The Batplane or Martian saucer (or both; it may matter, but not yet) cruises over the crescent-shaped metropolis of Opal City, gleaming by the edge of the black, glassy bay.
No plumes of smoke, no sirens, no flames -- looks okay from here!
A man flies by at supersonic speed, propelled by a golden quarterstaff with a complex metal top. This is STARMAN (Jack Knight), seventh to bear the name, the son of Starman (Ted Knight) and a sometime member of the Justice Society, although the last time you saw him was the Christmas party.
His golden streak arrows into a dense neighborhood of shops and apartments, with offsets, overhangs, buildings that take right angles halfway up, and other charming architectural oddities. It is almost impossible to see what's happening at street level, as many streets are overshadowed by balconies or bridges.
But Starman zooms in there, and soon red and green energy-sparks are shooting out in all directions. THOSE start a couple of fires.
(Probably don't have to mention that those of Martian descent lose their powers around fire, and by that I mean within sight or smell of fire. It's bad fortune, in Chinese terms. From this distance, the Monkey King feels his shapeshifting powers ebb just a little, but it's a taste. If he were surrounded by roaring flames, he'd lose all his Martian powers, though retaining all his Chinese powers.)
(No, I don't know what constitutes Chinese powers. Look it up.)
The boys can fly around and get an overall view, rush to help Starman, rush to put out the fires, or something else. Or some combination of things -- there are three of you.
Who is piloting the unidentified flying vehicle? Shade wanted to take the Invisible Jet, but that only has one seat.
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ReplyDeleteHe groans, his father instilled in him a grate fear of fire when he was little. "So what's the plan boy's? because I don't want to go into that fire."
Monkey is flying the Martian saucer. it is amassing that a ancient chines monkey born from a rock knows how to fly a super advanced star ship.
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ReplyDeleteGA thinks we should do all three.
He asks Monkey King, "Rush in to follow Starman! Aid him. Avoid striking balconies or bridges.
He asks Shade to get a good overall look at the area before rushing in. "Does this ship have some sort of scanner, or x-ray, or telescope to give us a good view of what is going on before we rush in?
"If not, I will shoot a camera arrow out through the air lock to give us a drone's eye view. Is there a place I can plug in the very long electrical cable trailing after the camera arrow, so we can see the pictures?"
He stares at the two glowing orbs forming the armrests of the pilot's seat of the invisible Martian bio-ship in puzzlement.
(I am assuming this is the Martian ship of Miss Martian from the YOUNG JUSTICE cartoon? Please correct this assumption if I am wrong.)
"Meanwhile, fly over the spot where the fires are starting. They should be small if they just started. I will rush in to fight the fire. I will keep in touch using a shortwave radio arrow, or I may shoot a flare arrow."
Green Arrow shoots a wirepoon-and-grapnel arrow out of the airlock of a moving spaceship to a convenient balcony or roof ornament of the burning building below, and slides down the wire using his bowstaff as an impromptu pulley.
He will have his parachute arrow ready just in case. And his inflatable trampoline arrow.
Once on the ground, he will shoot at the fires using his four extinguishing foam arrows, four liquid nitrogen arrows, four ice arrows and the one oxygen-destroyer arrow he was saving for a Godzilla attack.
He will use a bullhorn arrow to firmly and calmly order civilians to exit the burning building in an orderly fashion, use his neon emergency exit arrow to point to the emergency exit, and use his fire-ax arrow to break open any locked doors, and his rather large and awkward hook-and-ladder arrow to save anyone trapped in an upper story.
Of course, he cannot be carrying enough ice arrows to put out a really out-of-control house fire. He looks around for a convenient water tower or fire hydrant. Or a wet blanket.
He will call the local fire department on his police-scanner arrow.
After shooting a dozen or a score of arrows in one extended panel of the comic, GA will look at his rattling, half-empty quiver, and wonder why he does not have something like wings, superspeed, or a mutant power. He sighs.
Monkey King
ReplyDeleteHe uses the martian non-heat death rays, Pat and Pending, on the evil plains attacking star-man. He also explains to Star-man why they are there.
"and yes, we do think it might be an evil boy genus making an evil candy powered death-ray.