Thread: Triple Trouble in Gotham ( X-Vash00 x Tellmi_Moore)

On the Edge of Town Luornu couldn't reach Legion control - there should always be someone on monitor duty... The city she was flying over looked... colonial... small... the tallest of the towers were only about a mile high at the highest, there were... vehicles flying through the city haphazardly, and for a moment Luornu's heart froze thinking there was an evacuation underway... but there seemed to be a flow to the chaos... This was not a city she knew. Was it a planet she knew? She calmed down enough to decide on a place to settle down to the ground, atop a tower of the bridge spanning the river. The gravity felt... comfortable. Which meant if it wasn't Earth, it was a planet very close to it. She had been on Earth longer than her native Cragg, and so knew it's gentle pull better than any other... it felt like Earth... She set her ring to scan for local transmissions... there was no comm. traffic she could detect... she set it to a wider scan, and found a blast of sound coming through a very short range of signals, all the electromagnetic bands... She wished Luory was there, she would know, she was the technically inclined part of her. She heard a dog barking in the distance, and shot up into the air again, her hands covering her face. Then realized what she had done and grimaced, ashamed of herself, she was a legionnaire, she shouldn't be so jumpy... but where her other selves? And where was she? Rather than fly into a panic, she flew back across the river toward the isolated house she had left, circled it and, not seeing anyone, landed by the front door. It was made of wood... After a moment's hesitation, she knocked on it. H-hello? Downtown Lu jerked away from the prod to her good shoulder. Did she have a good shoulder now? There was blood in her eyes. The thing had gashed her forehead pretty good. She looked for it, found it in a bush some feet away, shaking it's head, and fly at full speed into it with her fist, flipped her feet out from under her in a wide arc while hovering and hit it in the side of the head again. AAAAAAAARHHHHH! She lowered to her feet and, realizing she had no other selves to support her, hesitated, unsure of how to proceed - was interrupted by a clown with a spiked club coming at her - ducked a swing, elbowed him in the back of the neck and kicked his feet out from under him. That felt good. She brought her foot up into the chin of a girl dressed like a stuffed dolly from Princess Projecta's room, grinned gleefully as she was knocked fully off her feet, dropping her crowbar. She basked too long in her opponent's pain, because a piece of wood hit her in her bad shoulder from the side, causing a scream of pain to come unbidden from her. Spinning into the air, she looked down to see a very short clown on another short clown's shoulders, wielding a large round stick of wood. Base-ball bat ran through her head. Super-Boy had had expressed an interest in the game and had shown him how the game was played. What were... Superboy... Time Trapper... a base-ball bat... Time... She looked around, guessing she had transported someone else in time. What the nass era had roving clown marauders? Sadly, none of Triad's selves were much interested in Earth history... She realized no one was paying attention to her, and a new shot of anger ran through her as she looked down she had unconsciously floated higher than she realized and noticed that the clowns were all focusing on someone else, someone in all black, with... antennae? No... Ears? Big black pointy ears? The image on his chest was a big red... What was that? A Bird? No, that wasn't a beak, they were ears too, but then... Bat? Baseball Bat? Bat... Boy? She rushed down just as this man in black was using a clown on a chain as a mace, swinging the hapless clown around in a wide circle by the very chain the clown had meant to use as a weapon against the man in black. She came down with her heel on the back of one of the bigger clown's necks, back flipped off of him and into the two small clowns who had hit her in the shoulder. Little trolls! she picked up the baseball bad and began hitting them with it, using her good hand, until another clown came up behind her, she moved out of the way, and raised the bat, only to have him run past her, away from the man in black, holding his bloody red nose... Lu laughed seeing that. Threw the bat down on the ground and watched the man in black clean up the last insistent antagonists, most either lying on the ground groaning or scampering off to lick their wounds. She squinted and thought back hard... Bat Lad... Bat Boy... Bat... Man? Bat Man? That stuck in her head more than anything else. She sucked air through her teeth, as the breeze stung her back, reaching behind her, she felt the wet blood and torn fabric behind her. There was more blood running down her forehead... Sprock me... she muttered. She hoped this era had invented disinfectant... or the study of medicine all together for that matter. Her only condolence was watching how massively the man in black was womping these clowns. She bared white teeth watching him crack noses and bones and kidneys with his fists and feet. Bat Man... she muttered again, mesmerized by the elegance in the violence, something in that ringing true.