Rooftops of Fandom, Saturday afternoon

[alreadyisbeyond.livejournal.com]

Just because Terry had been warned about some things in Fandom didn't mean he'd been warned about everything. Like, for example, turning into a pony that looked like the Batsuit. He even had his logo on his side. It was annoying at best. Secret identity-spoiling at worst, although the fact that Batman had yet to make an appearance in Fandom would help keep that down.

On the other hand, flying via the power of pegasus wings was actually a lot of fun. And he was a pony. It's not like anyone would recognize him as Terry, even if they had any idea who he even was.

"I can't believe the old Batman would have ever done this," the current Batman said to himself as he landed on a rooftop. But hey, training was training. Maybe he'd need to know his top speed scampering across rooftops and through the sky while being a pony.

And maybe he'd have some fun doing it. And maybe you couldn't stop him.

[OOC: Open like the skies above us. And yes, he's identifying himself as Batman in this post. Weirdest secret identity defense ever.

ETA: Apologies to people in this post. Apparently I'm sick and asleep today. Bah.]

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[myownface]

Sometimes, Sparkle needed a breath of fresh air. Not often. After all, he generally preferred a good smoke to fresh air. But today, handling a lighter was probably not going to happen any time soon. Even if the Brownie he'd been assigned for class had been nice enough to pick up a few cartons of smokes for him when he let slip that he was dying for a cigarette.

Nope, today was a fresh air kind of day. After all, you didn't wake up looking like a mint-green horse with a firework on your ass every day.

"You got wings," Sparkle announced as he hollered up from the roadside. "Why the hell didn't I get wings?"

Nope. He just got a horn.

[Reading comprehension. I have it.]

[alreadyisbeyond.livejournal.com]

"They're not all they're cracked up to be," Batman said in his Batman voice. "Have you ever tried to control extra limbs? It's confusing."

[myownface]

"Can't say I have," Sparkle mused, looking up at the black pony with the bat on his behind. Not a bad look for a pony overall, he decided. "But you seem to be managing it. All I got was a horn."

Boooring. But it could lead to so many inappropriate jokes...

[alreadyisbeyond.livejournal.com]

"Hey, it's better than no horn at all. At least you have something pointy to hold over people. Or ponies," Batman offered. "You know what I mean."

Of course, he had a horn, too. And wings.

[solarhippie]

Karolina did not have wings. This was, however, not stopping her from flying. You know, since it generally didn't. And since Fandom had so graciously forgotten to make her inhibitor bracelet ponysized along with her, she was taking advantage of being rainbow-colored and sort of shining by flying around town. It kept her from freaking out about not being able to stop glowing.

She had to admit she'd missed this, in the few weeks it had been since she'd last done it. Even if she was in a different body now. And when she saw someone on a rooftop, she swooped down to take a closer look. "Hi. Are those wings?"

She was immediately wondering whether this person always had them.

[alreadyisbeyond.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, but they seem a lot less impressive now that I've seen a rainbow coat," Batman said. "And let's just pretend that it's normal for me to refer to someone having a coat like that."

[solarhippie]

"It's a Fandom normal?" Karolina offered, because apparently she was learning fast about things like that. As you did, when you found yourself a pony. "I still think wings are pretty impressive."

[alreadyisbeyond.livejournal.com]

"... Good point," Batman admitted. "And thanks... but they don't seem very necessary in your case. How're you flying without any of your own?"

[myownface]

"Shiny pony who can fly without wings what?"

Yes. Yes, Sparkle was going to spend most of the day yelling at flying ponies from where he was firmly planted on the sidewalk.

"How is that even fair?"

[solarhippie]

"Sorry," Karolina offered, gracefully floating off the roof so she could swoop even further down to be more on Sparkle's level. "But I don't usually have wings either, if that hepls."

It probably didn't.

[myownface]

Nope. Totally didn't help. It just meant that Sparkle was sticking out his bottom lip in a pout. A pony pout. Resist the sulky ways of a unicorn scorned, Karolina!

"Nope!" See? No help! "But I guess I got a thing growing out of my head. That's something?"

It was pointy.

"What's it like, anyhow? Flying around like that?"

[longislandiceme]

"Okay, that is cool," Iceponyman had to note. "Which, you know: coming from me, high praise."

[solarhippie]

"Wh-- Oh." Karolina laughed (neighed) a bit as she got the joke. "Thanks. But, you're like ice. I can see through you. I think that's cooler."

No pun intended, actually.

[longislandiceme]

"Just don't ask me to stand in the middle of a banquet table," Iceman said with a snicker.

[hoorayimrich.livejournal.com]

"Hello, fellow flying pony," Tony said, hovering just off the ground. It had taken a few false starts, but he'd figured out how to adjust to this method of flight.

Genius, after all.

[solarhippie]

"Hello... pony in a metallic suit," Karolina replied, tilting her head quizzically. It was a vaguely familiar suit, somehow. Vaguely. "Is it the suit that makes you fly?"

[hoorayimrich.livejournal.com]

"Well, it's not a rainbow, but it works," Tony replied, circling lazily. "Jet-boots. Hooves. Whatever."

[longislandiceme]

Iceponyman couldn't fly, exactly, but he could still make ice-slides.

Which was why there was a unicorn that looked for all the world like an ice sculpture (except, you know, moving), sliding around on a column of ice.

"Having fun?" he called over to Batponyman.

[alreadyisbeyond.livejournal.com]

"Now this is just getting ridiculous," Batman noted as he swooped around. Yes, NOW it was ridiculous. Not when he woke up as a pony who looked like his costume. "You guys really know how to make being a flying unicorn seem less special."

[longislandiceme]

"...Sorry?" Iceman offered. "At least you've got wings? I don't have wings." Just a giant column of ice he could control with his brain. He dipped his head slightly, a burst of ice emanating from his horn to extend the slide forward.

[hoorayimrich.livejournal.com]

"HELL YEAH!" Tony had just figured out how to fly in his pony armor. He was very excited, it seemed.

[longislandiceme]

"...Was that a whinny I just heard?" Iceman had to ask.

[hoorayimrich.livejournal.com]

"...noooo." Totally was.

[alreadyisbeyond.livejournal.com]

"Wait. Since when do ponies get armor?" Batman asked. He was maybe a little ticked that he wasn't a Terry pony who could change into a Batpony suit. Maybe. A little.

[hoorayimrich.livejournal.com]

"Maybe I'm just special?" Deal with your armor envy, Terry. Deal with it. "Nice butt mark."

It seemed vaguely familiar.