Bored like a very bored clone (Open RP!)
OK, so lazing around and doing nothing did get old. Who knew? At the moment, Superboy knew. Boy, did he ever know.
So, even though it was the end of January and freezing and the middle of England or Scotland or wherever so it would probably rain even though it was freezing (Kon-El: Superhero Meteorologist!), he was outside. He'd flown around ( Read more... )
So, even though it was the end of January and freezing and the middle of England or Scotland or wherever so it would probably rain even though it was freezing (Kon-El: Superhero Meteorologist!), he was outside. He'd flown around ( Read more... )
Pearl had similarly discovered the greenhouses, and also discovered the plants that tried to bite. She herself was unharmed, but one of the plants - which looked like a cross between a Venus flytrap and some pink flowered monstrosity the mun can't think of right now - had decided to try to eat her Steel Samurai ball in one gulp. As said ball just barely fit in its mouth, this was proving a bit difficult.
As that ball was one of Pearl's cherished treasures (it was from Maya, after all), this was making it very difficult.
Which was why Kon might notice a small girl with pretzel-loop hair and pink and purple robes whaling on said carnivorous plant with a stick repeatedly as she scolded it. "That's not nice, Mr. Plant!" Whack. "You -" thwack " - drop that -" whack "-ball right this minute!" Whackwhackwhackwhackwhack!
The ball wasn't budging. But while she was surrounded by a number of other plants that were prone to trying to take a taste of an unsuspecting student, none of them were even moving to nip at her. Not while she was waving that stick around. A couple brave tendrils, though, were snaking towards her from above, hoping to snatch the weapon out of her hands...
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- and promptly dropped the stick. "Eek!" She jumped back in surprise, thinking for a second that Kon was going to fall on her, but then it registered that he was just... floating there. She timidly peered up at him, and then waved her hand through the empty space below him, astonished. "How are you doing that? Is it magic?"
Temporarily forgotten, the plant once again tried to swallow the rubber ball, never mind that it couldn't dissolve it or get its "mouth" entirely around it. Carnivorous didn't necessarily mean intelligent.
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He stopped abruptly, looking thoughtful then continued, "That sounded a lot dirtier than I meant it. Anyway. I could pick you up easy, or I could make the giant plant stop trying to swallow your ball." Not dirty. Not.
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Fortunately for all concerned, all of that potential innuendo went whoosh over Pearl's head. "Tac-tile tele-kin-knee-sus?" So did the explanation, so she added, "Oh. You don't look very dirty."
At the mention of her ball, she spun back around to face the plant. "Oops!" It hadn't made much progress. "Could you, please? It won't give it back. I thought it would be safe to play with it in here," she added apologetically. "There wasn't anything fragile this time..."
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Rescue the ball from the plant, and he would be redeemed. Fortunately, it was probably just a matter of touching the ball and TKing it out of the plant-gullet. "Come on, you!"
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Strength-wise, the plant was no match for Kon's TTK - the problem was that it had a great deal of suction going on. So when Kon tried to TK the ball out of its gullet, it actually seemed to make a fair attempt at pulling back. Given another second or two, though, it would fail and relax its hold.
Then Pearl grabbed the stick and whacked it on its thick stem - not hard enough to actually hurt it, but enough to break its concentration. So instead of slowly releasing its hold on the ball, the plant abruptly let go, dropping all resistance immediately.
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Kon, since he hadn't been physically pulling, didn't do anything ridiculous like fly back a few feet when the plant let go, which was awesome. He had an image to maintain after all. "All right, teamwork!"
He offered the toy to Peal with a midair bow. "Your ball."
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"Yay!" She took the ball gratefully and hugged it to her chest like an old friend. "Thank you, thank you, thank you, Mr. - oh! I don't know your name! I'm Pearl!"
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