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[vagabond_code]

Who: Clint "a Hawkeye" Barton and yous guys
Broadcast: Fleet-wide
Action: Marsiva
When: This evening

[Clint begins his broadcast with his hearing aids in, but the result is a series of false starts where it’s obvious from the wincing and the head-turning that he’s dealing with some sort of loud or high-pitched feedback. It isn’t long before he ditches them - rips them off and pockets them - and starts over again. lips it is, then ]

Alright this isn’t going to be a big thing - I just want to put my face out there.

[And he pauses, counting out the seconds for whoever might be looking to take a look at their beep-machines and catch sight of him.]

Oh, and to whoever brought us here, nice ship. Also, you’ve got some balls, kidnapping someone who carries one of these in his wallet:

[Casually, meaningfully, accidentally, he produces a blockbuster membership card, with the printed name Clinton F. Barton and a signature. When he catches his mistake he tosses the card down out of frame and the camera catches him thumbing through the inside of his wallet. Following that, the sound of him mumbling:]

Futzing Avengers ID, never around when you… [He trails off. The feed doesn’t.]

[A little later, sitting wherever there’s a seat to be claimed aboard the Marsiva, he’ll be found picking cards out of his wallet and tossing them down onto a table. Reorganizing, dismissing some, yet the cards that he doesn’t tuck back into their leathery hideaway are all landing corner-to-corner in a perfect even pile.

A little later, you might catch him sprawled out and napping. Because he naps. He’s a napper.]

Comments

[neverknight]

How can you need that many for one planet?

[Not even Coruscant has that much bureaucracy and the planet had a significant demographic for just politicians. At least, back in the days of the old republic.]

[vagabond_code]

Because. Stamps.

[He made the hole-punchy motion with whatever card he was holding at the moment. And yeah that's not exactly stamps, but work with him here.]

[neverknight]

... right.

[Nope. He's lost.]

So Avengers, huh? That some kind of bounty hunting operation?

[vagabond_code]

We're not exactly mercenaries, no.

[Steve definitely wouldn't approve of a term like that, or 'bounty hunting operation' for that matter.]

It's more of an "Earth's Mightiest Heroes" sort of thing.

[This was becoming a problem. At some point, someone was going to need more explanation than that.]

[neverknight]

[That Earth place he keeps hearing about...]

Kind of a uh... lowkey organization, isn't it? [Judging by this guy anyway. He can't say he's impressed.]

[vagabond_code]

Did I forget to say "Mightiest" again?

[neverknight]

It's one planet. Mightiest is pretty subjective here.

[vagabond_code]

Okay, I give, you've probably seen more planets than me. And your organization is probably bigger. And more organized.

[There would be time for dick-measuring contests later, once Clint had settled into the routine of this weird and crazy abductathon space-gameshow.

... ..

And had his bow back.]

[neverknight]

First part - maybe. Second part, definitely not. But that's kind of the point.

[He was part of the Rebellion for years before even knowing he was part of it.]

Anyway, I'd fill you in on what's going on here, but there's people who have been here longer and seen a lot more than I have to do that. I only have a few weeks here so far.

[vagabond_code]

How is it? From a -- new-guy's perspective?

[neverknight]

Like an education. [Or maybe that's just because of the people he's run into from his own galaxy.] But not one I would have signed up for. It's also very, very slow.

[vagabond_code]

Maybe there's something we can do about that. I don't have any ideas - I'm just sayin', maybe there is.

[neverknight]

We've got nothing but time and lots of parts. Even so, I'm not sure I have what it takes to rig a hyperdrive on one of these fossils.

[He can see now why Ahsoka was so eager to find an engineer from a spacefaring civilization. The engineers around here had just what the Atroma had given them.]

[vagabond_code]

[He'd been thinking more along the lines of card games and beer -- passing time, filling their collective social calanders. This sounded much more promising. After all, if they could out-pace the fleet then they stood a chance of breaking free of it - which he was already eager to do, nevermind that he hadn't been here as many as long as a day so far.]

Have you tried?

[neverknight]

Put together a hyperdrive without an alluvial damper to control the gamma radiation? Nevermind the absence of any anti-matter pods. No thank you.

[That was basically just suicide.]

[vagabond_code]

[Of course. Silly Hawkeye.]

I know another guy who talks like that, and usually he chases the bad news with good. This seems kinda like one of those situations.

[neverknight]

Actually that was it. I was done.

[The good news is... a work in progress.]

[vagabond_code]

Maybe we'll settle for cards then. Someone around here aughta have a deck - and I can shuffle.

[Like, really quite well. You should see it.]

[neverknight]

... you know, that might just be what I need. Once you get off the Marsiva, give me a ring. I'm in.

[He'll just have to keep those Force senses off. He may have been guilty of abusing his talents when he was younger when his cashflow was getting low.]