That's what makes it so important we have a plan, before just blowing the place starts to look like an attractive option to someone. Or like the only option.
Do you know how difficult it is to organize a rowdy, reckless group like ours? It's like herding goats: stinky, stubborn, ornery goats. Plus, we took a possible informant prisoner, just before this mission.
If you want a contingency plan, it needs to be done beneath the radar.
You'd be surprised. [ roughly 100 reckless teenagers, man. ] Why do you think I'm talking to you instead of the team? Crowds make bad decisions.
[ and leaders are fallible; these aren't his people, and he's nothing to them, but situations like these? he knows. and he's not willing to leave this to chance. he doesn't trust anyone, including loki, but (god help him) loki's been helpful, and loki knows this team much better than he does. ]
And on a mission like this, all it takes is one person with the means and the desperation.
[ crowds had already made a few bad decisions. while Loki had a hard time reconciling his own limitations when it came to freedom, he also was hyperaware of the footprints he was leaving as ALASTAIR tried to put the pieces of the multiverse back together. ]
Ah? Well, what kind of contingency plan did you have in mind?
Lying about a truth sword is up there on irony scale ... but no, I'm not making it up—I have a magic truth sword. You're welcome to test it for yourself, but most generally don't have the stomach for the consequences.
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That can't happen.
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If you want a contingency plan, it needs to be done beneath the radar.
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[ and leaders are fallible; these aren't his people, and he's nothing to them, but situations like these? he knows. and he's not willing to leave this to chance. he doesn't trust anyone, including loki, but (god help him) loki's been helpful, and loki knows this team much better than he does. ]
And on a mission like this, all it takes is one person with the means and the desperation.
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Ah? Well, what kind of contingency plan did you have in mind?
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[ he admits easily. not as fresh as he is, not like this. ]
You need my experience.
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So are you with me, or aren't you?
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What exactly do you want out of this little excursion? In the personal ambition sense, of course.
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I agree that Zymandis is a problem. But what we need is a solution that disables their Mothership without sacrificing the people on it.
[ he frames it as what we need instead of answering with what I want, too used to saying one and too unused to saying the other. ]
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[ he says after a moment, with a quirk of his head. ]
The one with the god complex.
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[ assuming they don't have people who could reverse-engineer the AI, but one problem at a time. ]
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I've heard the word arrogant thrown around.
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You said detain him, but we can't take him back here. We can't risk him getting near our Timeline.exe.
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Where our answers our limited, I'd rather keep the options open.
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I have a sword that will force him to tell the truth if he's stabbed with it.
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You what?
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[ he doesn't even know how he's going to finish that sentence. just when you start to think you've seen everything, magic truth sword. ]
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