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Wally West	My name, is Wally West. And I'm the Fastest Man Alive. ....until all of my relatives decided to show up from different points in time. Crazy, right? You might not have to get the entire time-displaced family together for Thanksgiving, but I do! But from what I can tell? The extended family is pretty great. Most of them are from Barry's genetics, but at least I got Irie! The red blur zooms through the streets of Metropolis, outlined by blue electricity when he's moving at these slower speeds. He's not looking to circumvent the world here, instead, he's just getting to a good spot where he agreed to meet his newest time-displaced relative, one Jenni Ognats, or by her freakin' awesome hero name: XS. Red boots skid to a stop and he bounces on his heels. A red suit with silver accents shines on his runner's build, a tuft of red hair poking out of the top of his head, gloves tightened and goggles lifted from his eyes to the forehead. "Aaaaaalright! Where are ya, cuz? I'm hopin' your not late!" He shouts to the sky. Does she have super hearing? Probs not, but hey.
Jenni Ognats	After having inadvertently responded to Wally's call to Bart on Bart's primitive communications device (seriously...what's the sense in making an audio communicator into a rectangle?), she happily agreed to meet him. Sure, it meant having to figure out how to navigate a bit in this century, but for a speedster, that's more or less a trivial problem. Still, she frowns a little as she realizes partway from Bart's place to Metropolis that the bizaare and haphazard way the streets are laid out make navigation (especially around a city as densely populated as Metropolis) a bit of a challenge. Weaving in and out and around people is going to be hard....but then the younger speedster has a brainwave as she quickly notes that the increasing density of increasingly tall buildings along with the effective distance of her stride at this speed give her a bit of an opportunity when all her equipment is taken into account. Thus it is that the citizens of Metropolis are subjected to the rather different sight of a speedster roof hopping...but at the speed they're going, they're running from rooftop to rooftop and somehow managing to gain altitude by leaping to successively taller and taller buildings. And thus it is that just as Wally shouts to the sky, he'll be looking in just about the right place to see a young woman jump off the tall building he's next to. Still, at the speeds he can move, he should have more than enough time to note a few things. A) She's wearing what looks to be a very professionally done costume with a prominent logo on the chest. B) She's utterly unfussed about falling down off the building. C) And perhaps most importantly, she's NOT falling normally. Something's regulating her speed...which means she's probably in powered flight rather than true freefall. Still, she's moving fast enough that she's within easy speaking distance in a few moments, at which point she slows even MORE dramatically, "Hi there! Sorry I took so long, but I think whoever laid your cities out was drunk or concussed."
Wally West	"aaaaand one french fry. Aaaaand two french fries." Wally was waiting, sitting with a small box of McDonalds french fries, on sale! Apparently Wally got the 'hero discount'. The fries themselves are lightly salted and a soft golden shade. It's perfect! There's so much deliciousness in so small a package. It's only when XS jumps off of a building nearby at his call that Wally's eyes widen. 1) Her suit is SO COOL. 2) Shouldn't she at least scream when she's falling? 3) She has a regulator of some kind! Flight thing? Is it part of the suit? Is she so fast she's vibrating her molecules against the air and giving her a softer density so as to float or glide? Wally has no idea, but it's SO COOL! When she arrives, Wally offers her a fry. "Fry?" He asks, and he laughs. "It's gridlocked! Welcome to the United States of America, circa 2023. Every building is box-shaped, unless you like the really unique ones, like the ones in Dubai. Man, those ones are cool." He takes a few more bites. "Take the time to recharge! Are you like me and you have some metabolism stuff going on? Can't run on an empty stomach. Saaaay what does XS mean? I like to think it means 'Extreme Speed' but I figure that's a /bit/ too obvious." He smiles at her. "But thanks for joining me! We're gonna have lots o' fun."
Jenni Ognats	Jenni takes the offered fry and sniffs it experimentally. She tentatively takes a little nibble as she's learned to do with new food since that time yesterday when she went to make an instant cup ramen and got the extra-spicy one Bart got by mistake. It wasn't BAD. She's eaten the stuff Khunds call food after all...it's just if one is not EXPECTING it... Still, after a little nibble she makes an appreciative little noise and pops down the rest of the fry...and tries to subtly snag a few extra at superspeed while she's at it. Wally's barrage of questions just makes her smile. It's what SHE used to do (and still sometimes does) when she's excited, and she's quite happy to just respond in kind, "From what I've seen, my metabolism is quite a bit higher than baseline, but Bart eats a bit more than I do. Dunno if that's because he's a boy and got a bigger frame than I do or differences in how we grew up or when we got our speed or what. I'm sure Brainiac probably figured it out on some idle afternoon but never bothered to tell anyone because it wasn't all that important." At the question about her codename, she shrugs, "Beats me. Some nozzle in the PR department for the United Planets came up with it while I was trying to figure all this stuff out." She then smiles a bit more, "...and thanks for having me. If nothing else comes of me being here, this will be a good chance to learn some of the tricks you guys have. Back in the 31st, I kinda had to stumble a lot of it on my own...the only people we had with anything like my kind of speed were the few Daxamites willing to leave Daxam...and they don't get their powers from the same source we do."
Wally West	"Goooood, goooood my young apprentice! French fries are the first step to every good run!" Wally is literally chowing down on these fries like it's the only thing keeping him alive. In truth? That's actually probably quite true. Wally needs food to keep him fully charged. Without food? He's not nearly as fast. Well, as fast as he /could/ be. It's kinda like swimming on a recently-eaten stomach and you get food cramps? Yeah, it's like that. Only opposite. Don't ask questions. "MY FRIES!" Wally smacks Jenni's hands away. She's fast, he's FAST. But there's a big grin on his face. "You can earn more fries if you learn quickly. Don't worry, I'm a good teacher. Well, maybe not a /good/ teacher. Barry's the best teacher, but I like to think I'm a really tight third." Who's in second place? Wally doesn't say! "Oohhhhh don't get me started on Bart. Dunno which lightning bolt hit that kid, but he can clear out a fridge before /I/ can catch him. You ever buy a fresh meal and then somebody else IMMEDIATELY eats it? That's how I feel every time Bart is in the same kitchen as me. Every. Single. Time." Yes, he's unhappy about it. "Man, that nozzle really came up with a cool codename. Should seriously give me some pointers." He smiles at her, a grin on his face. "Hey, no sweat kid. And hey, I got me a few tricks that should help you out. So...I dunno how they do in the 31st, but I can tell you're fast. I dunno really anything about Daxam, but can you do this?" He suddenly starts vibrating so fast that even standing still, he's blurry. "Can you vibrate your molecules like this?" Is what should be heard...except it sounds like it's sound going through a fan.
Jenni Ognats	As Wally goes to slap Jenni's hands away, she counters a bit, and there's a brief slap-fight as she tries to keep up with the clearly faster redhead...and Wally's grin is matched by hers. Unlike her poorly-socialized cousin-nee-effective brother Bart, Jenni was much better socialized due to not having to go through the same shenanigans. Thus she picks up on the lack of seriousness right away. Still, when Wally declares this to be a teaching exercise, Jenni smiles even more. Just what she'd been hoping for! At the older man's bemoaning of how fast Bart can clean a fridge, she rolls her eyes and nods, "Yeah, I'm pretty sure he does it mostly-unconsciously, which means he doesn't get tangled in himself for a change and is a lot more efficient than usual. I've found the best strategy is to just help him make sandwiches or pass plates or silverware while making my own lunch around him. After a few moments of doing it he just kind of incorporates your help which lets you get making your own food done WAY easier without having to fight him for food." She then blinks, "You don't have Daxamites here? I mean, not a lot of them leave Daxam, but when they do, they're kind of hard to miss since they get super strong, invulnerable, can fly and shoot beams out of their eyes." A blink, "Actually, I remember seeing something on one of your two-dee info shows about a guy who I figured was a Daxamite..." She taps her chin, "...Superguy?" When Wally starts demonstrating vibration, she nods and starts trying to do it too...though not quite as well. To someone with Wally's speed, it's clear that she's mastered the 'vibrate in place' trick...but only at the most basic of levels. She's vibrating herself...but not her molecules. She can conceal her identity, but she's a fair ways away from being able to pull of vibrational tricks like slipping through matter.
Wally West	"No-can you-wait, can-you know we can-no! MY-Wait, come on!" The awkward speedy slap-fight they manage to get into is short-lived, but surprisingly comical. Not like, nine Spider-Men pointing at each other trying to figure out which one of them is the real Spider-Men, but instead it's just a bunch of blurring as the fight for french fries! When he manages to keep his french fries in his custody, there's a evil grin on Wally's face. "HAH!" He exclaims with no small amount of excitement to his tone. "Well, I think he does it purely because he's got an oral fixation. You know, like he needs something in his mouth at all times to think? It's only our shame that the same thing he talks out of is the same thing food goes into. But it's a common track among us speedsters, so it's completely okay!" Wally smirks proudly at Jenni, and he tilts his head. "Oooohhh! I know, we can make Caitlin make him a bunch of cookies for days on end. That should stall him for abboouuut five minutes." Wally smiles big and wide. "So they're pretty much Kryptonians? Rad. Though you know, Superman's my favorite Kryptonian. Are Daxamites basically just future Kryptonians? How the heck does that work? I dunno, but! VIBRATE!" Wally watches her starting to vibrate in place, but she's only vibrating herself. "Hnmmmm okay, okay, okay." He stops vibrating, and he looks at her. "So...you know how big buff guys can flex their pecs? Think like that!" Pause. "Okay, that sounded a little weird. Think about it like...winking or moving an ear. Think about that. Minor stuff. Vibrate the minor stuff! Except like...make it even minor-er. Your very cells need to shift and vibrate."
Jenni Ognats	When Wally declares victory from the impromptu fry battle, Jenni narrows her eyes at him and gives him an intense glare...for about four seconds, then she sticks her tongue out at him, "Meanie." At the redhead's speculation about why Bart eats so much, Jenni blinks a few times, then gets a look on her face that's a bit of a cross between 'disgusted' and 'embarrassed'. After a moment, she reaches up and pinches the bridge of her nose before after a moment saying, "...cousin...PLEASE...going forward, can we PLEASE not put the phrase 'oral fixation' ANYWHERE near talk about the guy that might as well be my brother?" She shudders a bit at that comment, as if to try and dispel the thought. Except, you know, at superspeed. So less 'shudder' and 'nigh-cartoonish levels of vibration that pass down her body in a visible wave, then upon hitting the ground, bounce and come back up again'. After another moment, she gets herself re-centered, then tilts her head, "Kryptonians?" She shrugs, "Never heard of them...and yeah, it was SuperMAN, not -guy I saw the thing on. I was kinda confused though, since they showed him getting shot by those slugthrowers that are so common in this time period, and as I recall, they generally throw bits of lead?" She shrugs, "Daxamites are kinda allergic to lead. It's, like, insanely poisonous to them." Then, when Wally tries to help her with vibrations, his comment about pecs makes Jenni pause and stop as she thinks...back to a time when Ultra-boy, Karate Kid and Leviathan were all working out in the gym shirtless. And it's at that moment that she begins blushing to the nines...which, with her dusky complexion, makes her cheeks turn very nearly purple. A moment later, she looks up at Wally, realizes that he almost certainly can see her reaction, then closes her eyes and slapslaps her cheeks at superspeed.
Wally West	Glares lock. Tensions rise. The SPEED locks in place for a moment like a new race was going to be run. Not to see if Kryptonians or Flashes were faster, but this time? For FRIES! The greatest treasure on the universe (Wally will die on that hill). "WELL you didn't have to make it weird! You don't see me making jokes about needing to eat something all the time - that's what she said - DAMMIT!" Wally sets himself up, fails immediately, and accepts his failure. He'll be a great teacher! "Find, fine, finefinefine, no more talking about Bart, he's off running around greener pastures." Daxamites are allergic to lead? "Wow, that's wild. Kryptonians don't fear the lead, but they can't see through it. Metal's too dense in its cellular structure, you know? Waitwaitwait! Why are you slapping your face like that? Do I got sand in a weird place again?" Hd shakes his belt, and kicks out his legs, as if to jostle anything that may or may not be present in weird places.
Jenni Ognats	After a few moments, Jenni's able to take that memory that she'd forgotten and place it in a special box for recall at a later time. MUCH later. After a deep breath to recenter herself, Jenni then blinks and raises an eyebrow at Wally, "How would I know if you got sand in wierd places? WHY would I know if you got sand in wierd places?" She shakes her head. All her relatives are insane. That's it. They're all sprocking nuts, and she's the only sane one. I mean, look at the list. First we have Bart, for whom the name 'Impulse' was less a description and more a warning. He's gotten better over the years, but leaping before he looks is still a big thing for him. Then there's Aunt Mel, Bart's mom...and five minutes in the presence of that woman made it ABSOLUTELY clear that Bart's impulsiveness had ZERO to do with being raised at superspeed and EVERYTHING to do with pure, unadulterated genetics. Now we have Wally...and he's proving to be just as eccentric in other ways. After a moment, she mutters, "...maybe it was something great-grandma West was exposed to as a kid? Is that why they're all like that? But that doesn't explain Aunt Mel." She sighs and recenters herself, then tries to do what Wally was (confusingly) trying to explain to her. She holds her hand up and stares at it for a moment...then she starts vibrating just from the wrist up. Her look of concentration becomes a bit more intense as she focuses...on her own, she's been able to master most of the more gross applications of superspeed, but the subtle ones have eluded her...but just getting to watch Wally demonstrate a few moments before starts giving her inspiration. She wasn't QUITE able to watch EXACTLY what he did, as she's nowhere near as experienced as he is...but she saw enough of HOW he was doing it that she's able to start filling in the gaps. It's sporadic at first, as she's trying different pitches and frequencies, modulations and accelerations...every couple of microseconds there's a moment where she hits it just right and starts vibrating properly only to lose it almost immediately as she wobbles out of that golden zone. Still, each time she manages to get it a little longer as she self-corrects and starts getting a feel for how it's properly done...until JUST before she seems to get it...she cuts out abruptly with a pained cry. She rubs her wrist for a few moments, "Augh. One of those passes made me cramp. I think I got this, though." For a speedster, working out a cramp is a task of mere seconds, which isn't much of a problem in a no-stress situation like this. Hand better, Jenni holds it up once more...takes a deep breath...and then starts almost immediately vibrating her hand in precisely the way Wally had been trying to show her.
Wally West	"How should I know, you're the one from the future! Do you have it in a book that I have sand in my belt? I swear, that happened one time and it turned into a whole incident. I'm STILL banned from Muscle Beach. Because lemme tell yeah, those folks do *not* understand the value of comedy, mmkay? Mmkay." ...Something weird happened to Wally. Right? "Hey! Only thing Grandma West was exposed to was being /awesome/. Now no more family. Calm your mind and feel the speed rush through your body. Go-" He starts to body roll with his arms. "With the flow! It might be painful at fist...vibrating your core molecules isn't exactly a relaxing walk in the park. But keep trying! it's only wrong if it hurts while you do it.Don't *force* it. It's natural." Wally smiles. "Like breathing! or going to The future"
Jenni Ognats	Jenni smiles as she gets the first basic lesson, then she gives Wally a bit of a look, "Yeah, I'm not up to you or Grandpa's level yet. Even IF I could get close enough to lightspeed to maybe time travel, I'd probably do like Max did and bounce off in an uncontrolled jump, and who knows WHERE I'll end up?" She shakes her head, "...I'm pretty sure the Time Trapper is sprocking with me as it IS...so I'm gonna try to keep FAR away from time travel for as long as I can so he has less opportunity to sprock with me." She then nods to how she's managed to hit and maintain the type of vibration Wally was showing, "Okay, so I've got this down...what's next?"
Wally West	"Liiiiisten, listen, listen - Time travel is the LAST thing you want to do. Seriously, Barry can tell you the same thing. In the Speed Force, you bump a chair the wrong way and the entire timeline collapses, you know? Creates a new world, like a paradox: a thing that's in another thing that shouldn't be a thing. It /sounds/ really cool, but it's really not!" "Besides, you have so much room to grow it's crazy! I had to get struck by a lightning bolt to get my powers. You got yours with genetics. You got the potential! It's really ok. Who knows? Might be the fastest Woman Alive someday! Gonna have to change the tagline trademark and everything." Encouragement!! He smiles as she hits the mark with her vibration. "Great job! Now...maintain it in motion. Next lesson! Vibration part 2: Phasing! This'll help you in a pinch for a quick getaway in case you're cornered. Vibrating your molecules keeps you dynamic and in a state of flux and lets you pass through solid objects."
Jenni Ognats	Jenni wavewaves a hand dismissively at you, "Like I said, I'm not going anywhere NEAR uncontrolled time-travel. Besides, I figure Braniac or some of the others will show up in a Time Bubble sooner or later and I'll go back that way. Until then, I'll just take it as it goes here in the 21st century with you guys and learn everything I can." She then rolls her eyes and shakes her head while smiling a little, "I already WAS 'The Fastest Woman Alive' back in the 31st century. Sure, Laurel and Jo could be fast when they wanted to...but I could always see them moving, so I knew I was faster. I just never felt the need to PROVE it." The comment about the applications of vibration for phasing make her nod, "...that's one of the things I always wanted to learn. The last time I visited the past, Bart could phase through stuff, but I'd never managed to get the hang of it, and back then he was even worse at explaining things than he is now...so I never managed to learn how before I had to go back."
Wally West	"Goood, good good so good. Just don't want you to knock a chair over and suddenly Superman is now Mansuper, you know? Cause lemme tell you, I met a weird version of Batman's dad once. Least I think it was his dad. Craziest thing I ever did hear. Did you know that black and yellow is just as terrifying as black and red? Once you see it, you don't /unsee/ it." Wally smiles then, crossing his arms over his chest. "That's because there wasn't any other speedsters! Least none that I know of. I mean, there's Bart, I assume there's probably Barry in that mix somehow if he runs fast enough." Wally shakes his head, looking forward. "But who knows, maybe you'll be the fastest woman alive in THIS century too! I mean, think about it, gender roles are a big thing at the moment and I think it's goin' well, you could add to that change. I think it'd be a great idea." He smiles big and wide at her. "But that's why you got me now! We can figure it out together, tag-team it, hit it with the one-two!"
Jenni Ognats	Jenni gives Wally a look, "You mention that Batman guy. Bart mentioned him, too...but I just don't get it. He's just a guy...who dresses like a bat? No powers?" She shrugs, "...I mean, I guess the 'no powers' thing can work, since one of the guys in the Legion, Karate Kid is just an unenhanced human...but Val's kind of a special case. When someone's skilled enough with martial arts to be able to breach a starship-grade forcefield with a single punch...I think the logic was 'he turned skill into a superpower' and just went from there." The main problem she's having around the whole 'Bat' thing is that Batman's spent a lot of effort over the years building up the urban legend and the mythos to the point where, even outside of Gotham, the myth of 'The Batman' is at least PRESENT in the minds of most people, even if they don't always believe it. To an outside observer, who doesn't even have any kind of connection to the mythos, it all just seems kind of absurd. Which, anyone from the current era's superhero community can easily assume, is an assumtion that will die a horrible, screaming death the moment this poor speedster actually gets to MEET The Batman. Jenni shakes her head, "Nope. None. Bart was taken by Gramma Iris back when he was a baby and Grandpa Barry wasn't around, either..." She pauses, mentally decides to gloss over her mom and uncle entirely, then says, "I think the only time I ever heard my dad ask Gramma Iris about it, she just said something along the lines of..." There's a moment where she's visibly wracking her brain for a word, then she smiles, "Spoilers! Yeah, she said she couldn't say because spoilers. Which didn't make a whole lot of sense at the time, but once I got to a place where time travel is not only possible but something I've had to deal with a few times, I get the concept now." She shrugs, "So forgive me if I have to gloss over details here and there." Jenni then smiles, "And I think it'll be a while before I figure out if I'm the Fastest Woman Alive in this era. I was looking through the primitive infonet you have in this era, and it looks like there's probably a few competitors, which is why I'm glad to finally have people I can start learning from to fill in the gaps."
Wally West	"Jenni, I'm gonna teach you something right quick." Wally almost adopts a country accent, but he rights himself REALLY fast. "When you think of a guy like Batman, you think 'hey, he's just a guy in a Bat costume, right?' and normally, you'd be right. If it was anybody else? We'd think he was just a wackjob in a outfit who's gone through something really bad or really weird to end up like that. But when you see him work?" Wally shivers. He can run faster than LIGHT and he's still terrified of that man. "You ever see a guy just /vanish/, and fight the most powerful being on the planet and just...make it look easy?" Wally shivers. "That's Batman." "So if you see him? Run." Even when Wally says that, there's a deep sense of dread in his voice. Wally West wants nothing to do with the Batman. But, he hears about Bart's fate and he nods softly. "Well, that sounds kinda fuzzy. Spoilers are a big deal, a big thing. Time is always in flux. It won't erase your future, probably, but it'll create branches that you /really/ don't want to see. Or maybe ones that are just different. I dunno. It's funky! But...unless it's need to know? Smart to keep certain spoilers to yourself, alright?" Then his expression brightens. Back to the fun stuff! "Then we absolutely agree!" He claps his hand in front of himself. "Alright, we're gonna work on makin' you faster than a speeding bullet and even faster than that." He smiles. "You got thick competition, including my daughter. But we'll see what you can get up to." He winks at her.