The Return of Time

[cityship]

As the Clock was destroyed, all of the stolen time rushed back to it's original owners, causing them to rapidly age back to normal. But as the crew would soon notice, it seemed that the stolen time didn't always go back to exactly the right place...

[[ooc: Time to get back to normal guys! This is basically a case of very rapid ageing - they'll basically speed through the years through about a couple of minutes or so. Of course, everyone won't get back to exactly the right time - most will only be out by a pretty insignificant amount of time (such as a few minutes, or hours, or days, etc - depends how close significant events are to the point they're from.) For those who are using this to change canon point, they're going to end up at a different point, obviously]]

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[thewunderkind]

She was caught off guard a bit, and had to smile at that despite herself. It was true.

"Yeah. It really was." Speaking of living in the moment. "So...what now?" Not just considering that in particular, but everything. "Everything's back to normal, I guess." Including the fact he was back to being a giant book again.

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"As normal as it can get?" Zetta said. After all, they were on a ship of meat fighting for the existence of all reality.

"...well, I can still have a body in the sensorium, anyway. Wanna have dinner and play some games later?"

Apparently Zetta had decided exactly where HE stood on the issue of awkward!

[thewunderkind]

"Tee hee hee! Yeah." She twirled one of her fingers around, sarcasm dripping from her words. "Same old, same old." Truthfully, this ship was a lot of fun, even if there were so many risks of being killed. But that just added to the challenge, didn't it? And she knew they'd get back to normal. It was just one of those things that hero types would do.

She pretend to think at that before answering, realizing that there was no way she wasn't going to be teasing about it. There were still a lot of things for her to think about. She wasn't sure where this even was going, and the fact they were from two difference species entirely, and the age difference and the book thing and the...but it looked like fun. And if there was one thing Lash enjoyed, it was Fun.

Zetta was fun.

"Alright. But only if I get to drive the car there."

[badassfreakingoverlord]

Oh sure, it was a weird messed-up strange almost-impossible situation.

But Lash was right. It was fun.

"...Are you gonna crash it?" he teased. Well, half-teased. That was a worry....

[thewunderkind]

She grin mischievously.

"Now why would you even think that? I'll have you know I am a master of driving my Neotank! A simple car will not be a problem. Besides...it can't be as the bad as the teenager you when drove terribly all over the city. Just saying."

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"Hey! I was and remain an excellent driver!" Also cars are not steered like tanks, Lash.

[thewunderkind]

"Fine, fine, fine." She should be making a barb at the fact he should be driving right now, but it almost felt a little too cruel. "Just don't tell that to all the sunglasses you broke."

And she'd find a way to drive it anyway. In fact there were less levers!

"Oh that reminds me! Guess who gutted a machine from some Blue Falcon guy and ended up with two remaining G-diffusers after helping Starfire build a car?"

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"Sunglasses are expendable," he said. He had like twenty pairs in the glove compartment.

"What the hell are G-diffusers?"

[thewunderkind]

"I'm not sure myself, but when you install them with a good motor they cause the entire car to hover. Probably a sort of expandable magnetic force field." She was so happy to be talking scientifically, you have no idea. "That means no friction! So you can guess what that can mean for a car of any kind, tee hee hee!"

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"Hovercar, huh? I'm intrigued!" Zetta said. "But surprised. You're not gonna put them on a tank of some sort?"

[thewunderkind]

"Because my Neo Tank works on legs! With my CO powers I can make it go pretty fast anyway. Cars are much slower and could use a major improvement in the way they move with their boring old tires around. Basically it's a question of distributed weight. You need something with a flat surface for it to work properly otherwise it's just someone trying to walk on water with two pieces of wood. You'll keep falling for nothing and look dumb and silly!"

You know. SCIENCE.

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"Wait, back up a minute," Zetta said. "I'm pretty sure ninjas can walk across water on two pieces of wood."

Just because science works in Netherworlds doesn't mean everything else doesn't too!

[thewunderkind]

"Really good ninja's maybe," Lash said taking this seriously after having met Doctor McNinja. "But the average human would need to swim across the ocean or loose their balance along the way."

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"Pfft, average human," Zetta said dismissively. "Who's counting them?"

[thewunderkind]

"Well when they are in your units, you notice them, tee hee!" Had Lash ever tried all sorts of experiments involving sending poor soldiers in all sorts of water experimental suits and perhaps even pieces of wood on their feet?

...why was this even a question at all.

"Anyway I'm pretty sure I could jack up the car and make it hover and add a jetpack at the back to give it proper propulsion in the air since the tires would become useless at that point."

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"How would you turn it?" That was actually a fairly insightful question.

For Zetta.

[thewunderkind]

It was!

"Oh that's easy!" she explained, having solved that problem once before. "You need two smaller ones on each side. Those can turn 360 degrees and move based on how the steering wheel is moved around. Think of them like rowing paddles."

[badassfreakingoverlord]

Bad analogy, Lash. It totally threw off Zetta's mental image. Totally and hilariously.

"Huh. That's kinda weird. What about reverse?"

[thewunderkind]

"Two openings. One on each side. Go on reverse and the first valve shuts down and the other opens allowing the exhaustion gas to pass through that. Really it's not that hard at all!"

When you were Lash, anyway.

"Alternately, I built it to look like a cross between a car and a plane. But that's less fun."

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"You're a weird girl, Lash." But he says that fondly. "You'd like my brother. He was way into machines and sciencey stuff too."

[thewunderkind]

"Are you sure? Because then there might be competition, tee hee hee!" She began to walk before realizing Zetta couldn't do that (just give her a few days, she'd forget it once in a while until then).

"You coming? We've got a car to gut open and operate on." And then maybe that sensorium thing.

[badassfreakingoverlord]

His loyal leader minion crashed to the ground, then hefted him up.

The book looked... unhappy with this necessity, to say the least.

Oh well.

[thewunderkind]

And Lash called up on Hawke to lift her up to walk her around so that it would be like Zetta.

[thewunderkind]

Okay so. Lash wasn't going to do this often, Zetta. Really. But maybe this time she'd walk next to him and that minion instead of just running on ahead.