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Who: Billy Kaplan + OTA
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: The Blue Fish
When: Now!

( blue fish )

[...con... fetti? alright, that sure is a thing that just happened. Billy's used to teleporting, but it's never felt quite like this. so weird. everything about this is weird, weird, weird, and coming from him that's saying something.

Reaching around the back of his head, he pats awkwardly at where the augment rests, disturbed, and starts wandering through the halls of the ship. Might as well get acquainted, and maybe make sure he's not just super crazy right now. You never know, where he's from.]

( private; text to kate )

So are my powers busted or are you the only one here?

[Location spell went kinda haywire, whoops.]

( video; fleetwide )

Okay, so, ignoring that this is kind of awful and I hate that I apparently can't teleport myself home...

Any advice for first-timers? Can't say I've watched much reality TV back home. Um, barring that... what's some good places to visit off-ship if you've got like five cents to your name?

It's very, uh. Colourful here.

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[ a hum of agreement. ]

I think you mean my alternative to an AirBnB whenever I'm back in town. [ kate waves her hand. ] I saw it. It's gorgeous. Since when does this line of work pay enough to land yourself a spot like that?

[ and in new york! ]

[Huh... okay, then they're more or less on the same page. That's a relief.]

Um, since Roberto da Costa had an extra billion dollars lying around or something and owed us for being an asshole.

[honestly he's not even sure how rich Roberto is but that condo had to be disgustingly expensive to buy.]

He just...bought you a condo.

[ dot dot dot. ]

What level of 'asshole' are we talking about, here?

Drugged us and dumped us out in the desert because we wanted to try negotiating with SHIELD instead of going full-mutiny on them? I mean, there's no shortage of reasons. But that's the big one.

...Must've been some drug.

[ yes. yes, this is what she's taking from this conversation right now. ]

To knock out Teddy in Hulkling mode? That's an understatement. Also, did he forget that I can teleport and do location spells? What the hell did he think he was hiding from?

[it was probably just for show. Roberto liked to be flashy.]

His own desperation, maybe. [ which isn't an excuse. not exactly. but kate's taking the p.i. angle, now. she's trying to see it from roberto's pov -- even if just to understand how that could ever be a viable tactic. ]

But I'm guessing he didn't shake the pair of you for long.

No, nothing like that. I mean, I was mad at the time, but I get what he was trying to do. But that's how I ended up leading the team for a while- we were pretty much the only ones left.

[leader by default isn't something to brag about, but it did happen, so.]

[ -- she hears that implication. so, with a hand on his arm: ] Don't knock being the last one left standing. There's strength in that.

When you put it like that, it sounds kind of lonely.

[he's able to smile, though. it... hadn't been all bad. there'd been some reward in it, too.]

It usually is at the top.

[ is it any wonder she preferred to co-lead? kate likes the company. doubly so when that company is competent.

doesn't much hurt either if they're easy on the eyes. ]

Well... less to worry about here, at least. That's a blessing and a curse.

[because... because no team. but also, because no team.]

...Until some computer algorithm randomly names you captain of a ship, sure.

[ then it's the leader game all over again. ]

Personal experience?

[ she was randomly named captain, whaaat? though Kate was admittedly a fine leader until Dr. Doom screwed all their collective confidence for a while.]

I definitely didn't apply to be Captain Kate. Just woke up one morning and -- bam. Promoted.

Geez. Lucky you, I guess.

[is it better to have no control or the pretend control the Atroma give you? hard to say.]

If you ever need a hand with anything, just. Y'know.

Yeah. Hank McCoy leaves some big shoes to fill. [ he was the ship's captain for a long long time. ] Both figuratively and literally.

Hank McCoy was your captain? I swear I missed all the fun.

...Guess who his First Mate was.

[ not to mention girlfriend. ]

There are way too many weird answers to that question for me to answer it. Who?

[Magneto? Doctor Octopus? Galactus?? the alternate reality shenanigans potential is endless.]

Mystique. [ ... ] Part of me wishes I was joking.

[ the rest of her actually came to like raven's company. ]

Whaaaat? That's a partnership I did not see coming.

[though it's not like they even know Mystique personally back home. she's always been like, an X-Men situation.]

Apparently she's considerably less ambiguous evil in their version of events. [ kate shrugs. it's not like she knew more than just the stories.

but... ]

-- We should probably talk about the fact that the Scarlet Witch used to be here.

[cue a sigh of exasperation that is equal parts "do we have to" and "yeah yeah I know". a very Billy sigh.]

Anything I should know?

Aside from not knowing us, she was young. [ so young. ] And not a mutant, as far as she was aware.

[ ... ] The Vision was here, too. But they weren't...

[ kate shakes her head. ] It's all pretty messed up. And a helluva lot easier to talk about the ones that aren't, y'know --

[ your family. ]

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