[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! ]

Comments

Little Love

[kid_flash_found]

Ororo isn't the only one who sometimes uses localized windstorms to manage unruly animals, although Kid Flash has to use his speed to create vortices rather than her more controlled manipulations. Still, sometimes you just have to toss the rampaging prehistoric whatsit off its feet for a moment to get an upper hand.

At the moment, though, he's using about a half dozen scouts to help move along a herd of labrador-sized early horses towards a paddock he'd found that was available. It's just one normal-looking speedster and five others made of glowing energy that isn't quite electricity or any other typical source.

"Megafauna are mostly going towards the football stadium, I think." He's doing his best to keep track of which places still have room, but there's been a lot of animals roaming around.

( jurassic park )

[honeybadgerer]

[ gabby waves at her enthusiastically while throwing some steak over the fence for the dinosaurs. ]

Hey Storm! Did you come to see my park?

[agoddessonce]

[ She's walking in, rather than flying, mostly because it's a lot to take in. At least most of the dinosaurs seem friendlier than the ones she'd helped catch earlier? ]

Of course I did. You seemed very excited about it.

Are you managing all this by yourself, Gabby?

[honeybadgerer]

Yeah. Julian helped, but he said he didn't want to handle it.

[ which is fine. gabby could manage. she's not the kind of person to expect help most of the time. ]

[agoddessonce]

Ororo nods, her wind buffeting the dinosaur in her cyclone higher and further away. "I can take some of those off your hands, if you like, to keep the paddock free."

He didn't seem to really need help - but it was just polite to offer. "It seems to help to disorient them first - makes them a little easier to transport." Without hurting them much, that is.

[agoddessonce]

So he left you to your own devices?

[ Gabby is very capable. ... But these are dinosaurs. ]

Do you want any help? I can spare the afternoon.

[honeybadgerer]

[ she shrugs, nonchalant. ]

I dunno. I'd ask you to electrical the fences or something, but I got it set up to the Arcadia battery. All the stuff was already here, I'm just making it more Jurassic friendly.

[agoddessonce]

And what does that entail, exactly? Making things more... "Jurassic friendly"?

There were no electric fences in the Savage Land when I last visited.

[honeybadgerer]

I've never been there.

Also I'd need to make money if I want to take care of the dinosaurs.

[agoddessonce]

Never? I will have to take you when we get home. We have friends there, I'm sure you'd love to tour it with them.

Have you thought about where you might get the money?

[honeybadgerer]

Does Laura have friends there?

[ because laura's definition of friends is . . . smaller. gabby never understood why she never brought her around the mansion that often. but laura had her reasons and gabby trusts them. ]

I figured I'd charge admission. Everyone loves to see dinosaurs.

[agoddessonce]

Oh, I'm not certain if she does. But I've been there quite a few times over the years. If you both come with me, would that count? [ She counts as a friend of Laura's, right? ]

Regardless, that's very enterprising of you, Gabby. I hope you get a lot of interest.

[honeybadgerer]

[ gabby nods. that's fine. ]

Me too. They're just animals. It would be sad to hurt them just because they somehow got here.

[agoddessonce]

That would be sad, yes.

I hope you can take care of them all. They don't seem easy to look after; what do you think you'll feed them?

[honeybadgerer]

I guess the same stuff I feed Jonathan.

But like — [ and she stretches her arms out. ] — more of it?

[agoddessonce]

And where will we get all that?

[honeybadgerer]

That part I haven't figured out yet.

[agoddessonce]

Do you want to figure it out together?

[ She's maybe a little concerned about where she's going to get all the raw meat these carnivores are going to need. ]

[honeybadgerer]

[ gabby nods. ]

Do you have any ideas?

[agoddessonce]

If there are any zoos or animal sanctuaries anywhere here, I'm sure we can see what they feed the predators they care for. We could do the same for the ones you keep in here.

[honeybadgerer]

That makes sense.

Do you think they'll help?

Little Love

[avatarfortruth]

"West of here, I think."

Her lasso has flashed like lightning amongst the swirling clouds of Ororo's tornados, calming and controlling the animals in equal measure. Now, Diana loops it at her hip, floating gently in the air near the other woman. She considers the trumpeting megafauna with mild interest. "There's a sort of park forming for the creatures."

[agoddessonce]

We won't know until we ask.

If all else fails, we can keep feeding them steak. Or perhaps something a little cheaper - you've rounded up quite a few friends here.

None of them are particularly troublesome, are they?

[honeybadgerer]

Some keep trying to bite me, but I guess they're not used to my reflexes.

[agoddessonce]

Perhaps it is because you smell like the steak you keep feeding them.

Are there any that are less prone to bites?