Audio --> Video

[buildsfriends]

I AM ON THE RADIO

Deet deet deet, boop boop beep boop. But-tons but-tons...

[The video comes on but it's just a shot of the top half of his helmet and the sky above because he's holding his comm like a walkie-talkie.

He puts on a 'authoritative' voice.] Hello. Yes. This is Captain General Fourth Class Caboose. I need you to deliver to me at least fourteen new friends, stat. ASAP, and...BYOB. NASDAQ. Over and out and in, amen.








[...the video continues with just a shot of his armored foot on a grubby sidewalk and his voice further off.]

OH MY GOD FRECKLES LOOK! An outside party!

[A grating mechanical voice answers:] Hostiles detected.

Comments

[worstever]

Epsilon.

[The ONE time he uses his name and not his designation. He winces at 'the Church you killed', too.]

Carolina is another Freelancer. She joined up with us some time after [Maine died, he thinks, but stumbles over the words --] Epsilon.

By then, she and I are the only ones left.

[bestsword]

Jeez...

This is some fucked up shit, dude. But if we took you in, then you must be all right either way.

[Kind of a stick in the mud and fun to tease and banter around with, but an Actual Soldier so 'stick in the mud' kinda comes with it.]

[worstever]

[A genuine laugh. Tucker does have a way of summing things up.]

You guys seemed to think so, anyway. So unless your future self had a huge lapse in judgment...

[bestsword]

[Oh holy shit he got Wash to laugh and it wasn't at his expense.]

I'm usually a pretty good judge of character so I trust future me.

[bestsword]

I mean.

Alien impregnation aside, I got Junior out of it so still considering that a win.

[worstever]

I doubt anyone would have predicted alien impregnation. You can probably write that one off as an outlier.

[Wash's mood seems almost improved. He's joking more easily, anyway.]

[bestsword]

Oh, I'm sure someone bet on it happening when we set out on that quest.

[Probably Simmons or Andy. One of them had to think it.]

Either way, glad you're on our side.

[worstever]

[This is the most positive interaction they've had since Tucker was imported. Wash is kind of taken aback, here. But not in a bad way -- sometimes it just surprises him how much these dumb soldiers have done for him.]

Yeah. I am, too.

[bestsword]

[Turns out when someone isn't lying and omitting information, Tucker's less of a dick! Surprise.]

So how much ass do I kick in the future? Because like I know I'm awesome, but how much more awesome do I get?

[worstever]

[Ha ha, yeah, Tucker, about omitting information...]

Well, you already know that you're the one who made Felix's plans public, even if you don't buy that.

You were made a captain, too, actually.