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[livestoannoy]

When Marco stumbled across the media library, he concluded that this had to be the best day so far on this freaky meatship.

Music. Massive screens. A giant, alien entertainment centre. And, most importantly - video games.

Marco was immediately drawn to the tall white box with the strange looking controllers. He snorted when he saw the name "Wii" (who though that was a good idea? The puns where almost too easy) but hey, this was clearly gaming of the future. Or gaming of a strange and bizarre alien race - it was hard to tell. Either way, it was cool, and Marco was so going to try it out.

He fished around for a vaguely interesting looking game, bypassing all the ones that looked boring (Wii Fit? Cricket? Imagine: Fashion Idol?! pfft), eventually settling on Escape from Bug Island.

Marco had been a bug before. Waaaaay too many times. Now he could squish them in safe video game fun.

But as Marco began to play, his good mood rapidly diminished. Who thought up this whole "swinging around the controller" thing? What the hell was going on with that animation?

"What the hell is with this?!" He yelled, as he tried to get the control to do what he wanted dammit. "This is nuts! GAMING OF THE FUTURE IS CRAP!"

[[ooc: For reference, this is the extraodinarily bad game Marco is playing.]]

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[livestoannoy]

"The sensoriums can't show me games from the future. Well, my future." Marco paused. "Or at least, if it can, I have no idea how."

"Dude, if you can show me actual VR, I would worship the ground you walk on."

[speedforbrains.livejournal.com]

"I was raised in VR, I could totally show you. It's pretty cool! It can even move as fast as I think!" Bart beamed. "That's the best thing about VR."

[livestoannoy]

"Raised in VR? How the heck does that...wait," Marco stopped. He'd read that storyline.

"...aah, who are you, by the way? I didn't catch your name."

[speedforbrains.livejournal.com]

Oh right, he probably should have said that part earlier. "Impulse! Hi, who are you?"

[livestoannoy]

Marco blinked once. Then twice.

Impulse? The Impulse?

"Man, I am never going to get used to this," he said, grinning. "I'm Marco."

[speedforbrains.livejournal.com]

Bart frowned a little. "Used to what?" He grinned. "Nice to meet you! VR?"

[livestoannoy]

"Used to meeting all these comics characters! Superboy, Nightwing, Robin...man, it's just nuts." Marco's grinned widened even more. "And hell yes."

[speedforbrains.livejournal.com]

"Superboy and Robin are cool. I don't know Nightwing so well, but Robin likes him." And with that, he was carrying Marco through the halls at superspeed. In less than an instant, they were at the sensoriums.

[livestoannoy]

Okay.

What just happened?

"Dude, did you just...man that is cool!"

[speedforbrains.livejournal.com]

Bart beamed. "It is, isn't it? Being fast is awesome. I'm a superhero, you know."

[livestoannoy]

"I know, I read your comics."

[speedforbrains.livejournal.com]

"I have comics?"

[livestoannoy]

"Yeah, you were in The Flash, and you've had your own title for a few years," Marco said, still grinning.

[[ooc: I'm going with Marco as being from 2001 or at least somewhere around then, so, sorry if I've missed any titles Impulse is in before then]]

[speedforbrains.livejournal.com]

"Kewl!" Bart beamed. "Do you have any I could read?"

[[ooc: Just Young Justice, I think.]]

[livestoannoy]

"Sure. Just let me find my invisible bag that I take with me to all the trans dimensional living ships that just pick me up from alternate universes while leaving all my personal belongings behind."

Marco? Sarcastic? No!

[[ooc: Damn you Wiki! Err...let's just pretend that Marco momentarily forgot that one. XD]]

[speedforbrains.livejournal.com]

Bart nodded eagerly. "Okay! What does it look like? I can help find it!"

Bart? Occasionally clueless? Yes!

[livestoannoy]

Marco rolled his eye. "Dude. It doesn't exist. All my belongings are back in my now non-existent universe."

[speedforbrains.livejournal.com]

Bart frowned. "Then how will you get your comics out of it?" Then the other part registered. "We're gonna fix it, you know. Your universe'll exist again. Mine too."

[livestoannoy]

Marco sighed, and gave up. "If it actually is non-existent. For all we know, these guys are just playing around with us."

[speedforbrains.livejournal.com]

Bart shook his head. "Whatever the deal is, we'll figure it out and get home. It's what we do. Me and my friends, I mean."

[livestoannoy]

Marco grinned. "Yeah. I know." He turned and looked around at the sensorium. "So, you going to show me this VR thing or what?"

[speedforbrains.livejournal.com]

"Oh, sure!" Bart opened the door. "Actually, I'm pretty sure the sensorium is VR, but I can get it to make one of my favorite games from when I was little."

[livestoannoy]

Marco nodded. The sensorium being VR made sense. But still, Marco hadn't exactly figured out how to play games on it. "Sounds awesome."

[speedforbrains.livejournal.com]

Bart was very used to playing VR game. It only took him a few seconds to figure out how to work the sensorium. Then they were surrounded in deep, dark jungle and holding highly advanced guns.

[livestoannoy]

Marco grinned when the scenery changed. Sure, he'd already tried out this place one or twice - but it was still very cool.

He felt a little out of place with the guns, though. Despite the fact that Marco had fought in a war, he wasn't that familiar with them. Mostly they used morphs to fight. He had fired the odd Dracon beam, but they were fairly simple to operate.