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Characters: Kyle Rayner and you!
Date: Same day he arrives.
Location: All around Keeliai.
Situation: Kyle is exploring.
Warnings/Rating: None at the moment; will update if necessary.
Note: I wrote in prose, but [action] is more than welcome, as are multiple threads. For reference, Kyle's current Lantern uniform looks like this.

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wood; open

[imaginate]

If ever anyone decided to go live on Mogo, this was probably what they would have done. Kyle could even hear his fellow Corpsman declaring the weather for the day to be that of a beautiful summer, with plenty of sun and wind. He landed cautiously and ringed up some clothes for himself, a simple shirt and jeans - oh what the hell, why not add a cool jacket too - before wandering around.

[trainwrecked]

Bucky was going home.

The weather was not, in fact, beautiful summer. It was raining and chilly, the way it would, every so often, go on Tu Vishan. Winter in the middle of the ocean and everything.

It was almost better, under the trees. Until a leaf or something turned and dropped its water contents right in the back of Bucky's neck.

Hardened soldier and all? He couldn't help actually jumping a little and yelping. That was cold.

[imaginate]

'You okay?' Kyle had seen him jump, but hadn't seen anything else - it could have been a leaf, or it could have been an invisible person doing... whatever shenanigans invisible people got up to. He still wasn't entirely convinced that he wasn't hallucinating (he would have woken up by now) but it never did hurt to make friends.

Or talk to himself, if that turned out to be the case.

[trainwrecked]

"Ye-aaah, just rainwater. Surprising and cold, but I'm not gonna melt."

Bucky shook himself a little, shifting against his clothes to ease the wet spot, and managed a grin.

"Thanks." Hand held out, because. "Bucky Barnes."

[imaginate]

Kyle returned the grin, and shook Bucky's hand firmly. 'Kyle Rayner -- your name sounds familiar.'

[trainwrecked]

"Pleasure." Automatic, and then Bucky made a face. "Please don't tell me you read the comic I've heard about, too. No short shorts. Ever."

[imaginate]

'Okay, I won't tell you.' And the short-shorts would never be spoken about again. Kyle knew he wouldn't like people mentioning his first few attempts at a workable GL costume, and then have Jenny tell him it was too tight. Years after he'd settled on it.

[trainwrecked]

"Yu-huh." Yes, okay, that was information enough. Bucky sighed (only slightly exaggeratedly), then managed a grin back.

"Well. Now that's settled. Been here long?"

[imaginate]

'Just got here. What about you?'

Re: wood; open

[tactile_telekinesis]

Kon had been working that morning and had not too long ago finished his shift. He lived in the Wood sector, something he'd always liked the look of, kind of like his dream home from his own world. Somewhere that reflected who he was. That and, c'mon, treehouse. So this was where he spent most of his time, and the only area he knew really well despite how long he had actually been here.

It was on his way back to his suite when he noticed someone that, to him at least, kinda looked new. It wasn't anyone he'd seen over the network, not that he remembered everyone, some people were just so boring. Since Kon was such a nice guy and everything, he dropped down so his feet actually touched the ground.

"Newbie ahoy!"

Hey there Kyle! Have Superboy straight out of the nighties and looking like it. He ooks slightly confused because this guy here? Very, very familiar. Maybe he wasn't a newbie afterall?

[imaginate]

Kyle nearly jumped out of his skin. Whoa, he was glad he hadn't been spotted changing into his civilian clothes, and he turned around to look reproachfully at whoever had scared him and his jaw dropped.

Was that... 'Superboy?'

[tactile_telekinesis]

Kon had his hands on his hips and leaned forward slightly to look over Kyle. There was definitely something about this guy that rang a few bells. Give him a few minutes and he pulls back with a grin. That's who it was!

"Dude! Hey! When did you get here?"

Oh boy, was that 'Superboy', ha. Run.

[imaginate]

'Uh.. just a couple of hours ago.' He grinned and rubbed his neck with one hand, the GL ring clearly visible. This was Happy Funtime Superboy, not I'm Going To Kill You All Superboy-Prime. Small mercies. 'How long have you been here?'

[tactile_telekinesis]

"Seriously? That's so cool! Well, it is but it isn't at the same time, cause you're stuck here."

He remembered how he'd hung out with Kyle very briefly, but an impression had been made and he liked the guy, he was good to talk to and easy. Kon felt happy he was here despite not really knowing him too well.

"Me? Aw man, too long. A few months I think."

[imaginate]

'Yeah about that. Did you try flying away?' Kyle hadn't, but he'd rather check with someone else before he tried to and ended up a bug on somebody's proverbial windscreen. He didn't know how they were kept here. 'I was... kind of saving the universe and this detour is inconvenient.'

[tactile_telekinesis]

He just stares at him for a few seconds with one brow arched up. Did he seriously ask that?

"It was like, the first thing I tried to do. Me and a friend tried to fly away, then she tried to swim. You black out at some point and bam, back the same way you were when they brought you on the cart."

Kon shrugs and smiles a little bit.

"There should be a club for the universe savers. Things are...we haven't found a way yet."

Yet because he was determined to get back somehow. Sometime.

[imaginate]

Kyle pinches the bridge of his nose. 'Crap.' It wasn't like he'd die if he tried to leave, but that didn't sound entirely appealing either. He could try focusing harder - his willpower was stronger than Kon's, after all.

'Yeah... yeah,' he pushes it out of his mind, trying to relax and not think about what must be happening to Donna and Palmer, out there. 'So, you gonna give me the tour or what?'

[backwordscompatible]

Zatanna just happened to be coming back from a walk herself, casually dressed, when she caught sight of somebody wandering around the wood sector. While it would have been a stretch to claim she knew everyone in the area by now, this person definitely had the New Arrivals look about him. Like he was scoping the area.

"Lost?" She asked him, approaching with a friendly smile.

[imaginate]

Kyle had been scoping, just looking around before he heard the question and turned to look at her.

There was no hiding that expression of shock. He'd seen strange things today but this really took the cake. A Leaguer, like him, shrunk. 'Zatanna?'

[backwordscompatible]

This wasn't the first time somebody she didn't know recognized her. Far from it. But it had been a while; enough that she was momentarily caught off-guard by the sudden exclamation.

"I...uh...yes?"

[imaginate]

'Alternate universe, huh?' Kyle had had a lot of that, lately. He walked closer. 'Do you know me?'

[backwordscompatible]

She remained right where she was. The man didn't seem particularly hostile, so there wasn't much need to be afraid. Just confused. For a moment, she tried to wrack her brain for any sign of familiarity. If this was another Alternate Universe thing...well, usually, she was able to recognize something familiar.

Nothing came to mind.

"No. Should I?"

[imaginate]

He showed her his ring. 'Do you recognise this?'

[backwordscompatible]

It only took a glance for her eyes to widen.

"You're a--" Oh, wait, that might've been a little too loud. Glancing around to make sure no one was eavesdropping, she tried again at a noticeably lower volume. "...a Green Lantern?"

[imaginate]

Oh. He wasn't one where she was from - or he just hadn't been made one yet. 'Yeah - we're in the League together.'