#002 [Video]

[everydayhero]

Who: Hiro Hamada and YOU
Broadcast: Fleetwide video
Action: SS Bishop!
When: 3/8, in the afternoon



[What's that sound? The sound of an alarm going off. What's that video feed? Well, right now the camera is set on a bobblehead that is rattling like crazy. Its base has been elongated, and from under said base flashes (slowly) a red light. Then it turns blue after two buzzer sounds from the alarm. Then yellow. Then orange. Then green. Then purple. Back to red. It continues to cycle as Hiro turns the camera to face him, and he's bobbing his head with the beat of the buzzer while standing at a control panel of different metal than the ship that has been welded onto the wall by the door to the main deck. Every time he presses a button on said panel, the light changes color. Then he hits a small green button above a large red button on the side, and the whole thing stops.

[Yes, the entire Bishop was just subjected to that without warning.]

Pretty cool, huh?

[Hiro looks like a cat who just caught his very first bird.]

It's all hooked up to our control panels, but I can't program it to do everything I need it to until we have a pilot and a communications officer. Right now, we have fire, gas, and the latter half of the collision alarms. I still need to program one for docking and to hook up another to the radar so we can know when we're headed dangerously close to something that could damage the ship. Right now, we've only got one that tells us we've been hit.

[SHRUG.]

But since, for some reason, everything under the control panel looks like gibberish to me... [he takes a moment to look into the camera like he's on the office] ... we get to wait until we have someone more "competent" [airquotes!] than I am.


[VOICE EDITED IN LATER]

P.S., if there are any communications officers who wanna hop ship over to the Bishop for keeps, let me know. It'll work out best if you're one of two on your current ship.

Comments

[everydayhero]

Hey, I hear you. Not a lot of people who feel great for listening to personal problems out there.

[Here it is even worse.]

Oh, a superhero is someone who has powers in a world where no one else does, either by invention or by genetic differences, who fights crime. Usually they stick to the city they live in.

[howcanihelp]

You're very young to be doing that.

[ sheepishly ]

Not like I'm one to talk. I was 15 when I was conscripted, and that was only two years ago.

[everydayhero]

Hey, 14's not that young.

[PUFF.]

Besides, the city gets in trouble sometimes. And I don't do it alone, there are six of us.

[howcanihelp]

I hope you're not all 14.

[ TEASING? TEASING! ]

[everydayhero]

[FROWN.]

One of us is less than a year old.

[howcanihelp]

[ Narrows eyes ]

Is that one of you an animal of some sort?

[everydayhero]

He's a robot.

[grinning.]

My brother made him. He's a nurse, but I taught him martial arts.

[howcanihelp]

Oh, is your brother a superhero as well?

[everydayhero]

U-uh.

[oh, look how fast he falters. He's getting really good at gathering that up, and he gives a sort of "don't worry about it" smile when he responds.]

Not exactly. He was our inspiration, but that's only because... He died.

[howcanihelp]

[ Steffa sucks in a sharp breath, but she doesn't have that panicked look that some people get when they get faced by something like that, when they don't have any idea how to begin responding to that.

She knows what that's like, losing family. Or as close to family as she ever had. Which is why she won't bother saying she's sorry, because it never helps. ]

I'm sure he'd be very proud of you. We don't have to talk about it if you'd rather not.

[everydayhero]

No, it's fine. He wanted to help people, that's why he made Baymax, and... well, that's what we're doing, right? We took out the "big bad guy" without hurting him, even helped him get his daughter back when he thought she was dead. [Which is so much more for the man responsible for Tadashi's death than he deserved, when Hiro would never see his brother again.

Big, deep breath.... sigh.]

I know he'd be proud.

[howcanihelp]

Good.

[ she smiles crookedly ]

It's always a little less awful, when you know they'd be proud of what you've accomplished.

[everydayhero]

Yeah... [The smile had faded for a second, and he manages to bring it back.]

Besides, thanks to what happened, my friends and I all found something that makes us feel really good about ourselves. Plus, we're all scientists, so when we're not doing hero work, we're developing tech that could change the world for the better.

[howcanihelp]

I would've loved to have been a scholar. That was the plan, you know, when I was younger.

Still, the Wardens are needed, they were especially needed when the Blight began since there were only three of us left, and one of them was... not very helpful.

[ She's thinking at you, Alistair ]

It's not what I planned on doing with my life, but I've done a lot of good with it. I think my friends and teachers would be proud.

[everydayhero]

I know they are.

... But, hey, you don't have to do that here, right? While you're away from home, you're away from all that Blight stuff. You can focus on what you wanna do.

[howcanihelp]

That's very true! Which is why I'm helping Krista with her plans for a library. I think it would be a wonderful resource for all of us, and I'll get plenty to read in the bargain.

[ Her smile wobbles a little, though she does a relatively good job of keeping it up ]

At the rate I've been going, though, I'm likely to finish anything we pick up within a week, leaving me yet again with nothing new to read.

[everydayhero]

Then I guess books are what we have to get our hands on when we dock at systems from now on. I can keep an eye out with you, and... hey, if you wanna learn some things about robotics sometime, you could always sit in when I'm tampering with stuff. I've got a lot of projects lined up--in fact, I was thinking about helping out with that library thing, too.

[howcanihelp]

It would be interesting to learn about them. The closest we have to such things in Thedas are golems, which are magical rather than mechanical, and the way to build them is... lost.

[ Permanently, hopefully, thanks to her. ]

And it will let me save my reading material for when I can't sleep. That'll slow down my consumption slightly.

[everydayhero]

Then you can be my official assistant for project "make-a-computer-filing-system-for-the-library". I can teach you all about how it works while we're building it.

[howcanihelp]

As long as it doesn't make any horrible noises, I will pay close attention and do my best to keep up.

[everydayhero]

We could even make it make pleasant noises, if you wanted.

[howcanihelp]

What, you're going to make your computer sing for me?

[ Someone has never heard of mp3s. ]

[everydayhero]

Computers can do a lot of things.

[let me just dig in my pocket for the one single thing that i managed to have on me when i showed up

[BOOM HEADPHONES AND MEDIA PLAYER]

Like this little badboy. It's specifically for playing music and videos.

[howcanihelp]

[ Wait what? She was KIDDING! ]

Truly? It's so small! How does it play the music, is it like a music box?

[everydayhero]

[lifting up the earbuds]

With these. Hold still.

[Let me just... reach up and put this in your ear, and the other one in mine so we can both hear. There's nothing playing yet, though.]