ataraxion | mark xiv suit ❦ [ audio ] ❦ what's done in the dark will be brought to the light

[ the feed opens up on, well, nothing actually, the unfortunate consequence of being on audio. you don't get to see tony's face, but what you do get to hear is something akin to a robot moving around and the sound of machinery being fiddled with. there's a moment where there's also an exhale like tony's getting ready to say something before there's a clang. and a few muttered curses, before tony actually says something. it regrettably not the original thing he planned on starting this with. ]

I wanted you to come along and be helpful, Dum-E, not drop things on my foot. I will take you apart don't think I won't. [ ah, and yes, the feed was on, forgot about that. ]

Not actually how I wanted to start this. Disregard any of that, by the way, I'm fighting with something from home. Anyway. You know for all we have a bunch of hero types, leaders, take charge alpha males and females, you think we could have prevented that. I know, we're all displaced people and what, the pirates thought we were insane because we all shouted and threatened to kill them or hurt them and I don't like people taking my shit as much as the next guy, but did you notice that we're forty years behind, according to them. I don't think any of them were forty, I haven't looked at all the dead bodies of course, I'm not that morbid, but this is something they knew about. We're a ghost story to them. We're a ghost story that shouldn't exist. [ a pause and more noises on his end are heard. ] I don't know about you, but I feel pretty solid. No one was supposed to get down to the brig, and yet, how in the fuck do you think we got to hear dead bodies falling down. I'm not advocating law, because guess what, martial law, also known as what you heard but shouldn't have heard, is the only thing you could pull off. And can you guess who's in charge of what your punishment is, who would be your military tribunal. I'll give you a hint, it's not Kirk, it's not me, not Nathan, not Tyke, it's not any of the captains who came or insert military rank here, etc.

Yeah, for those of you listening at home, that leaves Ward. And Resnik. What I'm saying, if I'm saying anything, and I am and I am hoping you are actually listening, is that we're stuck fending for ourselves here. And unless we get our fucking shit together, we're gonna be like sitting ducks. And I'm not a big fan of being a duck. So, you know, maybe you might want to pull your heads out of your asses and stop acting like this is a vacation and, oh I don't know, maybe make sure the next time someone decides to board us or we stop at a hell port, we're not looking like insane idiots and maybe we might learn something. But, hey, what I know, maybe I'm just making this situation worse. Yeah, something tells me I'm okay.

[ there's a beat and another muffled curse before he continues. ]

Oh yeah, in case any of you are not nursing wounds, funny thing about pirates ripping things off the ship, you kind of need to fix them and/or find the parts they took. Those of you who have any sort of actual ability when it comes repairing mechanical things, could use your assistance or maybe the ship will break during a jump and that means we're dead. So, yeah, get in touch now, I don't care about your grieving at the moment, you can grieve later, trust me.

And no, I'm not bothering with a lock, our pirates, our now dead pirates, got into every lock including mine and every other tech person's. And may have pointed out that Ward and Resnik could see it all. So, I'm not bothering with a lock against those two that won't work, because there's always a backdoor they can see through.

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You're not gonna kill me in my sleep if I spend way too much time trying to fix all of this right? And not exactly sorry about the PR mess this is going to be right now.

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I would go on an adventure to their ship, but I'm stuck doing this. Do a bit of recon and steal some loot. Not that you really need the order, but I might as well say it anyway. Stash it 100, and we'll talk when I get a chance. In person. About all of this.

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Considering I'm— I know the woman personally, reminder so not necessary.

[ Won't even say it, because nope. He doesn't want to mention being here being something that incriminates all of them. ]

Makes sense. That mean I don't get Sulu at all because you're going to use him for all your repairs or am I getting to steal him. [ Tony, Sulu can see this. Everyone can. ] Of course, they didn't want to be seen when they damaged shit.

[ Don't think she didn't catch that, Tony. ]

Sulu still has to work off vanishing. Twice, now. [ Plus she's starting to worry about him even more. ] And Kirk gets him after I do.

[ Yes, as in after her. No matter what Kirk and Sulu have to say about it. ]

[ Gonna pretend anyway. ]

He's adult and the shuttle bay, unless it's going to pop a hole mid-jump, is a little less important than the entire ship. And I say that as someone who likes the place. If he goes to me first, I'm not turning him over.

[ And suddenly Tony actually fights over Sulu like a toy. Oops. ]

Fine, but you'd better tell him I'm going to rip him a new one.

[ Beat. ]

I was shot in the shoulder, I need the shuttle bay and the shuttles looked after until they let me go. If you all can't get the ship fixed in time, you'd better hope the shuttles are ready.

He can actually hear this, you know. Not feeling like being redundant when it comes to that.

[ ...Oh. ]

Get one of the others to look over them. And assuming we get everything fixed and the jump goes smoothly. Give me a buzz, will you?

[ About the shuttles. ]

Doesn't mean he's listening.

[ Yeah, "oh". ]

Are you aware just how many shuttles we have, Stark? [ Beat. ] I will.

[ even if she has no idea what it is he wants to do with them ]

He is.

[ Probably. ]

Yeah, I am. Actually. Been here every single jump. Kind of lends itself to that knowledge.

[ Longest pause ever. ]

Good. Right, I'll let you get back to your recovery, so a doctor doesn't try and hit me for being counterproductive about that.

That doesn't mean you really know.

[ Not like she does, not like her team does. ]

They're already mad at me for not taking pain medication and wanting to get back to work. They'll be fine.

Did you break my girl, Spirit?

[ Don't make him just have shuttle feelings all over the place. ]

Still, they can get me for so many things and for once I didn't get injured. So sue me if I don't want to be drug down there as punishment.

No, I didn't break your impractical deathtrap. [ She's thought about it, though. ] But I can't promise the pirates didn't.

I don't think that's quite how it works here. Not yet, anyway. [ It could. It would have already, if it were a ship in her universe. ]

Call it a deathtrap or impractical again, and I will punch you. Ask Kara one of the people who built the damn thing and she'll tell you calling it that is spitting on the people who were there before you. And if they did, save her for me. She's— [ The only thing he has left from Hotspur. ] Like I said, my girl. I'm her only daddy still here.

You'd be surprised when it comes to me.

That's the only reason she hasn't been scrapped already. That and the fact that there's the slim chance we might need that speed, not that we have any weapons on her. [ But Carolyn's going to stick to her own guns on this. ] If we need to evacuate, she'll be a liability.

Would I?

So are a lot of people, and I don't see you talking about scrapping them. [ Which is all he's going to say about that. ]

You would. Not that you'll believe me, but you would.

If you think I don't have a mental list of people whose chances of survival and contributions to the group make them disposable if it comes down to it, you're not as smart as you think you are.

And yet you aren't going around mentioning it. Think they're not worthy of knowing you're gonna leave them behind?

I'm not going to leave them behind if I can help it.

But if it suits you, you're going to leave them.

If it saves the most people, I'm going to leave them.

Needs of the many outweigh the needs of a few?

Yes.

You can't save them all. No matter how hard you try. [ There's an odd quality to her voice as she says this, like she's not really just talking about the Tranquility anymore. ]

[ There's a pause where Tony tenses on the other side of the device, not that she can see it or really hear it but when he speaks, it sounds almost dismissive. ]

Next time you try that. Pull it on the guy who hasn't pulled that exact feat off and lived to tell the tale.

[ He knows people died in New York, knows that very well, but he doesn't want to think about it, remind himself about it. So he'll pretend that he saved everyone, because the people that mattered to him were still alive.

And sorry, Carolyn, he's cutting the feed now. ]

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