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.

Comments

[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?

[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.

One day Peter will figure out this is Thanos's daughter's almost father-in-law.

[yondu]

Alright, so. That makes sense.

[He's now taken a moment to understand a hypersmart raccoon. He hopes that he did his little brother in arms justice.]