002; video

[beathach]

Who: Hank McCoy and Erik Lehnsherr
Broadcast: fleetwide
Action: crashed ship
When: today!

[when the feed opens, the network is gifted with the bickering of two men]

I don't see why you can't do this.

[Erik is the one visible on screen, and he doesn’t look pleased about it at all. He jerks his chin towards the wall next to him, irritated.]

Because it’s your idea, and I don’t want to.

[the huff that follows is a little on the growly side]

I’m here to open paths, not send out messages. [As if to punctuate this point, Erik turns away from the camera and swipes his hand through the air. The metal wall crumples to the side with a shriek, curling up on itself like a ringpull.

The camera shifts off of Erik with a muttered "show off" to the plant life spilling out of the side of the hull, and a clawed, blue foot comes into frame to poke at a nearby pumpkin]

In any case - Erik and I are at the crashed ship, if anyone would like us to bring some of these back. If you're interested, feel free to message one of us.

As for the ship - if anyone else is planning to come out here, be careful. There's ways into the ship, but it has been here a while, so it's falling apart. We'll try to get some information about the signal while we're here, though so far we haven't had much luck.

[the camera moves back to Erik]

Do you have anything you want to add?

[Erik’s mostly occupied with pointing his flashlight into the gloom of the area beyond the wall. He does give a curt response.]

No requests for pumpkins bigger than the usual Earth-size.

Comments

[video]

[exothermia]

[He hears Kurt's voice coming from the direction of Hank's communicator, and goes still. Since Hank's occupied in replying... it's simple enough for him to walk out of frame of that device, take a silent breath and shut his eyes. Kitty was one thing. Kurt was another. Between him and speaking to Winn for the first time, this is turning out to be less simple than the gardening-slash-wreck rummaging expedition he'd thought he was in for.

After a few minutes, Erik opens his own communicator and points it to a gap in the flooring where the vines have forced their way down, setting the channel to Kurt's ID. He speaks off camera.]

It varies. The walls tend to be stronger, in the places we've crossed so far. But all of it has structural damage to some degree.

[video]

[ecclesiophobic]

[Whatever else he thinks or feels about Erik since their violent altercation, there's a great swell of gratitude when the image on screen shows the damage to the floor. It's beautiful in the way the abandoned cities were back home, memorials to the dead and hope for the future all at the same time.

Thinking of home is a good distraction from how difficult it is to speak to the man and keep an even tone.]

Of course there'd be, damn thing crashed didn't it? [The words are muttered, an offhand observation rather than a challenge. After a moment's thought, Kurt decides there's no harm in sharing.] It looks like the abandoned cities back home. If the walls held up the same as the buildings' there, probably wouldn't be too difficult for me to scale.

[video]

[exothermia]

No... it probably wouldn't be. [Kurt knows his business better than Erik does. Time spent around his world's Kurt has given him a better appreciation of what he's capable of, having seen him in action. That isn't something to discuss, though.]

It's relatively easy to tell which parts are likely to crumble.