Bored like a very bored clone (Open RP!)

[tktactile]

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

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[mysticpearls]

((This is a placeholder as I have to get to bed NOW, but yay Kon! *has gotten caught up on YJ thanks to a friend* Edit 'cause I'm a doof.))

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

[tktactile]

OK, that was... new. You didn't usually see little girls whaling on plants with sticks and scolding them. Kon watched for a few seconds, then floated over to hang just over her head (avoiding the stick, thank you!) and said, "Need a hand? Doesn't look like you're making a lot of progress there."

[mysticpearls]

Who had said that? Pearl paused mid-thwack, looking left and right wildly but seeing no one save the plant. One of the tendrils took advantage of her hesitation and grabbed at the stick, but she tugged it away and looked up -

- 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.

[tktactile]

"Nope!" It wasn't magic! Of that Kon was sure. "It's... genetics. Yellow sun, and... okay, I don't actually know how it works, but it's called tactile telekinesis. I can pick up and manipulate anything I'm physically touching. I can fly because I'm always touching myself-"

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.

[bantersucks]

((Sorry for the spam, but I just remembered some canon and could not resist.))

Not boring at all. As was evidenced by the swearing in both English and Spanish that could be heard from the other end of the greenhouse. Had Jaime known about the man-eating plants, he wouldn't have set foot in there. One would think that alien superpowers would make that a non-issue, but when the symbiote that caused them balked at "hurting nature" even when said nature was trying to smash him into a pulp... well, the problem was fairly evident.

The Scarab, by now, had at least grasped the need to protect Jaime from the chlorophyll mandibles of death. It still didn't like the idea of hurting the plants.

So he was currently engaged in a Mexican standoff of sorts. To the outside observer, it appeared that a plant that looked like the bastard child of the plant from Little Shop of Horrors had grabbed his arm and was about to rip it off since its "mouth" had engulfed his arm up to the shoulder

[tktactile]

Kon, like any teenager who was also a superhero, followed the swearing. And hey hey, it was a face he recognized: that guy Jaime from when Kon had been covered in butter!

Being eaten by a plant.

And also talking to himself.

Oh-Kay. "Need a hand, man?"

[bantersucks]

Jaime was getting a little bit irritated. "Okay, that's it, I'm gonna -" Hearing Kon's voice, he looked up."- shut the hell up because there's somebody else here which somebody should have warned me about."

Oh, this was just getting better and better. On the one hand, it could have been somebody worse. Like Maia or that Richard guy. "Uh. More like a crowbar." The plant actually tried to tug at his arm. "Hey!" His armored fingertips (still hidden by the plant) inside it sparked a tiny bit, and it froze. He flinched at the internal bitching that produced, and sighed. "Could you, uh...?" If Kon could pry it open just a bit, he might be able to get himself out without having to resort to lasers.

Resorting to lasers never seemed to end well.

[tktactile]

"You bet. Hold still!" Kon needed no crowbar! The S on his chest didn't stand for Crowbar, after all! And not only because crowbar didn't start with S!

He took hold of the plant's mouth above and below, then started pulling its mouth open. "You'd think nobody feeds these thingies."