[Locked to crew on Galilee]

[goddamnwingman]

This is Nightwing. If you are with a government agent, please do not bring this message up. Communications should be working on planet, at least with our omnicomms. Ability to contact off planet is still blocked, but this is at least something.

Reports are saying that two people were killed in the attack on the hotel last night, which I assume means the rest of the crew is safe. I've seen Fate, Jr., Kang, Kon, Howard, Zouichi, Lash, Lord Zetta, the Doctor, Dr. Henderson, Rory Williams, Ruffnut and Sakura. Edited to add: And Signum. (Sorry again.) We're all safe and in good health. If there is anybody else unaccounted for in our groups, please let me know immediately.

We were teleported away from the hotel before the missiles hit. We've been guests of the CLF since then.

They claim that the bombings that involve civilian casualties have been orchestrated by the Council as a way to keep the people afraid of change and believing that the clones are too stupid and violent to be given a chance. We have had a chance to speak with their government contact, who has backed this up. In fact, it turns out that the Council themselves are clones, having been in power for the past five thousand years, using the cloning technology to make themselves new bodies and transfer memories and personality into them.

The CLF have offered to assist us in gaining the technology that we're looking for in exchange for a limited amount of assistance. It's an offer I'm seriously considering as I had my doubts about what we could get from the Council to begin with. It also doesn't involve killing anybody, so that already makes me happier.

If everybody could sound off and let me know that you're okay. Please.

((OOC note: This post can only be seen by crew members who are on Galilee. It is open to ALL crew members on Galilee, including those who were not teleported by the CLF. It will not reach Stacy because the off-planet communications are still down.))

Comments

[thewunderkind]

Glad you're okay too.

That is the dumbest excuse they could have pulled, considering I bet our rooms weren't that disintegrated to begin with.

This does make me wonder what type of bombing technology they have at their disposition...

[hit-girl-mindy.livejournal.com]

No body pieces either. I mean come on, they could at least lie convincingly. That's just fucking insulting.

Me too. Something else we could use against those damn Ohm. Better than wasting it on something lame like a clone war.

[thewunderkind]

You'd think they could have blown up a few clones of us and scattered the pieces if they were really smart, if you know what I'm saying.

Moses seemed to be the type of guy to appreciate a few good pyrotechnics so I'll ask him what he might recommend me. But you should have seen Zetta do a 180 on his government stance to helping the clones! I still don't quite get it.

[hit-girl-mindy.livejournal.com]

Yeah duh. At least TRY to screw with us.

Heh. Damn. He is totally the reason I don't hate the council.

I totally get it though. He's an Overlord. At this point they're just disrespecting him.

[thewunderkind]

Oh well. Just makes it picking one side to have fun with much easier! I mean, especially when I don't have to be all good and all...

Sides, rebellions tend to have the most explosive and action. All this talk was getting pretty boring, if you ask me.

Oh yeah! That does make sense, considering the clones idolize some of us. I just had to mention some of my past history like the tattoo stuff and he went out and just flipped all over like he had heard enough of everyone talk.

[hit-girl-mindy.livejournal.com]

Ah well. I'm "good," if fallen limbs and explosions of your enemy is still chaotic good...

Oh god, SERIOUSLY. I'm glad somebody said it! Blah bah issues, wah wah cry, my rights. What the HELL.

Oh nice. Maybe people won't be scared shitless by my kills and stuff. It's annoying.

[so-pregnable.livejournal.com]

Someday if you ever get people trying to take your rights away, you'll be allowed talk about how other people deal with it happening to theirs.

[hit-girl-mindy.livejournal.com]

Dude please. In my regular form I'm a kid. Have, like, no rights but to go to school or whatever.

And no powers for a hero. I'm not influenced by this stuff. I get you getting mad about it, doesn't bother me.

Use your aggression to break stuff man. Otherwise, squabbling is pointless.

[so-pregnable.livejournal.com]

1) There's a difference between being a kid and being considered government property.

2) I'll let it go but only 'cause you're a kid. With how you talk, I keep forgetting you're too young to know or understand jack. Only time will let you realize how stupid you sound.

[hit-girl-mindy.livejournal.com]

Well in that case you only sound a "little" like an asshole.

And just you know, those supposed feelings of yours is how you get manipulated. Maybe you'll get lucky and you'll be on the good side, but otherwise someone will be pulling your strings because you chose to get involved that way. But go ahead, assume me being a kid means I don't know anything. Self righteousness is so TOTALLY going to win over getting a job done.

[so-pregnable.livejournal.com]

These "feelings" of mine keep me from killing twiggy little powerless people like you in the name of getting the job done. Things like guilt and giving a crap about people are a little important when you can level a building when you sneeze.

Again, you're not thinking. But then little kids do that.

[thewunderkind]

Are you seriously for real.

[so-pregnable.livejournal.com]

Just because she's a little kid doesn't mean she shouldn't be called on her shit. I'd be a very different person now if I didn't have people call me on the stupid stuff I said when I was younger.

[thewunderkind]

Yeah, maybe you wouldn't have a righteous stick stuck up your ass.

Look, I get you hero types always thinking you're gonna do the right thing and all that dumb stuff, but just because people don't agree with views doesn't mean you can go calling them kids and powerless little twig people. Especially when Hit Girl isn't.

[so-pregnable.livejournal.com]

She is a little kid, she talks like a stupid little kid, she said herself that she was powerless and a little kid, and yes, she is a little twig person.

She's mocking the entire struggle of an entire people as baw baw hurt feelings. They're slaves. She sounds like a goddamn sociopath shrugging that off.

[thewunderkind]

Uhhhh I hope you realize you're arguing with someone whose history includes committing massive exterminations on a few accounts. I'm probably much more of a sociopath than she is. Or was anyway. Whatever.

The point is that arguing about something the both of you have different values on is just going to end up with a text match. Not to mention half of our team is still in the city with the government watching us, so uh, not the time? I can't believe I'm the one saying this but just concentrate on what's important here.

Blowing things up and injecting little programs into Mother Brains.

[so-pregnable.livejournal.com]

Whatever.

[hit-girl-mindy.livejournal.com]

I gotta ask: it feel "righteous" to say shit like that?

It sounds like you shouldn't have these powers if you can threaten people like that. Because, you know, in my world "twiggy" people get killed all the time. Mostly? Because they make mistakes like acting on their feelings, NOT on common sense, when you have to act based on instinct, not on experiences and all. They don't need your powers, they just kill because they can. Because they expect you to fail.

You're the one that sounds like a kid, resorting to fucking threats about killing people because of your supposed morals. In my world, there are no superheroes, just guys with fucking guns and might and the police in their pocket. You wanna feel guilt? Fine. Care about the countless people we need to help at the end of all this. I HAVE TO.

My world is gone, being normal is gone. I'm HERE. So I might as well get off my ass, forget abut my personal bullshit and HELP.

And that is the extent of my personal touchy feely that I'm going to go.

[so-pregnable.livejournal.com]

I didn't make any threats. What I mean is that if I really let loose, stopped caring, and just did the "do the job thing" there'd be a trail of red mist and body parts left in my wake.

I have to care. I have to feel guilt. I have to do the justice thing, and the 'we don't kill' thing, and care about people and hold back.

You said that people would jerk me around by my feelings someday. It's possible. But if they weren't there, people like you wouldn't matter, because it's stuff like compassion and caring about even really annoying people that keeps me from being an unstoppable half-alien death machine.

I don't have the luxury of not-giving-a-shit about people that you apparently do.

[hit-girl-mindy.livejournal.com]

...Yeah, you don't. But its funny how you call it a luxury.

I've read enough comics man. And super heroes go through shit, it sucks. All of these conflicting feelings and justice and all, you go through it. You need it. You have the power to level others.

In my world? Those kinda guys don't exist. What you call luxury is fighting and breaking bones, dealing in blood and death. And I can tell you: someone who wants to kill you will use everything, EVERYTHING, to do it. So there's no allow to hesitate, you just move and go. It's almost funny that you equate it to a luxury. It's not.

So seriously, stop trying to use the kid shit to talk down to me. I don't even know what normal kids fucking my age do.

I'm dealing with this the same way. Don't like it all you want, fine. But don't you condescend to me. Life isn't rosy, none of this is FUN.

[so-pregnable.livejournal.com]

I'd be more sympathetic if it weren't for the fact that I know people as powerless as you that don't deal in blood and death. It's a choice. If you're not good enough to avoid the blood and death, you shouldn't be in the game. But then you're like what, eleven? Twelve? Thirteen? You shouldn't be anyway.

But that's the only reason I've said anything. I didn't have a childhood either until that thing that deaged everyone. First day I broke out of my test tube at Cadmus, I was out there fighting the never-ending battle. And it bothers me to see someone as young as you being that jaded. And what you said was stupid. You know it was. Even if you wanna be pragmatic about it, you know why people baw about their rights.

You want me to not be condescending? You want to be treated like an adult? Then don't dish it if you can't take it. I'm talking to you like I'd talk to one of my colleagues if they were saying a bunch of stupid crap.

[hit-girl-mindy.livejournal.com]

Oh please grow up. You happen to know a few people who just narrowly avoided it. So what? People get lucky. I've seen it happen, big deal. I don't get lucky. I could specifically tell you how fucking unlucky it is, but its not important. Even your spat, it isn't . And its embarrassing how many times I have to say I'm thinking long term. You know as little about my world as I do about yours, and think being young makes you privileged enough not to know.

It's a dumb argument, and that's sad.

What I said was influenced by, you know, everything, the universes and all. And you can justify it to yourself however you want, no big deal to me. But do me a favor and keep to your own conversations. I was talking to someone about how everyone is going to shit, not you. I have my own stuff to deal with. I can't imagine why anyone would get a hard on bitching about useless stuff. To me, this place will blow up, whether by what we do or by the Ohm.

So really. Grow up and do what you "have" to do. I'm already sick of this taking garbage.

[badassfreakingoverlord]

Hey.

Don't you have bigger things to worry about? We're about to kick the asses of the people who dicked you over by branding you against your will. The sooner the better as far as I'm concerned. We're all on the same side here.

Or, blunt phrasing: Back the hell off my disciple.

[so-pregnable.livejournal.com]

Unless you can't tell from how fast I'm posting these replies, I can type at superspeed.

I have all the time in the world to worry about whatever the hell I want.

Late to the party as usual.

[ruffntumblenut.livejournal.com]

Not with that attitude jerk. Your time gets shorter with every post!