Yenpointfive
Supernova
- Joined
- Feb 2, 2009
It was a beautiful night. Sadly that meant there were quite a few people out and about. Perfect timing to have to fight a ten foot tall... granite gorilla? Whatever it was it was big, strong, and apparently made out of rock. The thing was shrugging off bullets like they were little more than gnats.
That was where Alex Wright came in, or more accurately Ricochet. Without going into the boring origin story involving an accident with an atom smasher when he was young, Alex now saw physics. It wasn't really the sort of thing he could explain. It would be like explaining to a blind man what the color yellow was. The practical up shot of this was that he could sort of see things before they happened. It only worked as far as moving objects went. He couldn't tell what people were going to do. You could flip a coin and he could tell you what side it would land on 100 times out of 100 but rock paper scissors was still anyone's game.
Another handy outcome of his accident was the ability to warp the laws of physics for things he came in contact with. Basically: any action could get an unequal or not necessarily opposite reaction. It only worked on things he could touch and wasn't perfect. Sliding bullets off his skin rather than through it was one thing, stopping a whole train would have been entirely different.
That was how he kept up with "Rocky" as he'd termed the thing. He kicked off a building and the roof cracked slightly, though he went rocketing across a 3 lane road to land on the opposite building. "Slow down and save me the trouble of chasing you!" He growled. Whoever wrote The Flash, he'd decided, was an asshole. Being able to move quicker than normal people did not mean you didn't get tired as shit from that much running. Still, the black and blue costume continued to draw the looks of the crowds below almost as much as the rock monster as they hurtled towards a nearby apartment building where the thing began to suddenly start scaling the balconies. Alex turned to the side and instead jumped to the fire escape. Unlike the creature he didn't need a full concrete balcony to support his weight and like his namesake he ricocheted from one part of the fire escape to the other, headed for the top of the apartments to cut it off. He hadn't noticed from the ground that someone was actually on one of the balconies.
That was where Alex Wright came in, or more accurately Ricochet. Without going into the boring origin story involving an accident with an atom smasher when he was young, Alex now saw physics. It wasn't really the sort of thing he could explain. It would be like explaining to a blind man what the color yellow was. The practical up shot of this was that he could sort of see things before they happened. It only worked as far as moving objects went. He couldn't tell what people were going to do. You could flip a coin and he could tell you what side it would land on 100 times out of 100 but rock paper scissors was still anyone's game.
Another handy outcome of his accident was the ability to warp the laws of physics for things he came in contact with. Basically: any action could get an unequal or not necessarily opposite reaction. It only worked on things he could touch and wasn't perfect. Sliding bullets off his skin rather than through it was one thing, stopping a whole train would have been entirely different.
That was how he kept up with "Rocky" as he'd termed the thing. He kicked off a building and the roof cracked slightly, though he went rocketing across a 3 lane road to land on the opposite building. "Slow down and save me the trouble of chasing you!" He growled. Whoever wrote The Flash, he'd decided, was an asshole. Being able to move quicker than normal people did not mean you didn't get tired as shit from that much running. Still, the black and blue costume continued to draw the looks of the crowds below almost as much as the rock monster as they hurtled towards a nearby apartment building where the thing began to suddenly start scaling the balconies. Alex turned to the side and instead jumped to the fire escape. Unlike the creature he didn't need a full concrete balcony to support his weight and like his namesake he ricocheted from one part of the fire escape to the other, headed for the top of the apartments to cut it off. He hadn't noticed from the ground that someone was actually on one of the balconies.