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

[boostedfailure.livejournal.com]

"I know lots of things, but if you'll listen to me or blow me off as nuts... That I don't know."

[xuffasch]

Try me.

[boostedfailure.livejournal.com]

"The part about you not just being some dumb kid, but also being a sociopathic sidekick for the Bat?"

[xuffasch]

I'm not a sociopath, you boor--

_{( longest. pause. )}

...that's right though. I knew it.

[boostedfailure.livejournal.com]

"Uh huh... Some sort of weird mind control thing is going around making us forget who we are. Like, somewhere in my mind, its telling me... I dated Poison Ivy in Highschool. But.. I'm alive, so... Total bullshit, right?"

[xuffasch]

Well, you're obviously out of her league.

[boostedfailure.livejournal.com]

"Uh, no. I just know better."

[xuffasch]

...and you can't kiss her.

_{( he is thinking. so hard about this. why can't you do that, again? )}

[boostedfailure.livejournal.com]

"Not unless you want to end up a zombie."

[xuffasch]

Right. _{( and as he's thinking this all over, suddenly his face goes blank for a moment. )}

What were we talking about?

[boostedfailure.livejournal.com]

"You thought I knew things."

[xuffasch]

Right. I know, it's just this... argh.

[boostedfailure.livejournal.com]

"Just take a breath and focus on separating the real from the fake."

[xuffasch]

_{( he takes a moment, and bits down hard on his lip, trying to focus. it's difficult, however, and he can only come up with one thing to say. )}

So why aren't you affected?

[boostedfailure.livejournal.com]

"Iron willpower that comes from years of being a super hero! Either that or the fact I've had my brain scrambled so many times in the past, the town screwed up screwing me up."

[xuffasch]

It's far more likely that it's the latter.

[boostedfailure.livejournal.com]

"You spend enough time around Max Lord and Jon and you get used to crazy mind stuff."

[xuffasch]

...occupational hazard.

_{( he still looks a bit dazed as they talk, but as long as they continue the line of conversation he seems able to hold onto his real memories. )}

[boostedfailure.livejournal.com]

"Its going to happen if you get a job in this field."

[xuffasch]

I know. I've been through training to prevent it, but this--

The town is able to overcome that.

[boostedfailure.livejournal.com]

"Experience is different than training."

[xuffasch]

Not the way my mother runs training.

_{( and at the mention of his mother, he gets two conflicting pictures: one of talia, and another of his mayfield mother. his face scrunches as he tries to concentrate on the real memory. )}

[boostedfailure.livejournal.com]

"Don't know your mom so I can't talk."

[xuffasch]

Of course you do, we live two streets over.

_{( and he's gone. )}

[boostedfailure.livejournal.com]

"Well, not well enough to comment on tutoring skills."