[CLOSED] That was love and it's an ache I still remember

[looksfine]

Characters: Aya and Not!Razer Wally West
Date: Mid-June
Location: Wayne Enterprise
Situation: Wally comes for a visit to check out the place, and along the way, encounters a certain living robot...who might be thrown by the auditory similarities between him and a certain Red Lantern she used to know.
Warnings/Rating: W for Wally.


During the daylight hours, Aya made every attempt to put time into the laboratory at Wayne Enterprise. It was an inherited duty, with many recent disappearances. People she had known casually. People she respected, and would honor by taking up as much of the responsibilities as she was capable of.

Fortunately for their memory, Aya was capable of a lot of things.

Multitasking, for instance. Without the basic necessities most carbon-based life forms required, she could go for hours, non-stop, with little regard for the passage of time. Awareness, yes. Regard? No. She had far more important things to regard, including the multiple holo screens worth of data scrolling in front of her.  Which she was doing at that precise moment, cross-referencing and analyzing each and every variable.

"Yes.  I believe the probability of success will increase to 74.3 percent with these newest alterations."

Comments

[looksfine]

"Then they do exist in your universe of origin."

She seemed incredibly pleased by this fact. Proud, even.

[runrightround]

"Mhmm. Between them and the League, it's a wonder bad guys ever try anything."

Of course, it would be weird if there were no bad guys, then what would all the superheroes do? Delivery? He shudders at the thought.

[looksfine]

"I am unfamiliar with any particular League. Are they another variation of the Corps?"

Like Star Sapphires, perhaps?

[runrightround]

"No, they're... You really don't have a League where you're from? What do the not Lantern heroes do?"

Does everyone do their own thing like Red Arrow? Because that sounds like a cluster...ahem.

[looksfine]

"I am not certain. From the moment I was first brought-online, I have affiliated myself with the Green Lanterns, and only the Green Lanterns."

[runrightround]

"Sounds like you see a whole lot of green. Anyway, the League is sort of like the Lantern Corps, but there are more heroes involved and a variety of powers. And color..."

Spandex in any color of the rainbow, really.

[looksfine]

"So they involved Red Lanterns and Star Sapphires as well?"

Strangely enough, she appeared to be more visibly put out by the thought of allying with the Sapphires than any Reds.

[runrightround]

He raises an eyebrow.

"Uh, no? I've never heard of either of those, anyway."

[looksfine]

Now she was curious.

"Then what other groups have you allied yourself with?"

wow Aya I hope you were prepared to hear his life story

[runrightround]

"I shouldn't say anything, but since you're a Lantern and a friend of Hal's..." His tone of voice is only slightly smug sounding.

Okay, maybe a little more than slightly. Wally will take any excuse to gush about the Flashes... which inevitably leads to bragging about himself.

"You are looking at Kid Flash. Fastest boy alive. Proud partner of the Flash. The fastest man alive." He pauses, and holds up two fingers. "Actually, he's the second Flash, but he's faster than the old Flash. They both kept the name though. Which is kind of confusing? But the old one is pretty much retired." He crosses his arms now.

"I mean, I guess the second one could have still picked a different name, but then I'd have to change my name because it would look like I was the old one's partner and not the new one's, y'know? And that couldn't work because he was active way before I was even born."

At no point does it occur to him that he might be over-thinking or over-explaining this. He wants to make sure that she gets it.

"Or, I could just say it's an homage. Which it already sort of is, but only because their names are the same... Oh! And there's the team, but that's a whole different thing." He nods, satisfied with his answer.

/always prepared for--wow Wally you can sure talk.

[looksfine]

[He sounded quite proud of himself. It was all Aya could do to follow.]

Fastest boy. Fasted man, and the second in an apparent lineage of fast men. Who share a name. Even though they didn't have to. It sounded as if it were meant to be a token of respect.]

Are the other members of your Team "fast" as well?

His true talent tbh.

[runrightround]

"We all do different things. We probably wouldn't be that good at what we do if we were just a team of speedsters." And being the only one on the team suits Wally just fine.

Kid Mouth being true to his name

[looksfine]

Varying abilities, convened together to fight a common enemy. Aya could appreciate the logic in that.

"Then your allies are capable of compensating for whatever shortcomings your unique abilities may present."

[runrightround]

"Yeah. It's too bad not all of us are here, we could show everyone what we can do."

The team isn't perfect, of course, but he's proud to be a part of it. Proud of the things they've been able to do. For the second time since arriving here, he realizes how much he's going to miss everyone. He rolls his shoulder, to shake off the feeling. There's no reason to dwell on it, besides he's not completely alone.

"But, uh, three out of seven isn't bad, I guess. That's almost half."

[looksfine]

"It is more than I have at this time."

Three out of seven vs one out of four. Two out of five, if she were to include Saint Walker, but they were merely friendly acquaintances. Allies. Not a team.

[runrightround]

Oh. He feels a little like a jerk suddenly.

"Sorry, I. Uh. Sorry." Everyone here is pretty much in the same boat, and he's still getting used to that.

"Is there anyone here from where you're from?" He pauses, and just barely keeps himself from facepalming. Hello, Megan indeed. "But if you don't want to talk about it, that's fine too. So, sorry. Again."

[looksfine]

"You need not apologize." She glanced upward. "Yes, there is a familiar acquaintance here. His name is Saint Walker--he is a Blue Lantern."

[runrightround]

"Right." He smiles at her, a bit amused now. "Just how many Lantern colors are there?"

[looksfine]

"Three, that I am presently aware of. Four, if you include the Star Sapphires."

Which, unfortunately, logic dictated she should. Their powers were similar, if on a different wavelength of the emotional spectrum. And their people's ancestry intersected far too closely with the Guardians not to assume their powers were not from equally similar sources.

[runrightround]

Interesting. No, it really is! He leans on a nearby table, settling in so he can ask more questions. Hopefully, Aya doesn't get bored of this.

"And do they do the weir..." He coughs. A completely real cough. "The oath thingy too?"

[looksfine]

Fortunately for Wally, Aya was fully capable of translating what oath thingy meant.

"I cannot speak for the Sapphires, as I have never heard theirs...but the Red Lanterns and Blue Lanterns both posses their own oaths in order to properly recharge each of their rings, yes."

[runrightround]

"Neat. Hey, can you do the oath now? The green one, I mean."

Does Wally think the oath thingies are weird? Yes, but it's still kind of cool to see with the battery and all the stuff. If Wally were three years younger, he probably would have asked this as soon he realized she was a Green Lantern. That's what he did when he first met Uncle Hal back home, after all.

[looksfine]

"I can recite it for you now, should you desire to hear it."

One thing Wally might take note was the fact that she made no indication of pulling out a battery of any kind. There was a reason for that.

Closing her eyes, she began to recite the Oath from memory. Even if she had never heard it from her fellow Lanterns before, it was something contained within the Guardian Database. Part of her inherent knowledge:


"In brightest day, in blackest night,
No evil shall escape my sight.
Let those who worship evil's might
Beware my power--Green Lantern's light!"

Her skin began to glow. Faintly at first, but as she finished the oath, brighting to the point where it would have been momentarily difficult to look at her.

It faded soon enough, leaving Aya as she was before. Only smiling proudly at her heritage.

[runrightround]

Once she's finished, and he can look at her without shielding his eyes, he applauds.

"Nice. Very glowy." He means that with the utmost respect, of course.

It takes a second, but he realizes something about the way she said the oath. He clasps his hands together.

"Wait, aren't you supposed to have the thing with the ring and everything?" His tone is slightly confused, he thought GLs were really big on rings.

[looksfine]

She understood the reason behind his confusion almost immediately.

"I do not possess a ring, nor a lantern. I never have."