driftfleet | Rip-Van-Sokka II: Electric Boogaloo

Who: Sokka and YOU
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: SS Blue Fish
When: Today!

[Sokka's been asleep for about two weeks, and he's certainly been busy in his dreaming state. When he wakes up and finds himself in his own captain bed, there's a brief moment of confusion. He'd only just been home, having a delicious meal, knowing his life, his Tribe faced an uncertain future. And now he's...on the Blue Fish. The name comes back to him with the low hum of the engine. Well, at least he knew what he was getting here, mostly.

He'll be getting up and exploring around, please feed him. He had the BEST food memory-dream.

And later, once he's learned a little more from his crew of the events he's missed, he turns on the network.]

So apparently, Atroma decided to let me sleep though us finally getting any kind of answers. Because that's funny. I'm laughing. I need details, guys, anything you can give me that you found out. Doesn't matter if I've heard it before, different perspectives are important.

[That's his latest Life Lesson He Learned. Yay.]

...And I'm sorry. For people who lost people. Seems there was a lot of that while I was asleep.

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[Sokka puts his face into his hands, groaning. ]

You did the thing.

Can't you just bribe him to spit them back out?

No, I already looked into his mouth. They've been absorbed into his circuitry.

They're in there, it's just...well, they weren't made to be accessed through a golem.

Allen, c'moooon. We've waited for two years for answers. To freakin yeaaaaars.

[His life is suffering and hardship.]

Maybe we can jack him up to the comms device or something...

I know! That's why I tried to careful with them! I'm sorry!

[A huff! It's not his fault this tech isn't compatible with 19th century anime tech!!]

No way. You know the moment we get those files on any Atroma device they'll get deleted. We'll just have to find...some other way.

Ugh, it's fine. Sorry. I just thought we finally had something on them. I could really use a win right now.

[The strain might be showing just a little bit, but he's considerably less worried about Allen seeing it than he is anyone else.]

That's true. Maybe I can patch something together with stuff I find on other planets? We'd be better having just physical copies, though. Something they can't delete.

I know. This isn't a loss, it's just an unexpected delay.

[Knowing Sokka as long as he has, he can pick up the strain. Sokka's more stressed about this than he usually would be. Part of that could be Beverly's departure, certainly, but considering he just woke up after a long sleep and what tends to happen with those...

He'll probably ask later. Not now though]

Yeah, and I wasn't the only one who collected data. I'm sure other people have copies too.

That's a pretty good way to look at it.

[That is a good plan on his part. Sokka absolutely does not want to focus on it yet. He doesn't want to sift through painful memories and the more painful realisations he and Katara made in those few weeks back home. ]

Good. Maybe we can compile stuff and get something actually useful.

...Did the Marsiva really fire a cannon?

...It did, yes.

[He frowns, looking concerned but not quite disturbed by the news]

I'm not surprised it has some sort of defense system. But to actually see it... [Eeeysh]

They really could just keep us in line so easily with something like that. Makes me wonder why it took them so long to bring it out, honestly.

[They can't attack the Marsiva all gun blazing any more. That wasn't much of an option before, but now it's right off the table. ]

We're for sure never gonna outgun them, so we'll have to rely on outsmarting them.

It's probably bad for ratings. The audience might not take too kindly if it seemed like we were being held here at gunpoint.

[That's his guess anyway. People could only be so willingly ignorance of so much]

Mm! It's a good thing you're back then.

Assuming the audience exist at all, you mean?

[He's still not convinced on that one. But aww, that gets a smile. ]

Sure is. I don't know how you guys coped without me. It must have been a hard, hard couple of weeks. But hey, the ship isn't on fire and no one is dead- so good job, First Mate!

[He gives a nod at that, before he responds with a dry tone. Though from his expression, it's clear he doesn't actually take offense]

Why thank you, Captain. I'm touched by the confidence you have in me.

Belthazar will be bringing you lots of food if he hasn't already, I'm sure. [That boy's been worried and that's how he shows it]

My confidence is without end.

[Which is absolutely true. ]

Oh yeah, I think he tried to kick my door in but- well that didn't work, but hey I got a ton of food out of it, so yay?

[Okay that gets an amused sound out of him]

That sounds like him, all right.

Are you going to eat it all? [ :D? ]

Dude, dude, come on. I already ate it all.

[Seriously, Allen.]

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