OPEN | Wally West ( Kid Flash )

[sciencewhizard]

Characters: Wally West and You
Location: Keeliai - Fire Sector
Situation: Day 02: Wally's been here for a day already - he's yet to make a network post, mostly because he's been concerned with finding work. He's just found a job that fits and he's exploring the city.
Warnings/Rating: None, yet.

[ So aside from the whole situation of winding up here yesterday, Wally West was doing alright. His long ride to the city and settling down had gone off with ease - aside from getting strange looks now and then from the locals when he expressed his disbelief in being "between life and death." He had locked himself up in the suite and spent most of that first day pacing until he fell asleep. With the dawn, he had made the resolution to find himself some work. This was definitely a sprawling place, and not a prison, or so he had determined for now. Might as well go along with the flow. An explanation from a local resident had laid out the sectors in detail for him, and that's what set him on his path for the Fire Sector.

Wally walked like a normal human being for once. It took him a good deal longer than he probably wanted, but even this impatient boy knew better than to go all that way without getting a hang of his surroundings. Once in the Fire Sector, he set his sights on every herbalist around. He figured with what chemistry and biology he knew, he'd be perfect for that sort of a job. Four turn downs. The only reason he got the job he did was because he let slip he lived in the Wood Sector and he showed off his speed. The soon-to-be boss appreciated that he could stealthily retrieve ingredients now and then, maybe cutting down on his costs to the merchants.

With that success under his belt, the ginger-haired teen was told to come back the next day for work, bright and early. Today? He had to himself to finish exploring the city. ]

Comments

[crotcharrow]

[Tommy smirks smugly.]

Faster. I never actually measured it.

[sciencewhizard]

[ ...And that just pissed in his apple juice. He went silent and just stared at the speedster. ]

...

[crotcharrow]

[He raises an eyebrow]

What? Breaking the sound barrier is kinda easy...

--Hey, can you explode stuff too?

[sciencewhizard]

[ Oh no. His expression got worse. This guy could vibrate, too? ]

...My uncle can.

[crotcharrow]

[Welp. He now knows he's better than Wally. But that's not helping him make friends it appears.]

That sucks. He never teach you?

[sciencewhizard]

[ The speedster sighed and just looked off to the side. This was clearly an uncomfortable topic for him, but what the hell? Not like there was anything going to turn this around right now. ]

My recreation of the accident that gave my uncle his powers didn't give me the full set. So. Speed of sound's my limit. No vibrating.

[crotcharrow]

[He perks up.]

Wait--you're not a mutant?

[sciencewhizard]

[ Mutant? Wally arched a brow. That seemed like a rather... negative word for what, metahuman?

He shook his head. ]

Nope, these powers are from my lab at home.

[crotcharrow]

[Tommy looks impressed!]

You made superspeed? How?

[sciencewhizard]

[ Okay, seeing that, maybe Wally's feeling like he could brag a bit for once in this little exchange. ]

Wellll. My uncle had a bit of an accident in the lab, you see. Lightning struck a bunch of chemicals and gave him his superspeed. After he was all better ('cause y'know, chemical burns and all that), he took notes of the chemicals.

[ Wally was gesturing with this whole tale. ]

I found those notes when I was thirteen and mixed up the chemicals myself. And BAM [ Quite literally. ] I got powers of my own.

[crotcharrow]

[Tommy blinks a little.]

Huh. That's like, falling into a vat of radioactive waste and getting superpowers crazy. [Not that it doesn't happen on his own world. Spider bites, gamma radiation. You name it.]

I was just born like this.

[sciencewhizard]

Huh.

[ Talk about interesting. Of course, there were people back home who were born with powers, but most people he knew had them under odd conditions. ]

Wait- You said "mutants." [ Which, he figured might be the proper, scientific term for what people born with powers, but... ] That seems kind of like an... I dunno... odd word? Back home we just call everyone with powers a "meta."

[crotcharrow]

A "Meta?" That sounds stupid. We're mutants because out DNA has a gene that's mutated from normal human DNA? It's called the X-Gene. When you hit puberty you basically get superpowers.

[He blinks though. He's never really thought about it being an odd word.] I guess that's just what it's always been called?

[sciencewhizard]

[ Yeah, it's just that when Wally thinks of people using the word "mutant" back home, it's never for anything pretty. Or helpful. Oh well. If it works for this guy, he might as well shrug and accept it. ]

That sounds pretty intense. So there must be a lot of people running around with powers, right? Natural selection factoring in?

[crotcharrow]

[He hesitates. "Natural Selection".]

Used to be. Not really anymore. "Natural selection" I guess.

[Or you know, you mom going crazy and taking away a load of mutants powers and pretty much making them an endangered species but. Details.]

WOW, I JUST REALIZED HOW TINY THAT WAS. SORRY. LMAO

[sciencewhizard]

[ At least he just means it in its most basic scientific way. He's a geek, not cruel. ]

Oh. [ And he's getting what that means; at least, he's assuming that the numbers are low enough to be worrisome. ]

Sorry...

IT HAPPENS TO ALL OF US

[crotcharrow]

[he gives a small shrug]

It's not like it matters to me, I mean, I'm still here.

[sciencewhizard]

[ Hm... And yet. Wally was still feeling kind of bad about it. He got up to his feet and offered a hand to Speed. ]

Better than nothing, right?

[crotcharrow]

[He looks at it for a few moments before rolling his eyes and taking the hand, heaving himself off the floor.]

I guess.

[sciencewhizard]

Right. So.

[ Wally shrugged a little. ]

I'll catch you around the turtle?

[crotcharrow]

[Awkward. He grins a bit.]

If you can keep up.

[sciencewhizard]

[ Wally snorted and gave the speedster a small bump on the shoulder. ]

Don't doubt it, dude.

[ He dashed off after that, figuring it best to wrap the day up. ]