So keep your eyes to the sky lining into the door

[centralsgreatest]

WHO: Wally West and Assorted Extras (that's you!)
WHERE: All over the City
WHEN: Nowish
WARNINGS: None yet
SUMMARY: Wally does what Wally does best: Run around in circles.
FORMAT: Action tags preferred while I get back into the swing of Wally

[ When Wally first arrives back in the City, the first thing he does is run straight back to his apartment. He's relieved to find that it does appear to still be his apartment. So there's that - he'll have to check the answering machine in a bit and see if he got a call from the forensics office. The next most important thing is, of course, to check on his friends.

He takes the time to lock the door to his apartment and pick up the comm dedicated to his secret identity and then he's out - all over the city, making a circuit. Anyone he's spoken to for any length of time may notice a red blur nearby, as Wally checks on all of his friends in one fell swoop. Act fast and you may be able to catch a word or two. ]

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/slides in here!

[incywincyhero]

[Spidey's doing what he normally does on his patrol breaks -- which is to say, sitting on the side of a wall two stories up drinking his coffee -- when he sees a glimpse of red from the corner of his eye. Turning his head doesn't help: it's still just a blurry shape, headed down the street in his direction at great speed. Weirdly enough, his spider-sense isn't tingling at all. What the hey--?]

oh look, company!

[centralsgreatest]

[ The Spider Man is a familiar face, but Wally isn't used to seeing vigilantes out on the streets when there aren't super-villains running around. He turns around and slides to a stop in front of the building, throwing a few pieces of trash into the wind in the process. ]

How's it hanging, Spidey?

slow company but company, i promise

[incywincyhero]

D'you want the literal answer, or the figurative? [He waggles the heel of his hand in illustration, the spinneret of his web-shooter clearly visible.]

slow company is still good company <3

[centralsgreatest]

I'd accept either or both. Hey, you know what day it is?

[incywincyhero]

It's Saturday. [Headtilt.] Lemme guess, you got ported out and back?

[centralsgreatest]

You got it. So which Saturday is it? [ He gestures helplessly. How long has he been gone? ]

would you believe i had a knitting injury? TRUE STORY

[incywincyhero]

Saturday, the third of November, 2012. Anno Domini or Common Era, whichever swings your string. 'Course, then I'd have to come after you for trademark infringement, so you might be better off sticking to boats that float. [Sip.]

as one who knits this is ENTIRELY BELIEVABLE.

[centralsgreatest]

Okay. Okay that's like, a week or two. That's not so bad. Anything explode while I was gone?

what possessed me to knit my brother a scarf for his birthday

[incywincyhero]

Well, not literally. But -- [He shifts in place, obviously uncomfortable.] Were you here for the ImPort festival in Venezuela, and the Vulcanus virus?

possibly a vengeful needle out for blood

[centralsgreatest]

I remember there was a party. What's this about a virus?

[incywincyhero]

Vulcanus saw all of us gathered together celebrating our ImPortiness and decided to spoil our fun. They infected everyone at the festival with a virus that made our powers go haywire. Some people had them go out of control, some people kept their powers but went a little nutty, some basically turned into zombies -- it wasn't a good week.

[centralsgreatest]

Talk about a downer. And I thought the parties in Central got out of control.

[incywincyhero]

Oh, but that wasn't even the best part. [Spidey's tone has been calm up until now, if not exactly clinical, but as he speaks he gets more and more indignant.] Vulcanus wasn't trying to take us out for good -- it was all some kind of twisted psychological play. The virus came built in with a personalized cure -- confess to a dark secret in a public space, all your symptoms go away. I mean, can you believe the twisted kind of -- well, of course you can believe, doing what you do. But man... [He runs a hand over the top of his head.] Like I said, real fun week.

[centralsgreatest]

That kind of stuff goes down in Gotham more often than Central. At least most of my rogues are just guys who need some extra cash. [ And he actually gets along with some of them. They're not all bad. ]

[incywincyhero]

Mine are a pretty even split between that sort and the bomb-setting, wannabe-world-conquering type. [And he wouldn't grab a coffee with any of them -- well, apart from that time here in the City with Electro, but it's not like ol' Maxie knew it was him...]

Gotta say I prefer the former to the latter -- for a start, most of the ones out for money ain't really that bright.

[centralsgreatest]

Central's a good place to live. Some of the bank-robber types though, you have to wonder if they aren't half doing it just for the fun. [ I mean come on, Mirror Master. Really? ]

[incywincyhero]

Oh, those guys. I know I should be glad they're usually easy to deal with, but man ... this one girl, Screwball, she was videotaping herself committing crimes and broadcasting them live online. If you ask me, that's almost weirder than dressing up like a giant monkey to rob banks or whatever. [And yes, Spidey's had to deal with those, too.]

[centralsgreatest]

Sounds kinky. [ Wally that is not an appropriate response here. ]

Had a giant monkey too, but he didn't rob banks.

[incywincyhero]

Yeah, can't say that's a fetish I'm interested in. [Peter is pulling the weirdest face under his mask right now.]

Doesn't surprise me. I never quite saw the connection between monkeys and banks, anyway. It's not like bananas keep for that long.

[centralsgreatest]

[ Wally seems strangely undisturbed by the monkey costume fetish. Go figure. ]

Yeah, apparently Grodd's more the take-over-the-world type. Wonder if he got that from Planet of the Apes or the other way around.

[incywincyhero]

Ha! There's a philosophical question for ya -- if a monkey took over the world, would anybody notice?

[centralsgreatest]

That depends. Is he hell bent on enslaving all humans?

[incywincyhero]

... How smart a monkey are we talking, anyway?

[centralsgreatest]

Super genius with psychic powers?

[incywincyhero]

[Wince.] Ooh. Not good.

[centralsgreatest]

Sometimes you don't have to choose between brains and brawn. [ And that's why you should never experiment on animals that can kill you. ]

[incywincyhero]

Guess you gotta give some credit where credit's due for not over-specializing.