Atop the Wooded Unexplored Area, Saturday morning

[makesfaces.livejournal.com]

When James woke up this morning without his friends, he realized that the incident with the rhinoceros hadn't ended well. Sure he was alive, but at what cost? He had woken up in a strange bed - which wasn't in the ocean, England, OR New York - and had to look all over town to find his giant peach. It had landed atop some trees in a forest! That was a strange place for it to end up, but he didn't care. James quickly climbed the trees and then what remained of the ramp around the peach until he was on top of it once again.

Now he just had to search it for clues. Or, even better, just sit there until somebody came along who could tell him which way it was to New York.

[OOC: Here mostly for... myselves, but open with the stipulation that I'm going to be afk until probably 2 Central.

Jim is, of course, James of James and the Giant Peach, which is a weird damn story.]

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[survivesplague.livejournal.com]

Kyle Rayner - Last of the Green Lanterns and a member of the JLA - had to admit that waking up in a strange room filled with more deadly weapons than Batman would have if he had gone crazy...er was weird. Because of that, he felt the best way to get an idea of what was going on would be by doing a quick flyover.

"No, this isn't making things even weirder at all," he muttered as he flew down to investigate the boy on the giant peach. "Hey, kid! Are you okay?"

[OOC: Yes, I'm using this post to introduce two of my AUs. Kyle Katarn is Kyle Rayner, DC comics, circa the mid-90s because I've read like two stories with him that have taken place in the past decade.]

[makesfaces.livejournal.com]

"I'm lost!" James answered. "Can you tell me where New York City is? I was traveling there in the peach with Miss Spider and the Old Green Grasshopper and The Centipede and..."

He was likely to continue on like that.

[survivesplague.livejournal.com]

Kyle hovered closer to the boy. "I'm a little lost myself. When you say those names, do you mean they're actual bugs?"

Large glowing green bugs appeared on the peach and waved to James. The centipede waving was particularly impressive.

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"Of course he does, you moron," Batman said from a shady area in the trees. Because he wasn't going to show up in the sun. "Clearly this is an orphan who fled his evil aunts when a strange man set him up to travel to New York, where he and his parents always wished to visit before they died. And who else would travel across the world in a giant peach with an orphan than a bunch of goddamn giant bugs?"

He had deduced this. All of this. Somehow.

"Rayner, you're even dumber than that last bright green special ed student, Jordan," Batman said. He threw a batarang at Kyle who, for the record, he had never met. But he STILL deduced his last name.

Because he was the Goddamn Batman.

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[survivesplague.livejournal.com]

"Maybe he did go crazier," Kyle muttered to himself. "Batman, what's going on here? Did something happen to you?"

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"I'm from a goddamn alternate universe. Get with the program, Rayner," Batman said.

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"You shouldn't keep using bad words like that," James pointed out.

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"Shut the hell up," Batman said.

[survivesplague.livejournal.com]

"You're not helping," Kyle said, pointing his ring above Batman. A green energy construct of a crane appeared, lowered, and grabbed Batman's cape.

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"I've dealt with your kind before," Batman said, pulling a grenade out of his utility belt. He threw it a Kyle and when it exploded, yellow paint splashed all over Kyle. "I know your weakness is the color yellow. It's a goddamn strange weakness."

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[survivesplague.livejournal.com]

"I may be dumber than Jordan, but at least I can't be beaten by a primary color," Kyle said. The crane swung around and threw Batman a good distance.

He was the Goddamn Batman. He'd walk away one way or another.

Turning back to James, Kyle said, "Let's go get you something to eat. We'll figure out what's going on after breakfast."

[makesfaces.livejournal.com]

"Okay, but only if the peach will be safe while we're gone," James said.

[survivesplague.livejournal.com]

"It's huge and it's on top of a tree," Kyle pointed out. "I think it'll be okay."

Kyle put a green energy field around James and lifted him off the peach before going to the ground to find something to eat.

[cataclysmicluck.livejournal.com]

Cobra Commander had been wandering around town, looking for a good plot to help him take control of the world.

He saw the giant peach and came up with a plan immediately. He ran off, returning minutes later with a lot of whiskey, a lot of Red Bull, and a lot of nitroglycerin. (Don't ask where he got all of that.) When he was done, he had a peach bomb (http://www.drinksmixer.com/drink1t4s706.html) and he wasn't afraid to use it for his purposes.

Now he just had to hide it....