Time for Tending Plants [Open]

[lionunchained]

WHO: Shiro and You!
WHERE: Temba
WHAT: Dealing with Plants
WHEN: Throughout Event
WARNINGS: Nothing yet, will update.


Oh What Insanity Is This
It was nice to be able to step off the ship and finally be back in Temba. While it wasn't actually home, it was nice to actually return to the place that had become sort of become home.

That's what he really would have liked to think. As he stepped out of the hangar and was able to survey Temba again, he was completely dumbstruck by everything that had happened. He just... stood there as he stared at it. The plants... there was just so much of it. It was everywhere...

"What the hell happened here? How long were we gone?"

Brave Explorer
Even though the urge to just stand and stare at the mess was really very tempting, it wouldn't do anything to make things better so finally, he went to find something that he could use to start cutting plants down. Dark that his new arm didn't have the same abilities as his old one and he couldn't just use THAT.

However, the metal arm did come in handy (ha) because he could use it to help push plants to the side with less worry about it actually hurting him. No feeling and very hard to damage helped like that.

But after working for a while, it didn't feel like they had really gotten anywhere. He grumbled before looking at the person next to him.

"How long have we been at this?"

Save the Glownie!
Shiro hadn't been planning on being out so late. He'd kind of lost track of time. One would say it was stupid for him to have been so careless as to forget about this part...

Shiro would call it a blessing though since as he was trying to find his way back, he stumbled upon a faint glowing light among the trees. Moving closer, he spotted one of the glownies that had wandered away from the its home in this mess. Maybe it smelled mint somewhere.

But that wasn't all he spotted. There was Thorntooth that was attempting to sneak up on it, ready for an easy target.

Shiro, of course, couldn't let that happen, charging to get to the Glownie first, having only a dinky weapon to try and delay it in his attempt to flee with the Glownie.

Bishop
Sorry, crew of the Bishop or anyone else who would be there, there is temporarily a Glownie wandering around on the ship one night...

Comments

[doubled_speed]

Yeah, that's just what it's like sometimes.

"Exactly, right? Getting put in jail for an accident and then turned into a test subject totally took my angst to horrible teen levels. Worse, I wasn't even allowed to go goth!"

Hard to do it when your hair is white and you're left wearing equally white scrubs all the time.

[lionunchained]

"Wow, that sounds horrible." Also sounded familiar, but this wasn't about him. They were talking about Tommy. "I'm sorry to hear that."

There was a faint chuckle at the comment about being goth. "That really is a shame."

[doubled_speed]

Listen, he would NEVER be goth, that's Billy's thing. He's happy being cool as hell.

"Damn right. My teenage rebellion went horribly. And then I was 'the crime kid'."

[lionunchained]

Yeah, Shiro never got a goth period either, but that was more the fact that he was at the Garrison and there wasn't really the opportunity to do that.

"Crime kid? May I ask what that means?"

[doubled_speed]

Shiro was wasted as a goth anyway. He'd be less pale of hair and more pale of skin and he's fine how he is.

"I spent some time in juvie."

[lionunchained]

In his previous life, he would have looked better as a goth. Back then he had had all black hair. But it was still very short like it was now. Even short actually. Not that he had really paid much attention to what it was like to be goth back then.

"Oh, I see. The name makes sense."

[doubled_speed]

Perhaps he would have. But now he's just the hot dude.

"Yeah, which is stupid because I was a super hero longer than that."

[lionunchained]

"Oh, so they started associating you with the crime rather all of the good that you did? Unfortunately sounds about right."

[doubled_speed]

"Yeah, and it wasn't even something I had wanted to do," Tommy sighs, shaking his head.

But he had been making progress away from that.

"I... I need to sit down."

[lionunchained]

He could definitely how that would be hard. Being forced to do something you didn't want to do always hurt worse.

"Oh, of course. You can sit down here. I'll stand watch until you are ready."

[doubled_speed]

"Thanks," Tommy says as he settles down. Give him credit, he doesn't wrap his arms around his legs. But he looks ready to spring to his feet at any second.

"My explosion powers came in at a weird time when I was young. So, yeah, that's why I was in there. It was an accident."

[lionunchained]

Shiro did as promised, standing guard - half keeping watch over Tommy as he sat on the ground, but also keeping watch to make sure none of the vines were coming after them again.

"Oh... so your powers went off... and you got in trouble for what happened."

He wasn't going to ask for specifics. If Tommy shared, that was one thing. Him asking was something else.

[doubled_speed]

"Yeah," Tommy said, frowning at the memory. "It happens to people like me. To mutants. Sometimes when our powers come in, it's suddenly, powerfully, and... and things happen. Bad things."

[lionunchained]

"I'm sorry to hear that. I mean... it makes sense for something to come on suddenly, but it's difficult that you were punished for something you had no control over."

[doubled_speed]

"I mean, they DID have to rebuild a whole wing of the school," Tommy says. Because, you know, that was an absolute thing.

[lionunchained]

He was quiet for a moment in surprise. "Oh man. That's... that's a lot." A whole wing of a school could certainly be quite large.

[doubled_speed]

"Oh it definitely was," Tommy said with a brief nod. "So, you know, I've just tried to let it go. As much as I can."

And that's as much as he wants to say about that. So he does the only thing he can come up with. He bounces to his feet.

[lionunchained]

"Sounds like the best thing that you can do."

Dwelling on it certainly wouldn't help. So it was good that he was trying to put it behind him.

"Ready to keep going?"

[doubled_speed]

"Yeah, we might as well," Tommy said, stretching a little before turning himself back toward the path they've made.

"Alright, onward I guess."

[lionunchained]

"It's at least more productive." More productive than just standing there.

"Let's go." And Shiro would start walking in that direction.

[doubled_speed]

Alright then, time to focus again.

"Gladly, Sir. Just let me resume escort position."

Because really, this was Shiro's show to guide.

[lionunchained]

He chuckled. "Sounds good."

He kept walking with Tommy.

"I wonder if something like this has ever happened before."

[doubled_speed]

"Like what? Plant insanity? There was the Mint-pocalypse I told you about."

But that hadn't been nearly so malicious as this whole mess was.

[lionunchained]

"Was it really as much mint as this? I mean, it was obviously enough to bring all of the Glownies here, but they pretty much handled the mint, right?"

[doubled_speed]

"Yeah, something like this," TOmmy said. "It covered just about anything outside. It was impressive."