[dated to After the Bees but before GLADoS date experiment] [wide open once she's been seated]

[badluckbabe]

Jinx hadn't been to this cafe yet, she was aware of it as much as anything else on the ship but so far it was one of the few places she hadn't explored first hand. But Diana was a perfect excuse to see if it was worth the price of admission (free).

She had spent a fair amount of time in cafe's and diners back on her own world in her own universe. It was a peaceful escape from her own team mates where she could have some coffee or a soda, a slice of pie and just people watch. Sometimes she would draw, sometimes she would listen to music and marvel at how easy it was for a girl with pink hair and eyes to blend into the back round of other peoples lives.

It was a necessity as well. Jinx's powers as wonderful and helpful as they were for most of her life seemed to have one major flaw. Any time she tried to cook something more complicated then a bowl of cereal or a sandwich something went horribly wrong. She'd been thrown out of her Home Ec. Class at Hive Academy because of one particularly messy incident involving an automatic mixer and the instructors ponytail.

So making other people cook for her was much easier and more satisfying. A life of petty crime afforded her more then enough to live off the culinary skills of other people.

Back in the moment Jinx scanned the entrance way to see if she should seat herself, or wait to be seated.

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[badluckbabe]

That peaked her interest, "Nanomachines? To what end?" She had only had studies involving nanotechnology but never direct interaction. Gizmo had been the only member of her team capable of using them and he preferred his machines to be big and impressive rather then small and subtle.

[17thangel]

"Uh, neural connection link to a heavy assault gear... It flies off of what I think. That and some other stuff to deal with air and water pressure. Its really a lot less interesting than it sounds."

[badluckbabe]

Jinx nodded processing the words and constructing her own mental images of what it meant. "Government agency? Human technological war machine that sort of business?"

[17thangel]

"The nation of Solaris. They were trying to awaken God. Load of nonsense. If I had my way my Seibzehn and I would be dancing around the flaming wreckage of their capitol city. But Seibzehn is the peak of human tech, I can even take on some of those Omnigears in simulations back home... Er.. ONE of them. We only had the data on the one."

[badluckbabe]

Alot of what she said had to be translated in Jinx's head. She didn't know what a Seibzehn was so she assumed mech robot of some sort. She didn't know what an Omnigear was so that fell into the same category.

"Do you still have your Seibzehn? I mean here on Stacy?" Seemed like more then a few heroes were left without their tools of choice around the ship.

[17thangel]

"Yeah, in the hangar. Too big to really bring anywhere else. They're probably afraid I'd get bored and knock over a building.... Which is kind of silly since a bunch of them look ready to fall over anyways."

[badluckbabe]

"If anything that might actually help things. Half those buildings are death traps." Jinx laughed thinking of her own shabby looking flat. Only one of the floors looked decent and that was the one she lived on. The rest provided camouflage.

"Still lucky you. I've had to scavenge all the tools I have from planet visits and places around the ship. Then again I was never a giant fighting machine kinda girl."

[17thangel]

"I'm not good at subtle, and Seibzehn and I have been together since I was 4. Kind of guessed a bunch of those buildings weren't safe, some kind of war or something happened before I woke up here I was told."

"As for tools though, I don't actually have any REPAIR tools or anything I've been kind of scavenging those. That and things to get real food. You'd think they'd actually know what was in the food they give us here."

[badluckbabe]

"No kidding." Jinx gestured to the slice of pie in front of her. "But really humans, at least where I come from, have gotten used to not knowing what's in their food. Pre-made, packed, processed and made to last for a long time in storage. Preservatives and chemicals that most people can't even pronounce. Eating unattractive slop and just hoping that it's healthy is really just a few steps closer to giving up the art of culinary creation entirely."

Spoken like a student who got an A in her "Criminal sociology and trends of modern society" class.

[17thangel]

"Where I come from there was a nation that put humans in the food and didn't tell anyone as part of a complex genetic experiment. Makes a girl just a bit paranoid about what exactly is in the food she's eating."

[badluckbabe]

Jinx pulled a face of disgust and looked back down at her pie, apparently reconsidering her meal now.

"What the hell kind of experiment requires THAT!" For all the times she had considered her world crappy, she never thought it was even close to surprise cannibalism crappy.

[17thangel]

"The kind that makes you want to find the city responsible, knock it out of the sky and dance around the flaming ruins of it? Solaris is a bunch of sick jerks, I'm just upset I got pulled here before I could properly rampage through it."

[badluckbabe]

"Well I'm all for destruction and chaos, making it destruction and chaos for a purpose makes it better. And making that purpose revenge is just icing on the cake." She smirked like the villain she aspired to be.

"Just look at it this way. The Ohm already trashed it once, and if we manage to set things back to how they were then you'll get to Trash it a second time."

[17thangel]

"Well, I was GOING to take on their national air force right before I was taken and I'm glad someone FINALLY understand that Revenge is a perfectly acceptable reason to knock a city out of the sky and step on it just to add insult to injury!"

[badluckbabe]

"Nothing wrong with that. Perfectly understandable. I'd think you were foolish not to considering just what you've told me." Jinx agreed nodding.

[17thangel]

"I know a lot of people that are 'better' than things like good old fashioned revenge. Its kind of infuriating sometimes."

[badluckbabe]

"Well Stacy has apparently gone out of her way to wake up mostly heroic types. We could use a little more balance in immorality but what can you do?" She shrugged. "I mean aside from trying to make contact with all of us who are more logical and fun."

[17thangel]

"Near as I can tell you can still be a hero and not stupid. Revenge is something that makes the world go around. And heroic is very situational. One nations hero is another nation's ultimate evil."

She shrugs a bit.

[badluckbabe]

"But you're thinking with logic and reason, both of which are in short supply by societies standards." Jinx countered. "I'm too selfish to be anyone's hero." Jinx lied already thinking of a few specific individuals who would classify her as heroic. Her blond haired adopted brother first on the list.

[17thangel]

"Near as I can tell, as long as you can look at yourself in the mirror in the morning being a hero or not doesn't matter. Society is weird and horribly inconsistent."

[badluckbabe]

"But here we are trying to save it." She set her fork down having finished her pie with an amused smile.

[17thangel]

"The mirror or society? I was trying to save it at home too, cause a bigger one that pissed me off was trying to destroy the one that saved me. Not all societies are dumb, though the people who drone on how things must be for the good of it can be annoying. I only knew one guy who thought he was a hero and he was a pirate which is about the most unheroic thing out there."

[badluckbabe]

"Oh I dunno." Jinx mused, "After all if a hero is what you make of it then there can be heroic pirates. But that's beside the point. What we're doing here will be bringing back the societies we left behind good and bad." She paused "Unless...perhaps we'll get the chance to make some adjustments when we recreate how homeworlds." And that brought out all kinds of wonderful ideas.

[17thangel]

"I think I'm seeing where you are going with this and I like your philosophy. Tell me more."

[badluckbabe]

"Well, and this is me being optimistic so take it for what it's worth. Stacy hasn't told us exactly HOW we'll be able to restore our worlds. We don't even know that we can for sure. But let's for the sake of hope and purpose that we can. Now imagine that not only can we restore our worlds, but adjust them to our liking. All your dreams, any wrong you ever wanted to right. The world at your whim. Like a god." The words were hopefully inspiring in some way.