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[cahooted]

Star Munch? [Flynn blinks a couple of times. That doesn't sound right?] Are you s--

[Somehow it feels rude to ask one of Peter's closest friends if he's sure that's his name so he just scratches the back of his neck there.] Huh. Alright then.

Well, I wouldn't mind your spaceship dropping by and getting us out of here but unfortunately that is not very likely to happen.

[procyon_lotor]

Just call him that next time you see him. He'll recognize it. Trust me.

[ Thank you Flynn, for being such a nice, trusting individual. ]

People will come for us. Drax, Gamora. They're not gonna just sit around wondering where the two of us are. [ It's sad really, how he actually believes that on day one. ]

[cahooted]

Will do! [That sounds fun. Using an insider nickname from Peter's closest friends, that will surprise him for sure!]

Oh yeah, Peter told me about them, too. [Flynn just... doesn't have it in his heart to press the unlikeliness of Rocket's idea and crush his hopes right there. And part of him really likes the idea of a ship dropping by and bombing the crap out of this place.] He really missed you guys.

private, ongoing

[procyon_lotor]

[ It will totally be fun! Though, in reality, who knows. It's a name Peter hasn't heard in awhile. He might not actually 100% hate it. Just like, 98%. ]

Has he really been here a whole month? [ This message goes private, mostly because he's asking about Peter now. Apparently Flynn has successfully convinced Rocket that he is actually Quill's friend. ]

private cont.

[cahooted]

[With Nicole just having entered the city Flynn can immediately recognize the private switch for the realness territory that it is.]

Yeah.

I think? I arrived here some time after him and I'm coming up to one month.

[procyon_lotor]

That barely makes sense.

I literally saw him on the ship yesterday.

[cahooted]

You might be from different moments in time. Or different worlds. Or it's really just our consciousness that gets transferred here and life just... goes on wherever we're from.

[He's not sure yet if that's comforting or horrifying. It really depends on his mood these days.]

... I had someone from my past show up. [His voice etches with a similar kind of frustration that Rocket displays.] Like, two years from my past, that shouldn't even be possible.

[procyon_lotor]

[ Ugh.

Ugh ugh ugh ugh ugh.

It's days like this that make Rocket want to beat up grass again. ]

So you're saying that on top of being in some forgotten, robot-controlled wasteland, we're all time traveling.

Great. So great.

[cahooted]

[Maybe he can take it out on a nice snow slope.]

Yeah. I mean this place itself is supposed to be in the 2150s. Which, after Earth's calendar is about 150 years in my future so that's already a given. Some people here are from an even later date, apparently they went back in time, and...

It's a mess, really.

[procyon_lotor]

[ That's a good point. ]

You can say that again. [ He's grumbling more than talking now. ] I don't even know what year it's supposed to be on Earth right now. Though. Wait a minute. Didn't Peter mention once he was born in the ... [ Hmmmm nope Rocket doesn't remember. ]

[cahooted]

The 1970s maybe? I think we're actually close to the same age. ... I mean, timeline-age-wise, I think we're from... roughly the same time. He knows a lot of movies and music that I know, too.

[Except Top Gun but Flynn is okay with never talking about the Top Gun debacle again.]

[procyon_lotor]

[ Counting time is a funny thing when you don't have to deal in seasons or how far along a planet is in rotating around the sun. ]

So then probably this place is in 150 years of our future too. You know, if you and Quill have that ... shared cultural thing.

[ All he's got to go on really, is that Flynn seems to have a steady sense of when he is in his timeline. ]

[cahooted]

Which is weird because you guys come from space with all the future tech and all that. Peter's been telling me about it, it sounds wild!

[He thinks you guys are really cool, okay.]

So Rocket, what do you do, are you a pilot, too? I know Gamora likes swords. What's your thing?

[procyon_lotor]

Yeah well, you could say that where we're from, no one really paid attention to Earth. Wasn't very advanced. Couldn't even get people out into the galaxy!

So if we really are 150 years into the future, then whoever's out there [ "Out there," as in, "in space." ] has probably even better tech now. Wonder if they ever solved that overheating issue with the ... [ Pardon Rocket, he likes his toys a little too much. ]

Me? Oh yeah. Best pilot in the galaxy. And yep, Gamora's thing is swords. In addition to being the best pilot in the galaxy, I'm also the best engineer and inventor. [ Brag much, little raccoon? ]