Los Angeles, Tuesday

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After a week of pollen and then finding out that Minako was Sailor V and Mara Jade was some kind of...knife-wielding badass, Kathy had decided that spending a week with her classmates on a ship was not in the cards. She needed a little time and space to put her confused thoughts into order, to figure out how she felt about who and what, if anything, she wanted to do about it.

Rather than hang around an empty (and frigid) island while everyone else was enjoying Mexico (so much that no one had returned any of her handwavy texts!), Kathy had decided to head back to LA. Rather than going back to her parents' apartment for the week, Kathy'd rented a tiny motel room where she wouldn't have to worry about rules, curfew, or her family finding out about her late night hobbies. During the day, she could work on her homework and brood be pensive and at night she could be Banzai, too busy leaping over rooftops and chasing down criminals to live inside her own head.

You relax your way, she'd relax hers, all right?

Not that tonight was anything like relaxing. LA was so much bigger than Baltimore, with more crime and, specifically, more violent crime. She'd just finished taking down a mugger when she'd heard gunshots coming from the north. Giving the mugger's collar one last shake, she let him go and ran off as fast as she could towards the guns.

It might be kinda sick, but she loved this.

[And the link to the thread that begins after LJ breaks the page]

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There was a small part of her that was absolutely freaking out because she was about to exchange phone numbers with the Might Dragon.

However, that part of her was buried beneath all of the other, more generalized freaking out, so there was that. But still. Later, once Gorgon was better and Dragon's friend had done...whatever he expected his friend to do...and Kathy was no longer responsible for someone's life, she was going to have a field day with this.

"Wait a while and then try again," Kathy said after rattling off her number. To The Mighty Dragon. Who then put it in his phone. "I might be busy trying to sew him up or something and the less I have to worry about contamination, that happier I'm gonna be. If I don't answer after three tries, come running?" She blinked at him. "Flying, I mean?"

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"I'll come whichever way is fastest," Dragon promised, a grim smile pulling at the corners of his mouth. "Now come on, I'll see you back to where you're going. Best way to be sure I'll recognize the place from above."

And it was as good a place as any to start looking for Regenerator. Some heroes didn't exactly keep regular hours, unfortunately.

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"I'm--I'm Banzai, by the way," she blurted. "So you know what to put in your phone. Along with my number, I mean." She didn't know how many random numbers Dragon had in his phone, but she wanted to make sure there was no way he could mix up hers. Not if he was going to bring help.

"Yell if you need me to slow down," she added, adjusting the bags on her arms to make sure they wouldn't foul up her legs and cost her even more precious time.

She was hoping he wouldn't need to. She wanted to be gone.

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"I thought that might be who you were. The last thing I want is to slow you down, Banzai."

He offered her another smile, tucking his phone away again before, with a familiar pull between his shoulder blades, he lifted back into the air.

"Let's go. Don't slow down on my account."

He'd have to push himself, but unless they were going terribly far, he was pretty sure he could handle it.

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The Might Dragon knew who she was?!?! If Kathy had any other power set, she probably would have stumbled at that. How?! When?! Huh?

It was almost worth taking a second to ask him, except for how it entirely was not. Not with Gorgon's health on the line.

She threw him a fast salute and took off, a blur of white and red and rainbows flying through the dimness of Los Angeles at night.