tushanshu_logs | Catch-all for October

Good, that joke didn't crash and burn like he hoped it would.

"Last thing I remember, I was just sitting outside my house. I wasn't even doing anything special." Mark sighed and shook his head. "No, that was about a year and a half ago. He wound up stranding me in a dimension where humanity had wiped itself out... my friend rescued me, but it apparently took them 12 years to do it."

Okay, that was a gross understatement of how he got there, but saying "yeah I thought I murdered the guy and got myself stuck there" was not something he was willing to admit. "But it was only like a day or two my time. Not only that, I still have no idea if it's my friends that saved me, or if it was my friends in another dimension.

"Time travel is complicated."

That was a lot for her to take in. Her eyes slowly widened over each detail as they got more and more complex. She opened her mouth only to close it again. It was enough to the point where her glider started to turn sideways from the fact that she stopped airbending to try and comprehend all the dimension hopping and time traveling.

Superhero life is just too insane...

When he noticed the glider start to turn, he quickly reached out and grabbed the top piece to steady her. He couldn't blame her for getting overwhelmed--he lived it and he could barely comprehend half the stuff that happened. Still, though he wished he could have handled some things in his past differently, he wouldn't give up the overall experiences for anything in the world.

"It's crazy, I know." He gave a sheepish grin. "My dad was a superhero before me and growing up watching him, I thought I knew what I was getting into. I was way wrong."

Once he righted her, Korra blinked out of her mental overload and the wind began about her again as she resumed her airbending.

"Thanks. Glad it’s not just me. I’ve had some weird things happen, but nothing near that." Not even close, she didn’t envy him at all. Well, aside from the powers she got to enjoy.

"So this superhero stuff is still kind of new to you?" He seemed to be older than her, so maybe he was like her and just training until the time came when it would be put to the test.

"Well, actually being one, yeah. I only got my powers about 3 years ago." His eyes never left the wind propelling her glider. "But like I said, my dad was a superhero my whole life." ...Until he wasn't, but that's not a story he wants to tell.

The reason he was staring at her airbending was because, like the idiot he was, it just dawned on him whose powers he might have acquired a few weeks ago.

"I've been meaning to ask you, you're the Avatar, right?" Crap, why would Invincible know this? "I've, uh, head about you.

"This might sound weird, but did you happen to lose your powers when everything went screwy?"

Three years gave him more experience helping people than she had under her belt. But his next question wasn’t too surprising to her, Korra had told just about anyone that listened what her title was and so she wasn’t displeased to hear that it spread a bit.

"Yeah, all my bending was gone one morning." That had been a not fun morning, for all of an hour before she discovered they’d been replaced.

"A lot of crazy stuff happened then, like my boyfriend turning into a girl and my friend was suddenly older than me." That one was a surprise and it didn’t stop there, but she had to ask since he did. "Why, did you get turned into an old man? Because some people can be a little more on the grumpy when that happens."

Like one generally nice and smiley faced Bruce Wayne for example.

Mark wondered just who got turned into an old man that left such an impression with Korra, because he remembers all the body swapping before the aging and de-aging... though he remembers the power swapping first.

"No, uh, I think for a while I was the Avatar.... Or at least, I had your powers." He paused. "...I almost lit my house on fire."

Thankfully, he lived in the Earth sector and that was very, very hard to do.

"Yeah, you gotta be careful when firebe-"

An excited ’Oh’ formed on her lips and she pointed at him for a brief second before she brought her arm back in to hold onto the glider. His words finally registered and all the fun she had during Zatanna’s magic bomb had been one of the best feelings she ever had.

"You can move that fast!" It was meant to be a question, but her happiness at finding out just whose powers she had was overwhelming.

"How do you slow down when you make those boom noises? I bet you had to replace a door knob on the first day like I did, huh? Did you ever try lifting the turtle? It was so easy to just lift a whale, how do you get used to that? It took me a couple of days to not just break everything I touched. I blinked, did you go anywhere?"

Yes, she had a lot of fun with Invincible’s powers.

Okay, so the mystery of exactly where his powers went that time was finally solved. He always assumed that it went to Korra since hers had gone to him, but everything had gone completely screwy then and he honestly wasn't sure. At least it went to someone who wouldn't des...troy...

He might have spoken too soon.

"Boom noises? Korra, what exactly did you do with my powers?" Because the only time he made "boom noises" was when he crashed into things really, really hard. "And no, I can't lift the turtle. The last time I checked I could lift about 75 tons--though it's probably more now--and cities are just a bit heavier than that.

"And frankly, even if I could I don't think Asti would appreciate it too much."

As for that last question... well, he just had to mess with her. Making sure he made a big gust of wind along the way, he zipped behind her. "I'm sorry, did you say something? I just went to check out the barrier." It was totally a lie, and his grin showed it.

She would have believed him if it weren’t for the grin. Being a bit of a smart aleck is so relatable to her, so she can’t help but smirk.

"Yeah, those boom noises when you fly too fast." Breaking the sound barrier was a new thing and while it was startling at first, she thoroughly enjoyed doing it on whim."I can't believe you actually answered all those." Ikki, sure simply because she was seven; but for Invincible it could have been another superpower she didn’t know about.

"Really though, I just flew around and helped people. Except the first day, I didn’t have the flying part down and I kind of casually flew upside down through the wall and then the ceiling of the Wayne building in the Metal Sector. No one was there, so that was good at least."

That may have been why she was so eager to help an older Bruce about town.

He may be fast, but with the expansion of the barrier it takes him just a smidge longer than that now.

"Oh, oh you mean the sound barrier?" Mark flies backwards a bit. "Like this?"

And in a flash he's gone, flying up into the upper atmosphere to give him the necessary space he needs to get up to speed. He starts off towards Korra, careful to stay far enough away that he won't barrel her over when he does eventually break it, picking up speed the closer he gets until finally...

BOOM!

Mark quickly flips back up towards where they were hovering as he forces himself to slow down, managing to decrease his speed enough that she can see him slow to a stop about 50 feet away from her. He zips back over, huge grin on his face. He... might like showing off.

"Wait, Korra, that was you?" He'd heard about that. Had to send some of his workers to help fix it, too.

That familiar sound brings out a broad smile on her face.

"YES, that!" Since she couldn’t really jump up and down, she opted to do a loop in the air instead.

That only lasted for so long until his question and that made her wince slightly. "You heard about that? I don't think it's too big of a deal. Mr. Wayne’s a nice guy, I don’t think I ruined his office too much." A beat until she realized that she never did offer to pay for the damages or even apologize.

"…I should do something about that."

"It's a tiny island." For him, anyway. "But it wouldn't hurt to go apologize to Mr. Wayne. Even if the guy seems to have more money than god--even here--it was still an invasion of his privacy."

He winced a little as he said that out loud. How many buildings had he destroyed in supervillain fights since he first started as Invincible? How many of those people did he go apologize to? It was crazy hypocritical, asking Korra to do something he had never done, but...

It was Bruce. It was different somehow, when it was someone you knew.

"Yeah. I’ll pick up some money from home and put something together. I’m pretty sure he won’t accept, but I’ll offer to pay the cost for the damages anyway." That might put a dent in her savings so far, but she’d deal with that after she threw a kind of gift basket together.

"What do you get someone with that much money?"

"It's actually mostly fixed by now." Then, when he realized that Invincible really shouldn't know that "I-I flew by there before. And saw."

Mark picks at the tip of his gloves as he does everything to not look Korra in the eye. He does, however, look up when she asks that. Good question. "Something money can't buy, I guess... can you make him something??"

"I can at least offer to reimburse him. Last time I didn’t apologize or offer anything for a full month." Some regret was in her tone, she never got to tell Soranik before she left. So she also ended up trying to avoid looking Invincible in the eye since he encouraged the apology to Bruce.

"Well, I can earthbend or ice sculpt something. Maybe I can buy a block of some quality stone and work from there." Excited at first, bit it winded down in enthusiasm when she realized that she doesn’t really know much about him.

"Do you even have that kind of money?" Because he knew he sure as hell didn't. "Maybe you can offer to put in some community service? I always help clean up after a fight."

Mainly because he's usually the one at fault half the city's buildings are in the street...

"That would be a good idea. He could put the statue in his new office. Or the lobby or something."

"Yeah, but it'd hurt my savings so far." It wasn't a pleasant though since she was trying to think of something to get Mako now that she knows how Christmas works. (Mostly how it works.)

"The only problem is I have no idea what to make.” A guy like that, Korra doubted Bruce would want a status of himself.

"All the more reason to try offering community service. It won't cost you a thing." It was a solid idea to him, anyway.

"Ask his sons."

She sheepishly admits: "I’m still working on some other community service and I don’t want to make him wait. But yeah, I could do that. I work with one of them a lot and I know he’d help."

It’s Dick, he’s always been nice to her.

"Thanks! Now I know where to start."

Invincible smiles. "Happy to help."

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Status, statue. Though, thought. You know, words that actually make sense. /sob

it's okay I knew what you meant!