[AI] The Study

[howaboutnoh]

Noh-var hated waking up in strange locations not knowing where he was. His life had become a string of such awakenings and misery usually followed not long after. He really ought to be used to it by now.

At least they'd left him his negabands and weaponry.

They'd also left him...another person? A teenage boy?

A Skrull?

Noh-varr nudged him unceremoniously with his foot.

"You. Skrull boy. Wake up. I need to see if you're useful or not."

Comments

[howaboutnoh]

"Ah yes, they were our allies for a time. Xavin was surprisingly tolerable for a Skrull. We worked with the two of them before the rest of their friends returned from the Crisis. The Majesdanian is now safely with her teammates, the ones that call themselves the Runaways. Xavin was pulled back to the Crisis by the dimensional slingshot effect, as some heroes are." Almost there to the door... But boy had it been too quiet so far. "Xavin has access to my computer's teleportation unit. Once she returns to reality, she will have the capacity to teleport away from harm if she needs it."

[always_teddy]

Teddy grins, relief flushing his system of some of the tension he'd been carrying with him since he woke up in the strange mostly-empty white room. He tries to gather some of it up again, eying the gummy bears with suspicion, but it's hard to maintain.

"That's great. I mean, not that Karolina and Xavin are separated, but I saw a recording of Karolina trying to fight Match, and I was worried. Thanks. And...thanks for looking out for everyone. It can't be easy being on the run all the time."

[howaboutnoh]

"You had good reason for concern. Match is a monster complicit in countless acts of terrorism and violence committed by the Luthor regime. He must be destroyed." That much he was sure of. He'd have given him the benefit of a doubt and assumed he was under the government's thumb like he'd been but the man was far too glib and cocky. He didn't act like someone brainwashed and in constant pain. "Being on the run is simple necessity. Much of what Luthor and Osborn are doing is cloaked with an air of legitimacy. To prove anything, the Defenders would have to break the law and risk losing their charter. All of us are already criminals and most of us escaped various government-sanctioned teams and would be eliminated for that fact regardless of what we did. Since we're all already criminals and on the run anyway it doesn't matter if we break the law in the name of exposing the current regime. If we uncover anything that the Defenders can legally intercede on, we can simply direct your attention to it."