‘Hey, you’ve got something on your face. Here, hold still…’ prompt :3
As far as "ways to spend a Saturday night" go, Kon would rank this around a two out of ten. Not great. Definitely could be worse (he could be actively dying again!), but hoo boy, is there still a lotta room for improvement.
The enchanted robo-chimera slams its tail into his side. Kon goes flying with an oof, all the breath knocked out of his lungs, and slams into a wall, where he crumples to the floor, dazed; magic makes this bitch actually able to land a hit on him, and it sucks.
God, he's gonna feel that later. He sucks in a breath—
"Kon!" Tim cries. "Look out!"
—and barely has time to throw his arms up to shield his face before the robo-chimera's on him again, circuits in its damaged outer skin sparking. It snaps at his head and catches his forearm instead, snarling; Kon snarls right back as he forces his TTK into the circuitry and forcibly snaps its jaws back open.
Keeping his TTK inside the magic is like trying to hold two repelling magnets together, though, and the second his concentration slips, it throws him out. He barely has time to throw himself down; steel jaws snap where his head was a moment ago.
Sweet. Dodged that (cool!), but now the damn snake tail has his right leg (not cool!) and it's heavy and the magic burns, and—
Okay. So The chimera's got his legs pinned against the floor, the back of his hips digging painfully into the concrete wall. It roars in defiance at the sky, tail lashing, and Kon slams a fist into its shoulder. His TTK shoves its way into its joints, dismantles something that makes it stumble, before the tail lashes and squeezes hard and he cries out in pain, and the enchantment boots his TTK right out again.
Well, if he can't TTK it apart, he can always do this the old-fashioned way.
"Kon!" Cassie screams from across the hangar bay, where she's wrangling the magic robo-hydra. "Hang on, I'm—"
She doesn't need to do anything. Kon braces himself against the faux-fur-coated steel leg he just broke, shoves upwards, and sinks his teeth into the robo-chimera's throat.
It's harder than biting down on metal normally would be, but it still gives—fabric and steel and wires, that's what he's looking for, the wires—all breaking under his teeth. The shock sends reverberations up his jaw into his skull, but he gets a good grip on the cables that must be running this thing, snarls, and rips its fucking throat out.
The enchantment fights him, but it's no match for the full force of a pissed-off Kryptonian. Metal groans and screams; a great, heaving shudder runs through the chimera's entire frame, and then it collapses. Kon shoves it off himself and clambers back to his feet, spits out a mouthful of metal, and glares down at the sad, sparking heap.
On the other side of the hangar bay, something explodes, presumably Cassie's hydra. Kon glances over, sees that Cassie herself is fine, and kicks the sparking snake-tail off his foot. He turns, dusting off his jacket, and scrubs a hand over his mouth. Everything tastes of iron.
Tim swings down from the rafters and alights right in front of him. He stumbles slightly before getting his bearings, and Kon narrows his eyes—that's not normal. Is he hurt?
"Are you hurt?" Tim asks. His gloved hands reach out, skim down the sides of Kon's arms, as if he can detect any hidden injury with only the barest idea of a touch. The white lenses of his mask stare deep into Kon's chest like he's trying to see right through his skin to his ribs, his heart. "Did it get you anywhere?"
"I'm fine," Kon dismisses. "Just a couple scrapes 'n' bruises or whatever, nothing major. Are you okay?"
"Fine. Bart took care of the manticore before I even had a chance." Tim hesitates for a moment, still standing right there in Kon's space; he stares up at him with those unblinking lenses, then swallows hard. "You, uh... you've got something on your face. Here, let me..."
He reaches up with the edge of his cape and, with a gentleness that's almost ludicrous after how hard Kon just got smacked around, wipes his cheek and jaw. Kon's heart flutters in his chest.
The cape itself, of course, is black, so he has no idea what might have been smeared on his face. Tim looks satisfied after a moment, though, dropping it and stepping back. "There," he says. "Was a bit of grease. And lubricant from the ball bearings. I think."
"Right." Blech. Kon's mouth still tastes of metal. "Thanks."
"Don't mention it," Tim says. But his heart rate is strangely high; Kon eyes him with suspicion. If he's hiding an injury, he swears...
On the other side of the hangar bay, there's a second explosion, followed by Bart's holler of "YEAH, BABY!". Kon glances over his shoulder to see him and Cassie high-five.
"Guess we just need to go take care of that enchantress now," Tim says, and grapples up into the rafters again before Kon can so much as agree.
Fine, Kon supposes. The sooner this is over, the sooner he can get Tim back to base—he'll just have to pin him down for a proper examination later.
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A True Love Valentines Mini Tournament
We are excited to share our bracket with everyone now that the preliminary results have completed it!
Ture Love is not just for the heroes and princesses who get top billing in their stories. True love can be found all over Disney stories if one simply takes a look. These 16 examples prove it's not just a first kiss that is magical, that happily ever after is just a new wonderful beginning, people fall in love at different speeds and in different ways--and nothing stops love from jumping between stories.
On Valentines we hope to have a wonderful example to prove that Ture Love is for anyone, any where, any way. If you want it.
But in order to get there, we have to start narrowing the field of competition! Our first round, the sweet 16, will begin on February 7th. All eight polls are just 24 hours. Any ties will allow both contestants to move on independently for the next round.
Propaganda is allowed (encouraged) as long as you remain polite. Because these are short rounds, we will try our best to keep up with reblogging propaganda comments.
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incredibly random and idk if you’ve talked about this before but i can’t stop thinking about robert taking giselle to see a broadway show especially if they went to see smthin like cinderella 😭🤍
omg I think about what shows they would see all the time !! I have a little list, too, actually !!! (spoilers, it's not little)
Legally Blonde the Musical (they saw this show so many times, and Robert did Not enjoy it, but he likes making Giselle happy, so he suffered for her. she was devastated when it closed, but thank god mtv recorded it !!!)
The Little Mermaid
Daddy Long Legs (I watched the proshot years ago and I'll be honest I don't remember much, but I feel like Giselle would enjoy it)
The Addams Family
Elf (I've only seen the movie, and I heard this adaptation isn't exactly the same but idk for sure? either way, they would see it)
Matilda
Aladdin
Spiderman Turn Off the Dark
First Date
Kinky Boots
Newsies
Nice Work if You Can Get It
Cinderella
Anastasia (I don't think Giselle liked some of the changes, like In the Dark of the Night not being included)
Frozen (Robert wanted to die)
SpongeBob SquarePants (Robert wanted to die)
Mean Girls (and Giselle was very excited to hear it was getting a movie this year !!)
Moulin Rouge
She Loves Me
Wicked
The Lion King
Beauty and the Beast (This was her first Broadway show, and they caught it just before it closed)
Chicago (really love the idea of Robert coming home to Giselle singing the Cell Block Tango and being like 'um 😳')
Annie
Hairspray
Mamma Mia
And this list is shows they saw that I think Giselle wouldn't like/care for but Robert really enjoyed
Catch Me if You Can
Jersey Boys (Giselle did like the music in this, just not the story. I think Robert loooooves Frankie Valli)
The Producers (so,, apparently this show closed right before Giselle arrived in New York, but I'm ignoring that and we're going to pretend it ran longer because I think Robert loves Mel Brooks movies. I think he really wanted to see it when it first opened, but he had no one to go with, and Morgan was too young. So, when Giselle asked what he wanted to see, he was like "well,,,, 👉🏻👈🏻". and he really loves it !! we just have to pretend it was still open :))
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
The Book of Mormon (picturing them going into this blind and Hasa Diga Eebowai throwing her off completely. the entire show probably made her so uncomfortable 😭)
Avenue Q (I think the only thing Giselle could say about this was "well... the puppets were... cute, I suppose..." another show that just. made her so uncomfortable kjfoisdjfoidfjsd)
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