waking up is hard to do

[touchofrogue]

Who: Rogue and anyone else!
Broadcast: Part B, yes
Action: Part A, Vanquish, yes
When: Tonight!

[ Action, Rogue's room on the Vanquish, and later around the ship. ]

[When Rogue woke up, she knew something was wrong. Little things were off about her room and when she tried to raise her head, her arms felt like noodles. What - what happened? Why was she so weak?

If anyone is in her room, she could probably use some help getting out of bed...

Later, she will be walking very slowly down the halls, leaning hard on the wall, in order to get to the kitchen. Has anyone seen her captain? Her co-chef? Her brother?]

[ Video, Broadcast ]

All right, I'm up. I heard all the 'beauty sleep' jokes already, so try a new one. What'd I miss? Fill a gal in.

[She's hoping that this will also serve as a role call. After all, she's pretty sure it'd been over a month, and she knows how people come and go.]

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[ladybro]

...Well, to follow the analogy through to its natural conclusion? These socks are a lot more breathable. Less fumigation required.

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[touchofrogue]

Fresh, clean socks? [A flicker of amusement, a small smile.]

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[ladybro]

The kind that really wanna hug your feet.

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[touchofrogue]

[Into every metaphor, a breaking point must come...]

Sweat socks?

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[ladybro]

...Gross, but I feel like I deserved that.

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[touchofrogue]

[Pffft.]

So what'd else did I miss?

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[ladybro]

-- Plenty. But, unfortunately, there's no cutesy metaphor to soften this particular tale. The Winter Soldier got mind-jacked by the Atroma.

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[touchofrogue]

[Quietly:] By the Atroma? You mean he was followin' their orders?

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[ladybro]

Yeah. Resulted in a lot of...collateral damage, to boot.

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[touchofrogue]

[Quiet:] What were the orders?

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[ladybro]

Kill? Maim? Cause havoc? I can't be certain. I'm not privy to that inner circle.

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[touchofrogue]

Then how do ya know they were Atroma's orders?

[A brainwashed soldier didn't have to be activated by their evil overlords.]

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[ladybro]

Avengers intel. [ -- which clint has access to, even if she doesn't. but he told her about how the winter soldier heard one of the host's voices. apparently. it's all a little beyond kate's ken. ]

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[touchofrogue]

...yeah, okay.

[Which meant absolutely nothing to her in terms trust, unfortunately. All the Avengers she had any real relationship with were gone. It didn't make any sense to her why the Atroma would make an order like that, it went against all their established character patterns.

But then, that didn't have to make sense either. Evil bastards were evil bastards.]

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[ladybro]

I'll be honest. This info is about as trickle-down as it gets. Cross a whole galaxy, and I'm still on the B-team.

[ always a younger avenger, never an avenger-proper. ]