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[anexcitableboy]

Whoah

[The voice broadcasting over the 'gears is impressed and awed and a little overwhelmed. This is pretty amazing! Of course it helps that Jimmy's still a bit blotto from his most recent binge with Ima, and the shock of waking up here has worn some. Where is Ima, anyway? He blinks into the screen, eyes bloodshot red but expression one of wonder and curiosity. She couldn't have gotten far - she didn't move fast. It never occurs to him that he's on his own here.

A lifetime of science fiction comics and serials has prepared Jimmy to figure out the broadcasting feature of his 'gear relatively easily.]

I mean whoah. Look I've heard of crazy trips before, but this takes the cake. The colors, the music, the people.... Who was that broad that said she was my mom? That lady was not my mom. What kind of sicko tells random strangers they're their mother?

[That's a sensitive subject for Jimmy.]

This little guy with me's crazy, though! He looks like a dinosaur or something. Is he? I mean, hey, weirder things, am I right? I never had a pet before, couldn't have one back home. I mean there was the camp dogs, but they weren't pets.

[He turns the 'gear to show a Cubone sitting not far from his feet before swinging it back to himself.]

So what the hell is this place? I feel like I woke up and hey, suddenly I'm Captain Video. But all that stuff about UFOs and aliens landing in New Mexico...that's just bull, right? This is like some kind of...fancy new theme park? I read they were building one out in California next year. We get one down here, too?

By the way, I kind of lost...well, I guess I'm kinda lost. How the hell do I get back to Jupiter from here?

[It doesn't even look like Florida, it's got to be some kind of crazy theme park. Right?]

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[anexcitableboy]

What?

[But then he's entirely distracted.]

Oh come on, that's bull! Research and studies? A couple of farmers poked at it and then the Fort Worth guys picked it up. There was a picture of the thing in the paper, my Ma saw it. You've been reading too many comics, kid.

[Jimmy's not going to believe in little men from Mars until he sees one with his own eyes. Of course at the rate his year's been going...]

Video did you just

[nasa_dreams]

I have not!

I mean, jeeze! Think about it- why would a guy lie about something like that. He was doing well with his farm, and didn't care about fame at all, he just wanted to raise his family...and BOOM! Some...thing crashes on his farm and it's so impossible you've gotta believe it!

Seriously, if it really was just a balloon, why the heck did the government send so many guys out there? Why did they form Area 51?

[anexcitableboy]

Aliens aren't real. [Is this really the argument he is having right now? Yup, it is.]

Things fall from the sky, kid, gravity works. Weird balloons included. And farmers like money, trust me. Farmers will do all kinds of things for some cash. Even fake a UFO crash and get a bunch of army guys out to make a fuss.

Now you're just making stuff up. Area 51? Put down Adventures Into Terror and exit The Weird Circle. Trust me, there's enough weird stuff that's real out there.

[nasa_dreams]

No way, dude. I've been there. Trespassing...but still!

Oh, don't get me started on weird stuff. Story of my life right there.

[anexcitableboy]

It doesn't even sound like a real place. [It sounds like something Captain Video would get locked up in by intergalactic tyrants.]

Did your big brother take you? Cause sometimes big brothers like to have a little fun...

[nasa_dreams]

Nah, it's totally real. And if they had their way, I'd be getting dissected like a frog in biology.

I've only got a big sister. She's a total pain. I flew there myself cause I had to delete the data they had on me.

[anexcitableboy]

Wait, what do you mean you'd be getting dissected?

[nasa_dreams]

Exactly that. I've got super powers.

[anexcitableboy]

Super powers.

What, are we talking Amazing Man, injected with Tibet monk serum, shoots green mist out your fingers super powers? Or just...you know. Weird genetic oopses?

[nasa_dreams]

Electrocuted in my parent's basement.

Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if I died a little from that....

[anexcitableboy]

....you mean you got super powers when you were electrocuted, not that getting electrocuted is your super power, right?

'Cause that'd be a pretty crappy superpower.

[nasa_dreams]

Nah, nah. It was getting electrocuted in the sciencey ghost portal that gave me powers. They're pretty tight.

[anexcitableboy]

So you've got like electro-powers now or something?

That can really happen?

[nasa_dreams]

Ghost powers actually. Flying's pretty awesome. Oh, and phasing through stuff.

Go figure! I wouldn't have believed it if it didn't happen to me.

[anexcitableboy]

...oh, you're a ghost? I saw one of them once.

[A ghost, Jimmy can believe. He'd seen Mordrake, he knew ghosts and that kind of shit's real. He hadn't believed it before, but now he regretted the hard time he'd given Ma over it.]

[nasa_dreams]

Well, half, actually. I'm not sure how it all works, to be honest.

[anexcitableboy]

....Jesus!

[nasa_dreams]

!!!!

Sorry! Look, it's cool, all right? I, uh, use my powers to fight evil and stuff!

[anexcitableboy]

Sorry, no, s'not you personally. Just...

Half a ghost. And you don't know how it works. And I don't think you're messing with me.

Jesus wept, this is...beyond far out.

[nasa_dreams]

Could be worse, I guess. Well, there is the guy who wants to skin me....

[anexcitableboy]

...okay. I gotta ask. I probably don't wanna know, but I gotta ask.

How do you skin a ghost?

[nasa_dreams]

I dunno, man. He's got a pretty big knife....

[anexcitableboy]

Aren't ghosts...you know. Ghosts? Not much in the flesh and skin department...

[nasa_dreams]

Well, I'm only half....and this guy's a ghost, too. He's got a super high tech armor and hunts ghosts of all kinds...so of course someone like me....

[anexcitableboy]

...and you're sure you're not living in a comic book?