explosivecombat: (The power of the Philosopher's Stone)
Solf J Kimblee ([personal profile] explosivecombat) wrote2015-05-31 02:40 am

04X. [Action/Fourth Wall.]

[A.]

[They say that time heals all wounds, and most everyone who's had any sort of serious wound can tell you that "they" are full of absolute shit; the fact that this guy's shown up with the front of his jacket ripped open and covered in blood is probably enough to say that that he totally agrees on the "absolute shit" front.

That isn't to say that he's alone, though; Kimblee remembers him (partially because Kimblee remembers everyone but mostly because it's sort of hard to forget an alternate-universe version of yourself that's so different you're absolutely certain the world made some sort of fundamental error when it spat the guy out and called him you), and he'd managed to catch his attention in an entirely reasonable, perfectly affable way when he'd seen him - ...or, well, okay, he'd caught his attention via an explosion across the way that may or may not have been very well-controlled, because he imagined the mulleted moron would like that.

But! Either way, they seem to have made nice and now they're out in the open messing with something, and whatever it is it's probably nothing good because Kimblee's actually deigning to kneel on the ground in that white suit of his, sitting back on his heels and trying to disregard how dirty he's going to be when he stands up again, but for the time being he seems more interested in whatever his counterpart's got going on in his hands. That particular "whatever" seems to be a mason jar, presumably full of water from the lake they're hanging out next to.

And it looks like the mulleted one is explaining something, and his eyes slide closed while he's talking and he's smiling in a vague, pleased sort of way, and there's a brief flash from his hands and when he tips the jar and pours the water out the grass fucking corrodes.

Ask him to do water into wine and he'll laugh it off; water into hydrochloric acid, however, is apparently entirely doable.

Kimblee just kind of stares at him, before he smiles and asks him to demonstrate again; the guy he's with shrugs and says he can do one better.

...We might not want to let him do one better. Just saying.]




[B.]

[Of course, when he's not participating in the chem lab from hell, Kimblee can be found elsewhere; it's been a good long time since he's had his alchemy back, and like hell if he's not going to actually use it. He seems agitated this time around, though, as though he's not entirely sure what he's doing with it; it's far less elegant than it usually is, more explosions for explosions' sake.

It's not good enough, for whatever reason; after a moment of deliberating following a rather hard aftershock, he brings his hands together again and the energy he's using shifts from blue to red.

The Stone he's using isn't visible, but it doesn't really need to be for it to be obvious that he's using it; the sheer destructive power of it is going to absolutely destroy the shit out of a large distance down the route.

He laughs a bit once he has, the sound strange and breathless; that's better.]




[OOC: The idiot in question in scenario A is Kimblee's 2003 counterpart, who's sort of a hot mess; if you want to yell at one of them in particular, specify which and the mulleted wonder will be replying from [personal profile] alchemicals.

Otherwise...welcome to the semiannual KIMBLEE SIT THE FUCK DOWN party.]
cobraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa: (BLAH BLAH BLAH SHUT UP SSSERPENTOR)

A, either's fine!

[personal profile] cobraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa 2015-05-31 11:20 pm (UTC)(link)
[Who even knows when Cobra's made it over here. Either before some idiots messed with his stuff or after or...look fourth wall's a mess and this isn't saying it could be during, but this time of year is a mess, so it could be during.]

What on earth is that?

[Because he wants some sort of deforesting agent to unleash upon the poor unsuspecting Pokemon world. That way the next time he gets an inkling that the Slowpoke Well needs to pay, he can just ruin the entire neighboring forest while he's at it too.

...this is probably a great reason for things and people warped in not sticking around.]
alchemicals: all icons by <user name="dalicious"> (UM ‡ so i guess he had three arms)

[personal profile] alchemicals 2015-05-31 11:25 pm (UTC)(link)
[...Well, fortunately (...unfortunately?) the version of Kimblee that Cobra is used to is perfectly content to watch this clusterfuck happen, because there's no way this won't be hilarious.

The one he's not used to, though...]


It's...acid? Pretty straightforward stuff, easy to make if you know what you're doing.

[He's a little fixated on your fucking face or lack thereof there, buddy. What are you wearing.]
cobraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa: (I HAVE SOMETHING TO SSSSAY)

[personal profile] cobraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa 2015-06-01 04:10 am (UTC)(link)
[A mask. The better question is what are you wearing not!Kimblee because that ponytail is sort of ridiculous.]

What sssort of acid? Is it something replicable here or is it ssspecific to your world and your abilities?

[He's such an idiot, but man, all he really remembers from the stuff he's heard about alchemy is

1. It's complicated
2. It requires symbols
3. It blows shit up and other completely ridiculous things.

So he has no idea if this is special alchemy acid or just something he could make with a chemistry set on his own time.]
alchemicals: ...periodically (006.)

[personal profile] alchemicals 2015-06-01 07:42 am (UTC)(link)
[It's not ridiculous, it's...okay yeah it's a little ridiculous, but that's not the point here, clearly.

...That said, if he finds that question stupid, it's not obvious in his reaction; he just sort of settles back and smirks a bit, because at least this guy seems to get what the hell is going on even if he doesn't understand the specifics.]


Nah, it's pretty straightforward. Hydrochloric. I don't make any sort of magical chemical compounds that aren't already known.

[...]

...I mean, I guess I could, it'd just take a while to draft 'em out. I like to stick to stuff that already exists - acids, napalm, nitro, that sort of thing.
cobraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa: (SSSSSTEP RIGHT UP)

[personal profile] cobraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa 2015-06-02 03:26 am (UTC)(link)
[Okay, not that it's noticeable, but sir, you have his full attention behind his stupid faceplate because that is quite the laundry list of horrible awful things you can just whip up with alchemy apparently.]

It's disappointing you mossst likely won't be sssticking around. As...

[What's the appropriate way to refer someone to their alternate universe counterpart...uh...okay, he's got nothing.]

As you can probably imagine, sssssomeone with ssssuch creativity would certainly be able to leave their mark on thisss place, even with its limited resources.
alchemicals: (007.)

[personal profile] alchemicals 2015-06-02 12:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[And that...actually has his attention, because most people don't really react with "wow, we need more of this" when he says things like that.]

You guys really need to get some chemists on your side.

I'm probably not here for very long, though, yeah. Not yet, anyway, I've got some friends who are working on it.
cobraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa: (BLAH BLAH BLAH SHUT UP SSSERPENTOR)

[personal profile] cobraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa 2015-06-03 03:23 am (UTC)(link)
[To be fair, Cobra isn't most people. And possibly not even people at all, but that's neither here nor there.]

What are you talking about? Working on it how?

[You can't just...make plans to show up here. It doesn't work that way as far as he knows.

...and if it does, heads are going to roll in the event that he ever goes home and somehow remembers these things.]
alchemicals: (005.)

[personal profile] alchemicals 2015-06-03 03:27 am (UTC)(link)
[He'll just kind of...glance at his counterpart over there before shrugging a bit.]

We're alchemists. Breaking the world's kind of what we do.

I've been here before, I've got a few people on this side drafting up theories. We'll see how it goes, I guess.

[...Kimbley, can you not make yourself sound like some hideous tryhard of a mastermind because]
cobraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa: (SSSSSTEP RIGHT UP)

[personal profile] cobraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa 2015-06-03 08:21 pm (UTC)(link)
[You know, the only times Cobra's broken his world, it's been out of complete stupidity and went in a direction he didn't really intend to go.

Like, what do you mean stealing from ancient Egyptian gods is going to piss them off and cause cataclysmic storms?

Or how could have lying and tricking ghosts into fighting for me led to them getting pissed off and coming back for revenge?

Or so why can't we clone an army of dinosaurs?

And that whole germ disaster. That was definitely not anyone's finest hour.]



I ssssee. In that case, I wish you and anyone working towards thisss goal the bessst of luck.

[There's a glance at the normal Kimblee because he just assumes he's involved because why wouldn't he want two of him running around? Even if this one seems somewhat more off balance.]

As you sssaid, we certainly need more chemists, among other things.

[And by that, he means he's totally cool with this tryhard mastermind thing because having more of those probably wouldn't hurt things either.]
alchemicals: (007.)

[personal profile] alchemicals 2015-06-03 09:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[Awesome. It's not often that he's indulged with this sort of shit.

Don't ever tell him about the dinosaurs, though, because really. Why can't we clone an army of dinosaurs...]


Well, I appreciate it, though I'm wondering who's offering me the well-wishes, here. You have a name?
cobraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa: (A REAL AMERICAN HERO)

[personal profile] cobraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa 2015-06-04 02:38 am (UTC)(link)
[Hey, the only real problem with the dinosaurs is that they couldn't control them. If somebody figures out how to override a dinosaur's natural instinct to be a dinosaur, then it's a solid foolproof plan.

Wow, his world is dumb.]


I am Cobra Commander. Should you ever find yoursssself here, my name is one that you ssshould almost certainly try to remember.
alchemicals: (008.)

[personal profile] alchemicals 2015-06-04 02:40 am (UTC)(link)
[...Uh.]

...Pretty sure you just gave me a title, not a name, buddy.
cobraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa: (I HAVE SOMETHING TO SSSSAY)

[personal profile] cobraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa 2015-06-04 03:15 am (UTC)(link)
In thisss case, they're esssssentially the same thing.
alchemicals: (010.)

[personal profile] alchemicals 2015-06-04 03:18 am (UTC)(link)
...Are you just really, really paranoid or something?
cobraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa: (BLAH BLAH BLAH SHUT UP SSSERPENTOR)

[personal profile] cobraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa 2015-06-04 04:40 am (UTC)(link)
Believe me, I have every reason to be.