My mind returns to that one hill... (Bendytime just before the Mission) [OPEN]

[thewunderkind]

"You look tired," a voice behind her remarked. Lash dismissed him with a wave of a hand as the projection towered next to her.

She had taken to coming to the sensoriums a lot more lately. They offered her a time off from everything; the engineering (which was fun and interesting) and the ranger training (which she might call Morphnominal ...if that didn't sound so cheesy). But something had been bothering Lash a lot more lately, even more so than she liked to admit to herself.

It was already hard to be a growing teenager stuck inside an intergalactic spaceship, yet it certainly had its merits, especially for someone who knew if she had continued to live in her World, would have ended up somewhere imprisoned for her crimes, but...there was worse.

Feelings. Black Hole was very discouraging of them. After all, conquering nations didn't want sympathetic officers, they wanted brutal commanders, something Lash had taken a liking most of her young life. She had been all that Black Hole could have wanted in a child soldier; brilliant, deadly and ruthless even to her own troops. How many weapons of hers had been used to murder countless others? Too much to count. Did she felt guilty about it? Maybe. A bit. Certainly a bit more than before.

And that's what scared her the most. Caring suddenly made you fragile. Her life was suddenly a lot more complicated; even looking at some of the guys on the ship, and that tiny pang of jealousy as soon as she saw them talking to other girls. It made her in turn notice how she suddenly felt, well...alone. Sure she was in a team now, and sure it reminded her of the happier days with Black Hole, but in the end the Rangers couldn't ever replace them and they weren't here with her now. The people she knew, like that tall guy next to her, with his tell-tale mohawke. Just an illusion, like the others around her. Was the real deal in the pods waiting? Each month made Lash less and less hopeful of his return and as her feelings grew and changed, she began to realize how much she missed his company.

"Nah, I'm just thinking of my next move," the wunderkind explained as she clasped her hand under her chin, looking down at the glowing display before her, and an all too familiar scenario. "Fighting against an A.I. is much harder than I thought it would be." All of her data on the other nations she had once carefully stored and kept so she could analyze what had gone wrong that day of the battle, now based mostly on her memories. And yet now she found herself on a very different situation; this time she was letting the A.I. play the role of Black Hole as she played the Allied Nations. As she walked, the scene around her changed. She pushed a few tanks backwards to bait them. Seven days had passed, and the laser fired at her units. Her Laser. The five hundred foot Death Ray she had built for Sturm those years ago. It felt so incredibly ironic.

"Damn it! At this rate I'm gonna lose. OH! I HATE loosing so much!" She pouted, crossed her arms in anger and nearly threw herself down to sit on the ground as the laser hologram harmlessly pass through her. The units behind her were completely obliterated. Well at least she could rest easy knowing how efficient that laser was?

"I'm not worried." Ha! For a few seconds Lash looked up at the man before returning to the puzzle before her. If she hadn't known any different, that could have really been Hawke sitting next to her. Wordlessly, she grinned and shut him off.

"Thanks birdbrain. Wherever you are." Holographic representation of him or not, Lash felt a tiny little better.

[[Open Log! Come bother Lash and talk with her as much as you like.]]

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[thewunderkind]

Of course Lash was going to be completely mature about this and....okay no.

"Teeheehee!" she giggled at the greenish Anatidae. "So nice of you to...drop in!"

If Beast Boy were to look up, she would be putting on a pair of classes as a theme song started to roll, okay not really.

[changelingdude.livejournal.com]

Beastboy sat up laughing and his eyes were rolling in his head, "You know I was thinking of taking a trip in the fall."

Ok not as funny.

"What's going on fluffy?" He asked smacking his head till his eyes settled back into their proper place...if not a little crossed.

[thewunderkind]

"Reminiscing," she explained, pointing to her brain. "Gotta keep it nice and sharp or else I'll just loose myself in..."

HOLY CRAP SHE REALIZED SHE HADN'T TOLD HIM YET!

"I FORGOT TO TELL YOU!" she screamed, as joyfully and excitedly as those caplocked words they were written with, "YOU'LL NEVER GUESS WHAT HAPPENED!"

[changelingdude.livejournal.com]

Beastboy flailed at her sudden enthusiasm and grinned, "Lemme guess, Stacy agreed to let you finally merry your super death laser?" He laughed cheerfully, "Kidding! Tell me what!"

[thewunderkind]

No that was a terrible suggestion because Lash was just going to go with it.

"How did you guess? I'm installing a gigantic death ray on top of the ship tomorrow for our honeymoon!" And she said it with such an innocent grin too...

[changelingdude.livejournal.com]

Beastboy looked confused, then laughed again and punched his fist into the air "Booyah dude! Have I mentioned you're like, my favorite mad scientist ever?"

[thewunderkind]

"...just how many mad scientists do you know?"

[changelingdude.livejournal.com]

Beastboy grinned slyly and wiggled his ears, "Well you know, in my line of work I usually have to stop them from blowing up the planet, send em to jail that sort of thing. But for you? Maybe just a slap on the wrists."

[thewunderkind]

"Oh okay," she replied, grinning back. "But well," she pretend to be completely melodramatic, "I guess my giant evil death ray days are over..."

[changelingdude.livejournal.com]

"Yep!" He put an arm around her, "Make way for the Giant Heroic Death Ray days!" He paused and added, "Except maybe with less death. Maybe like a stun ray? Or a cake Ray! Mmmmm cake."

[thewunderkind]

Okay maybe now would be a good time to tell him. Because it sounded like the perfect opportunity to deliver the line.

"Or how about me piloting a gigantic robot with rays and wearing bright yellow spandex?"

[changelingdude.livejournal.com]

Beastboy laughed again, he always laughed so much around Lash, a credit to her humor. "Dude I love those shows! The way the team does all the Hiiii yah! An hooooo yah!" He sprang away from her and mimed some horribly executed kung-fu falling on his butt. "And then when the chips are down they call in the robot and...!" He was on his feet again miming a big sword, "BOOOOOOOOOM!"

tkdtukldyil that icon.

[thewunderkind]

Ahh but Beastboy, this was a time when Lash wasn't joking around. Mostly.

"You mean like this?" She preformed one of the kung-fu like moves. It wasn't perfect since she was out of the suit, but it was certainly a lot better than just a few weeks ago without any knowledge at all. She'd been practicing a lot, okay.

Fufufu~

[changelingdude.livejournal.com]

"Wow! Yeah totally like that!" Beastboy "Where'd you learn to do that?" He inquired in an awestruck and impressed voice.

Fine I'll bring out my icons

[thewunderkind]

"Well..." she put her arms on his elbows dramatically. "That's because I'm...." Dramatic pause...she really was milking this as much as she could okay. Besides, on the ship she was allowed to talk about it and not just be all secretive about it.

"Beastboy, I'm really a man, I'm a...Power Ranger."

Oh god what is that!?

[changelingdude.livejournal.com]

B-but these feelings I have...

Beastboy cheered "SWEET!" And pumped both fists in the air before a beat passed and added, "What's a power ranger?"

Lash as Nabeshin

[thewunderkind]

((As a friend of mine so drew it.))

Okay, not what she had been expecting as a response.

"Uhhh...one of those super-hero things you mentioned before?" She did another kung-fu pose (not as well this time, the wind taken out of her sails). "Like that?"

You are made of amazing.

[changelingdude.livejournal.com]

Beastboy blinked again and flailed his arms about making a geeky squeal, "Laaaaaaaaash! That is so cool! You have a giant robot? And Kung Fu? And a bodysuit? Are you on a team? Do you get any special powers? What color is the suit? How do you fit your hair inside the helmet?" The questions came fast and furious as the excitable changing bounced on the balls of his feet.

I just have very awesome friends.

[thewunderkind]

So many questions! Thankfully Lash was used to fast talking geek speak since she did it herself at times.

"I have a giant griffon zord, I know kung fu, the spandex suit is bright sun yellow, and I can control time and shoot lightning. As for the hair..." She thought about it and raised a finger to explain only to...

"...you know I'm not sure how it works. Same logic as everything else about being a Power Ranger I guess."

[changelingdude.livejournal.com]

It took a few minutes for him to process it all before he figured out which of those things he was most interested in.

"So like...time control AND lightning? Duuude! Those are awesome powers! Not as awesome as mine but pretty sweet! Do you need to be in the suit to do it or...?"

[thewunderkind]

"Well I've been practicing fighting outside of the suit, but the suit acts as a cataclysm for everything," she explained. "You morph and suddenly...you feel like you could take on the world. Figuratively of course."

She showed him the morpher on her wrist.

"Want me to activate it?"

[changelingdude.livejournal.com]

His eyes sparkled and his mouth hung open, nodding so hard his ears flapped "Doitdoitdoitdoit!"

Then He thought for a moment, and to give her insensitive summoned up a cheap looking monster. "Here! It's the Creature from Jones' Lake! Get him!" He cheered!

[thewunderkind]

"Well I guess I can consider that training. OKAY!" Dramatically, she brought one hand out, with the morpher and put in the magical crystal using the other.

"Griffin Power!" An invisible beast roared and a flash if light later, Lash was in the yellowish spandex, striking a pose.

"I also get the urge to do that," she explained. "It's like...you know when you know you have to do something or else you'll feel you missed out?" She looked at the monster and pointed a finger at it.

"You're going to get...sunken."

[changelingdude.livejournal.com]

The monster grunted and rushed at her, apparently he didn't get the joke.

Beastboy cheered at the spectacle, "DUDE! You totally need your own action figure now this is SO COOL!" He gushed.

[afro-wunderkind.livejournal.com]

"Let's end this quickly," she told the monster, taking out her gun and pelting him with a few well-timed shots. "This should cause you a few reflections..."

There was a pause before she blurted out. "I-it's kinda the same with the puns too."