guadalajara ♔ polishing a compass that I hold in my sleeve

[wynn]

♬ Grounds For Divorce - Elbow

WHO || Carol, Malina, Alex, Kali [Closed]
WHAT || The Knights investigate a ~mysterious crash~
WHERE || Guadalajara, Mexico
WHEN || April 19th [back dated]
HOW || Actionspam. Single thread, don't worry about maintaining tagging order.

With most of the team staunchly convinced that about to go check out Area 51, they head off to Guadalajara, Mexico, to investigate local rumors of a crash site outside the city. One of the best things about this little trip is that even in February, it's in the seventies, so there's definitely a vacation air to arriving in the bustling city. They'll need to rent a car and head out in the direction of the supposed crash in the flat countryside. It's a fourteen hour flight so get comfortable.

Comments

[bredinthebone]

[And Malina's starting to put two and two together that the Veil might have done a number on Quill's memory (wisdom 19). She keeps that to herself, though, and since Rocket hasn't texted her back yet, she's just going to pocket her phone and not worry about it for now.]

We were just discussing the hows and whys. And if we're going to be storming government facilities I definitely need to update my boss.

[This was supposed to be a recon mission. Stealing someone's ship back does not qualify as recon anymore. And she will step away to do just that.]

Excuse me.

[felidity]

[ still in a state of no, i don't wanna in regards to going up again the government, kali otherwise seems to be vacillating between bored indifference -- he is not the alien she expected and is thus disappointed -- and curiosity -- it's still space! -- she finally edges out from behind alex and pipes up with, ]

Who's Ziggy Stardust?

[hacker]

Okay, now I'm officially wondering who's actually an alien here.

[ Seriously, Kali. But more to the point: ] Not thinks. Knows. [ Skye's confident about a few things: her hacker-y is one of them. ] Just like I know there is no way you guys work for Ripley's. Or a news outlet. Guardians of the Galaxy? [ No one with that high a pay grade demeans themselves to cheap press and Ripley's Believe It or Not. Pointed look at Carol, who seems to be more willing to offer honesty. ] Just who are you?

[bredinthebone]

We're with the Karthur Institute.

[She'll toss that back as she presses the phone to her ear, waiting for Wynn to pick up. Ring ring ring Bossman phone.]

[starprince]

[ as wynn says "Hello?", their new alien(???) friend is busy staring open-mouthed at alex for a moment. it's only now that he reaches out, gripping him by the shoulder and turning him to face him full on, as he searches his face as if it holds all the secrets of the universe. ] Did you say Ziggy Stardust?

[ambitionist]

[alex is baffled but he's not fighting to get away ok. his yaoi fanfic dreams are coming true.] Uh, yeah. She called you Star-Lord and I was trying to be witty. You really like Bowie, huh?

[felidity]

[ no one is answering her question! this is rude! y'all suck! ]

Who is Ziggy Stardust!

[bredinthebone]

[Malina will take a couple more steps back and keep her voice low just to be on the safe side. She doesn't want there to be eavesdropping commentary.]

So our UFO was actually a space ship belonging to a guy named Peter Quill. He's apparently part of Rocket's team on the other side of the Veil. Only problem so far is that his ship seems to have been hijacked by a team of men in black that our witness is assuming is some kind of government organization trying to cover it up.

Quill is understandably very upset and wants his ship back.

[hacker]

[ Skye points with one hand towards Quill, and toward Kali with the other. ]

Why does this feel backwards?

[ Her arms cross in front of her, flipping which hand is pointing to who. ]

The alien is not the one who's supposed to know David Bowie here. [ incredulously, to Kali: ] Where are you from?

[felidity]

Wyoming.

[ her mouth twists in a frown as her arms fold across her chest because she has gathered now that david bowie and ziggy stardust are interchangeable and ziggy stardust is presumably a space man considering alex used it as a sobriquet for peter, but it brings her no closer to figuring out who he actually is and she doesn't want to google in front of everyone. ]

[starprince]

[ ignoring all of you, peter seems to struggle with words for a moment before he finally explodes in a demanding: ] What planet is this? [ he practically shakes alex by both shoulders, before turning before he can even respond, looking at the rest of them and repeating: ] What planet is this?!

[wynn]

[ to malina: ] This Peter Quill brought his ship through the Veil?

[ambitionist]

Woah! Hey! [this isn't sexy shaking ok.] Earth! You're on Earth.

[bredinthebone]

My best guess is yes? He didn't seem to know what we were talking about, which would make sense if he had just gotten here and no one had explained things to him yet.

[A beat.]

He didn't recognize Sir Danvers or the names Drax and Rocket so hard to say. I sent a text to Rocket to confirm but I haven't heard back from him yet.

[airforceful]

[Considering the Peter of her world has spent plenty of time visiting Earth (and even has a girlfriend there), she's not sure why he's freaking out about this. Then again, lone wolf here doesn't even have a team. Carol can't count on anything she knows being relevant.

She can try and pull him off Alex at least though she doesn't want to... rip his shoulder off so it's not as powerful as it could be (str 14).]

Maybe we should talk about this somewhere else.

[hacker]

We could all pile in my van.

[ She holds up the keys. ]

I mean, we're going the same way, right? He wants his ship, I wanna know more about what it can do, and I get the feeling you guys reaaaally wanna know who got to it first.

[ Peas in a pod, really. ]

[felidity]

We've already made a scene. There's no point in taking this elsewhere when we have to wait for Malina anyway.

[ she waves dismissively at the people in the nearby cars who no doubt witnessed peter's temper tantrum. not to mention carol flying. ]

[airforceful]

No one's saying we go without Malina. But we have a lot of explaining to do before Peter's head explodes, and I'm guessing he'll want to be sitting down for it.

[Since Ziggy Stardust nearly gave him a heart attack..... ]

[ambitionist]

I'd love to explain to him.

[spoiler: he wants to explain with his dick.]

[starprince]

[ he backs away from carol, raising both hands in a 'whoa there' gesture. ] You don't get it. This is Earth? You're Earthlings? [ he turns in place, looking down at the ground as if it's like a pile of gold ] This is Earth sand!!

[wynn]

Don't let him out of your sight if possible, Sir Harvey. If you've a way to help him recover his property, I suggest you do so.

[hacker]

Yeah, and right over there?

[ She points to her van like she's flagging down an airplane on a runway. ]

Is an Earth craft. So how about you climb on in and stop making a scene so we can get this show on the road?

[ Because he's acting like



well



like an alien. ]

[airforceful]

Aren't you from Earth? Or is that different too?

[She crosses her arms, watching him with her mouth pinched tightly. He's acting like Peter... sort of... except for the ways where he's not acting like Peter at all. She lets out a breath and shakes her head.]

Look, Skye's right. We can give you answers, but we shouldn't do it here. Can you wait long enough for us to get out of here?

[felidity]

[ a quiet, satisfied aside: ] He is way more alien than I am.

[starprince]

You don't get it! [ the words are insistent, and his next will save was atrocious so he's just gonna

fall on his knees right here carol, sorry. and then fall backwards, and start making sand angels, as he starts laughing like he may or may not be slightly unhinged. and yells at the top of his lungs: ] WE'RE ON EARTH!