_gallifrog_
Symbolic Animal of Gallifrey
CISCO RAMON
Location: STAR Labs, Ciscos's private workshop
Mentions: Everybody
Interactions: Superman/Wally West ( fin ) Rosary P( PlusUltra ) Ruby Spark ( _amaranth_ )
Outfit: A typical Cisco shirt
Location: STAR Labs, Ciscos's private workshop
Mentions: Everybody
Interactions: Superman/Wally West ( fin ) Rosary P( PlusUltra ) Ruby Spark ( _amaranth_ )
Outfit: A typical Cisco shirt
The conversation flicked back and forth as various new arrivals made their way into the netting room. Cisco tried his best to keep track of everything going on, but with the arrival of the group from outside it was evident that he'd missed some vital conversation along the way. It was also evident to him, that he was the only one who didn't know why they were all being assembled. Recording the audio of the whole thing was proving to be a pre-emptive move that had paid off. A couple of facts stuck out to him.
Bar Superman and Batman he was without a doubt the oldest in the room by about a decade. Everybody else was either a teenager or a person who had just graduated to the stage of looking like a legal adult. Secondly most were dressed in supersuits of some kind and all were carrying baggage, so moving into the Tower was clearly part of the deal for being there. He mentally cursed Barry again for giving him the bare minimum of details and then zipping off in a blur of red and refusing to answer Cisco's calls (normal behaviour for the speedster really). Some of the people knew each other already (Wally and Dick for instance) where as others looked just as lost as he felt. There was a variety of powers between them some metas, others clearly not, varying class types (he discerned that simply by looking at the amount of luggage and quality of clothes) and a wide range of skills sets as well as enough contrasting personalities to merit an updated version of the Meyers-Brigg test.
Superman refusing to give teleport access to S.T.A.R Labs in that unnervingly polite way of his was hardly a surprise to Cisco. S.T.A.R Labs reputation had been permanently tarnished by the explosion of S.L.A.P.A. and even all these years later the particle accelerator explosion was still the first thing that came up on Google when the labs were searched up. It didn't help that when they strayed out as team Flash they had next to no funding, depleted facilities and resources and the bare minimum of security, which resulted in some disastrous break outs and break ins where classified tech had been stolen.
But things had changed since then, they had money and funding for a start, the meta human cuffs and dampers had greatly reduced meta breakouts. Bit by bit they were regaining their reputation as a world class laboratories. Harrison Well's 'death' had greatly helped that, passing the labs into the hands of a scientist coalition had been a dramatic move, but had won over the public and press. It was during one of the press events designed to let the media see that S.T.A.R Labs wasn't the total monster it was portayed to be that he'd met Superman (or Clark as he prefered to be called in his civvies). Neither had known about the other's double life until Barry had called Cisco to say that he'd damaged the suit and also wanted to pick Cisco's brains on a certain group of metas and had neglected to tell Cisco that the phone was on speaker. The members of the League present had been subjected to a very entertaining rant by Cisco about Barry's ability to break his beautiful tech that he had laboured over for months and put literal blood sweat and tears into, before Barry managed to get a word in edgeways. "I'll do that alright."
It was Wally's comment that finally gave him a break as to why he was here. Techie, mission control Houston, ground control, tech support, Overwatch, the guy in the chair, the gadget man, Q. Whatever label you wanted to put on it, that seemed to be the role he was going to play. Which wasn't too surprising really, it was what the League knew him for (along with his dress sense, seemingly endless spiel of comic book/movie/pop culture refrences and a personality that was easily excited). None of the knew he was a meta human, or at least he didn't think they knew. All the data and theories about hismlef were in an encrypted adta base. But could they have hacked it? With Cyborg the answer was undoubtedly yes. Did they have some kind of meta detecting tech? Did Batman's suits have it? Was that why he could almost feel the Dark Knights eyes burning into him in accusition? No, that couldn't be it, he was a hologram. Was the holo pad somehow scanning him? Cisco's mind was racing, but Wally snapped him out of it with his truly atrocious name. "Wally that is an awful name. I should have you locked in the pipeline for that. Yes I fully intend to come up with something better, will get onto it as soon as possible." Cisco made a note on his laptop to do just that.
When Clark finally started speaking it confirmed his supiscions. A team was being assembled, to do the jobs that the Justice League couldn't. Of course Cisco's mind immediately brought a deluge of references to mind particularly the IMF of Mission Impossible, The Professionals' CI5 and the Pheonix Foundation from Macgyver. They have been more spy themed, but the point still stood. Clark's words were polished, precise and delivered with a practiced ease. He had no doubt practiced this speech, but Cisco couldn't help but feel like he was treating them like the press, hamming it up for their benefit. It felt stilted somehow, there were things the Kryptonian wasn't telling them. Why now? And why kids, teenagers and young adults? For what benefit? This felt more like a PR stunt to him, yet there was no media present and if it went wrong, well he'd seen the press decimate S.T.A.R Labs' reputation, who knew how they'd react if a dead teenager ended up splashed across the cover of every paper in the world?
Had Clark not rudely decided to blink out of existance Cisco's question would have been along the lines of "So just to be clear here. I'm here for tech, ground support, comms and suit duty yeah? Or am I in the wrong meeting? Cos you all know that I have no usable meta, mutant, whatever powers suitable for field work. And why me? It's not like you guys don't have your own tech people and billions of dollars to find everything with along with secret research facilities equipped with the best equipment and specialists in the world. I'm just a kind an of average scientist really. Also am I expected to work from here, S.T.A.R Labs or both?"
But now it seemed that all questions were being deferred to Bruce. That man could be pretty terrifying at time and doing a classic Cisco Ramon rant in front of him was probably not the best way to start whatever this is. Though his big long question was written all over his face, and he had even said earlier that Barry hadn't exactly been forth coming about details on this whole thing, so maybe Bruce could extrapolate all this from his face. Or maybe he wouldn't and simply didn't care about the internal avalanche of thoughts the scientist was having. Cisco didn't think that Batman had ever really taken him seriously as a person, even whne it was revealed what exactly Cisco did for team Flash.
The second red heads question was a valid one and given the nature of the group the League had assembled not a completly unjustified one either. This wasn't going to be a holiday camp and there was nothing they could do make people like each other. Trying to make people like each other would drive the wedge further between them, just like with him and Dante. His parents had forced him and his older brother to 'bond', but all it suceeded in doing was highlighting their differences and driving them further apart.
Some of the others already seemed to be drifting off to take rooms and get food which meant he as a hologram was going to be left out. Guess it looked like Cisco was going to have to move, unless he could get a teleportation device (odds of that near impossible) or control whatever ability it was that meant he woke up in crazy places with no knowledge of how he hit there (also slim chances given the lack of data he had). He cursed Barry for at least the seventh time that day.
Cisco found himself listening to the conversation between the two red heads, the first introducing herself with a name that seemed to consist entirely of plants, the way her speech, now that he was paying attention seemed to have a large quantity of plant puns. Add to that the fact that she had scientific qualifications, then yes he could work with her. "It's exactly like that to the best of my limited knowledge. They are assuming that training will mellow you out, help you guys all learn to tolerate each others presence, figure out how to use your strengths together not against one another. But really, they're expecting you to bond on the battle field, that whole putting grudges and feelings aside in a life or death situation kinda thing. Whether that'll work or not is another thing." He finished with a shrug before deciding that he should probably introduce himself.
"I'm Cisco Ramon, qualified in mechanics and engineering, currently doing a PhD in the latter. . But for this kind of outfit I do comms, ground support and make tech and supersuits. And I'm part of S.T.A.R Labs, best get that out there beforehand and let that reputation taint people's perspectives now rather than later."
Bar Superman and Batman he was without a doubt the oldest in the room by about a decade. Everybody else was either a teenager or a person who had just graduated to the stage of looking like a legal adult. Secondly most were dressed in supersuits of some kind and all were carrying baggage, so moving into the Tower was clearly part of the deal for being there. He mentally cursed Barry again for giving him the bare minimum of details and then zipping off in a blur of red and refusing to answer Cisco's calls (normal behaviour for the speedster really). Some of the people knew each other already (Wally and Dick for instance) where as others looked just as lost as he felt. There was a variety of powers between them some metas, others clearly not, varying class types (he discerned that simply by looking at the amount of luggage and quality of clothes) and a wide range of skills sets as well as enough contrasting personalities to merit an updated version of the Meyers-Brigg test.
Superman refusing to give teleport access to S.T.A.R Labs in that unnervingly polite way of his was hardly a surprise to Cisco. S.T.A.R Labs reputation had been permanently tarnished by the explosion of S.L.A.P.A. and even all these years later the particle accelerator explosion was still the first thing that came up on Google when the labs were searched up. It didn't help that when they strayed out as team Flash they had next to no funding, depleted facilities and resources and the bare minimum of security, which resulted in some disastrous break outs and break ins where classified tech had been stolen.
But things had changed since then, they had money and funding for a start, the meta human cuffs and dampers had greatly reduced meta breakouts. Bit by bit they were regaining their reputation as a world class laboratories. Harrison Well's 'death' had greatly helped that, passing the labs into the hands of a scientist coalition had been a dramatic move, but had won over the public and press. It was during one of the press events designed to let the media see that S.T.A.R Labs wasn't the total monster it was portayed to be that he'd met Superman (or Clark as he prefered to be called in his civvies). Neither had known about the other's double life until Barry had called Cisco to say that he'd damaged the suit and also wanted to pick Cisco's brains on a certain group of metas and had neglected to tell Cisco that the phone was on speaker. The members of the League present had been subjected to a very entertaining rant by Cisco about Barry's ability to break his beautiful tech that he had laboured over for months and put literal blood sweat and tears into, before Barry managed to get a word in edgeways. "I'll do that alright."
It was Wally's comment that finally gave him a break as to why he was here. Techie, mission control Houston, ground control, tech support, Overwatch, the guy in the chair, the gadget man, Q. Whatever label you wanted to put on it, that seemed to be the role he was going to play. Which wasn't too surprising really, it was what the League knew him for (along with his dress sense, seemingly endless spiel of comic book/movie/pop culture refrences and a personality that was easily excited). None of the knew he was a meta human, or at least he didn't think they knew. All the data and theories about hismlef were in an encrypted adta base. But could they have hacked it? With Cyborg the answer was undoubtedly yes. Did they have some kind of meta detecting tech? Did Batman's suits have it? Was that why he could almost feel the Dark Knights eyes burning into him in accusition? No, that couldn't be it, he was a hologram. Was the holo pad somehow scanning him? Cisco's mind was racing, but Wally snapped him out of it with his truly atrocious name. "Wally that is an awful name. I should have you locked in the pipeline for that. Yes I fully intend to come up with something better, will get onto it as soon as possible." Cisco made a note on his laptop to do just that.
When Clark finally started speaking it confirmed his supiscions. A team was being assembled, to do the jobs that the Justice League couldn't. Of course Cisco's mind immediately brought a deluge of references to mind particularly the IMF of Mission Impossible, The Professionals' CI5 and the Pheonix Foundation from Macgyver. They have been more spy themed, but the point still stood. Clark's words were polished, precise and delivered with a practiced ease. He had no doubt practiced this speech, but Cisco couldn't help but feel like he was treating them like the press, hamming it up for their benefit. It felt stilted somehow, there were things the Kryptonian wasn't telling them. Why now? And why kids, teenagers and young adults? For what benefit? This felt more like a PR stunt to him, yet there was no media present and if it went wrong, well he'd seen the press decimate S.T.A.R Labs' reputation, who knew how they'd react if a dead teenager ended up splashed across the cover of every paper in the world?
Had Clark not rudely decided to blink out of existance Cisco's question would have been along the lines of "So just to be clear here. I'm here for tech, ground support, comms and suit duty yeah? Or am I in the wrong meeting? Cos you all know that I have no usable meta, mutant, whatever powers suitable for field work. And why me? It's not like you guys don't have your own tech people and billions of dollars to find everything with along with secret research facilities equipped with the best equipment and specialists in the world. I'm just a kind an of average scientist really. Also am I expected to work from here, S.T.A.R Labs or both?"
But now it seemed that all questions were being deferred to Bruce. That man could be pretty terrifying at time and doing a classic Cisco Ramon rant in front of him was probably not the best way to start whatever this is. Though his big long question was written all over his face, and he had even said earlier that Barry hadn't exactly been forth coming about details on this whole thing, so maybe Bruce could extrapolate all this from his face. Or maybe he wouldn't and simply didn't care about the internal avalanche of thoughts the scientist was having. Cisco didn't think that Batman had ever really taken him seriously as a person, even whne it was revealed what exactly Cisco did for team Flash.
The second red heads question was a valid one and given the nature of the group the League had assembled not a completly unjustified one either. This wasn't going to be a holiday camp and there was nothing they could do make people like each other. Trying to make people like each other would drive the wedge further between them, just like with him and Dante. His parents had forced him and his older brother to 'bond', but all it suceeded in doing was highlighting their differences and driving them further apart.
Some of the others already seemed to be drifting off to take rooms and get food which meant he as a hologram was going to be left out. Guess it looked like Cisco was going to have to move, unless he could get a teleportation device (odds of that near impossible) or control whatever ability it was that meant he woke up in crazy places with no knowledge of how he hit there (also slim chances given the lack of data he had). He cursed Barry for at least the seventh time that day.
Cisco found himself listening to the conversation between the two red heads, the first introducing herself with a name that seemed to consist entirely of plants, the way her speech, now that he was paying attention seemed to have a large quantity of plant puns. Add to that the fact that she had scientific qualifications, then yes he could work with her. "It's exactly like that to the best of my limited knowledge. They are assuming that training will mellow you out, help you guys all learn to tolerate each others presence, figure out how to use your strengths together not against one another. But really, they're expecting you to bond on the battle field, that whole putting grudges and feelings aside in a life or death situation kinda thing. Whether that'll work or not is another thing." He finished with a shrug before deciding that he should probably introduce himself.
"I'm Cisco Ramon, qualified in mechanics and engineering, currently doing a PhD in the latter. . But for this kind of outfit I do comms, ground support and make tech and supersuits. And I'm part of S.T.A.R Labs, best get that out there beforehand and let that reputation taint people's perspectives now rather than later."
Last edited: