chapter 3 I'm not ready to rise
We went to a rooftop after the formation of team, in order to have more privacy to talk about our abilities so we could have a proper teamwork, we were aligned while Diana was walking in front of us like a sergeant
"If we are to be a team then I must know your skills and abilities." She gave a serious look to Hal, "you, name, rank, skills." She asked him seriously.
"Hal Jordan, football player and superhero, I can create anything with my ring who is powered by my willpower but it doesn't work on yellow." Hal quickly answered he looked a bit disappointed at the weakness of his ring.
"So you can create any weapons imaginable to beat your enemies into submission." Diana stated, impressed by the green lantern ring.
"Well, I can't use lethal force with the ring, it's a safety to prevent the green lanterns from going crazy …" Hal declared, I thought it was weird that he couldn't kill with his ring since Sinestro did it a lot as a green lantern, a bit too much I would said*
"Can you do a burrito ?" Babs interrupted us and took me by surprise, Hal smirked before creating what she asked, "A pogo stick, a flower pot …" She really wanted to see him use his ring.
"Can you do a dragon ?" I asked him, yes it wasn't a responsible way to use a green lantern ring but I always wanted to see a dragon and a dragon created by a green lantern ring was as good.
"Watch this." Hal told me before he focused, his ring glowed as the construction formed; he was obviously thinking of Smaug from the Hobbit because his dragon exactly looked like the movie : Wings instead of arms, a long tail, the same face; It would have been nice if it wasn't for its size the dragon was two meters from head to tail.
"I thought it would be bigger." Hal lost his smile at that remark but I wanted to see a dragon since I was a child and if even the green lantern ring couldn't do it for me I have the right to be disappointed, for a weird reason, Kara laughed after my comment on the dragon's size.
"How should you be known ?" Diana asked as both the green lanterns winced, I think it's why I never saw two green lanterns at the same time on TV, in fact I don't even know how the Justice League could deal with that on the field, that was probably going to be a mess in the future if we don't find a solution.
"Green lanterns … it comes with the ring …" The two green lanterns seemed embarrassed of that, We should start to work on that or it could be a problems concerning our teamwork (like saying to Hal "look behind you green lantern" and Jessica become distracted because it's her codename, she get hit by surprise and we lose, yes a worst case scenario concerning the green lanterns' problem.)
"We will find something later." The amazon declared before turning to the other green lantern, "What about you ?"
"Uh … I'm Jess, Hal and I are cadets in something called the Green Lantern Corp and …" She took a big inspiration before speaking fastly. " Well, see we got those power rings by weird aliens who are sort of space cops and patrol different sectors …" She stopped when she saw Diana's puzzled face, I doubted Diana knew about alien life or everything beyond her Island so I tried to explain the most important part.
"There is life outside our planet, who is like an island if you want with space as the ocean, because of that there is what you could call 'Space criminals' but it's more complicated to arrest them since the universe is really big, that's why there is space cops with superpowers while it was decided that the universe would be separated in sectors with their own green lantern because with a big universe there are a lot of problems like alien invasions."
"Hey !" Kara shouted, she probably didn't like the 'alien invasion considering she is a kryptonian.
"Not all aliens are invaders but after Star Wars it's hard to believe there aren't one or two aliens, in the whole universe, who want to conquer the earth." I responded.
"You seem to know a lot about the subject." Diana stated while everyone looked at me suspiciously.
"It's basic sci-fi knowledge with Murphy's law, there is life in space so it's probable that a lot of them are far from friendly." I responded, no one answered this statement, Ah, just wait until starros and the gordanians.
"Fine." Diana walked in front of Babs who was excited. "And you, Batgirl ?"
"I can do all sorts of cool stuff." She said before she sat down to open her backpack "Even though I don't have any alien rings or anything, but I'm really good at figuring things out and make the coolest bat gadgets, like this." She presented us a barometer in plastic who looked like a bat, it seemed useless but she was also speaking too fast for interrupting her. "Bat barometer, and this glow-in-the-dark bat staff and these bat grappling hooks that I was totally this close using when Batman was fighting professor Pyg on the roof of this building."
"Wait, Pyg like the guy who turns people into human robots and who has a fetishinsm for torturing his victime !" I almost yelled, I ever saw two professor Pyg the first one was in 'beware Batman' where I thought he was okay, the second version was in a let's play of Arkham knight where I was disgusted at what I saw, I couldn't eat meat for days when I finished it.
There was a moment of silence after that as everyone was looking at me, horrified at what I described, maybe what I said was too dark, I guess it means that I was in a 'good' version of DC.
"Dude, that messed up." Kara declared, Hal was not even looking at me after that.
"No, he is just an eco-terrorist …. with his acolyte mr Toad … He doesn't mutilate people …. he … "Babs' expression suddenly became appalling, yeah it was the cartoon version but the tendencies of his comic self would explain where does Mr Toad come from, I never linked the two possibilities before today.
"Where is this monster?" Diana said, ready to slain him as she frowned and almost took her weapons if it wasn't for Babs.
"In Arkham, he is imprisoned." Babs answered in order to prevent a murder.
"Good." Diana seemed angry at the news of what could have happened to Mr Toad, yeah it was pretty dark when you see it that way, anyway Babs put on her suit while she was talking and she just finished, then the amazon turned to Zatanna.
"You can call me the mysterious," she moved her wand as a trail of purple light followed it, " the fabulous" the light covered her whole body, "the awe-inspiring… Zatanna" She declared as she was fully suited in her magician costume with the hat who came out of nowhere.
"Impressive, have you other skills ?" Diana asked, she wasn't impressed by the whole show Zatanna put to dress up and neither was I.
Then, the magicien was in front of Diana, "I can turn a red heart black" she declared as she did the old magic trick of the card, "Look behind you hear." She asked Diana as the amazon found a card there.
"What sorcery is this ?" Diana was in awe at this, more than when she discovered television
"Can you lift four elephants in a closed room who didn't have them before the show ?" I asked her as I remembered 'Justice league Dark.'
"I never tried before, it's not like I could try to lift an elephant anywhere." She answered, well it sure that finding and moving an elephant without someone noticing was quite difficult.
"Though you possess great quantities of style, you must learn to channel your magic into a cause, our cause," Diana told Zatanna with great gestures before pointing to her suit "And I'm afraid this uniform will not suffice, think of another." The magician groaned at the remark.
"Try a cape." Batgirl suggested to her.
"Bad idea, the whole 'no capes' was the most important thing in the incredibles." I declared, this Disney movie was the main reason I started to enjoy superheroes without capes.
But it seemed she was really thinking about wearing a cape, well as long as she stays careful it can be okay, I hope.
Then it was Bumblebee's turn, she was using duct-tape on her suit to keep it from falling, "What can you do ?" Wonder Woman asked her.
Karen was still a bit shy since she had trouble answering "I can um .." Then the duck-tape started to fall and she screamed as it was going to fall down but she got it in time "Sorry, I'm still sort of working out the kinks." She took a deep breath before pressing a button on the left of her suit, then she shrinked like before while I was hearing buzzlings coming out of her wings "Oh the wings aren't supposed to buzz like that." she admitted before landing on Diana's index like if she was a bird, the amazon seemed to pity her condition "I'm working on rocket launchers, but they malfunction, the whole thing is all messed up. I wanted to be big and strong so people would notice me but … "
"You should be proud of your work." I interrupted her when I saw her morale going down when she described the problem of her suit.
"Really ?" she looked at me, curious and I could see hope in her eyes
"Yes, you can be almost invisible to spy on villains or take them by surprise, you can fly and there are a lot of scientists in Gotham who would kill to be as smart as you, seriously you created that in high school !" I wasn't really surprised that a high school girl created such a suit since I'm in DC but back in my world and in this universe that's quite impressive.
"I based it on Dr Palmer's work so I didn't make it by myself." She answered me, she looked like Fluttershy when she acted so shyly.
"But I would kill to have a suite like yours." Eliatrope's powers were awesome but why should I stop there when I can have more and considering the villains in this world it would be welcome.
Then I felt Diana's hands on my shoulders as she turned me to her direction, she seemed a bit worried, like if I commited a murder in front of her "Have you forgotten what the purpose of a hero is ? we must protect the innocent, not engage in needless slaughter to get power." she told me; Oh I guess I should have been more careful about what I said, I mean yes I would like to have more powers but not to the point of really killing someone for it, I'm not a hypocrite.
"Diana, it's just an expression, a figure of speech when you really want something, for example you can say to Kara 'I would kill to know your powers', just try." Jessica explained to Wonder Woman before pointing to Kara who raised an eyebrow at the idea.
"Describe me your powers or die!" Diana yelled in a threatening tone to an impassive Kara.
"You have to work on your communication because you sound like a psychopath." the kryptonian declared to Diana who sighed at the remark.
"Sorry, Do you have other powers than your strength to show ?" the amazon declared in a calmer tone.
Kara just scoffed at the question, "Not to you, I'm no hero, princess" She made fun of Diana on the word 'princess', "that's racket's for chumps."
She clearly didn't wanted to be a superhero and to be fair I understand, yes having power gives great responsibility but it messed up Peter's life and having powers doesn't mean you will be the best at saving people; I choose to become a superhero but I did it because I want to avoid the void, I don't really have the choice there but she does.
Although I could see that Diana didn't shared my view on the topic as she furrowed her brows, she turned around Kara "You could be the greatest hero the world of man has ever known, You simply lack proper…" then she grabbed Batgirl without warning and threw her away in a instant before adding 'motivation to her speech'
what the fuck!, I quickly reacted by creating a portal in front of me and the other one in her trajectory, she passed through hers but landed on my side instead of the other, she almost crushed me as I started to feel a horrible headache.
"You can make portals, that's awesome !" Batgirl sheerfully exclaimed even after a near death experience, that would be useful for her adventures as a superheroine.
I would usually be overjoyed to receive a compliment from Batgirl but right now my head was spinning, I was really tired but most importantly my stomach emptied on the roof.
"Yuck." Zee was disgusted at the sigh of the vomit.
"Are you okay ?" Jessica asked me as everyone came to me, worried about my state
Wakfu : 2000/3350
[Note : using your portals on someone other than you has the consequence of draining an important quantity of your wakfu.]
statue : sick from a major loss of wakfu
"It will pass, it's just a side effect of teleporting someone else with my portals ." I declared as Diana seemed regretful at what happened, everyone was worried after my health, Kara was so close I could see the 'S' on her shirt.
"I'm sorry my friend, I just tried to make Kara use her power but I did not intend to put you in such a state." Wonder Woman apologised, I guess she was raised like a spartiate.
"Well I should tell you that in our world 'no' means no; people went to jail because they didn't understand that." I joked despite my state, then I watched Kara "So, you're supergirl?" I asked Kara in order to avoid suspicions like what happened with the green lanterns.
Kara was smiling at the name, I would even say she was exatic. "Finally, someone knows me." she exclaimed, probably happy that someone recognized her secret identity.
"You know her?" Wonder Woman asked me a raised eyebrow.
"Yes, she is a kryptonian like Superman; she can fly, she has heat vision, ice breath, X-ray vision, super strength, super hearing, she is almost indestructible." I described kryptonians' powers before being interrupted.
"Almost invincible!" Kara repeated, outraged at the statement.
"I'm sure that magic can beat you because it's magic, the whole wizard stuff." I told her as she seemed a bit angry at that but then she shrugged at the remark about magic, I really hope that I didn't make a bad impression.
"You seem to know a lot about Kryptonians." She declared.
"I'm a fan of Superman …. and you." I quickly added the last part when I saw her face at the mention of her cousin but she still had a flat look.
"So you're the guy who helped him yesterday?" she asked me, then everything started to go bad.
"You helped Superman!" Jessica was shocked at that while Hal was looking elsewhere, I thought he said 'probably told him where are the toilets' or something like that, he must probably thinks that it wasn't important but to be fair I really didn't do a good job considering that Metallo almost rip off my head when I met him.
"What happened, what happened?" Batgirl was repeating her question a lot, excited at the news.
"He was fighting a cyborg with a heart made of Kryptonite so he was weakened, I just used my portals to take him off guard and stole his kryptonite but he almost crushed my hand and I could have died if it wasn't for Superman." I declared as I didn't want them to think of me as an experienced hero, I saw enough anime to know how bad it could turn.
"Your hands seem fine." Hal remarked, my hands had no trace of any injuries since yesterday and considering how popular Superman is I understand why he was skeptical.
"I have a weird body." I declared, it wasn't a lie since my body recovered as soon as I leveled up. I don't know how it's possible but I would say it has a link with the changes in my stats after I got my levels.
"Excuse me but who is Superman?" Wonder Woman asked us.
"The greatest hero of Metropolis, he kicks butts, arrests robbers, saves kittens from trees." Kara declared in a sarcastic tone, that it was a weird way to talk about her cousin, as far as I remember she had a pretty good relationship with him in the cartoons.
"You saved their greatest hero." Diana seemed to have taken her declaration seriously, impressed at the new despite the fact it was just a misunderstanding, "You surely have experiences to share with us about being a hero in your world." she told me while looking at me in the eyes.
Oh why did I feel like something bad was going to happens.
After our brief 'presentation', we went to a junkyard in order to train, no one wanted to come there and it was so big that we were unnoticed, the smell was awful when you were near the trashes but if you were away from them it was okay.
Once again we were aligned, waiting for Wonder Woman's instructions but this time everyone except me was in a superhero suit, I didn't created one in the three days I was in this world since I had no idea how to make one so I did the most reasonable things in this case :
"Zee, could you make a suit for me, please ?" I asked her, yes it's her name, I thought it was a weird name when she said it but who am I to judge; she has changed her costume for black long boots, a black shirt with a white 'y' on it and a cape, she clearly didn't see 'the incredibles.
She moved her hand before I was surrounded by light, I could see anything while I wa in it but went it went off, I saw the change in my clothes : first my green hat was the same as yugo bu in green, second my shirt became brown and I got a blue pant with a belt who had a portal as a symbol.
I touched my face to check the mask but there was just the feeling of my bare skin, I watched my tanned hand as I discovered that the most important part of my disguise wasn't there.
"You didn't cover my face." I declared to her as she dropped her smile before she waved her hand again, this time it was my skin that changed, it became as white as snow.
"Thank you." I thanked her because in a way it was better than a mask, if superman can get away because he is wearing glasses why couldn't I do better by changing my skin's color ?
"You're welcome." she told me back.
"Soldiers!" Wonder Woman called our attention, "Our mission is to save the world of man." She was interrupted by Batgirl who was a bit excited but I couldn't blame her since I dreamed of being a superhero when I was five "In order to do this we must learn to save man himself." The amazon declared as she pointed four mannequins dressed with women's clothes, they even have breasts.
"That's chicks." Hal declared
But she didn't care as she threw a truck tire at a stack of cars, then she ran to the mannequins, kicked a car away with her impressives legs, grabbed the mannequins before jumping between the falling cars; When all the cars were down, a cloud of dust blocked my sight until disappeared, Wonder Woman was on top of the cars, holding the mannequins all while making a heroic posing
She did all of that in a few seconds and damn she really was in another category than me, she did a perfect rescue in ten seconds at worst and she started to be a superhero the same day as me
"And now it is your turn." She declared to us, determined to train us to be like her.
That's when our training started, Diana wanted to see us using our powers in different situations. She put us through by judging what happened in the classroom fight, She remembered our powers and decided on the exercises.
the first to pass was Supergirl, she had to do the same exercise as Diana except her stack was taller and there was more mannequins, when the cars fell, Supergirl flew in the sky to punch the cars in order to break them in pieces, one punch was enough to start a chain reaction that provoked the destruction of the cars, when it was over, Supergirl was smirking at us.
"Everybody is dead." I declared to her, surprised by my statement, Kara looked down and cringed at the view of all the mannequins crushed, sliced and a small one was beheaded by a piece of metal, yes it would have been pretty bad if it was a real human .
"Is it the first time you do superhero stuff ?" I really hoped she would said 'yes' but her face told me otherwise.
Then it was Zatanna's turn and it was pathetic, she had to save a group of mannequins from a trash compactor who was actioned thanks to a switch, She flew high in the air with a violet magical aura around her, her eyes shone bright purple and she began to move and dance around with an orb of light while the machine was still smashing whatever passed under it,. finally, with a wave of her hand, she threw the orb who turned into a … 'tentacle?' and flipped the switch that shut off the compactor. She then landed and created a few pairs of energy hands that gave her a round of applause as she took a few showman's bows.
"No, just no." I said to her as she looked curiously at me, "You wasted tens seconds for something that would just take one and in real life it would have killed four people!" I almost yelled the last part while pointing to four blocks made of crushed mannequins she was supposed to 'save'; i knew it seemed better than supergirl's but failing because you wanted to show off is unforgivable when it comes to saves lives so I wasn't impressed by what she did, at least she looked sorry about that.
Next up was Bumblebee's turn for the heroic training, so it impliced the junkyard dog, a steak, a mannequin and an arena made of trash.
Kara had gotten a hold of the junkyard dog and was holding it by the chain as he barked. Jessica for her part, placed a raw steak on the face of a mannequin while holding back her lunch, I didn't even know where it came from,
"What's the purpose ?" I asked Wonder Woman, it was her idea after all.
"Karen has great potential but she also lacks confidence, she will have to be brave in her tiny form." She answered before giving the signal, the dog was unleashed and Karen shrunk before pulling out missile launchers! wait, she wants to kill the dog ?!
But the missiles didn't fire and the dog jumped at the steak, Karen hid behind Diana was pale at the sight of the dog mauling the fake head,
"Have you really tried to kill that dog ?" I used to have a dog like this one when I was a toddler, he died when I was six because of his old age so I really liked animals, naturally I was a bit disturbed at the idea to hurt the junkyard dog just for an exercise, "it's practically animal abuse to hurt him after we took him there."
"No … I was scared and …. oh " she fainted on Diana's shoulder before finishing her explanation, to which the Amazonian lightly tapped the shrunken girl's back in an effort to try and comfort her as well as bring her to.
Just after that, the dog broke free and found another target, me; when the steak was in his stomach, he jumped to my direction as I instinctively created a portal behind he and fell back to escape from his teeths; I reappeared at the entrance of the junkyard,
When I came back to the training field, the dog was chained where he was and it was Batgirl's turn to demonstrate her skills.
"Hey what did I miss?" I asked Bumblebee.
"We got the dog and Babs has to get the plush cat while passing through the mannequins without touching them." the DC version of the wasp answered me
"Wait, they aren't bad guys?!" Batgirl interrupted Karen and I, she looked surprised that the mannequins weren't villains.
"Did you listen to Diana ?" Kara asked Batgirl.
"Yes … of course I did."
The gotham girl jumped in the airs, rolled and did others acrobatics that I couldn't do at the time, she passed through all obstacles and she got the plush in one jump, that was incredible, it was like a real life version of Batman's stunts in his movies, I was back in my childhood at the show.
"Wow, awesome!" I exclaimed before everyone stared at me, I was a bit embarrassed at my outburst but Babs was really impressive. "Sorry … it was like watching Batman." I excused myself while Batgirl's eyes got stars in them, it really had to learn to live with the cartoon logic.
So after that it was Hal and Jess' turns to act and they did it pretty well, Jessica had to stop a wrecking machine, piloted by Batgirl, from destroying mannequins, she didn't believe in violence so she created a safe construct and send them away but it didn't stop the machine to crush Hal, fortunately the ring also acted like an armor depending on his charge.
"Your turn, but before we start tell me about your powers." Wonder Woman told me.
"Okay, first I can teleport myself by creating portals from my hands, if I only use one portal I will be limited at a short distance but if I create a portal and throw it far away then the second portal will make me pass through the former." I was a fan of Wakfu but I admit that I had trouble understanding how the portals worked.
"Can you use your feet instead of your hands ?" Batgirl asked me
"I never tried, oh I can also combine portals to create a laser beam." I told them the only two powers I could use for the moment because of my lack of experience with my powers, I knew a good part of the powers I could use but not how, when I used flashlight it was just a amount of wakfu concentrated on my hands to produce light; I was going to need of training with this energy but I also needed to pass for a novice in front of the other heroes in order to not appear suspect.
"I don't believe it." Hal declared about the laser beam.
"But I can do it, I just need a good reason to do it."
"I found your challenge." Diana declared after a moment of reflection.
That's when I went back at the entrance of the junkyard next to Jessica, she was using her power ring to communicate with Wonder Woman thanks to Hal's, apparently my test was almost the same as Zatanna except I had to go to another trash compactor and save the plushy cat while avoiding obstacles.
"Go" I heard the ring before I created a portal and jumped in, I've traveled fifteen meter in one jump thanks to my portal but just when I landed something was coming, a rotten pasteque, I barely dodged it before something with flies around it came to my direction; I quickly created a new portal but this time I threw it in the direction of the highest part of the junkyard in order to find the possibles places where I had to go, I was on a stack of car from where I could see four trash compactor, I only saw two with working conveyor belt but none of my 'teammates were there
Suddenly, I heard a crack and the cars started to fall down, I put my hands in front of me and just made another portal to protect myself from possible impact as it brought me higher in the skies, more garbages came to hit me but I had enough time to spot a figure near one of the machines, I fell in diagonal there by using portals, I tried to mimic Yugo's railroad of portal but it wasn't as fast, it was described like flash's superspeed in the show but when I was trying this portals chaining it wasn't like if I passed in high speed as everything was clear around me, either it was like that for every eliatropes or it just wasn't enough to pass from portal to portal to gain super speed.
I didn't focus on that problem too much as I was coming near my objective, the plush was at ten meters from me, another portal and it was done but before I got it, bolas captured me and I fell on the ground.
"Sorry Zack, it's part of the training." I heard batgirl.
"Don't worry." I tried again to create the portal and managed to get only my right hand in it, it was a bit too far from the fake cat but I was able to flick it out of the belt.
"What ?" Batgirl seemed stunned by that
"I won." I was panting as my throat felt dry, really dry; to my defense I did everything I just described in less than two minutes, that's far more than what I could do in my former body.
The rest of the team came a short time after; "So, how was I ?" I asked Wonder Woman.
"You have succeeded your test but you took too much risk," she pointed a stain on my shirt "You exposed yourself to danger when you were on the top of the chars and became an easier target, if it was a real battle you would have died, you were so focused on rescuing the fake cat that you didn't pay attention to your surrounding and Batgirl caught you; you passed but there is work to do." She told me in a stric tone, it wasn't bad, she sounded like a real chief
"Yeah, it could have been better but it also could have ended worse." I explained, mostly repair my damaged ego; I know it wasn't perfect and even the slightest mistake could kill me in a adventures but it still hurt when your hero told you 'you suck'
Then I heard barks, the dog was back but his barks were accompanied by a voice
"Spike, Spike, sit up!" It was his master and probably someone in charge of the junkyard, considering what we did during our training we should probably run.
Babs was taken away by kara who used her powers to lift the Gotham girl away, it was easy for a kryptonian, Jessica used her power ring to get Diana while Bumblebee, Hal and Zatanna flew away wherehas I just created a portal to get away from there although I could swear that someone said 'what the hell.' the team regrouped a few meters away from the junkyard.
"So, what do we do next ?" I asked the rest of the group.
"You want to do something else?" Zatanna seemed surprised that I wanted to do more.
"Why not? it's three p.m, we still have plenty of time."
"Well, if it is possible you may teach me how to live in your world." Dina declared while Batgirl smiled, a wide excited smile "normal teenagers lessons, begin." the red hair whispered.
"We should start by finding you clothes." Zee pointed to Diana's armor.
"to the mall!" Babs shouted, holding her mask in her arm.
"Metallo trashed it yesterday and I think my laser destroyed a good part of it." I admitted, a bit ashamed of what I did.
"Don't worry, those things happen so often that there will be no problems." Jessica told me
She was right, Metropolis' mall was open despite the big Hole I saw when we entered it, the city just put plastic to hide it, although I admit there wasn't a lot of people inside but still, we walked to a clothes store, 'a women only' store; the girls entered the shop while Hal and I stayed at the entrance.
I thought it was a bit awkward that the two of us stay in front of the shop without speaking but I was also afraid to say something that could angerer Hal again. After a short deliberation I decided to try my luck.
"So, how is it to fly ?" I asked him, I knew from a comic I bought that Hal wanted to fly since he was a kid and I was really curious about the feelings it would bring since I saw superman for the first time, I also stressed my parents because of that.
Hal smiled before answering me "It's great, I can't really describe it but when you're in the sky you forget all your problems, you just become one with it … although I would rather fly in a jet." He was saddened at the mention of the plane … oh crap I forgot his dad died while piloting a jet! I'm awful! How could I do that to Hal.
"How is it to teleport ?" Hal asked
"It's weird, I feel like it's not me who moves but everything around me who moves, like passing through a door, everything around the portals are like walls while passing from portals to portals is like passing from a room to another room." I tried my best to describe the teleportation but it was so alien to me that I wasn't sure if I did it correctly
"Cool." The green lantern declared.
"youhou!" Zee called us, I turned to her and saw why she called us, it was to show Diana's new look "Guys, meet Diana Prince" Zee presented us Wonder Woman in her attire and she was wearing a red-ish sleeved shirt with a white undershirt, blue skirt, long white socks and red shoes, he cleavage was covered but not that it bother me, I thought she looked cute like that her.
"Dude, dude." Hal interrupted my thought by shaking me, dude, not cool .
"what ?" I almost shouted, no one liked to be shaken, especially me.
"you were spacing out." he answered
"no." did I really acted like an anime cliche
"you were also blushing." Zee sneered to my detriment, in fact everyone seemed to find that funny as they smiled.
"Can we just go to the other next lesson, please." I asked, it was one of the most embarrassing moment of my life, or lives since I have memories of my other-self
After I looked like a morron in the mall, Babs dragged Diana to the next place where she would receive a new lesson, she was leading us to a comic shop.
"normal teenager lesson number four, pop culture." Babs was smilling when she entered the shop and I could see glitters in her eyes, you know what ? I'm not surprised this time and I will consider this as normal because no one thinks it's weird!
"culture? is she kidding?" Zee scoffed as she took a comic book.
"Hey, that's the reason I leant to read." I defended pop culture before I took a look at the comics.
then Babs gasped when she saw the comic in Zee's hands, apparently it was a limited edition of a batman's special and she would kill for it, Diana asked me if it was again an expression and I quickly nodded, I didn' t need of another quiproquo from an amazon. Anyway, our 'guide' was too busy with the comics so Diana asked me to help her to understand the pop culture but when I looked at what comics I could introduce her, the horror of traveling in another world struck me, there was no Spider-Man, deadpool, guardian of the galaxy or invincible; just comics like caveman batman, cowboy superman so I realised F****, I CAN' T NEITHER READ MY COMICS NOR SEE THE SEQUEL TO FAR FROM HOME! THATS' SO CRUEL!
Yeah I'm a bit of a nerd, although I could start to read these comics, they were weirds but after "one more day", "civil war" and "heroes in crisis" who made me stop reading comics, I was okay to give a chance to this world's comics, Seriously, 'Civil War' and 'One More Day' made me stop reading comics without reading their reviews or the advices of a friend!
But it wasn't important, right now, so if comics were out of the question I had to go to the next important part of pop culture "Do you have mangas?" I asked the comic book seller.
He was a bit overweight and had glasses and wore a batman shirt (the stereotype of comic books guy) he looked at me seriously as if what he would says next was a question of life or death "Before I give you my answer, tell me, What do you think of Shoto Todoroki from my hero academia?" he was dead serious about that
Thanks Heaven, I could still read my hero academia, it was my number third favorite manga, better than X-men and the stories they selled in my time.
"Well, I like my hero academia and the characters are funny but Shoto … I don't find him exceptional, I mean he has the perfect back story to become Izuku's Joker but he isn't a villain nor really acted against Endeavor, all he did was risking his life and the class' s for nothing so I'm not crazy about him."
He looked in my eyes while I maintained a blank face, then he got up from his chair "You've earned my respect, follow me." he went to a door at the back of his shop, behind it was a manga section there were hundreds of tomes, Pops statue, figures and the most important : Luffy's wanted poster was on the wall, oh yeah, one piece forever!.
"So what knowledge are detained in these 'mangas'?" Diana asked me, a bit confused about the greatest creation of humankind, she started a 'sailor moon' tome by the wrong side
"Everything, friendship, love, adventures, morals about the world but most importantly it give you dreams." I answered her before I gave her the first tome of 'one piece' "here, if you start to read mangas you must absolutely read one piece." I told her before I went to the last tome the shop got, I opened it and … it was still in the whole cake arc, I had to wait three years for Onigashima!
It would prevent me from being distracted by the scans but still, then I heard a laugh behind me, I turned and saw that Diana was enjoying her tome, yes I it's a good choice to start by one piece, speaking of this.
"Do you really sell this minifigure "gear fourth" for fifteen dollars?" I asked the vendor.
"How did you convince me to come ?" I asked Babs at the movie theater, she had another lesson for Diana, it was "romance" so we went to the cinema to Watch what seemed like "Twilight", I sent an SMS to the Zeuls that I was watching a movie with friends but started I regretted it, seriously the movie just started and it felt like hours.
"Diana paid for your toy, you could make some efforts" Zee scolded me.
Yes I didn't have enough on me so I asked Diana if she could lend me some since she has a lot of money on her, she also bought some tomes for herself
"That's a Gear fourth minifigure, it will cost an arm in one year !" I told Zee.
"wow, you're such a nerd." Kara declared.
And no surprise, there were only twenty people in the room and only five paid attention to the movie, Hal was eating popcorn, Kara was sleeping, I had my Luffy's figure and everyone else had weird googles, I don't even know why Hal came with us.
" What is happening ?" asked Diana about the movie, to be fair, it was hard to like such a 'movie' and with no idea of modern culture it's worse.
"Aiden just realized he can't live without Caitlyn. But Alexandra is telling him that Caitlyn won't text until tomorrow, because that's exactly what Michael didn't do to her when they broke up. And, isn't it all just so sad and beautiful ?" Karen told Diana,
Okzay, that's enough,Bumblebee was a fangirl of the worst movie ever… I really hope i'm not in a universe like 'teen titan go'; but concerning romance, here is a good definition :
"Hey it remind me of a story where a girl ask her boyfriend to not contact her for one Week, when he did it and came to her home, he found a note : his girlfriend was dying and asked him to live like that for the rest of his life and at the end she died a few days before." I told her my version of sad and beautiful, that really marked me when I read it on the internet but not as much as the story about the helmet.
Karen looked shocked, Zee and Jessica surprised, and Babs seemed about to cry, maybe it was too much for them. "What did you say?" Hal asked me as Kara just raised an eyebrow.
"Is love always this complicated ?" Diana asked.
"Eyup." I answered
Then it came to a kiss scene, the actor yelled the name of the girl (yes I didn't really listened to the movie so I don't know their names), he told her she would be 'his' and it caused Diana to draw her sword, where did it come from ?!
"Beware, Caitlyn! Aidan attacks!" then she yelled and shredded the screen with her weapon, she probably thought the 'mine' was linked to slavery and considering what told me about amazons… it wasn't great.
Anyway, since no one was really paying attention to the room we were able to get out easily, even the monitor didn't pay attention because he was on his phone! so we just walked away from the crime scene.
"That' s impossible, she is just not getting it, you guys." Kara said on the way out the cinema, she was seemingly angry at all the problems she encountered today.
"What did you expect in one day ?" answered Hal, yes we did all those things in one day and I still could not believe it.
"It's six p.m, do we come back home or we do one lact activity ?" I asked everyone, I didn't have a curfew so I still had time
"There is something I wanted to try." said karen.
Her idea was to go to the pier because it was filled with all sorts of hangouts and attractions, we played Skee-ball, take a ride to the roller coaster I was screaming all the time in it, Hal told us it was nothing because Killowog taught him how to fly by throwing him off a cliff, we danced at the music of a guitar player
"Wow, that's a good pizza." I declared as while we were eating a pizza for diner."
"Best in Meropolis", Kara before taking a huge bite from one of her five pizza, she sure eat a lot.
"Look." Zee pointed a cabine where we could take photos.
We took a lot of pictures of the whole team, you know, It was not the best day of my life but it was a good day.
I hope you enjoyed, So yes Zack can't teleport with someone without getting exhausted like Yugo but unlike him he got sick from the teleportation instead of someone else, that's flaw will be important.
