[I should apologize for all posts in advance.]

[walkingballpit]

[ The camera feed turns on, and it's immediately an in-focus, decently framed shot. Robbie actually has experience with selfie feeds and took the time to learn the controls before he started shooting.

The content is being winged, though, because it's really hard to screw up hello. Robbie grins at the camera. ]

The Pledge of a Legion, so that's a thing.

[ There's just enough of a rush to his voice to slur the edges of the words into "Pledge of Allegiance". Saying hi doesn't mean he can't amuse himself for a split second while testing the waters for possible temporarily-borrowed contemporaries. ]

Never actually had to vow before. Sign things, yes. This is kind of more official than I like to work, but a team's a team. You guys can help me with the future deets, and I'll start working on that new catchphrase for you.

[ And a new pledge, and a new team name, because wow. It's all so on-the-nose that it hurts, or maybe it's the smell of raw earnestness wafting around this place. He might've written up a few theoretical oaths for the New Warriors, back in the day, but he never got around to showing them to anyone. Enacting them, though, that takes consensus. Robbie doesn't think he'd have managed it.

He throws a deuce, because he'll never have another chance to confuse future alien peoples. ]

What up, Legion? Speedball in the house.

Comments

[kingtyrantranger]

Huh. That's a tough one.

[It's quiet from Jason's end. He tends to prefer only sending out audio rather than focus on video. Of course, he'd try to answer as many questions as he could, but...]

I think the biggest thing is that, while we're here, time's standing still back home. At least, that's what the Master Chief says what happened. So, when we go home [And that's 'when', not 'if'.] we'll come back in at the same moment we left. What we don't know, though, is what happens if we age while we're here, then go home.

[walkingballpit]

[ Robbie is wishing that he'd done audio himself, because keeping a neutral face when people keep handing him things that make him think so much. Like right now, he's focused on that 'when' and wondering how to change it for someone else. ]

What if we don't want to go home?

[kingtyrantranger]

[There's a pause from Jason's end. Not wanting to go home? Well...'

No. It wasn't any of his business. And this guy seemed to know Justice and Rich pretty well, so he had friends to rely on already. Best not to pry.]

I doubt the Legion would force us to go home. I heard someone ask that already, but I forget who it was. [Grif, maybe?] I'm pretty sure they said that if it were up to them, we could stay as long as we liked.

...Well, I say that, but we've had a few people disappear on us already. I don't know if it's the Time Trapper acting up or whatever Brainy originally thought it was, but I don't think that we have a say in it. Like when Master Chief went home and came back.

[googledox]

Jason is correct.

The Time Trapper has his own agenda, and unfortunately we have no control over who is brought to this universe, who stays, or who gets to return to their dimensional point of origin.

But there may be an eventuality where we do have some measure of control over it, in which case, anyone that chooses not to return to their home universe is welcome to stay here, whether they'd like to do so as a Legionnaire or simply as a citizen of the UP.

We understand that some of you displacees come from situations that might be considered hostile. The same can be said for some of us that are native to this universe. We came from circumstances that were inhospitable or...unpleasant and found refuge and an improved quality of life with the team.

[kingtyrantranger]

Yeah, Brainy's just about the second smartest guy I know. If anyone could come up with a way to make certain of these things, it'd be him.

[googledox]

["Second smartest?" he almost says, but he manages to restrain himself from commenting again. Barely.]

[kingtyrantranger]

[Sorry, Brainy. You're not blue enough to be the smartest.]

[walkingballpit]

[ Oh, they're who he doesn't want to go home. At least, Robbie doesn't want Rich to be sent back to his death. He, Himself, has to get back eventually, but he's going to campaign for Rich to stay. He's willing to earn it. ]

So what I'm hearing is the guy making the decisions is useless, so I need to start kissing up to Brainy Smurf now. Because when he works out how to take over the reins, I want to be first in line.

Aside from veganism, this isn't so bad. I've lived in worse spots.

[kingtyrantranger]

Hey, have at. The sooner I'm home, the better.

[He's got responsibilities. Even if time's frozen.]

[walkingballpit]

Yeah. Same here, really.

[ Robbie's still not back in the black, cosmically speaking, but he'll help out here before going back to continue working on that. ]