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[demideific]

WHO Itzal Noah / you
BROADCAST Video all over fleet-wide
ACTION On the Wonderduck!
WHEN Shuffle-ish (July 19th)

[ There's a young man on the camera. The video looks impromptu but not accidental where he's found himself in the Wonderduck's bridge. He does not look happy, nor does he seem very confused. Just angry. Indulgently angry in the way only a teenager can be. ]

Hey, chuckleshits! Whoever is running this show should send me back right now before I get ready to pull the whole thing apart. Bygones and bygones and all that shit, as long as you reverse your damn polarity and get me back to Terminus!

Which, what the fuck? You pull me, but Argent gets a fucking pass? How do you guys even decide this? This is not karmic, no way, not if that motherfucker isn't here with me.

[ There's a pause, like he isn't sure what to say next. ]

You're space is all fucked up, too. Not enough stars. You taking us to the ends of the universe or something? Fuck.

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[demideific]

[ He rolls his eyes, gestures out toward... well, space. ]

I mean, the sky's practically fucking empty. Back where I'm from, there's stars and clusters and clouds and nebulae and rings. This is puny as all hell.

[survives]

Seriously?! [This is all pretty new to her, okay.] I... That's so awesome! I-it didn't look empty to me or anything, you know? I've still never seen anything like this.

And there's even more there?

[demideific]

Never even seen space before? What kind of backwater planet-slash-universe do you come from? That is seriously some chopped up shit.

Plenty. Tons. I haven't even gotten to see any more than was in my sky yet but being out here now is like imagining and ocean and getting the damn kiddie pool.

[survives]

Backwater?! I-I don't know! We just couldn't! In some places you couldn't even see the sky, that's all!

[She huffs. Focus on the stars... Focus on the stars.] But how? You can't just... take the stars out or anything! Or put in more!

[demideific]

That's fucking backwater. Anybody who covers their way out of a dump doesn't know what they're doing. [ He's saying it pretty matter of fact. This is just conversation to him, no matter how completely tactless it is. ]

We've got a couple of options for that. Either they jetted us completely clear across the known universe and we're in a different star system so far away, the light of our old galaxies can't even reach this place, or we're just in a different dimension entirely. S' more likely the latter since that's a shitton quicker than transporting a bunch of random shitheads from who knows where across space to one central location.

[survives]

[GOSH. Only she gets to trash talk her shitheap of a homeworld, all right.] I don't think so. It's just different.

What... [She can't really focus on being angry though, not with those possibilities.] What do you mean by a different dimension?! I thought we all just got picked up from our planets!

[demideific]

Different as in backwater as in it's got its head up its ass. Yep. [ Sorry, he's not going to let that stop him. ]

[ He laughs, head tipping back to let it out before he turns back to regard the comm. ] Hell no. If we're all from the same dimension, this one, I'll buy a fucking hat and eat it live on this stupid TV show. If my home's figured it, so could others. Doubt your planet would know, but I sure as hell would have heard of a show like this going around.

[ Not... necessarily, actually, but he says it like it's true. ]

[survives]

Different as in different! I don't know what your world's like, but it can't be that much... [She trails off. Ohhh man, she can't say "better." It probably actually is.] Th-that much more advanced!

[HUFF. He's actually making sense though... Not that she wants to acknowledge it too much.] I guess that makes sense. My planet would definitely get it though. Of course it'd get it!

[demideific]

If you don't know what stars or different systems look like, then it's way fucking more advanced. We actually go to other planets and shit.

[ He's rolling his eyes here. ]

Don't be stupid. What's acting macho going to help here? It's some kind of space TV broadcast. Just own up to your shit.

[survives]

[Many, many things seem more appealing right now than admitting she just might be wrong.

Many things.

She huffs out a breath, looking away.]

Fine. Maybe you've got us beat there. [A groan. The indignity!!] In both things! Fine! And you probably know all about other dimensions, too, don't you?

[demideific]

I've got a pretty damn good grasp of them, yeah. My planet was full of fucking idiots who thought pulling in random bozos from other dimensions as free labor was a good idea.

[survives]

[She... needs a moment to process that.]

...What?! [She groans.] Don't tell me that actually worked!

[demideific]

Not for them, but it was a total circus for a couple years. Got what was coming to them in the end.

[survives]

I don't really feel sorry for them... [HUFF.] That must've been awful for all the people they did that to!

[demideific]

Eh, they came and went. The machine wasn't perfect. Some of 'em stuck around the whole time and they got home eventually. Fuckers really didn't know how to deal with their own shit so of course the foreigners didn't do anything useful.