[Audio] then [Video]

[flamingshortshorts]

-tellin’ you, it doesn’t look like any radio I ever saw. It doesn’t even have an antenna, we’re not gonna get any signal down here. [A young-ish male voice, and he sounds rather frustrated. This whole ‘figuring out what’s going on’ thing isn’t going so well for two newly arrived teenage superheroes from 1944.]

But Buck I swear I heard voices coming out of it! And this can’t be no ghost base or something like that. Somebody was talking on this, so what else could it be? I tried to talk back, but the light cut off. Now it’s back on, but I can’t figure out what it’s doing. [Earnest and a little indignant that he’s not being taken seriously, the other voice is trying to insist some logic.] Maybe it’s some new Nazi communications and we got ‘em by mistake. Like a telephone with no wires.

You’ve seen vampires, but you don’t believe in ghosts? Toro, you set yourself on fire and fly, come on. [Bucky huffs out an exasperated sigh.] I believe ghosts more’n I believe we got this these things by accident. There were sittin’ right there in the lockers where they put the stuff they took off us. [His voice gets a little louder, as if he’s holding it closer to his face, peering at it.] Maybe it’s a tracker. Maybe we should’a ditched ‘em.

Ah, come on, you know I didn’t mean it like that. [there is a pout in Toro’s voice] But there ain’t no cobwebs and sheets all over the place and we ain’t run into no walls covered with blood either. What kind of ghost ship would this be when there ain’t even no dead bodies around? Who would have cleaned ‘em up? Those people back there weren’t dead. It’s like Buck Rogers back there, not The Phantom. [Then there’s a pause.] If these are trackers, wouldn’t someone have come to get us already? Ain’t no Nazi gonna just let us walk around here free and clear.

Oh come on, it ain’t ghosts either, but that’s more likely than this bein’ an accident. [He sounds cautious, a little frustrated, wary as all hell.] Maybe. Maybe not. Maybe they need us for somethin’ and they’ll just come get us when they’re ready. None’a this adds up, Toro. An’ where are Cap and Torch and the rest? Unless we’re the bait. ...Maybe they want us to call for ‘em.

Fat chance of that happening if we ain’t even got a radio to call them on. They must not have thought that plan through. [He snorts.] Maybe there are aliens or something around and we’re the new rats. Or maybe they brought us here ‘cause they’re planning an invasion or something and want us out of the way. Criminy, we’re not going to figure anything like this until we figure out how to get this dang thing to work.

Hold on, think I found another button- Yeah, maybe this is it. I say we go ahead an’ try callin’. Best case scenario is they come bust us open a door while we’re tryin’ to sneak out. Worst, it don’t work, right? [And there the video switches on. Good job, Bucky, you think you’re on audio now and you thought it was off five minutes ago. The boys both look a little younger than they are. Bucky’s expression is about as cocky as they come now that he’s figured something out.] Allied Command? This is Bucky and Toro with the Invaders, pass along the message to Captain America and the Human Torch that they got a party to come crash if they can find it. Can’t say we won’t kill all the Nazis before they get here, though.

Hey, Buck, don’t forget to tell them to bring old Fish-Face along, too. [Toro chuckles a bit because mocking Sub-mariner is the best way to make yourself feel better, for sure.] He gets all moody if they leave him behind. ...Moodier. And he’s got our ride out.

Ah, criminey, fine, Subby too. Over an’ out. [He starts fumbling for a way to turn the thing off, scowling a little.] Man, I hate when he comes along on this kinda thing though, he always gives us that snooty look when we get stuck behind enemy lines like this. You know the one.

Yeah, but his flagship is a lot faster than anything the Navy could send for us. And I’ll put up with his fishy scowl if it means getting out of here faster. [He leans over, trying to get a better look at what Bucky’s doing.] Hey try pushing the red button on the side. That’s like "stop," right?

Maybe. Let’s see- [Click.]

{OOC: They are chatty and oblivious, so apologies.}

Comments

[wolfinthesnow]

Captain...America?

Human Torch?

[Yes that is what Jon chooses to hone in on]

[beganwithamask]

[HOLY SHIT WHAT IT'S TALKING TO HIM. CAN IT SEE HIM? This is bizarre. Like something out of Buck Rogers. Bucky peers cautiously at the device.]

Yeah, y'know, the Invaders? Guy wearin' a flag on his chest and another guy that sets himself on fire? [This is so weird, but he's starting to pick up technology at least. Barely. Shit, he can fly an Atlantean plane but he can't work one of these...]

[wolfinthesnow]

A priest of the Red God?

[beganwithamask]

...What's a Red God? Nah I'm guessin' you ain't seen 'em, maybe you've been livin' under a rock the last three years or so, s'alright. [He's still wary, of course, but you never get intel from an enemy who knows you're on your guard.] So what's goin' on in this loony bin?

[wolfinthesnow]

[This is a moment of Jon figuring out the reply, and also Ghost pressing a wolfy nose to it.]

Ghost-no-

I don't understand what you're saying.

[flamingshortshorts]

[What the hell...Toro jerks his hand away from the thing and almost drops it, but manages to catch it again after a second. His working now too? How did that even happen? And this guy sounded awfully confused.]

It's not like you can miss either of them, Cap's got wings on his head and Pa--Torch's suit if brighter than a dame's favorite red lipstick.

[wolfinthesnow]

[Jon is still fiddling with this communication device thing, so it takes him a while to figure out this response]

What?

[flamingshortshorts]

Did you not hear me? Is this thing breaking up? I can still see you just fine. [What is wrong with this guy?]

[wolfinthesnow]

You can see-

[Jon is legitimately looking around]

No, I can hear you, but you're not making any sense.

[video]

[jurisimpudent]

Er...Quite. Gentlemen, I don't think you'll be locating Nazis here.

[video]

[beganwithamask]

[Okay. Okay it's... transmitting pictures without film... This is very advanced, but he can deal with this. Maybe.]

...Other miscellaneous Axis powers, then? U-Man an' his fish goons? HYDRA? C'mon, it's gotta be someone.

[video]

[jurisimpudent]

...No. Or, at least, I can confirm there are none of the first. The latter two things you said make no sense.

[video]

[beganwithamask]

[Stare.] No, they make perfect sense if you ain't been livin' under a rock the last three years, criminey. Like I'm gonna believe there really ain't no Nazis, tch.

[video]

[jurisimpudent]

Right.

What year do you think it is?

[video]

[flamingshortshorts]

[Oh wow he can see the guy moving around easy. It's like a movie reel only without the reel and months of film development.]

If there aren't any Nazis around to punch, then did we get caught by the Japs? [Not like they didn't have weird technology already so maybe they were building this thing in secret, too.]

[video]

[jurisimpudent]

[Oh for the love - ]

Do not use that word please.

[video]

[flamingshortshorts]

What word? [He didn't use a curse word did he?] Fella, you need to start talking sense.

[video]

[jurisimpudent]

The - word describing Japanese people. It's not politically correct.

video

[stacked]

Yeeeeeeeah. I'm not a big nerd or anything, but you're about sixty years late on the Nazis.

video

[flamingshortshorts]

S-Sixty years?! [Oh look, a gorgeous dame and wow her shirt is cut low. How is she allowed to wear that? Focus Toro ol' boy, focus.] Uh...Miss, there's gotta be some mistake there. What are they doing around this place, trying to convince people the wars over already?

video

[stacked]

Maybe, yeah. Or could be because it is. [ 'breaking things gently' is not her forte. ]

video

[flamingshortshorts]

Did we sleep through Hitler getting punched in the face? I can't believe I missed that! [He's very disappointed. And she sounds pretty American to him. Except that she uses words that make no sense, but he spent months around Carneys so he knows how strange people can get. It doesn't have to be a bad thing.]

How long ago did it end? A few days ago? A week? We can't have been out that long. Sixty years is just crazy. [And seriously is Bucky hitting on her already? He's not even that bad.]

video

[beganwithamask]

[Well helloooo nurse. Suddenly other things are much more important than that sixty years comment.]

And what's a girl like you doin' in a creepshow like this?

video

[stacked]

[ ...that one gets a laugh, low and husky. 'a girl like her'. yeah, she's used to hearing that one with sincerely more negative insinuations. ]

That line get you a lot of play?

video

[beganwithamask]

[You are a pretty dame. Pretty dames aren't usually the bad guys. ...Lady Lotus, Warrior Woman and that Nazi spy girlfriend of Steve's aside.]

Maybe. It workin' on you? I got other ones.