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“What the…”
“Seriously, I don’t even know.”
“It wasn’t me.”
The low murmur outside my door was too much for my curiosity. I left my study, to see something I’d never have expected. (Selay’uu has a tendency of showing me the unexpected, but even so…)
Connor, Peter Parker, Winter, Gilan, and Steve were standing in the hallway. Horatio had been thrown over Steve’s shoulder and was apologizing profusely.
“I am so sorry. I didn’t know it was going to… and then… I swear I will never touch a portal again!”
“Especially not when you’re tipsy,” Sam Wilson added, appearing behind everyone covered in mud and walking Bucky, who was wearing a pair of broken sunglasses, toward them.
“How did that happen?” I asked. As one, all the men turned slowly to look at me and answered in a ragged chorus.
“Nothing…”
I looked them over again. Horatio looked a little green, while Connor seemed somewhat dazed, and had lipstick on both his collar, chin, and in his hair. Gilan looked as if he had gotten into a fight with Shelob and lost–there were spider webs in his hair. But from Peter’s guilty look and shuffling feet, I thought I could tell where the spider webs really came from. Winter was looking as silent, aloof and mysterious as usual, but the effect was somewhat marred by the fact that he was too obviously wearing an outfit that was mostly Bucky’s, with one of Steve’s jackets thrown over it.
“What happened to you?” I blurted out. Sam decisively took control.
“I think we can all agree that we should never speak of this again.”
“All of you lost me partway between the leprechaun that insisted he’d known Steven’s parents… and the dragon.” Horatio mumbled, slipping out of Steve’s grip and crumpling into a boneless heap on the floor.
“What did you do?” I gasped.
“And another thing we can agree on,” Winter continued, “is that if you see the Winter Soldier dressed up in a pink tutu you should run like…”
“Language,” Steve interrupted tiredly.
I never did find out what had happened to them.
The Upstairs Archives 
If I were you, I think I’d be scared to know what happened.
I’m actually pretty curious. (Oh, and we found a baby squid in Bucky’s arm later on. Weird much? It was preeeetttttyyyyy disgusting. So we made Tony deal with it. He IS the engineer, after all X-D)
You’re obviously braver than I. (Ew. Yuck. I would’ve made Bucky deal with it, since he brought it in . . . what do engineers and squids have to do with each other?)
No, just rashly curious.
But that wouldn’t be fair. He didn’t know he was bringing it in. Besides, we didn’t want tentacle pieces crawling around inside the circuitry and shorting things out, so naturally we called Tony.
Fair enough.
The first part I could argue with. The second part . . . eh, again, fair enough.
I do feel rather sorry for Tony, if it makes you feel any better. (You think that Bucky would carry a squid home in his metal arm just to cause a stir?! Well, actually you could be right… *scratches head*
Somewhat. (No. But I do think that after a certain point, you have to clean up your own messes.)
But I don’t think Bucky could’ve fixed this…
I might need some clarification here. Was he carrying the squid like you’d carry a rabbit or a package or something? If so, he could’ve just taken it back outside and dumped it in the nearest water source that flows to the sea. If it was stuck inside his arm (somehow? Is it hollow in there?), then ok, you’re right.
It was stuck inside his arm (and no, the arm isn’t hollow, per se, but there are spaces in the wiring, and it was a baby squid and stuck in one of those… ewww. tentacles everywhere. Hail Hydra. I hate squid.
Ahhh. Ok. Then yeah, he can be forgiven. (And yuck. >.< Squid are kind of cool, IMO, but I wouldn't want to clean up after one.)
Yeah… I don’t like poking around the prosthetic too much, because… it’s just sad sometimes and the scarring… extensive… Poor Bucky :’-(
Scratch _how_ did it happen: _what_ happened???
I am researching now. I may update it later and tell everyone what did happen. I think that at least part of it was a rapid teleportation through realms, which, if you go too fast, seems to have adverse effects on Captain Hornblower.
Oooooohkay…
It was a very strange day.
Sounds like it. 😉
😛
XD this is a great post.
I’m just dropping by to tell you that I nominated you for an award over at my blog: http://saphira-lemons.blogspot.com/2015/05/best-blogging-buddy-award.html
If you have already been awarded, you can just ignore this. Thanks! -Sam
Thanks! 😀 I actually haven’t been nominated for any awards in a while, so I might do it anyway. 😉
Someone got seasick. Or time travel sick. Something like that. XP
Sounds like you had a crazy day…
P.S: just wondering, did you know horatio is 5’11”? Just skimming the books. I saw that and throught of you. 😉
Yeah… I just recently started watching “Doctor Who”, and there’s this young woman, Taliesa, who appears to be attached to that universe in some way, shape, or form, and the other day we were time traveling and she said “Is it yesterday already?” Though, I should mention that Obi-Wan is more prone to getting time-travel-sickness, when riding in the TARDIS rather than what he’s used to (which would be utilizing weak points in the time stream… It tends to happen around certain people, especially if two of them make contact, and if a possible future is drastically altered by their actions.)
Yeah… I did know that. (So is Ioan Gruffudd, who is AWESOME, by the way, and I think that he should be a companion on Doctor Who, only he seems to be filming in America nowadays 😦 Though he’s actually Welsh–Gruffudd is pronounced “Griffith”. 😛 Another one of those dark-haired, pale skinned British actors. Really, what with Cumberbatch, Hiddleston, Colin Morgan, and so on, it’s easy to forget that the UK is “racially diverse” just like the US is. Bahhhhh.)
Haha, that’s a great line. “Is it yesterday already?” XD
Yeah, Dad looked up the pronunciation of it and I think it’s like “Yo-an Griffith”. Weird. But it rolls off the tongue better than saying “Ioan Gruffudd” the way it looks. It says on one of the hornblower boxes that he was in the Titanic movie. Do you know what he was?
Why thank you. 😀
I think he played a minor character in “Titanic.” Like, a second officer or something. I think “Hornblower” was his first leading role.
Yeah, just a big enough role to add the “Titanic” to his resume. 😉
X-P