Girls just want to stab someone in the face repeatedly

[downloadtruth]

There was a newcomer on board the meatship. She'd been grabbed by GLaDOS right after she'd popped out of a pod, gotten dressed, and grabbed her belongings. Now that she'd been spat out, she was pissed off. Well, more pissed off than usual.

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[wheresmysuit]

Nate was striding down the hall, nursing another headache. He was in full armour, a sight the crew should have begun getting used to by this point. He hardly took the suit off nowadays, only to sleep and shower. Though it was doubtful whether the boy even slept anymore. Despite that fact, he was perfectly groomed, though he was hardly seen drinking anything but coffee or some other caffeine substitute nowadays.

Floating above one hand, suspended by a force-field generator (that he was in the process of testing) was a variety of metal parts, circuits and wires seemingly floating within the faintly shimmering blue sphere that hovered above his gauntleted palm. He was on the way to Engineering where he spent the majority of his time now working on project after project.

That was when he spotted the new girl screaming at...well GLaDOS obviously. He knew she was new, judging from her reaction to the machine, and the fact that he'd memorized the crew's faces. Photographic memory came in handy now and again. He was of half a mind to simply walk past (he had more important things to do than babysit a newbie) but leaving someone lost and confused simply wasn't in his nature yet.

"Hope the throat getting cut isn't going to be mine. I hate that thing as much as you. I'm guessing you're new?"

[downloadtruth]

She was about to snap at Nate when she spotted what he was wearing and working on apparently. Ooh, what she'd do to get her hands on that...

Oh yeah, and he wasn't that bad looking. He didn't seem to be pure bred but, well, if he was carrying around stuff like that he was close enough. For now.

"I woke up covered in slime and had the ship talk to me, then I got grabbed by GLaDOS. I've no fucking idea what's going on, so yeah. I'm new. What the hell's going on?" She wasn't being combative directly at Nate, more toward the unknown forces playing whack-a-mole with her life.

[wheresmysuit]

To be fair, he wasn't actually in the mood to deal with snappy people at the moment. Had she indulged that desire, it was pretty certain that he would have simply walked off and ignored her.

"You got grabbed straight after podpop?" Damn, that had to suck. Seriously. "You want the long version or the short version? You probably won't like it either way, but yeah there's that. Welcome to the Transmigration 9. Or Stacy as we call her. The food sucks. The showers suck. And if you aren't getting killed by aliens you're getting killed by your own crew members. I'm Nate." Yeah, can you tell the boy is slightly bitter about being on this ship, Zero?

[downloadtruth]

"I'm Big Zero. Who's in charge of this and who took me? If it sucks so much why don't you just go home? Looks like you've got enough technical know how to do it." She said, pointing to Nate's shiny toys.

[wheresmysuit]

"Big Zero, huh? Alright. That's the other part. Usually I'd sugarcoat it a little, but you look like you can take it. Basically, you're here to save the universe. Stacy - that's the shipboard AI - grabbed you from your universe before it was destroyed by some alien race called them Ohm so are some badass motherfuckers and basically want to kill everything everywhere for god knows what reason." He pause, shifting the floating shiny things to his other hand to push his hair back from his eyes.

"Everyone on this ship has had their universe destroyed. We're here to kill the bastards right back and hopefully fix all the shit they've broken so far. At least that's what the alien race that saved us in the first place is telling us, anyway. Some people don't buy into it. That about sums the whole situation up. Also, people die. A lot. And the ship's governing body that consists of crew members elected by crew members, doesn't really do shit about preventing it."

[downloadtruth]

"Huh." She seemed decidedly, well, indifferent. "I always knew those super heroes were gonna fuck up sooner or later. So it's all gone kaboom, huh? Got any proof?"

[wheresmysuit]

Which was how he felt about the whole thing these days. None of it seemed to matter very much anymore. "Tch. Don't talk to me about superheroes." He was sick of the term. Sick of everything they supposedly stood for. He was meant to be a superhero, he hadn't even been able to save the girl he loved. Jonas was meant to be a superhero, he'd murdered that man and neither of them felt any remorse. They were just people. Screwed up people like everyone else.

"Nothing solid. They say you can get Stacy to unblock the memories of it. Supposedly they're blocked to stop most of the crew from going batshit. I didn't bother. With the tech here, it wouldn't be too difficult to implant false memories. We just have to take their word for it for now. Besides, it's not like any of us can go anywhere. Most of the time we're traveling through a place called The Bleed. Seems to be some spot between dimensions. Even if we could get out, no knowing where, or how to get back to our own universes. It's all a load of shit, really."

[downloadtruth]

"Eh, nothing new." Well, a lot was new but it wasn't like she hadn't traveled between dimensions before. And anyway who gave a crap about what happened to Earth? Definitely not the people in charge. Ah well, time to see if any of her teammates had made it. "So does the name Young Avengers mean anything to you?"

[wheresmysuit]

It wasn't his Earth. Wasn't his time. Hell, if his universe still stood, he wouldn't have been the same person. At times, he remembered to be glad that he was here. Glad that he was free to be who he wanted to be. But not very often. At her question though, he tilted his head, brown eyes watching her expression curiously. She didn't seem to like that name. Not that he really cared.

"They're my team. Do you know them?" Maybe they'd recruited her after he'd left. The team had continued after all. In that case, what powers did she have?

[downloadtruth]

"Your team? Last I checked Melter- oh wait- hey..." Her eyes light up. "You're that Iron Lad guy, aren't you? Man, I thought you must have quit because you were sick of those fuckheads?"

[wheresmysuit]

"Yeah. My team. I formed them-" At her next sentence however, his eyes narrowed. "I am Iron Lad. I didn't quit. I was forced to leave. What exactly do you know about my team?"

[downloadtruth]

"They're a bunch of retards. You actually let a nigger lead your team once you were forced off? It's a miracle they haven't got killed yet. I'm a member of the new Young Avengers. We've got Osborn backing us up and we're not a bunch of whiny bitches." Well, Melter could be and Coat of Arms couldn't keep from having an orgasm the moment Norman Osborn's name came up but they weren't too bad.

[wheresmysuit]

"Shut your mouth." He snarled. He knew who she was now. Oh yes, he knew. He remembered the records. The name hadn't been familiar at first, they'd barely been noteworthy after all. Just another band of wannabe villains pitted against heroes they were making mockeries of. "Oh I know who you are now. You're one of the wannabes. Osborn's group of lapdogs, weren't you? Did you know that in the future, you're barely a footnote in comparison to my team?"

He knew her powers now too. She was a wannabe Stature. He silently cursed Stacy, and GLaDOS and everything that could have had a hand in his meeting this girl today. Why couldn't she have just died and Cassie lived? He wasn't going to stand for her trash talk. Not about his team.

[downloadtruth]

"We're not anyone's lapdogs. So what you gave up being Iron Lad so you could be Madame Cleo? We wiped your sad team off the floor." The first time. "So tell me, Cleo. Did you see me punch that Stature bitch into next year?"

[wheresmysuit]

That? Was the wrong thing to say, Zero. You see, he was content to keep his temper from flaring when the cracks were about his team. He knew you were just misguided and stupid. But you had to bring his girlfriend into it. His dead girlfriend. So you see, it really shouldn't come as a surprise as Nate hurtles forward. The metal parts clatter to the floor as he reaches out to wrap one gauntleted hand around her throat, tight.

"I said, shut your goddamned mouth. One more word, and I swear I'll make sure you won't be able to use this throat of yours ever again."

[downloadtruth]

There was only one reaction to that. One punch to the face. "Get your fucking hands off me!"

What was a few punches between two people who hated each other?

Stacy wrapped her tentacles around them and pulled them away.

||Nathaniel Richards and Big Zero, violence amongst crew members is not acceptable. You have each received one violation. 15 violations results in Punishment. You are strongly advised not to reach 15 violations for your own well being.||