003 [VIDEO] Anonymous Location

[shorttempered]

[Mark can be seen sitting at one of the many internet cafes in the Earth sector. With Eve gone, he had to go back to these to post to the network as Mark, as his console belongs to "Invincible". Gotta try to have that secret identity. He smiles and gives a dorky little wave.]

So uh, if we were back on Earth it would be pretty close to Halloween, wouldn't it? Uh, those of you from Earth, I mean.... And Halloween is nothing without horror movies--especially zombie movies. As I don't think moves are an option here, I'm trying to get my horror fix somewhere else. Suggestions??

[And with that important message out of the way, he changes the filter.]

[Filtered to Bianca Reyes]

Hey, uh, Mis--Bianca, sorry. Do you might if I stop by later? I uh, have something for you.

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[alpha_squad_leader]

Sometimes metahuman is used as a blanket term but since there's various different sources of powers...[He shrugs.]

That and somehow there are people that will call for all mutants to be rounded up and put in extermination camps but people like the Fantastic Four or Captain America who got their powers from science are perfectly fine. [Eyeroll.]

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[shorttempered]

What?!

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[alpha_squad_leader]

Yeah, it's as dumb as it sounds.

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[shorttempered]

I just... that's crazy.

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[alpha_squad_leader]

It came from crazy people. Really crazy people.

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[shorttempered]

Clearly.

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[alpha_squad_leader]

It all sounds crazier when you hear it right from them too. [He sighs.] Sorry for being a downer.

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[shorttempered]

Hey no, it's fine. I asked.

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[alpha_squad_leader]

[He nods.] Well, I'm glad your world isn't as nuts as mine can get. [He's guessing it's not based on Mark's reactions anyway.]

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[shorttempered]

No, my world is pretty pro-superhero. We-we don't have a special classification for "mutant" or anything. We're all in the same category. There's a few crazies out there, but they don't speak for anyone but their own crazy selves...

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[alpha_squad_leader]

I'm beginning to think that my world is the only superhero one where the people are nuts in relation to powered types. [He shakes his head.] How do you guys deal with the crazies?

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[shorttempered]

We throw them in jail? [Phrases it as a question because he isn't quite sure what kind of "crazy" he's talking about.]

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[alpha_squad_leader]

Your world is so pro-superhero that you get to toss the crazies that speak out against you guys in jail?

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[shorttempered]

Oh, oh! I thought you meant our average crazies.

We let them talk. It's a free country.

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[alpha_squad_leader]

That makes more sense. As long as they just stick to talk, they can be easily ignored.

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[shorttempered]

That's the idea, anyway.

At least you don't have to put up with that here.

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[alpha_squad_leader]

Yeah, thankfully it's not that bad here. Other than that time the kedan started hating all our guts during the rationing anyway.

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[shorttempered]

Yeah, but at least that made at least some sense...

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[alpha_squad_leader]

How did it make sense?

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[shorttempered]

Look, I'm not saying I agree with them, but... all of a sudden, after all of us show up, the food starts running out. It's not a logical leap to assume it has something to do with us, especially when people are hungry and scared.

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[alpha_squad_leader]

I don't know. It would have made more sense if it happened sooner. You know, when the first of us started arriving. I heard some people were around a good long while before the rationing stuff.

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[shorttempered]

Yeah but how many of them were there at the beginning vs. how many of us were here when the rationing started?

Again, I'm not condoning it, but I mean I can at least understand their logic....

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[alpha_squad_leader]

Maybe...or considering the cause of the shortage to begin with, it could have just been our enemy influencing things to try to take us out.

[He shrugs.]

Then again I could just be feeling a bit bitter after getting jumped by a whole mob full of angry kedan.

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[shorttempered]

Anything's possible, especially what we do know about Never-Speak-His-Name.

I got hit with rocks, I feel your pain.

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[alpha_squad_leader]

It's something to keep an eye out for now for sure.

At least it wasn't a big, dumb talking rock. [He smiles a bit, joking now.]