Intro type thing

[ihavettk.livejournal.com]

"Agh, what the sprock?" Flash bang. One minute, he and Superman were getting ready to head back from the 30th century so that Kon could finally rejoin his friends and family after being dead of all things, and now he's... somewhere? He flies up to get a better view. Hawaii, apparently. Though it doesn't look like it did last time he was here. And Kal's nowhere in sight.

"How long was I dead?" he wonders aloud, looking around. "Uh, Superman?" He isn't quite shouting. But even a quick look around with a combination of x-ray and telescopic vision shows no bright red cape. "Kal? HELLO? ANYBODY?"

This is definitely Earth. Definitely Hawaii.

He isn't quite sure what to do now. So he starts flying towards Metropolis. Maybe Kal's there. Or someone at least.

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[max-friendship.livejournal.com]

There is someone up here.

Someone who is a four-foot-long purple bat thing. With four wings. And a cabled sweater. (Not illustrated.)

Someone who is curious about the new face.

"Bat?"

[ihavettk.livejournal.com]

"Gah!" What the hell is that thing? Is it speaking English? "Shoo, go away!" Kon waves his hands and sends off a warning heat vision blast. He doesn't want to hurt the thing or fight it at all if he can help it. But it doesn't look like something friendly.

[max-friendship.livejournal.com]

DDD:

"Crobat bat!"

That was not very nice!

Get confusion ray in retaliation! >:(

...I don't know anything about pokemon. I am guessing. And flipping a coin, I guess?

[ihavettk.livejournal.com]

Kon feels something that he's pretty sure did something to his brain, and everything's sort of fuzzy. He uses his heat vision on the bat thingy, still not full power. He'd much rather just scare it away than hurt it too badly. His heat vision shouldn't do more than singe it.

Re: ...I don't know anything about pokemon. I am guessing. And flipping a coin, I guess?

[max-friendship.livejournal.com]

[Sounds about right!]

This thing is not nice at all! Crobat does not want to stick around! It is going to swoop down toward an old farmstead.

In Smallville.

[ihavettk.livejournal.com]

Oh no you don't. Kon knows that farmstead. He swoops down after the thing shooting heat vision around it, trying to drive it away from the farm. "Stay away from my family, creepy bat thing!"

[max-friendship.livejournal.com]

OH GOD OH GOD IT'S BEING FOLLOWED

OH GOD WHAT DOES IT DO

It flutters worriedly, then swoops down to the porch, taking shelter behind a very small Japanese woman (http://community.livejournal.com/shatterverse/276427.html?mode=reply).

[ihavettk.livejournal.com]

The thing's attacking a woman! "Watch out, lady!" he flies around her and rounds on the creature, eyes red with heat vision. "Go somewhere where you can't hurt anyone, little guy. There's got to be lots of bugs and fruit or whatever in the wild."

[95-tan.livejournal.com]

"Eh? Oh dear... ano... Excuse me, sir..."

The giant bat is already swooshing around her and away from the scary guy.

"I do not believe I've seen you around here before?"

[emoreaper.livejournal.com]

Oh look. Skater boi in a black hoodie flying along beside him. On a... skate board?

The silver katana strapped to his back is only icing, really.

Rickie nods absently to the other flying teen. "Hey."

[ihavettk.livejournal.com]

Kon glances over and gives a half wave. "Hey there. Cool board."

He's seen a lot weirder. Hell, he's seen weirder today.

[emoreaper.livejournal.com]

"Thanks." Rickie tilts it up, to display the nifty skeletal horse painted on the bottom. "Don't find many people up here."

[ihavettk.livejournal.com]

"Really?" Kon rolled over, floating on his side, and frowned. "That's weird. What happened to the Justice League and the Titans? I mean, a lot of us can fly!"

[emoreaper.livejournal.com]

Rickie sighs, perhaps a little sadly. "Didn't have anyone like that here. Got some like that now, but, not a lot."

"Sorry Conner. This isn't your Earth."

[ihavettk.livejournal.com]

Kon's eyes widened just a little at that. "Think you got me confused for someone else. I'm Superboy."

[emoreaper.livejournal.com]

The emo kid pulls out his Blackberry, and scrolls through it. "Also called Kon-el, and Conner Kent, right?"

[ihavettk.livejournal.com]

Kon frowned at the guy. Not cool. Those were his secret IDs, and he hadn't given them out. "Okay, who the hell are you?"

[alwaysroomforhope]

Stephanie is in Metropolis!

It is not the Spoiler Kon might have met; this one is close to twenty by now (she's not sure exactly) and dressed in clearly civilian clothes (even though her sweater is eggplant). But then that isn't necessarily unexpected, given that Kon's been dead for some time.

What marks her out as unusual today is that she's sitting perched quite comfortably on a gargoyle some two hundred feet in the air, swinging her legs and eating a Twinkie. It is quite possible that only a Bat could even find a gargoyle in Metropolis.

[ihavettk.livejournal.com]

Of course, as far as Kon knows Spoiler is dead, and anyway he's never seen her face without a mask. But he can take a break from trying to find Clark or anything to go fly down and talk to the cute girl on the gargoyle.

It's dangerous up that high, after all. She might fall! And what good is it being Superboy if you can't rescue damsels in potential distress?

He draws up even with her and smiles. "Hey there. You lost?"

[alwaysroomforhope]

Steph falls off the gargoyle.




Being a Bat, she catches it and manages to haul herself back up, face kind of pink. Sure, she's way older than she was and she's totally a grownup and all, but holy shit it's Superboy. She used to have a poster of him over her bed.

"... yes," she decides to answer. "I mean, no. I mean - wait - didn't Tim say you were dead?"

[ihavettk.livejournal.com]

Kon immediately swept in to save her but oh, she had it covered. Oh well, that's probably better than saving her, even if catching falling girls sometimes leads to grateful kisses and that kind of thing.

"I was dead. Only just got bet--Tim?" Had to be a different Tim. That... liked Superboy, maybe?

[alwaysroomforhope]

Steph blinks at him. She hasn't used her secret identity in three years. She'd kind of forgotten.

Wait, what if Superboy doesn't know Tim's name?

"Uh, just a guy I used to know." She shrugs innocently.

Get a grip on yourself, woman.

"Sorry. You just totally startled me. Seriously, I didn't expect to see anyone up here, except maybe Nightwing, or the other Batman. Usually it's quiet, you know. Peaceful. I totally didn't mean to fall off. And -- uh, am I babbling?"

[ihavettk.livejournal.com]

"Oh." Kon's face falls a little. Not like he could admit to knowing Tim, but it would have been good to at least know he was around. "Never mind. Why would Nightwing and... the other Batman? What?" He scratches his head. "Maybe a little. I think I'm new to this universe or something. And still pretty lost."

[alwaysroomforhope]

"Oh! You're new! Right." Steph is used to this. New people, giving the story. (Even if it's not usually to Superboy.)

"Okay. I'm Steph. You're Superboy, obviously - uh, Kon. Tim told me that once. This world is - actually, we just call it 'the world' most of the time. But it's totally not our home world, and it's all been blown up, and -- okay, uh, let me think. Did you find the farm? In Smallville? With the cruise ship out the back, and the hospital and -- duh, of course you would, you would have lived there..."

Steph is quite good at talking. Apparently Kon isn't required to contribute. She perches on the gargoyle, blinking at the young man hanging in mid-air, grinning a little. 'Cause. Superboy.

[ihavettk.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, I found the--okay, wait up. This Tim guy. Huge Superboy fan or what? I mean, my Kryptonian name's not really a huge secret, but it's hardly common knowledge. This Tim guy, he met me or something?"