No, I'd've called Angel and Hisako because the X-Men are up to their teeth in Shi'Ar tech, and I would've gotten an actual freaking spaceship for the cavalry.

[ It's an instant response. Robbie has given serious thought to all of the things he would've done differently, if only he'd known the future. He's spent more than a few minutes wondering why Rina never told him how things were going to go.

Truth be told, he's not sure what Rich is talking about. He's never been told about any beacon. News eventually trickled to him that Rich was supposedly dead in a war, and Robbie held onto that supposedly until it was laughable. Then, yes, he dreamed up ways that they should have been able to save that friend too.

We're our best selves together. What can he say to that? Rich is right. They were the best and worst together. ]

Yeah, but I always knew you were worth ten of them... what's this about Richards and Stark and a beacon?

[ He practically spits out both names - Robbie hates them both equally for being so smart and so fundamentally stupid, and he doesn't like the implication that they were somehow lax in helping another Avenger.