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[resultofwar]

A while ago, I asked if humanity had made contact with aliens by the time period of others on the Barge. It seemed like most people had at least sent people into space. We've set up space colonies orbiting Earth, but we haven't made first contact with any alien lifeforms yet. Space travel isn't necessarily uncommon, but only politicians and military officials frequently travel between Earth and the Colonies.

What's considered normal technology for your world? Is commercial space travel available?

[Private to Slade]

I'm still interested in sparring, assuming another flood isn't going to hit in the next few hours.

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[sixthanimorph.livejournal.com]

How have you been, Heero? You've been keeping a low profile. [That's okay. He has enough fucks for the both of them.]

[resultofwar]

Why do you care?

[sixthanimorph.livejournal.com]

Oh, just making sure you hadn't come down with something. I know how cold it is down on that eighth level. And you don't get visitors too often.

[resultofwar]

Or ever. [He rotates between never being there, and being in there all the time and not coming out, because he's a fucking weird teenager. :|]

[sixthanimorph.livejournal.com]

It'd be a real tragedy if something happened to you in there, wouldn't it? No one would know for days.

[resultofwar]

So?

[sixthanimorph.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, I forgot, you're not worried about that, huh? Did it make you feel any safer, Heero? Watching Bourne's little episode of show-and-tell?

[resultofwar]

[Was that actually a snort of laughter? Maybe.] Why would that make me feel safer?

[sixthanimorph.livejournal.com]

[There's no 'maybe' about that angry glint in his eyes.] Oh, don't play coy. You can tell me how it made you feel. Hell, you probably enjoyed it, didn't you? Did you watch it with your buddy Slade?

[resultofwar]

No. I didn't. I don't enjoy torture.

[sixthanimorph.livejournal.com]

[He actually shudders with rage at that. But after a moment he calms.]

You know who Slade really is, don't you? Has he told you yet what he's here for?

[resultofwar]

No.

[sixthanimorph.livejournal.com]

Oh, really. He hasn't told you? In all this time? Has he even told you his codename yet?

[resultofwar]

Slade and I aren't close, David. [Not as close as him and Cooper, anyway. Close by Heero's standards, yeah, but.]

[sixthanimorph.livejournal.com]

Let me give you a bit of knowledge then. That's what you were asking for, right? I know a good soldier like you always likes to be well informed.

Oh, and by the way, his codename's Deathstroke. Deathstroke the Terminator.

[resultofwar]

Fascinating. [Deadpan.]

[sixthanimorph.livejournal.com]

Oh, I've got knowledge you'll find more interesting, don't worry. Has he told you anything about Terra?

[resultofwar]

No.

What are you hoping to accomplish, exactly?

[sixthanimorph.livejournal.com]

I want you to know who your buddy really is, Heero. Who you've really thrown your lot in with.

[Read: He's being spiteful and wants to use his comic book knowledge to fuck with you and Slade.]

See, where he's from Slade likes to call himself a mercenary. But really, he's just kind of pathetic. He likes to attack this superhero group called the Teen Titans. They're a bunch of kids, no older than you or me. And Terra was one of them. Until Slade seduced her so she'd betray her team. She was a lot like you, Heero. So was Geo-Force, another kid Slade manipulated into doing his bidding. You seeing a theme here yet?

[resultofwar]

All I see is you pretending you know anything about me to try and convince me I made the wrong decision.

[sixthanimorph.livejournal.com]

Who said anything about convincing you? That's not what this is about, Heero. Actually, it's kinda funny how you look up to Slade like you do, when all he sees you as is his tool. I just wanted to tell you now so, when you finally do find out the truth, you'll know I knew it first. I really hope I'm there to see the look on your face when you do, too.

[resultofwar]

[lol David. Heero has been a weapon for someone else's battles basically his whole life. WHY WOULD THAT BE ANYTHING NEW.]

I'm sure you do.

[sixthanimorph.livejournal.com]

You probably won't realize until the end, though. Terra didn't. You ought to ask him about her sometime. Tell him I told you.

[Tch, he knows you're human somewhere in there, Heero. Even if you don't care now, you will later, he figures.]

[resultofwar]

[Nope, he's a robot, fr srs. :|]

He can read this conversation. [Idiot.]

[sixthanimorph.livejournal.com]

Duh. [Two can play that game.] But it'll still mean so much more coming from you, don't you think?

Or better yet, why not ask some of the other people on board from his world? You know who they are. Ask them what kind of guy Slade is. What he does with kids like you.