2010-01-20 - Battle Blondes?

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Battle Blondes?
Summary: Supergirl, Wonder Girl and Arrowette are in a training sim on the Watchtower. Mary Marvel and Miss Martian show up shortly thereafter, disrupting the blonde quota but adding their own strengths to the sim.
Who: Supergirl, Wonder Girl, Arrowette, Mary Marvel, Miss Martian When: January 20th, 2010 Where: Watchtower

In a reversal of her usual cheery competence in most combat situations, Arrowette is /not/ pleased. "Cassie, I am going to find your favorite pair of jeans and turn them into Daisy Dukes and /force you to wear them/," she threatens, "In the worst snowstorm I can FIND."

The situation might not warrant it, given the general lack of physical injury on Arrowette's part, but dangling upside-down from a flagpole in a simulated downtown Metropolis is injurious to the most treasured thing about a teenager: their dignity. How'd she get there? Well, judging by the cars tossed around and the arrows peppering the street, a fight of /some/ sort. Meanwhile, there is a crash and an explosion from one of the other buildings... and Arrowette spares it a wary glance.

... and resumes prying at the cord keeping her dangling with a certain more frantic edge. Evidently, teamwork practice is /not/ going so well.

Wonder Girl isn't going to lie, Teamwork is not her strongest suit, she's getting better but she's still.. Well. Not good at it, and considering how often they've worked togeather it might even be a little surprising. On the other hand they usually teamed up for much smaller scenarios.

"YEEOOOOW!!" cries the familiar voice of the other blonde following the explosion, and Wonder Girl comes flying out the window closest to Arrowette and manages to somehow come to a screeching halt in mid-air,

".. Arrowette, there you are!" she pipes in surprise, flying right up and of course assisting her bestest friend in getting untangled from the cord, "What are you -doing- over here anyway, I told you to cover me, not ... Whatever it is you're doing!"

Obviously, the archery prodigy isn't the only one getting frustrated by the situation, "Get it togeather, Princess!"

There's a blue-and-red blur as Supergirl flashes over to the pole, her eyes flashing red for a moment to just /cut/ the tip of the pole free. "Wow, maybe you two can sass them until they give up?", she says. "C'mon!"

Snapping the other part of the pole of the ground. She dashes back towards the horde of genuine simulated parademons. She's done this one before, but... well, she did it with other Leaguers. This... is different. She's usually been the rookie, but... well. Role reversal.

• WHAM!* She catches them with a sort of flagpole lariat, and then whips them all over and into the ground. But that's hardly enough, with their numbers, as they start to swarm over her.

"Well, according to the station computer, Kara is in here with two of your teammates, Arrowette and Wonder Girl." comments Mary Marvel, as for a brief instant the facade of one of the Metropolis buildings splits to reveal the doorway from the outside hallway, then melts back to normal once the gold-trimmed white-clad heroine and the emerald-skinned, red-haired heroine beside her have strolled inside. "Now we just have to ..."

Mary's voice trails off, as she catches sight of what's going on inside the simulation. A team training sim is one thing. Combat is to be expected. But parademons? That awakens something deep down inside the Marvel Maid.

"Let's go!" Mary calls, and takes off up into the 'sky' of the simulation, chasing after the parademons figuring to follow them to whomever or whatever they are attacking, and then strike from behind if given the chance.

"Okay, if the computer's sure!" M'gann replies merrily. She pauses inside the simulation, blinking. She has but the vaguest of ideas of what parademons are (read: bad news) so her reaction is not quite the same as Mary's. While the Marvel Maiden heads into the simulated skies, M'gann simply... disappears. She reappears behind one of the simulations, gamely tapping it on the shoulder. "Excuse me!" she says aloud, grinning broadly.

It could just be the sheer lack of /actual/ physical danger. Young Justice works together well under pressure, and less well in, er, less dire straits. The moment Arrowette's freed from the cord, she begins to drop a few feet. "And I /told/ you, there's more than just the big guy," she gasps, grabbing the last arrow out of her mostly-emptied quiver and stabbing into a wooden window-frame to stem her fall.

• THUNK*

A spear embeds itself in the brickwork where Arrowette was dangling moments before, cast by a parademon.

"..." Pride pricked, Arrowette exchanges a look with Wonder Girl, then pulls herself upwards on the spear... and then onto the roof, scooping up her bow as she goes. "I /was/ dodging parademons while you went after the machine," she grumbles. Indeed, in the control room, it marks Arrowette as having downed a round dozen. She scoops up discarded arrows as well, replacing them in her quiver. "I'm out of tricks, not arrows -- but there're a /lot/ of those demons." Her mind's ticking through possibilities even as she darts across a wobbly span of cables between two buildings, nocking and firing even as she goes, taking out a parademon in the pile around Supergirl. A second follows, the arrows scattering as the simulations waver out. "Cass! If I get them bunched up... can you take 'em out?"

The computer's good enough to compensate for the new arrivals: more parademons show up.

Wonder Girl has never had any experience with parademons herself, they're certainly a lot different from Thanagarians though! When Supergirl speaks to them, Cassie's primary response is just to frown a bit and the follow-up attack gets a mumbled, "Show-off." As if she wouldn't do the same thing. Heh.

She stays by Arrowettes side this time as her partner makes it to the roof and, unaware of the new entrants, grabs her own shoulder and rolls her arm to loosen up her muscles, "Yeah, it feels kind of familiar in a way," she agrees about the numbers, "But yes, you can count on me, just do your thing!" though she's curious what Arrowette's plan is, get a group of them? What's she going to say 'First one who gets to me can take me to the prom?'. Naturally she does not say this allowed.

And finally comes the parademon that M'gann decides to get the attention of, he/she/it was actually in the middle of ranzakking a recently broken snack machine, stuffing it's face with chocolates and fruit snacks. Upon the poking it just gives a 'Gnaagh!' and continues to munch away. He's busy!

Then comes the eyebeams! When you're Kryptonian and they're trying to pin, well- Supergirl lases out fiercely. When they're Parademons, she doesn't have to worry about holding back quite so much. /Some/- it wouldn't do to make Parademon pie.

Slugging one into the air, she manages to knock a bunch away, before flying towards Arrowette and Cassie. "Mary! M'Gann! Hey!", she calls out, as a horde of Parademons swarm after her... and towards the archer and the amazon. "Incoming, you two!"

Darned adaptive scenario programming, adding more parademons. But Mary Marvel charges in after them, and as soon as she catches sight of the furrball of Kara's fighting, she joins in. She /knows/ how to fight parademons, both here on Earth and back on Apokolips. It's not fun, but it can be done, and done well. A devastating mighty blow to the back of the head of one then offers his slumping, falling body, which Mary seizes and then turns to hurl at two or three more. Maybe if she keeps this up, she'll eventually get a chance to ask Kara and the others what she and M'gann came here to ask. Or maybe not.

Miss Martian scowls deeply at the parademon gorging on snacks. "I don't think those are for you!" Her eyes flash red as she speaks; when the parademon looks up again, his face will be met with a quickly-moving Martian fist. "Hmph. Chocos are not for monsters!" she declares triumphantly. She pushes off the ground and into the air to get a better idea of what's going on. "Supergirl! What ARE these things?!"

"I'm borrowing a trick," Arrowette explains, snagging a coil of her climbing cord and tying it to the shaft of her arrow. Dates to prom aside -- oh, that'll be one of THOSE conversations -- the archer-girl's charms aren't a weapon in this particular case. Parademons. Eeeeugh. The other end of the coil goes on a second arrow, and with a smirk, she nocks the first, looses, and an instant later has the second in the air.

It's one of those shots that only works in comic books, but oh boy does it work. It catches a platoon of parademons, looping them all together, the arrows curving inwards in an arc as the line tightens around its quarry. Problem: now they're falling Parademons, struggling against one another. Plus the ones incoming from Supergirl's direction. "That's the /other/ way of getting them all bunched up!" Arrowette flees the shadow of the falling mass, a diving somersault taking her to the other end of the rooftop, the word spinning briefly dizzyingly. "I swear I saw Miss Martian--" And she looks over towards the ransacked vending machine. Indeed. "It's a simulation! We found it in the archives!" she calls to her teammate. "Remember when the rest of us went to Apokolips? This plus the Furies were what we fought!"

Well the good news is the number may have not increased -that- much as the group more or less are in the final stages of the simulated invasion. It's probably due to persistance alone that the group have been holding up well despite not being one-hundred percent on the same page. Or maybe Is this, perhaps, the POWER OF YOUTH?

As Supergirl sweeps down with a mob of the aliens, Wonder Girl takes a step back in shock, "Ack! I don't want them, send it back!" like one would to a waiter, only much louder.

The situation is considerably more managable, thankfully, once Arrowette sets her plan in action and her tune changes immedietly, "Bring it on! One SUPER Wonder Punch coming up!" *FOOSH* Like a little rocket the Blonde Wonder blasts toward the crowd with her fist drawn back, then launches into an uppercut causing them to go flying like bowling pins upon contact. AFterward, though, she sets her hands on her knees, panting a little, "Thank goodness for the calvary, it feels like this has been going forever!"

As for the parademon who has suddenly gained Miss Martian's wrath, the invader doesn't get more time then to look before suddenly he's flying back and smashes right into a mailbox for his trouble, weapon clattering to the ground. Ouch!

Flying away for a moment to get some space, Supergirl says to M'Gann. "Oh, you know, monsters from Apokalips. Not a big deal on their own, but they usually come in packs. Armies. Packs of armies!"

"And nice shot, Arrowette.", she says with an admiring tone. "And nobody wants them, Wonder Girl. That would be the definition of 'villains'." She swings up in the air, and then dives, circling around some of the alien stragglers as she blurs into a tornado, carrying up a lot of them now that they're bunched up and battered! She grits her teeth slightly; this is the kind of hard effort she's /supposed/ be doing in training, but it's still hard! Around and around they go!

There's still others, of course, but most are flailing about in the supernado. Thankfully, Wonder Girl is in the eye of it, safe from the flurry and fluster. Mostly.

For her own part, Mary Marvel isn't feeling very conversant. Faced with Parademons, she's not holding back much, and she's officially 'going to town' on them. Not having laser-beam eyes like Kara, the Marvel Maid instead uses outright speed, acting fast enough she's a blur to most as she follows up her thrown parademon and his pack of tumbling buddies with herself, lashing out at chins and chests and anything else she can reach, then pulling out to allow them to tumble into the street below. There are more above, and she's heading for them. Those staff blasts hurt, though, and she has to right herself more than once in her headlong charge, shaking her head clear. Ow.

Spying one of the parademons that has yet to engage any of the heroines, M'gann chooses that one as her target. She flies towards it. In mid-flight form blurs and shifts, becoming a large winged serpent. Serpent-M'gann hisses angrily at the parademon before coiling around it, squeeeeeeezing hard before it can struggle to escape. Weapon or not, the monster's arms will be pinned in place to prevent the usage of any possible tools or weapons.

"It's what I do," Arrowette says with a flicker of pride, particularly as Cassie bowls a strike, so to speak. "Nice, Wonder Girl!" she calls. Apparently, teamwork is back on track. Miss Martian's shift into a serpent makes her eyes wide slightly, but she picks off the parademon squeezed in the martian-serpent's coils, then catches ahold of something as a buffet of wind from the Supernado tugs at her. "At least," she yells over the wind, "We don't have the Furies to deal with!!"

Huff huff, Wonder Girl slaps her cheeks though she does hear Arrowette's call, making her grin- Not that it can be seen through the whirlwind, "Couldn't have done it without yo- ACK!" That's the sound of her finding herself in the most unusal of predicaments, and she rockets straight upward looking a touch envious as she quite easily figures out the cause of it. ".. Good point, I'll need a.. better punchline.." she murmurs, a touch slouched forward. Artemis always had scolded Cassie about pacing her energy.

It's by coincidence that she, at that point, catches sight of the winged serpent, "W- Who -is- that, he's on our side, right?" she calls out to no one in particular. M'gann smartly took hold of a parademon, keeping Wonder Girl from clobbering her immedietly.

Supergirl slows, and it's rainin' Parademons. Thud thud thud thud. "Oh, that's just M'Gann.", she says matter-of-factly. After all, she's been around J'Onn enough to know the drill. "Ugh, the furies. I can't believe I'm still dealing with those losers."

She flies forward to help out Mary, though, socking a Parademon more plainly as she darts around a blast. "Need a hand?", she offers, pausing as she dodges another blast. Apparently, she's done this before. Well, both the sim /and/ fighting Parademons.

"A hand is always welcome." Mary Marvel offers Supergirl, as the blonde Argosian wonder joins her in the midst of the battle with the remaining parademons up in the sky. "You know, we weren't actually coming to join in your fight ..." she confesses, as she flies back to back with Kara, pounding parademons in tandem.

She descends behind two parademons, her hands growing into existence again. One hand clamps onto a shoulder from each parademon and she unceremoniously bashes their heads together. "Ha!" M'gann declares triumphantly, grinning. "Take that!" She beams brightly, flashing her grin at her teammates.

"Martian," Arrowette says simply in reply to Cassie's surprise. "You okay there, Wonder Girl?" The archer-girl snags up her fallen arrows, tumbling forward to avoid a shot that leaves the roof blackened behind her. "I'm feeling a little out of my weight class here..." Despite this, she's amused: she's well-aware of her limitations, but it doesn't tend to stop her. She nocks a pair of arrows to her string, a flashy shot taking down a pair of clustered parademons fleeing the airborne girls.

"The only one I don't really want to run into again is Knockout," she comments, one hand going briefly to her throat. "I could deal with the others." Well, little does she know that she's encountered more than just Knockout, but Gilotina... doesn't quite count. She isn't actively trying to kill Arrowette.

Wonder Girl can't help but chuckle a little, she'd never seen Miss Martian in battle before, but it shouldn't surprise her that there's a smile on the female aliens face- And not in the 'lust for battle' sort of way. But her cheeks redden a bit as Supergirl easily identifies the once-serpent and crosses her arms, "Mmnngh."

"I'm ok, Arrowette!" she declares, "I'm going to go ahead and wrap this up, hold on to your butts!" She's actually never tried what she has planned before, but she figures with enough concentration it couldn't be difficult, "Miss Martian, get Arrowette for me, I'm doing to do a little street cleaning!" 

And with that she swoops toward the ground, then proceeds to start flying in a wide-circle, whatever she is clearly inspired by Supergirl's previous technique. The only problem is she has little idea if what she's doing is working, or if she's gaining enough speed so long story short, in the end, she reaches a speed she's unfamiliar with and her body abruptly shuts down from the overexertion. In the blink of an eye Wonder Girl is skipping across the street, ripping through gravel and possible through a couple of buildings as well unless she gets some assistance.

"I've run into Knockout recently, and I forgot to give her something. If you run into her, maybe we can tag off?", Supergirl says before turning and taking a blast. "Ahhh!", she says, covering up with her arms. A blur an a moment later, she's taking the offending Parademon and smacking him into another. "The gift was 'knuckles', for the record.", she says with a playful smirk. "Ah, Wonder-!"

She's gone in a flash, dipping low and catching Wonder Girl after two buildings. "Watch it, this place isn't set to pull a lot of punches right now." She sets Wonder Girl down gently, away from the fracas, and zooms back. "So, Mary, what's up?", she says, socking another one.

Mary Marvel seizes the blast staff from one parademon, then uses it to throw that one into another, then snaps the staff over the head of a third as she continues battling the remnants, trying to whittle her way down to a 'Game Over' message, here. "Well, M'gann was watching the cheerleading competition in the rec room. After a little while - and some chocos and brownies - we thought of going to the movies. She mentioned her teammates were on board and might like to come along. So ... I thought of asking you. Then the computer said all of you were here." And there it is. How informative, right?

Miss Martian swoops down to Arrowette's side as Cassie requests. "You need a ride or something?" M'gann asks, still grinning. "I can lift you up and we can fly over to Supergirl and Mary Marvel if you want!" Or is she just supposed to protect Arrowette in case more parademons come along?

"Definitely. Though, like I say, I'd rather /not/ run into her. She probably has plenty of reasons to want to choke me again," Arrowette admits, "But she's creepy. She was apparently flirting with Superboy." It's hard to tell if the faintly perturbed look is the result of Miss Martian's offer, or the aforementioned incident. It clears quickly though, her eyes lighting up at Mary's suggestion. "That'd be great! What were you going to go see?" Her attention's caught by Miss Martian's landing next to her. "I think so, Miss Martian-- oh."

"I think she's trying to do Impulse's whirlwind run thing..." Pause. She shoulders her bow, letting Miss Martian carry her off, shielding her eyes. "Oh, /ow/ Cass. Is she okay, Supergirl?"

Supergirl nods firmly. "She'll be okay. We should probably wrap this up, though. That was a pretty rough knock." She looks to Wonder Girl concernedly, and says, "Simulation zeta-gamma-zeta, end." And... well, you get the plain room left behind. She floats over towards Wonder Girl, giving an x-ray glance to make sure her words are honest.

She lands, offering her hand to Wonder. "You only see one of me, right? One Supergirl?"

The simulation ends, and Mary Marvel floats down following Supergirl, landing beside the others to check on Wonder Girl and the others. "Everyone else alright?" She glances towards M'gann and smiles. That didn't go too badly. "We hadn't actually made up our minds what to go see. We wanted to see whom else we could find to go with us first, and then discuss it together." They have the whole video library of the League to work from. Let's just hope they don't try any of Booster Gold's or the Flash's video collection. Ugh.

Wonder Girl , once set on her feet, wobbles a little and then slouches again with her hands on her knees. Impressively enough she seems to have gotten out of that one with minor cuts and some nasty bruises, and Supergirl finds that there thankfully isn't anything broken. Within the swimminess she does hear Miss Martian's words, "C- Cancel that plan. And yeah I'm ok, just need to sit down for a moment."

Actually it's pretty embarassing, sure she was looking for attention, but only for doing something -awesome- not something like this! A confirmation given, "Yep just one. Blurry but definatly one, OH! a girl's night? That's a great idea!" She actually hasn't the slightest clue whom Knockout may be, but the mention of flirtation, amusingly enough, ends up making her think of Gilotina. As for who she was imitating, well, she's not going to confess on that one either.

"What sort of movies are we up for?" inquires the Martian, now that the program's over. Her eyes flash with concern to Cassie, pushing off the desire to offer her own suggestions. She snaps her fingers and points as though she has an idea... and then phases through the floor. A few minutes later she reappears through the entrance doors holding a big bag of chocos. Chocos: the best cureall. Ever. "Choco?" she asks, standing in front of Cassie once more.

At Mary's question, Arrowette twists to glance at her shoulder, a bandage peeking out from beneath the chest protector's strap. It doesn't seem to have shifted, so she wavesa hand Marvel-wards. "I'm fine here, thanks to getting out of the radius of all that. And the earlier, um, issues." Instead of elaborating on that, she turns her attention to Wonder Girl, crouching beside her teammate, the white skirt she wears shifting with the motion. For once, she's not a minority for wearing a skirt! "Well, that /is/ the point of training," Arrowette points out, "Trying out things that might or might not work." She rests a hand on Cassie's back, grinning at her teammate. "It did /look/ pretty cool." There, it's soothing!

"I have to be back by ten or Canary'll have my head, but I'm totally up for a movie. Something that'll horrify the guys if they show up?" The appearance of Miss Martian's cure-all makes her laugh as she straightens up again, dusting off her skirt. She sneaks a glance at Mary and Supergirl -- hey, they're older than she is! And, well, /them/! -- before she shakes off the incipient fangirlishness. For all her familiarity with this sort of thing these days... she's still a teenager. "Feeling better, Wonder Girl?"

Supergirl keeps an eye on WOnder Girl as she gets up. "Probably should get bandaged up first, there." She turns to Mary. "Did Booster leave his movie- they should know they're not even supposed to bring those into the library anymore.", she gags. "Report it to staff if you see that, they'll just throw it out now."

She settles a hand on her hip. "Maybe something old? Old and sappy? There's still so many movies I haven't seen, especially the old ones." She shrugs a little, tilting her head slightly. "Love story? Holiday movie? Disney?"

"The original Breakfast At Tiffanies?" Mary offers, ready to lend a hand to anyone who needs it, but no one seems to need much. "It's an older film, a romance, and generally one I'd be sure most guys would run the other way from." As for Booster and Flash and their movie collections, she didn't actually mention those, but she is marginally aware that what those two watch would be things she would not care for. Then again, Mary has a very old-world sensibility about such matters.

Wonder Girl stands up a little straighter, which results in a grunt, causing her to slouch forward once more, "Bandages sound like a good idea.. Or a bit of ice." The poor heroine was hurting pretty rough, but then who to come to the rescue but Miss Martian! At the sight of the package the Blonde Wonder brightens, "Oh hey! Great!" She takes a hand full, proceeding to munch one and then looks near beaming to Arrowette's compliment, "It did? .. I mean of course it did! And I'm feeling much better, it was just a little slip up, no big deal.."

And as for movies, well, naturally Cassie has plenty of ideas, "Well sure we, uh, could watch that.. -Or-, there's The Karate Kid," she saw that nine times, "Or we can see Space World," she saw that fifteen times, "Or there's also Eliminator 2, that one was great!" She saw that eight times. Naturally Cissie would know this. ".. Um Jurassic Park is kind of old." If she gets the feeling these aren't particularly popular choices though, she'll quickly backpedal, "B- But I head Breakfast at Tiffany's is good.."

Arrowette stifles a giggle at Cassie's suggestions. "Hey, we could watch that remake of Sense and Sensibility with ninjas?" she suggests laughingly. "Or if we want to go the classics route... though I guess S&S could qualify. I don't really mind, but I really want a quick shower before then. Shall we meet up in a bit in the lounge?" The suggestion is accompanied with a hopeful look.

"Or we could just hit the random button on something and then we aren't stuck with something overly girly-" She gestures to herself. "-or action-y." She gestures to Cassie with that gleam of amusement in her eyes. "Anyway. Shower. /Then/ meet up again."

"I like those cartoons with the rabbit and the duck. And the little guy in the skirt and the feathered helmet. He's funny," M'gann comments idly. "Did they make any movies with them?" She giggles at Cassie's choco-reaction. "I have PLENTY. I left them all in the lounge though. I always bring lots when I come by in case Elder J'onn comes by. He likes them too you know."

"Hey, let's watch them all!", Supergirl suggests, and then ohs. "Oh, right, curfew. Look, maybe I can ask Dinah for you? I think she'll understand if we just put it the right way." She makes a phone gesture to her ear. "The Justice League needs her, it's an emergency." Laughing, she walks towards the exit. Hard to tell if she's kidding on that. "C'mon, everybody!"

"Normally curfew's later, but I stayed out late last night chasing after something in Bludhaven, and Huntress gave me a ride home, and /that/ went over like a lead balloon. So I'm not allowed to stay out too late for the next week," Arrowette explains to Supergirl, a mischievous grin quirking one corner of her lips upwards. "Ooh, I like those too, but I haven't seen them for /years/, M'gann." She offers Cassie a shoulder to lean on if she needs it, then starts heading for the lockers.

Wonder Girl gives M'gann a good long stare for a moment.. But eventually seems to catch on to what M'gann is referring to while still munching, "Worse comes to worse we can just line all the movie covers in a circle and spin a bottle," she suggests as a method of choosing. She can't say she's too surprised about Arrowette getting herself into trouble so fast, it makes her smirk as she accepts her friends assistance, "Good idea, shower -then- the bandages." She, on the other hand, will stay as late as she possibly can! Something belatedly clicks in, ".. Elder J'onn does too? Wicked.." she murmurs. I mean that's kind of like envisioning her mother eating Apple Jacks or something.