Train-surfing, or Bored Teen Hero at Play [Open]

[kid_flash_found]

WHO: Kid Flash (Bart Allen) and YOU!!!
WHERE: Anywhere there's a railroad
WHEN: First Week of October
WHAT: Riding the open rails the wrong way!
WARNINGS: Teenage stupidity, possibly reckless endangerment, will edit if needed

[ooc: Catch Bart anywhere high-speed or light rail is found, because he gets around]


One of the nice things Bart had found out about the way the nanites interacted with the 'net on this Earth was that when he didn't feel like running between places or trusting his luck to the Porters, he could pull up bus and train schedules at a thought, and read as quickly as he wants. Which is what leads to Kid Flash going train-surfing.

Sure, he could have gotten a ticket and rode inside, but on top of the train, he could feel the wind in his face in a way that tended to fade when he ran as his frictionless aura shielded him from pesky things like air resistance and heat. Besides, balancing on trains was fun, and getting on and off took a little timing and precision. Not to mention any fans that caught him on video will enjoy the thrill of it, without actually endangering anyone or spending every free moment catching purse-snatchers and other petty criminals. He does that, too, but this is just about the joy of the moment.

Kid Flash can't help the tight-lipped smile that keeps threatening to turn into a full-fledged grin as he shifts his weight in reaction to the movement of the car beneath him, a map of the rails with current track schedules and timings kept current on an internalized heads-up-display. And when he notices that he isn't alone anymore, that grin is realized, amber eyes lighting up behind the mask.

"Amazing, isn't it?"

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[kid_flash_found]

"Dude, at least neither of us staged a global catastrophe to look good," Bart pointed out. "That Mysterio asshole has a lot to answer for, even though he hasn't tried anything here."

Yet.

He shrugs, though. "We thought it a decent thing to know before there's a potential problem. He's a doctor with plenty of experience with non-standard situations, among all the other stuff he's absorbed. And it would have been interesting to see how much of my muscle memory with video games transferred. But I just remember too much to filter."

[callmesuperboy]

"True. That takes a whole other level of douchery to do. Wow." Kon shudders, even thinking about that sounds bad.

"Good to know. And yeah. It's hard to filter things in your brain. Brains that involve time travel especially."

He isn't sure how much is rattling around in his head, and is scared to find out. Even the Justice League hadn't been able to find out.

[kid_flash_found]

"I don't even remember how old I am anymore."

Which is sad, but he really has lost track. Subjective time, time travel, death, undeath, it's all a bit of a mess.

"I just know what I remember and which events happened in what order. I'm not entirely sure how much of it still actually happened."

[callmesuperboy]

"Who can tell after you time travel a few times? I have no clue how old I am, anymore. My body reads as over a thousand years old, twice over, and I remember so much..." he shakes his head.

Too much, and too many time zones... temporal zones? Whatever.

"Again, who can tell? I spun through so many worlds that sometimes I forget that what happened in them didn't happen in ours." He rubs his face. Time travel problems, man...

[kid_flash_found]

"Two years less than me." Bart is going to stand on that one.

[callmesuperboy]

"Sure, Bart. Maybe." Kon chuckles, and shakes his head.

He doesn't think there is an accurate count anymore, but if Bart wants to be older, so be it.