001 // waitin' for the hammer to fall

[principality]

Who: Aziraphale
Broadcast: Fleet-Wide!
Action: Marsiva!
When: 2/20, afternoon

[He looks confused. Absolutely befuddled. He doesn't seem to know the communicator is broadcasting, either.]

-dreadful, absolutely dreadful! This is clearly not Earth, and I can't call up the higher-ups to ask them...

[He looks down, and gasps a little.]

Oh! OH! Good afternoon? Evening? Perhaps even morning? Greetings. I am a...er...previous resident of Earth- A. Ziraphale. And I would appreciate, er, directions back...to Earth...

That is, if this reaches anyone? Hello? Oh, bugger.

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action forever;

[mysterzie]

Higher-ups? Are you involved in this somehow?

[ Yeah, no, someone is here to say hi and he seems pretty interested in that mumbling you were doing, sir. also, if you could be so kind ]

Or... maybe an alien?

action hello friend

[principality]

I...no, decidedly not an alien. Er. Perfectly normal human.

[He's a bad liar even under the best of circumstances.]

hello hello

[mysterzie]

What's perfectly normal for you? Everyone here is all weird, nobody's the same.

[principality]

Oh, you know, all 10 fingers and 10 toes, that sort of thing.

[Definitely not with wings and causing miracles, or even human but with the power to warp reality and bring on Armageddon, nope.]

What do you mean, everyone here is weird?

[mysterzie]

Magic and reindeer and no powers.

[ Somehow that's the weirdest one. ]

[principality]

W-well, isn't that normal? I mean, to not have powers, that sort of thing, just to be an everyday normal human?

[He smiles a little hopefully.]

[mysterzie]

Ugh, not you too. Everyday normal is to have a power! Everyone has one. People aren't supposed to not have powers.

[principality]

O-oh, I see.

[That was curious.]

So you mean that, where you're from, people can do...er...things? Isn't that a bit dangerous, wouldn't you think? You put all of that into a human's hands, you know.

[mysterzie]

Better than a reindeer's hooves.

[ Okay, so Aaron's still a bit hung up on Chopper. Can you blame him? ]

But, no... it's—people have to still follow laws and things. Dangerous stuff gets taken away if you do dangerous shit with them.

[principality]

Oh, laws, I see...but, I mean, forgive me if I'm mistaken, but...there's still temptation, isn't there? The whole bit to use them for personal gain, you know, that bit.

[He scoots over on his cot and pats the space next to him.]

Here, sit down, dear, and tell me more about this place- what is it called?

[mysterzie]

[ Aaron kind of side-eyes at the 'dear' but moves to set himself down on the offered spot. ]

It's earth! It's just... earth. [ Bit of a sigh here. ] People use their powers how they want and the government gets to decide which powers need to be watched and which ones no one gets to keep and if you break the law with them, you don't get to keep them. It's kind of stupid.

[principality]

[Don't worry Aaron he's like that with everyone.]

Ah, ah, I see. Earth? Truly? Interesting...I mean, unless...

[He was thinking a little, making a little face as he did.]

I am from Earth, and you are from Earth, but...perhaps they are different? W-well, you know, the whole, I saw a program just two months ago, about this whole...

[He gestures.]

...you know, different realities, that sort of thing? Perhaps, you know, maybe there was something to it? I mean, you can have the upper and lower spheres, and then you have Earth, but maybe my Earth is a bit different from your Earth?

[mysterzie]

[ Aaron is just watching in some kind of fascination as Aziraphale trips over himself to try and explain this weirdness. ]

Well, duh. They're not the same Earth. They're different worlds, like in the stories, I guess.

[principality]

Yes, that exactly!

[And he gives him a smile like "good job".]

So...what is your name, by the way? I just realized I never really...got it.

[mysterzie]

Aaron. I'm Aaron. You're... Ziraphale?

[ That's very British. Or something. Aaron doesn't know, shut up. ]

[principality]

Yes.

[He's not good at this whole "undercover moniker" business.]

Hopefully we'll see more of each other!

[mysterzie]

We're stuck on this ship together, of course we're gonna see more of each other.

[principality]

[He smiles.]

That would be wonderful, Aaron. Let me know if you need anything.

[mysterzie]

You've got it backwards. I've been here longer, so I'd know more than you do.

[ Clearly that makes him a better resource. ]

[principality]

I...well, I suppose I can't exactly argue with you there, but...well, aren't we both slightly new here?

[mysterzie]

Yeah, but I'm less new than you're new, so I'm better at this.