Crusher: Seriously guys think about it. I mean the amount of problems I could solve if I just had super speed for 1 day.
Aurora: Oh trust me buddy, you don't wanna go down that route.
Crusher: What are you talking about?
Aurora: Just believe me Crusher it's not all it's cracked up to be.
Crusher: What the hell are you talking about? It's super speed, Y-you do stuff quick what's the drawback?
High Five: Super speed sucks.
Aurora: THANK YOU WE'RE FINALLY TALKING ABOUT IT!
Crusher: Alright elaborate.
Aurora: Well when you're moving with super speed your brain has to process things just as quickly.
Aurora: So when we're moving quickly it seems like everything around us is moving in slow motion.
Aurora: You're still not seeing the inherent problem here.
Aurora: Alright well tell me if you've heard this before, "Oh no Aurora this hydrogen bomb is about to explode! Quick read this 500 page manual in a 10th of a second to learn how to disarm it!"
Crusher: That is an amazing strength!
Aurora: Oh I'm sure from your end it looks that way. I mean from your perspective it just looks like I open the book and go "Alright cut the blue wire case closed!" But for me everything is moving in regular motion, so when I do that I am sitting down and reading it page by page, word for word.
Crusher: I mean that is still amazi-
Aurora: Can you imagine how insane it would be if there was a live bomb in front of and you somehow had to focus on reading the entirety of Huckleberry Finn?
Crusher: Alright alright.
Aurora: And it would be one thing if I just had to read the book, but no I have to actually learn how to fucking disarm a bomb, I have to learn how to... perform surgery. You guys couldn't just give me a book and ask me bake a cake or something? It always has to be like... biomechanics.
Crusher: Alright that's kinda situational to begin with. What about just moving?
High Five: Yeah I can speak to that uh, when you're going super fast it looks really quick from the outside. But on the inside you're just- y'know you're just walking. You're just moving normal pace. And y'know if I have to just traverse like the city that takes a while but it's doable. But you guys have me flying to fuckin like the outlands. Like imagine walking to the outlands. Seconds become hours, hours become days.
Crusher: Wait so when you do that run around the world wind-up punch you're just-
High Five: Walking the whole way through. Circling Skylands. For what feels like years.
High Five: I have lost my sense of self.
Aurora: You starting to get the whole picture here?
Crusher: Well what I didn't understand was that I thought your brain processed everything at the same speed, meaning that when you would move super fast you would see it super fast.
Aurora: No that- that's stupid, how would that even work?
Crusher: Look just think about it-
Aurora: How would you even control that? Like how would you flip it on and off?
Crusher: I just thought that's how it works!
Aurora: If that were the case that would mean that unless we were moving super fast all the time the whole world around us would be moving in slow motion! That's uh... that's a fucking horrifying thought.
Crusher: Well I- I guess your right.
Aurora: Oh another thing is that you have to eat a LOT because you're burning so much energy.
High Five: Oh that's what that is?
High Five: I just thought I was dying.
Aurora: ......What do you mean you thought you were dying!?
High Five: I don't know, I would just fly and feel really weak after, I- I just thought I was dying.
Aurora: You thought you were dyi- why didn't you ever say anything!?
High Five: Well I'd just go to eat to clear my head and I'd feel alot better.
Aurora: You would eat and feel better and you never connected the dots there?
Aurora: You've been doing this for years!
Aurora: And what if you were actually dying!? Like what was your plan!?
High Five: ........ I'd figure it out.
Aurora: ....... We're falling apart guys this isn't sustainable.
