Jump City
Majin Buu
Exiting out of the store after having 'stored' the groceries inside of myself with a bit of careful absorbing, I wanted to see the state of the criminals after Robin himself give them a beat down; I received some obvious stares from the civilians when I stored away my groceries through my skin, the magic my body was capable of allowed the ease of transport of stuff by shrinking them down.
Already, I could hear the distant sirens of police vehicles heading this way. While I stepped out to the night air outside the store, Robin was in the midst of finishing placing handcuffs on the criminals. All of them were groaning in pain, as they were laid face down against the asphalt of the parking lot.
Robin stood up after he clasped the last one up, before he turned to face me with a stern look, "How come you didn't chase after them?" he asked out of the blue, whilst he crossed his arms as we stood across from each other.
I offered the caped hero a simple raised eyebrow expression, before answering him, "Criminal men weapons already destroyed, not threat anymore." I answered plainly. I got where he was coming from, but I wasn't fully committed to the hero thing quite yet.
Sure, I performed the heroism bit from time to time, but Jump City had its police force that was strapped well and good. I saw one of the workers inside having called the police, so it was only a matter of time before the situation was settled. Of course, if the situation got more dire, I would indeed step in.
But the police force was paid by the American tax dollar, I wasn't…okay, that came out wrong. It would do my civic duty as a responsible person, if I was a hero, like a citizen's arrest of a criminal that America allowed its people to do. But right now, I was dealing with life on my own terms.
I was far from a Superman boy scout hero, I was my own person, I have my own desires in life. This new one just made it more…odd to say the least to find a purpose.
Robin stared at me for a few seconds then lightened his gaze, before speaking again, "hmm, well, you did disarm them without trouble, I'll have to give you that." he mused, before he turned to walk off, while police cars rounded the corner of a street and into the parking lot. Robin stopped after a few paces and waited for the law force to exit their vehicles and rushed past him to begin collecting the criminals.
A few police officers gave both of us passing glances, before resuming their urgent duty of collecting the robbers. The entire police force, like I previously mused on, were all wearing advanced armor, with helmets on that obfuscated their faces, showing only a reddish glass tinted face mask of sorts.
Robin turned to face me again, "I've studied this city before I arrived, just so you know." he seemingly warned, with a gaze that focused back to that of an accusatory stare, "Figured I look and see if I was stepping on anyone else's toes before I came here."
Knowing he was Batman's protege, and the most extreme one from what I remembered, I wouldn't expect anything less of a Robin to prepare himself.
I still remember how extreme this Robin is, dude was throwing Cinderblock over his shoulder like it was nothing; To that one scene from the Teen Titan's movie where he attacks that one pink dude against a billboard, caused it to collapse off its steel girders, before descended down on the villain from an absurd height.
Damian ain't got shit on 2003 Teen Titan's Robin, regardless of his upbringing in the League of Assassins.
While the police force was in the process of unmasking the would-be robbers, showing just average looking guys, I responded back to Robin while crossing my arms in turn, "Bird boy is Batman's, Yes? Buu does not expect any less. Heard how Batman operates through online forums."
It wasn't hard to look for message boards surrounding heroes and villains, there's even an online hosting site that has its own live chat feed for people to chat on ongoing hero fights.
Of course, you had message boards with shitposters and trolls, but I was not expecting anything less from internet culture, even in this world…I'd have been disappointed if I didn't see any.
Robin looked at me with some measure of surprise, before schooling his features, "Oh, you've been on those sites." He remarked, making a cynical tone. "You should probably steer clear of those places, a lot of it is just rumors that they like to spout," he warned back.
I don't know, I feel like it would be something Batman would do, peruse through the internet message boards that pertained to Gotham City.
I shrugged back at him, while in the background the police was finishing up their business in putting the criminal in the back of their vehicles. As I was about to speak more on the matter, a portal opened up in the night sky above the ocean, making everyone turn and look.
A boom soon followed from the portal, which looked like a mini vortex of blue and white energy, it was quite huge; A large alien looking spaceship came out from its entrance, its hull was smoking from what looked like something had attacked it.
Following after it, a similar looking ship chased after the battered one but in pristine condition, shot another blast at the back of the first ship, causing an explosion in its engine thrusters in its back; the first ship began descending down towards the city, while the secondary ship stayed hovering in the sky.
Shortly after, from out of the secondary ship, lizard looking aliens with jetpack looking wings of sorts flew out and chased after the ship that was falling out of the air.
Robin swiveled on his feet to shout at me, "Hurry, deal with that ship crashing! I'll deal with those aliens!" He ordered with a strict tone, before running off. Shortly after, he used his grapple gun to swing through the streets like Spider man.
Already I could hear people in the distance scream in shock and fear, while the cops nearby began calling into dispatch on their next orders.
I instantly flew off from the ground and after the ship to catch it, I didn't need Robin telling me that the ship needed to be stopped, but in all fairness he wasn't wrong to tell me to deal with the ship; I was currently the only one capable at the moment, so that by default made it my responsibility.
Innocent people would get crushed otherwise, and having that on my conscience was a no go, not when I could do anything about it. I wasn't that sort of person.
While I flew after the smoking ship with pink ki energy surrounding me, I flew around its front to catch it, while from out of its hull two familiar faces caught me by surprise; one was Starfire and the other was Blackfire.
This is not how I remembered things happening in the show, I don't remember the whole show that well, but I know for damn sure Blackfire did not accompany her sister, not to mention the fact that neither were in alien tech handcuffs.
While I caught the ship and began slowing its descent, Starfire was the one to help me while Blackfire was off taking on those lizard looking aliens that flew after the smoking ship, their alien race name escaped my mind for the moment.
While Starfire flew towards the front of the smoking ship, I was in the process of pushing the ship back, before an idea came to mind. While I kept the now halted ship in place with some effort on my part, Starfire finally approached me with concern on her face, "U̷̘̇m̵̛̝…̴͖̉ù̷̢h̷͍̐…̴͍͒p̷͙̈i̶͕̍n̷͎̽k̷̥̃ ̵͔̏c̷̯͂r̶̜̿è̵̮ả̸̩ť̸͕u̷͍͘r̴̥̆è̷͉, do you understand Tamaranean?" She asked, she looked surprised at how easy I was holding up the ship.
I wasn't sure how strong Tamaraneans were, maybe I was just making it look easy or something…while I continued holding the ship up, I charged magical energy into my antenna, I looked over at her with a straight face, "Buu does now, Buu only need person to speak few times, before Buu understands language." This was far more convenient, it would have been more awkward and weird for me to kiss her.
Starfire expressed surprise, before speaking again, while in the background of the air, Blackfire tackled one of the alien enemies down to the city streets with a loud boom. "Then do you require help?" She asked, while looking between me and the ship I was holding deftly in the air.
After enough magic energy was built up in my antennae, I spoke to Starfire, "No, but before Buu does something with ship, is any other person in ship?" I asked, giving her a straight look.
Starfire expressed an unsure look, "Just a few incapacitated Gordanians." She responded.
Oh good, then I can just turn it all into a hollowed out chocolate with caramel inside it, I was honestly hankering for the taste big time. I smiled a toothy grin, and promptly zapped the entire ship in my grasp into one entire large chocolate ship, caramel filled with some marshmallow inside the caramel.
Starfire's gaze practically widened while her pupils went comically surprised, "What form of power is that!?" she practically shouted in surprise.
Before I could answer her, the bottom of the hollow filled chocolate ship broke open, letting loose the viscous caramel out along with some marshmallow bits; and after another second, the entire ship began cracking all over until it all fell apart. The chocolate shell shards fell to the ground below while civilians sprinted to get out of the way, many even had to exit their vehicles to get out of the way of the carmel and the bits of chocolate that fell to the ground below.
I held up the two pieces of chocolate shells of the ship in each hand, I am an idiot. A solid piece of chocolate was the better choice, but here I was, witnessing the folly of my plan.
"Was that supposed to happen?" Starfire asked me, earning my attention over to her, expressing confusion.
I shook my head, while the pieces of chocolate ship crashed to the streets below, and the viscous caramel and marshmallow bits inside it flowed steadily across the street. I bit into the chocolate piece on one of my hands, and enjoyed the sweet taste of chocolate, while one side of it was still coated in caramel
I swallowed my piece, before speaking back at Starfire, "Answer Buu this." I began to ask, before a beam of energy slammed into my head, not quite jerking my head back, but I did feel a dull heat on the surface of my forehead; the other piece of chocolate slipped from my grasp as I clenched my hands in anger.
While Starfire quickly took up a defensive stance as she turned around to block an incoming laser blast headed for her, I glared over at the idiots that were flying towards us with jetpacks on their back. "Never mind, Buu need to throw hands at idiots!" I scowled.
Starfire gave me a quick confused look over her shoulder, "Wait, how would you throw hands, when your hands are attached?"
Good question, something I can answer, cause I can actually do that for the hell of it. I retaliated back at the trio of aliens heading our way, by punching my fists out twice, one after the other. My fists detached from my wrists and launched at the two of the three aliens, catching both of the two in the face, before they were sent crashing down to the street below.
The third lizard looking alien growled in anger as he raised his weapon up to fire, only for Starfire to quickly fire a green bolt at his weapon while she flew at him; the alien ended having his gun shot out of his hands, before Starfire was on him with a face to the skull that sent him crashing out of the air after his fellow aliens.
Starfire turned around and beam a brimming smile, while I willed my hands back to my wrist stumps. "Oh! So that's what you meant, by throwing hands! You certainly are a peculiar kind of alien!" She said, before she expressed an urgent look, "Now excuse me, I need to help my sister! You may call me Koriand'r, by the way sir Buu!" She greets, before she zoomed off down to the streets below where Blackfire was fighting off a horde of the aliens alongside Robin.
…I'm not surprised Starfire does not know about Buu, her people wouldn't have lived to tell the tale to their children…but I can safely bet those Yoda looking aliens of Green Lantern probably know the past Buu.
I shook my head to gaze off to the ship still in the sky; I could just end this here and now, by turning that entire ship into full on solid chocolate, but part of me just wanted to go in there and feel the sensation of my fists against those alien's faces. One is just ending the problem now, while the other involves being an overpowered opponent against those aliens.
Screw it, I haven't let myself loose on an army yet, this was as good a chance as any to get myself used to facing multiple enemies at once…regardless if they can hurt me or not.
I checked down below once more, and noticed the caramel was now just pooling flat across a few blocks of streets, no one was caught in the stuff, so no harm no foul…save for the mess and all. It's like looking at a Willy Wonka disaster.
I'd deal with it later, preferably by eating it all.
Jinx
Having spent her time at the library, she left the place to head back to her temporary home for the night. Everything was all fine and dandy, the night air was warm, the city was calm save for the few distant emergency vehicle sirens, but that was what you have with Cities; the moment the sky had alien ships and aliens had Jinx think otherwise that the night would just be a normal one.
From the pristine looking ship that had gunned down the other one, aliens began flying out of it, most went flying after the ship, while others flew down to the street below.
One of the aliens that flew down, landed atop a car, caving in its roof and pointed his gun at everyone, before speaking in a gravely and grouchy voice, "Nobody interfere with us! Or be met with deadly force!" He ordered.
Jinx glared at the idiot, she was honestly unsure what sort of information any alien race had on Earth, but they had to have known something about its protectors that was the Justice League; but therein laid the problem, the world was big, and not every problem could be handled at once by its heroes.
From out of the apartment nearby, one of the civilians exited out and grasped at his head in worry, "No no no! MY CAMARO!" the man cried out, and glared at the alien, before realizing who he was looking at, and slowly backed away. "Never mind!" he squealed out.
The alien on the hand, swiveled around and aimed his gun at the man, "Perhaps I didn't make myself clear!" He yelled, his gun warmed up with a yellow glow at its end while the man began scrambling to run off into his home, "No interference!" he yelled, his finger on the trigger tensing as he was about to fire at the man.
Jinx didn't want to have the image of a man get vaporized in front of her eyes, before having it stained in the back of her mind; A prankster she was, but she had her limits. That was why Jinx reflexively charged her bad luck energy into her palm and fired at the alien's gun to cause a certain reaction. "Deal with some that can actually fight back, you lizard looking freak!" she yelled.
The alien's gun exploded in his face from the energy it was charging, causing the alien to get launched back from the explosion and get slammed into the building's wall across the street; the alien's body smoked as he fell to the ground unconscious.
Jinx exhaled with a calming breath, before she was alerted to the presence of more aliens heading her way through the air. "More of them?" she asked herself with a glare at the lizard freaks.
While everyone else was already leaving, the guy from before slid down against his door and looked Jinx gratefully, "You-you save my-"
Jinx's harsh glare over at the guy, made him stop mid sentence, "There's more coming, don't just sit there!" she yelled, making the man shake his head in agreement, before he scrambled to enter his home and leave the chaos outside for others to deal with.
She was not used to ever being a hero, she never was one in her hometown, but people in this city had nothing to do with whatever score these aliens had to settle with whoever was in that other ship.
As three more of those aliens flew over and hovered above her with weapons aimed and primed at her with yellow glowing ends, she was about to send another wave of bad luck energy at the aliens, were it not for the intervention of someone else.
"Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos!" A familiar voice yelled, before three cars covered in black energy were hurled off at the aliens, catching them in the air and colliding with a crash of metal and flesh, before sending them all to the streets below with a boom.
Jinx turned around to look at the girl from earlier, and glare at her, she did not want to thank her, "...did expect to run into you again." she stated, keeping a clear tone, hiding her surprise that the girl had her own powers.
Perhaps that was one of the reasons she talked down to her about her prank on the dancers? experience?
The goth looking girl however, offered a simple flat look, "...I could say the same to you." she responded, her tone never dipping or raising an octave.
Before either of them could utter another word to break the tension between them, bright pink light lit up the night sky, prompting both of them to see Buu high up in the air, with a now chocolate ship in his grasp.
"...Why did he turn that entire thing into chocolate!?" Jinx sputters out, her eyes wide comically, all that chocolate. That Buu guy must have used some extreme form of magic.
The other girl on the other hand had her back turned towards her, so she couldn't see the girl's expression, "And…by the looks of it, he made it hollow…with caramel…" she said with a deadpan tone, as indeed, the entire ship began cracking under its own weight with caramel slipping out its crack.
Both of them watched as the entire chocolate ship cracked apart, its chocolate shell bits fell to the streets below while its insides fell as well, and by the looks of it, Buu had included marshmallow in it as well. "Who's even going to clean all that up!" Jinx sputtered in disbelief, while the other girls sighed with annoyance.
The other girl turned around and flew off to the air, "What an idiot." she murmured, while Jinx turned and watched the goth looking girl fly off. Jinx looked back toward where the slow moving river of caramel was working through the streets, before she decided to follow where the sounds of fighting were happening.
She had better things to do than just stand and watch the slow moving molasses of sugar flow to her feet
…a small part of her wanted to go back and taste the dang stuff, but she'd be better off asking if Buu could turn something more manageable into a hollow piece of chocolate with caramel inside of it…now she was wanting some herself.