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LET THEM KNOW WE
WONT BACK DOWN
a marvel/dc roleplay
What are your true intentions? (Thaal Sinestro)
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Post by newbishbynature on Jan 19, 2013 1:10:42 GMT -5
The clouds shivered through the sky, blanketing any noon time sun with gray clouds. It wasn’t a pleasant day and New Yorkers knew that all too well. They scurried about carrying umbrellas with their heavy coats pulled up tight over their necks. The same couldn’t be said about the voluptuous Wonder Woman. She stood atop a skyscraper, her eagle eyesight drawing in her extensive surroundings. New York was different than Metropolis. It had an air of rawness to it, perhaps in between Metropolis and Gotham City. The air was a bit more ripe and disgusting, but couldn’t nearly match the putrid air of Gotham on a bad night.
Regardless, this was where she needed to be. The Justice League had tasked her with speaking to Sinestro. It was a job that needed to be done, and considering she was the only one possessing a magical lariat of truth, she was the perfect person to do it. Wonder Woman needed to find out his true intentions. In this world of commodious craziness, there were few the Justice League could trust. Diana wanted to know if Sinestro could actually be added to such a coveted list.
Many had their doubts—as they should. He was a former loathsome man with ill intent towards the friendly Green Lantern Corp. How could he EVER be trusted with as much devastation he caused throughout the years? The fact of the matter was that many people didn’t think Wonder Woman’s shining lasso was a weapon. But she’d tell them, ‘it is a weapon, for truth is the greatest weapon of all.’ And so she would use her grand weapon against the former villain and see if he still possessed malice.
The wind atop the skyscraper was strong and blew her dark, salacious hair in her face. Diana brushed her hair behind her ear as she knelt down on one knee. She spotted a man that stood out like a sore thumb. It was Thaal, for certain, on the streets of New York. With little hesitation, Wonder Woman stepped off the skyscraper and descended on his position.
Her golden Lasso of Truth shined against the eerie fog and wildly whipped in the wind at her side. Many people gave the two a wide birth—she couldn’t blame them, to meddle in the affairs of heroes would certainly land you through a cement wall. Wonder Woman had no smile for this man, nor any sense of forgiveness. Her face was totally stoic, filled with a sense of dread mixed with confidence.
“Sinestro… I have a few questions for you if you do not mind,” Diana boomed, taking a hidden glance at her Lasso.
Diana was always "on" and always ready for a battle. Her muscles quaked and tensed, always ready to use her swiftness to dodge a cheap attack. However, she hoped that they wouldn't have to resort to a fight. Because the last thing Diana wanted to do was fight a Lantern.
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Post by Thaal Sinestro on Jan 19, 2013 11:32:31 GMT -5
[atrb=border,0,true][atrb=cellSpacing,0,true][atrb=cellPadding,0,true][atrb=width,450,true] | [atrb=background,http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x126/Gotta_love_gits/Sinestro/random%20images/bluemiddle.png] His ring indicated she was around- he just needed to pin-point the exact location of his target and meant a little bit of hard searched. Since the creature didn’t have any power or anything that made her particularly special, it was difficult to know exactly where she would be. He had already been to a few locations where the same signature had ended up a different being. But he didn’t think it was a lost cause- he would find her. And then he would have to make up for scaring the poop out of her. Not to mention leaving her alone while he had been stuck in the hospital for several days.
Frowning, he moved down a side street, using a construct of a cane to move down the path. It led him to some dumpsters, as they all seemed to, and the lantern began his search once more. Slowly, he peered around the first dumpster, investigating the area carefully. She was small and quick, which meant she was likely to dart away before he could catch sight of her if he wasn’t on his guard.
When a voice boomed suddenly behind him, Sinestro wasn’t exactly startled. He was, however, a little too quick the straighten up, slamming the top of his head against a beam of wood that had been sticking out from the corner of the over-filled dumpster. Cursing colorfully, and in Korugaran, Sinestro raised a hand to his head, rubbing it ruefully.
“Bugger,” he growled, turning around to face the woman who had interrupted his search. He had known before seeing her who had found him- her voice was fairly unique. Lowering his hand from his head, he arched an eyebrow, watching her with more of a curious expression than anything else. Not a happy curious, mind you, but still, he wasn’t glaring at her like she had offended him with her presence alone. That was an improvement.
Leaning against his cane, he frowned. “Well, isn’t this a pleasure: the mighty Wonder Woman, come to speak rather than pound my face into the pavement,” he sneered, recalling a few prior encounters with her and the league that had not gone in his favor, “to what do I owe such an honor?” He would have crossed his arms over his head, had he not been so interested in hanging onto his cane.
She seemed unhappy to be there, and he could sense some small apprehensions within her. Even the smallest of fears could not escape the sense given to him by the yellow entity. Still, it only made things more interesting. He had been expecting the league to send someone eventually, but he had not thought it would be one of the only attractive members of the group. He had been expecting supermen, in all honesty. The man in charge to tell him to go to hell. This was an intriguing change.
He would have to continue the hunt for his lost kitten a little later.
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Post by newbishbynature on Jan 19, 2013 15:17:02 GMT -5
Wonder Woman intently listened to Sinestro. She was trying to find signs of nervousness. Not the kind of uneasiness that came from standing by a six foot tall Amazon Goddess crafted from clay, but the kind that would hint at betrayal and an ongoing lie. Her eyes surveyed him mercilessly, down to every last twitch that could hint at oncoming combat. This was a woman intent on tearing this man wide open with her eyes to take a peek inside the machinations of his brain. Was he evil or was he truly reformed and rehabilitated?
“I am glad to hear it is an honor, Sinestro, but I wish I could say the same,” Diana touted the truth, carefully and calmly.
She crossed her arms across her chest and gently lifted her chin. Taking a breath in then out, she gave him her true intentions.
“I will not sugar coat it because I have never been one to do so. I was sent here on a very viable mission to essentially figure you out,” her hands moved to her side, as one finger brushed her lasso on her hip.
“We have concerns that your intentions are not as idyllic as they might seem. Do you understand how strange you are to the Justice League? Rarely does a man possessing such might and committed evil intent suddenly shift gears and become an ally. After so many years, how can you revoke the spirit of fear and malice and become one of us? Please, see it from our point of view before brushing off my questions.”
Wonder Woman was a savior to the masses. She had to ask the hard questions to find the bottom line. It was often difficult being the bearer of bad news and often being the sole member of the Justice League to be able to fully coax the truth out of someone. Sure, Batman could slug someone until they possibly told the truth, and Superman could do the same. But Diana was the only one with the skilled words, sense of justice, and of course, the Lasso of Truth to be able to find the darkness looming beneath the surface.
The Amazonian princess took a step forward towards Thaal and shook her head at him.
“Why now? Why be good now? Are you hiding anything?” Diana asked, squinting at him, hoping to reveal the truth without the lariat.
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Post by Thaal Sinestro on Jan 19, 2013 22:42:34 GMT -5
[atrb=border,0,true][atrb=cellSpacing,0,true][atrb=cellPadding,0,true][atrb=width,450,true] | [atrb=background,http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x126/Gotta_love_gits/Sinestro/random%20images/bluemiddle.png] Sinestro watched her- she seemed to be looking him over quite intently. But she would find no fear in him. He was, after all, the greatest of the Green Lanterns, or so he liked to tell himself. Also: being a nearly seven foot tall alien had perks of its own. He returned her looks with an expression of indifference, listening as she jabbed him with an unsavory retort. “Well, how unkind of you. You may hurt my feelings speaking like that.”
He took a moment to observe his ring, listening as she got right down to business. His ears twitched as she spoke, as though her every word was causing some kind of reaction within them. So the league wanted to figure him out? Or was it something of a personal mission? It seemed the former, since he had nothing that really connected him to Wonder Woman on a personal level.
“Don’t dump your pathetically simple-minded views of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ on me, Diana,” he huffed indignantly, “I really don’t care if I’m confusing to the league. What I do is simply my business, and whatever my motivations are, I really see no reason to share them with the party poopers. And, for the record, I didn’t revoke anything- it was taken from me. Just because I’m green now doesn’t mean it was a willing choice.” He frowned and looked away from her. He could bitch and moan about being trapped as a green lantern all he wanted, but that didn’t mean he had to act like one. But there he was, following orders and trying to help people. Humans. Creatures he had never cared about before. Everything was different.
The league weren’t the only confused parties involved, either.
He watched her take a step closer, remaining in place as his yellow eyes made their way back to her gaze. Though he was leaning on his cane, and not entirely intimidating in doing so, his still had an expression that seemed to indicate he was ready to leap for her throat at any moment. However, he didn’t make any moves.
Not right away.
“Maybe I’m not being good now,” he teased lightly, “maybe this IS all a ruse to confuse the league. I’m really just trying to worm my way in to take you lot down from the inside, because I am such a naughty little villain.” He turned away from her, peering back towards the dumpsters. A white blur bounced between a small space between trashcans, the lantern arching an eyebrow.
Sighing, he looked back at Wonder Woman. He would have to get rid of her before he went back to looking for his lost pet.
“If you have no further questions, I have business to return to.”
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Post by newbishbynature on Jan 21, 2013 17:44:38 GMT -5
Wonder Woman could feel the attitude rolling off of Sinestro in blankets. She was beginning to lose her patience for the man when she had come in with a level head. Honestly, Diana wanted to make this as easy as possible. But who was she kidding? To think a supervillain with a stubborn head of steel was going to give up any sort of information to former enemies was completely laughable.
Regardless, Diana wasn’t about to let him squeak away with no real answer. This flim flam had to stop quickly. Diana began shaking her head at Sinestro as she peered into his eyes.
“I admire your courage to be stubborn in front of me. But I do not want this to end badly for either of us. When I am entrusted by the Justice League to perform a task, I am not one about to back down and give up. You should know me better than that. You are not giving me any reason to trust you. Do you forever want our satellites tracking your every move and conversation? We can end this surveillance easily with what is actually going on inside that brain of yours.”
Wonder Woman’s voice and body language didn’t falter. She ran her right hand across the length of the lariat, obviously and loudly, so that Thaal would get the obvious picture. Diana didn’t know how he would take to looking at the golden lasso. In a way, it generally inspired a flight or fight reaction in her foes. After all, who in their right mind would want to be forced to tell the truth about their inner most secrets?
There was no going back to the Justice League empty-handed. Telling them that ‘well, Sinestro wouldn’t give me any information’ wasn’t going to cut it with such high caliber superheroes, nor would Wonder Woman let it pass. If it came down to a fight with him, she was prepared to decimate a Green Lantern and finally run her rope around him.
It was a standoff now, a standoff Wonder Woman more than intended to win.
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Post by Thaal Sinestro on Jan 21, 2013 18:06:29 GMT -5
[atrb=border,0,true][atrb=cellSpacing,0,true][atrb=cellPadding,0,true][atrb=width,450,true] | [atrb=background,http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x126/Gotta_love_gits/Sinestro/random%20images/bluemiddle.png] Sinestro grunted. Courage? Like it was taking him some great will power to stand up to her- he felt no such way. For him, talking to her was like talking to anyone else on earth. A massive waste of his oh-so-important time. “If you were tracking me effectively, you wouldn’t need me to tell you anything,” he remarked, “I imagine my ring is keeping you from coming up with the information you seem to desire about me. Blocking you. Which, really, it can continue to do for all I care- I have no problem with how things are now.” If he made enemies of them, he was fine with it. Wasn’t a path he hadn’t gone down before.
Although his daughter would be pissed with him.
He watched her as her hand moved to her lasso, a gruff laugh escaping him as he noted her intentions to intimidate him. “Is this the part where I’m supposed to be afraid?” He muttered, “honestly, what’s so important about knowing what’s going on inside my head? I’m fighting crime- I’m helping things around here. That should be enough for you lot. This interrogation of yours smacks of under-handed. Strange thing, coming from such a ‘hero’.” He shrugged his shoulders, watching her carefully.
While he knew he was a great and powerful lantern, he knew even his will power could not over come the magic of her lasso. If she used it on him, she would be able to get everything she wanted from him. But why was he hiding anything, anyway? It didn’t seem like it really made much of a difference if they knew what he was doing, or if they continued to think he was up to no good.
It was probably because he was confused, something he hated having to admit to anyone else. Hell, it was even hard to admit to himself. But he sighed, his eyes moving away from her as he spoke again, his voice lower this time.
“I am not afraid of you or that rope of yours. Since I doubt you’d believe me if I told you my true intentions anyway, go ahead and use it on me. Save us both a little bit of time, since it seems we are heading for only that conclusion anyway. Perhaps then you’ll be less of a bother to me.”
He wasn’t sure it was a great idea, but it seemed like there was no other options open to him. He would not be able to escape her, and he wasn’t in a strong enough condition to fight her. To avoid her mucking up things even more for him, he would have to play along.
He just didn’t know what the truth was going to end up being. So many thoughts were flying through his head, even he didn’t know which were truth, and which were lies.
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Post by newbishbynature on Jan 22, 2013 15:20:45 GMT -5
Wonder Woman’s patience was now on a fine rope and Sinestro was wildly cutting at it with a sharp blade. His audacity in her face was really what was driving her closer to using her rope. She hated villains, or former villains that still possessed a head too big for their own body and accomplishments. If it had been any other member of the JLA here, he’d have his head cracked open and his face to the cement, smelling the cockroaches and waste already.
Sinestro tried to make it clear that he was fighting crime, but the tone and body language he used seemed truly off to Diana. She pursed her lips and again shook her head at him.
“It is easy for you to say simply that you are a good guy, that you have reformed yourself for the betterment of society. More and more you are giving me little to no reason to trust you! I am not being underhanded, Thaal. I only have a desire to learn about what is really going on inside your mind. The last time I checked, I am not telepathic. You could have made this easier on both of us and told the truth and not been so vain and self-obsessed when I am speaking to you. You could have even lied and said you had no ill intentions and I would have believed you. I came as a neutral party, but now you give me no reason to trust any sort of plain word coming from your mouth with being so smug.”
She let him get the last of his words in before she gave him a small smirk. A smirk that spoke volumes with the kind of patience she had originally came in with. Wonder Woman accepted his fate. Like an officer with a pair of handcuffs, Diana removed her Lasso of Truth. She stepped closer to Sinestro, this time nearly in his face. Wonder Woman gently threw her golden lariat over the Lantern. With a quick movement of her hands, she tied it carefully around him.
“I am sorry we had to come to this, Thaal,” Wonder Woman’s words rang pure truth as she closed her blue eyes.
In another universe, she imagined that everyone told the truth—that nobody lied. She thought that it would be a nice place to live in… a place where her lasso could just remain an icon and could possibly even collect dust in a museum. But no… this universe she lived in was cruel and relentless. Anybody and everyone told a lie, even down to her closest allies and friends.
Wonder Woman sighed and spoke softly to Thaal. Perhaps it was her that was actually defeated.
“What are your true intentions? Is there still ill-will in your tormented heart?” Wonder Woman’s voice was deep and collected, sad and true.
Her hands gripped the lasso as she stood idly by, waiting for a pure response this time.
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Post by Thaal Sinestro on Jan 22, 2013 16:36:14 GMT -5
( short but finished phone post xD )
Sinestro frowned. While she may have believed him if he had been honest with her from the start, he was sure her friends would not have been of the same mindframe. He was certain of that. The league had probably sent her for the specific reason of having her use her lasso on him. They knew what they were doing, and Sinestro was not a fool.
But he had fallen right into their trap, which didn't really support his case.
Sighing, he let her secure the rope around him. It didn't feel horrible, but he imagined it wasn't supposed to. Telling the truth wasn't meant to be some kind of punishment or anything like that. It was meant to be exactly what it was- the truth. Sinestro wasn't against being honest, oddly enough, but when he didn' t know what the truth was going to end up being, it actually made him a little uncomfortable. However, it was too late to go back at that point. He already had the lasso around him, and he already had a question to answer. Frowning, he watched Wonder Woman for a moment, processing, before finally took a deep breath and replied.
"Ill-will? I never considered my actions in such a way. I always thought I was doing what the universe needed. I wanted to bring order. But I... I feel now my methods may have become muddled, my direction lost. I... may have been wrong." Though he was speaking honestly, as the rope wanted, his voice was low and strained to some degree, as though it pained him to speak.
'I don' t know what I'm doing. I just... want to find who I am. Be reminded of the person I once was. Who knew right from wrong and how to help." He sighed. This was more than he imagined even she had been expecting out of him.
This was enlightening.
"Right now, I just want to protect Sora and Raven from my newest enemy, and find my cat. Then... perhaps cross the next bridge."
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Post by newbishbynature on Jan 22, 2013 17:58:03 GMT -5
The truth didn’t flow from Sinestro like a waterfall, instead it came out like a slow trickle. Diana didn’t know what kind of truth would come out, nor did she expect how much. But Sinestro’s words were poignant. To Diana, this seemed like a man that had lost himself, that was desperately clinging to anything that would help him feel alive and understand what it means to be his new persona.
All of a sudden, Wonder Woman didn’t feel so wonderful anymore. This truth was not what was expected. She thought there might be a sense of evil lurking deep down in his afflicted soul. Honestly, with there being no admissions of guilt or recent wrong doing made Diana feel horrible. Her heart dripped with a sense of guilt. Wonder Woman’s breath was even for the most part until Sinestro spoke. She deeply inhaled, then exhaled, trying to regain her confident composure. It was waning though, as she really felt like the bad guy in this situation. She looked away from Sinestro and instead looked at all of the people trying to rubber neck at the superhero scene. Had they caught the whole conversation? Were there any reporters in the midst that might report on this awkward situation?
Diana hoped she was in the clear. Her eyebrows lifted up her forehead and she shook her head at herself. She took the lasso off of Sinestro, like a cop that knew he had wrongly handcuffed someone. Wonder Woman studied the ground as she continually shook her head. This looked bad, really bad, for the Justice League. The last thing they needed was to be known as the group that deeply questions a hero’s intentions.
Who WAS the bad guy here?
“I am so sorry,” Wonder Woman quietly said, regret dotting her voice, “I know we have not always been on level terms, but I think we have to accept when we are wrong. It was a hunch from the Justice League as a group. A desire to second guess your intentions based on your past. I am no better than Batman—not even giving someone a chance to better themselves… basing their reality on past events. That was not fair.”
Diana paused and glanced to the side, her deep eyes looking up and down a building—anywhere but Sinestro’s eyes.
“I never thought I would be apologizing to you. But here I am.”
The damage had already be done and there was nothing left to say that would ease a bruised ego for both parties. In her gut, something felt so OFF about Sinestro. But perhaps that gut was going on on previous events rather than the here and now. She was, in essence, seeing Thaal behind a pre-conceived mask—not as the new person he was today.
Wonder Woman shifted uneasily to her other foot and brushed a strand of hair behind her ears.
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Post by Thaal Sinestro on Jan 22, 2013 20:18:25 GMT -5
[atrb=border,0,true][atrb=cellSpacing,0,true][atrb=cellPadding,0,true][atrb=width,450,true] | [atrb=background,http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x126/Gotta_love_gits/Sinestro/random%20images/bluemiddle.png] Sinestro was quiet as she took the lasso from him, but he did not look embarrassed or sorrowful over the things he had said. Actually, he looked kind of angry, eyeing her with clear irritation as she moved away from him again. But she didn’t seem to be too interested in looking back at him, he found, which was probably for the best. He might not have been able to take a moment to calm the rage boiling inside of him if she had managed to make eye contact with him right away. Maybe she understood- she must have known he wasn’t the kind who liked to put his heart on the table, and he had said much more than he had suspected he might.
He was a little angry, even if he had agreed to go along with it. It wasn’t like he had been allowed any other choice, really. It was either agree to it, or be forced into it. Or was he just trying to dump the poor end result on someone else, so he didn’t have to shoulder any of the blame?
Whatever the case, he grunted at her apology.
“I don’t need or care about your apologies, so save it,” he hissed lowly, his voice having shifted from a quiet reverie to something a bit more dangerous, “it’s done now- you have your answers. I do hope they were everything you had wanted them to be.” He couldn’t imagine she still thought he might be up to no good. The news of his thoughts had been a surprise for the both of them. He had been very busy trying to drown out such notions with his own reasoning. Telling himself not to think about it. Reminding himself that he had done all those horrible things in the past for a reason. But the truth had been offered by her magic lasso- and it wasn’t a truth either of them had really been anticipating.
Frowning, he was silent a moment, ignoring the humans who had gathered as he took some time to look at his ring. Sighing he brought his sharp yellow eyes back to Wonder Woman. Without saying anything else, he pointed his ring at her, blasting her with a large pulse of green energy from his ring.
“There,” he grumbled, lowering his ring again, “I think I feel a bit better now.” Nothing like a bit of violence to help him feel a bit more like himself, even if they both now knew that the Sinestro he wanted to be was very different from the Sinestro he had been. Still, he was caught somewhere in between, and that meant he was still capable of making some poor decisions.
Anyway, it really DID feel good to smack her one for making an idiot out of him in public. Just because he was ignoring the humans didn’t mean he wasn’t aware that they were watching them. That they may have HEARD him.
“Consider us even,” he said with a bit of a cocky smirk.
((Maybe they can go fight some crime together or something XD ))
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Post by newbishbynature on Jan 22, 2013 21:24:00 GMT -5
It would have been easier for Diana if he had some heinous objective buried away behind his unreadable character. But this made it difficult. This didn’t prove anything to the Justice League, it just showed that maybe this was a low tactic. Sinestro brushed off her apology, as she expected. He was desperately trying to contain his pride, and who wouldn’t? The way he knew how was to blast her with his rudeness.
Not only did he blast her with his words but his ring as well. It was a low caliber blast that felt like a finger on a hot stove. Wonder Woman slightly flinched. If it made him feel better about what just happened, he was more than welcome to. The old Diana might have responded with a knockout punch but it wasn’t necessary.
“I guess we are even than, Sinestro. Although, there is the issue of all these people that just caught this on their camera phones,” Wonder Woman spoke uneasily, eyeing the now bigger human group.
She didn’t know if she’d have Thaal’s help with this one, but neither of them liked bad press. All of these videos would start cropping up on the internet and make both parties seem pathetic. Diana began walking to the group of people.
“What you may or may not have heard was a matter of national security. What was discussed is completely top secret. Those of you that feel the need to post your videos to Youtube will have a personal, unfriendly visit from The Batman or the man behind me. I am positive none of you want that. If I hear any of this through the grapevine, I will have my top hacker find your little blogs or gripes, take them down, then proceed to render your computers unusable.”
Though she had experienced a fluctuation in emotions, now her public guise was coming to the surface again. She was confident and strong with her words, stubborn in her intent. Now, many of the onlookers were putting away their phones in fear. Having an alien and an amazon threaten you was not the best. It would probably be plaguing their nightmares for many moons now…
Diana turned to Thaal and gave him a haphazard smile. She wanted to get out of there before there were any other issues with citizen spies, but before that she needed to do something. The princess held out her hand in a gesture of humanity for Sinestro to shake. Whether or not he would had the chance to further shape all their future meetings.
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Post by Thaal Sinestro on Jan 22, 2013 21:39:53 GMT -5
[atrb=border,0,true][atrb=cellSpacing,0,true][atrb=cellPadding,0,true][atrb=width,450,true] | [atrb=background,http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x126/Gotta_love_gits/Sinestro/random%20images/bluemiddle.png] “I care little of the opinions of humans,” he replied, “I don’t see why I should start concerning myself with them now.” It was good to be back to lying- it made it easier to act like the jerk he was known to be, even if his intentions, overall, may have changed. He did care what the humans might say about him, if only because he didn’t need his daughter reading an article about how he had gotten busted by Wonder Woman for something he hadn’t even done. He imagined she would be rather cross with him. Raven would probably not know what to make of it, which he imagined was a good thing. She seemed ready to believe there was good in him, even though he hadn’t done much to prove that to her.
Well, they didn’t have much to talk about, really. Confusing words they probably didn’t understand the full context of, and an attack against Wonder Woman that had not had any effort put into it on the part of the attacker. If they COULD make some kind of story out of what they were seeing, then they were welcome to try.
Minus the potential of Soranik getting pissed off with him again, it would be interesting to see what they came up with.
While she spoke to the masses, Sinestro took a different route- using his ring to short-circuit and fry any try of electrical equipment they may have had with them, from phone to camera. Most of them might not have even notice they way their phones suddenly turned off, what with their eyes locked on the dark-haired woman threatening them sweetly. Sinestro didn’t really care if they noticed or not- it would keep them from having any real proof of their stories, though he supposed it wouldn’t keep them from still writing them. Her words probably wouldn’t stop at least a couple of them, either. Humans were idiots, after all, and Sinestro had no faith in their ability to see reason.
He felt his was the better method, though she was unlikely to agree with him.
Something that would likely happen between the two of them quite a bit.
When Wonder Woman turned back to him, he frowned, eyeing her hand and knowing full-well what she wanted from him. A show of good will- an olive branch in the form of a handshake. Well, if she wanted him to shake her hand she was going to have to earn. His cane construct vanished and he took to the sky, moving away from her hand. Still, he lingered near, motioning for her to join him above the crowd of people.
“My ring is picking up a hotel fire a few miles from here,” he informed her without skipping a beat, “seems someone targeted the place after some politicians made camp there. The building has suffered several explosions on various floors, with the possibility of structure damage and unexploded devices still inside. Human forces are, of course, having trouble getting to the scene, so how about? Care to save some money-grabbing pigs who likely don’t deserved to be rescued with me?”
Distractions ahoy!
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Post by newbishbynature on Jan 24, 2013 1:18:03 GMT -5
The crowd seemed to settle down a bit and dispersed with angry rumbles. Wonder Woman couldn’t quite hear what they were mumbling. Regardless, she didn’t know what Sinestro had just done to any of their equipment, and if she had… she probably would not have cared much. It protected both of their public images by doing such a thing. Neither hero needed a tarnished reputation.
Sinestro didn’t shake her hand; instead he ascended into the air, speaking to her about a fire not far away. Though Wonder Woman wasn’t privy on joining forces with a former villain, she knew she didn’t have a choice. No matter who was trapped in the five star hotels, they deserved to be saved just as anyone else.
Diana joined him in the sky. It felt awkward to be in Thaal’s sights, this time not as an enemy but as an ally. There was something truly peculiar about it. Honestly, there shouldn’t have been much that shocked Diana in the new world anymore. Villains going good, heroes going rogue, new groups of superheroes and villains…
Wonder Woman couldn’t be stupid. She had to expect the strange to crawl out from behind the rift in the universe.
After more than ten years of fighting crime, she never thought anything would make her raise an eyebrow. But more than ever, that’s exactly what was happening. Nothing was normal anymore. There’d be no more typical assaults from Cheetah or Circe. Batman would be fighting more than just Joker and the Penguin. Superman would have his hands full with more than just Lex Luthor.
This was the new reality and it was difficult to get accustomed to.
There were plenty of high quality hotels in New York, many of which Wonder Woman attended to and stayed at in her past as ambassador. However, she didn’t know which one was on fire and waited for Sinestro to lead the way to the fire party.
“Well, there are burning pigs in their pens, I suppose, shall we be off?” Diana said with a joking smile.
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Post by Thaal Sinestro on Jan 24, 2013 12:14:37 GMT -5
[atrb=border,0,true][atrb=cellSpacing,0,true][atrb=cellPadding,0,true][atrb=width,450,true] | [atrb=background,http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x126/Gotta_love_gits/Sinestro/random%20images/bluemiddle.png] Sinestro didn’t need empathetic powers like Raven to see that Wonder Woman was a little uncomfortable. It amused him that she found the idea of working with him such an awkward one. Was that how it was going to be with everyone he had to force himself to get along with, or was it just because she had heard things from him that she should not have been allowed to hear? Perhaps he was feeling a little awkward as well, though he was never one to admit such things openly. He liked to act as perfectly normal as possible, the same impassive little bastard that he always seemed to be.
It didn’t matter what was really going on in his head.
“Try to keep up,” he told her, his tone making it difficult to tell if it was a joke or an order. He took off through the air, getting them both towards the source of his call. It wasn’t long before he could see the smoke in the air, and not much later the flames licking the sides of the building. Or what remained of the building, anyway. The explosions had taken out multiple chunks of the structure, making it look like the kind of precarious mess you might see in a horror movie or something. Not that Sinestro knew anything about those.
“There are several lifeforms detected inside,” he comments, “and I’m sure they aren’t all the politicians.” It was a hotel, after all- humans stayed in such places even if they weren’t part of some massive group. He imagined many civilians had been hurt, or killed, in the wake of this clear attack.
Humans were so stupid.
“I’ll locate the survivors on the left of the building, you clear the right. And try not to forget anyone.” He chuckled faintly before moving inside. It wasn’t his intention to boss her around, merely to explain what he was going to do and what he thought she should do by comparison. Or was that bossing someone around? Honestly, he had been a leader in some form for so long, that he found it difficult to be anything else. Something that would likely bite him in the butt when dealing with so many other leader-types, he assumed.
Without waiting for her, he went to work, using his ring to scan the rooms as he passed them. If the floor was clear of any living bodies, he moved to the next one, starting the process all over again. The smoke in the room didn’t bother him, with his ring providing him a barrier, and the danger of something else exploding was not something he really cared about either. Stopping in front of a room, he made quick work of blasting down the door, moving inside to collect a couple politicians huddled in the back, screaming for help like it would do them some good. They ran over to him when they saw him, coughing and sputtering out their thanks before he had even done anything to remove them from the area. With half a mind to leave them there to burn, his ring lifting them off the ground, sending them through a window and down towards the ground safely while he stayed inside the burning building.
He didn’t see any need to escort them out.
As he left the room, he scanned the hall again, finding another human energy signature not too far away. Once again kicking the door down, he was surprised to hear a scream for his actions. It took a moment before he found a child hiding away in a closet, nested between some large coats. He had seen one body on the floor already, and had to assume it was this little one’s mother.
“Come on,” he ordered the child, “come out of there and we can leave.” Annoyingly, the child seemed frightened of him, and promptly snuck further into the closet to get away from him. Damnit- he didn’t WANT the kid to be afraid of him this time. Couldn’t he see he was trying to help!?
Humans!
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Post by newbishbynature on Jan 24, 2013 16:44:47 GMT -5
Wonder Woman easily followed behind Sinestro. He barked out what sounded like an order. That was fine. If he wanted to be the leader in this situation, she would let him. After all, he knew more about this incident than what she did. Diana of Themyscira wasted no time. She didn’t have a handy dandy scanner like Thaal to find human signatures. Instead, meticulously but at half a speed of light, Wonder Woman searched each room.
Some people that she helped to the ground were old couples, old men with young women, lone businessmen and the like.
Thankfully, Wonder Woman was a true sight for sore eyes. All of the people went willingly with her, very happy that she came to their rescue. Besides, being rescued by the famous Amazon would certainly make for a good story for the medical personnel they’d soon visit. It wasn’t everyday you got to be rescued by an American icon.
A bit of time passed and the six foot island ambassador had all of her side cleaned out and evacuated. She knew that Sinestro didn’t want nor need her help, but it was necessary to make sure that everybody was out and safe. Wonder Woman found her way to Sinestro’s side of the hotel and carefully listened for his vocal signature.
She heard him having some sort of heated conversation with an evacuee that didn’t want to leave easily. Diana plowed into the room, noted the child that Thaal was speaking to, and without a second of hesitation, she slipped into the closet and grabbed the kid in her massive arms.
“You do not ask children, you force them to do it,” Wonder Woman articulated to Sinestro.
Just as she was about to leave through a window to deposit the child outside, masked men plowed into the room. Without hesitation, one stepped forward and stabbed Diana in her hip. The splitting pain shot through her and she buckled to her knees, dropping the child from her arms.
“Where’s the politicians? Where’d they go? They deserve death, just as you superheroes,” the Stabber hollered at Wonder Woman and Sinestro.
The men began to fire randomly with their assault rifles at Wonder Woman, the child, and Sinestro. Diana used her body as a shield over the boy. She felt the piercing shots beat into the back of her legs and lower back. Though Diana had an extreme desire to retaliate, the boy’s safety was more important. She just hoped that Sinestro hadn’t taken the brunt of the bullets and could still act as an offensive force.
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FORUM SKIN BY KATYA OF GANGNAM-STYLE
do not steal
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