01 ✧ Video

[newnova]

[The video comes on to reveal a normal-looking 15 year old boy, lying on his bed in his quarters on the thirty-third floor. It looks like he was messing around with the smartphone and accidentally started recording. He makes a stupid face or two for the camera, but once he realizes it's actually going out to people he sits up and looks sheepish.]

Uh, hi. So... I wanted to say thanks for the smartphone, I guess. Always wanted one of these. Too bad it comes with a price of "holy crap I'm stuck in space."

[He looks off to the side, worried. Then back to the camera.]

Look, I get that nobody knows why we're here, or how to get home or anything like that. But it sucks, okay? And I can't be the only one who feels like saying that. I mean, I have stuff I need to do back home. [Under his breath, he adds,] And I'm totally gonna get expelled if I miss any more school.

We don't... have to go to school here, right? There isn't some space high school they're gonna drag us to, is there? 'Cause the only thing worse than chess club is space chess club, am I right?

[No one is laughing at your joke, Sam.]

Right. Well, uh. Later!

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[starbuckslord]

Be grateful we don't have Shi'ar battle school here. [ Peter's grinning a bit, like he's having fun here, but honestly- he worries about kids, so... ]

So where're you from?

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[newnova]

Shi'a-what now? [ He's trying to think if he's heard of Shi'ar before.... Nope, doesn't think so. ]

Middle of Nowhere, Arizona.

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[starbuckslord]

Aliens. They're kind of like bird people. [ Don't worry, Sam. He's sure you'll hear of them eventually. ]

Oh good, brother in arms. I'm from Middle of Nowhere, Colorado.

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[jurisimpudent]

Would you like to maintain some sort of education here?

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[newnova]

I'd, uh, prefer not to have to. Unless I'm gonna be here for like a really long time, in which case I probably ought to.

But there's probably, like, a library I can check out, right?

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[jurisimpudent]

A question. Why would you prefer not to?

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[de_void]

You're not going to get expelled.

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[newnova]

Well that's a relief. But really, how can you be so sure?

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[de_void]

[as he speaks, stiles holds up fingers in front of him to count off his points.]

One, pretty sure that if-slash-when you go home again, you don't lose any time. You'll go back to the same time and place you were originally taken from, like you'd never been gone at all.

Two, you've already been here a week, yeah? Even if you went back home and had been missing for that long, people are gonna be way more worried about your safety and well being than they are that you missed a bit of school.

And three, if you're really worried, you can always play up some sort of traumatic fugue state or amnesia and yeah, maybe you'll have to see a therapist for a little while but dude. School will go super easy on you for a bit after. They might even offer you time off with a sort of 'work at home' system for a bit until you get your feet back under you.

So really, if school is your biggest worry, don't. Worry. Don't worry.

action, eventually.

[brassbucket]

[ Rich almost replied over the devices... before he registered that this was just Sam, not Nova, and he remembered the time when he was hiding his identity. So he finds him, later. ]

... don't let Quill knock the Shi'ar down. They are great fighters, and some of them are great people, too. Different, but great.

You okay?

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[newnova]

Huh? [Oh yeah, the bird people.]

Oh yeah, I'm fine. You know that guy?

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[brassbucket]

Peter? [ Rich's smile is full and warm, not a trace of the usual wryness or complication about it. ]

He's a friend. Was my second-in-command during the bad war, and, well. We've kept in touch.

[ His eyebrow arcs up, a bit. ]

He's more or less leading the team that Gamora and Rocket are on, actually. Used to be on Knowhere after I suggested it, but I gather they moved out of there, after... [ One-shoulder shrug. ] Things happened.

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[endureandsurvive]

no school
dont tell edgeworth :P

[newnova]

k

who's edgeworth?

[endureandsurvive]

guy on sec
big on grammer

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[askedtobe]

Never know, space chess could be way better.

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[newnova]

Nah, man, chess is boring no matter what.

[That's not to say he didn't learn some strategy from it.]

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[askedtobe]

Yeah, okay- you got me there. This ship'd probably make it even worse.

[redheaded_rock]

Tell me about it. Home would be great and I don't even want to think about that one assignment I left sitting undone.

[newnova]

One? I'd kill to only have one assignment to do. I've got loads of homework due in, plus I gotta watch my baby sister while my mom's at work... [ Not to mention he has Nova stuff to do. ]

[redheaded_rock]

[Shruuuug] I don't often procrastinate but I did on that one and now I'm regretting it so much.

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[cliver]

[ with an easy smile. ] No mandatory space school, I'm afraid, but there are a few space teachers about, if you'd like to keep up.

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[newnova]

You're seriously a space teacher? What do you teach, astronomy?

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[shallbeavenged]

I don't think there's school here.

And people say time freezes for you back home.

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[newnova]

That's what people are saying.

Still dunno if I believe it.