SPRING TEST DRIVE MEME

[spaceshipit]

THE TEST DRIVE MEME

Got someone you want to try out before you app? Well this is the post for it! Feel free to use anything that fits in the setting of Drift Fleet! Want to play bumper shuttles? Want to go wild in a med bay? Play around with the current plot? Have at it!

Threads from the Test-Drive may be made game "canon" but DO NOT count toward AC!

FOR NEW PLAYERS: You DO NOT NEED an invite to participate in the TEST DRIVE! If you decide to APP into the game, ONLY THEN will you need an invite from a current player! Applications for new players open April 1st.

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From now on, Test Drives will be posted SEASONALLY (or every three months!). So the next one will be posted in the summer!

Comments

[anewhope]

I know.

[ Even with keeping his identity so tightly under wraps, Clark couldn't even picture a world with acceptance. He never had faith, just the need to do more.

Until Lois came. ]

It is your world, no matter what it is like.

[neversets]

Yeah. Honestly, people had way more problems with the fact I wanted to marry my husband and officially adopt our daughter than the fact that I'm a solar powered, tactical missile and I have to stop and go 'really?'.

[Derailed off flirting, his hand slides into his pocket, pulling out a photo wallet.]

My little girl, Jenny, she's starting to fly on her own. I'm so proud of her. Wanna see?

[anewhope]

[ He smiles, coming closer. He always enjoys people talking about their families. ]

I'd love to.

[neversets]

She's a Millenium baby, Quantum, we named her after her predecessor, Jenny Sparks, who was one of the best friends I ever had.

[ He opens up the wallet to show a little girl of about five or six, with asian features, dark hair and eyes and a slight crackle of a pale blue energy about her hands and feet. ]

Her parents were killed during the attack on the hospital to steal her. Midnighter and I decided we'd raise her. Well, the team raised her, but we're her Dads. I didn't really want to at first. I never wanted to be responsible for another life like that. I was sure I'd do it horribly wrong but Midnighter reminded me all I had to do was love her and tear apart anything that tried to hurt her and it didn't seem as terrifying.

[ The next photo is said little girl being held by a woman who looks to be made of liquid metal, both wearing plastic tiaras. ]

That's Angie. She was my best man when we got married. And more tolerant of tea parties than I ever am.

[anewhope]

[ Is this how his parents sounded like? Probably. They never really held back. Listening to Apollo made him faintly nostalgic. Briefly, he wonders if Jor-El and Lara felt the same way.

But he knew the answer to that. ]

Sounds like the perfect family.

[neversets]

Yeah...

[He closes the photo wallet before the next one, closing his eyes and head bowed. He knows what that photo is.]

I thought it was, too.

[ He looks up with a brief smile. ]

Sorry. I still get a bit maudlin about the separation.

[anewhope]

That's fine. You're allowed. It's never easy to part with someone, no matter what the situation calls for.

[ Even with the best of intentions, it can still hurt. ]

[neversets]

He gives a weak chuckle and rubs his hand over his face.

Yeah. We've been together for as long as I can remember. Not, actually involved, but when I came out of the procedure, he was coming out too. Him walking out was a bit of a shock. Still is, even a year on.

[anewhope]

. . . I'm sorry.

[ It's genuine, even though there's little else Clark could say. ]

[neversets]

[ Apollo gives him a warmer smile. ]

Thanks. Still, here's me being disgustingly emotional about someone who isn't even here. I mean, we've all been kidnapped for a space reality show, I probably have more to worry about than my loser ex.

[anewhope]

Probably. Still, it never hurts to let it out, at least a little.

[neversets]

Yeah.

I can forgive what he did to me better than Jenny, y'know? She's never been without him, even when I was being held captive, she had him. Walk out on me? Okay. But I couldn't walk out on her.

[anewhope]

[ Sometimes, he wonders how his mother felt. Sending her only child into space . . . to an alien planet. How Jor-El struggled with that decision. How his father felt when he stopped Clark, only concerned that Clark never had to face the world, strange and isolated, marked as an alien.

They all walked away. He glances away briefly, pushing his glasses up. ]

It's . . . always complicated. Even good reasons come with a price. I'm sure whatever you did for her . . . she was grateful.

[neversets]

[ Apollo tilts his head slightly, not sure what it is that Clark's feeling, but sure there's something. ]

What about... your family?

[anewhope]

Oh. I'm adopted.

[ He's not particularly miffed about it. ]

My real family had to give me up due to a . . . crisis to their homeland.

[neversets]

Oh. I'm sorry to hear it, but it sounds like you have good parents? Siblings?

[anewhope]

[ He smiles and his eyes crinkle ]

I did. The very best.

[neversets]

That is what matters.

Wow, don't you look about a thousand times more handsome when you smile like that.

[anewhope]

[ He huffs. ]

Since I don't have a mirror, I'll have to take your word for it.

[neversets]

And there it goes again. Ah, well. At least now I can say I've seen it.

[ He flickers around Clark with a soft glow of sunlight and stops back in front of him a second after he moved. ]

You sure I can't help you get that mud off?

[anewhope]

Quite sure. I'll let you know if I change my mind.

[neversets]

You do that.

Regardless, I am going to go and clean off. I'll see you later.

[anewhope]

Sure. And take care.

[ An odd thing to say and it feels strange to say, to have something constant in his life. ]

[neversets]

You too!

[ Apollo lifts into the air and streaks off at speed, a golden halo lighting him up as he vanishes. ]

[anewhope]

[ Is that what he looks like when he flies off? Clark feels a brief surge of awe and . . . contentment. A world with superheroes. Perhaps that could be his world. Someday.

For now, he'll bask in the sun and slip away. ]