14796/High Noods

High Noods
Date of Scene:	14 March 2023
Location:	Rooftop, 30 Hudson Yards, New York, NY
Synopsis:	Power Girl comes across X23 eating lunch on top of a skyscraper. The two have a chat and discover they've got something relatively unique in common! Noods: Chicken Cup Noodle
Cast of Characters:	X-23, Power Girl

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X-23 has posed:
    It's not the tallest building in New York. It doesn't have the most floors. But the design is certainly striking. And while the structure of 30 Hudson Yards is unique and features access to a lower balcony, there's no easy way to get up to the tippy-top of the strange geometric structure.

    Which is why the figure of a short humanoid figure in a hoodie sitting at the apex of the spire might be a cause for, well. Curiosity at the absolute least. Not threatening to jump, not making demands, not waving arms wildly. Just sitting there.

    Much like someone would sit on a stoop. Watching.

Power Girl has posed:
Power Girl Blinks because she was doing a patrol when she spotted the tiny girl sitting on the roof of the building, and that kinda stood out. So she floats slowly closer to the girl and cocks her head. She frowns because it takes her a second to realize the girl isn't doing the suicide or breaking-in thing. So she floats a bit closer " Do you like the view? " She asks

X-23 has posed:
    As Power Girl approaches, it's not hard to notice that the girl is holding something in her hands. She's got her knees bent, soles of her shoes pressed against the slanted surface of the roof to keep from sliding, and what looks like a ... cup noodle lunch in her grasp? The lid is flapping a little in the wind, steam is rising from the cup itself, and she has a plastic fork in one hand.

    When the blonde floats in and asks, she looks up, bright green eyes taking in the other woman. "Huh?" Laura asks, then shrugs her hoodie-covered shoulders. "I guess. Quieter up here. Less people. Less smells. Enjoying it before summer."

Power Girl has posed:
Power Girl Floats over and sits dow looking down " I'm still learning about people," she looks down " Your right about the smells too," She grins " Humans have too many smells sometimes.. burns like heck," She says with a sigh her cape flapping in the wind ..

     She leans over and peeks " What's that? Looks like the ramen stuff my cousin had me try but different.. smells way saltier" .

X-23 has posed:
    Laura doesn't recoil when the other woman takes a seat. She just stares at her, silently, drilling a hole through her with those eyes. But she's not Scott. She just nods, though, and looks back to her noodles. "...yeah. They do. Eight and a half million people here." There's a hint of bitterness in her voice, some of that biting cold. Then she jabs her fork into the mass of noodles and comes out with a steaming mouthful-sized wad.

    She takes a moment, blows on it, and then slurps it up. Nomf. She at least has the decorum to finish chewing and swallowing before responding. "Yup. Cup noodles. Just add hot water. Wait. Eat." She sniffs the air and looks back to Power Girl. "...you smell weird. Not. Human. But you're flying. So. Two for two."

Power Girl has posed:
Power Girl Looks down " I don't smell bad, do I? " She asks, looking at the girl " You smell diffrent too," She admits as she thinks, " I gotta try cup a noodle " she taps her watch, and a 3d screen seems to appear. She taps out a cup of noodles on what looks like a list of things to do .. apparently cuddle puppies is on the list with a check mark. She taps, and the screen goes away. She looks back " Oh yeah, umm, I'm Kryptonian, sorta " .

X-23 has posed:
    "Not bad. Just different." Laura states. Just a simple fact of observation, at least to her. She looks at the 3d screen, then at her food, then back. "...they aren't expensive..." she adds, perhaps to sweten the deal somewhat. "...this one is chicken flavor," she points out with her fork. At the explanation of what Power Girl is, she tilts her head. "...sort of?" she asks. The girl knows what Kryptonians are, at least, but maybe she's never smelled one.

Power Girl has posed:
Power Girl Looks left then right and figures hell she won't see this girl again so " I'm a clone " She says " So I'm Kryptonian but kinda not " She rubs her head " not sure what it means to be honest," she sighs " but people are really nice so it's not all bad ".

X-23 has posed:
    At that admission, Laura just sort of stares at Power Girl for a long while. It almost seems like she's not going to speak again until she finally turns back to her noodles and nods. "Oh. Me too." Stir stir. She spirals up some noodles on her fork and takes a bite. When it's done, she nods again. "...a clone. Not a Kryptonian."

Power Girl has posed:
Power Girl Is just sort of looking off she doesn't notice the girl staring at her then she speaks and she looks back " What really wow that's awesome" she beams and gives the other girl a big hug " I thought I was the only one " She smiles brightly " Who would have guessed i'd run into you " .

X-23 has posed:
    Laura's not looking when she's spoken to. She's taking another bite of her lunch. When she feels those arms go around her, she makes a sort of 'gurk!' noise. She keeps her impulses under control, though, and manages to not drop her soup. Or her fork. Or crush them. Or try to jam her blades into Power Girl. CAN kryptonians fend off adamantium? She's not finding out today.

    "Uhm. Uhuh..." she nods dumbly, not sure what to do in this situation. Run? Hide? Fight? She's on a rooftop eighty stories up, held fast in a hug by a snuggly kryptonian. Could be worse.

    So Laura opts to just deal with it, and sinks into the hug with a begrudging sigh. "..Yeah. Shitty people make clones to do their dirty work."

Power Girl has posed:
Power Girl Blinks down at the girl in her grip as she hugs her and sighs " Lemme guess, Go kill the person we cloned you from and the rest of their friends too," She says with that almost knows-the-answer look on her face.

     Though she could take the claws but she's happy not to find out about them yet. "they give you this is for your own good speech or I know best when asking you to do terrible thingS? ".

X-23 has posed:
    "Yuuuup..." Laura answers in a deadpan tone, carefully lifting the cup to her lips and drinking down the broth. She dunks the fork in the now-empty cup and just holds it in one hand. "I don't mind killing," she clarifies. "...I'd just rather not be doing it like an attack dog on some bitch's leash..." she grumbles and pulls her knees up closer, wrapping her arms around it. The fork rattles in the cup and she sighs, not seeming to mind the Power Girl hug.

Power Girl has posed:
Power Girl gives another soft hug before she lets go " Lemme get that, " She says, grabbing the cup and ZIP she's gone for like a split second before she's back. "There we go, I recycled it," she beams a smile.

     It takes her a moment " I like punching," She says, " Nothing feels better than when you have a bad day, and you can punch a bad guy in the face " .

X-23 has posed:
    Laura's hand is still open in the shape of the noodle cup when Power Girl returns. Laura's kind of just staring at the open space. At least, until the talk of punching bad guys comes up. She stares off into the distance at southern Manhattan before glancing back up to the blonde.

    "...yeah. Punching works. I do a little more than that. It's how I was... built..." she grimaces, disliking the taste of the word ever so much. Then she hugs her knees a little tighter, wrapped in some old jeans that they are.

    "..bad guys are relative and catharsis is different for everyone. But I get you."

Power Girl has posed:
Power Girl says nothing and wraps arms around the girl that's pulled up and snuggles her just holds her for a long moment, no words " How did they build you? " She asks, " I can tell you what they did with me if you want " She stays leaning on the other girl.. no words, just using touch to help. After all She finds like her that Laura smells less their just aren't as many smells on her as their on normal humans, and she kinda likes that.

X-23 has posed:
    Maybe it's because Laura tries to scrub off as much of her trackable scents as she can, why she doesn't smell like too much. The adamantium probably has something strange and unique to go with it. So all in all, at best, Laura probably smells like 'clean clothes', 'girl', and 'weird metal'. At the question of how they built her, though? She puzzles over it a moment. Just a moment thuogh.

    She then just lifts up her arm, hand straight ahead and... *SNIKT*. Those twin lengths of razor sharp adamantium jut out from above her wrist. They seem to be about as long as her forearm, and then with the same sound of them being unsheathed, they're gone again.

    Her arm comes back around her knees and she leans into the hug. "...your turn."

Power Girl has posed:
Power Girl Thinks, " umm " She hefts her chest for a moment, then thinks, " Wait " she zips off again and comes back with a big bar that she then twists into a bow.. then crunches it down to a ball.. holds it up and zaps it with her eye's so it glows red hot .. " Made me have all the same powers.. but big more cause I'm older ' She sighs " didn't put metal in my though ' She says " Does it hurt? Did you make them pay? " .

X-23 has posed:
    The sight of Power Girl's showcase is impressive, to say the least. Laura watches, nodding slowly. "...clone of Superman or something then?" she asks. Then she sort of just lays back, laying on the slope, still anchoring her position with her shoe soles.

    "Yeah. It hurt. Everything hurt. Ultimate assassin at a cost. I'm hard as hell to kill, too," she says, but it's not said with confidence. It's said with disgust, like she isn't exactly thrilled to be the perfect killer. "And. No. I couldn't..." she says, looking away. "...I ran. I'm still running. Can't let them take me back."

Power Girl has posed:
Power Girl Looks over ' His cousin super girl " She says, " I'm Just like him though " She says " Like I said, Kryptonian kinda " She looks at the girl, " You can stay with me " She pokes her chest " us clones. Gotta stick together.. I doubt they can stop me " She grins and looks " Maybe help you so they can't come after you " she says softly. "Kinda hard to stop me, I can fly, and I'm pretty hard to kill, too ' She grins.

X-23 has posed:
    Laura shakes her head, "...I've got a place to stay. Safe. For people like... me. Not clones. Just..." she purses her lips. "..special." Then the next words she struggles with, grappling with the sensation in her heart. "...friends there, too..." she says quietly. "...I should go back. Someone might... be worried about me..." The hooded brunette sighs and carefully starts to stand up.

    "I just wanted a lunch somewhre different. No buildings this high where I live."

Power Girl has posed:
Power Girl Loooks over " need a lift or you good? " She asks " Oh got a phone? " she asks, ' I'd like to talk to you again .. I don't know any other clones," She says this pushing her fingers together.

X-23 has posed:
    Laura looks like she's ready to literally just jog down the side of the building. Which, slanted or not, looks a bit dangerous. She pauses at the query of a lift, and a phone. She finally pulls hers out, "...yeah. Sure. Why not." Lack of enthusiasm to be sure, but she's not denying it at least?

    "...and... guess a lift is good.." she says after a moment. It's an hour's drive back to the X-Mansion. A 17 hour walk. Not that she'd out the location to someone that's still more or less a total stranger to her. "...just up to White Plains. I can walk from there."

Power Girl has posed:
Power Girl Laughs as she grabs the girl yep princess carry " One quick zip " She slowly rises up and starts to fly, letting her have a nice view of the city below " i figured you'd rather fly up here.. less people and smell up here too " She says brightly taking her to where she asked in like 5 min .

X-23 has posed:
    Has Laura flown before? Probably. But usually it doesn't involve being scooped up, squished to Power Girl's chest, and hauled off at the speed of a Kryptonian. "Thanks..." she states, quiet but still sounding grateful. "Just... set me down anywhere.." she explains as they get closer. Not that she can tell from this altitude. Still, the fewer people that see her coming down from the sky, the better.

    "...do you... always pick up random girls and princess carry them like some sky chauffer?" she asks.

Power Girl has posed:
Power Girl Thinks, " I've done it a lot, so I think so " She shrugs ' But mostly only for people I like " She beams " And well, I like ya ' She says in that bright, cheerful way " Your the first people I've met like me, you know the anger and fear that doesn't go away ".

X-23 has posed:
    When (and if) she's set down, Laura will rub her upper arm through her hoodie sleeve, looking away from Power Girl at those words. "...yeah..." she says softly, leaving a pregnant pause. "...people don't... understand that... Just move past it. Time heals all wounds. Whatever hollow platitudes... Not supposed to dwell on the past but... you sleep, right? Kryptonians sleep? You get nightmares too?" she asks, looking up at the blonde. She has to. Laura's just. Really short.

Power Girl has posed:
Power Girl That smile fades, and she sighs and gives a rather solemn nod " I do sleep, just not much," she chews her lip " We have a way to avoid sleep so I mostly do that so I can avoid the nightmares " . Dosn't help that she has to take a step back too, cause looking down isn't as easy with the girls.

X-23 has posed:
    Slowly, Laura nods. "...every one of us... special... people... have had to deal with a lot of fear, anger, and hate directed towards us. For no reason. People like you and me, especially...? Were.. made... for... being slaves. It... just adds a layer that some people don't /get/..." she growls, sounding bitter. Then she hugs herself with both amrs. "...but some attempt to try, at least... and that's why I need to go... home."

Power Girl has posed:
Power Girl Nods her head " Be safe if you need help call " She says brightly " Or just call out power girl loud as you can.. If I can hear it I'll come " she grins " as long as i'm not in china i should hear it though " she says .

X-23 has posed:
    Laura nods again, slower this time. "Right. Power Girl. Heard of you... think I'd remember if I'd... seen you..." she trails off, making a big decision, then offering her hand. "...Laura," she finally introduces herself.

Power Girl has posed:
Power Girl grins and takes the hand ' Karen " She says giving you her real name or at least her name as she shakes your hand and gives a real smile " see you around Laura "