1674/Invisible Kid's Amazing Invisible Cat

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Invisible Kid's Amazing Invisible Cat
Date of Scene: 26 July 2017
Location: Unknown
Synopsis: Summary needed
Cast of Characters: Brainiac 5, 1213, Invisible Kid




Brainiac 5 has posed:
It's like a weight has been lifted off of Brainy's shoulders. And now that it's off, he might just float up and smack the ceiling. What is he doing? What ISN'T he doing. He's floating along, conducting TWO experiments remotely in his lab, working out a new formula in his head, AND writing a section for his memoirs in his omnicom:

Working title: 'Everyone is stupid except me: The life and triumphs of the smartest Legionnaire'

Brainiac 5 has posed:
...Current chapter: Invisible pains in the backside, or: Why you should invest in a good pair of thermographic vision contact lenses

Lightning Lad (1213) has posed:
    There is music playing at his end of the hallway. Soulless workout music. Garth is on the floor in front of his bunk. His pushup routine is one arm, other arm, then both arms. His shirt is slick with sweat. He's bean at this a bit. Sweat drips off his nose. He is after all, a professional Legionnaire.
    When I walk in the spot, this is what I see
    Everybody stops and they staring at me
    I got passion in my pants
    And I ain't afraid to show it (show it, show it, show it)
    I'm sexy and I know it
    I'm sexy and I know it
    It is not classy music. But it does keep him moving.

Invisible Kid has posed:
    It's not *technically* a flying tackle.
    Well, okay, flying was involved. Lyle had the decency to back off the velocity a little so that it was only a collision and not an actual impact /per se/, although Brainy could easily end up hard against the wall with a couple invisible arms tight around him and an invisible face buried in his shoulder. He doesn't say anything coherent quite yet, though.
    From somewhere behind him, there is a tiny, plaintive, "Mew?"

Brainiac 5 has posed:
Which might look odd to Garth, because one instant Brainy is floating down the hall and another his arms are pinned to his sides and he's getting mashed against the wall. "What--" He wriggles! "Ack--!"

Lightning Lad (1213) has posed:
    One arm still in a pushup position, Garth lifts his right hand. There is a faint crackle and a waft of ozone and the room lights up with a new lightsource. Blue white electrical energy is leveled at whatever it is that is wrapped around Brainiac.
    The Winathian farm boy moves easily to his feet. "Put Brainiac 5 down, decloak, and surrender immediately." His voice echoes in the hallway. There is an edge to his tone as if he hopes they do not let go. Just to prove the point, the other hand glows as he starts to level it and his feet leave the floor.

Invisible Kid has posed:
    Lyle complies with only the second of the three orders: he becomes visible, but continues to cling to Brainy. Speech seems to elude him yet.
    There's another tiny 'mew?' from the general direction of Lyle's room.

Brainiac 5 has posed:
"Aaack!" Brainy carefully uses his force-field to extricate himself from Lyle, ever so gently. He's still writing on his omnicom. He lands on his feet, and says, "I see that you found her." He brushes himself off, carefully, and then gives Garth a sheepish look. "It seemed like a nice thing to do for a friend." He admits. "I don't know why he didn't get himself a cat years ago if he really wanted one."

Lightning Lad (1213) has posed:
    A string of profanity escapes Garth's mouth. "Lyle, for the sake of..." He lowers his hands. "Why are you even invisible while careening about?" He runs a hand through his hair, shaking a bit of sweat off himself. His feet settle back on the floor and he heads back over to his damp spot to work out. No more spooky lightning. "I am glad you have a cat." He lowers himself back down to start back in on the workout. He lowers into a plank position. Plank, not planking.

Invisible Kid has posed:
    "Kitty!" Well, at least Lyle has settled on an intelligible word, and bounces once off Brainy's force field before realizing it's in place.
    "Mew?"
    Lyle zooms back and scoops up the kitten, bringing it back with all the pride of a new parent. "We... I... we didn't have pets when I was growing up," he says, haltingly. "Only experimental subjects."
    The kitten perches amiably on Lyle's shoulder. "Mew?"

Brainiac 5 has posed:
Brainy reaches out with a finger and tickles the kitten under the chin. "Yes. Who's a pretty girl?" He says to her, before he looks up and says, "I had caretaker robots. I got fed up with them and took them apart for daring to interrupt me while I was working out important equaitons using my blocks."

HE'S NOT KIDDING.

"Fair is fair, I have Livingston after all." And oh, how Brainy dotes on that grumpy-puss lionfish.

Lightning Lad (1213) has posed:
    His head hits the deck plate once when Lyle says that. Garth now feels bad. His head hits the deck again as he holds himself solid, keeping his form tight. "Lyle... I'm sorry. That was... really nice of you Brainy." He squeezes his eyes shut. 'Though, between hugs and kittens here lately, might be time to eat a large chunk of grilled meat and consume alcohol."
    He, on the other hand, grew up with animals, and he remembers the chores associated with it. "Make sure to socialize her, and don't let her wander into the lab. Probably turn into a new legionnaire." He grouses. He hastily adds, 'That wasn't a challenge, Brainy!"

Invisible Kid has posed:
    "Yyyyyeah, I couldn't really disassemble my dad," Lyle says. "Not and get away with it."
    He chucks the kitten under her chin. "She seems pretty social already, Garth. And what makes you think I can't make her a superhero myself? She could be Invisible Kit!"

Brainiac 5 has posed:
"I know." Brainy says. "I haven't called somebody an idiot in months." Brainy pauses, and looks between Garth and Lyle. Garth... Lyle. Garth... Lyle. He strokes his chin, and then says, "I think I'm losing my edge."

"Oh, that reminds me. While Magno's had some small luck figuring out how to re-use his powers, Garth, he's just at the beginning of that road. Now that we've voted him back in, I want you to set up a training program with him. You're the best personal trainer in the Legion."

Lightning Lad (1213) has posed:
    'that is scary. I'm just the most bored member of the legion. What does he need? Exercise? Power practice? Combat drills?" Garth continues to hold his position. "I will do whatever it takes. I mean, the Legion wanted him back."

Invisible Kid has posed:
    The kitten leans forward and reaches one fuzzy paw towards Brainy's nose.
    Lyle pretends to not notice, although the smirk is impossible to hide. "I'll see about engineering a system to gauge his re-developing control -- unless you've already done that in your copious free time, Querl."
    he reaches up and gently pulls the kitten's paw back. "No, Shadow, Brainy-nose is not a toy."
    A beat.
    "Yet."

Brainiac 5 has posed:
"Confidence." Brainy says. "He needs confidence." He taps something out on his Omnicom, and then he says, "Even with his powers in their current state, Dyrk is a trained Science Policeman and can clip the wings off a fly with his pistol. He needs to be challenged, and encouraged."

Then he is thoughtful, and says, "I think it would be good for him if more Legionnaires worked with him, Invisible Kid." Brainy murmurs, "Well, it's my own fault isn't it, I picked the cat out because she reminded me of you."

Lightning Lad (1213) has posed:
    "Can't teach confidence, or else you would have a girl, Brainy." Ouch? Garth calls them like he sees them. He pauses, and adds, more honestly. "Several of us, anyways. I will, though, take him out and we will play in Asteroids. Let him build up his comfort out there. If he starts to feel like he belongs with us, he will actually belong with us." Garth is still holding position. There are tremors in both arms. Maybe more in his right arm. He squeezes his eyes shut.

Brainiac 5 has posed:
Okay, that makes Brainy's eyes go a little icy. Like frosty emeralds. "Have you talked to Imra, yet?" He asks, "Or do you still turn as red as a Winathan razzleberry and run the other way?"

Lightning Lad (1213) has posed:
    "Haven't een her yet. So I have not run recently." Garth allows, not meeting or noting the gaze with his closed eyes. He can hear the tone change though. "As soon as I see her along, neither you nor I will have any more excuses, okay Brainy?" his tone modulates as if to agree with Brainiac. "I'm not going to tell her I lo--like her in front of everyone." Okay, ther eis the red razzleberry flush. His right bicep it seriously twitching now.

Invisible Kid has posed:
    Lyle nods to Garth. "Good choice. I'll get you an ephemeris of the mainly nickel-iron ones, those'll be the best for him to work with. Magnetizing silicates and carbonates is hard even for a Braalian."
    Shadow headbutts Lyle's ear, and he can't help himself, and grabs Brainy for another hug.
    Shadow wanders from Lyle's shoulders to Brainy's, and back again, pausing only to stick her nose in a green ear.
    Muffledly, Lyle says, "Thank you."

Lightning Lad (1213) has posed:
    "Just kiss him already, yeesh!" Garth says from his spot on the floor. His arms are startling to give out. But that is no doubt due to exercise.
    As he slowly lowers to the floor, Garth has another muscle spasm. "Maybe you should look at it." He admits, quietly. "And if you fix it, I'll give you a kiss too. And, umm, Lyle, you are thinking just what I was for his training. Could yound chart some for me?"

Brainiac 5 has posed:
Brainiac 5 has a cat nose in his ear, which makes his attempt to be frosty and difficult incredibly, incredibly difficult. "That tickles." He complains. But then he's turning to Garth. "Shirt off, stick out your arm. I AM filling in as chief physician, in the absence of that quack butcher Gym'll." He uses his omnicom, to run a scan of Garth's arm, and he murmurs to himself as he works.

"Nervous system electropathing within optimal parameters, minimal microscarring from the graft. No evidence of blood clots or hemmorhaging in the soft tissue..."

Brainy pauses, as he continues to study the arm. "Ah." He suddenly freezes up, then returns to examining Garth's arm.

Invisible Kid has posed:
    Lyle does, in fact, try to sneak a kiss in when Garth isn't paying attention, getting out of Querl's way as he gets to work in his capacity as default chief medical officer.
    "Yeah, that won't be a problem, Garth. Want to see what damage you can do to some large conductive clumps?" He grins. "Try and bring us one or two back, wouldja? We could use the resources."
    He watches over Brainy's shoulder. "'Ah', what?"

Lightning Lad (1213) has posed:
    "Please tell me it's just stress?" He shrugs out of his shirt though, like he is told. It takes him a moment or two, largely due to the amount of exercise he has been doing. No doubt, due to the stress.
    He holds the arm back out again to let Brainiac get a better look at it. "No bruises. No pain." he tells Brainy quietly. "Just a slight tremor or a cramping." He nods to Lyle. "That would be doable. Whatever you need. Put me to work."

Brainiac 5 has posed:
"...We'll talk about it." Brainy says, to Lyle. But boy oh boy does he look embarassed. Cheeks burning green and everything. He examines Garth's shoulder, too, and then says, "Well, this is actually quite common in people who've received cloned limb-grafts, and quite honestly, as far as that goes, you're a special case, because your cloned limb DID need special conductive reniforcement of its nervous system, otherwise your powers would've killed it the first time you used it to channel them. That's not a risk," He says.

"Likely they'll fade with time. What I am going to do is give you some hypos of a localized muscle relaxer, which you can use if you need it. Aside from that, I recommend massage and applied warmth."

Invisible Kid has posed:
    "And I can make sure your biochemistry isn't too far out of whack," Lyle offers while Shadow climbs off of his shoulder onto Brainy's, and peers at Garth as well. "Mew?"
    "Cloning is a science, but not really an exact one. If the DNA picked up even a slight variance, it could cause discomfort." He reaches over to coax the kitten back to his own shoulder. "I can run a comparison between your arm and the rest of you to make sure there's no meaningful variance."

Lightning Lad (1213) has posed:
    "So, it will go away?" Garth is seeking reassurance. Garth just gives a nod. "Just... keep me out of the bionic one, okay? Please?" He is not desperate, just insistent. His eyes remain shut, his arm still extended. "Am I pushing it too hard? I just..." He just needs to be able to perform. He takes a calming breath. "I like being able to feel like its my hand." he admits."Stick me with all the needles that are needed?"

Brainiac 5 has posed:
"Needles?" Brainy says. "Barbaric." He adds, "You might as well have me draw out your humors ro rebalance them. There is no risk of this limb being rejected," Brainy says, "Because it was cloned from your DNA. It IS your arm. But at the same time, the surgery was incredibly complex and again, you had a unique complication." He snorts, and then says, "If Karate Kid were here, he'd probably know some deep-tissue acupressure technique that would solve the problem. It's all hocus-pocus and flim-flam to me, but it seems to work. I've noticed that the cramps get worse when you think about Imra or your brother, which probably also means you've got some sort of phantom limb syndrome."

Invisible Kid has posed:
    "Oh, you have no sense of the dramatic," Lyle complains. "By this time, I would've had an oversized hypodermic with a meter-long needle, Brainy!" He grins at Garth, not at all innocently.
    Shadow, meanwhile, hops from Lyle's shoulder to Garth's. "Mew?"

Lightning Lad (1213) has posed:
    Contorting himself around to sort of pet the cat awkwardly, his right arm still help out to be examined, Garth allows, "It's quite possible." he admits. "The first prosthetic was put on in a hurry. I never really adapted to, um, thinking of it as mine? I don't know." He continues to awkwardly pet the kitten. "Thanks, guys. I hate to complain."

Brainiac 5 has posed:
"...And yet you do so often and at such length." Brainy says. He frowns at something, and then reaches out -- with his force-field -- to begin kneading Garth's arm, catching it and massaging it, while he uses the omnicom to continue studying the muscle groups. "Sorry, I picked up on a bad oncoming cramp, so I'm heading it off. You know," He says, "It occurs to me, being a genius, that if you reacquainted yourself with Imra she could probably help you with this. Telepathic relaxation techniques, for instance. Asking for her help with it might be an excellent way to break the ice. I wouldn't know."

Brainiac 5 has posed:
Then Brainy looks up at Lyle again, and sighs, but he smirks, ever so slightly. "And they used to say I had a terrible bedside manner."

Invisible Kid has posed:
    Shadow paws delicately at Garth's sideburn, and noses at his ear. "Mew?"
    Lyle hides a smile. "It's not a complaint. You need to be comfortable with your whole self to be at your most effective, both in the field and just even working out here." He pulls out his own omnicom, which mainly has the effect of attracting the kitten's attention.
    He grins at Brainy. "You do, but we'd be disappointed if you didn't by now."

Lightning Lad (1213) has posed:
    He's so pathetic that Brainiac is giving him dating advice? Garth's head hits the deck plate again. Thud. "Yeah. Hey Imra, we've been friends since we were little kids. Wanna rub my arm and something else?" Garth's head hits the deck again. "She's too smart for that to work." He chuckles at the cat. 'Quit it." he scolds gently.

Brainiac 5 has posed:
Brainy tilts his head, and says, "Well, Garth. The Scientific Method IS the planned approach to problem solving. So what have you tried? Staring at her from across the cafeteria? Punching her in the arm and running away? Grinding your teeth in jealousy whenever another man says two words to her?" Brainy scoffs, "Fat lot of good it's done you--" Then he pauses, and then his expression clouds again. "I should get back to the lab, one of my enzyme experiments needs stirring."

Brainiac 5 has posed:
Then he looks up at Lyle, and says, "And I still don't grasp it. The worse it got, the longer the line became. Maybe I should've been cloyingly, distressingly friendly." He pauses, and then adopts a big, painful smile. "See? That horrified even me, and I couldn't even see it."

Invisible Kid has posed:
    Lyle reaches over and scoops the kitten up, placing her back on his own shoulder. "She's too smart to accept anything but you being you, Garth. And she'll *know* if you're trying to be someone other than yourself. Just... see her. I'm not going to say 'trust me', but... uh, trust me."
    He blinks at Brainy. "You should smile more often. Then it wouldn't look weird."

Lightning Lad (1213) has posed:
    "yeah Well, if she liked the real me, she would have dated me long ago.; Garth retorts. Besides. The real him is a pervert. She knows this. "It is almost like trying to date a sister. I mean, you guys have been here for a long time. For a little while, it was just her, Rokk, and myself. Back when we were young." He tentatively attempts to withdraw his arm from Brainiac's grasp. "Keep doing that, and I'm going to kiss you." If he could roll his eyes any harder, they would fall out of his head. "I appreciate you guys though. Uhm, but if you tell anyone I said that..." Blasts, denials, they know the routine.

Brainiac 5 has posed:
Brainy scoffs. "Garth, you're not my type. And it wasn't THAT long before the next crop of us was brought in. As a matter of fact, I believe I was part of the first wave. I remember that you turned Sun Boy down, because none of you thought to ask him if he could do more than generate light--" He snorts, and shakes his head, once, and then he says, "...But I really should go. I already told you, Garth -- have you once thought to *ask her* how she felt? What's that quaint human saying? It takes two to tango?"

Invisible Kid has posed:
    "I wouldn't dream of ruining your reputation as our go-to thug, Garth," Lyle says with smirk. "But really... Imra already knows your mind. She has to. And if she hasn't told you to stay away by now, whatever she's seen can't be too horrifying. Seriously, talk to her."
    He glances sideways at Brainy as if he had something he wanted to say, then looks back at his omnicom. And Shadow paws cutely at Brainy's shoulder.

Brainiac 5 has posed:
Brainy reaches up to borrow Shadow, and he cups the kitten in one hand, as he absently strokes her behind one ear, as they converse.

Lightning Lad (1213) has posed:
    "Maybe." Garth allows. He shakes his head. He starts to pick himself up off the floor, taking his soaked shirt with him. It is quite wet. He throws it over his shoulder He reaches out with his left hand to help Brainiac up.

Invisible Kid has posed:
    "Just be yourself," Lyle advises. "She'll know if you're trying to pull something, so just don't. Be Garth. Don't worry about the rest." Shadow nuzzles into Lyle's ear, and that last sentence is said with an undignified giggle.

Brainiac 5 has posed:
"I am continually astonished by how many of us are absolute exemplars and yet when presented with a comparatively simple task we just fall apart." Brainy says, as Garth pulls him up and he checks his omnicom again. "All those nights going to bars with Sun Boy and Dirk never once coached you on how to talk to a woman?" He shakes his head, and turns to start floating away down the hall back in the direction of the lab. "I'm going to use my now-comparative freedom... if you have an emergency, come to the lab. I strongly suggest you don't have an emergency..." The secret is, he's going to go into his lab and take a nap.

Brainiac 5 has posed:
Then he adds, "K.O.K.O. will deliver those hyposprays to your berth in an hour, Garth. I just need to formulate them and load the doses into the hyposyringes, which is so simple I could do it in my sleep."

Lightning Lad (1213) has posed:
    "Imra is not a woman." Garth answers. "Not just any woman. Not.. that sort of woman." Subtext: She is special. HIs head bobs. 'Thank you. I am going to shower and take care of this shirt. Then I can take a hypno. Will it make he drowsy?"

Brainiac 5 has posed:
"It's local, so no. If it doesn't do the job, I'll prescribe something stronger. If you need assistance sleeping, I suggest a gently warmed kono juice. It's what I use." Brainy murmurs, his voice wry.

Invisible Kid has posed:
    Lyle laughs at Brainy. "Battles for the preservation of the universe are easy. Interpersonal relationships, *those* are difficult. Garth, seriously, just talk to her. At the very least because the straightforward approach is so rarely tried."

Brainiac 5 has posed:
"They are INCREDIBLY difficult." Brainy says, half to himself, as he rounds the corner, still staring intently at his Omnicom.

Lightning Lad (1213) has posed:
    Standing there for a moment. He considers them. "You guys are alright." He says, meaning it. "Going to shower." His arm doesn't twitch. "We're going out this week. Find a place, Brainy."

Brainiac 5 has posed:
Brainy sticks his head out from around the corner, and then says, "...What?" Then he grumbles, "Fine..." But he's probably going to pick a place Garth will hate, someplace with gourmet coffee and hipsters in it and like, no talking. Shhhhhh's Coffee Bistro or something. Or some Japanese cafe with a gimmick of complete silence.