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Want to see that rover.

It's not all that exciting.

Edited 2013-11-25 18:05 (UTC)

Call it curiosity. Do you think we can salvage parts of it if its battery life is kaput?

You can certainly get something off of it, but I can't make any promises about how useful any of it is going to be. Or that it'd be a good and safe idea to use whatever you could get.

It's worth looking into. Stark's still around. We could get him to take a look at it.

If we can convince him it's worth his time. To be honest, I don't know the guy from Adam. The biblical one, not my teammate. Is just waving "science" in front of his face going to be enough?

Do we need to remind him this rover could have endangered us at some point? I'll see if Nathan Summers is familiar with this kind of tech, too.

[ This is why flying solo is so much more fun. ]

I hope not. He's one of the good guys, but he's also the guy who helped set off a huge schism in Earth's heroes. I think if push came to shove he would just do the right thing...with minimal arm-twisting, hopefully. 'Cause I'm not packing enough firepower right now to arm-twist Iron Man.

[It has not occurred to him that this Tony is not the Tony Stark of his universe. But Peter'd been the one optimistic that Earth's heroes could unite in the face of the Annihilation Wave. It was Rich who didn't, and Rich thinks the best of everybody.]

Nathan Summers...

[Don't judge him he's bad at names sometimes, it'll take a second. He knows Nate, but Nate declined to give his full name when they first met, and yeah it's there on all his stuff but Peter has been half-assedly referring to him as "Whatshisface mutant-guy" half the time anyway. Not out loud. In his head. He's not suicidal.

So he's gotta think and match it all up.]

Worth a shot? It'd probably be best to ask both if we wanted to be really safe about it, but either should do it.

Schism?

[ What did Tony do... ]

Under advisement. Stark's offered a helping hand in the past. Let's see if he's still feeling charitable enough.

Uh hope you're not asking me to explain that in depth, because I wasn't there and I'm fuzzy on the details. Kind of had bigger things going on at the time, and I figured they'd work it out on their own sooner or later anyway.

[NOT AN EARTH HERO HE WILL SAY IT UNTIL HIS DYING DAY.]

Just say it's for science if not the greater good. I'm serious. Isn't he supposed to be a huge nerd? How could he say no? He's got to be bored out of his mind anyway.

Let me ask you a serious question, though. That rover out there looks pretty standard, as in, it's not actually looking all that sophisticated. And I'm not just saying that from the perspective of somebody who's spent well over a decade bouncing from one super-evolved alien civilization to another. They were way capable of building something a lot, well, better, back on Earth in 2008 where I came from. Now, granted, I'm betting there's no Dr. Richards in this universe, and they've certainly crashed and burned on this Earth. But it's pretty- I'd expect more, is what I'm saying, even if it's old. Do you really think, if they wanted to keep track of us or spy on us out here, or at least this base, they'd use something like that? Do you think it's just a fluke, some kind of coincidence, or their best attempt, or some kind of decoy?

[ She'll ask Bucky later, then. ]

I can't say for certain. We hadn't had concrete proof they were interested in crossing dimensions until they scorched Elmer's world.

[ A part of her is not pleased Charlie dropped the rover in the middle of the mutiny and framed it as a danger to them when it wasn't. She trusted him with that information, at least not to use it as some sort of leverage. ]

If they wanted to come for us, they would have. Or those zombies were supposed to do the job, but they didn't. My bet's on them waiting for us to get back down on Earth.

Gamora said something about that.

[Which is the only thing keeping the Guardians here, really.]

Hate to say it, but Earth's a lot more defensible given what we've got than this base ever will be. And I think we're going to run into serious problems, if we haven't already, with the fact that we're missing some context to know if what we're finding is a trap or just your every day danger.

There's only so much we can do to fortify the base until we can get off it. Problem is we can't convince the majority aboard to help out with getting us back to Earth.

I see you've been paying attention to what the majority has actually been getting up to lately. No, we probably count. Not until the majority decides to remove their heads from where the sun don't shine.

Hard to miss it. My girl's been working overtime. The problem is the lack of a chain of command. We have no leaders and I doubt anyone wants one here.

Your girl?

[Peter you should talk you have a team. Ish. They're on the fence about whether or not they're still a team without much of a purpose around here. Or apparently Adam is? The Guardians always have drama.]

Nothing's gonna get off the ground, I guarantee it. No one will ever agree to thoroughly cede authority to it, there are too many factions with too little to unite them. They don't have enough of an institution to enforce anything. I wouldn't listen. I mean, I don't answer to a particular government or institution back home anyway, but that's sort of the point of something like the Guardians of the Galaxy, operating on a broader scale, and I like most of the people back home well enough. I know them and I know what they can and can't be trusted to do and who they'll go to war with and what they'll unite to face. I can't say the same for anybody else here.

No offense. I like you too. But I don't think this whole thing makes us old war buddies yet.

Girlfriend.

[ As for the rest, he says everything she already knows. ]

I'm not here to make buddies.

Ok, that was my second guess.

[He really wanted it to be like, informant or something. But hey, they've got Phyla and Moondragon, it's not like this is anything to sneeze over.]

Well I'm here anyway, and you contacted me, so you might be stuck with me.

I can live with that.

[ If Peter hadn't been an astronaut or anyone with actual experience, he would have been another nameless, faceless Transport to her. ]

Good.

Anyway, re: the suits, I don't mind handing one over to you. But I'm dead serious about not going out there alone.

Who said I was going alone?

[ Hi, Peter you are stuck with this rude woman for life. ]

Well, I do still take my warning about cabin fever seriously. Even if no one else does.

[Just what he always wanted. Actually, though, those tend to be good for him. Some of his best friends are rude...women...........they're rude anyway.]

I'm used to living in cramped quarters.

[ USMA was not cramped like this. ]

We should head out there ASAP with Beetle.

Me too.

[There was no way Knowhere required this much living like sardines.]

No training first? You're ballsy.

I'll hold on tight.

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