#untouchable-lightning

"Mmmmh." Lightning hummed, suddenly appearing not too far from her current focus. The other was carrying some baked things, by the smell of it, and Lightning could really use some food right now. Or maybe it just smelled so good that her mind told her she could. "Oh, that smells great! What do you have there?" Food, obviously, but the question was of course about what exactly there was.

Before he could come to any conclusion, he stirred, and quickly noticed that he was wearing a sort of collar above his armor, the collar being seemingly connected to something he was lying on - he wasn’t able to get up properly. He cursed for a few seconds, pulling against the chain, but nothing gave, and he decided to instead look around as much as he could. On one side, he only saw firm-looking walls, and ceiling and ground. There wasn’t really anything in sight that told him anything, except that this didn’t seem like his usual places for sleeping (which meant mostly rooftops, on Earth). The other side, there was a... a table, or perhaps a stretcher, and someone was lying on it. Grunting, Moonshot pulled himself up a little (as far as he could, really, which wasn’t much) so he could see more, and he recognized that outfit. “Hey! Hey, are you awake? What’s happening?” Had he been meeting Ariel before this happened? Ugh, why couldn’t he recall anything?

“Ariel! I am most delighted to meet you today!” It wasn’t a planned meeting, but when she spotted what might as well have been her friend, Starfire just had to move closer (not landing though) and check if it was her. It turned out that it was Ariel, and that was a wonderful chance-meeting on such a glorious day. “Are you well? Do you have some time?” She didn’t want to keep her friend from something important, after all. “Today is the tamaranean festivity of flight, and perhaps we may celebrate it together?” Now that she thought about it, though, Ariel was never all too happy about flying, so far, was she? Perhaps this wasn’t the best festival to share.

He walked closer, and then could see that it was a picture that they were creating. And not just of anything, as far as Galfore could tell that was intended to become a picture of him! That explained why he felt like being watched. “I greet you.” Galfore started still from a little afar, careful to not speak too loud or intimidating, since he had heard before that some people of Earth got that as first impression when encountering him. “You are an artist, mh?” It was a question of which the answer seemed rather obvious, but it was better to start a talking slow.

“Hey, maybe this is the wrong place to be doing that.” He tried to gently warn.

Soon enough, she reached the fenced-off area of the laboratory, and easily flew over the fences and behind the wall where the security cameras were on. It wasn’t difficult to break in a wall and cut through any cables that might lead to an alarm. Just as quickly as she entered, Blackfire had found the experimental battery that she had been looking for, and left the area again.

Karen sighed, looking up at the other. “I don’t use my powers all the time, honestly I mostly just use them in gym or when Lex and his gang are being mean,” it was a reasonable question considering the boys, with the exception of J’onn and Bruce, couldn’t go two seconds without using their powers. Of course there were some things she couldn’t just turn off like her hearing but she managed to ignore the overwhelming amount of sounds most of the time. “Do you use your powers all the time?”

“They sanitize and clean, unpick it at the seam. Unravel and destroy decades of what has been.”