_gold 2011-01-03 06:47 pm UTC (link)
	Riley does the hardest thing he's ever had to do. He waits to swoop down and save her. He lets her eyes catch his as she's on her way down, and then he just closes his. He has to let her slash the Scarab know this is real. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

bwa_ha_ha
2011-01-03 07:07 pm UTC (link)

Oh shit oh shit oh shit oh shit oh shit

Boy, that ground was coming up awfully fast.

Any minute now... any minute now...

And then there was a sudden tingling, half-pleasure, half-pain sensation as something burst through her skin, coating it with blue and black armor. The back-back split open into wings of ethereal energy and at the very last second, she pulled up, swooping back up into the air.

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	boosted_gold 2011-01-03 07:22 pm UTC (link)
	Riley had already started screaming and flying down when Dinah is on her way back up. "...oh... well okay then." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	bwa_ha_ha 2011-01-03 07:36 pm UTC (link)
	The voice in her head was stronger now and she could actually get the gist of what the Scarab was saying. It was also doing threat assessments on Riley and generally being mildly insulting of 25th century technology. "Well," she said, "that worked. Now, as soon as my heart-rate returns to normal..." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	boosted_gold 2011-01-03 07:44 pm UTC (link)
	Riley is fussing all over her, at least to the extent that he's not going to poke the alien death machine in any way that might seem threatening. "Are you okay? Is it telling you to conquer Earth? Is it telling you to leave Earth? Do you speak Spanish now?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	bwa_ha_ha 2011-01-03 07:53 pm UTC (link)
	The faceplate peeled back with a half mechanical, half organic ticking sound. "Yes, no, no, and no more than I already knew." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	boosted_gold 2011-01-04 05:59 am UTC (link)
	"Hm." He peers at her, circling around, checking out how the Scarab seems to have armored her up. "Well... what now?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	bwa_ha_ha 2011-01-04 06:15 pm UTC (link)
	The faceplate snapped into place again and she gave Riley a playful slap on the shoulder. "Tag," she said, before flying away from him. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	boosted_gold 2011-01-04 08:23 pm UTC (link)
	"Hey!" And Riley is after her. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	bwa_ha_ha 2011-01-04 09:02 pm UTC (link)
	Dinah craned her head so she could see behind her. "Not gonna catch me!" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	boosted_gold 2011-01-04 09:18 pm UTC (link)
	"Legionnaire tech isn't gonna lose to some space bug!" A pause. "No offense, Khaji!" He pours on the speed. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	bwa_ha_ha 2011-01-04 11:17 pm UTC (link)
	Dinah tried for a little bit of aerial acrobatics, slowing down and letting Riley shoot past her, then catching up and tapping him on the shoulder. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	boosted_gold 2011-01-05 01:04 am UTC (link)
	Football-trained reflexes kick in and Riley spins around, grabbing Dinah by the ankle, clamping on rather than just tagging. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	bwa_ha_ha 2011-01-05 01:11 am UTC (link)
	With contact initiated, options started scrolling in front of Dina's vision in scarab-script, which she could halfway make out. She quickly discarded the more lethal options, and settled for one that seemed to be some kind of magnetic field inversion repulsion. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	boosted_gold 2011-01-05 01:33 am UTC (link)
	Riley's forcefield kicks on just as he gets sent flying by the effect. "Woah!" He regains himself, then stares up at her. "That still counts as my point!" He takes off at full speed. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	bwa_ha_ha 2011-01-05 01:38 am UTC (link)
	"You wish!" Dinah called out, flying after him. As she got closer, she tried for the extending limb option, and the right arm of the armor extended out, the hand turning into grasping pincers. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	boosted_gold 2011-01-05 01:40 am UTC (link)
	"Don't let it put anything in my butt!" Riley dives back down into the trees. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	bwa_ha_ha 2011-01-05 01:48 am UTC (link)
	"You're crazy!" Dinah calls after him, keeping pace just behind him. She was really doing remarkable well for a first time independent flier. "Wait? What?" she asked the Scarab. "Watch out for that..." *SMACK!* She collided with the tree branch and tumbled to the ground below. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	boosted_gold 2011-01-05 02:01 am UTC (link)
	"Dinah!" Riley doubles back, diving down to catch her. He swoops underneath, adjusting the forcefield strength to ease her into his arms. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	bwa_ha_ha 2011-01-05 02:12 am UTC (link)
	"I claim this land for Spain!" Dinah babbled, pointing skyward. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	boosted_gold 2011-01-05 03:06 am UTC (link)
	Riley shakes his head. "We've been through this before. Portugal, not Spain, settled Brazil." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	bwa_ha_ha 2011-01-06 12:03 am UTC (link)
	Dinah's faceplate peeled back again and she blinked her eyes a few times. She leaned up and kissed him. "Well, either way, I'm claiming you." She smiled. "Not too bad a test run, except for the smack there." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	boosted_gold 2011-01-06 12:14 am UTC (link)
	"Yeah well, I know I make the whole flying thing look easy." He smirks, then kisses her again. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	bwa_ha_ha 2011-01-06 12:34 am UTC (link)
	"Besides," she said after the kiss, "if you're flying ahead of me, I have more time to stare at that spectacular ass of yours." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	boosted_gold 2011-01-06 12:52 am UTC (link)
	Riley chuckles. "I've always thought if it as more 'amazing' than spectacular." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	bwa_ha_ha 2011-01-06 01:08 am UTC (link)
	"How about 'sensational'?" (Reply to this)(Parent)

	bwa_ha_ha 2011-01-08 05:39 pm UTC (link)
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