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[yondu]

Who: Yondu Udonta | Vexen & Ansem | Vegeta | Jack & V | OTA
Where: Gym Carriage & Dining Carriage
When: Llama 25 - 26
What: Yondu practicing with his arrow in the gym. Later he's drinking in the dining car.
Warnings: Warnings will be in subject lines and there will probably be warnings.

Practice in the gym

Yondu got a lot of arrow practice at their stop, which is what he feels did him the most good. It also helped him load up on some stones that he could use to continue it. He tries very hard to find times when there's next to no one in the gym- which is hard as hell, mind you, it's a full-ass train and everybody has their moments where they need to fight. He's no different and using his arrow is his zen, so he does his best to find a moment when no one is busy with it to do his thing.

So he's in the gym car, a bucket of small, round river rocks beside him, picking up a fistful at a time and chucking them across the open space. His arrow's ready each time and he tries to pick them all off before they hit the ground. This means every time that he pulls the stunt there's violent circles of glowing red tracing through the air, his arrow caught at the end of each round and prepared to go again.

He misses one, swears under his breath, and notices someone's entered the activity areas.

"Alright, alright. Lemme clean it up and I'll be outa your way." He goes to find the broom. There's not a lot left of the stones, the arrow tends to burn right through, but there's still enough.

drinking in the dining car

He's got two new bottles of brandy and he's having the bold and strange desire to be social. It's in the generic-looking bottles that most train-booze comes in, but it's actually good stuff this time. It's made from Kruna fruit (grown only on Centauri IV and considered a delicacy). Back home, he'd have to sell an M-Ship to afford a small stock of it.

He's already cracked open one of the bottles to try it while he waits for company, sniffing the edge of the glass he's poured it into. There's a whole lotta stuff that he's missed out on about his homeworld that he might as well get caught up on.

He picked the upstairs of the dining carriage, hoping that'd be far enough out of the way that someone passing through wouldn't be bothered by him waiting for his drinking partners, but should anyone come up he nods a polite greeting as he tries a sip.

WILDCARD

[For making my own fun when need be. Prose or brackets are fine for all promps, I'll do what makes you comfy.]

Comments

[nutkrusher]

"My mom would've died, too, if she hadn't ended up here," Cassie says.

"I had to carry her to the medical car from the platform."

I didn't get the notif for this.

[yondu]

So she definitely knows something, then.

Not his business to say anything, though. Her mother is good people and that's their discussion to have.

"I wonder why it got it strange. I was all patched up, so was my arrow. But she wasn't, huh? How often do people come in all in bad shape?"

[nutkrusher]

"Mom's the only one I've seen," Cassie says.

"Might've been others I didn't notice. Probably not, though."

[yondu]

Yondu had been gasping for air, that much was true.

"How long have you been here?" He hooks his thumbs in his belt and looks generally perplexed. After what Senku said, the idea of people coming in injured or in bad shape has him concerned.

Who the hell knows what's happening to their bodies, if they really are stashed someplace.

[nutkrusher]

"About six months," Cassie says. "It's a bit concerning, being brought in like that. But in her case it was better than the alternative."

[yondu]

"Yeah, you sure as shit ain't wrong."

Dying is not a fun time. "I keep worryin' my own boy might show up. I wouldn't want him yanked out of his life to be here. You know your ma talks you up a lot."

He might as well let her know that much.

[nutkrusher]

A slight smile reaches the corner of Cassie's lips.

"Good to know I've got the approval of my C.O."

She chuckles quietly, as if to make clear that she's half-kidding.

[yondu]

"She got your sense of humor, too." She'd made a similar comment about Cassie at one point.

"Don't envy her. The boy I raised was on my crew for over twenty years. Always worried the hell out of me 'cause he was one of them types to find trouble ever'where."

[nutkrusher]

"Huh. Always thought that came from Dad."

She sighs.

"Well, take it from me as the kid who finds trouble - you gotta let 'em do their thing and work through it."

[yondu]

"Oh, I did. He's doin' alright on his own now."

He doesn't know it for sure. But he guesses his crew saved him, that Yondu left him in a place where he'd be able to keep going like he had been doing before.

[nutkrusher]

"That's good. What's his name?"

[yondu]

"Peter Quill." He doubts that he'd ever make an appearance, though.

He hopes he doesn't, anyway. He's got too much to do at home, tied into people that are too important.

[nutkrusher]

"Huh. I wouldn't guess your kid would be a 'Peter.'"

[yondu]

"Oh! He's... Terran. Half, anyway. I just raised him. Daddy by association an' effort and not by blood. His real father was uh... He sure was a thing."

His lip curls up in contempt.

"I had to raise him for a bad kind of life but he took what he learned and turned out a stand-up person."

[nutkrusher]

"What's your last name again? Don't think I ever got it."

Truth be told, they'd never really talked on account of the whole not-being-on-purple thing.

[yondu]

"Udonta.... It's a real average last name." Like Smith would be in America.

"Honestly it might have just been somethin' they put on my bill of sale, I don't know if that's my real last name or not. It works, though. I used to use it to ever'body I met in case I was recognized but, hell, no one here's seen my neck of the woods and I doubt anyone would. So I hadn't mentioned it in a while."

[nutkrusher]

"Could probably be a human last name, too," Cassie says. "If they didn't, y'know, look at you, they'd probably think you were from West Africa or something like that."

[yondu]

"Could be... but Kree don't care much for 'C53'. To them y'all just got a throwaway planet. I think maybe they did some expirementin' but other than some mess involvin' a Terran with big powers a couple decades back? They don't see much use in it. Too trashed."

Which would almost be a good thing, considering the track record for the Kree.

"This Terran bombshell showed up an' just ruined some Accusor ships. I never saw it but I heard it thirdhand and it was the best news I heard. Just slapped 'em out of the sky like paper planes."

And hell, he wishes he could have seen that.

[nutkrusher]

"That's probably for the best," Cassie says. "All the other realms in my universe keep trying to bust in and wreck our shit. They've got me and other badasses like me to stop 'em, but I kinda wish they wouldn't."

[yondu]

"I think it has run afoul of some other folks, but luckily not the Kree too deep." Not yet, anyway.

"Vegeta was tellin' me he an' his people was supposed to snatch it up an' there was a lot of vyin' for it in his neck of the cosmos. An' there's at least one sick fuck usin' it to farm little girls for energy."

[nutkrusher]

Cassie winces. "Geez. See, that's the kinda thing that makes you wish the universe was a little smaller."

[yondu]

"Yeah, you ain't kiddin'."

He's still mad about that shit. "Nothin' that can be done except buy 'em as much time here as possible. I don't care for the train but I'd rather 'em have that than home."

[nutkrusher]

"Yeah," Cassie says.

She falls silent at this point. There's clearly a lot of things on her mind right now.