SUPER BARBECUE SUPER BARBECUE SUPER BARBECUE [open as heck]

[hugling]

Who: SUPER HEROES!!!!!
Where: Ernest E. Debs Regional Park!
When: Sunday!
What: SUPER BARBECUE
Warnings: Superheroes...



It's a pleasant evening at Ernest E. Debs Regional Park, just a couple miles from downtown LA, which can be seen through the haze. Late March means spring is just arriving in LA and the trees are just starting to bud. Unfortunately, the grass is still kind of dead and dry.

The barbecue and picnic area isn't too busy, though the park does have the usual assortment of joggers, dog walkers, and cyclists. There are some balloons tied to picnic tables, and strung between two trees is a very homemade "SUPER BBQ" banner, courtesy of Hulkling and Starbreaker. There's still glitter glue on Milly's apartment floor. There's another posterboard with the rules written on it in big bold sharpie letters nearby, just in case anyone forgets:

• Don't be a jerk!!!
• Keep your weapons holstered please.
• Do not trash the park!
• ABSOLUTELY NO FIGHTING
• Anyone caught fighting will be asked to leave!
• Really don't be a jerk!

[OKAY GUYS!!! mingle! have fun! maybe some THINGS WILL HAPPEN, whoooo knows!]

Comments

[hugling]

As a giant fucking nerd, Teddy totally knows who Reaphook is. "Right, yeah. Nice to meat you in an uh... official capacity."

He's kind of surprised not to have seen Reaphook around any of the times he was dragged down to CONDOR HQ for mission debriefings, although now that Teddy thinks of it he vaguely remembers one of the agents saying something about the Trailblazers having their own secret campus.

The fire is actually going by now, and Teddy has a few lopsided hamburgers sizzling away on the grill, just about ready to be flipped. "You want a burger? These are gonna be done in a second." He has no idea what Alternians eat, actually, but meat is a safe bet right?

[10thingsihateaboutme]

He peers at the burgers thoughtfully, and then says, "Yeah, I'll take one now, humans always cook meat way too much."

He puts like five gross processed cheese slices on the burger, and more relish than any reasonable person needs.

"So how long do you think before Team Magma or whatever worthless asshole supervillain crew got ahead of themselves this week shows up to steal your ketchups," he asks, looking around at the assembled hero folk.

[hugling]

Teddy is about to say something about this being really cheap meat and probably full of bacteria, but he figures Reaphook probably knows what he's doing, and just hands over a half-raw meat disc.

"I mean, hopefully they're not dumb enough to show up with like half of LA's superheroes all in one place. I'm pretty sure we could take them all in like ten minutes and get back in time for some cake. Team Magma are pretty bad at actually fighting."

It's true, they are.

[10thingsihateaboutme]

"Bunches of them are totally that dumb," says Karkat through a mouthful of half-raw meat disc. "I bet multiple douchesticks show up thinking this is going to be some kind of cool challenge or some shit."