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

Wayne Manor Luornu moaned and pushed herself up on her hands about an inch, muttered unintelligibly, then fell back on her face, rolled over onto her side. Sorry... Mr. Brande... she sighed. She must have slept in late - Luornu and Luornu must have gone ahead without her, or... Rubbing her eyes as she finally stood up, she saw they weren't next to her in... she wasn't in her bed. Looking around panicked, she looked up at the unfamiliar face of the old man brandishing a stick at her! The dog by the man's feet barked once and Luornu screamed - bolting up into the air, a good two meters into the air, hovering there and staring down, realizing she had startled them, or at least the dog, which was now barking madly at her. The man looked irritated. Oh! I am so sorry! I must, I must... oh... Sorry, which was back to Metropolis? she lifted another two meters into the air, looking around for a familiar city skyline... Saw only trees. There! The city was well off and... small... had there been a power outage around the rest of the city? Why couldn't she... she flew off in it's direction, holding her ring to her lips. Braniac? Where am I...? Hello? She stopped in mid air, over a... a river? How far out of Metropolis was she? Downtown Nerves were pinched between her arm and her shoulder. Her flight ring, controlled by nerve impulses, wasn't working. Lu slammed her shoulder into the corner of the building, popping it back into place. AAAAH!! NAZZ-IT! She screamed as the ball of bone popped back into place. She punched the wall with her good left arm, the sharp pain in her knuckles distracting her from the mind shattering pain in her shoulder. She wiggled the ring off her right index finger and worked it in her left palm till it was on her left index finger. The sprock am I? Hey, pretty lady, came a voice like oil on sandpaper. Wanna smell my pretty flower? Lu looked around and saw a... clown? He was massive and squat and wore a black and red plaid coat, large oversized red shoes and baggy yellow pants. His makeup was all white and black and blue with red hair coming to points on either side of his head. He hand one hand behind a flower in his coat's lapel. His bared teeth were... filed down to points... Smells real nice, come on, give it a sniff... he indicated his flower with his other hand, black gloves with holes at the fingertips. Seriously, back off, Lu growled as she lifted off the ground, one hand in a fist, held before her, elbow down, her bad arm hanging at her side, but elbow stiff - the best aerial fighting stance she could manage with her hurt arm. Whoa... got a little meta in you, yeah? You wanna rumble little purple girl? You wanna run with the Jokers! Suddenly there were more clowns, women in face-paint wielding tire irons and sledge hammers, males in outlandish clown costumes, swinging rubber chickens and juggling small black metal balls. Lu held her ring up to her lips. Control? Where the grief am I...? AH! a net shot from somewhere unseen smacked into her from behind, the weights throwing her off balance for a moment. Sprock you! She shouted and proceeded to fly straight up into the air, net and all. Two of the gang of clowns jumped... impossibly high, and grabbed onto the net, pulling her back down. Fine! she screamed, and turned in mid air, rushing at the ground at speeds she would normally save for travelling interplanetary distances, slamming them into the ground as she pulled what would be, without her ring, a bone snapping turn and fired back up into the air. She had the satisfaction of hearing something squish and break in each of her assailants as she flew back up into the sky. Another body, bigger than the others, slammed into her, coming horizontally from... maybe a building? Whatever it was, it had claws... Lu tumbled down toward the streets below, pain in her back from the sharp, shallow cuts that made it through her uniform...