10081/Out of the Blue

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Out of the Blue
Date of Scene: 11 February 2022
Location: Penthouse - Kord Co
Synopsis: Waiter! There's a girl in my pool!
Cast of Characters: Ted Kord, Hope Summers




Ted Kord has posed:
Ted Kord gets up and outfits himself in a bathing suit. He checks the pool temperature... brrr. A control is pressed and a heater chugs to work.

"I mean, saving energy is great. I need to program it to heat up early on days I do laps. Plus I'm starving and I can't eat and swim laps. Turns out waiting a half hour is a darned good practice. Hunh. No way I'm dipping a toe in that. Have to be nuts."

Ted decides coffee is /not/ eating, but necessary to survival. He makes a cup and goes out to the living room, considers the trampoline. He looks oiut at his beloved pool. Then he gets into a robe. It's a chilly morning.

Hope Summers has posed:
Sometimes a girl just needs to get out and away for awhile. To just.. fly. She drew from the powers of those she'd been near recently, lifting off to soar through the skies in solitary delight. Sometimes being aurrounded by people, even well-meaning caring friends, can be too much. For someone who spent the overwhelming majority of their life with crowds meaning danger, it can be nice to get away. Still, even borrowing from people she's spent a good deal of time around, those powers only last for so long. So it is that Hope finds herself plummeting out of the sky towards a very convenient pool! Still terminal velocity being a thing and her being just a girl, this could be bad.

Thinking quickly, she draws on a different set of powers, just in time to hit the water!

Or not? There's no giant splash or even a disturbance of the water. It's like she's an illusion of a woman that's fallen into his pool. But he SAW her. She was THERE.

Just as suddenly, she's cresting up from the water, fully displacing it this time, both hands coming up to push her hair back from her face. Giving her head a toss, she strides up out of the pool, seemingly unbothered by the chill in the water. "Well! That was convenient and fortuitous."

Ted Kord has posed:
Ted Kord sees Hope fall into the pool. "Oh Eff Em Ell." In fairness this happens a lot. Yes a lot of women fall into his pool or wind up on his doorstep. He never gets to keep any. Hence the 'Eff'.

However, no one can deny Ted is a nice guy and one of those helping hand heroes. He runs out to the pool. Setting his coffee on the coffee table. Hey, he just got that. He's beside the pool looking worried.

"Hi, morning. Are you all right?" He catches some spray with the head toss, then hands Hope a towel. He's amazed she isn't freezing from the dip. Kryptonian, Asgardian? No ankle wings. No angels wings. Will the water just retreat in awe and leave her looking kempt? Is she a drip dry metahuman?

Hope Summers has posed:
"Hi. Yeah, I'm fine, thanks. Hang one, one second..." Hope draws on another set of powers as a wave of heat surrounds her, enough that the air around her turns wavy and hazy like an afternoon in the desert. That hot wind whips around her briefly, srying her from head to foot and ruffling her fingers through her hair before releasing the power and letting out a small sigh. "That's better. Hey, I'm really sorry about that. I'm... you aren't one of those people that hates metas and mutants, are you?" She has a somewhat defensive stance, as if expecting him to be angry or disgusted by her.

Ted Kord has posed:
Ted Kord makes an expression of disgust.

"This is Kord Co. I am Ted Kord. Ever hear of me? I'm also the Blue Beetle, Justice League member. I have Mutant friends and employees. Any of those haters shows up here they'll get the boot. Anyway... you would have to be a psycho to just hate a lovely young lady like you on sight." When he identifies himself as the Blue beetle he makes goggles around his eyes with his forefingers and thumbs. He also indicates the penthouse entrance with an elbow.

Hope Summers has posed:
Hope gives a bit of a sheepish look and shakes her head, "Ahhhhhh, so this is where things get awkward. I don't know who you are, or the Beetle, and I only kiiiiiiiinda know about the Justice League. See, I'm... not from here. This time. Or world. MY earth is far in the future, and in an alternate universe where the Justice League didn't exist. And like, big battles aside, it's not like most of you go out of your way to advertise." She lifts a shrug and rubs at the back of her head, "I've met Aquaman, and I shot Batman once, but like... that's about the extent of it." She smiles fleetingly, "But that's very nice of you. I'm Hope. Hope Summers." Then she starts towards the penthouse, interpreting the motion as an invitation inside.

Ted Kord has posed:
Ted Kord takes Hope by the arm in a brotherly fashion. "Oh, sweetie, you're a time traveler? Did you ever land in the right place! My brother by another mother is chronally displaced as well. Maybe he's around. That's Booster, Booster Gold. Don't apologize for not knowing me. Most people call me Blue Spider Man. They don't even respect the hyphen. Aquaman is a good guy. Bats... I hope you didn't get hurt too badly. Well, Hope, you're an easy rescue. I usually have to supply a change of clothes and cab fare. Come in and I'll make you some breakfast. I can make whatever you want... as long as it's eggs. Oh I have frozen waffles too. Do you know what those are?"

Hope Summers has posed:
Hope gives him a strange look, "Your... okay. Is he your half-brother then? Shared father?" Yeah, she's from a really strange time where there wasn't really pop culture or fun slang. It was more shouted orders, screams and milspeak. Hope glances at him, "Well, I know that we aren't doing it for the fame, but it still isn't great when people don't even recognize you as who you are. I'll remember now that I know, though!" She gives a quick nod and then blinks at Ted, "He didn't hurt me at all. He helped me fine tune the gun, actually. Which was really nice, because I'd been stuck on the proper ampage to put someone down but not like.. permanently injure them." She smiles at the memory, then glances back to him and chuckles, "I've been here for about two years now. So thankfully I've learned about frozen waffles, yes. And to not eat them straight from the freezer."

Ted Kord has posed:
Ted Kord chuckles, showing Hope to the couch. "It's an idiom. It means he is a friend who is as close to me as a brother. Sit. You can have that coffee, I didn't touch it. I'll just be a couple minutes. I have everything ready, I was just going to make breakfast after swimming. Sit. Relax. You need to call anyone and tell them you landed safely, there's the phone." He heads to the kitchen.

Hope Summers has posed:
Hope looks at the coffee, then back to Ted, grinning, "I've never had coffee. I usually stick to water, juice, and milk." She settles in, then blinks, then shakes her head, "Nah, I don't have anyone to worry about me like that."