League of Substitute Titans

[thebeastwithout]

[voice]
Yo!  Just a reminder for everyone, auditions all tomorrow, all day.  Show that you've got what it takes to be a hero!

[This call goes out late at night before Beast Boy goes to bed. It's not really meant to be responded to, but if anyone has anything to say about it at this hour, it might be important, right?]

[action, 1124 Taylor, before noon]
[It is silent as the grave.  With the exception of a large green tiger rolling on the front lawn snoring its head off.  By 'all day', Beast Boy assumed that everyone would implicitly understand that Saturdays before 12 didn't actually count as part of the day; it was sheerly incomprehensible that anyone could possibly be awake and ready to go then. 

First trial for potential applicants: Get Beast Boy up and alert.]

[action, 1124 Taylor, after noon]
[Beast Boy has set up a table and three chairs in his front yard.  He tries to look as serious as he can about this endeavor, which explains why he has taken to wearing a ridiculous looking mask that makes him look vaguely like an elf and only serves to accentuate his super pointy ears.]

Alright, dude!  Show us what you've got!

((This is backdated to last Saturday; any time discrepancies will be handwaved.  Feel free to have your character show off their awesome powers even if they have no intention of joining any team!  Cain and Terra, feel free to chime in whenever and wherever you'd like.))

Comments

Action - Before Noon - oops i nature channeled.

[est33medpouncellor]

The esteemed pouncellor approaches with stealth, hidden by the foliage of the hedge. She eyes her target and does not blink, though her claws (a pair of garden rakes) are thankfully retracted (in her pockets).

She comes near her target, and gains height by quickly and quietly scaling the tree nearby. She takes position on a branch and...

POUNCE!!!

[thebeastwithout]

[Well, jumping on top of him was as good a solution as any. The tiger's eyes pop open as it flails in a rather un-tiger-like manner before madly pawing at whatever it was that had just landed on top of it. It pops back into Beast Boy soon enough.]

Ow! Hey, wha -- geroff!

[est33medpouncellor]

HI BEAST BOY HI.

"Rise and shine sl33py head!! I'm here fur the audition..!~"

[thebeastwithout]

Huh...?!

[Beast Boy blinks sleepily at the altogether too cheerful face. Looks like he doesn't really remember what he was planning...]

Oh, man! Is that today?! Did I say that was today?!

[est33medpouncellor]

"Yes!~"

/Obliviousness.

"You even made a call about it!!"

[thebeastwithout]

OK, see, in my dreams, like, twenty years had passed and I was really old but way buff and an awesome hero and I was saving Terra from being eaten by Killer M --

I mean, uh, right, yeah, go ahead!

[Big yawn.]

[est33medpouncellor]

"That sounds like a purretty cool dreamself..!" Heeee~

At any rate, standing up now. "Yayyy! So what do I do?" She's not entirely sure how she's supposed to be displaying her prowess. Wasn't she doing that by catching you??

[thebeastwithout]

[Beast Boy tries to get his molasses-like brain into gear as he stifles another yawn and sits up.]

...Show off! Do, uh. Ten jumping jacks! Yeah.

[est33medpouncellor]

Jumping jacks..? "I don't know what jumping jacks are, but I can show you my climbing I surrpose..!" And with that grin she'll bolt for the tree and scale it as fast as she can- which is admittedly rather speedy. And also rather high up.

"I can jump furrom plenty of heights..!" POUNCE... the ground. "And I'll always land on my f33t!" ...And hands.

...And only if she's not hit by something else.

[thebeastwithout]

[Beast Boy blinks sleepily and tries to pull his eyes open with his fingers so they don't close of their own accord as Nepeta performs her stunts.]

G-Great! Great, awesome. Really... amazing....

[yaaaaaaaawwwwwn]

Now, uh. Do it... again. In slow motion.

[est33medpouncellor]

"But that's impawsible..!" Noooooo...

"Mnnn... If there's something I could pounce on though, I could show you what comes next!"

but nepeta that involves killing it for food-

[thebeastwithout]

Pounce?

...Well, you landed on me well enough. You wanna try it again?

[est33medpouncellor]

"But if I pounced on you when I was serious, you'd be all cut up..!" She can't do that to you..!!

[thebeastwithout]

Heheh...

Don't worry about that. Superhero, remember? ...I'll make it a little harder for ya.

[And Beast Boy transforms into a cheetah.]

[est33medpouncellor]

"Okay! If you say so." She'll just shake her claws (...rakes.) into place, and get down into a crouch. "I won't go too hard though, because you're not purrey..!"

...Nepeta neither are super-villains.

[thebeastwithout]

[Beast Boy transforms back to normal long enough to comment...]

...Your weapons are garden rakes? 'K.

[And the chase is on! Beast Boy lopes away at an easy pace down the street. Looks like the run is helping him get over his sleepiness.]

oh wow I thought I hit post but apparently nOT. :|a (-one hour later...)-

[est33medpouncellor]

"They're my claws..! Mayfield took my real ones..!"

Indeed the chase is on..! Nepeta charges, but she's obviously not about to meet top speed of a cheetah.

...Out pacing a cheetah however... As it is, she doesn't appear to be giving up the chase any time soon; she'll pounce when she's close enough, but not until then!

One day later.... >_>

[thebeastwithout]

[The leopard yawns a little as it continues to make its way down the streets of Mayfield, slowing down a bit so as not to exhaust itself. Man, why'd he decide to do this on a Saturday?]

haHahahaha it's fine. xD

[est33medpouncellor]

Too bad leopard you're gonna get cAUGHT-

"rSSSSSHHHHH-!"

DID SHE JUST HISS AT YOU?

AND OW- She's not even trying to claw you but they probably still hurt..!

[thebeastwithout]

Gah!

[Where had she come from? The moment he spots her landing, though, Nepeta is suddenly wrestling with an eight-limbed squirmy rubbery thing. The giant octopus wraps two tentacles around the garden rakes.]

[est33medpouncellor]

Mmnf, well she doesn't want to cut him up so...

Out of the gloves she goes then..! She's a little out of practice with water beasts (she doesn't like water..!!) but this is like fighting the monsters that had tentacles from Feferi's lusus isn't it?

They're like vines!! Weave in and out with the tentacles, and get to the 'head', and don't stay still until then. Or at least she's trying. It's certainly not what one would expect from something struggling against the grip of an octopus, the victim diving UNDER the tentacles rather than trying to escape... But as it is the success rate is questionable. "H33 h33 h33~"

[thebeastwithout]

[Beast Boy resists the urge to turn into a jellyfish or porcupine and sting her. Instead, Nepeta will find that the tentacles are rapidly swirling around her to try and envelop her...

Hold on, no, tentacles can't move like that. That's his entire body wrapping around her; the green anaconda hisses in what it hopes is a cheerful manner.]

[est33medpouncellor]

"Mww!" Oof, tight!

As it is, despite the constriction (and mild pain) she just looks at you puzzlingly. And half shrugs. "Okay, if you want me to really go all out... ...AAaaaaahH-"

CRUNCH.

[thebeastwithout]

[The thick scales provide enough protection that he isn't chomped in half or anything, but it still kinda stings.]

Hey, watch it!

[Beast Boy switches back none the worse for the wear.]

Dude, I was just trying to get you to put those things away.

[est33medpouncellor]

"Sorry..! Um... Did you mean my claws?" ...Which have apparently slid back up her gloves, funnily enough.