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Rooftops of Fandom, Saturday afternoon

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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Karolina flew in a lazy circle above him. "No, I think that's about as magical as cereal gets," she decided. "Unless there are ones I don't know about."

"Well, then I don't know what they are either." He trotted about in another little circle, and then, with a bit of careful repositioning, he deposited himself down on the sidewalk on his rear. "Bet I could even use this thing to open the box, if it works!"

... Really, it would probably be way better at opening the box than randomly conjuring one out of thin air.

"Or you could just stab the box with it," Karolina suggested, because she figured that was more likely, too. "But first, you need to get a box, before you can try opening it in any way."

"True, true, but I've got that all covered," Sparkle replied, lifting a hoof and waving it around dismissively. "Even if this thing can't make cereal just appear, that pony with the bat on his ass pointed out that I could just use my horn to pick a lock, if I really wanted some."

No, Sparkle. That wasn't what Batman had been suggesting at all.

Karolina considered this, purely from a technical point of view. "Maybe, if you really needed to."

Hey, she'd broken and entered before.

"I'm sure there'll be some time that knowing if I can pick a lock with my face is going to come in handy," Sparkle reasoned. "Like, I dunno, maybe giant fireballs start raining down from the sky and we have to take cover and we don't have like hands but there's this building nearby with a door that just needs a lock picked and we can get in there and it's reinforced with metal or something so all I have to do is toy around a little bit and BAM! in we are, out of the fireballs!"

...

Sparkle.

What, that wasn't even that far-fetched. You know, for Karolina.

"If that happened, I think I could make a shield, though," she said. "At least for a while. I mean, I think I can still do that, since I can fly too."

Oh, Karolina.

"WHY is like EVERYONE so friggin' awesome anyhow!?"

Please, pardon Sparkle. He was having a minor inferiority complex. While pulling himself back to his feet and clop-clopping around in another circle.

"Flying and shields and super smart and ooooh, so rich, and then there are the space monks and was there a pony surfing around who was made out of ice? I think there was totally an ice pony surfing around here somewhere. One of my classmates is a talking cat and I think the flying notebook is actually some dead chick and and and I'm good at picking locks. I'm not some kind of superhero but that's what I can do. So you can make a shield for a little bit to cover our asses while I do it, but I'm still going to open the door just so you know, okay."

Well, at least now Karolina was finally pretty sure she knew who this was. That was something, right?

And she was managing to keep herself from defending herself with the fact that her parents had been evil, so there really was very little awesome about her situation, thank you very much. That restraint was another thing that was something.

"I didn't say you wouldn't, Mr. Moonlight." Taking a chance on naming him, there. "I wasn't trying to... make you feel bad, or anything. Sorry."

Sparkle kind of paused in that little indignant prance of his to blink up at Karolina. And then? Grinning. Just grinning. Only one person knew his silly little would-be codename anyhow.

"Well, holy shit. 'Lucy in the Sky,' huh? No kidding, it fits," he informed her, and the next prance in a circle was in a wide arc, attempting to get a better look at her. "Diamonds and all."

It was kind of funny how quickly Sparkle could get over that inferiority complex when it had been over somebody that he actually liked in the first place. But then, Sparkle was fickle like that.

"I'm still going to open the door if the sky opens up and pukes fire on us, though."

You know. The hypothetical door.

Karolina could forgive abrupt mood swings. Seeing as she was herself someone who'd, upon discovering her powers, gone from 'oh my God I'm a freak' to 'oh my God I can fly wheeee!' in about five seconds. She couldn't judge, especially when the swing was for the better.

Karolina did a little twirl in the air, as much a pony could do that. "You can do that," she told him with a sheepish little chuckle. "If there's a door like that, and that happens."

"Sweeeeet."

Sparkle, stop hoping for fireballs.

"So you can, like, fly? All the time? Damn, no wonder people around here keep asking me about codenames and stuff. You know it was like right up until the cat called me stupid in class that I thought people were all either nuts or they were just screwing around with me? Good to know I'm not nuts or anything, anyhow."

"That cat is awful." It had to be said. Bucky had not left a great impression on her, no. "But no, you're not nuts. And yeah, I can fly, all the time. Or, you know, when I want. I don't just randomly fly whenever."

That was a little babbly, but she still got a little flustered about being able to talk about it.

"Well, why not? I'd fly all the time if I could, I think. I'd be, like, all over the sky and I'm pretty sure they'd just never get me down."

Because sleeping in the sky? Totally a good idea. Sure.

Especially with powers that were a little bit dependent on sunlight? Yup.

Karolina did a pony shrug. "Well, the lightshow kinda comes with the package? Sometimes flying draws too much attention. And I like not shining all the time."

Sparkle considered that logic for a moment. And then ruled it out on the grounds that if he could sparkle, he might as well live up to his name.

"I dunno, I think I could handle being shiny."

Because he thought it was cool, and he was not unlike a magpie when it came to shiny things.

"It doesn't always work, like when you're on the run and need to blend in."

Not that she had personal knowledge of that or anything.

Oh. Huh. She kind of had a point there.

Not that Sparkle had personal experience in that area, either.

"Okay, fine, so no shining all the time. But you know, sometimes? I mean, that looks like so much fun."

Karolina had to smile at that. "It is."

There was no denying that. She did love it, even with the less than pleasant heritage thing it was connected to.

She did another little twirl in the air. "
And um, I can't make you shine, but if you'd like... I could maybe take you flying, sometime? You know, when we're human... shaped, and I can actually carry someone again."

"Whoa, you can do that?"

Sparkle's pony eyes just got bigger and more sparkly. Right there. At that suggestion.

"Um, hell yes. I mean, if you can and it isn't any trouble, I'm not heavy at all or anything and shit, really? Flying?"

"Yeah." She even nodded and everything. "I'm kind of stronger than average when I'm powered up? Really, it's no trouble. I've carried people bigger than you around back home."

Of course, finding people bigger than Sparkle wasn't difficult. Kid was scrawny.

"... See, you keep getting more and more kickass, Lucy in the Sky. I'm gonna swoon or something here if you keep up like that, just watch me."

This is where Karolina would have blushed if she'd had her normal face. She had to settle for looking a little shy for a moment, and maybe some of her shifting colors went a little more pink as well.

"It's not that special."

Oh but it was.

Was that a blush? Oh oh oh was she blushing? Sparkle felt a little proud of himself for being the cause of that one. Making people all flustered was fun. One of his favourite hobbies, actually.

"She says, to a guy who can't do like any of that stuff."

But by god, he could pick a lock.

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Rooftops of Fandom, Saturday afternoon

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