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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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[ remind him, why was he happy about hanging out with both of you together? ]

You know, you're right! I should expend my circle. I should only give access to my pizza plant to people whose name doesn't start with a K!

[ that's right. you need him. cuz. pizza plant is totally one of his realistic projects, sure. ]

Maybe we can spell my name backwards. Le-Roz Arak has a good sound to it.

Um, your pizza plant? Excuse you. That was my idea. And to think I was going to share.

Yeah and Edison didn't invent the lightbulb, Galileo didn't invent the telescope, so on, so forth, that's the world of brand-recognition for you.

[ he shrugs. ]

Credit goes to whoever spreads it.

Okay, I'm not from Earth, but from what I've heard, Edison isn't a great role model.

Yeah, Winn, stop being such an Edison. You get really surly without regular kisses. [Which she can't offer because of the masks.]

Crazes are never pretty.

[ he's already hooked. sorry kara, he can't really not respond to that one. ]

OK, switching to Ultraviolet B - [ remember girls - we're here to try and get kara her powers back, not gang up on him. focus! ]

Get a room, you two.

Away from mine.

Everyone who isn't me is so mean today. Maybe the machine is doing bad things.

Wow, how quickly 'I'm so glad you're here!' turns to 'get the hell away'.

[ shaking his head, they may not be able to see his smile, but it's clear in his voice. ]

Maybe. Maybe this is how I get superpowers too~

[ a guy can dream, right! ]

Okay, well, you know I'm just kidding.

[ she knows he knows. she also knows everyone's just joking! but she's feel a little like a guinea pig and nothing's really happening and she can't help a bit of an impatient tone from slipping in ]

You might have to adjust your new codename if it's special sun powers. [She knows the testing process isn't ideal. But they are trying to do a thing neither of them have ever done before on a person with a biology different from their own.]

I am up for that challenge!

[ he nods excitedly. for the sake of actually useful powers instead of abilities that just rust and go to waste in the fleet, he'll be willing to part with his totally awesome codename. ]

Have you told me your code name, Winn?

Oops. [Didn't mean to sell you out, boyfriend.]

[ his hand goes up to tangle in his hair -- and meets the radiation suit. dammit, that's just not the same, he lets it drop again. ]

Ah, I'll tell you now - Glitch, it's Glitch.

[ it's not that he was hiding it or anything, after all, kara is his superhero, she's the only one who'd actually need to use it. it just...always seemed too awkward to bring up out of the blue. oh hey, I never lift a finger in the field, and I'm less than useless here, but here's my cool superhero name! just feels awkward, you know? ]

Oh. Well, that's a cool name.

[ there's still just some weirdness here. the fact that he's been developing this secret code name thing— why didn't he want to tell her? why is he treating it like a confession? she doesn't fully know about his insecurities on the Fleet—probably because she's wrapped up in her own ]

Can we take a break from this? I'm not really feeling anything new right now.

[Is she sensing a weird vibe here? Feels like there might be a vibe.]

Um, sure, breaks are good. I'll check the equipment over. Good to see how it's holding up to the stress of the output.

Thanks -

[ no vibe, they forgot their cisco. ]

Yeah, yeah, that's probably a good idea.

[ he starts the cooling process on the machine. ] We definitely don't wanna overdo it. [ she's at half-power. too much of the wrong kind of radiation could end up hurting her and that's the last thing he ever wants to do. ]

Thanks.

So, how long have you guys been working on the code name?

Oh, at the dance he was meeting Kurt from home and I brought it up. There was no long process. Nothing too serious.

Actually, I came up with it when I was like...14.

[ yeah, he can try to tease and act cool in front of kitty and kurt, but this is kara.

don't judge, what kid doesn't want to be a superhero? no kid he ever wants to meet! not that he's particularly excited about meeting kids, especially how his last foray into babysitting turned out...he was lonely, and he felt like he had so much to prove, what better way to distance himself from the toyman than by becoming his opposite? a superhero? at times, glitch was his only friend. ]

[ her irritability melts away. she can't be annoyed at baby winn ]

Well, It's pretty cute, just like I'm sure 14 year old Winn was.

Flirting right in front of me. [Just teasing.]

[ see, that he recognizes for the tease that it is - because of course he and kara aren't flirting. ]

Actually 14 year old me wasn't all that different - [ ...wait. that's probably not a good thing. clearing his throat. he matured! he totally did! maybe it just means that he was a mature 14 year old! ....shut up! ] so yeah, pretty cute.