Who: Blue Beetle II (Also Known As Ted Kord) + [Narrative / Open] Where: Beetle’s Supper Secret Beetle Base of Operations [so somewhere in NYC] - > random building in NYC When: May 16th - when it’s dark outside What: Ted has finished the Bug. He’s rather proud of himself. So he takes it out for a flight. Then it breaks a bit. Rating: G
It would have been more fitting maybe if there had been thunder and flashes of lightning. But if there had been lightning, then he would have been able to take the the Bug out for a flight, because while Ted was confident his ability to pilot the Bug, he didn’t want her maiden flight to be in a lightning storm.
So as he sat in the cockpit of his newly finished flying machine, Ted quietly said; "It’s Allliiivveeee...." and then turned the ignition on. There was a brief shaking as the Bug came to life, and Ted gripped the controller that acted as the steering mechanism with one hand, and then with the other reached out and flipped a few buttons on the Bug’s console.
The roof his base of operations rolled back, and Ted guided the Bug up - up and away and into the New York city night time sky.
Ted was recording everything that happened on this first flight, so he could record anything that might go wrong. Or ast in this moment, record something that was going oh so right. He wanted to study the tape after - and study any mistakes, and also relieve this feeling of everything going according to plan.
"We have achieved lift off," he rattled off the altitude as his eyes looked over the control panel. "We are moments in the first flight and everything so far is holding steady …" He was trying to sound calm and professional, but he wanted to get up from his seat and jump around. He had done it. He had finished The Bug, and it was working!
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Ted was learning first hand that what went up into the air - came down out of the air. Thankfully when things had started really shaking, and lights had started flashing, and Ted had started to feel like he was on the bridge of the 1960’s Enterprise, and about to get tossed to the ground, he wasn’t that high in the air. The Bug in fact was very close to the roof of a building so Ted was able to make a quick landing.
Okay this was not ideal - he was on the roof of a strange building, in New York, with a flying beetle shaped machine, that now had smoke leaking out from underneath it. He had tools with him, he just hoped he could find the problem and get it fixed before he drew any attention to himself.
Getting out his phone (Ted always took his phone out when he was crime fighting - although in this case he wasn’t exactly about to call roadside assistance) Ted fired off a quick set of text messages, and then went and grabbed his tool kit and exited the Bug. As he made his exit, he muttered to himself; "I wonder if things like this happen to Batman."