The roads in Kansas are, right now, the best kept roads in the world. The road approaching the Cooper Farm is no exception, and for a driver who's been struggling with a lot of snowed in roads before crossing Safe Zone borders, it's a welcome relief ( Read more... )

Hal is cruising about a mile above the Oklahoma-Kansas border when his ring sounds the alarm.

"Attention, Code 13-11 Alert: Power Battery subject to unspecified shock."Hal Jordan might not feel fear, but there are some emergency codes he'd definitely rather not hear more than others, and this would be near the top of the list. Cut off from the ( Read more... )

Barbara Gordon is in her command center. This means that there are screens everywhere flashing all sorts of information. That's not unusual. What is unusual is that Barbara Gordon isn't looking at any of them.

No. Instead she's staring down at her hands in her lap.

She's not crying, though. Not even in private.

The Aerie One is a common enough sight at the Cooper farm - it barely raises an eyebrow for a massive jet to use the remaining roads as a runway, not when there's still a castle and a cruise ship towering over the fields ( Read more... )

A gate opens and slams shut again in an instant as a man in green comes tumbling through, carrying an equally green object in one hand.

Hal Jordan has his in-flight balance back in just over a second, narrowly missing impact with the expressway beneath him. He rights himself in mid-air, and makes a gentle touchdown on... Earth?

Well. It looks ( Read more... )

Anyone looking for a blonde martial artist would do well to look out in the training field, as there is one there busy knocking the stuffing out of a dummy, just because she can ( Read more... )

All around the ship, the alarms were ringing. The engines whirred as the Firefly class transport ship started to pull closer to the planets atmo. With struggling hands the pilot tried his best to pull the boat up as it zoomed closer to the desert below. "ZOE! the captain yelled out knowing by now his second-in-command should have managed her way to ( Read more... )

Yesterday, Bridgette made a snowman by the pond of the Cooper farm. Button eyes, scarf, carrot nose, branches for arms. Nothing terribly exciting about that.

Today, she's gotten tired of looking at it. She's outside, with a short sword in hand, glaring at the snowman intensely.

With a cry of  'en garde!'  she hacks at her snowman's lower torso. ( Read more... )

Falling: it's what happens when you make a bad jump, when you walk off a cliff, when the ground that was below you just isn't there anymore, when the pipe you went through leads you to a pipe that juts out of the ceiling. That's the sort of falling Mario's used to ( Read more... )

Dinah didn't have much success in her seaching for Dean Winchester, so in the end she decided to accompany Zinda in the Aerie One to Frankfurt. The telecommunications tower proves easy enough to find, and there's a nice big road in front of it, but it's the shiny looking car that catches the eye of the Black Canary first ( Read more... )