damned_bulletin | [hanwriting disguised, but someone who knows him might guess who he is]

I think it's the real deal.

Do you know someone who'd go by 'Impulse'? They were both talking about you.

Impulse? That can't be right.
The only Impulse I knew stopped being Impulse more than a year ago.

As for Superboy, that can't be right either.
He's dead.

[the above note has been taken down. The following has been folded over]

Yeah. We need to talk about that at some point. From what I've been seeing, there's a lot of people who say they were dead before they came here, or that are from different points in time. Either he's not dead any more, or it hasn't happened yet.

Better take this down once you've read it.

[the above note has been taken down; this one has been folded over to follow suit with Jaime.]

Hopefully you and I are on the same page, even if no one else is.

Is it really possible to meet someone here from a different place in time? I don't think I like the implications of that.And I don't understand it, either.

[again, the previous note has been removed and this is folded over]

Maybe. Last thing I remember was wrapping up the whole Reach mess. You?

Uh, I'm gonna have to go with just a 'yes' there. I don't know enough about how the Reach tech works for the Scarab to explain it to me. Besides, I had breakfast with someone from ancient Japan today, and an alien yesterday.

Do not get me started on the other symbiote.

[previous note removed; current note folded over]

I was...trying to find out why ~~Batman was k---~~ something that I never thought could happen allegedly happened.

I'm...going to pretend any of what you just said made sense, because if I don't, I'll end up needing an asylum.
Speaking of which, is this place some kind of cover for something else? I've never heard of a Landels Institute in New Jersey, and I've lived in Jersey my whole life.
[strikes thoroughly scratched out]

[ditto]

That sounds like any given Tuesday at the Tower.

Well if you count the monsters at night, as well as the fact that at least half the people I've talked to have some kind of power, then there's definitely something going on. Doesn't seem like anyone knows what though.

[ditto]

I guess so. It's been awhile since I quit the Titans, though, so I haven't thought as much about it.

...Monsters. You've got to be joking.

[same again]

You quit the Titans? Seems like I've been out of the loop a lot more than I thought, or something's not adding up right.

Nope. Monsters. [arrow drawn to here ()] It's probably why this is the only mental institute that seems like it's also got an ER, from some of the injuries I've seen.

[more of the same]

I had to. There was too much going on in Gotham. Guess you and I aren't quite on the same page. That's okay. Could be worse.

I stick with my initial assumption that this isn't actually a real mental hospital. Reads all wrong.

[same again]

Sounds like we have some catching up to do.

Like I said, world's second greatest detective at work.

[same]

Yeah, sounds like we do.

But you got it wrong. I'm not the second. ~~Not anymore.~~

[strikes scratched out forever; he's doing a lot of that today]

[same]

What, you got demoted?

[same]

Of course not.
Guess we'll just go with "I got smarter."

[same]

I don't think you can get that much smarter without some serious help. Possibly from an accident resulting in superpowers.

[same]

Then you're not thinking enough.

It's not a joke, it's my name OK? Like Superman and Supergirl, yeah?

What's it to you anyway?

Funny sort of name. You got a real one, or are you just making it up?

You could say I have personal interest in the matter and leave it at that.

It is my real name! So why don't you back off huh?

Right. It's your name, and I'm the pope.
All superheroes have other names. Even if they're secret.

[okay so I just realized that I responded to your other note thinking it was in this thread. PLEASE LET ME GO CORRECT THAT RIGHT NOW.]

Yeah? Well it's great to meet you then, your holiness, 'cause it is my real name! OK, I have another name too - it's Kon-El - but it doesn't mean Superboy's not my real name too!

Who the hell are you?

~~Kon~~

~~You've got to be lying~~

~~Oh give me a break~~

If you can't figure out who I am, you can't possibly be who you say you are.

[okay, this is much better, forgive my fail.
Strikes illegible.]

What is that supposed to mean? Why should I know who you are jerk?

...Wait, you might have me confused with a different Superboy, from another reality. That's how I got here - I was travelling to other worlds and there were other Superboys there. Seriously, who is this?

[Sadly I think the intricacies of handwriting styles escapes him. Sorry Tim.]

~~This is so like you~~

I've only ever met two Superboys, and you're more like the one I don't hate than the one I do. Other realities be damned.

[Cue facepalming; strikes again illegible.]

Well, two is more than any one world should have - I am entirely too awesome for the world to need more than one of me. Why do you hate the other Superboy? And are you going to tell me who you are already?

[See? Five minutes and it's like he was never gone!]

Two is too much to handle. You're right.

[There is a lot of space here, as if he didn't know what to write.]

I hate the second Superboy for killing my best friend.

I- He did? ....I'm sorry. He can't have really been Superboy then, there's no way anyone who calls themselves a Super would ever kill anyone.

He wasn't really Superboy. He just called himself that.

Well I promise I'm the real deal. I'll prove it if you want.

All right. Prove it, then.

Uh- ~~geez, you don't screw around!~~ ~~How am I supposed to-~~

Sure, but I can't do it like this. I mean, if I'm a different Superboy to the one you met then it's not like I can write something only he'd know.

Try me.

Alternately, figure something else out.

You sure are demanding. How close were you guys? I mean, if you didn't know each other that well then I don't want to say something only a few people know. A guys got to have some secrets.

If you're Superboy, I probably already know your secrets.

We were close enough.

[strikeouts may be legible to those with an obsessive attention to detail]

Way to be creepy. You're really not making me want to trust you whoever-you-are.

Fine, how about the guys I'm cloned from? Not many people know that part of me comes from that creep Westfield.

Or, what about.... one of the members of Young Justice? The one Fite n' Maad are so interested in. ~~Man I hope I didn't just screw up big time. But this is another reality right?~~

Edited 2009-05-21 20:58 (UTC)

~~Of course you don't trust, me you never~~

Okay, Superboy. Tell me who you're cloned from, if you want.

Last I checked, everyone knew the members of Young Justice. Not that it exists anymore, where I'm from.

[added as an afterthought:]

Can't be any more screwed up than it already is.

I told you! They used DNA from Superman and that loser Westfield - from Cadmus - to make me.

Wait, what do you mean Young Justice doesn't exist? It does in my world! We only made the team a few months ago, there's no way we'd have disbanded already. What happened in your world?

.....And what's that supposed to mean, huh?

Oh, did they? ~~Well that explains why you're not~~

It doesn't mean anything, Kon.
It doesn't mean anything at all.

Oh, so now you believe me, huh? Are you going to tell me who you are already?

I don't know what I believe yet.

I...can't, right now.
Sometime.
Later.

Whatever. Let me know if you change your mind and actually feel like talking. I'm sure you know what I look like.

[This is why we don't post when we should be working, I forget half of what I meant to write.]

Edited 2009-05-22 03:12 (UTC)

Yeah. I know what you look like.
I won't keep you in suspense forever, but it's not worth talking about here.

I got flirted at by a young man calling himself that. Said he was Superman's clone even.

He was out of his league.

He's almost always out of his league, if he is who he says he is.

So his reputation didn't precede him this time, did it?

Well, I've known him a long time. But if he's anything like I remember him, he'll probably flirt with anyone who isn't aware of who he is from other sources.

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