Test Drive Meme - July 2014

[omegamods]

Thinking of joining The Omegafriends, but want to get a feel for things first? Need some threads for your application sample? You’ve come to the right place! Reply with your character down below, with at least one of the provided prompts to get things going. Then, go around to other people and tag them! Have threads! Have fun!

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We will be putting up a new Test Drive on the 15th of every month.

Prompts

1. Venture City in Peril! Dr. Devious’s army of Deviobots are ransacking the city! No, wait, Baron Von Tyrannosaur is back with another dinosaur army! No, wait, it's... really, ther's a lot of different ways a city can be imperiled. However, no matter the threat, it’s up to you, the Omegafriends, to save the day - but you’ll need to work together to repel the forces of evil.

2. A Hero is Born! What started as an ordinary day was thrown into chaos as your newfound superpowers began to suddenly awaken! What perilous problems and zany antics will this bring about? Stay tuned to find out!

3. The Adventure Mundane! It's not all over-the-top heroics here - sometimes, ordinary day-to-day life can be just as much trouble! On the trail of a story for the Daily Venture? Frantic last-minute studying for tomorrow's math test? Harassing people to sign petitions on street corners? Hitting the arcade to destroy simulated villains instead of real ones? The sky's the limit!

4. Welcome to the Omegabase! The super-secret underground Omegabase has it all - training centers, VR simulators, free snack machines, but most important is a whole lot of Supers! Take a minute to kick back and get to know your fellow heroes.

5. The Mighty Showdown! In the life of a Super, good and evil are always clashing in battle. Today, you’ve come face to face with one of the many supervillains threatening the future of Venture City! Who will rise and who will fall? Next issue: The shocking answer!

6. Wild Card! Got an idea for a thread or prompt that isn’t one of those? Make up your own! We won’t stop you.

Comments

[omnitrixter]

"Don't know how. I mean, I even went to a boring lecture by some guy from the space center with the watch on full display, and neither he nor his buddies seemed to know even when one of them looked right at it," Ben said with a groan. "You'd think that they'd be the experts on anything that came from outer space. Maybe even have seen...the...symbol..."

His voice trailed off as pieces clicked into place. He wasn't a genius--not by a long shot--but just because he didn't get straight A's at school didn't mean he was dumb.

"You didn't know what the watch was, but you saw the symbol and asked me if I was a plumber," he said, walking through his reasoning aloud, frowning. He held up the watch, pointing at the symbol. "You know what this means, don't you?"

[thesmartone]

She nods. It wasn't as if she were hiding her knowledge of the Plumbers or anything. "It's the Plumber symbol. They're intergalactic police. The person I want to take you to is one." Somehow she gets the feeling that the reaction she'll get from this guy is 'COOL!'. He just seems like he'd be incredibly interested in Space Cops. It's hard to explain that the Plumbers are more then that though, and she's not going to reveal that the person she's talking about is her own grandpa; not yet at least.

[omnitrixter]

"So I basically grabbed some cop's badge?!" Ben asked, facepalming. "Great. Just how arrested am I gonna be?"

[thesmartone]

She shakes her head. "It's not a plumber's badge. They look a lot different then that. It just has the Plumber symbol on it." She's pretty sure they wouldn't arrest him for having something that literally attached itself to his arm and wouldn't come off. At least Grandpa Max wouldn't.

[omnitrixter]

"Well, there's a relief. I guess."

He looked down at the watch, cradling it in one hand.

"...They're gonna want it back, aren't they?"

[thesmartone]

"I don't know, but I don't think he'd do that. Not without talking to you about it first." She feels bad for the guy. He seems to look at the watch as the only way he can be a superhero. "There are superheros without super powers you know. Look at Batman."

[omnitrixter]

"Yeah. But Batman's smart and has actual skills," Ben said.

And by comparison? Ben...wasn't. He'd never make it as a powerless superhero.

[thesmartone]

"Then I'll train you." It comes out without even thinking. She feels so bad for the guy. "But I don't think it's going to come to that. This guy isn't like that."

[omnitrixter]

"...You'd really train me?"

Being trained by Lucky Girl? He'd like that. A lot.

[thesmartone]

She frowns a little. "Well, it'd be kind of my fault of you lost your watch." Seriously, if the Plumbers actually take thew watch back she's going to feel really bad about it, but Ben needs answers rather then just fiddling with what could be dangerous alien tech.

[omnitrixter]

Ben held on to the watch, the device chirping a bit and flashing. It'd really been just him and it for two months. He didn't want to let it go.

Well, if they tried to take the watch, maybe he could use it and escape.

Though stealing from space cops? Man, that probably wasn't a smart move.

"...Okay. Let's go see him."

[thesmartone]

She pushes off the rooftop to a standing position and creates mana stairs to the street. "I'm warning you though, he's kind of weird." She bites her lower lip a little before finally admitting the truth. "He's my grandpa." She loves her grandpa more then anyone in the world, but really, people need to be prepared for the man, especially when they're expecting 'space cop' and are confronted by a harmless looking man in a Hawaiian shirt.

[omnitrixter]

Ben paused before stepping onto the mana stairs (way cool!) and started walking down them.

"So if you're part...um...Andalite and your grandma is the one you got your powers from, that means your grandpa's still human, right?"

[thesmartone]

"Anadite." She corrects, carefully making her way down the stairs. "And yeah, my grandpa is human. He's kinda weird though; you might not want to eat anything he offers. They're pretty crazy." She says it with an affectionate smirk.

[omnitrixter]

Ben smirked. "Kinda sounds like my grandpa. He's the kinda guy who'll serve you mealworms for breakfast."

[thesmartone]

That makes her laugh. "I think Grandpa Max tried that once." She didn't even realise she'd let Grandpa Max's name slip, but he would have had to learn his name eventually.

[omnitrixter]

Ben froze. "Your grandpa's name is 'Max'?"

No. No, it couldn't be...

[thesmartone]

She pauses on her mana square. "Yeah, why?" Why did it matter? Max was a common human male name. Now if shew'd said her grandmother's name Gwen would understand the reaction.

[omnitrixter]

"I actually know somebody named Max. Old guy who lives in an RV."

Max was a popular name. It just so happened that her Max cooked weird meals...and had grandchildren call him Grandpa Max. Right. Coincidence. Had to be.

[thesmartone]

Ben, why do you have to make her grandpa sound like a cook? Now she's looking at him suspiciously. Still, lots of people lived in RVs. Older people who liked to travel. "Does it have a name, the RV I mean."

[omnitrixter]

Ben was quiet for a moment, that in itself rather telling. After all, not many people named their RVs.

"...The Rustbucket. He calls it the Rustbucket."

It couldn't be the same Max. If it was...

[thesmartone]

Gwen's eyes narrow and she's five seconds away from dropping Ben, literally, out of the air. "How do you know my grandpa?"

[omnitrixter]

Ben didn't answer, too busy staring at her in shock.

As far as he knew, Grandpa Max had only one granddaughter: Ben's cousin Gwen. A little bit of jealousy hissed at him about it suddenly making sense that she was the favored grandchild.

"...I'm such a doofus."

[thesmartone]

"That didn't answer my question." Seriously Ben, she will drop you to the ground if you don't tell her. Not that Grandpa Max couldn't take a two month old hero to town and back, but she wasn't about to let it get to that.

[omnitrixter]

Ben laughed mirthlessly, shaking his head, lifting his wrist and rotating the dial. He just wanted to get out of there.

"A guy named Ben your exact age just happens to know your grandpa. C'mon, Dweeb, it shouldn't be that hard."