I'll show you the way; the way I'm going

[maglevflash]

WHO: Gogo Tomago and Batman
WHERE: The streets of De Chima
WHEN: 18th-19th, late evening
WHAT: Just a simple race between friends
WARNINGS: Is there anything to warn for with a night race that involves the Batmobile?


What a weekend. She couldn't get that damn presentation out of her head. She knows that she shouldn't dwell on it; knows that making a big deal out of what they said about her will only end up making it worse, but the implications were terrifying and infuriating all at once.

It only made her want to keep moving, no matter what people thought about her. Though she did concede just a little, and decided to run at night for a couple weeks. Less people.

Gogo stood idly by a street light, shifting through her helmet's network connection. She balanced carefully on her maglev, feet hovering between the magnets with a comfortable ease.

Comments

Okay let's do this >3

[chiroptophobic]

The De Chima streets were always quiet toward the late evening. Unlike Maurtia Falls, where partying hard meant congestion and therefore an inappropriate venue for a full size batmobile, the streets here were broad and clear, like Gotham city streets at night.

Unlike Gogo, he didn't stop at the streetlight as he came up to it. The smooth, near silent-running batmobile engine whooshed as it came past, the tread of tires the only passing sound. It ran with its lights out, defracting technology breaking up its outline under the streetlights.

A hundred yards away, the car u-turned, and Bruce brought up the batmobile's advanced visual equipment, bringing up a clean image of the hero he'd just passed. That was...an electromagnetic signal. Which made this something new, and technologically interesting. He reached across and brought up the high beams, curious to see what she would do.

[maglevflash]

She doesn't notice it until it passes, picking up on the sound of the tires. She looks up at the road, her stance shifting into one ready to move in an instant. At first she doesn't even realize what she's looking for, this road just dark enough, and the beams are nearly blinding before her eyes can adjust.

Gogo doesn't wait for her eyes. With a quick activation, two smaller discs separate from her wheels and snap up to hover over each wrist, and she lowers her center of balance. She warily studies the car (??), debating whether this was some kind of challenge or attack or something.

No one has ever stopped for her before, and she can only assume it has something to do with that thrice cursed presentation.

[chiroptophobic]

Batman watched the display, the racing pose, the four wheels. It's amazing technology, and god only knew exactly what he'd been looking for, assuming it performed the way that it looked like it performed.

But he could test that. She looked ready to go, and he just needed to give her a reason to chase him. He threw the stick forward, putting the car into the wrong gear so that the wheels growled and churned at the road surface, and for a moment the high beams seemed to stay in place while the bat screamed. The back end came round on the handbrake, and then the car gripped and bit down.

At once the batmobile accelerated. The road through the city center was dead straight and dead quiet, and Bruce thumbed a control that manipulated the streetlights down the road. Green green green, as far as they could see.

Race me, it insisted.

[maglevflash]

There are universal constants that never change no matter what circumstance threw at it. The earth revolved around the sun, the human race progressed, and Gogo was a racer. Nearly losing her leg once didn't kill that part of her and truth be told neither were a few rumors blown out of proportion.

That scream of wheels on pavement sang in her bones and she didn't need the added invitation. She twisted on her wheels and threw her arm out as the batmobile shrieked back down the road; the disc whipping in a perfectly measured arc around its front end through the high beams. By the time her mag was on its way back to her she was on the other side of the street and chasing.

Challenge accepted.