McCoy and His Stupid Paperclip [Open]

[telekinetic_badass]

Julian was in one of the sensoriums, which is where he had been spending a lot of time the last few days. Learning to fly a Federation starship wasn't easy, which was a shock to Julian since at first it seemed like the ship was smart enough to fly itself. But learning how to pilot one ended up being a crash course in astrophysics, stellar cartography, astrogation, warp physics, subspace sailing, and piloting all rolled into one. You practically had to have a Ph. D. in gravitational physics just to park the ship into a stable orbit.

Things that took Starfleet cadets months, if not years to learn, he had to cram in only a few days. It was time consuming (which meant far less Kara time than he would have liked) and he felt like his brain was going to melt out of his ears.

Which is why, for now anyway, he was taking a break. He had again recreated the SoCal beach where he grew up by, where the surf hit the sand, and the jagged rocks that were only a few feet down the shoreline. But rather than play basketball like he did last time, he was working with his telekinesis. Now that the collar was off, he was free to use his powers as he saw fit.

--And speaking of that collar, he was still holding on to it, oddly enough. Though rather than wear it around his neck, it hung from the side of his hip by a piece of his plantsuit; like he was displaying it as some kind of badge of honor--

But right now, he felt a little bit of practice time would do him good. Judging by the occasional loud explosion that came from in the sensoriums, followed by the rather emphatic cursing of one pissed off teenager, he could use the practice.

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[clear-horizons.livejournal.com]

Picard recognized that voice. The instant he entered the Sensorium, his plantsuit turned into a perfect replica of his Starfleet uniform. He already had the pips for it (he wore them on the collar of his plantsuit), but the rest of the suit was quite holographic, save for the phaser at his hip. Stepping onto a beach wasn't the most unusual experience for the captain; he'd had a holodeck aboard the Enterprise, after all. Still, what he saw was surprising.

"Mister Keller," he said with a smile, making sure to keep a safe distance away from the explosions and energy blasts or whatever Julian was doing, "I'm glad to see that the collar was removed. I trust everything is well?"

[so-pregnable.livejournal.com]

"Think fast, Keller!"

Hey look, it's a bus.

(What? Kon's fast enough to fly in and catch it if it looks like Keller will miss. Probably. He's still got a little tiiiny bit of juice left).

[telekinetic_badass]

Julian was shaking some sand out of his hair; the sensoriums definitely got that part of the beach right. He stopped, though, when he realized that he wasn't alone at the moment.

"Captain." Really, that sand can get everywhere. "Yeah, I got my powers back and everything. I just need to work out a few kinks in them, is all."

[telekinetic_badass]

"What the--"

The bus crashed into a solid wall of energy, then dropped to the ground.

"Dude, what the hell?!"

[notaheroanymore.livejournal.com]

Cissie could hear the explosions from down the hall and felt the growing need to investigate. She'd spent the better part of the last few days lost in thought, and just thinking. Maybe it was time to get out more, especially if this place was going to pick up. She had even missed the pod pop, though there hadn't been anyone she had wanted to see. No Bart. She felt her heart sting just a bit at that, but ignored it.

As she snuck into the sensorium and looked around she had to smile. There were a lot of beaches in the world, but this one seemed more active. If only for the teen currently exploding thing around the place. She tilted her head as she watched him, unsure if she should be surprised or amused at his powers.

"I'm guessing you've got anger issues. Or maybe, this is how you plan to attract girls. I heard that there's a rare bred of us women who love the telekinesis." She smirked a bit and stepped a bit closer, her arms crossing behind her back. "Though if you start ranting about how cool it is, I'm out of here. I get that enough from my friend."

[telekinetic_badass]

Julian only gave the new arrival a mildly annoyed look. "I don't have anger issues. What I have is sand in places where there doesn't need to be sand."

Which, yes, if you blow up things on a beach you get sand everywhere. Thankfully, rather than continue to brush it out, there was a slight flare of green energy as he used his powers to dust himself off, basically.

"Better." Much, much better, actually. "Let me guess, your friend is Kon?"

[notaheroanymore.livejournal.com]

"That is annoying. Went surfing once, ended up face first on the beach. I was washing out sand for the next week." She wasn't the least be worried about the annoyed look or the tone of his voice. She'd been around enough "I'm only like this to be cool" types to get it. Even if he wasn't doing this just to be cool.

"That'd be him. Take it he's already given you the hour long rant about how awesome his powers are."

[telekinetic_badass]

Julian is not like that to try to be cool, he's like that because he is cool. And because, well, he really did have sand in some uncomfortable places a moment ago. "Well, I think I got it all out, and it should disappear once I leave here anyway." At least, that's how he thought the sensoriusms worked.

"Yeah, he gave the whole routine, but I still say my powers are far more awesome. I'll be nice, though, and skip the hour long rant."

[halfa-hero.livejournal.com]

"I take it you haven't heard of subtlety?"

[telekinetic_badass]

Oh, great. Him.

"Says the guy who didn't even bother knocking."

[halfa-hero.livejournal.com]

"Gigantic explosions kinda render the entire act of knocking useless anyways."

[so-pregnable.livejournal.com]

"If it you didn't look like you could catch it, I was gonna zip in and grab it."

He claps his hands together, like someone waiting to be a thrown a ball.

"C'mon, toss it back."

[telekinetic_badass]

"Is there something you want? Or did you come here just to be useless and annoying?"

[telekinetic_badass]

There was a moment of blinking, as in this guy can not be serious. Hell, he and Santo only limited themselves to launching convertibles.

But, hey, when in Rome and all of that, right?

"Alright, Kon." Julian raised the bus into the air with a flick of his wrist, not even needing to lay a hand on it. "Go long!" It took some effort from him, but it still wasn't a problem to launch the bus down the beach.

[supertshirt.livejournal.com]

Kon's just a bit gregarious, Julian. Just a bit. And he got a slight recharge courtesy of Will earlier, with her little magical starlight thing. He prooobably shouldn't be wasting it like this, but he can stop when he starts getting tired.

Kon watches it go sailing right over his head and... pretty far off, actually.

"Niiiice."

Then just like that, he's gone, just a green plantsuit blur, and a moment later the bus comes launching back from that direction, looking a little worse for wear.

[telekinetic_badass]

"I got it!"

Of course, he wasn't stupid enough to try to catch it with his bare hands. But that didn't mean he couldn't catch it.

A giant hand made out of sand shot up from the ground in front of Julian. It caught the bus, and flung it right back at Kon.

[so-pregnable.livejournal.com]

"Oofta!" He catches it, but it's starting to fall apart just a bit.

"Hey, hold on, I have an idea."

All it takes is a subtle application of TTK, and there's a loud crunching sound as the bus is compacted into a very large, metal football.

"There we go!"

[telekinetic_badass]

Julian caught it in a tk field, then used his powers to punt it high into the air. "Heads up!"

He had to laugh at the sight of the giant metal football going a few miles into the air. "Man, Summers would never let me use the Danger Room for something like this."

[so-pregnable.livejournal.com]

Kon holds a hand to shade his eyes as he looks up over the beach and waits a little bit for the thing to start its downward arc.

"What's a Danger Room and who's Summers?"

[telekinetic_badass]

"It's basically the same as this, only not as advanced. The holo-emitters didn't have near this kind of range." He looked up watch for the oversized football.

"My old school had on in one of the sub-levels. Summers was Co-Headmaster of the place. A real tight ass, but still managed to bang some of the hottest chicks on the planet. He'd also shit a brink if anyone used the Danger Room for something other than training."

[so-pregnable.livejournal.com]

"Wait, so you had a superhero school?"

Aha, there it is.

Kon catches it and kicks it up in the air himself. It's going to take a while to come down.

[telekinetic_badass]

Let's hope it doesn't get stuck in orbit.

"Something like that. It was more a place where mutants could learn to control their powers, so we wouldn't like, blow up a building accidentally cause we sneezed, or something and for self-defense.

"The hero thing was optional, though." Back when the X-Men were heroes.

[so-pregnable.livejournal.com]

"You mean everyone didn't want to be? In my world there's not a lot of people with powers that don't fall into it. Hell, there's a lot of people without powers that fall into it..."

He scratches his chin.

"But then there is my team-mate Cissie, I guess. She retired because of a bunch of crap and because she'd been kinda forced into it, and it took our team a while to understand why she didn't wanna do it anymore. So maybe I can see why some people would just want a boring life instead. Less of life kicking you around like a hackey-sack."

Still, it almost sounds like Kon thinks it's far more natural to slap on spandex and beat up bad guys than it is not to.

[telekinetic_badass]

"Life is gonna kick you around like a hackey-sack no matter what you do, especially if you have powers. It's still a choice, though. You have to decide that you're gonna risk your neck for some else." Or, at least it used to be a choice. Back before M-Day, when he had more options than simply 'fight' or 'die'.

"Just because you have powers doesn't mean you have the heart to throw on spandex, y'know."

Julian looked up, tracking a dot that he figured would be the returning football.

[so-pregnable.livejournal.com]

"I guess. That just never really occurred to me growing up," he says thoughtfully. "I was pretty much born wearing it."

And before the crazy crap that went down with the Crisis and his getting abducted to Stacy, some of the worst few weeks of his life were when he'd temporarily quit and hid on the farm.