6923/Walk a thousand miles in his shoes

Walk a thousand miles in his shoes
Date of Scene:	16 March 2019
Location:	Watchtower
Synopsis:	Billy returns to the Watchtower and runs into Flash nearly running into the Speed Force.
Cast of Characters:	Flash, Shazam

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Flash has posed:
Most people with any life are done on Earth celebrating St Patricks Day, but not the Flash. The Flash has way too much self control for that kind of shinanagan, no he's up at the Watchtower working a cosmic treadmill like a pro. Designed specifically to accomodate his speed and the friction created thereby, his arms and legs pump with a fury akin to the raging force winds of a vortex and electric trails of orange and gold sparks are beginning to flare off him like sun spots.

Lost in the exercise, building up increasingly violent speeds, Barry is reaching that euphoric point where the speed barrier becomes visual just ahead of him despit not actually going anywhere at all. One more mile per hour, then another, until every motion of his body is a blur in stasis.

Shazam has posed:
     Captain Marvel had just returned to the Watchtower, not seeing anyone on the satellite yet, he decided to go searching. Instead of the monitor room, he heads into the gym.

  His eyes check out the Fastest Man Alive on the cosmic treadmill and his eyes go wide at the spectacle. "Holy moley!" He comments, the way The Flash moves is so fast that the eyes cannot keep up, just a blur of motion. Even the Champion of the Gods is impressed by the master of the Speed Force. The Big Red Cheese keeps watching, getting close enough to keep out of the electricity's path.

Flash has posed:
Moving this fast comes with certain perks, but the act of actually getting the momentum built up is an act of great effort. Suffice to say it may seems a great deal like time travel or precognition in how Barry can predict the patterns inherent in a situation by viewing the foggy distance which is so close, so far, and not moving as he pounds against the treadmill.

When he finally begins to slow down, so as not to crash right through the equipment like a bullet when his forward motion doesn't match that of the cosmic wheel, he's panting heavily and sweating enough to swim in. "Hey Billy.." Hand raised in greeting is moves behind his head with the other to open up his lungs to let in more deep gulps of oxygen. "You just getting back to the watchtower? Where you been anyways?" There's food somewhere. The jittery aftermath of his blood sugar plummeting from so much rapid activity is evident.

It stands no chance against his ravenous hunger.

Shazam has posed:
     Billy gives a lighthearted smile. "Hey Barry!" He stands in his glory, Red and gold costume, and the active arcing on his lightning emblem. "Yeah, I...things went down in New York. I went to the Rock, and brought back a little present." He holds up a tiny speaker, attached to a necklace. "Mister Mind sends his regards." He says with a laugh. "The lanterns took him away to a science cell."

  The tall man looks around a bit. "Reminds me of home." He says in regards to the food and wrappers on the floor.

Flash has posed:
Once Barry has consumed roughly his body weight in high caloric fast food he looks a lot less jittery, which is to say nothing for the sweating and breathlessness. "Hey nice necklace." Lifting devil horns playfully while drying off his head with a wiggling towel across the back of his neck. "Man, you missed so much. My grand son from the future came back in time and told me that I disappear sometime after his father is born, which may actually be before depending on your point of view, since both my son and his wife go to the future where Bart ultimately is from." This was day one of Barry's current tenure.

Things have steep shoes to fill from this point forward.

"You back for good or just a stop in to get caught up?" There are a few more burgers, "Oh, help yourself by the way. The triple triples are incredible."

Shazam has posed:
     Billy does as offered, picking up a burger and taking a big bite of the Big Belly Buster, chewing as his eyes widen to the news of Barry's grandson coming to this time. "So, that doesn't you know...break the timeline or..." He swallows the bite. "Make everything implode or break the universe?"

  Cap gives a nod to the last question. "For good, unless something bad happens and I can't be here anymore." A sixteen year old with no powers is good to have in the Justice League, right?

Flash has posed:
Barry settles down on the bench and raises both hands out at Belly in an indicative kind of way, almost emphatically so, "I said that exactly same thing to him! I said that we had to figure out a way to get him back to the future before his presence here irrepairably altered the course of time. I even theorized that his existance might lead to an infinite time loop-" His hair is dry in seconds after vigorous toweling. Afterwards he lets the towel hang down around his neck. "-What if his being here and letting me know, roughly exactly, when I'm going to have a child somehow alters the fact that I'm going to have that child since I don't know who this woman is? What if in so doing it creates another reality where Bart doesn't exist, and therefore, doesn't come back in time to tell me I'm going to have a child.. which repeats indefinitely."

Barry shakes his head and slumps foward until his knuckles are brushing against the mats, "Now we're looking at a parallel paradox where reality cannot sustain the constant replication of unmeasurable numbers of varying realities and thus leads to a total collapse of the entire multiverse." He shouldn't be this calm "Bart seems to think that if he's here, he was always suppose to be here, and thus no alteration is created, but that seems unlikely with the details he keeps insisting on telling me!"

Flailing, Barry sits bolt up right, "Good." It's like the concept of natural conversational patterns don't really matter to Flash, but that's probably likely. He thinks as fast as he runs, afterall. "I mean, it's good that you're back around."

Shazam has posed:
     Billy raises a hand in retort. "See? It makes sense! Those movies didn't lie!" He adds in, getting lost in the other techno-talk. "I'd probably say the same thing if my grandpa told me I probably just busted the time space continuum-majigger." Assuming this Bart is as old as he is, or close to it.

  "I missed you all, where is everyone anyway? You were the first person I've seen!" The burger gets another big bite, before it had been finished. Meanwhile Billy speaks as he chews. "It's like a ghost town."

Flash has posed:
"Well." Barry considers the implications of what Billy's said for a second. For him that's an eternity though! "I guess you have a point, but I think you'd have the good sense to pay attention to what your grand pa from the past said about how mucking around in the time stream can lead to all sorts of Tom Foolery..." Not that he's got any experience with that, nope, nothing to see here.

"Diana, Arrow, Bjorn, Hal, and myself went on the Tonight Show last friday, Supes is... I don't know where he is actually. Probably Metropolis, but I haven't really seen him either." He folds his towel over his arm and tosses it down on the seat beside him, "Batman is Batman. He very well may be in this room rgith this second, actually. Did you check behind the weight bench?" Pointing at said weight bench where there is, at least apparently, no Batman. "We got a whole host of new guys too, but I haven't met any of them."

Ticking through things, Barry turns his eyes up into the corner of their sockets, "Hal is probably doing super secret space cop business. Haven't seen Kara or Karen and Jonn was here just the otherday, but then he wasn't anymore. I don't know, he's hard to keep track of."

Shazam has posed:
     Cap puts his hand to his chin. "Well, I would. But he's your grandkid..." He starts snickering, holding back laughs. "Now all I see if old you, with a walker, and hair coming out of your ears!" The most mature member of the League Just has himself in stitches for a good little bit.

  The hand musses through his hair a little, then he looks to the weight rack. "Batman? You there? Keep quiet if you're there." Of course, there's no answer. "He's there." He concludes, then commenting on everyone's locations. "Well, I know I had my own stuff to do, so they probably are in the same boat."

Flash has posed:
Barry actually looks to the weight bench as if he too expects no response, which is accurate since none is coming. When that is true, The Flash nods with Billy, "He's there." Mirroring that single affirmation along with the younger Leaguer.

"We all come together when we need to, but also have to go do our own thing from time to time." He muses as he pushes up from the bench, "Which reminds me that I really should get back to Central City before Bart's good semaritan act brings all of Gotham's crazy descending upon it like an avalanche of insanity." Despite the inherent horriblness of that statement, Barry is still grinning. "Hey, next week is Flash Appreciation Day, you should come hang out. Free coffee for all super heroes, it's a real gas." A few steps towards Billy to clap hands, "Glad you're back with us, Cap."

Shazam has posed:
     "Free coffee? Schway!" He adds in, giving Flash a good Predator handshake, complete with 24 inch pythons. "You need help in talking with him, let me know." He adds in with a youthful grin. "And glad to be back!" Cap adds in for one last comment. "I'll keep my com on me if I'm needed!"

Flash has posed:
Compared to the Captain, Barry is basically a stick figure in workout clothes. It's actually kind of comical. "I'll let you know." He says honestly, sliding his fingers back into his hair so that it's slicked back out of his face. "For now, stay classy. If you see Bats, tell him I said he needs to smile more." With that out, The Flash disappears with a rustling of Cap's cap and the streaks of orange and gold trailing out of the doorway towards the transporter room.