Eerie, Indiana fanfiction: The Storm

[froodle]

Written for Day 16 of the 31_days challenge. Today's prompt is Lightning strikes twice



When Weatherman Wally received the memo saying there was to be an enormous lightening storm above Eerie on Friday night, he didn't think much of it. It seemed like every week there was some supernatural occurrence that required a little extra help to properly set the mood. He'd long ago learned to keep a supply of horror-movie-appropriate weather events handy for situations like this one.

When he read the scene notes that accompanied it, he was a little surprised at the added level of specificity. He brought his concerns to his producer, who looked nervous and sweaty and said that if the Mayor of Eerie wanted multiple consecutive lightening strikes on the weathervane atop City Hall, then that's what he would get, and no, Wally was absolutely not to call Mayor Chisel up and bother him with questions about City Hall's electrical conductivity and the potential loss of life that could come from shooting hundreds of thousands of vaults through a giant municipal meat-palace occupied by dozens of people and hundreds of things that only looked like people.

In the end, Wally did as he was told, just as he always had. The night sky above Eerie blazed white-hot with the force of the storm, lightening struck the weathervane, and in the basement of City Hall, Dash X opened his eyes for the first time and sat upright on the cold stone slab.

Comments

[eviinsanemonkey.livejournal.com]

FRANKENDASH

[froodle]

it had to be done!

[eviinsanemonkey.livejournal.com]

knowledge is knowing frankenstein is not the monster.

wisdom is knowing frankenstein IS the monster.

IT IS PERFECT FOR CHISEL AND DASH OMFG

[lipstickcat.livejournal.com]

...... Is that a quote? It's awesome. I had to think about it a moment, but it's perfect!

[froodle]

lol I read it the first time n I was like, but he isnt, the second bit is wro- ohhhh. go back to bed idiot

[eviinsanemonkey.livejournal.com]

I got it from a meme.

[froodle]

omg I am using that just so you know!

[lipstickcat.livejournal.com]

OMGOMGOMG!!!!!!!

GAH!!!!

*Complete incoherent meltdown of fangirl proportions!*

[froodle]

poor baby. poor artificially created prematurely grey baby.

[deifire]

Nice!!!

I don't know why I love the whole idea of Frankendash so much.

[froodle]

Because it's a super sad origin story and this whole fandom likes messing with its already kind of tragic supporting characters?

...oh, shit, is that just me? n/m.

[deifire]

Definitely not just you.

*evil laugh*

[froodle]

*rubs hands together in a dead sinister way*

[scheherezhad]

Poor lab-baby Dash, with this origin he'd be like a more tragic Kon-el but without super powers (THAT WE KNOW OF). And now I'm just imagining him finding out that this is his past, this is what he's been searching for, and it makes him sick because it means he's even more of a freak than he already thought, honestly being an alien after all would've felt less terrible than knowing he was made up out of whole cloth by guys in white coats...

[froodle]

right?! like if youre an alien then presumably there is some alien equivilent.of.parents out there, even if you might never get to meet them, theres someone who remembers you and maybe thinks about you and misses.you.

but the frankenstein thing, thats straight up not-a-real-boy-after-all territory, and the reason hes got no memories is because there arent any, which just seems so much worse

[ftrbestseller.livejournal.com]

YES
This fits in rather well with my s3!Dash origins story. I also love how you incorporate minor characters in a lot of your ficlets.

[froodle]

wasn't there an interview with Jason marsden where he said one of the origin stories for dash was gonna be a Frankenstein deal? I don't think I read the interview, I just about it, maybe on the wiki page or something.

the minor characters are too much fun not to play with!