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Axis & Allies E14: Standing At Attention · The Multiverse Collective

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I don't. I don't know if she would.
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She's floating so high from the promotion.
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And the kiss. And the cigarette thing, I
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wouldn't call it I have. Been thinking for a while about
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like what is like the hottest way that you couldn't like flirt
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with Cordelia And I'm like if she has fire powers she
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absolutely would like light a cigarette with it or something
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like that. Johnny torch it.
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Yeah, Johnny torch it. Yeah, basically, how can I,
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Johnny, torch this in a gay way? Yeah, it works.
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She did it. I.
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Would work on any St. man as well, let's be honest.
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Oh my God, yeah. Honestly I don't even smoke
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anymore like cigarettes but I can tell you for a fact right
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now if a girl came over to me and put a cigarette in my mouth
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and kissed it and he like would smoke that whole.
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Cigarette. Yeah, that's why I was going to
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start smoking cigarettes. That's why I smoked for fucking.
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Smoke because I'm like, I kind of hope she didn't to see how
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she would react to having. This.
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We're all just very lucky that Cordelia didn't pass out
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because. We.
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Don't know what happened. That was that was an option.
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Yeah. Incredible news.
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I've been promoted. We also, as a side note, did
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defeat that shadow monster with help from big man the General.
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The General. Sorry, I'm spending too much
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time with Ace. Who happened to get laid?
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Question mark finally fucking one of us had to.
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We're not talking about Eunice. I'm not going to talk about
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that. And, you know, business as usual
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with Rex just trying to fill Gary's shoes with seawater.
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What is his fascination with putting seawater in people's
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shoes? But I do think the biggest thing
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that's happening is we are being asked to return stateside.
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So that's not ominous or horrifying at all.
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The Multiverse Collective. We open on the image of the
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Enola Gay landed in this giant field, its cargo door open.
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The fat man has been loaded back onto into the cargo Bay and they
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are currently awaiting the Foxcatcher to embark as well.
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Yeah, Cordelia will, without any sort of fanfare, get the
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Foxcatcher loaded up in the most efficient way possible while
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holding several clipboards, trying desperately to look
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professional and responsible. And not like she's actively
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shaken after the whole cigarette thing.
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She's floating on air because of the promotion, because of the
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cigarette thing, because she was like publicly acknowledged by
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Fat Man. Jerry Finch.
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General Finch. Yeah, yes, General Finch is how
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she will refer to him and also by the fact that she has 100%
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packed Aces Made costume. Yep, it's.
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Like priority #1. It's on the rider.
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It has to be there. OK, as you're sort of looking at
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this airship, you get sort of get the magnitude of it.
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I mean, this thing is it's a derigible that can fit a machine
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not only the size of the Foxcatcher, but also this 30
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foot tall Astor and also normally would be too.
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But Rex doesn't need Ace doesn't need a Bay because he just
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absorbs Hyperion. So and it like this thing is
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like almost the size of a cruise ship.
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It's fucking huge. And yeah, there's also just a
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bunch of other, you know, there's random grunts coming up
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to Cordelia and just exchanging clipboards and everybody's
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making sure everything's tied down and eventually the not all
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aboard. It's the fucking train.
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What the fuck is it all? All the ship the the the the
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siren comes over the radio to tell everybody that it's time to
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get on board. Cordelia is standing at the Bay
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with her checklist checking off, checking things off as Ace and
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Rex board if they decide to board.
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I think Ace looks back as he, as he walks on the ship, he, he
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looks back at Lizette and this beautiful island and he, he
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thinks about it for too long, meets Cordelia's eye, and I
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think he just gets a look and scurries aboard the ship.
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Yes. I think it would.
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Would the fallen already be on the Enola guy?
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I imagine you probably loaded it into one of the foxcatchers.
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Yeah, that's what I was thinking.
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As well. Yeah.
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So it was just there. Rex would just walk past
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Cordelia. He's got like sunglasses on and
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a beer in his hand. He's just like.
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She checks two boxes. One for Rex, one for beer.
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Yes. It's the one, it's the one
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requisite for for coming on this mission.
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She's fully ensured that there is beer in the fridge in his
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quarters or in the ice box in his quarters.
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I don't think Theo Le Gay probably has like.
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I mean, it's got facilities. This is we're, we're, we're
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talking, I mean, a, a vessel this size has proper facilities.
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Oh. It's got a mini fridge.
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Hell yeah. There is beer chilling for
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wrecks specifically. Yeah.
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I, I feel like each of the pilots gets their own like small
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cabin and there's officers cabins and shit like that.
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So like there's, there's plenty of room to move around.
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Oh yeah. So everybody's on board the the
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cargo Bay shuts and this massive airship begins to ascend as you
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guys are on your way home. How does that feel like?
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How does you guys have been like since the beginning of the war?
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Last time you were at home was Pearl Harbor.
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I mean, I'm not a home technically.
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No, but I. Mean is my home away from home.
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Yeah. You're closer.
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No longer in an active war zone. Yeah, you're not on constant
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risk of potentially dying. I think the adrenaline drop is
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like really intense for Cornelia.
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She's been riding on it for weeks now.
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I think for Rex it's just same shit, different day.
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I don't think he think once the adrenaline's gone after a fight,
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he just sort of goes back to normal.
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But you know, that's all he knows he's used for.
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He's used to fight. He's not used for diplomatic
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reasons. He gets sent somewhere because
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there's a reason he's being sent there.
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It's not, it's not go here and speak to a person because this
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is this is a really important thing that you need to use your
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words to to sort out. It's more go here and fuck this
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shit up and then come back and we'll send you somewhere else.
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So how does it feel for for Rex when he's not being sent
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somewhere to fight? I think, I think he, I think
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he's fine with it, but I think the American sort of lifestyle
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is a lot different to what he's used to.
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So I feel like he doesn't go, you know, like he doesn't go
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socialised, don't go drinking out and stuff.
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Like he probably just, he's very anti social in that way.
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He probably just stays on the Army base or wherever the pilots
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stay and trains and keeps himself because he'd rather keep
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himself when he does actually get discharged and he can go
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back to the UK, sort of get back to life that way instead of, you
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know, instead of starting a whole new life there.
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OK, Ace. I think the first thing Ace
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does, once he once he realizes that he has significant
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downtime, I think the first thing he does like as this
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adrenaline leaves his body is he just goes in his room and he
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just, he just cries for a while. And I think that's probably a
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pretty valid reaction to the things that you've seen and done
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in the last three. Weeks.
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Well, I think. That's been here.
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Like Pearl Harbor, really, I mean, before that, Ace was this
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like, you know, cocky dude who was like, I'm the fucking man.
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And I think Pearl Harbor really rattled him.
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And between that and going to going to the Pacific theater and
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going through everything, I really don't think Ace has had
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time to really like come to terms with what he has been
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through. So I just feel like this is the
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first time that I think Ace is truly alone and able to process
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his feelings. I mean, he was captured.
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I mean, they were friendly, but he was.
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I mean, he didn't know that at the time.
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I mean he was captured, he was stabbed through the heart by a
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samurai Astor like they're I mean.
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Arm ripped off. That was like, and that was his
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first real combat experience. Like, I know like, you know, Ace
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was kind of like the guy at West Point.
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So like, really, really didn't like, you know, get into all
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that much like crazy shit, like the, you know, the worst that
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happened is, you know, he got a low, he got a low mark on a test
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and was admonished by a professor.
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So, you know, going from that to like having several scenarios of
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nearly dying and like seeing these 0 pilots and you know,
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like really bonding with Hyperion.
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It's just, it was, it's a lot, man.
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How do you how do you think Ace was growing up?
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Do you think his father like told a lot of war stories?
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And if he did, do you think Ace believed him or did you just
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think that they were like embellished and it didn't happen
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to you? So it didn't really seem real,
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and now you're sort of. I think Ace's father would
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probably, especially outwardly, was one of those guys that he
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didn't have PSPTSD. He had nostalgia and so he
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fought. You know, he probably fought
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because what he he probably fought in the tail end of World
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War One. I think, I think we did the math
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on this and I think he and Cordelia's dad were both in
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World War 1. I think, yeah, I know.
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We. Did math on it earlier on, but
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that was almost a year ago at this point.
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I think so. So, you know, I think the
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stories that he would tell Ace and the family growing up, we're
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very much like romanticizing war and you know, very much like,
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like I'm the guy. Nothing like nothing bad ever
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happened to me. Everything that I did was great.
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Like, I loved killing all these Europeans.
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And so I think Ace just, you know, growing up and hearing
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that that's what he assumed that war was going to be like.
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He assumed that he was going to like, take all these trophies
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and like, you know, come back and be like, yeah, I have like
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25 confirmed kills and just be like the dude.
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And now that he's in it, I think, you know, I I think his
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like, whole worldview is just kind of shattering.
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Like, holy shit, this is what war is like.
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I don't want to fucking do this and and not in like a I'm gonna
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dessert from the army kind of way, but like I'm here.
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I'm going to do what I have to do.
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But like this is not going to be fun.
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I'm not in it to, you know, collect trophies or to like
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Notch, you know, kills on the body of my aster.
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Like I'm, I'm here to like, I'm here to help people and like
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make the world better than I found it 'cause I think that's,
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that's really at this point, what kind of sticks with, with
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Ace, his dad, you know, probably one of those like Boy Scouty
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types. So I, you know, they would be
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out in the, in the woods in Appalachia, hunting and doing
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all the stuff. So I think, I think that
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mentality of like leave the world better than you found it
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is what, once Ace is able to like process, that's what sticks
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with him. And I think that's what Ace
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realizes that he's fighting for. Yeah, I, I, I think that makes a
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lot of sense. And I, I think another thing
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that may be the reason that your dad was sort of this big war
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hero and why he loved it so much was because it was before all
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the armored divisions, because World War One was fought over
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people trying to control the weave.
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And since then they've developed the Asters.
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So World War One was fought mostly on foot with enlisted
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men. So he sort of had an equal
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playing field. And now you have the advantage
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and you're still getting your ass kicked.
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Cordelia, you are shown to your officers quarters and they're
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basically they're slightly bigger than the regular pilots
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quarters. You have a desk as well, is
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basically the only difference. Fair, you got to have somewhere
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to put those fucking clipboards, huh?
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How, How is she going to process everything that she's gone
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through? Honestly, I don't even think she
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wants to try. I think she's so overwhelmed and
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has had these like incredibly manic highs and lows over the
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last few weeks where she's starting to settle into her
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command a little bit and finally starting to feel like she's
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connecting with the people under her command.
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And that's what she has to focus on because her job's still not
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over. She's still in charge of this,
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of Rex and of Ace and of what's happening, and she has so many
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questions that she doesn't have answers to and that she's not
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going to have answers to. I mean, this is still all wildly
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beyond her control, despite the fact that she's supposed to be
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in charge of it. She's, she doesn't know what to
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do and she doesn't like that she doesn't know what to do and that
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she doesn't have the answers and that she can't help Rex not fall
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down this dark spiraling rabbit hole and that she can't keep a
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safe all the time. And he was captured.
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I mean, he was fucking captured under her, under her command.
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And she still hasn't told anyone and she's not going to.
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And so now she's harboring these, these secrets and she's
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wondering how many more fucking secrets is she going to have by
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the end of this? And now there's this gun.
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There's this gun and she doesn't understand why she has it and
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what it means and what any of this is about and this letter.
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And I think she takes the gun out and she puts it on the desk
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in front of her and she's just staring at it, head in her hands
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and and is like dumbfounded. How do you want to?
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What are you looking at with this gun?
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Are you trying to examine it? Are you going to try and clean
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it? Oh yeah, She's going to
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disassemble it completely to clean it and put it back
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together. I think that's like such an such
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an integral part of being somebody in the forces is that
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you have your service weapon and you know every single part and
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how it works and you can take it apart and clean it and put it
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back together so fucking fast. And I think that's the first
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thing that she's going to do. Here's the thing with
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specifically the Lot revolver is that it's a weirdly intricate
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weapon. It's got levers and hammers and
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weird switches all over it. How did is she going to know how
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to handle this? Like has she handled old school
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revolvers? Before I think no, I think she's
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going to make very detailed notes as she takes it apart.
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Like as the things slip apart, she's going to do like little, I
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don't know, like a little schematic drawing for herself.
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Yeah, as she's disassembling it, you realize that every chamber.
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So I'm, I'm going to I, I know we talked about this briefly in
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West, but I'm just going to say the Lamont revolver is a fucking
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cartridge weapon. It's the version 2 because I
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don't want to have you guys deal with fucking black powder and
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balls like ball like ball rounds.
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So you've as you unload it, you realize that the every regular
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chamber has been fired or has has is loaded, but the shotgun
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round in the Center for some reason of this revolver has been
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fired. It's just, I think it's a 20
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gauge, I think, I don't remember exactly what gauge it is, but I
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think it's a 20 gauge cartridge you pull out that's been shot
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and. I think that just leaves her
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with more questions. I don't, I don't think she has
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any idea what to do with the information that she's gleaned.
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I don't think she has any more answers about it other than the
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fact that. Why don't you, why don't you
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roll a dispel uncertainties and we'll see if you can get any
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extra information about this. OK, cool.
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What am I rolling to spell uncertainties with plus?
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No, plus no. Well, I rolled A5.
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What's my plus? No, let's see.
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I think it's like 0. It's -1 I rolled the four.
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I think that's about what you've rolled the first time you tried
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to look at this thing too. That makes.
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Sense I'm adding one to my spotlight.
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Goodbye. Yep.
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So yeah, you, you disassemble it.
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So you, you disassemble it, you manage to figure out what the
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fuck's going on with it. You can reassemble it.
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You can figure out just by sort of checking against other rounds
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to figure out what caliber it is.
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You're able to get it in a serviceable condition, but you
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glean no extra information about it.
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So this is going to this trip's going to take a while.
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It's this, this is a massive airship.
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It's not a fast airship. So I, I feel like at this point
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it's been maybe a day. Everybody's sort of figured out
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where they're going, stuff like that.
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Rex, you've sort of recovered enough of your senses to not be
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impeded anymore. Like you're not feeling like
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you're fully charged, but you got enough to not be dragon.
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So, so as you as you're walking down a hallway, you pass by a
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door and you see or you you overhear a a German accent
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talking to somebody else. I'm just going to lean against
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the door, the outside, and just keep listening for a moment.
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You're able to actually let's, let's, let's have you roll back
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to the moves here. Let's do, I believe read the
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room would be the most appropriate.
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That'd be plus cents. That's an 8.
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An 8. All right, you can ask one
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question about what you hear. I will say before, before you
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ask your question, I I will give you the free information.
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You can tell that this is Doctor Schmidt and he is talking to
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General Finch. Oh, oh, OK.
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See, I've got 2 here that I can't decide which one's better
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for the situation. I want to figure out what
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they're talking about. So would it be what's Smith's
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approach or what is? How does Smith really feel?
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Probably really feel I, I think that's sort of the more what
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you're looking for the the approach is more like what magic
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form they take. So what you're able to glean
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from this conversation is so from what you're able to hear
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through the door, you sort of get the sense that Schmidt is
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reporting in about what he has learned and what he's seen, and
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that you get the vibe that Finch seems to respect Schmidt.
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Like I don't know if you can get anything specific about any new
20:50
information specifically, but it's up to you if you want to
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act on this conversation or just leave it be.
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I feel like he just let it be. There's no point pissing off a
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general and I can always fuck with Schmidt at any other point
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during this whole trip. So.
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Ace. Yes.
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You all right? I've been holding on to this one
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for a while. Oh.
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Boy. Ace, you're getting kind of
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hungry and you, you ask a soldier which way to the canteen
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on this ship and he points it and he's like, it's that way.
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So just just up there, take a left and you'll, you'll, you'll
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find the food. Don't worry about it all.
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Right. Thank you.
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Appreciate it. And as you get there and you
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turn the corner, you see a a glowing green sign with a giant
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white Q as you find a Quiznos on on this airship.
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Well, you know, you know what? I don't think I've ever seen nor
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heard of this, but some something's telling me that I'm
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going to enjoy this. And Ace walks right in.
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As as you're sitting there enjoying your delicious toasted
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sub from Quiznos, you hear sort of like a a clattering commotion
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from nearby. I was just trying to eat my sub
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God, All right, what? What is it this time?
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And I think Ace is, he has like half of it that's just in his
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hand and he's just like eating it as he's like casually walking
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out. So you, you go around this
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corner and there's sort of like a storage room next to where you
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were and you, you find a bunch of boxes that have been like
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knocked over. I think Ace is just with his
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with his freehand. He's going to just start trying
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to put these boxes in order. Yeah, as as you're digging
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through these boxes, you move one and you go to grab the next
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box and your hand grabs a very firm, shapely ass that's up in
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the air. And you hear it just wiggles and
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you hear what do you know what bad touch?
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What are you doing? Oh my God.
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Oh, I'm, oh, I'm so, so, so deeply sorry.
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Who's? Who did I touch?
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As as you're as this person extracts themselves and stands
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up, long blonde hair falls and Lizette turns around to look at
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you and goes I've been caught. The sub drops from his head.
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I'm going to have to clean that up.
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What are you doing here? I'd snuck a.
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Board I hid underneath the the the big machine that came on.
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You mean the foxcatcher? Yeah, whatever that thing is.
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OK, I, I, I'm not quite sure. I'm very happy, but I'm also
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very scared that somebody's going to see this and I'm going
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to get in a lot of trouble. Let me yeah, put this on and you
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just put some like straight up like.
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Solid Snake in it. Yep, not but not even like
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crouched out-of-the-box, just like the box on top of her head
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and like her torso and bottom is clearly visible.
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And he just like grabs her hand and he's just like, all right,
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I'm going to, I'm going to see if I can take you back to the
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quarters and then at least you'll have a place.
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Oh, OK, I'm I've just been staying in the storage closet.
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All right, well, you can stay with me.
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At least you'll have a bed. I'll sleep on the floor.
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It's fine. Yeah, let's let's figure out a
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role to see how successfully you I was going.
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To say please let me bump into a while the walk in.
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Let's do it. You're going to get it.
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Please. Weather the storm roll.
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Yeah, Cordelia is on a sadness walk right now as well.
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So that's. Can't.
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Let's do, let's do plus sense. I think that's the one that
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makes the most sense. You're trying to figure out the
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best way. Plus sense.
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All right, I got a + 1 and I don't need it.
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Nat 12. Nat Nat 2.
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I was about. To take that point of the
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spotlight. Into you, you, you come to AT
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intersection and on one side of the T is Cordelia and the other
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side is Rex. I think Ace just looks to the
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left, looks to the right, and he's just like captain I am.
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I'm just moving. Damn it, ace.
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I am moving, I don't. Have tits in an ass.
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I don't know what you're talking about.
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This is just a normal box that I am moving to my quarters.
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God. I'm gonna click my fingers and
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pull behind them and pull the box off Lizette.
26:19
Oh my God, Lizette, how did you get here?
26:22
Cordelia is on her knees in the hallway.
26:24
She's fallen to her knees, holding her head in her hands.
26:28
What are you doing to me? I'm.
26:32
Going to look at Cordelia and be like so I'm guessing everything
26:34
I did on the island is not as bad as this.
26:37
No, let's get her back to his quarters right now.
26:40
Portal. That's where I was going.
26:42
Fingers click. I click my fingers and the
26:45
portal opens. We get into into Ace's room and
26:50
then click my fingers one more time and pull two days out.
26:54
One for me, one Cordelia. Immediately.
27:00
Is canned beer a thing back then or does she open this with her
27:03
teeth? I've.
27:05
Got my bastard sword like with me all the time so I just use
27:08
that as like a bottle. Does your bastard sword have a
27:10
little spot right by the hill? That's a can opener. 100%.
27:17
I think we're both going to need this.
27:19
And then he just. Claudia tornadoes the entire
27:21
beer into her mouth. Oh.
27:23
That was the only one you were going to have.
27:25
I'm sorry. But if you ask politely, you
27:28
know, some people just go. Can I, you know, if you say
27:31
please, maybe I'll get you another one.
27:32
But a lot of lot of the soldiers on here are just like, can I
27:35
have a beer? No, it's fine.
27:37
It's fine. One is plenty.
27:38
I need to have a clear head for this.
27:40
Ace, what the fuck are you doing?
27:43
Me. Yes, you.
27:45
I was going to get a nice toasted sub at the Quiznos that
27:50
they have on board and I heard a commotion and I went to go
27:55
investigate and here we are. Hey, Hey, Cordelia, have you got
27:58
a cigarette? I don't smoke but I feel like
28:00
this means I need to smoke. Cordelia silently passes him a
28:05
cigarette and no lighter. She does not explain.
28:10
Do you do you think Rex needs a light clicks?
28:15
He clicks his finger Like a little, like a little tiny
28:18
portal like this big comes out and it's just like where the Jet
28:20
Propulsion system is at the back of the so like a little.
28:27
Yummy afterburner cigarette I feel.
28:31
Like it just snaps her fingers. Explain.
28:34
Explain now. I, I know as much as you do.
28:40
I, we, I'm lost for words. This this was not my doing.
28:49
I think I can explain. He wanted to chase some tail so
28:54
he snuck her on board. No, none of those would find
28:58
out. No, I did not do that.
29:01
Lizette explain. Don't want to be a freedom
29:05
fighter anymore, I thought this might be the best way to get
29:08
out. So I I hid.
29:11
Ace didn't hide me. I came aboard myself.
29:13
Is he paying you to say that you can tell us?
29:18
Why do we? Why do you think?
29:20
Am I the only one not getting paid?
29:24
What money do you think I have? They told me.
29:28
They told me when I signed my payment was the experience.
29:35
I have no words for that. We'll get to that later.
29:38
Lizette, are you intending on joining this operation or are
29:43
you fully just stowing away? I haven't really thought past
29:48
this yet. You have about 5 minutes before
29:52
I am obligated to bring this to my superiors for you to think
29:56
about the answer to that question.
30:00
I can I can buy you more time if needs be.
30:05
I'm just imagining like a Scooby-doo portal chase just all
30:10
over the ship. She she thinks about it and goes
30:14
I, I mean, what do you what do you offer?
30:16
And I was just going to sort of sneak away when when it landed,
30:19
but I mean if I can help somehow.
30:23
I think we need all of the intelligent support that we can
30:26
get, and I think I need serious help wrangling.
30:30
Cordelia gestures fruitlessly to the room around her.
30:34
All of this. She's not going to help
30:36
wrangling me. Let's be honest.
30:38
Nobody's going to help you wrangle me.
30:40
If I have more time to wrangle him because I don't have to
30:44
wrangle him, she pointed 8. I, I I don't know what I can do.
30:54
Oh, Oh no. Trust me, you just being here
30:56
will keep him calm. Oh, calm.
31:00
Ace looks to Cordelia and looks to Lizette and looks back to
31:04
Cordelia and he just says, Captain, consider me wrangled.
31:14
Great, great. OK, so how do we explain this to
31:19
Finch? Well, I think we start by
31:23
opening a dialogue. Oh, you're using a move.
31:29
Am I? So your your plan is to go find
31:43
the general at this point. Yeah, I think so.
31:48
Last I saw Finch, she was in a room with Schmidt.
31:52
Go back to where we intercepted this, take that hallway.
31:58
I was coming down, turn left, take a right and it's the third
32:01
door down. Lovely.
32:04
I can Do you want to walk so you can think about it or?
32:08
No, no, I think, let's go now. Do I have to come?
32:12
No, you don't. You can just sit here and drink
32:14
your beer or go back to your own quarters and drink your beer or
32:17
go do one of your brooding things that you love so much to
32:21
do while I take. Thinking about it, watching Ace
32:28
absolutely crumble to pieces in front of his idol, I wouldn't
32:33
miss it. I open a portal to like the
32:39
door. It's like, come on, let's go.
32:42
And Cordelia will frog March ace.
32:47
Ace just looks over to Lizette. I'm so sorry you have to see me
32:52
like this. Hey Lizette, do you want a beer?
32:55
It's going to be hilarious. Please, I'd love one full of
32:58
beer. We drink our beer 1st and then
33:02
we go. Hey, hey, hey.
33:04
My one rule, it was in my contract.
33:06
I can drink beer anywhere. It's in my contract.
33:09
No, no, I'm talking I'm talking about the stowaway can drink her
33:13
beer first. I think it's really bad optics
33:16
if I bring her a stowaway to the general and she's drinking.
33:22
And, and I have to face this man Soba.
33:24
I'm the only one that has to face him sober.
33:27
I've had one beer ace. I am stone cold fucking sober
33:32
right now, unfortunately for all of us.
33:38
Lizettel, she'll pop the top, and just like Cordelia did,
33:45
she'll just tornado it. All right, let's go, I suppose.
33:50
Hopefully they don't throw me off the ship.
33:52
I can catch it, no? One's going to throw you off the
33:54
ship. I wouldn't worry about it.
33:56
Rex can portal you back on if that's the case, and then we can
33:59
just go our separate ways once we reach an undisclosed
34:03
location. So yeah, you appear outside this
34:08
door. I feel like you turned around
34:10
and there was just some random guy just walking down the
34:12
hallway that saw this portal open and you all came out of it.
34:14
He's just like Nope and just turns around and walks.
34:17
Back the other way. Great call.
34:19
Soldier great. Call.
34:22
And Cornelia will cop knock on the door.
34:26
You you hear from the inside. Come in.
34:28
Cornelia opens it and immediately like jumps to
34:32
attention. Sir, sorry to bother you.
34:35
Inside the room is Finch, and Schmidt is still in there as
34:38
well. Something guys?
34:40
Have I interrupted? I'm so sorry.
34:43
She doesn't sound very sorry. It's it's, it's all right.
34:47
We were just, we were just finishing up.
34:50
But what can I do for you, Captain?
34:53
We seem to have a stowaway situation, Sir.
34:57
A stowaway. Interesting.
34:58
We haven't had one of those in a long time.
35:01
This is Lizette. She was one of the freedom
35:04
fighters we worked with in Japan to take the factory and she has
35:08
decided that she no longer wishes to be a freedom fighter.
35:12
Schmidt sort of pipes up and goes, ah yes, the the young
35:15
woman, she came in handy. Don't be creepy, Doctor Schmidt.
35:24
Speaking of coming in handy. Never speak those words in front
35:30
of me again. That's how he's found her,
35:37
though. That might be the episode.
35:44
Speaking of coming in handy. I'm going to lay down in front
35:51
of a bus and I'm going to mention you by name in my
35:53
suicide note. If Finch will look at he'll,
36:03
he'll sort of nod at Schmidt and look back and go.
36:07
So what? What's your plan for the Stowe
36:10
captain? I believe she might be useful in
36:13
helping me wrangle one of my more challenging Astor pilots.
36:20
Not me, not me. She's shown an affinity for
36:26
helping Ace calm himself when he is at the whims of Hyperion.
36:33
I think ACE is just standing stock still at attention trying
36:39
so hard. Not to so Ace is standing at
36:43
attention and. No, no.
36:50
There it is, I was waiting for that, joked Elaine.
36:52
I was waiting for that. That's the name.
36:53
That's the name of the episode standing at attention.
36:57
God. I hate all three of you for
37:05
different. Reasons I've not even done
37:08
anything that bad, thank you very much.
37:11
He's a different reasons, Nile all.
37:17
Right. Comet, the general looks and
37:26
goes. Do you think she can be trusted?
37:29
I do, Sir, I do. She's proven herself formidable
37:34
in times of crisis up until this point, and I believe that she'd
37:37
be a useful addition to my team. In what capacity, I'm unsure.
37:41
I don't necessarily believe there's a formal job title for
37:43
this position as of yet, but I also believe that we are in
37:49
unfounded territory here. He takes a deep breath and looks
37:53
at all of you standing there, and he nods slowly and goes.
37:58
Well, if you're vouching for her and your team vouches for her,
38:03
we'll permit her to stay aboard without throwing her in the
38:05
Brig. But if anything happens, it's on
38:08
you, Captain. Understood, Sir.
38:11
I appreciate your confidence in me and in this team.
38:16
We wouldn't have promoted you if you hadn't proven yourself so
38:19
far. Thank you, Sir.
38:22
Is there anything else? No, Sir.
38:25
Dismissed. And she fires off another salute
38:28
and Frog marches Ace out of the room, assuming everyone else is.
38:32
Oh, Ace is still just like, and he just like Zoiberg, walks out
38:36
of the room. General, general, general quick,
38:40
quick before we go. I'm just like just going to grab
38:43
like Ace's wrenched body and pick him up and put him in front
38:47
of General Finch and just be like, can you sign an autograph
38:50
for this dude, man? Like.
38:55
If Ace was not bright red before, he is now.
38:59
There's all your trading cards, dude.
39:01
Rex, can you get one of his trading cards here?
39:05
Like click a finger in like the whole book like he has like a
39:08
TCD book. You just you just see a single
39:12
tear silently. And like, just just, if you just
39:19
sign the whole book, then you can sell this thing.
39:22
I'll keep it. I don't know what you do with
39:24
these things. He the general looks very
39:29
serious. He looks between the two of you
39:30
and he he looks at Ace and goes don't you ever sign or don't you
39:34
ever sell this and he'll sign your your book.
39:37
Yes, Sir. Then I'm going, I'm going to
39:40
look at Ace and just be like, now you owe me two and then just
39:43
sell. Rex is like maybe a couple hours
40:00
after the whole is that thing happens and Rex going to like
40:06
softly wrap on the door of Cordelia's quarters, wait for it
40:12
to respond. Come in.
40:16
And he walks in and he's just like, look, I'm apologising for
40:22
what happened on the island. I acted rashly and put you and
40:28
Ace in danger and I promise you it won't happen again.
40:31
I appreciate your apology, but I promise you it's unnecessary.
40:35
I understand that in times of crisis your Astor takes over,
40:41
and I understand that there are some things happening to you
40:43
that I will never understand. I want to support you and help
40:48
you, truly I do. And I signed up for this knowing
40:52
full well what could happen to me.
40:57
And Ace is a grown ass man, despite the fact that he doesn't
41:00
always act like it. He also knew what he was signing
41:03
up for Rex. Just know the deal I made it was
41:11
in the fine print that nothing will happen to you or ACE.
41:16
I appreciate that. But again, I'm telling you, Rex,
41:20
as your friend, not as your superior.
41:23
I care about you and what happens to you more than I care
41:26
about what happens to me. Well, you.
41:29
Have special gifts, Rex. And while I know that you feel
41:34
as though you are often out of control and there are forces
41:38
acting upon you that are, again, so far beyond my limited
41:42
understanding, I worry about you and I care about you.
41:46
And I know in your heart you care about us.
41:49
And that whatever happens, come hell, come high water, we will
41:53
be fine. We can hope.
41:55
We can hope. We can hope.
41:58
Now don't do any of this gooey shit with me.
42:01
Oh, I'm I'm going to get right into some info now.
42:05
So that portal, the big shadowy thing it came out of, there's
42:09
going to be more of them. I'm not sure how many more, but
42:14
Hooper, that's the the the name of the God that now inhabits my
42:20
body. The whole story out.
42:21
We'll have to drink. We'll have to drink to to talk
42:24
about that one. I wouldn't have it any other
42:28
way. He basically was doing his best
42:32
to stop those interdimensional portals.
42:36
I think he said they were, I can't remember from opening, but
42:41
he was losing control and his grip.
42:45
And when I freed him and allowed him to be part of my body, he
42:51
had no more control over these rips in space.
42:57
So we can expect them to have come.
43:02
I feel like they'll probably come more frequently now.
43:04
And that's why I've told him to get you that gun.
43:07
Cornelia lights a cigarette. I figured as much given the
43:12
trajectory of all of this, but I am sorry, what a burden to bear.
43:18
That's cool. I've got to carry Ace every time
43:22
I go into battle. So what?
43:26
What's one more thing you know? Cheers on that, I was telling.
43:33
You to do something and now I'm now I'm bleeding.
43:38
I click my fingers and Ace just walks through.
43:43
Come on, man. If you're going to say something
43:44
today with the chef, man. Lovely to see both of you here
43:49
in my private quarters at 11:00 PM.
43:53
Look, man, everybody else is a bit in bed.
43:56
This was a, this was a highly secret conversation.
43:59
I'm, I'm not told Schmidt. I'm not told Finch.
44:02
Only you. I'm not going to say anything,
44:05
Rex. This is yours and you came to me
44:09
as a friend. So, so Ace, what did you want?
44:14
I'm not going to ask Cordelia. I I don't want to push it, but
44:22
thank you. That's that's all I'll say.
44:26
Of course, at the end of the day, Ace, you know the thing I
44:30
care about most is your well-being, and I do truly
44:33
believe that Lizette will be an asset to our team in the future.
44:38
Not just because of whatever it was that you 2 did in the woods,
44:43
but I would love it on record if you said right now that I am an
44:48
excellent wing man. I mean, of course you are great.
44:54
I don't think that term was invented, but now you you are
44:59
the definition. Now, yes, thank you and Rex.
45:03
So help me God, if you ever say anything about the cigarette
45:06
ever again, I will hunt you down and kill you like an animal.
45:12
You are not safe anywhere. You're not safe on the toilet.
45:14
You're not safe when you're asleep.
45:16
The what? That's fine.
45:17
Yeah, that's bad. Don't worry about it.
45:19
Oh, don't worry about it. Great.
45:21
Thank you. I very much want to ask but I am
45:24
scared for I am legitimately scared for my life if I.
45:27
Do yeah don't, don't ask bro. I have two people in this brain
45:31
and even I'm scared. Oh.
45:35
Ace, I'm so sorry about the Eunice.
45:38
She stares off into the middle distance and turns bright red
45:41
again. I'm not.
45:45
I don't quite understand. I'm.
45:47
Going to be honest with you. I'm going to be honest with you,
45:49
Ace. I thought you were going to fuck
45:50
Gary. I.
45:52
Also was concerned that you were going to fuck Gary and it was
45:55
truly a concern of mine. I mean, and I'm not closing the
45:58
door on that. I guess there's plenty of time
46:00
for you to fuck Gary. Or was that?
46:04
Or both? But I I don't want to know if
46:08
you do please. As this conversation is going on
46:11
I will have just like poured 3 beers out.
46:15
You can. You can finally have that beer
46:16
bro. You'd feel like you deserve it
46:18
after. That thank God.
46:22
Yeah, gentlemen, we've had a hell of a week.
46:25
Hell of a week it's been. It's been a hell of a free last
46:28
three weeks. I have no idea where we're going
46:31
now. I feel like that whole time when
46:34
everything was being explained, I was just not here.
46:38
New Mexico, Rex, we're going to New Mexico.
46:42
Oh great. Oh, we can get tacos.
46:44
You didn't. You didn't hear that from me.
46:47
New Mexico, Rex. Not Mexico.
46:49
New Mexico. I think Ace raises his can of
46:56
beer and he pops it and he says, well, through all the near death
47:01
experiences from the Japanese and from Cordelia, there's
47:07
nobody. There's nobody.
47:08
That you followed into the woods.
47:09
Don't forget about the squirrel. Yes, there's nobody in the world
47:17
that I would rather be under under commando and great
47:25
fighting alongside. Cheers to that.
47:36
Ace gets back to his room. He's in bed, comfortable, and as
47:41
he's falling asleep, you wake up in a dark, empty space, and when
47:49
you turn around you see Hyperion standing in front of you, and
47:54
it's I, I shouldn't say standing.
47:56
It's on its knees, being held down by tendrils of black
48:00
energy, and it looks at you and you hear in your head, Help Ace,
48:05
help me. She won't stop banging on the
48:07
back door. She got it.
48:32
You can't see there's nothing here to because there's tape is
48:40
never playing to the end when your fingers don't feel.
48:54
When you're moving but you can't get closer, she won't start
49:02
banging on the back door. She got it.
49:06
Oh she got it now it's a meltdown.
49:09
Scream until it lungs her sore. She got it.
49:13
Oh she got it now Make it while you heal.
49:20
Make it till you scream me until it's raining all the way.
49:25
Say it to my face. She won't stop banging on the
49:53
back door. She got it.
49:56
Oh, oh, she got it. Now it's too hard.
49:59
See when you're in for you're too scared of yourself.
50:05
She won't start banging on the back door.
50:09
She got it. Oh, oh, she got it now it's a
50:13
meltdown stream and tell her lungs are so she got it.
50:17
Oh, oh, she got it now.