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Peter Quill (bamshangalang) wrote in avengers_logs,
@ 2020-09-04 21:43:00

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gamora, ned leeds, peter parker, peter quill, shuri

Open to anyone that wants to break orbit for a few hours
Running through a final pre-flight check, Peter made sure that the armory racks were squared away, that the weapons systems were locked to his console and then looked around the cabin. He tried to figure out if there was anything else he should secure before letting a group of Terrans, especially one that included a couple of teenage boys, onboard.

He wondered if there was anything that he was missing that Stakar would have noticed, then shrugged inwardly. Yondu had taught him to fly when he was ten. Sure he’d destroyed a small moon….. Kraglin had called it a glorified asteroid, on the edge of of the Andromeda galaxy when he was learning how to execute an evasion maneuver consisting of a barrel roll, followed by a three point turn that culminated in a full stop that Yondu had called the Drunken Kree. There was also the time that he’d been trying to clear out the plasma injectors and instead hit the biohazard recycling tank evacuation lever without first disengaging the external cover plate. The pressure had blown a main line and coated the entire cargo bay with hundreds of gallons of a greasy grey liquid that smelled like a combination of a truck stop bathroom and the kind of perfume his grandmother had once worn. Bet that’s when Taserface started hating my guts, Peter thought remembering that while his Daddy had yelled at him, called him a wretched little waste of oxygen…..Yondu had delegated the actual clean up to Taserface.

Peter appreciated the fact that the Benetar had a spot on the roof of Avengers tower, taking a bunch of people up in space sounded fun. Driving them all the way to upstate New York sounded like hell.

He opened the main hatch, extended the ramp and wondered if they had barf bags on board….. he vaguely remembered something about airplanes having them and wondered if other Terrans ever got spacesick. “Eh, it’ll be fine.” He made his way down the ramp, trying to decide what kind of music you played for someone’s first trip to space.

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thespiderling
2020-09-06 05:50 pm UTC (link)

Peter chose a seat next to Ned, and while his palms were clammy with nerves, it was hard to let himself get too lost in the anxiety when Quill was pointing out the ship's tech. "Woah." He looked away from the screens for only a moment to buckle himself in, making sure that Ned's was all set tight too. "So those jump points - are you talking vortexes here? Are they shortcuts? Like a space highway?"

He could ask questions for days, honestly. As a kid who'd grown up a sci-fi nerd, things like this were almost unfathomable. And complicated, too, now that he had his own not so good memories of other planets to contrast it to.

"Hey-" Peter nudged Ned, thinking on those nicknames. "What about Skywalker for you? I don't think anyone who goes way out there besides Carol and the Guardians know about Star Wars, so it'd sound all original and awesome."

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guy_inthe_chair
2020-09-07 12:31 am UTC (link)

Ned's eyes were everywhere. He was like a kid in a candy store except the store was all tech. He was completely floored every time he saw something that he wasn't sure what it did. Some of the stuff he thought he had a good idea what it would do by looking at it.

He made sure he was secure - he triple checked it, really, because he did not want to fall out of his chair in front of all the cool people.

His eyes widened at Peters's suggestion. "You think I could go by that? Do you think I've... earned something like that?" Was he cool enough to pull it off? WAS HE?!

"Uh.. How about? Um. Skywalker?" And Ned was blushing really hard now.

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bamshangalang
2020-09-07 01:18 am UTC (link)

Quill tilted his head and looked at Ned for a minute, "Hell yeah! It's perfect! Data streams through the sky and your the badass who virtually walks through it, taking what you need for your team, blasting firewalls away and kicking over lockouts." Peter nodded, "Good call, Parker. I like it!"

He had several ideas for a code name for Gamora. Virtually all of them would get him killed, he decided to change the subject, "Sorry guys, I'm a dumbass. I forgot to have you record an access pass," He hit a button which lowered the ramp back to the deck. "Gamora, could you show them how to record it, I'll finish the pre-flight check.

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inkosazana_
2020-09-07 01:20 am UTC (link)

Shuri hadn't forgotten the offer to go into space. How could anyone possibly do that? She was just running behind because that seemed to be her life right now. Trying to figure out what had happened to the Captain and Dr. Banner was taking a lot of her focus. She tended to lose track of time.

Arriving on the roof of the Avenger's Tower reminded her a little of Wakanda. The ships stored here were beautiful, and one of them was her goal.

Her hair a la Princess Leia, sort of, and casually dressed in shorts, sneakers, a denim jacket and a t-shirt that declared 'Life is Beautiful!', Shuri jumped up and down and waved at what she hoped was a spot on the Benetar where someone would see her.

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greenspace
2020-09-07 02:29 am UTC (link)

"Come on Skywalker, Spidey" Gamora gestured to the back of the ship. "We need to use the console in the cargo bay to set up the codes." She paused on her way past, and leaned over Peter's shoulder, murmuring in his ear, "Still waiting for my codename, Star Lord. Better make it a good one."

She placed her hand on the panel, and a voice asked for her access code. "I'm holdin' out for a hero 'til the end of the night," Gamora said, waited for the system to log her in then added, "System settings, add Guardian access code."

She turned to Ned and Peter. "You place your hand on the panel, so it can add your biometrics to the system. It will ask you to voice identify with your name. and then an access phrase. Because this is the Benatar, it is 100% required that this be a song lyric." She smirked. "Sorry, those are Captain's orders."

She looked out the cargo bay doors, and saw Shuri heading across the roof, and waved back. "Come on up, Shuri! You're just in time, we're just doing pre-flight checks now."

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inkosazana_
2020-09-07 02:31 pm UTC (link)

She considered herself fortunate that they hadn't left without her. Running up the ramp, she said, a little breathlessly, "Sorry I am late, and hello, Gamora, in person, this time." She held out her hand to the woman and nodded toward the boys. "Peter, Ned, isn't this exciting? I brought my GoPro, to capture every moment I can on film. Whoo-hoo!"

After a final jump in the air, she ceased rambling and asked, "So, what are we doing now?"

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guy_inthe_chair
2020-09-08 12:46 am UTC (link)

This was exciting. It wasn't just exciting that apparently his code name was going to be Skywalker, but also because he was going to be in the Guardian's access bank? Did this make him a Guardian now?! WHY WAS TODAY SO COOL. It really made up for Flash this afternoon.

"Uh, okay." He nodded. There was a lot of pressure to pick the perfect song title. In fact, there were several good ones floating around in his head - Queen, Rolling Stones, Ed Sheeran. As Ned put his hand on the console, though, and said his name, the lyrics that came out was a sudden, "Never gonna give you up."

Oh my God. Did he just Rick Roll space superheroes?!

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Gamora, Skywalker & Spidey

greenspace
2020-09-09 03:42 am UTC (link)

"That's perfect," Gamora had yet to encounter this particular internet meme, so she approved of Ned's choice without irony. "Listen, this means you're Guardians okay, so if things go totally sideways and we need to bug out, you get yourself to the ship and let yourself in."

She looked at Peter, "Okay Spidey, you're up, once we have access codes, I'll walk you through prep for takeoff while the captain does the nerd tour. I know Quill told Ned he could be co-pilot, but the gunner seats have an even better view."

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Gamora, Skywalker & Spidey

thespiderling
2020-09-09 07:04 pm UTC (link)

"That was legendary, Skywalker." He was totally going to call him that all the time now. Peter raised his hand to fist-bump Ned - they'd have to explain the concept of Rick Rolling to Gamora once they got back to Earth. He reached to place his hand on the panel, giving his name and then pausing for a moment while his mind raced through song lyrics. "Okay okay, umm - I've been too long and I'm glad to be back."

He heard that song in Tony's workshop pretty often, though Peter still couldn't safely say if it was Led Zeppelin or AC/DC. "So are there like...any emergency exits here? Just in case?"

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guy_inthe_chair
2020-09-10 02:15 am UTC (link)

Ned kind of wanted to do the nerd tour too, but he didn't say that because he guessed it was implied that Gamora's tour would be cooler. Ned wanted to be cooler - especially after the day he had with Flash - so he just sort of nodded and went along with it all, though he definitely high-fived Peter because high-fives were still definitely cool.

"You mean like, escape pods? Because I don't think I want to exit out directly into space when I'm panicking." It would probably not end well, what with the immediate death thing.

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greenspace
2020-09-10 02:38 am UTC (link)

"We definitely have an escape pod," Gamora led them to the hatch leading to the space pod. "It seats up to 5 and is actually works like it's own tiny ship. We were able to install a secondary tape deck in here with the upgrades, so now it's literally a mini-Benatar."

She slid into the escape pod, flipping switches to power it up to show the boys how it worked. "Peter's earpiece opens up into a helmet so he can actually spacewalk, although I'm not sure why we haven't stocked enough for everyone. He's really possessive of his tech, sometimes."

She gave them a few moments to look around the space pod before asking, "You wanna see the lasers?"

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