Issue #5: I Was A Yankee Doodle Zombie (25% Droning)

[boostedfailure]

[Action 1] 1489 Kramden Road

[Mike was up with a start looking around.  Mayfield, still this hole, still, why was it he thought he had memories growing up here.  Completely nonsensical ones, maybe getting up and looking around the house would help.  Probably not though, it was still a prison.  Putting on his flight ring he let out a breath and started downstairs.]

[Phone]

"So uh, is the town trying to do something weird today?  I thought I had a dream about growing up here, and a few odd memories.  Thing is, I know they're fake, cause they say Ted never existed.  This place normally dicks with us on holidays, right?"

[Action 2] Around Town

[Booster Gold is on patrol...  Sort of.  He's flying around town looking over places with a bewildered look.]

"How the hell could I ever confuse this place for 25th century Gotham?  I mean, I'm not being shot at and I'm just up here in the air.  Ugh."

Comments

[notasidedick]

No. Yes... it scrapes at the back of my mind. [What the hell is going on.]

[boostedfailure.livejournal.com]

"How about Barbara Gordon? That ring any bells?"

[notasidedick]

[Ginger hair. Glasses. But it's just a fleeting memory.] How much am I missing? Because this sounds like more then just a few replaced memories.

[boostedfailure.livejournal.com]

"I dunno... We weren't that close. You stole my best friend's girl from him and called me nuts when I said a lunatic with mind control was out there."

[notasidedick]

What? [Wow, way to confuse someone. Like, who says that out of the blue. Your execution is a little off dear.] Should I apologize for those? I don't remember either of these two...

Wait, Dick is expecting Booster Gold NOT to be an idiot?

[boostedfailure.livejournal.com]

"Its in the past. I'm not going to loose any sleep over it, but, like, try to focus on one of those memories like Gotham, or Batman... Maybe the Justice League or something? Either that or something insane like running off to join the circus. Brain washing is all about finding the parts that are nuts."

DICK DOESN'T KNOW BETTER. Also I'm laughing so hard ilu.

[notasidedick]

I never ran off to join a circus. [I grew up on one.]...To hell, this place can do this to us? [Pissed is a light way of putting how he feels about this.] This isn't permanent is it? I rather not spend whoever knows how long here trying to remember something I should know.

WELL HE SHOULD! He's not Bruce and this is freaking Booster Gold!

[boostedfailure.livejournal.com]

"C'mon, back home we got brainwashed every odd Thursday, you can beat this stuff, right? Or am I really better than the Bat at something?"

[He actually sounds shocked at that part]

>:T Maybe he thought you were capable. Gawsh

[notasidedick]

I don't think it was that often. I think I had more problems with the crazy sort of people. [Oh wait...]

I think you should know that I love complaining. And this really goes under being worth complaining about.

Well in his own retarded way he sort of is

[boostedfailure.livejournal.com]

"Gotham did have a lot of nutjobs. Like the Joker, man he was something else, huh?"

Oh Boosty. We love you and your derpy ways.

[notasidedick]

It...I guess it did. I still can't remember a lot yet. But it's more then what I was trying to figure out earlier. I know I definitely didn't like the joker. [Laughs a little.]

[boostedfailure.livejournal.com]

"And that guy with the scar that made his face like... TWO faces... And uh, Ivy is in town with her creepy plants. I dunno, I tried to avoid Gotham if I could."

[notasidedick]

Two Face. [He says the name distastefully. Even without all his memories intact, there's something about that name he really dislikes.] Pamela? Oddly enough, this place replaced my memories with apparently her being my favorite ex-coworker. [Weird.]

[boostedfailure.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, this place has her as my ex... But. I'm still breathing so I know that's fake information."

[notasidedick]

That sounds kind of awkward. [Not sure he'd want to think he was an ex or dating anyone here. It's bad enough his 'wife' is a ginger.]

[boostedfailure.livejournal.com]

"Its the goofy programing the town inflicts on us when we're bad. I'm guessing you got a super whammy amount of it, or, you just don't have the experience with brainwashing I do."

[He's shaking off something the bat family and a green lantern are getting hit by, he's about to get super smug]

[notasidedick]

I feel like we're ten year-olds being scolded when you explain it that way. And I've gone through brainwashing befor-oh. [That came out so naturally. What even. Mouth moves faster then his brain apparently.]

You're sounding pretty smug. But I also get the feeling not everything you one knew had been replaced. I just need to figure out twenty-six years of my life now. Shouldn't be too hard right?

[boostedfailure.livejournal.com]

"Actually, I think they tried to do it to everyone, just listen to the phones, just I have so much experience with mind nonsense I was able to shrug most of it off. I KINDA know the reprogramming they want, I mean... I can feel it, but, they forgot something important so, it all fell apart."

[notasidedick]

It seems like the levels differ. It seems some people had been affected completely while others weren't even affected. [Curse your selectiveness Mayfield.] But at least now that I can confirm I'm not going nuts, it makes a lot more sense. Needless to say, I still feel like I'm going a little nuts with everything contradicting itself. But it's like playing a game. [Like Riddler's stupid riddl-why did he think Edward was his upperclassman? :|]

[boostedfailure.livejournal.com]

"Good way of looking at it. Honestly I figure my brain has been scrambled so many times that the town didn't quite know how to deal with it so I only got some of it."

Get out Varnish error. You are not wood El Jay.

[notasidedick]

I don't know if that's a good thing or not, but it might be better to not be completely effected by whatever is going on. I think I've talked to a few people who had it worse.

Thanks though. It helps to have others around who can knock some sense into me without literally hitting me to do it.

[boostedfailure.livejournal.com]

"Ah hey, its not the first time I've had to tell someone that I wasn't nuts and they are. I should write a book I think. But if you need me, I'm here."

[notasidedick]

I don't know if it would be allowed to get published here. It seems that things here are pretty selective. I'd read it though.

No problem. I think I might check on some people to see how bad they got affected by this.

[boostedfailure.livejournal.com]

"If I were you I'd check on your sidekick. Maybe he ended up a nice little helpful boy so you could get some blackmail photos."

[notasidedick]

I'll do so. Hopefully, he doesn't think that he's lived with whoever it is all his life. Snorts.] Nice, helpful, little boy. I doubt that this place would get rid of his snarkyness.