MASK OR MENACE IC INBOX

[runningstart]

WALLY WEST
"You've reached the personal voice mail of the Wall-man. The honor is yours! Leave your deets, I'll holla back atcha."
[ BEEP. ]

KID FLASH
"This is the contact for Kid Flash. If it's an emergency, call Robin; he'll know where I am. Otherwise, leave your info and I'll get you back ASAP."
[ BEEP. ]


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( Please specify in tag subject line if the contact is for Wally West or Kid Flash! )

Comments

[runningstart]

Then-

Okay, gimme a minute to think. Okay. [KF's brain does a little skip for a second when he realizes she called him 'KF' just because only Robin's ever- anyway. Think. Think.] Okay. Facts are still the same as when it was just a bunch of little ones. It's a gel, and gels dry out. That's probably why it's got a casing. You make enough cuts in the casing and get some fire or dust or air or something in there, it'll start drying up and be less flesh-eating and more useless. All that's the same.

If your maglev can't cut anything, find something that can. And fast people are decoys, always decoys. If you can't get people out of the way 'cause your maglev doesn't support them, then you distract that thing from them somehow. Be creative.

[maglevflash]

I don't know how you do this sort of thing for a living. [She lifts her visor to pinch the bridge of her nose, thinking.] Honey's probably got something I can throw at it. It's still slow, avoiding it hasn't been an issue so far. [If not an issue meant turning a corner and nearly having a face full of goo.]As long as I can get it to notice me.

Alright, I'm heading back out there. Wish me luck.

[runningstart]

[Honey? Her boyf- not important KF focus.] You're gonna be fine! I'll be there in a couple hours but you're gonna have that thing wrapped up in twenty minutes, guaranteed. Go kick its ass.

[maglevflash]

[That's going to be a fun misunderstanding to clear up later. But for now she had people to save. She's takes a deep breath.]

I'll let you know when it's over.

[Hangs up.]

Text

[maglevflash]

[Just under an hour later.]

I feel utterly disgusting.

[runningstart]

but also alive!!!

congrats

howd you do it

[maglevflash]

A team effort and an obscene amount of chemicals that make me feel scrubbed down and disinfected ten times over.

Ooze is gross. Never eating jello again.

[runningstart]

and you were all worried

[maglevflash]

never again

[runningstart]

never again jello or never again worried

[maglevflash]

never again monsters

I am so not a hero

[runningstart]

you were out there today

whaddya call THAT

[maglevflash]

insanity?

bad decision making?

[runningstart]

close but WRONG its called HEROISM and a THIRST FOR JUSTICE

[maglevflash]

Okay okay fine

I had a lapse in judgement and became a hero for a day

[runningstart]

nah youll be back out there

once you pop u cant stop

[maglevflash]

That was terrible.

[Can you tell she's laughing?]

[runningstart]

dont blame me blame the pringles marketing team

now im hungry
dammit

i gotta stop for a refill

[maglevflash]

Are you still going to head out here?

I probably owe you lunch for dealing with my newbie freakout.

[runningstart]

oh dude id never say no to food

ill be there in like forty min

[maglevflash]

[Texts him an address about ten minutes later.]

action

[runningstart]

[KF screeches up to the address twenty minutes later, out of breath and trembling and sweating and- okay, so he's gonna bend over and catch his breath first. Also he probably smells awful. Gogo should consider ordering for them and bringing it outside, he's going to stink up the whole building.]

action

[maglevflash]

[She recoils maybe an inch, but after the day she's just had her tolerance for disgusting has been raised several more bars.

She waits until he's collected himself well enough to at least sit down or something and then she's offering a convenience store bag.]

Here. Some fuel while they work on making two of everything.

action

[runningstart]

[KF's BO ranks just beneath flesh eating slime monster on the grossness scale, good to know.

When Gogo produces that bag Kid gives her a wobbly look, like he's about to fake-cry and he digs through the bag for the energy bars inside.] Hmigod.

Okay, [he swallows] technically I should be treating you? Since this was your first monster fight, I'm guessing? You did good though. [another] Sorry I didn't make it in time to help out.

action

[maglevflash]

What are you talking about? I've been freaking out on you the past several hours. If that's not considered helping then I need to edit my dictionary.

[She got him several bottles to drink, too. One day she'll make up a list of exactly what he needs to refuel properly, but for now she figured a scientific guess would have to do.]