Booster and Beetle

I dreamt a confusing mess, including hair ties you could smuggle the insides of usb drives in, but the last image was Booster and Beetle doing the hug and fly. Like, Booster was annoyed and stomping, Beetle slung an arm around him and leaned in, more and more hug, until Booster acted annoyed at the weight and made them both fly. And then they grinned at each other and went for a flight together instead of stomping off alone.

It was sweet.

And somehow from there my brain went to that time Booster got turned into a tentacle monster.

(Extreme Justice 14 apparently, not afaik referred to after.)

It was part of a time Booster needed a life support suit and replacement arm, and somehow it transitioned him to All Well, and I should see if I have a copy to check what all happened there but that's not the point because I was thinking:

Symbiotic tentacle aliens that give you superpowers and healing
but you have to give them vitamins and play time.

Like, they'll spend all day being your arm if you really like, but they're shapeshifting tentacles at heart, they want some time to just hang loose and explore textures and stuff.

So Booster needed them for life support, but if they do repairing heart injuries then Beetle could too, though that's more reminiscent of Jaime's scarab deal than Ted's life.

And then maybe Guy in his Vuldarian phase is more wearing an alien than being one? He's certainly been injured enough. But his were brain injuries...

So it's not a story yet, but as an alternate setup, powers via prostheses that are actually assistants is a newish spin. Would focus on interdependence and needs.

... and tentacles...