5323/Sunday Flying

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Sunday Flying
Date of Scene: 07 September 2018
Location: Unknown
Synopsis: Carol gets back on the saddle, and The Man of Steel visits with her.
Cast of Characters: Superman, Star Sapphire




Superman has posed:
Superman is flying, High in the air above the earth, enjoying the cool feel of the thin atmosphere as it rushes past him. Kal doesn't get much free time to just fly for the joy of it, but today the planet is quiet, no mad-men trying to blow up the planet, no alien invasions, the interdimensional issues are being investigated, but from what Kal can tell it's of a mystical nature and he will have to wait for others more in tune with that to get back to him with information to act on.

    Seeing the bright flash of violet energy as Star Sapphire creates the large construct appearing over Metropolis, Superman makes his way towards the smaller but still bright violet aura his enhanced vision able to make it out. "Star Sapphire." he says as he comes to a stop straigtening out to hover a few feet away from the woman. "Long time no see. " he says in a friendly yet caution filled greeting..

Star Sapphire has posed:
Star Sapphire isn't trying to hide. She's showing off. She turns to face Superman as he approaches. "Superman," she muses softly. "I was half-expecting company when I made that calling card..." She smiles faintly. "I haven't worn my ring in months. Just... my heart wasn't in it."

Superman has posed:
Superman smiles and nods. "Why weren't you? If you don't mind me asking." he says motioning up to the clear cloudless sky "Lets go up a bit, get out of the way of any air traffic." he adds as he starts to rise into the air gracefully his cape fluttering behind him as he changes direction slightly waiting to see if Star Sapphire is going to follow before he picks up speed to get up above any civilian or military air traffic.

Star Sapphire has posed:
Star Sapphire flies upwards into the sky, until the air is thin, Star's aura getting brighter to reinforce life-support. "It's... hard to explain. But I suppose you know all my history, even the bad stuff, right?"

Superman has posed:
Superman shrugs "I know the highlights I think. You found a crystal, similar to the main battery of OA, and channeling all that power twisted your perceptions, once it was." he pauses trying to think of a good word. "I guess Diluted by the formation of a new Lantern Corp it became controllable?" he says his words not confident in their accuracy..

Star Sapphire has posed:
Star Sapphire nods. "Basically. Except it was implanted in me by Queen Aga'po of Zamaron. They had a... rivalry with Oa and used me as their vessel. But once they finally realized they created a berserker... they made the rings. I almost didn't accept. But... I'm glad I did. Being impalnted with the Sapphire a few times... gave me a very strong connection to the violet light. I'm the best of my Corps." She smiles wryly. "Queen Aga'po made he her heir. So I guess I'm a princess."

Superman has posed:
Superman grins.. "The dream of all young girls isn't it?" he says as he flies the high altitude allowing the majesty of the milky way to shine brightly above them the moon a bright disk glowing down on them brighter than it ever would be on the ground. "So why'ed you give up the ring for a few months?" he asks still listening as his attention is caught by a storm formation over South Dakota the Kryptonian letting out a short burst of heat vision that has the swirling formation breakking apart in moments.. "Sorry, Tornado was forming.." he apologizes..

Star Sapphire has posed:
Star Sapphire shrugs. "I broke up with Hal. We couldn't get over our past where I attacked him. Once I figured out he was the Lantern that I went after... guilt corroded the relationship and we called it off. It wasn't easy, still working with him - I avoided the airport for a while and just focused on the business side. The reason I came back... I felt guility for not doing more against that space fungus stuff."

Superman has posed:
Superman nods "Well, don't beat yourself up about it, we're all human. Can't help others if you're not in a good place yourself. And things worked out in the end for the most part." he says understandingly "Now that you're back though, keep an eye out, if you see folks doing harm to others, don't automaticly believe they're villians. Something's still going on that the Mushrooms were just a precurser to, some of the League Psychics have been having.. dreams, and have been finding themselves controlled to do not so nice things. It's affecting the minor talents more so than those with greater power and control." he explains his face taking a more serious expression.

Star Sapphire has posed:
Star Sapphire frowns. "I've had a lot of sick calls for unexplainaed headaches of late. I wonder if that has something to do with it." She sighs softly. "Good to know, Superman. And... I'm going to try to get the trust back that my past actions have shattered - the violet light can be a force of good."

Superman has posed:
Superman nods. "It's powered by Love right?" he asks once more spotting something down on the ground.. "Got a forest fire that's not gotten to big, Can I get your help for a bit? Surround it with a dome, two inch hole on the right side, four foot hole on the left?" he asks as he starts to swoop back down towards the world below towards Colorado.

Star Sapphire has posed:
Star Sapphire follows, curious as to how this will work, as she focuses, creating the dome construct as requested, wtih the two holes. She can't wia tto see how this will work as she hovers over the dome, keeping it powered.

Superman has posed:
Superman swoops down resting his hands on either side of the dome right where the two inch hole is, letting out a breath into the sky that is powerful enough to jostle the clouds above them, he places his lips to the large hole and just breaths in causing a gale force wind to pull throught he larger opening in the gap the fire pulling away from the burning forest and into his lungs stamping it out before he lets out a large billow of smoke with a little fire once more into the night sky.. "Bleh.. gonna need a chili dog to get /that/ taste out of my mouth." he says grimacing.

Star Sapphire has posed:
Star Sapphire just stares. "I always thought stories about what you coudl do were exaggerated." She dissipates the dome and goes to investigate. "That was incredible."

Superman has posed:
Superman Takes another lungful of air holding up a single finger in a "one moment please" motion, once more breathing in a large quantity of air that he lets out in a much more narrow, tighter stream aimed at the patchy storm clouds hovering over the sky as a fridgid blast of air hits the clouds causing them to open up and start raining, thick fat drops of ice cold water pouring out over the forest. "Some of it probably is.. But some of it isn't." he says with a simple shrug.. "Do you know what a wood chipper is? And do you think you could make one with your ring?" he asks politely "We've got a little bit of a job here to help prevent a fire like this from sprouting up again." he explains. .

Star Sapphire has posed:
Star Sapphire raises an eyebrow. "A wood chipper?" she asks, blinking. "Yes, I know what one is. I'd have to work out how to make one..." She closes her eyes, concentrating, as a violet shimmer forms, and a commercial-grade wood chipper construct forms. "It probably won't be up to my usual standards..."

Superman has posed:
Superman grins boyishly his blue eyes catching what light there is and twinkling.. "Fantastic.. now I need you to make it about... five times bigger.." he says his eyes glowing for a moment as he scans the dark forest around the two..

Star Sapphire has posed:
Star Sapphire blinks. "That will tkae a lot of effort. But I'll try." She concentrates, as the construct grows larger and larger. "Do you and Hal do stuff like this? He makes constructs to amplify your abilities in new ways?" She smiles faintly as it gets to three times the height. "What's the plan?"

Superman has posed:
Superman grins.. "Nah, we don't tend to just go flying for flying sake, so I've never had a chance to do this stuff with him.. "Now, get it running, I'll be back in a flash." he says as he suddenly vanishes at super speeds, using his augmented senses to gather up all the detrius and overgrowth in forest floor, it doesn't but a few seconds and the blur that is Superman is returning to toss large bundles of sticks and plans into the chipper before he's vanishing again filling the extra large wood chipper with several metric tonnes of detrius a small mountain of chips building up under it..

Star Sapphire has posed:
Star Sapphire just turns it on, as she watches in awe as Superman. "I bet you hear this all the time, but it'd be so easy to fall in love with you," she murmurs softly, forgetting how powerful your hearing is. And... a Star Sapphire in love could be a dangerous force.

Superman has posed:
Superman returns.. "I don't think I'm any easier to love than say a fireman, or a paramedic. I just do what I'm capable of, no more than what you're doing using the powers given you." he says bringing in a final load. "Use to be, every five or six years small fires would clear out the underbrush like this, but Smokey the Bear and Forest Patrols stopped em, so now all this clogs up the forest floor, killing the trees and causing the bigger fires like what we put out." he explains rubbing his hands together at super speed smoke rising off them as the dirt and grime that was on his hands vaporize.

Star Sapphire has posed:
Star Sapphire ponders. "So - you don't seem to be a fan of Smokey the Bear?" she asks, blinking. She hmmmmms softly. "So... now what?" she asks. "We're in Colorado. I've never been here. Well, flew over it a few times..."

Superman has posed:
Superman shrugs, moving to one side of the large mound of ground debre, a blast of super breath disbursing it through the forest to feed the plants till there. "We can go back up and resume our flight, if you need to get back to your head quarters to get sleep I'd understand that." he says taking back into the sky slowly flying into the air..

Star Sapphire has posed:
Star Sapphire nods. "This is fine. You know who I really am. My day job. It's going to be so difficult to balance this - with that. I"ve managed so far to keep the public from knowing that one of the most powerful businesswomen in the world sometimes flies around in a few scraps of violet fabric.."

Superman has posed:
Superman shrugs.. "There are a lot.. and I mean /a lot/ of Fortune 500 CEO's that find a balance between work, and being a super hero, most do go a bit of a hands off approach, appointing people they trust that are in on the secret to help run the day to day needs of the buisness, but it can be done." he says slowly picking up speed to once more go into a high altitude cruise..

Star Sapphire has posed:
Star Sapphire changes course to follow. "Like Tony Stark." She sighs softly. "Yeah. I will know... that unless I have a focus for my love, I won't be as effective as a Star Sapphire. My business isn't enough. But... it will take time to find them. Part of why I stayed my hand with the ring so long."

Superman has posed:
Superman nods and just flys. "You do you Carol, take care of what you need to take care of. Making sure your company is secure and all the people that work under you are secure in their work and pay is just as important as stopping the alien invasion of the month." he says stopping in his flight the span of north and south America laying below covered in a patchwork of clouds lit up with the various cities.

Star Sapphire has posed:
Star Sapphire just smiles faintly. "This is what I miss most of all. Just being up here. Flying with the ring. Yes, planes are fun. But this is so much better. You know what I mean?" She smiles fanitly.

Superman has posed:
Superman nods. "I try to take at least five or ten minutes of my day just to fly for myself, usually in the mornings, I like to come up here, soak in the morning sun. Had other things to do this morning, so was doing a night time fly over when I spotted you." he explains. "I love flying, specially up here where the air is thin and cool.."

Star Sapphire has posed:
Star Sapphire nods. "I can't even imagine what it'd like to do what you can do. It just be so incredible. Yeah, I was showing off with that emblem. Just wanted people to know that I was back."

Superman has posed:
Superman tilts his head at Star Sapphire "I really don't know what you mean." he says as he studies Star Sapphire. "With /maybe/ my speed, there's not a thing I can do, that you can't." he says simply as he floats there.. "I have seen Hal do /amaazing/ things with his ring, and if your ring is anything like his in capaibility and versatility it can do so much more than what I'm able to do." he says earnestly..

Star Sapphire has posed:
Star Sapphire nods. "Yes... I know. The violet rings are similar to green. They are fueled by love, not willpower though. They even have some tricks that the Greens don't." She sighs softly. "But love is volatile. Did Hal ever tell you of the Emotional Spectrum? Imagine the rainbow. And each color having an emotion. The center of the spectrum, green for willpower, is the most stable. The most controllable. Teh edges - red for rage and violet for love... are chaotic. It's very possible to lose myself to the violet light. In fact, that's what happened in the past when I had too much in me. The villain I was was due to that."

Superman has posed:
Superman listens, the dark haied hero nodding as points are made. "Well, there are a lot of different kinds of love though, can't you tap into that love in different manners?" he asks curiously "When you were a villian, it was an obsessive love for The Green Lantern that drove you into your acts of villany. Can't you fuel your ring with other kinds? The love of your fellow man for instance? The love of an adult protecting children.. These can all be just as potent as romantic love." he says philosophically.

Star Sapphire has posed:
Star Sapphire nods slowly. "Yes, I know. BUt I don't FEEL them myself. That's the point. I'm running on the love for airplanes, one I've cultivated since I'm a child. It's... very complicated." She sighs softly. "If you have a loved one, she must be very lucky."

Superman has posed:
Superman smiles a soft rueful smile.. "I have a family, no wife or kids mind you, but the folks who raised me when I came to this planet. I love them very much." he says simply giving a little bit of inside into the man behind the shield. "I'd have to say I'm the lucky one." he adds trailing off into silence..

Star Sapphire has posed:
Star Sapphire nods. "My parents are gone. My dad became a drunk. Almost ran the company into the ground. Hardest thing I ever had to do was take it from him. I fixed it. Made it into what it is today. He died a while back. Mom died when I was a kid."

Superman has posed:
Superman nods. "Pa passed away when I was a teenager, heart attack, but my Ma is still around, I'll generally go visit her after church on Sundays, eat lunch, fix anything around the house that needs fixing, then I head back to Metropolis." he explains his head tilting. "mmm, an alarm I set back at my place just went off, I'd best get going Carol." he says with a smile.. "It's good to see you back in uniform, if you ever need any help let me know ok?"

Star Sapphire has posed:
Star Sapphire nods. "Very well. If you see your emblem in the sky over Metropolis in violet light, that will be my call to you." She smiles. "Easiest way to get your attention I'd assume." She winks as she glances over towards her home. Meeting the Man of Steel minutes after declaring her return - it was very interesting. She starts to head home.

Superman has posed:
Superman waves "Sure thing!" he says and he's sooming away, getting to a polite distance before he goes hypersonic with a loud sonic boom the man of steel returning to his day job..