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Who: Kara, Kitty, and Winn
Broadcast: none.
Action: on the moon
When: now!

[ this is it. months of work, of research, of banging his head against the wall - finally lead them all here, to a little hidden corner of a toxic moon, in full radiation suits, ready to make their first real trial on project plato.

he feels like he should be making a speech of some sort. why does he never learn to make an actual script?

he looks from kara to kitty; the mask hides his smile, but it's obvious in his energy. he actually bounces a little bit with excitement. ]

OK. Before we embark on Project Plato Alpha test - can I just say - this is awesome. And let's not die. [ the last part is a joke. mostly. they ran their calculations very carefully! and kara is mostly invulnerable and kitty can phase. ok, so he's the one who needs to focus on not dying.

there's a reason he usually leaves the speeches to kara and james. ]

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Good speech, el capitan. I'll try my best to not die.

Not me. I was planning to run with scissors next. [She shouldn't actually make jokes about dying around Winn, should she?]

Okay, so we've got it up and running to produce high intensity portions of the electromagnetic radiation the sun gives off. We're going to monitor your reactions to it the best we can and if we don't actually hit the bullseye with this hopefully we will be able to figure out where it is for round two. But also, you should tell us what you're feeling or if we accidentally set you on fire. Definitely tell us if you're on fire.

[ no, no she shouldn't. but he started it. ]

But try to tell us before - cuz actually catching on fire doesn't sound like fun.

[ he has a whole array of safety equipment with him, just in case, and a first aid kit, but he'd rather not have to use it. ]

Ok. Just tell us when you're ready - and we'll kick this off.

...Okay, I will tell you before I burst into flames.

Now that we have you properly relaxed, we'll fire it up and start at a lower level. Infrared to start? [Asking this of Winn.]

[ he nods ]

Don't worry, we checked and rechecked this, you won't actually burst into flames.

[ he gives kara's shoulder a reassuring squeeze before backing up. ]

Plato, Alpha Test, Infrared, take 1. [ finally! finally they might have some actual progress! real results! he knows he shouldn't be getting his hopes up, but it's impossible not to.

turning on. ]

Tell us everything you're feeling -

[ she jogs in place slightly and shakes her arms out, exhaling ]

Okay. I'm ready!

[ after he turns it on ]

Well. It's warm?

You'll have that with infrared. We're trying not to minimize and reroute heat output with the way we structured it, but we didn't want to get carried away to the point where we were really changing the sun's output because if regular lightbulbs worked on you, then this wouldn't be a problem.

[She's kind of into this. The science. She's felt like the muscle lately with people like Winn, Cisco, and Hank around. And, well, she's pretty good at being the muscle it's just that without people like Hank or Charles with the X-Men in her world she was kind of the brains there too? At least in the area of tech. It's good to feel useful for that again. Then again this might fail spectacularly.]

[ he loves that she's into the science. he wouldn't have come this far if she weren't into the science. ]

Vitals are stable, so far so good.

[ winn points to a pile of heavy rocks he set up. ]

Try crashing one, see if it's getting any easier?

[ she'll pick up a rock and split it with some effort, but shrugs mostly ]

It's about the same.

Okay, let's turn it up. The readings might give us more to work with because it takes awhile for your cells to recharge anyway, right? There might not be immediate results.

[ making a note of no change, the rocks are one more variable to track ]

OK, turning it up. Plato, Alpha Test, Infrared, take 2 -

Just... warmer, mostly. It might be an exposure over time thing, like you said.

It could be a lot of things. Not to mention our testing facility is not exactly the best. Yay dirty little moon. Okay, on to Uultraviolet. Don't be concerned if you start glowing.

You've been running on empty for a while, it makes sense for it to take time. And most likely it'll require some sorta combo - but if we figure out what level of which radiation has the most promising results - even if it's a fraction of an inch better - we'll know what to combine.

[ he says it as much for himself as for kara. it's really hard not to imagine him hitting a button - and her flying away, happy, strong, and safe. he just wants to do this for her, please, just give him something, multiverse! ]

Alright - Alpha Test, Ultraviolet, take 1 -

Are my teeth all glowy?? Maybe we can do some cosmic bowling.

[ she understands the scientific value but also mostly she's just standing here as they do things. so she has to know the Important Facts of UV reflection ]

We should definitely start work on a bowling alley next. [Her eyes stray from the machine and Kara though as she looks around them, noticing that some of the air has been illuminated too. Like showing off the stains in a hotel room.] Ew.

I'll add it to the list.

[ you know what you should absolutely not joke about around winn? projects. because he will make them happen, and kara's ban on new side projects be damned. he's already picked up a bunch since. ]

So glad we're doing this outside - [ mumbled. it would be very embarrassing to turn on that light in his room. ]

Anything?

Besides a growing unease about the air? I'm not sure. I don't think so.

[Kitty smirks a little at that mumble.]

Try a rock? Then we'll move on to the rest of the spectrum. Also, how are things? [Because they don't have to be 100% science-y about this as long as the testing gets done.]

[ a smirk he misses because of the masks - but imagines because well, he knows her.

he focuses on monitoring the device, just letting them chat for now. ]

[ she tries a rock, but it's about the same result ]

How are things with this? Pretty normal.

[Terrible masks!] I meant more in general. The three of us haven't really played together in awhile. Or ever? Is it ever? We're usually more teams of two or really awkward foursomes.

Speaking of playing - Cisco made a miniature air-hockey table - we can mess around with that til we get bowling rolling.

[ he may or may not ~~we all know he is~~ be working on turning his music library into karaoke tracks too. when new people ask 'what do you do for fun around here', they are not going to be told laundry ever again. ]

First of all, the bowling alley can wait. But air-hockey sounds great.

And things are fine? I feel like, yeah, maybe we don't all talk together but I basically tell both of you the same things.