Waking Up (Future Foundation)

[outlaws_pryde]

Bobby woke up and met Mary first.

He named her "Skrull-Babe Funtimes" in his head, the easier to remember her by. Skrulls were decent to be around and, most of the time, they were honest. If they didn't like you, they didn't like you. Unlike the Kree, they didn't pretend to be civilized while acting like jerks.

"So, Mary...I think I remember your friends from the pier. At least I remember a couple of them. I was pretty hurt but...did I actually see a big orange rock person?" he asked her.

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[stormy_skrull]

Mary grinned. "Yeah, that's be Jacob. Great guy, and really, one of the more normal people around here. Plus, he's way better looking than his brother."

She led him through the halls of the Pier, heading towards the hangar. "Doctor Power was heading up working on your ship last I knew," she said. "She's got the most experience with that kind of thing."

[outlaws_pryde]

"Cool. Hey, is there a phone I can use? I was on the holo with my mom before I crashed and I should /probably/ tell her I'm not dead. Just a courtesy thing, you know?"

[stormy_skrull]

"Oh, sure," Mary said. She fished into one of her pockets and handed him a phone. "Here. You can use mine."

[aqua_gambit]

Remi was heading... somewhere. Possibly for the baby. He couldn't quite remember. He hadn't gotten much sleep lately. Maybe he was going to get a cup of coffee. He stopped in the middle of a hallway, floating above the floor.

Maybe he was getting coffee? Maybe that might keep him awake...

... and not seeing people in the hallway. He rubbed his eyes. Nope. The walking green lizard booger was definitely Mary. With saved stranger accompaniment.

[outlaws_pryde]

It took Bobby a second to remember his mother's phone number. When you could holo-dial your mother regularly, remembering a phone number seemed lame.

He dialed the number and waited.

"Hey, mom. It's me." Bobby said sheepishly. "I just wanted to let you know I'm alive and--"

"Robert. Carmen. Quill." Kitty said, her voice eerily calm. "I'm glad you're alive. Because when I find you, I'm going to kill you myself. Where are you? I know you're on Earth because you're calling from a New York number."

"Mom, there's no need to freak out. I met up with some friends and I'll call you as soon as I can come out...to visit." Bobby said, not wanting to give away the school's location. He didn't know that the school was public knowledge now.

"You were being shot at near Saturn. You are now on Earth. Where is your ship?" she asked.

"Bzzt! Mom! Can you hear me? The connection is getting back. Bzzt!"


"Bobby, don't you dare hang up on me!"

Bobby pressed the END button and handed the phone back to Mary.

"Hey, isn't that one of the guys that was with you?" he asked, nodding to Remy.

Mom was going to kill him. He should probably enjoy the last few hours of his life.

[stormy_skrull]

Mary fought the urge to giggle. "Doesn't exactly sound like your mom's happy with you..."

Her attention was successfully averted. She waved to Remi. "Remi! He's awake! Can I keep him!"

[aqua_gambit]

Remi blinked at the pair in the hallway. He shook his head to clear it and focus on what was in front of him. He floated down to them.

"Bonzour. I'm Remi deNamor," he introduced as he came to a stop. He looked at Mary, looked at Bobby, and then looked back at Mary. "No longer into the thin, geeky scientist-types?"

[outlaws_pryde]

Bobby looked at Mary. "Nope. She's going to find out where I am. Then she's going to kill me. But I think I have a few hours left to live." he said, chuckling.

He saw Remy and offered a nod.


"Nice to meet you, Remi. I'm Robert Quill, but call me Bobby. Thank you all for the save back there. The Badoon are bad news most days but it's a good thing they didn't catch me."

"I need to know where the rest of my things are because there's a valuable item I need to get off this planet." he said.

[stormy_skrull]

Mary shrugged. "Oh, you know, everybody's my type. Plus Griff's been buried in the lab for ages."

"...Where did we put those?"

[aqua_gambit]

He offered a hand to Bobby. "Alexa did most of the heavy-lifting with her orbital lasers, but we do what we can. Rest of your things? Like the ship that sank beneath the waves?"

He glanced at Mary. "No, not everyone."

Certainly not Remi.

[outlaws_pryde]

"Well, I'll thank Alexa for her her help, too. She really bailed me out with those guns. Getting the ship back is important, too...but I'm more worried about my gear. There's an object I've got to get back. It can't be allowed to leave the area." he said, shaking Remi's hand.

He noted Remi's comments about Mary's...significant other? He wisely remained quiet to hear more on the matter.

[stormy_skrull]

"Ya know," Mary said, ignoring Remi's barb, "you keep bringing that up. What'd you bring? Terrigen crystals? M'krann crystal? Crystal crystal?"

[aqua_gambit]

"Oh, she does love frying hostile aliens with them." And making sure Remi himself was not fried. He was thankful himself for that.

He frowned slightly. "I don't quite remember your things. Lack of sleep might have something to do with it. If here, your gear is probably locked down in a storage locker... somewhere."

[outlaws_pryde]

"None of those. I'm not screwing with any Inhumans or the Shi'ar to grab that stuff." Bobby said.

"It's just a Cosmic Cube. I just need to make sure that the Kree and Badoon don't get it and do something like, you know, wipe out the Spartoi Empire with it." Bobby said.

[stormy_skrull]

"Oh, just a Cosmic Cube, well that's not so..."

Mary stopped. "Wait. That's worse."

Another pause. "Wait. You have a cosmic cube and you're not already emperor of the universe with a harem full of intergalactic beauties? That's some willpower you've got there."

[aqua_gambit]

Everything about that bit of the conversation made Remi furrow his brows. This so sounded something he needed more sleep to process properly. Or Alexa nearby to explain it.

"...huh?"

[soulstealingstark]

Alexa walks up about then with the baby strapped to her back while she herself sips some coffee.

"What's going on dudes?"

[outlaws_pryde]

"Well, Skrull-Babe, the problem with that idea is that the Cosmic Cube is a weapon of mass destruction. I could pick it up and become emperor of the universe, get a harem made of of thousands of hot Skrull chicks and call it great.

But then Remy here could pick it up and ask for a galaxy made of chocolate chip ice-cream and my vision of the universe would cease to exist." Bobby said.

"Besides, being emperor of the universe would suck. Imagine all of the work you'd have to do!" Bobby said.

Alexa introduced herself and Bobby almost said hello...until he noticed the baby.

"Uh, guys. This lady has a baby strapped to her back." he said, looking a little alarmed.

[stormy_skrull]

Mary grinned. "Of course she does," she said. "Easier than carrying him in her arms."

She mentally backed up a couple spaces though. "...And you thought bringing it to Earth was a good idea?"

[aqua_gambit]

Remi crossed his arms in front of his chest. Like he would do chocolate chip ice cream. He was more of a rocky road kind of Atlantean.

He quirked an eyebrow at the surprise. "She has our daughter strapped to her back, yes. Not an uncommon sight for mothers around here."

He looked to his Alexa. "Bonzour, mo bizou. Apparently, we have a cosmos-altering thingie in the Pier. Somewhere."

[outlaws_pryde]

"Oh. That's a thing here, then?" he asked, a little unnerved. He'd seen a creature on Iagos once that kept children in a cage on its back...after kidnapping them from their families.

He suppressed a shudder.

"Yeah, my dad thought bringing it here was better than letting the Kree-Badoon alliance get their hands on it. If they did, they'd just think the Spartax Empire right out of existence." he said.

"And I'm not keen on my dad dying because some jerk-ass Kree thought it would be chuckle-worthy." he said.

"But I was actually going to take it and hide it somewhere else. I just happened to get jumped around Saturn and I had to make a pit stop here."

[stormy_skrull]

"Well, like I said, Doctor Power is supervising the salvage. If anything's turned up, she'd be the one to ask."

[soulstealingstark]

"Can I play with the cosmos-altering thingie? It sounds fun and interesting and we don't have too many of those around here. And I won't kill your dad. I'm pretty good at not killing dads. Tony's still alive, after all."

[outlaws_pryde]

"Um, we can't play with a Cosmic Cube. It's not a toy. In fact, it would be a really bad idea to play with it." Bobby said, his nervousness in Alexa's presence suddenly increasing.

This woman wore her baby on her back. Bobby found that odd and terrifying.

"Dads are kind of important. So are moms. I'm pretty sure mine is going to kill me the next time I call her. Is there a standard Earth way to apologize to your mother? Like flowers and candy? Or...something?" he asked.

[aqua_gambit]

Remi glanced between Bobby and Alexa. He managed to keep a smirk off his face.

"Alexa would be the resident expert to answer that question." Resident meaning in that hallway at the moment. "She is a mother."

[stormy_skrull]

Mary shrugged. "Don't look at me. My mom's not from here."

[soulstealingstark]

"I suggest calling your mom, begging for mercy, and offering to buy her lunch. And then not crying too much when she still kicks your ass."

[outlaws_pryde]

Bobby took in everyone's words. Alexa suggested that Mom might still be mad even if he apologized and Bobby figured she might be right. He'd hung up on her twice, after all.

Kitty Pryde didn't like being hung up on, especially when she was worried.

"You guys are right. I'll call her and face the music." he said.

"In the meantime, I was telling Mary that you guys have a pretty cool set up here. Have you all been working together long?" he asked. He assumed that Remi and Alexa had been, at least, because baby.

[aqua_gambit]

"I'm only been in this reality for a few years," Remi mused as he tried to figure out how long the team had been running under his lead. He'd dropped into the big reservoir in Central Park, been on the Avengers for a little bit, and then came over to the Future Foundation to lead the field team.

"I've been leading the Imaginauts for around two years." He was not even going to mention that he and Alexa had been going out for what could be measured in months before the big whoops.

[stormy_skrull]

"The organization's been around a little longer than that," Mary added. "My Aunt and Uncle set it up to continue their ideals and ideas. But it was mostly just a think-tank before then."

[soulstealingstark]

"I don't even know this dude's middle name," Alexa gestured to Remi. She wasn't ashamed of their short relationship. When you know, you know and Guin was proof that they knew.

"I'm mostly here for the coffee and to science stuff. Didn't want to work for my dad."