20371/Weekend Workouts

Weekend Workouts
Date of Scene:	05 April 2025
Location:	A park
Synopsis:	Eve works out, Mark is supportive, Katsumi says hi and Connor catches a helicoptor...literally!
Cast of Characters:	Eve Wilkins, Mark Grayson, Katsumi Oshiro, Conner Kent

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Eve Wilkins has posed:
Aside from some near-death rebuilding of herself, it wasn't quite effortless for Eve to keep herself in flawless shape or become stronger. After all, she didn't have viltrumite or kryptonian dna. Perhaps that was why she was here, now, wrapped in a pair of obnoxiously bright pink hotpant workout shorts and a sports top, hair tied back as she was in the midst of jogging.

Training couldn't just be fighting after all, building endurance was the best way for her to sustain her powers longer...but running for an hour?

It suuuuucked!

Mark Grayson has posed:
Jogging next to Eve, Mark was being encouraging. Not that running really does... anything to him other than work the muscles. "Looking tone, babe!" he quips, the half-Viltrumite dressed in a pair of grey jogging pants and a blue t-shirt.

It's late afternoon, with temperatures in the upswing, and only a smattering of clouds in the sky.

"Though..." he glances at his watch. "I am starting to get hungry. Got any suggestions for an early dinner?"

Katsumi Oshiro has posed:
It's a weird time in Oshiro's life. It's been weird for a lot longer than it feels. Temporal hooey, pocket dimensions - it's all a headache, and she prefers to just not think about it. But what she /does/ have to think about is the power imbalance between the diurnal and nocturnal versions of herself. There's no shot she can match her physical capabilities under the moonlight. But the smaller she can make that margin, the easier it'll be to manage both and not be caught off-guard.

After all, it wouldn't do to be expected to suplex a much larger woman for a daytime show only to find she's been neglecting her upper-body strength or cardio.

Eve isn't the only one rocking an aggressively pink ensemble! Katsumi's bubblegum ensemble may be an affront on the senses, but she loves it! Shimmery pink workout shorts, smooth pink sportsbra, even the tie keeping her hair tamed back in a ponytail matches the color! The only deviation is the white of her cross-trainers.

Given the lightly sweat-slickened condition, she's been at this a while. And she's only just now approaching the treadmills, sparing a glance to the two already occupying machines.

Then a doubletake.

"Heeeyy! I recognize you two!," she greets, magenta eyes wide and pleased smile worn.

Conner Kent has posed:
Meanwhile in the sky...

Flying over New York is often interesting. Because there is a lot of traffic not regulated by the FAA. And yes, drones are forbidden in urban areas, but people flying? Yeah, that doesn't work. Most flyers are careful, but often supercriminal aren't, particularly when a police helicopter crosses their path.

Superboy arrived to the scene a few seconds too late to see the criminal, but just in time to catch the very broken helicopter. Mark an Even might notice a few bits and pieces of glass and metal falling into the street. And up there is this wrecked machine that is being held together somehow as a flying man turns the dive into the front of a building in a more controlled descent towards a mostly empty park.

Eve Wilkins has posed:
"You're evil," Eve offers Mark, the redhead sounding considerably more puffed than her viltrumite boyfriend, and the promise of food was clearly one that pained her. Just because it took inhuman amounts of weight to make the half-alien break a sweat.

Still, as they're approached it's a moment for them to slow down. Doubling over for a moment, she wipes at her brow before looking up at Katsumi's address.

"Huh?" Crap. From school...or elsewhere?

Thankfully, worrying about that was going to be a little more disrupted when a helicoptor was suddenly being caught above them. "Crap..."

Mark Grayson has posed:
"Oh look, your twinsies!" Mark exclaims when the newcomer comes jogging up to the pair of them. He was going to make a cheeky comment about Eve having a fan club when she says she recognizes the pair of them. "Uh... okay." His mind reels, trying to figure out where he met Katsumi before. It takes a few seconds, and then, "Oh right, furkini girl!" Yes. That's what he remembers from that whole thing.

But then the helicopter incident catches his attention. And him without his costume. "Dammit." He glances towards Eve. They have a split second decision to make. She can easily transmutate their clothes into their costumes, but do they do that in front of Katsumi?

Katsumi Oshiro has posed:
Did we mention treadmill? No, no, that's silly! Clearly it's jogging laps! And Katsumi caught up to the two already jogging! And you know the rest!

Katsumi continues jogging in place while the others seem to take a breather. They've been running longer than her! But she deflates when both seem to have forgotten her. She endeavors to be more memorable than this! She's a celebrity, dammit!

Or she was. Four years ago.

Her disappointment vanishes as Mark recalls the crux of the conversation: furkinis, indeed. The man remembers the important stuff. Make of that what you will.

"Bingo!," she chirps, pleased smile plastered on her face. "And Hell yeah, we're hashtag-twinning right n-"

Commotion outside. Katsumi's jog promptly halts, and she gives the sight - as much as she can see from this vantage point anyway - a look in disbelief. "It's like every frigging day in this city, huh?!"

The choice is a lot easier for her. Sun up, no powers. She's keeping her rear safely put.

Conner Kent has posed:
It is every frigging day in this city, indeed. It is New York City! Greatest density of super-humans by square inch in the world. Normal people flee, or become New Yorkers.

It is still better than Gotham, mind you.

As for the damaged chopper, it is still coming down, although in a controlled way, but still a bit too fast to be safe. The man trying to help the descent might not be strong enough, or... actually he is having too much trouble trying to keep all the pieces together with his telekinesis. It wouldn't do if he manages to land safely but the helix goes through the front window of the Big Belly Burger at the corner.

Eve Wilkins has posed:
To be fair, given Eve had been working oht for an hour solid, she was probably a little blurry eyed and glad to be just upright for a moment. "Oh! Right sorry..."

Okay, so her attention was on the chopper it seems, which was somewhat spoiling the otherwise cute outfit matching moment.

No transmuting, not yet. Mark gets a little shake of her head. Things seemed under control, they'd only jump to move if there was imminent risk.

Mark Grayson has posed:
"I'm going to grab us a couple of waters. Be right back." Mark says with a nod to Eve. She's staying out for a moment, but he can see things are not going as well as it should. Stepping away from Eve and Katsumi, he heads over that away. "I saw a food cart a little bit back!"

And as he does so, he disappears from view.

A few moments later, there's a rather large dumpster being lifted into the air and guided towards where Superboy is having trouble with the helicopter. Hidden in the shadow of the dumpster, Mark moves it around. "Release the debris, I'll catch it!" he calls out to Conner.

This is not Invincible's finest day.

Katsumi Oshiro has posed:
Katsumi Oshiro crosses her arms against her chest, her expression slightly pinched in annoyance. "Do you think it's a criminal? Or a natural disaster, or like an accident? 'Cuz after a certain point, being a criminal seems like /such/ a moronic choice out here. Know what I mean?," she posits, freeing a hand to gesture vaguely.

She watches Mark leave, then decides to shift her attention onto Eve with little to no worry that the helicopter situation is going to be handled. This is what it means to be superhero-spoiled. And this kind of thing wasn't nearly so common where she's from. She hasn't really seen what happens if it fails.

"Anyway, don't feel too bad about not rememberin' me. I'm trying to remember your name! I totally remember the face, and your boyfriend, but you kinda bailed early, I think? So what is it?"

Conner Kent has posed:
Conner is well aware he is going down too fast, as are the two cops inside the helicopter, who are trying to look professional but look a little panicky. He has a plan, though! It is probably not a good plan, but if he releases the debris low enough, it may cause little damage and he might have time to slow down the chopper so no one gets hurt. That is two 'maybes' and according to Robin one 'maybe' is one too many.

Fortunately someone else has a better plan. Flying dumpster? That works.

There is a crashing sounds as a door, the helix, one of the skids and half the other and something that might be part of the engine fall on the dumpster. Except the helix is too large, it bounces off and keeps going down. Likely to crash somewhere in the vicinity of Eve and Katsumi. "Damnit..." and Conner bites his tongue not to curse something stronger.

Eve Wilkins has posed:
Okay. Person in imminent danger isn't even bystanders: it's them!

Eve's lips that had parted to offer her name came instead to a cry of "Look out!" and then she moves, diving to push Katsumi down out of the way of the falling debris.

Of course, if Katsumi happened to be pushed down face-down, she might not notice the flare of a bright pink energy shield that diverted the largest piece away from landing atop of them.

Well, she wanted practice using her powers fatigued!

Mark Grayson has posed:
Catching the pieces in the dumpster, the Invincible Dumpster finishes collecting helicopter parts - except for that door that Eve just destroyed.

"Crap, sorry!" he calls down to his girlfriend.

But now that he has the larger pieces, he moves to carry the dumpster off and find a place to set it down. Back in the clearing where he found it, he sets it back in the construction site. A light dusting of his hands.

And then to the food truck nearby and a few minutes later, Mark's rejoining the Gals in Pink. "That took me a bit. But I found them!" A grin as the bottles are presented.

"What did I miss?"

Katsumi Oshiro has posed:
Katsumi Oshiro's head turns in time to note the oncoming helicopter. Her legs tense, her frame growing rigid. There's an immediate instinctive clash in her mind - to stand her ground and tank it just to see if she /can/, and the very human impulse to get out of the way. It's a good thing Eve is present, as knee-jerk impulse isn't always a smart thing. Especially when it comes to someone who's just getting used to being more than human.

Katsumi's an athletic specimen. Svelte, trim, tall for an Asian girl. But she's still very much a young 20-something, and not at all the bulky meatwall most people think of when they imagine male professional wrestlers. That is to say, Eve tackles her down to the ground, earning a startled *squeak!* She lands on her side, eyes briefly squeezed shut in bracing for whatever calamity is upon them!

But it doesn't come. She peeks one magenta eye open, then the other. The big heavy object appears to have missed them! And after a second of processing, she squirms to look up at Eve with a crooked smile. "Didn't hear a bell, tootse," she teases.

As for Mark? He'll probably be making it just in time to see a small pile of nubile pink-clad females.

Conner Kent has posed:
Conner finally manages to land the chopper without breaking anything else, leaving the cops arguing if the super-criminal that damaged their vehicle was the Vulture, or someone else dressed in purple.

He misses the Invincible Dumpster-man exit, because the debris almost crushed a couple women. "Hey, are you alright?" He asks, helping them to stand if they let him.

He is wearing the laziest costume ever, just a black t-shirt with a red S on it, jeans and sturdy black boots.

Apparently not every hero knows Arthur Rosenbaum.