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tushanshu2013-04-14 03:53 pm
faceofthe4) wrote in tushanshu2013-04-14 03:53 pm
10° VIDEO
[There's a pause before Johnny's face appears on the screen, bent over to press the buttons. Once he confirms that the screen is on, he straightens and makes sure he's in frame, wearing very basic clothes.]
Aw, Reed. You shouldn't have! It's a little small, but I admit, I like what you've done with the place.
[He waits a beat, as if Reed might actually respond.]
There are two obvious possibilities for why I'm here. One, the Emperor is a crazed fan who abducted me to find out if The Torch is really as hot as they say he is – I am, by the way – or, two, I'm actually dead, they're lying to me, and I have a motorcycle and a pile of women waiting for me somewhere.
[A split-second pause.] I'll tell you what. If it's the first option? You can come find me. If it's the second, let me know and I'll come find you. Until then? This Fire Sector is like home, sweet home.
Johnny out.
Aw, Reed. You shouldn't have! It's a little small, but I admit, I like what you've done with the place.
[He waits a beat, as if Reed might actually respond.]
There are two obvious possibilities for why I'm here. One, the Emperor is a crazed fan who abducted me to find out if The Torch is really as hot as they say he is – I am, by the way – or, two, I'm actually dead, they're lying to me, and I have a motorcycle and a pile of women waiting for me somewhere.
[A split-second pause.] I'll tell you what. If it's the first option? You can come find me. If it's the second, let me know and I'll come find you. Until then? This Fire Sector is like home, sweet home.
Johnny out.
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[Johnny's never been good at deescalating situations. If she's going to show him the door, then he'll take it. The Torch drops his hands and turns to go.]
If you're not even willing to try to prove to me that you knew my family, then I'm not interested.
[And with that, he's grabbing hold of the door and he'll be exiting unless she gives him a reason not to.]
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[Nita can be as stubborn as anyone, and she's really tired of nobody she knows recognizing her.]
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I wanted something- Yeah! I was going to say I want something most people don't know, but I don't even know if the Johnny you knew is anything like me.
[He huffs a little. Johnny drops his arms and his volume a little.]
I don't know what a Doombot is, though I'm guessing it has something to do with Victor. So stop comparing me to whatever version of the Four you knew, because it isn't us!
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...Wait, if you have Dr. Doom, how can you not know what a Doombot is? [Something occurs to her.] How long ago did you have your accident?
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I don't know, a couple years ago now. Why does it matter? [Johnny closes the door again, hovering inside but right beside it. He's still grumpy.]
[ooc: the MCU canon is vague on timeline, so please just go with it. :|]
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[When he gives the time frame, a lot of her anger switches to surprise.] Oh Neptune, you're brand new at this. No wonder you don't believe me.
[OOC: You get really really used to timelines not making any goddamn sense when you play from comics. Nita's canonical birthday is in 1958.]
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[But then she looks surprised and his anger disappears with hers.]
We're not brand new. Why? How long has your Four been doing this?
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[She shakes her head.] Sorry. If I'd realized how different our universes were, I'd've started more slowly. I just--never mind, it's not your problem. [Nita's actually really bad at staying angry. She'll just cry into her pillow alone later.]
[OOC: Using the rough 3:1 estimate for the timeline.]
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Am I married, in your version? Dating someone?
[Because he was just having a talk with Ben not long before arriving here about wanting more with what remained of his life. But he knows maybe it's just a phase, because of the looming threat.]
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Also I think he might actually be dead at Nita's canon point.]
Definitely not married. Possibly dating someone, possibly just bringing girls home from the club. [She's not judging. She does the same thing with guys.] Before I got here I was a bit too busy to check in with anybody or catch up on my tabloid reading.
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You're not the only one. We were busy trying to stop some guy from destroying the world.
[He's not really sure why he says that.]
Now that we've established that I'm not the Johnny you knew, are you going to give me a chance to be my own version or should I just leave you alone?
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Sounds like Tuesday. [She ventures a bit of a smile.]
Hey. I'm predisposed to like Johnny Storms. You can't screw that up too badly. [Definitely smiling now.]
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[He's not sure why he feels a need to clarify that, but he doesn't really care. And then he's moving on and returning her smile. Although he's still a little too overwhelmed, hurt, and confused to get right back to flirting, he tries to match her amusement.]
I can do anything. Lucky for you, I'd rather try to get along.
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[She gets up and makes for the cabinet in question.]
"Not normal" how?
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I could use one. Thanks.
[He smiles and then follows at a short distance, bringing him deeper into the apartment again. His eyes glance around as he walks, trying to learn more about this woman who knows some incarnation of him so well.]
There was this.. silver surfer. I know how that sounds, but he's not from our world. The General just brought in Victor to help us capture him, ignoring our protests. This guy's going around creating giant holes a mile wide and miles deep and, according to Reed, this isn't the first time he's done this. All the other planets he's gone to have ended up completely dead.
It's our first contact with alien life and a threat to the world which, before Reed's brilliant idea, was winning. I was locked in a bunker before I showed up here, with the team, because the General decided we couldn't be trusted while they're busy torturing Silver.
[The more he speaks about it, the more angry he gets. It's clear that all of it bothers him. Being pulled away from his team, not being trusted by the people who hired them, the world being in genuine danger.]
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Something kinda like rum and something kinda like Coke okay? [She's making one for herself as she listens to Johnny's story.]
Wait, Surfer? You captured him? Wasn't Galactus mad you had one of his Heralds? [Even assuming it's Surfer's pre-heroic days in that timeline, he isn't the one to worry about.]
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[Johnny leans against some doorway into some other room, roughly facing her and watching casually as she prepares the drinks. His eyes still occasionally glance around at her life, looking into those kinds of clues that can tell a little more about her. Then he tenses with her words and immediately stands upright again.]
Galactus? Who's he? Victor helped the General take us out right after we took out the Surfer. We didn't get a chance to talk to him.
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Okay, so, where I'm from, there's a...being is the only word for it, I guess, called Galactus. He's existed since before our universe, and he...well, he eats planets. The Silver Surfer is one of his Heralds. [Johnny was one briefly! It went about as well as you'd expect.] The Heralds travel the universe looking for planets that have the right energy signature, and then they call Galactus.
Back before I ever came to the surface, Surfer targeted Earth, but the Fantastic Four drove Galactus off, which apparently doesn't happen very often. Surfer's been around on and off since then, and he's one of the good guys.
[Nita taps her fingers on her glass, thinking.] I'm pretty sure Doom went after him for the Power Cosmic in our universe, too.
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I hope, if it is Galactus, that you're right about us driving it off. It doesn't exactly help that I'm here, even if they said time doesn't pass the same between the two. The team needs me.
[He lets out a frustrated noise before taking a long sip of his drink. Johnny doesn't do well being trapped.]
The Power Cosmic.. you mean the surfboard? Reed said it's the source of the Surfer's power.
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I don't think so? I mean, the board's a manifestation of it, but Galactus imbues all his Heralds with the Power Cosmic directly. I don't think Surfer needs the board.
[She shrugs.] He'd probably answer if you asked him. He doesn't really bother with lying, from what I've seen.
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[He gives a one-shouldered shrug, because he never understands the real science of it, and then takes another sip of his drink. He pauses mid-sip and swallows quickly as another thought occurs.]
Did you know other Heralds?
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Let's see, who else...there's Firelord and Red Shift. They helped out the United Front during the Annihilation War. Uh...Stardust. The other Xandarian besides Firelord, whatsisname...Air-Walker. [These all have the aura of people Nita doesn't know, but is dredging up their names from memory. She shrugs.]
There've gotta be more, but those are the ones I remember off the top of my head.
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Great. So this is probably going to be a recurring thing.
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If he's even remotely close to our version, Doom is gonna be way more of a pain than the rest put together. [Nita's been fairly circumspect about how little she likes Doom around other people, since Latveria and Atlantis are technically allies, but this is Johnny. She's not going to be unduly prejudicing him against Doom.]
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He's already a pain. And yet, I know he'll get worse given the chance. [He sighs a little.] Any idea how I get back?
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