DC: 2012-03-07 - To Japan and Sabbac Again

Billy Batson has just been sitting outside sulking for the enttire timr until, he eventually gets back up and pushes the front doors open and peeks in to check if Supergitrl is still with her company. When he doesn'tsee anything the boy bursts into the lobby areaonce more and jotting his way to the receptionist. She waves at the boy dismissingly, "I know, I know.. you want Supergirl." Billy makes a face when he's treated like such a kid. While the receptionist pages Supergirl the boy goes to sit on the plush waiting area couch.

Kara Zor-El comes down about 20 minutes later in civvies. "Oh hi again.... message from Captain Marvel, right?" she asks, walking over.

Billy Batson smiles from ear to ear and goes over to grab ahold of Kara's wrist, "Hi.. I'm Billy, Billy.. Bsatson.. come with me, I want to show you something!" he tries to pull Kara no towards the front door but his minor human strength can barely budge her. Its like a toddler trying to move a refrigerator, "Ung.. com'on, you'll like it. Honest!" then he waves to the receptionist, "Don't worry I'll have her home before curfew!" he smiles and continues to pull on the immovable teenager.

Kara Zor-El watches at first while Billy tugs on her arm. "Ummmmmm okay." She shrugs a little while tugged, then starts to walk with him. "You're being really mysterious, you know right?"

Billy Batson smiles and waits for the doors to close once the pair are outside to brings Kara to a more secluded area and away from windows and prying eyes, "It'll just make the surprise that much better." he looks up at Kara, even though they're both around the same age the blonde seems just a little bit taller than the boy, "Anyways, I was thinking a lot about what you told me.. and I thought you were right." he pauses, "We don't know much about each other.. so, I'll start with my biggest secret." he pauses and and adds, "Since your cousin already knows.. I figure I can trust you too." he assumes a firm stance and extends his arms out while looking up he then says the magic words, "Shazam!" and a massive bolt of lightning appears out of nowhere and strikes the boy on the chest. There is a small bright explosion and after the cloud settles, Captain Marvel is standing in the center of the crater.

Kara Zor-El eeps when the lightning comes down, then blinks as the cloud clears. She blinks. "What the... Seriously?" She raises her eyebrows. "Okay. Was not expecting that." She scratches her head. "Okay so how are you.... I mean how old are ... Where..." She taps her foot. "OKay could you explain about the shapeshifting or whatever that is?"

Captain Marvel smiles and extends his hand to Kara, "Well.. I guess I'm really 15. The Wizard Shazam gave me the showers of Captain Marvel when I was picked to be this world's champion. The magic just changes me into what I'd look like if I were older I guess." he just shrugs with a smile, "Lets go, there is something special going on.. I want to show you."

Kara Zor-El pauses, murmuring to herself, "Well that sort of removes some of the creepiness factor." The creepiness factor of a guy Batman's age looking at her all moony-eyed like a lovestruck teen. "Oh.... okay." she says not entirely understanding ... but not like she hasnt heard of magic before. She's met Zatanna. Krypton even used to have a Guild of Kryptonian Magic.

Captain Marvel takes Kara's hand and flies up into the air and heads no towards San Francisco, "And niside that necklace I gave you is a tiny tiny portion of the magic that turns me into Captain Marvel." he smiles, "Thats why its so special.." he pauses and adds, "You know.. I've always been really scared of these powers but I see you and Superman doing such cool things with your powers. So maybe I looked up to you a bit. Even now.. I'm not quite sure I'm comfortable having this much power but I make the most of it." he flies towards the Richmond District and starts to land in a dark ally where they keep the trash. He looks up and smiles as he says, "Shazam!" and just like before a bolt of lightning strikes him on his massive chest. And then noce again there is little Billy Batson. The boy grabs your wrist again to try and lead you out onto the street. There seems to be some sort of street fair going on, "Its the national cherry blossom festival!" Billy tells her with child-like glee and excitement.

Kara Zor-El is led through the sky, then led out onto the street as he explains about his powers and the crystal with lightning in it and everything. She's admittedly taking it in stride a bit. Though the 'national cherry blossom festival' throws her a bit. "National ... what?"

Billy Batson guides you through the crowded streets where no noe even bats an eyelash at the paiof teens, "It's the Japanese festival to celebrate the blooming of the cherry blossoms!" he points to various stalls, "There's food.. you ever had japanese street food before?" he looks at the booth that sells little balls made of octopus, "Uhh.. takokaki. I think I'll pass! Maybe we can find something less daring." he smiles as he leads the pretty blonde into the grove of trees with what looks to be pink leafs and they fall from the branches and floats down to the ground in slow motion, "Isn't it pretty?!" he blushes as he's standing in the middle of the grove holding your hand.

Kara Zor-El pauses as she's lead out by Billy, looking around. "I've been here before a few times. Um... Once when that monster attacked Tokyo, then when that triad group got ahold of a nuclear bomb..." She pauses as he brings her to the street food vendors. "I think they're actually called takoyaki." then starts talking in Japanese. "<>" she says as she's lead around. "I haven't really had all that much time to appreciate the festivals, though."

Billy Batson blinks, "Holy moley.. you've been to Japan? That must have been awesome!" he smiles and nudges her playfully, "Then, its a good thing I showed up." he pauses then adds, "When was the last time you got a chance to just have fun and be a teenager?" then he points, "Look.. green tea ice cream mochi!" He tries to lead you through the crowds to the junk food stands.

Kara Zor-El looks around. "Yeah, I got to have fun for about a year before my planet blew up and everyone died." And again she gets led to more junk food stands. She smiles a bit.

Billy Batson gets to the front of the line and moves to the counter, One order please!" he hands the nice japanese lady some money and gets a paper tray full of little green mochi. He immediately stuffs one into his mouth and noms is furiously. Then he gacks and holds his head, "Brain freeze.. oh it hurts so good!" he holds up the tay and asks, "Want one?" he smiles to you, "Then.. I'd say you're long over due for some fun! Supergi-... err, what should I call you?"

Kara Zor-El watches curiously. "Um you can call me Kara. You know, since that's my name." She smies and takes one and puts it in her mouth to eat it. "Mmm... yeah that really is good, you're right."

Billy Batson looks up at you once the headache passes and smiles, "Yeah.. its ice cream and uh.. whatever mochi is." he takes your hand once again and leads you to a booth thats displaying silk kimonos of all various colors, "Wow.. I bet you'd look really good in one of those!" he steals the occasional sideways glance at the blonde beauty, "I think I once read that you're from Argo City. what was it like? I know Clark was just a baby when he left Krypton. How bout yourself Kara?" he takes another mochi and puts it in is mouth and chews it slowly this time.

Kara Zor-El looks over at Billy briefly. Yeah she's had enough of flying around in a silk robe from before and he should not be wanting he to do that either given what happened. She thinks a bit. "Um... I was 16. Actually I used to change Kal's diapers and babysit him." Wasn't there a news article that stated she was turning 17 soon? That doesn't entirely make sense.

Billy Batson blinks slowly, "Leapin' Lizards.. you're OLDER than Clark?" he pauses, "Wait.. does that mean you can't go to the prom and stuff." he blinks and looks around and up ni the sky like he's looking for something, "Isn't this better than being cooped up ni that tower?"

Kara Zor-El nods. "Well... technically I'm older. I mean if you mean chronologically. But most of that time was in suspended animation." She looks up where you're looking. "Yeah. I mean it's not like I was JUST in there. I did take some quick trips to New York and attempted to go to the beach, but a friend tried to arrest me so I'm going to wait until the prosecutors of a few cities decide what to do. Pretty sure it's just talk."

Billy Batson gives your hand a gentle squeeze which means you'd barely be able to feel it with his strength level being almost non-exsiatant ni this form, "If tyou need me to stand by you I will. I always will Kara." he smiles then frowns, "Do you feel that?" he looks around for someplace he can run to change in, "Wait a minute.. I know exactly what that is.. its--" but before he can finish his statement theres a large explosion in the streets which causes all the festival goers to scream and run abpout frantically. then a very large uh.. creature appears in the sky.. its massive and with red skin and horns.. OK, lets faxe it.. its the frickin' devil he cackles manically, "I can sense your energy anywhere.. no matter what form you take Champion!"

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Kara Zor-El looks at Billy. "See, this is sort of what happens when I've been leaving the house lately! Who is he? I'm thinking he wants to talk to you or something." Kara pauses. "Or maybe kill you?"

Billy Batson coughs as he recomposes himself after eatting that explosion hard and he sighs when he sees his tray of mochi on the ground. He grits his teeth, "Thats Sabbac. He's a crime boss that made a pact with evil magic for power and since the Wizard and I are champions of good magic he has a grudge with us." he looks at you and smiles, "At least the day isn't boring. He's pretty tough, want to tag team him?" he looks over at a phonebooth, "Or want him for yourself for ruining your day out?"

Kara Zor-El pauses. "What? No I mean it's ok he's all yours. I'm guessing this is one of those 'personal grudge' things."

Billy Batson looks at you and runs over to a phone booth and slams the door shut and a moment later a lightning bolt strikes the phone booth and as the door slides open a red and white blur zooms out of it and Captain Marvewl grabs ahold of Sabbac, "Why..?" then he yells, "shazam!" as the lightning comes down he holds up the red monster as an umbrella and lets it strike the beast who screams but then starts to laugh. A bit confused Captain Marvel, "wha--ack!" and then the devil knocks the Big Red Cheese out of the sky to free himself. The champion hits the ground by Kara and smirks, "OK.. I think he got a strength boost.. this might take awhile." he smiles then flies back up towards Sabbac and a moment later the red hero hits the ground by you again, "Ok.. obviously the direct approach isn't working." he mutters.

Kara Zor-El watches as Billy changes into his alter-ego in the phonebooth. What an odd idea to do. She pops another of the snacks in her mouth and looks down at Captain Marvel. "You can handle it though, right? Does he have any weaknesses or is this one of those 'punch him really hard' deals?"

Billy Batson stands up and smiles, a bit battered but still smiles, "You know.. I never really thought about it. Typically, I just hit him hard until he runs away. His only real weakness is that he's not very fast. I just want to get him high enough so that he doesn't hurt any of the people." he looks at you a smile, "Come on. I bet if I distract him.. you can clobber him pretty good. From what I've seen, you're much faster than Superman and I."

Kara Zor-El winces at Billy's bruised lip. "All right, if you say so? Maybe I should do the distracting though, since ... you know... faster?"

Billy Batson smiles and nods, "Just be careful. His hellfire is magic-based ... but you can tell when he's going to use it cuz the pentagram on his chest will strat to glow. He pats Kara on the shoulder, "I believe in you.. and maybe we can go to the zoo after this, they have a new lion exibit!" the sttreets seem to have cleared mostly f people except the few tht are still by their booths.

Kara Zor-El nods. "Note to self, don't get hit by magical flames." She then flies up fast at Sabbac. Since he won't just pay attention to her over his nemesis if she's just flying there, she figures, she slows to a stop by sending her sneaker'ed foot to the underside of his chin before flying a pace backwards. "Hi, I'm going to have to ask you to leave." she says, floating there, though she's ready to dodge if he tries to punch of shoot fire.

Sabbac is indeed busy planning what he's going to do with Marvel when Kara flies up and kicks him ni the jaw and instead of collapsing his face in from the impact the red monster flips backwards in mid-air to try and shrug off the inertia of the attack and then Captain Marvel appears behind Sabbac as he's tumbling in the sky backwards and doubles fist bludgeons the beast back down towards you. Sabbac growls as he manages to right himself aftre the Captains attack, "You little..I come and go as I please little girl!" he's flying towards Kara fully intent on slamming his fist into her skull at full force.

It's always better to fight with an opponent that basically just tries punches that they telegraph like that. When his fist is about to connect, she superspeeds of the way, behind him to kick him in the back, hard. "Yeah, which is why I'm telling you that you want to go. PLEASE."

Sabbac lets out a demonic and primal roar when he mises with his punch, "Why you little bug.. I'm going to crush you!" and just as he finishes his threat he takes a kick in the back very hard which makes him howl out in pain, as the second kick helped to speed up the moment of his fall and he hits the ground hard. It shakes the entire block and sets off car alarms. He strugglse to his cloven hoofved feet and looks up at the pair. The pentagram on his chest begins to glow brightly and then he unleashes a massive pillar of hellfire up at Kara and the Captain repectively.

Annnd she dodges out of the way of the hellfire, again at superspeed - again behind him as Captain Marvel gets in front of him. "Missed!" Her eyes glow red and shoots out twin beams of heat vision at his back. "Try mine." Sort of curious if non-magical heat would work against Sabbac.

Sabbac finally falls from the repeated hits of Kara and Captain Marvel, the heat vision being a coup de grace as it strikes Sabbac from behind. His magical reesistance to heat protects him from being cooked alive, but not from the intense force of the beams. Captain Marvel floats down beside Kara and shakes his head, "I think he's beaten.. you nkow they're just too stubborn to admit it." Sabbac simply groans in pain after he collapses.

Kara Zor-El nods a little, looking at Captain Marvel. "I'm guessing he's not your A-List of your rogue gallery?"

Billy Batson smiles and just shrugs with a sort of childish charm, "Not really.. but he doees seem to find the perfwect time to ruin my day." he narrows his eyes at Sabbac, "I guess the spell put no him to boost his strength just ran out.. as is the case of most ritual magics." he looks at you and smiles, "You really are amazing Ms Kara." Sabbac manages to gather himself long enough to teleport himself through a fiery portal and vanishes, 'Want to hang out here a little longer? I think theres supposed to be a sake parade of some sort soon or we can head to that lion exibit at the zoo."

Kara Zor-El shrugs a little, floating there. "Um... nah it's okay. I should probably get back. Besides it gets me a little upset seeing the animals in the cages. I mean I know they should be there - I had to put a bunch of animals back in the Gotham Zoo a few weeks ago." She watches as Sabbac vanishes. "So he basically comes, attack you, normally you punch him until he leaves and the cycle repeats, huh?"

Captain Marvel nods slowly, "Something like that, though usually... he's a lot more clever about things, I've never seen such a direct attack before." he shrugs and sighs and slumps his shoulders, "I'm sorry Kara.. I tried to get you a little fun nito your life and look what happened." he starts to float back towards the tower, "Oh.. you won't tell anyone my secret will you? But, I trust you." he just stays quiet no the ttrip home. Then he looks at you and says, "I hope this doesn't change the way you look and think of me."

Kara Zor-El shrugs. "Well I was planning on putting out a full page ad in the Daily Planet announcing it, but on second hand I won't." She smiles. After the two of you get back to San Francisco, she asks "What do you mean?"

Captain Marvel smirks, "Well, I mean like.. I used to think maybe your eyes would light up when I entered a room. I just don't want you thinking.. oh.. that Captain is just that kid or wghatever.." he falls silent for a minute and says, "Its why I originally left the Justice Society.. I difdn't want them to know how old I really am cuz they used to look up to me."

Kara Zor-El shakes her head. Wait, what? She had her eyes light up when he'd enter a room? Methinks maybe Billy/Captain Marvel was inserting his own perspective on their past meetings. She pauses a second, then says, "Trust me, I'm not at all thinking that. You're a good person."

A short flight later, Captain Marvel lands in front of the tower and pulls the door open for her, "There got you home in one piece.. hope you had a little fun hanging with me." He tries to hi-5 her because he's a bit unsure what to do, though the urge to hug is there.

Kara watches Captain Marvel putting his hand up, not exactly someone who has done lots of 'high fives.' So what he gets is a handshake and a friendly pat/hug.