Day 23. Audio

[hashtagparkerluck]

[ here's the slightly less energetic voice of Peter Parker but at least he's not breathless. This time. ]

Uh. Hey. Um.. I just wanted to thank anyone that helped me out yesterday and uh you know, sorry you had to deal with that.

I'm uh.. better now? I guess you could say? Anyways if you need me I'll be around. Probably in the dressing car or one of the other places I like to hang out.

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[hashtagparkerluck]

Uh....

No...?

I don't-I don't exactly need it anymore.

[hashtagparkerluck]

Um, yeah. I guess. Sorta?

I mean I uh-I wasn't really all that healthy back before so uh... going backwards in time wasn't... awesome.

[hashtagparkerluck]

[ Peter's making a face now because he is not the biggest fan of medical procedures. However, he is aware they are important and as long as it's just a chest scan then he can handle it. ]

Uh yeah, sure. That's fine, I guess. But I haven't had too many problems in a reaaally long time.

[yondu]

The honest truth is I don't even care about it that much no more so it don't bother me to mention how they are. What's done is done, but they lean towards propaganda. If one showed up they'd sell ya some story about how they was the bold and kind heroes.

[He holds what happened against his parents more than he does the Kree. They knew what the Kree were. That's the part he doesn't say.]

[hashtagparkerluck]

Well, if one does show up here, I'll be sure to punch 'em in the face or something and promise not to buy into the propaganda.

I'm part of the social justice movement back home-well, sorta. Spider-Man is.

[yondu]

Spider-Man?

[Go to space or back in history and Peter can find the good fortune of people that've not heard of a Spider-Man.]

I usually recommend not fightin' with 'em, they make a mess. Stronger than most Terrans but I reckon a well-trained one could take out a casual soldier. [This child was made of glass, what suddenly makes him think he could punch a Kree now? How big did this littl'un get?] But it's best to question 'em on all the stories they lay out.

[hashtagparkerluck]

[ He mainly operates in Queens, it's not too uncommon for people to have not heard of him. ]

Yup! It's what I go back in Queens-Or-uh what I go by as a super hero. See, 'cause back home there are a lot of people I gotta keep safe so I wear a mask when punching the bad guys.

...well, in all honesty, I rarely ever punch anyone it more like use their own momentum against them and web 'em up.

[yondu]

How did that happen? [Was his daddy a Spider-person and he didn't know? How the hell did this happen to this child.] Went from needin' inhalers to punchin' and spinnin' webs...

[Also, how about this can of damn worms...]

Also what do you mean 'social justice'?

[So asks a former slave and space minority. At least he can context out that Queens is a place.]

[hashtagparkerluck]

Oh! uh, it's a long story and involves a field trip to a science lab and a genetic mutation from a radioactive spider bite.

[ He rattles off quickly as though there's not much more to it than that. ]

Anyways, the Social Justice movement is based on the idea that everyone should be treated equally and have equal rights regardless of social class, race, gender, orientation-that sort of thing. It's also about stopping the spread of hate and speaking truth to power.

[yondu]

...Yeah, alright. I know a raccoon that talks from Terra. Some of your science gets real wild.

[Seems legit.]

[Though it's kind of hard for a space pirate to grasp some of this. His crew was mostly men, but that's because the friend of a friend of a friends that signed up were male, not through a pointed effort. Most everybody else wanted to be a part of other crews, anyway. He did know quite a few of his boys were gay and never thought twice about it.]

[But the Kree?]

Yeah, Kree ain't gonna have nothin' like that. They're led by this big AI called the Supreme Intelligence and it's really worked out how to play people. Even best intentions.

[hashtagparkerluck]

Whoa! Really? That's so cool. ...also terrible because how many animal rights laws would that have violated? Yeesh.

Anyway-so you mean this super computer basically brain washes people? But if it's an AI then it's a computer which can be reprogramed or even shut down-I'm sure that someone's thought of that before but uh-what I really want to know is who built it?

[yondu]

Couldn't tell ya. It was there when I was a baby and I think a few generations before that, always growin'. The thing needs shut down but nobody I ever heard of got close to it.

[But on the matter of Rocket.]

It was pretty messed up of 'em and the raccoon's kinda a jackass. But one of them jackasses that ain't so bad to know. So long as you can put up with him gettin' a wild hair to get into trouble.

Is that a raccoon thing? Do they all steal shit and get real mean for no reason?

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[knifewithnoname]

You did be being pretty different when you did be being a kid.

[hashtagparkerluck]

[ He sucks in a breath because he hadn't really ever wanted Buttercup to see him like that. Not that he'd really wanted anyone to have to see him like that. ]

Yeah, I wasn't exactly a fan of other people when I was-uh, little.

[its_dad_sanzo]

Well, you did say it's mostly in check.

[ So it just seems logical to Koumyou. ]

[hashtagparkerluck]

I have a healing thing now. So, I don't need it anymore.

[its_dad_sanzo]

A healing thing, you say?

[ Koumyou laughs, delighted by the sheer technicality of it. ]

Then I suppose you're set!

[goingthroughaphase]

...oh yeah. You used to have asthma, right?

[ She remembers finding him in the medical carriage one time after a mission, and he'd had an asthma attack while his powers weren't working. ]

Did you have an attack?

[knifewithnoname]

You did be being quiet. Did the spider bite be loosening your tongue?

[hashtagparkerluck]

No, no, I don't think so. I think that credit goes to Uncle Ben and probably also Ned. Skip too, a little, I guess since he was the first one to actually get me to start talking on my own, but I don't-I don't really count him.

Anyways, sorry you had to see me like that-and that you had to deal with that.

[hashtagparkerluck]

Yeah. Which, I guess I kinda still have it but the healing factor helps. But yeah, I did. Several, actually. Not that that was uncommon. I used to get like.. at least three in a day.

[hashtagparkerluck]

Yeah, pretty set. If it does flare up again for whatever the reason, I know where to go so I'll be okay.

[strawberryprotector]

Maybe not, but I'd still feel better updating your old chart with a new chest scan to make sure there's no scar tissue we missed last time.

[goingthroughaphase]

Oh gosh. That must've been scary, though.

[ Especially since she can't remember if there are any inhalers or anything on the train. ]

I'm glad you're okay now, though. I'm sorry I wasn't around much to help out.

[ She isn't even sure what she could have done, but at least she could have tried. Then again, with her own powers freaking out, she probably still wouldn't have been able to do much. ]

[hashtagparkerluck]

[ The universe is way more messed up than Peter realised. Then again, there were, apparently people like Thanos so maybe he'd always known it was that messed up-not always but since he'd been briefed on the spaceship. ]

Hm? Oh. Uh, yeah-yeah, actually that's uh-that's pretty common for a raccoon. They get into all sorts of things. Well-I've heard they do. I don't really see whole lot of them since I uh-I live in the city and you seen those more out in the country and rural areas.