What is surely to be the first in a long series of bad decisions. (Open!)

[sofresh]

Who| Superboy (sofresh) and anyone!
What| Testing his powers (or lack thereof).
Where| Observation deck.
When| Afternoon.
Warnings/Notes| N/A!

Looking for Superboy? Probably not. But if someone happened to glance up over on the observation deck, that'd be where they'd find him, floating in the air a few feet above ground (not terribly high—eight to ten feet at most), arms crossed, with a contemplative look on his face. In retrospect, he probably should have done things differently—namely, he probably should have questioned his situation more when he woke up here. He didn't.

Look, even Superman made mistakes sometimes.

But that was in the not-so-distant past, and now, Superboy was trying to figure things out for himself. That'd be the reason why Superboy, casually floating a few feet in the air, slipped off his flight ring, just to see what'd happen. Needless to say, it went about as well as expected.

In other words, he landed, with a thud and a wince, on the ground, in a pretty ungraceful (and totally uncool) position.

"I'm startin' to think I might be defective or somethin'."

There was all this talk of gaining superpowers, except Superboy already had them, so he'd just tuned the rest out. No one ever said anything about losing powers (or, at least, not that he'd heard of), and honestly, he was not happy about it.

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[captainbuzzkill]

"Like 'blood rain' scary. Apocalypse scary. That's what I'm used to. A bunch of demons tried to bring about the end of the world back home, in a massive explosion of unholy horrors and otherdimensional weirdness. Luckily, we stopped it."

Dipper shrugged.

"Hopefully, things won't get that scary here in the Legion's universe, but those kinds of things happen sometimes. Sometimes life can get that way. Weird. Weird and horrifying."

Which was something Dipper figured maybe a very young clone without a ton of life experience might not understand.

"And we're in a totally strange universe that sometimes has totally dangerous stuff. So I guess I'm just saying, if things do get freaky, there are nice people here. Annnd we've got your back. You may be fine doing things on your own, but it just seems like something you should know -- that when it comes down to it, you don't have to."

[sofresh]

"I think I could handle an apocalypse or two," he said with a shrug. Was he serious or was he joking, a question for the ages. Of course, if he actually had all of his powers, or maybe if this wasn't a very far future that he had yet to experience, or... if he'd had any experiences at all... then joke or not, his words might have held a little more weight. "But I guess I hear ya. I mean, that's the whole point of bein' on a team, ain't it?"

At least, it was in theory. He supposed that technically was what he'd signed up for. It was just— he sort of imagined it more like him helping everyone else out, not vice versa.

"But I mean, if you're gonna have my back, you could probably at least tell me your name."

Might as well get comfy, he thought, because it sure didn't seem like he was going anywhere anytime soon.

wanna wrap after your next tag?

[captainbuzzkill]

As someone who had handled one apocalypse, Dipper was skeptical that anyone could handle two, but that the other boy thought that was all the more reason to try to watch his back.

Dipper held out his hand, smiling.

"Dipper Pines."