[OPEN] you're a god, you're a hero

[agoddessonce]

Who: Ororo Munroe (Storm) agoddessonce and you!
What: catch-all for settling in before timetravel shenanigans
When: (early) September
Where: Little Love, Exelsior, others
Content Warnings: n/a


Little Love

Little Love is easy to come back to. The creatures from the previous, repetitive September 1sts are... nostalgic. Some of her earliest days with the X-Men had involved jaunts to the Savage Land, and this was very reminiscent of that.

While Ororo isn't exactly interested in bounties, she can't turn down help when it is asked. So she finds herself in the air, safe distances away from the bigger beasts and scooping them up into precisely-fashioned cyclones, spinning just fast enough to contain and disorient them. Easily done, considering how many times she'd had to do this to the same, or similar beasts before.

She looks to the nearest person assisting her with the job. "Where is the nearest holding station?"

Exelsior

Ororo is drawn to Exelsior, mostly because it seems that most of the younger mutants from her world are here. She makes her rounds, takes peeks at the homes they've made, makes sure they're eating things that aren't junkfood, and then explores the rest of the city.

Gabby and Julian had managed to create a little park for the friendlier beasts they rounded up at Little Love, so she comes to visit them on a weekend. Honestly, she can't believe they've really done this, and spends more time than she ought to just going around what they've managed to do. By the afternoon she'd flown with a perfectly docile pterodactyl and then had a sleeping sabretooth puma in her lap.

Of course, there's also the matter of the recurring power outages. While she's there, she offers what help she can - being a literal light in the darkness, kickstarting generators whenever they're needed, keeping freezers cold with sheets of ice and snow.

Then the total blackout happens, and she's flying off to the power grid to investigate. There must be something she can do. She's hard to miss - hair and body glowing with crackling lighting as she streaks across the sky.

[ ooc: feel free to leave a wildcard prompt too! Storm can be anywhere in the present as she's still exploring as much as she can. happy to plot something out further via PM or over plurk on almondlychee! ]

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[agoddessonce]

Ororo hums thoughtfully, gaze turning distant. This was always difficult - there were so many things she could still help with here. People to assist, friends to support. Friends to find -- it isn't lost on her that there were specific people she had yet to meet. She's not even sure if it was somewhat intentional on her part, that perhaps she was not trying hard enough to track them down. That maybe she was a little afraid of what would happen, if she did find and speak to them.

But the fact remains that the greatest threat appeared to be not in the present, but in the past. So she turns to Diana, face serious. "I must regroup with others here in the present day. But if there is a way to keep the portal open, I will follow and bring others who can help contain Chaos Gate."

At the very least, she knew that Carol's abilities would be a huge boon for whatever conflict they'd encounter with her.

[avatarfortruth]

Diana's smile flashes like sunlight on water as she looks over her shoulder at the other woman. "You would be most welcome," she says, with wholehearted sincerity and no small amount of relief. It isn't that she doubts the abilities of Bruce, Dick, and Roy... but to fight a god is no small feat.

She shifts to sit on her hip, leaning on one hand so she can turn more fully towards Ororo. "I hope you find more of your friends, Ororo. Not just to bring back, if such a thing is even possible. And if I can return, I hope to one day be counted among those friends."

[agoddessonce]

Her smile is surprisingly infectious, and Ororo finds herself returning it somewhat. She has friends here - but the prospect of adding someone like Diana to that list is heartening.

"I believe you will return. Something tells me you are not the type to lose very easily." She had a strength to her - not just in body, but in spirit as well. Something inspirational. If she had a plan - Ororo had no doubt that she would see it done. "So when you return... you and I can help each other make sense of this place together. Yes?"

[avatarfortruth]

"Yes," Diana agrees, without hesitation. "I'd like that very much. And you're right – I don't lose very easily."

Or at all, when she can manage it. "In the meantime, what will you do? Find your other friends, bring other animals to the park?"

[agoddessonce]

That gets a little laugh out of her. She hasn't done such mundane things in what feels like years.

"I'm not sure yet," she admits, tucking her knees in close to her body. "Perhaps I might fly to my homeland - or the equivalent of it - to see what is the same there, if they need help, and if they will accept my help if recognize me at all."