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The Ones That Walk Away From Omelas
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isahellofadrugThe last thing Robbie wanted to deal with right now was this nonsense. The world had gone kerboom and then...un-kerboomed and everything was a mess. The new world they were facing had strange faces no one had seen before and a lot of broken things to deal with in the aftermath.
Now was not the time for him to be stuck doing some stupid interdimensional adventure.
Yet here he was in an alley in a town that looked all old-timey, like something out of Lord of the Rings.
Oh well. He guessed he just had to deal with it and get it over with as best as he could. Once this little adventure was over, he could work on getting home.
"'Undo the injustice at the heart of Omelas,' care to vague that up a bit, Timebroker?" Robbie muttered to himself.
He'd been told by the Timebroker that he wasn't doing this alone, that someone from his world would be doing it with him. When he heard that he figured on Vance or one of his teammates, or someone like Spider-Man or the Thing (since they sure got around).
So when he looked around to see who'd vorped here with him he definitely wasn't expecting --
"...Rina?"
Oh no. No no no. After Stamford, someone he'd once had a little crush on was the last person he wanted to be stuck with. It was his fault she'd been chased by mobs and it was public knowledge now that Robbie Baldwin and the freak in the gimp suit known as Penance were one and the same.
His face turned a bright shade of red as he stood there facing her in the alley and the way he shrank away from her was filled with shame. He cast his gaze to the ground, as if he felt he didn't even have the right to look her in the eyes.
Now was not the time for him to be stuck doing some stupid interdimensional adventure.
Yet here he was in an alley in a town that looked all old-timey, like something out of Lord of the Rings.
Oh well. He guessed he just had to deal with it and get it over with as best as he could. Once this little adventure was over, he could work on getting home.
"'Undo the injustice at the heart of Omelas,' care to vague that up a bit, Timebroker?" Robbie muttered to himself.
He'd been told by the Timebroker that he wasn't doing this alone, that someone from his world would be doing it with him. When he heard that he figured on Vance or one of his teammates, or someone like Spider-Man or the Thing (since they sure got around).
So when he looked around to see who'd vorped here with him he definitely wasn't expecting --
"...Rina?"
Oh no. No no no. After Stamford, someone he'd once had a little crush on was the last person he wanted to be stuck with. It was his fault she'd been chased by mobs and it was public knowledge now that Robbie Baldwin and the freak in the gimp suit known as Penance were one and the same.
His face turned a bright shade of red as he stood there facing her in the alley and the way he shrank away from her was filled with shame. He cast his gaze to the ground, as if he felt he didn't even have the right to look her in the eyes.