The Chili Party continues

[lanternslight]

Hal leads Arisia onto the dancefloor, taking a brief look around the crowded bar.

The room is full of heroes. Friends. Allies.

So many people. Superman showed. Wonder Woman showed. Jay and Joan are here. Booker and Plaz have crashed it.

Oh, yeah, he thinks as he pulls Arisia in close for a dance, it's good to be alive.

Comments

[awesomelycosmic]

Man, with all of these dancers? It made a girl feel really BORED.

Well, the food was damn spankin' and all, but Guy took her DRINK and she was a bit miffed at that. Grr! C'mon, she just wanted ONE. Stupid legal Guy! She was mentally shaking her fist at him.

Ugh. Stupid. Dancers.

She sure did miss Billy.

Courtney grumbled and got up. More muffins, please 'kay thanks.

[12thlevelmind]

There you are. I've been looking for you for quite some time now.

The voice sounds irritated.

[awesomelycosmic]

Eh?

Courtney turned her head, raising a brow. "Uh, yeah? What's up, Brainy?" Looking for her?

"Whatever it was, it wasn't my fault. It was probably Booster's."

[12thlevelmind]

I rather doubt it.

I need to see your cosmic rod.

[awesomelycosmic]

"Not on the first date, Brainy." What a predictable joke, but she couldn't really resist. "Why do you need to see it?" Courtney just GOT it, man!

[12thlevelmind]

It is my understanding that you claim you received it from "Santa"...?

[awesomelycosmic]

"Well, yeah. He handed it to me himself!" Courtney sounded far too proud of that. "What? You gonna tell me Santa doesn't exist?" She rolled her eyes at that.

[12thlevelmind]

I really don't see the point in expending the effort.

Much like trying to keep people from calling him "Brainy", which despite his not liking it, has already become commonplace here as it does everywhere else.

But I do want to scan it with my multiphotonic scanner, just to examine its properties.

[awesomelycosmic]

"The way I see it, if we can have aliens and mutants and stuff, there's gotta be a Santa." That was Courtney logic!

"Well, I don't see any harm in it." Courtney shrugged and handed the Cosmic Rod over.

[12thlevelmind]

A series of scans -

- and then his eyebrows raise -

- and a second set of scans -

- and then they lower -

- and then a third series of scans, and finally he hands it back.

[awesomelycosmic]

Stargirl tilted her head as she took it back.

"So?" she asked, as if to ask for any results or 'what the heck was that about anyway?'

[12thlevelmind]

He's busy analyzing the results already, and blinks.

...yes, you can use it. It should work exactly as the original does.

That isn't what concerns him. Not by a long shot.

[awesomelycosmic]

"Yeah, I kinda figured as much. I tested it out an' junk. But why'd you wanna scan it for, Brainy?"

Courtney was perky and spunky, but she wasn't a moron, y'know.

[12thlevelmind]

I had a hypothesis regarding -

He pauses.

The manifestation of the device left a -

Pause again.

If I try to dumb this down it's going to lose all meaning whatsoever. I had some concerns about where the rod came from. Those concerns have been confirmed.

And before she can ask:

No, this doesn't mean Santa is evil.

[awesomelycosmic]

Okay, Santa wasn't evil. Phew. That was some ease off her shoulders. But STILL. Courtney frowned. "Well, where you do think it came from? Santa said his elves made it."

[12thlevelmind]

It's a construction from another plane of reality, Courtney.

Anyway. I'd better get back to the Clocktower. I need to collate the data I've found.

He nods, curtly, and heads for the door.