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Garfield Logan Green dude in a speedo? Check. Gar is out for a swim, the pool being a fine place for one. The speedo itself is red, a contrast to his green skin, and he stands upon the diving board considering how to utilize it. "Ah, that'll work."

Making his approach, he springs off of it into the air, and turns into a particular long-necked bird. "Swan dive!" Except, as he's about to land, he apparently realizes that's not really how they do it. "Ack!" At the last moment, the swan becomes a dolphin, landing with the most minimal of splashes before he pops back up and chitters.
Kate Bishop     Kate called a social gathering on the roof.

    Why the roof?

    Cause Donna has severely messed up the main room with some multi-dimensional shennigans.

    So this fine early afternoon May is a social party on the pool deck, far from the main room. There are pizzas. The grill is fired up. Plenty of drinks of many sorts. The pool cover is peeled back in case someone wants to go in for a swim.

    Finishing it off with some music that is pretty much 1POP.

    She blinks as the dolphin pops up and then she shakes her head. "You okay Gar!?"
Kian     Kian watches the water frolicking from the safety of a dry deck chair, with a beer in one hand and a piece of pizza in the other.  He's not wearing his kilt for once -- don't worry, he's wearing something.  Mainly out of deference to Earther sensibilities.  Think speedo, but in the bird's case it's electric blue.  "See, Gar?  Even you don't want to go into the water as a bird!"
    Chew pizza.
    Sip beer.
    "I needed this."
Terry O'Neil Terry has been particularly quiet since the Donna Singularity happened. He has been tight-lipped as to why, and insofar as anyone has been able to get anything out of him, it was only to mention that he had gone to tell Raven what had happened to Donna.

Even now, he sits quietly on top of the covered hot tub, legs crossed and watching things unfolding at the pool without being terribly loud or boisterous, as he usually is. He is in his feline shape, because going to the pool in a bathing suit in his ginger form would mean there would be jokes about the beacons being lit and Gondor calling for aid, and he's not much in the mood for it. There is one touch of his usual self, though- the speedos that he is wearing. Namely, they look like a Trapper-Keeper that came out of the eighties and found out that the only way it could save itself was by becoming swimwear. There is black, but there is also neon. A lot of neon. Bayside High could have used it to pattern some of its walls. Punky Brewster probably designed it.

"Kian, there really isn't any need to fear. You can't drown in this pool with Gar around."
Garfield Logan Gar Logan can hear them, and respond to them as he surfaces, still swimming around as the dolphin, a very green Flipper. "Of course I'm fine! I just remembered swans don't dive and I changed over to something that's a little better in the water!"

He goes back under and circles the pool, doing a few laps that way rather than back and forth. A little of this before settling back down to eat, and there's no concern about having a dip after the meal.

Of course, he surfaces to leap out of the water and twist just so, expelling a blast of water from the blowhole, right in Vorpal's direction. "Stop being such a sourpuss!" Sploosh, back in the pool.
Kate Bishop     "I mean.... it would be hard to drown even if Gar wasn't around to provide water rescue services.." she mmms "I wouldn't be at all surprised if Vic didn't program something in with an automated pool drain."

    She eyes the grill and tosses on a couple of cheddarwursts. "Anyone want me to throw anything specific on the grill.. I mean we have pizzas but I'm happy to toss any of the various supplies we brought up on and sear them up."

    She does laugh at the water gunning of Vorp.
Kian     "I can't drown in the pool if I don't go in it, too," Kian says primly, shooting the cat a grin.  "I can't swim, you know -- I don't mind soaking in the hot tub, but that's different... even though I *know* you call it 'chicken soup' when I'm in there."
    He hops up from the deck chair and saunters over to the grill, collecting another slice of pizza along the way.  "I like grilled vegetables, if you brought any of those up," he hints at Kate, perusing the supplies.
Terry O'Neil "Augh!" Terry tries to shield himself, but the jet is too quick and he wasn't paying that much attention. "Gar how dare you!" he reaches for his towel, trying to quickly pat himself dry, "I'm /not/ being a sourpuss!" he says, sourly.

He doesn't mention any food preferences, instead he adds, "I can teach you how to swim. I was on my school's swimming team, you know. Just take one lesson with me. If you don't like it, you can drop it- but be adventurous for once," he says, the hint of a smirk.
Garfield Logan Gar Logan chortles, or something that sounds like it, as he heads back for the diving board to launch himself out and land atop it, in his usual form. Out go his arms, before he bows and turns to return to dry rooftop areas. "You were, and that isn't like you. I know things are still weird with the Donna-slash-Troia stuff, and Wonderland and all that, but we're gonna get it figured out and everything'll be back to normal again. At least, /our/ normal. So let's just try to relax for a little while and stuff our faces full of food, and we'll get back to the heavier stuff after that.

It won't take long for him to dual-wield slices of pizza, giving both an equal amount of attention. "Yeah, that hits the spot."
Kate Bishop     "You are absolutely being a sourpuss Terry." she says amused.

    Then she glances sidelong to Kian. "Sure I bought up veggie kabobs just haven't thrown any on yet." she turns and rummages around in the cooler and pulls out some veggie kabobs in a sealed plastic bag full of marinade. It is from a store not made down in the kitchen. Then again the kitchen is a smidge hit and miss on how accessible it is right now.

    "Terry is right, you should probably try swimming once, that isn't just falling into the ocean..."

    "Oh Terry.. did Diana have any ideas on the Donna front?"
Kian     "Adventurous *for once*?"  Kian stares at Terry, trying very hard to look outraged -- and then busts out laughing.  "Have you forgotten where I live and what I do with my time here?"
    He shakes his head.  "Wading is one thing, soaking is one thing... but don't forget, the only reason I'm here now is because Colette was there to pull me out of the bay when I fell into this world.  I'll stay right here where it's dry, thanks."
Terry O'Neil Terry smirks, "That doesn't count. You are constantly dragged into adventure, but you never initiate any of your own. Besides- I'll be there to hold you so you don't actually drown. This is what some people call 'an incentive', Kian."

The Cheshire remains quiet for a few moments afterwards, seemingly pondering Gar's words or Kate's question. Or both.

"Diana has confirmed some things I had suspected." he says after some deliberation. "I can go into detail, unless you'd prefer to call Diana and get it from someone who isn't the team screw-up."

He extends his arm and grabs a soft drink out of his refrigerator, via a small Rabbit Hole. He opens the can with a loud 'fzzzzzz' and a little bit of foam that overflows over the edge of the can.
Garfield Logan "See, now that's the showing off I've come to expect from you," Gar says when he notices the way Vorpal gets his soda, while the green...well, no longer teen nears the BBQ long enough to grin at Kate. "What's cookin'? You grill often, or just at random?" From there, he calls over Kian's way, "Then you can wade, or soak, and we'll toss some noodles, veggies and broth in. It'll be great!"

You can't have a proper chicken soup without the rest of the ingredients, after all.

That record comes to a screeching halt. "Hold on. Team screw-up? When did I get replaced?"
Kate Bishop     "I made no such accusation Terry." she frowns at him. "I'm the one who ducked out of the room when things started to get all children of the gods..... I'm happy to hear it from you."

    She sighs and looks at the grill and bulls the cheddarwursts off and puts them on a plate. Then scrubs it down before putting the veggie kabobs on to cook without the meat right there.
    "I figured if nothing else I could take minds off our problems and grill... I am not .. uh.. great at dealing with our current magical or dimensional problems."
Kian     "Pff, I don't need to be in the water for you to hold me," Kian says, and flits over to Terry, hugging him from behind.  "Any more than you need to be in the air for me to hold you.  And you are *not* the team screwup.  We all take turns at that -- that's real teamwork!"
Terry O'Neil "I let you take me into the air, don't I?" Terry leans back against Kian's hug with a smirk, "And I trust you not to drop me. Besides, there are some perks to water- true weightlessness without having to make an effort. Try it once with me, for me, and I'll drop it if you don't like it. But you're a stubborn bird and sometimes you don't know what you're missing out until you find out. Like you didn't know how nice it was not being glittered."

He breathes out, and glances at Kate. "No accusations. But I can read the air, as they say, and I know that some of the things Raven blasted me with are not only her opinion alone." He takes a sip of his soda, "Otherwise The Regalia wouldn't be locked behind a safe mechanism that deliberately excluded /me/ as the only Titan who can't open it."

He sets the can down, still speaking in his more subdued tone. "Troia is not a mortal. She never was. She is actually a Titan. A Titan of myth. She was entrusted to Queen Hippolyta to raise in secret in an agreement between the Titans and the gods of Olympus, so that she'd grow to honor the gods and not see them as rivals or enemies, and so avoid a second Titanomachia- a war between Olympus and the Titans. So the Troia down there," he gestures vaguely downwards, in the direction of the main room, many floors below, "Seems to have the exact origin as our Troia. Except that in her reality, that agreement didn't happen. And when Olympus found out that a new Titan had been born, in violation of the ancient agreement between Zeus and the Titans, there was a war that decimated all of the Titans and a great deal of Olympus, with that Troia being the last surviving Titan."
Garfield Logan "Hey, I suck at magic stuff too, and I'm not so hot with other dimensions either. I just turn into different animals and make people laugh," Gar reminds Kate as much as anyone else, watching her at work with the grill while placing himself about equidistant from her and the other two. Cat and bird hugging. What is the world coming to?

He's watching, listening, and frowning. "Okay, so. I don't think Raven actually /likes/ anybody here, except maybe Donna. But that's part of her charm. You never know when you're going to say something that's going to leave her looking at you like you don't even exist. It makes everything more lively that way. But, you know, she's got it pretty tough, too."

That said, he rubs at an ear, one of those tells of his that Vorpal is so familiar with, as he adds, "That stuff is locked away because it's from Wonderland, and like it or not, a part of you is too. There's a lot of unpredictability with it right now, so it's being kept safe so it can only be used when it really needs to be. We're still trying to figure a lot of stuff out about it and how we're gonna solve everything. It's not because anyone thinks you're a failure, dude."

He grows somewhat quiet after this, with the talk of Donna not just being a Titan, but a /Titan/, which leaves him whistling under his breath. "In the immortal words of Marty McFly, that's heavy, Doc."
Kate Bishop     "What's the Regalia?" which is evidently a thing that everyone but Terry has access to but Kate doesn't even know it exists. "Wonderland stuff?"

    "Holy crap what." as the rest sinks in. She blinks several times and stares at the grill. "Well Donna is going to be pissed when she gets back to normal... wait... what triggered this whole event?"

    She nods to Gar "True....but you shapeshift." amusement, not jealous just amused about it.
Kian     "Well... maybe I can sit on the edge and dangle my feet in the water," Kian says without much conviction.  Hey, it's a baby step.
    "And even I have figured out that Rae says things to say them.  How many times has she said she was going to unmake us -- *especially* us three?  And here we still are.  Donna--"  He glances downward, as if he could see the main room through the intervening steel and concrete.  "Donna once told me she has a strange sense of humor.  I believe *that*.  I think I agree with Gar that she really doesn't like anyone but Donna.  Maybe she puts up with us because we distract her from the other things going on in her head, I don't know."  Involuntarily, he shudders, and his feathers fluff out and re-settle.  "I'm not going in there to find out, we'll just leave that as a guess."
    He flits over to retrieve his beer.  "Not normal is our normal.  That's really the only way I've figured out to make sense of all this."
Terry O'Neil Terry's expression darkens for a moment. "What she said was more than just what she usually does. She was mean. She was /cruel/'" He lets out a low, protracted hiss. "She said that if this was my fault, she would kill me. That if we got through this and I said the word 'Wonderland' again, she would kill me."

Suddenly, as if possesed by a strong passion, the feline stands up, his fists bunched up. "As if /I/ haven't had to deal with /her/ bullshit? Like the fact that she was /terrifying/ everybody here until people had to go into her soul, /myself/ included, and had to fight through the bullshit of her demons to get her to snap out of /her/ bullshit before she killed us all?" His voice rises, and some of his fur stands on end. "And for /three months/ that we were lost in the white hole, Donna had us try to hurry as much as possible to find a way home before /Raven unmade reality to find us/... no, not us, /Donna/, because /that/ is the only person that selfish, conceited /witch/ cares about! She threatened to Donna, in a dream vision, that she would basically up-end reality just so she could have her girlfriend back, the consequences /bedamned/... and I have taken it, and taken it, and /swallowed/ her insults and her nastiness and her disdain and I just can't fucking TAKE IT ANYMORE!"

There is a blast of purple light, like lightning ascending from Terry, and the skies suddenly change.

It's still a nice day out, a pool day. What's different is that, for the next couple of minutes or so, it's raining.

Bubbles. It's raining bubbles from the sky.

The feline sits back down with a slump, chest heaving from an overabundance of emotion, hair ruffled.

"... I guess I needed to get that off my chest." A bubble pops on the pointy end of one of his ears.
Garfield Logan All other things Gar might be thinking of saying are interrupted when Vorpal's outburst is unleashed. On one hand, he really can't deny the points behind the emotion, the words. At one point he stood up to Raven and reminded her that there were people who cared about her, and..what has it got the rest of them? What, really?

He works a finger into a pointy ear of his own, and in the process of chewing at his bottom lip the underbite shows up in a more pronounced way. There is a flinch out of him at the lightning-like bolt, but it leaves Vorpal rather than striking him. That isn't normal.

Then..the bubbles descend. In a moment of impulsiveness, he bats at one before blinking and clearing his throat. "You're, uh, not wrong, really. And it's not okay that she threatened to kill you. I'm going to have to have a talk with her." His eyes have narrowed at this, the wisdom of his plan up for debate.
Kate Bishop     Well. There is a reason Kate was more questioning about the Regalia and the whole what triggered Donna instead of defending Raven or saying Raven hates everyone.

    Kate has opinions about Rae that she keeps pretty silently to herself. Also hell she is mortal with zero magic. The only way she can deal with a Rogue witch is to kill her fast with her guard down and get very lucky. So one treads very carefully.

    The explosion of light and then bubbles raining down has her scrambling to close the grill cover over the veggie kabobs and flip a plate with a dexterous slap over her cheddarwursts so they don't get covered in soap if they are soap bubbles "Ack!"... she tests a bubble to see if the food will be ruined by it if she uncovers it. Safety confirmed she uncovers it to get the veggie kabobs out "Your veggies are done Kian."

    She seems pretty unshaken by the Vorpal explosion once the food is safe. She has really lived in the same building with you all too long
Kian     "You really have the most fascinating tantrums, /tenar'h/," Kian says absently as a bubble pops on the end of his nose.  "And I think you're not wrong.  Some people are naturally irritable, but the threats have to stop, even if -- as Donna says -- she doesn't really mean them.  She certainly meant it when she threw me into a wall."
    He collects his kebabs and bites into a chunk of red bell pepper.  "Gar /tenar'h/ -- don't go alone to see her.  I will go with you."
Terry O'Neil "Oh, she /meant/ them," Terry says quietly. "She cornered me and she /meant/ them. She just can't do anything about it right now, but she definitely meant it. And I'm not going to take it anymore." He stands up and walks towards the plank. "I don't want either of you to go see her. The last thing I need is her killing you two. I'm going to see her again." He turns back to face them. "The Regalia, Kate, is the mystical crown and scepter of the Red King, the most powerful objects in all of Wonderland and Looking-Glass land."

He walks to the edge of the board. "And I am going to take them with me when I see Raven, for my own protection. And two of you are going to help me with that."

He leaps off the board and into the water, with a splash.
Garfield Logan Gar Logan watches a few more bubbles fall, popping on the surface of the roof, on him, on them, on everything they touch. Then, it's done. Left behind, however, is a more determined set to his jaw, his expression, a hint of something darker in his eyes.

"No, man. I'm tired of her threatening everyone and I'm not afraid of her. I mean, I am, but I'm not afraid to stand up to her. I didn't come back here and help make all of this happen again for nothing. I didn't let her know she mattered when she was haunting the place all by herself just for her to keep trying to drive everyone else away." He paces, speedo being the only thing he wears or not.

A hand gestures toward Vorpal. "Donna wasn't the only one we thought was dead when you guys went missing. I thought you were dead too, before I figured out that if you died, /that/ side of you would go back to someone else. And it didn't, so you had to be alive. Donna had to be. Vic had to be. Cait had to be. We just had to find you and get you back, and we did. So I'm not going to let Raven just do this all over again."

Except, he pauses as he looks from Kate to Kian, then Vorpal as he hops into the water. "And what is that going to do, if we get it for you?"
Kate Bishop     Kate is still catching up on the Regalia, cause no one files damned action reports in the Titans. Sigh. Which is about when Vorpal says that Kian and Gar are going to help him steal them so he can power up with Wonderland Juice and then confront Raven.

    "Fuck."

    She picks up her plate of cheddarwursts, buns them, adds condiments, grabs a cider, and heads over to a chair under an umbrella which shields her from bubbles and then settles in to eat.

     Quietly listening.
Kian     Gar isn't the only one who looks serious.  "You're not going alone any more than I would let Gar go alone.  But are you sure you can handle it?  Things got... weirder than usual when you did before."
    He *hasn't* said he won't help get the Regalia, or that they shouldn't get it for him.  He just wants to be sure whatever Terry has in mind doesn't disappear up a purple glittered paradox or something.
    And then... he sets his kebab aside, flits over to the shallow end of the pool, and very gingerly, very slowly climbs in, wings held high, the water coming up no higher than his waist.  He doesn't look like he's enjoying it, and he's sticking close to the edge and has a death grip on the railing back up the steps... but he *is* in the pool.
Terry O'Neil Terry watches Gar as he paces. What he is wearing may or may not be influencing how closely he is watching, or maybe he's still intense from his outburst. "Gar, please, I am /not/ going to use it to batter down her door and mount an attack. I will carry it for my /own/ protection, to prevent her from hurting me. The fact that she is powerfless right now to just flip reality and get Donna back tells me that whatever happened in Tartarus, it's done something to her. So I should be /safe/ with the Regalia if she decides to act out on her threat." The Cheshire swims to the edge of the pool and rests his arms on it, looking up at the others.

"I have already used the Scepter once. Before Donna locked the Regalia away. I just never told any of you. I used it to survive a blast from Michael, who tried to unmake me using the fire of creation itself. If I hadn't done that, I wouldn't be here."

"I am from Wonderland. The Regalia is the very essence of Wonderland, and the Hatter and the Hare brought it to find someone to come back and fix what was wrong--- Alice. But Alice is dead. Must I be coddled forever for my own good? If I am treated as if I can't be trusted with anything, I will never be able to prove I /can/ be trusted."

When Kian starts walking into the pool, the Cheshire swims his way over there and, very gently, puts his arms around Kian's waist. "... because if you never allow yourself to try, how do you know you will sink or swim?"
Garfield Logan Gar Logan crosses his arms, remaining apart from the pool. He had his time in it, and by staying away enough, it leaves it for Vorpal and Kian to work on the latter's confidence around the water. The way the wings move away instinctually might be amusing, were he in such a mood.

"We've all had to prove ourselves before. I don't see a reason you shouldn't be able to, especially if it helps solve all of this. I don't know a lot about how all this works. I don't think any of us do. Like you said, at least that part of you /is/ from Wonderland. And I trust you." Gar squints at the revealing of the scepter being used, frowning but saying nothing about it.

He turns his attention toward Kate, and is up front about what he says. "You've blamed him for things before." Holding up a hand, he is quick to add, "I'm not getting on your case for that. Everything about Wonderland is upside down, backwards, chaos and weirdness and all that. I know there are still things I don't get. But I know what he's going through better than anyone else. He has to have a chance."
Kate Bishop     "Well I am glad you weren't destroyed by the Archangel Michael." she sounds weary. "And I agree with Gar you deserve a chance. Also I was right several times in the past, and the stuff I was genuinely mad about was.. complicated and we worked through that I think." Also she is genuinely glad Vorpal wasn't destroyed by an archangel. But damn if Hawkeye isn't a bit weary about Alien Invasions, plural. Demons which aren't even always Rae's fault. Angels getting up to shit in her hometown and her family being in danger. Wonderland taking over Metropolis.

    She is just trying to make it through her High School finals and graduate this month while worrying about college. Should she even try to go to college. Is Donna going to snap out of being a GOD long enough to get the whole Spaceport HQ or New York HQ off the ground. Is Kate going to have to shoulder it all herself. It really depends on teleporters depending if she even wants to try to go to school for some sort of degree to keep her dad off her back.

    She finishes the last of her cheddarwurst. "Someone fill me in when the Oceans 11 caper is going down please and please try to not destroy Metropolis." she notes as she swings by the grill and flicks it off so they don't waste fuel and carrying her cider heads to the elevator. "Enjoy the swim boys."