Opening scene, Jamie is researching previous Blue Beetles, trying to figure his situation out, and is interrupted by Oracle's failed recruitment attempt. Then his mom drags him to the hospital for tests, which reveal nothing...no beetle stone on his spine or anything. So it's off to school, where Jamie is moderately famous for being the kid who vanished for a year...and it turns out there's forms you fill out to get back into school after being missing for a while due to IC craziness (his cover story is that he got hit by a beam of light and woke up a year later in the desert, which isn't even the strangest story in his county).
Meanwhile, La Dama (crimelord and aunt of one of Jaime's friends) is using magic to consolidate gang activity in the area, and sends her lothario-like mage henchman to test the Blue Beetle to see if he's worth recruiting. This test ends up taking place in the park, where the mage summons some aggresive ents to attack the kids, both drawing out BB and letting him "rescue" La Dama's niece as a means of ingratiating himself to La Dama. BB's armor gives him some hassles about not wanting to destroy nature, but ends up going along with it, and he manages to break the spell.
At the end, Jaime decides to go seek out the gang from #2 to help him figure out what's going on, since he doesn't really trust the government or the superheroes (he feels a little betrayed that no one came looking for him for a year).
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Date: 2006-06-29 12:17 pm (UTC)Meanwhile, La Dama (crimelord and aunt of one of Jaime's friends) is using magic to consolidate gang activity in the area, and sends her lothario-like mage henchman to test the Blue Beetle to see if he's worth recruiting. This test ends up taking place in the park, where the mage summons some aggresive ents to attack the kids, both drawing out BB and letting him "rescue" La Dama's niece as a means of ingratiating himself to La Dama. BB's armor gives him some hassles about not wanting to destroy nature, but ends up going along with it, and he manages to break the spell.
At the end, Jaime decides to go seek out the gang from #2 to help him figure out what's going on, since he doesn't really trust the government or the superheroes (he feels a little betrayed that no one came looking for him for a year).