4347/This is how the World Ends

This is how the World Ends
Date of Scene:	27 April 2018
Location:	Unknown
Synopsis:	Bang! and Stardust have a who-can-talk-the-most contest. Rayner gets a headache.
Cast of Characters:	Bang, Stardust, Raijin

---

Bang has posed:
Hey! She STILL hasn't gotten her pizza! So... she decides to show up. The Wolf had told her to they had pizza at Titans tower, after all. She arrives, not in costume, but in her normal every day clothes. She walked/flew here. It took a while, but she lives in Hempstead, anyway, so it's not a big deal. It's not like it's easy to miss the tower from the city's skyline. Her charms tinkle in the cool night air as she knocks, and then she's lifting her voice up,"HELLO. Your Dethbot friend with the blue lights told me I could have pizza if I came here, but I got real busy, and then we beat up people, and the cops showed up, and then we crawled through some sewers, and also there was smoke and lots of punching and stuff before that and I want pizza now, so can I have some please? Also lets be friends." She doesn't even bother to take a breath the whole time. Does she have no sense of caution? Doesn't seem like it. Her tone seems genuine enough! Then again, it always seems genuine.

Stardust has posed:
Stardust is, conveniently, already in the lobby of the tower when Mandy shows up. It's a nice big space, and she's got a bunch of ropes strung across it. Suspended on the ropes are a series of hoops, which she is using to practice the weirdest hula ever. Rather than swingint the hoop around her waist, she's floating and swinging herself around inside it. Drifting from side to side, never quite touching the hoop itself.

When Mandy turns up and starts yelling, she stops her drifting and listens, one eyebrow marching higher and higher up her face as the tirade continues. Then she pulls out her communicator, announces to anyone else in the tower that they have a visitor, and patches through to the door intercom.

<<Hi out there. I'm not clear on something. Is it the building you are talking to? Because it's not a talking building. Which would be cool. But we don't have one. Nor do we have a Dethbot friend.>>

Despite this, the door buzzes open, and Mandy is admitted into the interior. The same voice that came through the intercom calls down to her. "Hey. Blue lights. You talking about Wolfpool by any chance? He sent you here for pizza? Are you sure? I mean mostly he just broods and punches things. Not saying pizza is a bad idea, because pizza is never a bad idea." She raises the communicator to her mouth again, and speaks into it. "Yeah. Regular order. Hold the mustard. Oh, make it one with mustard, just in case."

Pizzas ordered, Stardust looks down at their visitor again, smiling playfully. "I'm Stardust. Welcome to Titans tower. Do you have a name, or shall I call you Ms. Talks-To-Buildings?"

Raijin has posed:
Rayner was just resting on one of the couches in the Lobby when he heard the knocking and the yelling and the AAAHHh! anyway, he gets up and he cracks his neck, zooming down to the door before apparently COlette already has it covered, the tired Electrokinetic rubbing at his eyes.

"Hey Letty...who's the guest?" he asks in advance before the visitor enters! "Hey. I'm Raijin. Nice to meet ya. Welcome to Titans Tower."

Bang has posed:
"I don't know! Which one is going to give me the pizza! Wolfpool? No, Dethbot is a better name. Much more edgy. He's basically a super-goth! And maybe you DO have a talking building? How do you know you don't? Maybe she just hasn't had anything to say." She actually hugs the doorway as it is buzzed. And then she steps through. Seeing the woman up in her strange obstacle course, the girl realizes she forgot something. "Oh! Right! Nerp, I forgot!" She snaps a finger. Reaching into her backpack, she pulls out a purple, star-studded and hooded robe, and pulls it over her shoulders. Lips and fingernails turn black, and eyes become pinpoints of red floating in orbs of darkness. She lifts into the air and floats up until she is no longer looked DOWN at. "I'm Bang! and I'm a hero!" It's totally ruined by the giggling that follows.

"Yeah, your friend told me that I could come here and get pizza. He beat people up, like hard. I usually just blow them up a little, but he was breaking and dislocating limbs like it was in fashion and there was a sale at L-Mart!" She nods emphatically at that. "I suppose you could call me Ms. Talks-To-Buildings. It's not entirely inaccurate. I spent two hours talking to a face on the side of a Taco Hut. Then the voice told me to get out of the drive-through lane. I was sad. I thought we were friends." AAAAND cue the melancholy. "Hello Raijin. Are you also here for pizza?"

Stardust has posed:
"That's what I just asked her, Rainman!" Stardust calls down. She lowers herself out from the hoop, flips around in mid air until she's floating upside down, and lands - upwards - on the underside of the supporting rope. She tightrope-walks the underside of the rope, the rope bending and swaying exactly as you'd expect it to if gravity was pointed the other way. When she reaches the wall, she steps off the rope very cautiously, arms held out for balance, until she has herself securely stood, sideways, on the wall. Once she's sure she's stable, she strides purposefully down the wall until she's a few feet from the floor, then hops off and lands normally. Either she has a unique relationship with gravity, or... well, who knows.

"Bang? Your name is Bang?" Stardust tilts her head thoughtfully. "Hmm. That's not bad. Unlike Dethbot. He's not a bot you know. There's like an actual guy under that armor. I saw some fingers once. And he's not a goth. You on the other hand seem to have a magical cloak of instant goth. " Her head tilts the other way. "Which could be useful if you ever need to infiltrate a gang of evil goth villains who are plotting to steal all the red nail varnish or something. I mean you never know, we've dealt with weirder."

Stardust gives Rayner a nudge. "Wake up, sleepy. This is Bang. Or is it 'Bang!'? or 'BANG!'? I'm just trying out the intonation here. That can be important to some people. So your power is that you can explode people? Doesn't that get messy?" She gives Mandy a look up and down. "You don't look like you're covered in blood. That's usually a positive."

Raijin has posed:
Raijin smiles warmly then to Stardust, though it's clear he probably hasn't been getting a whole lot of sleep lately. Though a great deal has bene on his mind because of this Red X guy that he and Colette speak of doing countermeasures against often. Either way, he gives Mandy a little wave as she asks her question. "Eh? oh, no I live here." he smiles then. Titans!

Then of course Colette needs to be her adorable self.

A nudge given is a nudge received. Raijin will move his shoulder into Stardusts own just to be playful...then the word BANG is said three times in quite the loud format. "so loud...." a small yawn that's politely covered by his hand.

He wakes up at 'explode people' "wait wha?"

Bang has posed:
"No, no, no. It's Bang!. With the exclamation point." How she can tell the woman didn't put an excalamation point on it. If the woman's relationship with gravity is problematic, it doesn't show on Mandy's face. "Oh the cloak's not magic. I am." She pushes the hood down, and flicks the little bell charm at her neck,"These help a lot, too. Makes me look, you know, mostly normal. Mom and dad gave them to me, and I think they're pretty!" Which begs all sorts of questions but for once she doesn't offer answers. "I know he's not REALLY a bot. They and I don't usually do swell together. Technology? Amirite? I'm right." She elbows the air next to her as if speaking to someone. Then she floats back down to the ground, reaching a hand out towards the two though she makes no effort to close the distance.

"Anyway, I only blow up people a little. There's a total huge difference. I would show you, but mom and dad said not to do it inside unless there's, like, a villain or something." She smiles as if this makes perfect sense. "Actually exploding people takes a lot more power than I tend to use. And using that level of mojo is like, super hard to control. I mean, try for a stick of dynamite, you might get a brick of C-4! It's better for everyone involved when I stick to low yield." Yep. She talks about her powers in terms of explosive yield, alright. That's... reassuring. "I prefer purple nail varnish, or blue. Black fits the motif, though. OH MY GOD. We should all go to Sephora!"

Stardust has posed:
Stardust points a finger at Mandy. "You. You need to talk to Raven. Purple is her color too." She blinks thoughtfully. "Also she totally loves loud noises. You'll probably be her favorite person. Only not. Because she totally hates loud noises. Or possibly she just totally hates me making loud noises. I'm not quite certain on that bit yet. Sorry about the..." she gestures with a wave of her hand at the ropes and hoop arranagement. "I was practising my flying."

Okay, so walking on the underside of ropes or down the sides of walls is hardly what most people would call flying, but Mandy will probably get distracted before she has a chance to consider it, and Rayner has probably given up questioning Stardust's increasingly weird training regime, so maybe nobody will notice. Her explanations usually don't make anything clearer anyway.

"So," Stardust says with a grin, stepping forwards to shake Mandy's hand. "You're a young newbie hero type, you ran into Loopy le Loup, had an adventure together, and he sent you here. That means he thinks you need to know some other people in the business who won't just call you a 'noob' and can give you some help with the whole how to fight crime without falling on your face business." She pauses a moment. "And told you to come here for pizzas as a bribe. That's okay, we like pizzas too." She pauses a moment longer. "You do realize this isn't a giant 'T' shaped pizzeria, right?"

Raijin has posed:
Rayner has no idea what to make of Mandy, but hey...she'd be a great person to shove at Raven! what a great idea! though they should probably hope that Raven isn't in a mood to send someone to another dimension because they exhaled funny. welll...at least this chick has spunk.

"ah...huh. So, you're magical but not magicial?" Tired Rayner is tired and the usual genius is not at his full power. Either way, talk of blowing people up that quickly shifts to going to Sephora means this lady will be/would be quite the addition to the team, if she so wished it. If anything, it'd be funny as hell.

though as he looks at Stardust as she speaks about her usually training regiment as she does her thing, he long gave up questioning her about it...because every time he asked, the weirder it got! How bout that.

Bang has posed:
"You have to practice flying?" She makes a dismissive motion, waving her hand in the air,"Practicing doesn't really... work for me. Not very well, anyway. I got problems. With stuff. Like math. Math is hard." The girl makes a sort of displeased face. "Where is this Raven? Tell her I wish to be friends. I am an excellent friend. You know this is true because I am telling you!" There's a long moment of silence at Stardust's claim about the tower not being a pizzeria. "Yyyyyeeeesss...?" Her head tilts as if gauging whether the others believe her blatant lie. "Oh, wow, falling on my face in the middle of a fight... THAT'S AN AMAZING WAY TO DODGE." She turns as if to run, and pantomimes falling over. Instead of falling, though, she floats just a few inches off the ground, and sort of lays there in the air.

"Uuuuum... Sort of... Magical implies I am, like, possessing qualities of magic in some way or shape. It's more accurate to say I'm... Um... Hmmm..." She sits up in the air, claiming a lotus position, elbow on her knee, chin in hand,"Okay, so you know how when someone casts a spell, it can go really wrong?" She chews her lip in thought, considering,"Well, the bigger and more complicated the spell, the more wrong things can go..." She huffs some air. "... Well, someone tried to kinda make a 'blow up everything' spell. With questionably unstable reagents. And then it went off. And that's me!"

"But it's okay. I prefer to hug problems out." Yep, a living spell of 'Boom'. "I also love karaoke. Do you have karaoke?"

Stardust has posed:
"You don't have to practice flying unless you want to get better at it," Stardust replies. "Which I do. That's why I was walking on the walls. " And Rayner thinks her explanations get weirder all the time. That makes /total/ sense, surely? The expression on Stardust's face certainly suggests she thinks so, anyway.

"Yes, we know how sometimes when someone casts a spell it can go really wrong. His name is Vorpal. He's not actually made of magic, though. You're actually made of magic? That sounds.... unusual. But don't worry about that unusual is usual for us. Once, a couple of months ago, I got into fights with badly made robots trying to take over the world four days in a row. That's a lot more unusual. Normally it's only like one a month. Actually there hasn't been one this month. I think it's overdue. I'm collecting them. The parts I mean. Not sure what for yet, but they are bound to come in useful. Deranged scientist dudes are often quite smart, even when they are deranged. If they weren't deranged, they'd probably build better made robots that actually could take over the world. Except of course not being deranged means they wouldn't want to take over the world, so it's kind of a paradox. But it's a paradox that keeps me in robot parts. If I can ever find a use for robot parts."

If there was ever a contest for who could spout stream of conciousness nonsense the longest, Bang and Stardust would probably be competing in the final.

"Raven's kind of busy at the moment though. By which I mean she's hiding in her room and told us not to interrupt her unless there is an emergency, and even then only if it's an emergency so serious that we're already dead and can't interrupt her anyway. I don't know if we have karaoke." Stardust looks momentarily shifty. "Normally we watch movies. Rainman, do we have karaoke?"

Raijin has posed:
Rayner tilts his head then at Mandy as she speaks about if she's magical or not...and apparently she was a blow up everything spell? or rather, she -is-.

The plot thickens.

"Right...well, that's the first time I've heard that one before." a small grin then before he looks to Colette as she speaks. He seems to be in approval of Mandy getting a low access card, though when asked about Karaoke? He shrugs. "No idea. I normally watch movies with you in my downtime, so." he teases her very lightly before his attention is back on Mandy.

"I don't think we have Karaoke...but hey, I always suggest that people make their own, so." a small laugh.

"But truthfully, Raven's always busy. I think she only says that so she can enjoy peace and quiet."

Bang has posed:
"Yup! I'm... a spell, I guess? Momma says I make causality cry, though, so I'm not allowed to go out without my jewelry on." She flicks the bell on her choker. "I don't wanna make anyone cry. 'Cept villains. 'Cause they suck. "Okay. So. Hear me out. We're going to get those robot parts. And we're going to built a Karaoke-bot. And it's going to be amazing. It will bring new meaning to the word karaoke battle. The only thing is, even though I don't know how many robot parts you have, I'm almost certain you need more. So let's go ahead, eat some pizza, and then we are going to go FIND an evil robot to fight. Bonus if we can find a giant lizard to fight them back." She lets her finger drift around the room until she points at Rayner,"You can be my sidekick." Even though she is clearly the new one here.

Thankfully, the door takes this moment to ring, for pizza. There's no way this line of thinking could go wrong.

Stardust has posed:
Stardust heads to the door to collect the pizzas. The Titans regular order, which means she returns carrying a stack of pizza boxes two foot high. "Pizza!" she announces. "We generally just order one of everything, so I'm sure you'll find ones you like here. We used to ask people what they wanted, but that just caused fights. Seriously. I mean Some of us once got into a fight with an entire army of flying demons, but that was nothing compared to the pizza debates. Starfire wants mustard on literally everything. Wolfpool is disdainful of any kind of embellishment. Vorpal gets very angry if anyone mentions the concept of pineapple. Raven actually once sent a pizza literally to hell. Rainy here is kind of relaxed about pizzas though. Actually he's pretty relaxed about most things. He'd probably make a great sidekick. Only we kind of don't do that. I mean we're sort of a team fo hero types who like *could* be sidekicks, but screw that, if you know what I mean. So no sidekicks. Also no karaoke-bot. I'm pretty sure bots would be terrible at karaoke, and then we'd have to dismember them again."

All this, Stardust somehow manages to get out on the short trip from the door back to where they'd been standing. "The rest of your plan though?" She puts an arm around Mandy's shoulders. "That's what I call good planning. Rainy, are you listening? This. This is a good scheme. Much better than worrying about X-faced goons. Eat pizza, find lizard, beat up lizard. Find robots, train lizard to fight robots. I'm in. C'mon upstairs, lets eat these pizzas before they get cold. What are you two standing around talking for?"