Rough Arrivals // OPEN

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" Maybe the Scarab didn't give Ted Kord any powers because... he was good. 

Maybe something inside of me... something not good... activates the armor "

    To most the spray of the ocean water is cool, refreshing, and enough to bring anyone to an alert state. As the sun was getting ready to crest over the horizon however, there was one soul who could barely keep his eyes open. To be fair, the speckles of water drifting up from the turbid ocean were falling on numbed skin. He knew what it  should feel like, he had been to the ocean before and felt the lash of wind carried water before. With the scarabs body suit protecting him now, everything was dulled. Water beaded over it and dripped off like the wind shield of a car, at these speeds it even formed long trails over his armoured body. What should tickle and chill to the bone was barely noticeable to the exhausted teen. 

    It made sense having a the suit reduce nerve sensitivity. Without it the few battles he had been in would have crippled him with pain in the first few seconds. Impacting the earth after an unconscious plummet from space had hurt badly enough even with the desensitized shell, he didn't want to even entertain the thought of having gone without. Armour or not, if you could feel the pain it could be just a crippling as actual damage. Right now, it would really have been nice to get at least a bit of that cold splash to sink in and snap him out of his dazed and tired state. "Next time..we fly up the land way. There is nothing to look at out here and no where to land." Jaime complained to himself. Many would call this the first signs of insanity, but he knew there was actually 'someone' listening. The scarab was always a part of him, ever present, ever listening. Taking it upon itself tot try and run his body and life, something he was not ready to hand over to what ever this malicious little back bug was. At least it made for company on the long trips, though it was no were near the 'good' variety. 

  ~Fastest rout was requested.~ Jaime grumbled as the scarab reminded him that it was his choice. As close to a choice as he was getting that is. Most certainly the back bug would have still sent him out over the water even if he had chosen he land rout. It was a handy gadget, but he could do with out the subtle insults and negative programming. "Gracias...I remember. You could have at least told me it would be boring." ~Boredom: Incalculable and Irrelevant~ Jaime scoffed the scarab under his breath "Irrelevant? Ha! When we crash because I dose off maybe then you'll see how relevant it is" Shaking his head he watched the waves go by below as he had been for what felt like days worth of flying already. Closing his eyes for just a second he imagined what it would be like to be back home in his bed. Back where once the biggest worry in his life was if he would get his math homework done. Instead he was headed for Jump City to find a group of talented and diverse heroes to look for answers about a weird robot bug that had dug in and set up shop on his spine. History tests seemed like a breeze after being on an alien space ship and getting lost between dimensions for over a year. 

    ~Impact eminent: Avert course~ Jaime let his eyes slowly open, still staring down at the ocean below, now with a groan on his lips to go with the bags under his eyes. "Its the open ocean, what on earth could I possibly hi....." unable to finish his sentence Jaime was forced to bank hard to the right to avoid a tanker. The never blaring as the tiny blue bug suited teen blended in to well with the ocean around him. His hand cut across the top of a wave as his shoulder brushed for a second over the steel hull. Rolling he pulled himself away from the ship as fast as possible before looking back to watch it sink into the distance out to sea. "...t" He finished his last thought with a pant to his breath. "That was TOO close"

~Impact eminent: Avert course~ Throwing his hands up he gave a growl "What now? More boats? What are the chances of finding two boats in the whole of the ocean!?" he blurted out in frustration while turning to face what was coming at him. This time though, it was not what was hurtling towards him, but what he was barrelling towards. "..Oh.."

    Jaime only just had enough time to veer to the side to avoid the huge dock's half sunken support post. The move throwing him close to the other sides second row post. Dodging it as well he tried to get his barrings but he was going to fast for enough thought. Zig-zagging through the wooden beams covered in barnacles that made it feel like the maw of a great beast with pearly white teeth. In the frenzied flight there was little time for thought and in a panic he tried to go up, skipping off the bottom of the doc and spinning out of control into the sandy beach to the left of where the dock met the shore. 

    Sitting up slowly he brushed what sand he could off the moist armour, only seeming to make things worse as he spat what grains of sand he could out of his mouth. Everything ached, and only now was he once again thankful not to be feeling the full brunt of the crash landing he had just succeeded at performing. "Are we..there yet?" he asked in a dazed and some what confused voice, waiting for the stars in his vision to clear while he sat in the sand. ~Destination achieved: Welcome Jaime Reyes to Jump City~ Jaime could swear there was some mocking in that cold robotic tone. Sure enough though, he had made it. Once glance and in the distance he could see the signature T-Tower. "Well..that was 'easy'" his voice was full of his own sarcastic flare before he flopped back and lay in the sand with the water lapping at his right hand toes and fingers. He knew he couldn't sleep here but at least he could let his body recover while the sun finally rolled its first glorious hues across the sky. ~Current time: 5:34am~ The only thing he could think to say was "Just five more minutes.."
            

Words: 1101 Tagged:  OPEN
Outfit: Scarab Bug Suit Notes: First post! WOO!

[Emma]

916 words Kira’s eyes narrowed with intense dislike as the salty stench of the ocean once more wafted over her. One major downside of weighing over a tonne, catching a plane is kind of impossible. So, not one to give up easily, Kira had hitched a ride on a container ship. For over a month she was cooped up on that (relatively) tiny metal boat, and she could have sworn her feet had worn a groove into the deck from the amount of times she ran laps out of pure boredom. Sure there had been some highlights, like taking a swim with a whale as the Wolf. But she had literally just finished washing that ever present scent of salt from her hair late last night. She had no desire to stink like rotten fish again any time soon. With her enhanced sense of smell it was like a constant acrid tickle in the back of her nose. But the Wolf was restless. She needed to let it run before even thinking about meeting the Teen Titans. When you're just as likely to bite someone as you are to hug them, it's probably best to avoid meeting new people you're hoping to impress. So here she was, back at the beach, running along and letting all her wolfy bits hang out. She'd only been in Jump City for a few hours and this was the only place she knew with the space for her massive body to run without posing a death-by-furball hazard to all those innocent bystanders taking selfies of the crazy huge Wolf laying claim to their jogging turf in the pre-dawn light.  Whilst human Kira silently wallowed in rotting fish scented misery, the Wolf in her heart was panting with joy. These polar aspects of her personality pulled against each other, resulting in Kira's overall mood falling into a pleasant demeanour that was slightly miffed by the unfortunate smell that had to accompany her land-glorious-land-run-run-happy-fun times.  Paws the size of conjoined baby triplets thundered down onto the sand, tongue long enough to rival a giraffe lolled out to help keep her cool, and nostrils flared as Kira once more succumbed to the itch to smell her surroundings. She couldn't help it. It's like giving a teenage boy x-ray glasses outside the girls locker room. He can't not use them. Even if he knows they'll leave a horrid rotten fish scent so deep in his pores it takes a good half an hour of scrubbing to get it out. And so it was that Kira inhaled, cringing at the initial back slap that was ocean smell, then perking up in interest as a scent quite unlike anything she had ever smelled before tickled her senses.  She had just enough time to turn her massive head out over the water to try and see what this new thing was, when a blue blur hurtled under the docks and crash landed on the sand about a hundred meters down from her galloping form.  Now for a human 100 meters is a pretty long distance. Not so much for Wolfy Kira. It's about 3 steps. Claws dug in, but found no purchase in the liquid-like sand. Hurtling along at almost twice the speed as the cars on the road beside the beach, Kira skidded and slipped her way along the shore, even going to far as to try using her tail as a rudder to avoid making the blue thing's crash a multi-weirdo pile up. Sand shot into the air, and wolfy whines echoed out, but no great clash was heard. Kira had come to a stop, and just in time. Legs splayed at almost unnatural angles, Kira towered over the blue thing, her maw mere inches from it's face. Yes the blue blur had a face. It was human... kind of.  In relief at not crushing him, Kira let out her breath in one great whoosh... all over blue. Hopefully he didn't mind the scent of wolf too much. Gonna jump in and make this Kira's first post too since my other thread didn't take off ^.^

Made by Riley at THQ!

[Silv]

It wasn't every day in Jump City that he got a call about monsters terrorizing the people. It was probably more of an every other day thing. Of course, this was why the Titans were pretty much always on duty. When the call came in that there was a giant dog monster running around on the beach Robin had already been up anyway. He was an early riser, one of the few things about his name that made sense, and he had been getting breakfast before his favorite morning ritual of watching the sun rise over his city. He'd miss it today he noted as he made his way down the stairs, and abandoned his breakfast to the other Titans. Luckily, the sun rose over the city every morning. There would be other days.

By the time Robin made it to the garage, and his R-Cycle, the data on the monster was piling up. Apparently there were conflicting reports. Some said it was as big as a skyscraper. Another said that she'd watched it run off with a baby. Another mentioned how it was making a breakfast of early morning joggers. The boy shoved his helmet down over his spikes and revved his motorbike out of the garage.

He'd have to see what was going on himself. Sometimes the reports couldn't be trusted. Especially after the one time he'd gotten an alert that the Blue Man Group had turned to crime…which was actually Mumbo pulling a stunt. This could be alien in nature, reminiscent of the talking green dog they'd mistaken for BB one time, or it was possible that Slade was up to his tricks and summoning great beasts instead of forces of nature.

All of the reports centered along the beach, which limited the search area to something he could manage fairly easily alone. The young leader shot along the beach access road while keeping an eye out for suspicious activity. So far he hadn't seen anything. It was panning out to be a beautiful morning, and Robin was enjoying the feeling of the wind tearing through his cape. The sea breeze always felt fresh to Robin, but then, he was used to the putrid scents of Gotham. He was heading west along the bay when he finally spotted something of interest in the distance. From here it looked like a dog with a blue toy, but on second glance it was pretty obvious that the dog was far, far away.

Picking up speed the Boy Wonder made his way closer to the strange dog. His R-Cycle made a revving noise as it cleared a dune and landed with a crunch of wet sand a few yards away from what Robin now realized was a strangely blue suited person and a gigantic…wolf? The boy pulled the helmet off his head as he stopped his bike, his masked gaze trying to assess the situation and simply coming up confused. The dog's posture wasn't hostile, or at least, the boy didn't think so.

"Sir," Robin addressed Blue Beetle. "I'm going to have to ask you to leash your…dog. I've been getting reports of a giant dog-monster running rampant on the beach."

Ooc:
Booyah. Two Titans for one thread. I should make hopefuls do this more often.

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" Maybe the Scarab didn't give Ted Kord any powers because... he was good. 

Maybe something inside of me... something not good... activates the armor "

    Jaime barely had time to suck back that first calming breath after his ordeal, before a wave of sand was kicked up and sent crashing over him. The wet heavy muck dripped off his suit in thick gobs as he lay surprisingly motionless under the spray. At this point his joints were to sore, and his ego to bruised to care about another few buckets worth of salty gritted slim. It wasn’t till it clicked that something had to have made that sudden burst of beach rain down over him. His first instinct was to assume it was a sudden stop by a jeep or some other vehicle. The only issues there was this was a beach under a main dock, who on earth would bring their car down here with a 50/50 chance it would get stuck in the water saturated soil.

    Proximity alerts were sounding as the scarab sent up its usual red flags. Flags that Jaime was starting to get used to and irresponsibly ignore. Thinking back though to just moments ago he was reminded by a sharp pain in his arms that ignoring the scarab usual meant injury. So before whatever it was that had gotten to close put him in traction he lifted his hand to wipe the fish and brine scented sludge from his face. Opening his eyes to get a face full of..nose?

    For a minute he thought he must have hit his head a lot harder than previously thought, but sure enough what stood over him was a canine the size of a moose. “AH!” His heart nearly beat out of his chest as his breath hitched and he kicked his heals hard into the sand to give him traction to push away. The effort resulted in a not so graceful reverse scuttle as the wet beach gave way and only offered so much leverage per panicked kick.

    Once backed up far enough he rolled so that his hands could help hoist him to his feet, and as he managed to get from all fours to two and spin to face the beast of a wolf he stumbled once more nearly ending up back on his butt in the sand. While Jaime’s mind reeled in disbelief the scarab took the opportunity to do what it did best, respond with a potentially violent warning. Instantly, and without control, Jaime lifted his left hand which changed somewhat unnaturally into a laser beam ready cannon. The end glowed a hot yellow demonstrating it was ready to fire on command. It also was pointed right at the very nose that had only seconds invaded his personal space.

    “Whoa..whoa..hey! Not with the guns” He shouted at his own arm using his right hand to push the weapon down to point the dangerous end at the sand. Looking back up he worried that for once the offensive action might have been the correct one. “Uh huhuh.. nice puppy?” Jaime voice held uncertainty and the weapon his arm had become remained at the ready because as much as he hated to admit it, it felt good to have a backup plan at the ready.

    ~Alert! Secondary life form approaching at 87.6 miles per hour~ Jaime looked around the great wolf while keeping one eye on it and the other trying to see what was approaching. “Dios Mios MORE?” he asked into the cool morning air before the glare of a head light caught his eyes forcing him to wince. Holding his hand up after reluctantly letting his other one go his hid the light from his eyes till the bike was parked and who else should walk up but the very hero he had come all this way to find. Robin the Boy Wonder. Student and former side kick to non-other than THE Batman. Had it not been for the giant, still possibly dangerous, panting monstrosity before him Jaime might just have freaked out a little.

    Unfortunately the situation was a bit more complicated, and Jaime could only rejoice on the inside while the Titan leader casually walked over to them. The first words out of his mouth though had Jaime’s hanging open with both shock and uncertainty. Looking between wolf and fellow hero he was at a loss for words, until slowly they began to trickle back. “I..wait..leash? NO non non non Its not mine..I mean..I don’t even know if its anyones to be honest..or really what it even is..”The last few words were spoken in a drawn out manner as he took another look at the wolf that had nearly buried him. It had not lashed out, so that meant good right? Did people in jump city normally have monster truck sized pets? How was Robin so casual about this? And…”OH uh..Sorry..let me just..hehe” shaking his hand he forced the cannon to return back to its five digit self and he straightened his posture with a weak and somewhat embarrassed smile. This was only made worse as he could just feel the sand still dripping off his body with the pungent smell of a salty fish factory. Some first impressions….

Words: 849 Tagged: Kira & Robin
Outfit: Scarab Bug Suit Notes: Yeah the more he merrier!