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[retroactively]

[He thinks there'll be static in the transmission but there isn't. This tech is a lot more advance than the boxes he's used to. He yells at it and leans close to the netbook. All anyone is getting is black for now.]

Hello! Hey! Anyone on this?

[That steady tapping noise? It's the sound of him tapping at the netbook. It doesn't work like that, he knows and yet he's still doing it because it's a habit to hit on non-responsive machinery. Then finally, his face appears, at least the lower portion of it. He had the thumb on the camera all along. Bucky's mouth twitch upwards, but he doesn't miss a beat.]

Green light still means go, huh? Glad somethings don't change.

[A long inhale and a short exhale. Then it's down to business.]

This is place-- It's nice. It can't be a HYDRA base. That lady was way too decent. That and apparently this is Britain. Last time, I was in Britain-- Long story.

[A beat]

We're all sitting ducks here, aren't we?

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[onemoredeath]

[ Someone had got to get that lady to give these idiots basic lessons to use the netbooks because Takegami is getting tired of seeing random openings like this. ]

I have yet to see the enemy wish to use a large missile to wipe us all out. They seem to think we are little more then pests and very well-contained here.

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[retroactively]

[He's from 1945. Back in his day, he had to re-route circuitry to make things turn on.]

Yeah. And pest or no pest, we's still sitting. We might as well be ducks.

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[onemoredeath]

Yes and no. They have a force much greater than a bomb - humans that look and act as one, very much like machines. With them, they do not see any reason to come after us.

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[retroactively]

They'll find a reason sooner or later. If they've got that much fire power, they have the advantage. This is a waiting game.

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[onemoredeath]

Then we do not wait. We accept the stories of our hosts and help them to undermine the other people's position of power.

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[atwar]

Is that meant to be a jest?

[ 'sitting ducks' ]

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[retroactively]

No, it's--

[A beat]

Yeah. If you want to think about it that way. It's a joke. At our expense.

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[atwar]

My least favorite sort.

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[retroactively]

Well, the joke's on all of us. Better get used to it.

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[atwar]

I am not laughing.

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[godofshawarma]

You are familiar with HYDRA? [ He knows that word. He heard the star spangled one use it on the ship about the weapons. HE ACTUALLY GETS THIS POST. Sort of. Except for the thing about ducks, but Sif is totally on that. Good Sif. ] Are you acquainted with Steve Rogers?

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[retroactively]

[Steeeeeve. It feels like he hasn't seen him in forever. Stay cool, Bucky. There's no telling what this guy wants.]

Yeah. Who's asking?

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[godofshawarma]

[ He's got pretty much no worry about letting people know who he is, so it comes out easily and proudly ]

Thor Odinson, of Asgard. [ A beat ] I have fought along his side. He is a good man.

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[retroactively]

[He's still skeptical but there's a smile on his face.]

A good man, huh? That sounds about right. Don't think he mentioned anything about a big guy called Thor Odinson though. Where did you two-- [Huh, armor.] --serve together?

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[godofshawarma]

When the Chitauri attacked the realm not but a few days ago, the Captain alongside several other brave heroes of Midgard assisted me in defending it.

[ He makes the most sense. ]

[majoring]

I take it you're not familiar with this sort of tech?

[retroactively]

Heh. Not familiar is a bit of a stretch. Last time I was awake, the paper was dated January 10th, 1945.

[majoring]

Wow, yeah, I can see you being a bit off-balance. First things first, hitting the things generally doesn't help. Even if it does make you feel better.

[retroactively]

You mean my communications officer was lying all the long? [Snort.] Works perfectly fine after I got a few hits on it.

[majoring]

[A chuckle] I think there've been one too many lawsuits from people breaking their things trying to make them work since your time. They try to discourage it, these days.

Name's Alenko, by the way. Kaidan Alenko. Have you been filled on about what's going on here?

[noble_nate]

[The hardest thing for Nathaniel to understand is the strange idioms used by these people from different worlds.]

What does that mean? "Sitting ducks?"

[retroactively]

We're lying in the open. We're vulnerable and waiting for someone to finish the job. Got an idea what that means?

[noble_nate]

Ah, I understand now.

I don't think we're sitting ducks, then. They've spent too much time and effort to bring us all here just to kill us. I've been here for several months now, and they've caused us no physical harm.

As far as our enemies go, they've not bothered us for some time.

[retroactively]

We're still sitting on our butts, and waiting for something to happen. That's what gets me. Waiting.

You know that other expression, calm before the storm? That's sort of the feeling I'm getting here.

[noble_nate]

We've had quite a bit of storm here lately. You just happened to come in during a rare calm period.