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[ Someone's looking thoroughly fed up for once. Gone is the charming, casual demeanour that usually comes with Hunter's videos; someone has ruffled his feathers.]

This place is a joke. I've been here long enough to know better and yet it just keeps on messing around and to be honest my patience is starting to wear thin. So what if I wound up on some Scottish island, that is none of this place's business so the whole AWOL thing can shove itself as far as I care. Don't test me or I will start taking it out in a more permanent manner.

Good to know that this place is essentially just a prison at it's core. You get dragged here against your will, set up to fight for the country against your will, and if you leave the country? They'll be on you like white on rice. And everyone so far is just sitting down and taking it. Don't you heroes have things to save back home? Don't the villains have things they need to destroy? Or are you just simply happy to sell out for a free apartment?

Now here's an off the wall suggestion. There's enough scientists here that if the Government won't send us home, we should just start looking into building a porter of our own. I mean why the hell not? Isn't like it's impossible huh?

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You seem so sure that people have been sitting by idly.

Crazy thought, but perhaps the reason scientists aren't all huddled up in a room together coming up with a way to create a porter is because it's been tried already? I doubt that some of the people I know here would have just been sitting around doing nothing.

You're quick to assume.

No-one talks about it, so that's the impression they give.

And proper scientists keep trying, regardless. Believe me, I've been there. There's only so much I can build here on the time I have. People should be angrier that they've been plucked from their homes and forced to fight someone else's fight, but instead most are more concerned about their free apartments or what special is on at the diner this week.

It's the meatloaf.

You don't have to tell me what proper scientists do, I work within the field.

Not everyone has a home to go back to, for some this is a second chance at life or a freedom from something awful. So maybe for them they're fine with worrying about their apartments of that meatloaf.

I think you would have gotten a lot further if you had perhaps asked about working together rather than be passive aggressive about it.

Believe me, in a place like this, passive aggressive gets more bites than being nice about it. And maybe I've just been here too long to realize that nothing changes.

[ Gives his best tired smile.]

What field do you work in, if you don't mind me asking?

And has it actually helped this time?

[Tired smiles, boy does she know them.]

Primarily biotechnology.

It has. I mean, we're talking now, right?

I can only imagine what biotechnology is like in other worlds, I suspect more advanced than the ones back home. Don't get me wrong, the fields of physics, biology and quantum engineering are up there. I just think it could be better. I've dabbled in sciences and engineering. Now I just sell shoes.

Yes but only because I didn't appreciate what you were saying really.

For me, it's far more advanced than this world. We have cybertronics, biotics and so on.

Do you enjoy selling shoes?

I don't think anyone will.

We haven't quite gotten far in the cybertronics side of things, that kind of knowledge would probably help out a lot here.

Not really. It pays the bills.

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