Linostar: I'll check it out sometime... if I ever find it.
Hotshot45: Thanks. And please keep reading.
For reference:
Sunsedge: Corona
Canaryscupid: Green Arrow
Go For Gold: Booster Gold
metrosupergirl: Super Girl
Ask Away: Question
A lot of action in this one, hope to get this one right.
Tapping at the computer James opened up his usual instant messenger. Once logged on he entered a private room.
(Sunsedge has entered The Super Domain)
Go For Gold: I still say we need a new name for our chat room.
metrosupergirl: it's fine bg, hey corona.
Sunsedge: Yo all, how's it hanging?
Go For Gold: Got an endorsement for Yellow Slug on the go
metrosupergirl: that helth drink? yuck, who drinks that stuff?
(Canaryscupid has entered The Super Domain)
Sunsedge: no clue. Q thinks it's related to the Sugar Girls.
Sunsedge: Hey GA.
Canaryscupid: HEY YOU ALL
Sunsedge: Dude, the caps.
metrosupergirl ducks ga's shouting
Canaryscupid: Sorry guys must have left it on. And what does the nut of all nuts say was related to the girl band this time?
metrosupergirl: yellow slug
Canaryscupid: Sorry I asked
(Ask Away has entered The Super Domain)
Sunsedge: Q always has a screw loose.
metrosupergirl: hey q
Ask Away: I'll take it as a complement
Sunsedge rolls his eyes Hey Q, what's up
Ask Away: I think I found the connection between Stonehenge and Breakfast Bars.
metrosupergirl: --;;
Sunsedge: --;;
Canaryscupid: Cut the emoticons already! Don't encourage his to find more conspiracies.
Ask Away: How many times must I say it? Conspiracy not conspiracies.
Canaryscupid: Whatever.
Sunsedge: So since everyone's here, how's the old house doing?
metrosupergirl: here flash was a little miffed about you being booted from the leauge.
Canaryscupid: No kidding. Not to mention Zatanna's still looking for you.
Sunsedge: Dudes, I'm 16, she's not supposed to try and get into my pants here.
metrosupergirl: if you were about to get laid by her you wouldn't complain :)
Sunsedge: Cheeky girl.
metrosupergirl: you love it :)
Ask Away: Anyway, Corona, I've heard a little rumour you might want to know
Canaryscupid: That's cause he wants into your skirt SG
Sunsedge: I will ignore that one GA. What's on the news reel Q?
Ask Away: It's only a rumour mind you, but a couple people have been hinting that Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn are headed out of Gotham. A couple of /helpful/ people have stated they may go to Jump City, go through it or is already there.
Sunsedge: Really? I'll keep an eye out.
metrosupergirl: you know ga he should hit you for that one
Sunsedge: Can we keep my sex life off the chat?
Ask Away: You have a sex life?
Sunsedge whaps Q
metrosupergirl: LOL!
Canaryscupid: Hey BG! Your quiet tonight. What's up?
metrosupergirl: earth to bg!
Go For Gold: Sorry guys, phone rang, the guys from Yellow Slug. They want to do two ads instead of one V
Sunsedge: Good for you. Anyway, I gotta go. City isn't going to guard itself.
Canaryscupid: Have fun
metrosupergirl pinches coronas butt :)
Sunsedge slaps SG's in return
(Sunsedge has signed off)
Sitting on a flag post over a dozen stories over the city streets Corona sat. A clock in the distance read 9:24. A quarter moon hovered in the sky as Corona looked around. Telescopic vision allowed him to see for miles around him, his eyes glowing blue as he did so.
"Quiet night. I haven't managed to find so much as a mugging."
Stretching slightly he rocked back and forth on the pole slightly as he let go of the extended vision.
"Ah well, nice coffee shop down there. Wonder if they serve super-heroes?"
The moment the words left his mouth an alarm in the distance began to ring in the distance. Corona shook his head as he pushed himself off the pole, wrapping his powers about his frame as he took off towards the noise. "So much for coffee."
Jump City National Bank closed at six PM sharp. Alarms were activated, safes locked and all cash accounted for.
The alarms were now sounding loudly, the safe's door was ripped from it's hinges and two female robbers were in the process of reducing the bank's coffers.
A red-haired woman in a skin tight green strapless suit sat on a convertible's hood as another woman dressed in a red and black jester's outfit with white and black face paint and an object attached to her back hauled a heavy bag of cash to the vehicle.
Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn.
"Hey Red, this should keep your green thumb green for awhile, huh?"
Ivy rolled her eyes as she examined her fingers. "Yes, yes. You don't need to carry anything, my pet has that taken care of."
The blonde haired psychiatrist shrugged. "I like the feel of a lot of money." She tossed the bag into the car. She was about to turn around, however something caught her eye. "Hey... Ivy?"
"Yes Harley?"
"Can I ask a question?"
"Yes Harley?"
"Do bags of money usually hover while glowing blue?"
The plant-woman blinked and turned to look. There the bag Harley had been carrying was floating above the backseat. Before she could wonder about it the bag moved, slamming into her accomplice knocking the wind out of her and slamming her into the bank's wall. The fun-loving crook slumped down the wall, shaking her head as she tried to reorient herself.
"What in the?"
"Whatever happened to good little girls who played with dollies?"
Ivy turned her head as Corona landed on the sidewalk in front of her. Ivy slid off the car and stood to look at her opponent. "That was a mistake."
"What was?" Before Corona could get an answer something walked out of the bank. He blinked at the walking plant that carried five large sacks of cash.
"Because your now food for my plant." It stood at least seven feet, green as a tree leaf, and was mostly humanoid. It's torso looked like several wrapped leaves and was built like a sumo wrestler. The legs looked much like the torso, a series of wrapped leaves and built thick. Instead of two arms however it had four, longer in proportion to the rest of the body but just as meaty (Or leafy if you prefer). Lastly it's head was a large Venus fly trap with flowers where eyes would be and green slime oozing from it's mouth. "Attack him my pet!"
The plant creature dropped the sacks and charged, and in turn Corona drew more power into his aura, charging as he felt energy coursing through him. He ducked under the flora's clumsy punch and launched an uppercut deep into it's gut. While under his aura's influence his strength was increased to the superhuman level, however while his fist pushed into the creature's stomach it contorted around his punch, the force absorbed harmlessly. Before he could recover one of the creature's three finger fists slammed into the side of his head, sending him across the street and into the wall.
During their short melee Harley had recovered enough to get to her feet, grab a sack and run to the car. Corona recovered just as she and Ivy got into the car. Ignoring the creature for the moment he took into the air. Once high enough he summoned his power to his hand, pointing an arm at the car's engine, sending a blast at it. Just as Ivy started the car his blast hit, demolishing the engine. Both women shouted out and leaped out of the car.
With the duo's escape prevented, Corona lowered himself closer to street level, readying another series of blasts. "On tonight's episode we will review the proper way to make a salad. First, cut the leaves to the desired sizes." Sending out a quick series of four blasts he severed the monster's arms causing Ivy to bring a hand to her mouth as her pet stumbled, Corona rushing over to it. Grabbing the creature in a military press he flew into the air, holding the unnatural plant above his head.
"Next, toss into your bowl." With a grunt he threw the plant into the car's backseat. The car bounced slightly as the weight of the plant hit it. Corona powered up another blast and took aim.
"Lastly, serve with something roasted!" He fired his blast at the car's fuel tank. Upon impact the car's fuel exploded sending the lovely criminal duo ducking for cover as the plant caught fire. Corona landed on the street again, facing the two women as Ivy turned to face him, face contorted in anger as her 'pet' burned away. "This recipe serves two bank robbers a six by six jail cell. Bon appetite."
"OK, funny stuffs over buster." Harley pulled an oversized popgun from behind her and aimed at the glowing hero. She fired as Corona brought his hand up. The boxing glove that was launched stopped a foot from the weapon. "Uh oh..." Both women took leapt away as the glow dissipated letting the glove fall to the ground. Upon contact it exploded, blackening the ground and causing the women to cover their ears. Before the duo could recover Corona levitated both woman to a nearby light post. Flying over Corona wrapped the metal around the bodies of the two criminals. He smiled and lightly pinched Ivy's cheek.
"Well I hope you two swing for the other team, because you're going to be sharing a small enclosed area with each other for quite sometime."
"You will pay for this!" Ivy said as she and Harley squirmed.
Corona shook his head and began to walk away, letting his aura drop. "Man, hope Bats doesn't get mad that I beat up his baddies." He blinked as he heard tires squeal against the road, a white and blue car turning around a corner, lights on full. The headlights would have blinded him if his powers didn't protect his eyes from them. As it was the light produced was absorbed adding to his own stores of power, even if only by a tiny bit of power. The doors opened and five occupants walked out.
A boy in green pants, red tunic with a black and yellow cape.
A green skinned boy in a black and purple suit.
An orange skinned and red-haired female alien in a purple top and miniskirt.
A half African American, half robotic man with blue and grey armour.
And lastly a girl wearing a cloak, only hints at a leotard visible, a hood covering most of her face but unable to conceal a pair of deep, piercing purple eyes.
Robin, Beast Boy, Starfire, Cyborg and Raven, the Teen Titans.
Beast Boy took a look at the tied of villains and crossed his arms. "Aww, all the fun's over."
"If you call fighting a big plant thing fun, then yeah, you missed it." The Titans approached, surrounding him in a half circle. "Hope you don't mind though, but I-Whoa!" Corona leaded back as an orange face with large green eyes filled his vision. "Uhh…"
"Whatisyourname-Wheredoyoucomefrom-Howdidyougethere-Whatisyourfavoritecolour-Wouldyouliketobemyfriend?" The orange face asked him.
"Uhh..." It took a moment for the one who called himself 'Brighter Than The Sun' to decipher the high-speed sentence. "My name is Corona, I moved here from Liberty City, I flew here, Blue and... ummm..." he 'ummm'ed as the large smile on the alien's face urged him on to answer the last question. "Sure?"
The alien squealed in delight as she wrapped her arms around him in a hug that made him reflexively raise his aura to keep his ribs from being crushed. After a moment he was released from the world's friendliest bear hug and he collapsed to the ground. Still glowing he floated a few inches off the ground, levitating over to the cloaked girl before righting himself back on his feet. He let his aura go and leaned closer to the girl dropping his voice to a whisper. "She always like this?" He asked.
"You have no idea." The girl spoke in return in an almost bored tone. The caped boy with an 'R' over his heart shook his head and walked over to him.
"Hey I'm Robin. You already met Starfire," he said, gesturing to the smiling alien, "and Raven." The gothic girl nodded in acknowledgment. "And over there is Beast Boy and Cyborg. We're the Teen Titans."
Corona looked over as the group smiled at him with the exception of Raven, who wasn't but nodded politely anyway. "Well, as I said, my name is Corona. Pleasure to meet you guys as well." Corona extended his hands, the Boy Wonder extending his as well. They shook hands for a moment before Cyborg walked over.
"So what brings you to these parts? Jump City is a ways away from Liberty."
Corona shrugged and crossed his arms. "Needed a change of pace. Things been quiet there for awhile so I thought I hop over here, seems to be enough action to go around."
Of course he didn't want to tell them that he needed to get away from memories as well, the emotional wounds in dealing with Hydra still fresh.
"Hey that's cool man!" Beast Boy piped up grinning a bit. "Hey, maybe you should come by the Tower sometime, I'll make some Tofu Dogs for you."
Before Corona could answer Cyborg had already gotten into the changling's face. "No WAY are we gonna serve a guest that tofu crap! We need to serve him real meat!"
"No way, you are not serving dead animals to anyone! Eating them is like eating me!"
The argument continued for a moment, Starfire floating over to the black-clad Corona. Corona turned to face Raven again. "Do they always do this?"
"You learn to tune them out. Eventually."
"Joy." He shook his head for a moment before summoning his aura. "Regardless I gotta go." Cyborg and Beast Boy did notice as Corona began to lift up. Shaking his head he turned to face Robin. "Tell them I'll take a rain check for now, K?"
The Boy Wonder nodded as Corona took off into the sky, as the argument shifted to the Gamestation. "He didn't seem like a bad guy."
Starfire nodded in agreement. Raven shook her head. "So did Terra." She mumbled under her breath.
The next morning Corona stretched as he sat on a rooftop. Below him in front of a library one of the presidential candidates was prompting himself, a cause for education and a cleaner environment.
Corona forgot his name however. Hell, aside from Lex, the Republican leader and the Democratic leader he didn't really know anyone in politics. He must have been decently known however as reporters and news crews dotted the small crowd. He even thought he saw Lois Lane in the crowd. Corona shook his head and stood up again wondering what time he went to sleep last night. Three AM? Maybe Four? Not that it mattered.
Upon receiving his powers Corona's lifestyle was changed, among which was his sleeping habits. Most likely a side effect of some sort he only needed three to four hours a sleep each night, a fact that could be aggravating at times.
He didn't know they had the Teletubbies on at 2:30AM. Nor did he ever care.
In the morning he had flown about, getting the 'lay of the land', and finding the high school he would soon go to. Eventually he came across the crowd and stopped to look.
Shaking his head he prepared to dive off to continue on his way.
Then a car flew into the crowd.
Some one in the crowd had spotted the car being hurled in their direction and yelled a warning while running away. In a panic others followed suit, the only one 'hurt' was a man who was clipped by a side-mirror.
A figure in red armour strode forward towards the crowd, grinning widely as he walked to the candidate who was frozen in fear.
The armoured figure was known as Adonis.
The man who was clipped, a tall man in glasses and a blue suit stood up and looked around as Adonis crouched slightly. "Hey buddy! Does your platform cover this?"
Adonis launched himself into the air towards the politician as the man with glasses tensed himself for action.
All three were surprised at glowing blue blur that dove in and slammed into Adonis.
Adonis let out a shocked squawk as he flew backwards, slamming into the street and skidding along until he hit a parked car.
Corona landed on the ground and walked towards him, the bright glow of his aura surrounding him as Adonis rose to his feet. "I don't like politics either, but don't you have better things to do, like get your armour detailed?"
"Funny pal." Adonis sneered as he charged. "I'm knocking you out lightweight!" Corona watched as Adonis reared back for a punch. As he swung Corona floated to his left, tensing his arms. He grabbed the wrist as it sailed past and began to spin on the spot like a tornado Adonis yelling out as they spun. Lifting himself and Adonis into the air he tilted the axis of his spin and once ready he threw the red clad villain skyward. As Adonis was still airborne Corona took four quarters from his belt, levitated them across the street and put the coins into a pop machine. He made his selection of drink with his powers and levitated the can back to him. He popped it open and floated away while talking a long gulp, ignoring the chill of the drink. He lowered the can just as Adonis had slammed into the pavement back first.
The glowing hero took another swig as Adonis struggled to his feet. Once the there the armoured Adonis took a moment to steady himself. "You are so paying for that lightweight!"
Corona shrugged as he finished his drink, Adonis growling as he wiped his mouth with the back of the glove. "Uh huh, sure. Whatever." Adonis charged again, arms extended for a grab. In response Corona lifted his free hand and sent a powerful blast of blue energy into his torso. As Adonis staggered back Corona leapt to the air glowing brightly as he sailed down with a dropkick to Adonis' head. The armoured villain dropped to the pavement, unconscious. Smiling Corona landed and lowered his aura then set the empty can down on the villain's chest. "Mind recycling that buddy?"
The reporters who had once scattered had looked on the whole battle and once they were sure Adonis wasn't getting up charged forth, the candidate ignored. As Corona turned around flashes from cameras went off and his ears were assaulted with questions. Overwhelmed for a moment Corona waved his arms. "Hey, settle down, one at a time please!" As the questions died down he turned to a man with glasses and a blue suit and nodded to him, having him ask the first question.
'OK, why do I keep picturing this guy in a cape?' Corona wondered as the man spoke up.
"Clark Kent for the Daily Planet, is it true you quit the Justice League?"
'Sure put me on the spot with the first question. I remember the first time I was interviewed while I was on the old team. Supes chewed me out for saying I didn't do anything 'important'. Yeah right, a trained monkey could do crowd control and standby, that's all that was on my record. Well, that, two missions and the thing with Hydra.' He thought to himself. "Look Mr. Kent, the Watchtower has the better part of forty or so heroes at any one time on staff. Sooner or later one or more of those guys are going to bump heads with the big seven. I just got tired of bumping heads and thought I could get more done on my own than with the League. Simple as that." Most of it wasn't a lie; he did bump heads with J'onn, and Superman on the 'importance' of crowd control. And already he had fought three villains in less than twenty-four hours.
That was more than he had done in the two missions he was on. The man let out a slight smile as if he liked the answer for some reason. He had though it was weird until a black haired woman raised her hand showing he was right earlier, Lois Lane was among the crowd. He gave a nod to her as well.
"Lois Lane, Daily Planet. Are you in Jump City to join with the Teen Titans."
Corona stopped to think for a moment before answering. "Miss Lane, I just left a team. I'm in no big hurry to sign with another. I have met them briefly and they are a nice group. I will say this however, since we are in the same city fighting the same crime I do think I maybe working with them in the near future, even if never as a part of their team."
Notes were taken as he gestured to another reporter. "Snapper Carr here, Channel 5. What did you drink while fighting Adonis?"
Corona just doubled over in laughter for a moment; the gathered crowded either laughing with him or shaking their heads. "Pepsi-Cola, a favourite of mine. Anyway, I'd love to answer more questions," he lied waving his hands again. "But I need to get going. Bad guys aren't going to go to jail themselves you know." Smiling he saluted the small crowd and leapt up, his powers carrying him off even as the local officers arrived on the scene.
"Come on Smallville." Lois said as she walked away. "Perry's gonna love this one." The man in the blue suit adjusted his glasses before leaving with the black haired woman.
