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[picksthenames]

	You've reached: CISSSSCOOOOOOO RAMOOOOOOON*. I'm off doing something more interesting than answering the phone, so you know what to do after the beep!
ｖｏｉｃｅ － ｔｅｘｔ － ｖｉｄｅｏ － ａｃｔｉｏｎ

[ *Said in an echoing voice not matching the rest of the message, much like an announcer in a stadium.
In fact it's an audio clip of Barry Allen's voice that Cisco has pieced into the rest of his outgoing message. ]

Comments

Voice

[notayoungman]

Nothing personal, kid.

Voice

[picksthenames]

Yeah, yeah. Maybe be a little more open minded and a little less trigger-happy next time you find yourself on an alternate Earth.

[ Yeah, he heard what you did to Archie. ]

Voice

[notayoungman]

[ That dead silence? It's him realizing what Archie could have even said. Because that guy's an idiot. ]

Let's see how you handle yourself, the next time a beast your own height drops out of the sky.

Voice

[picksthenames]

Okay, I'll give you startled. But there's a difference between flinching and pulling a gun on a guy.

Voice

[notayoungman]

[ Pulse rifles aren't exactly holsterable weapons... ]

I wouldn't expect a kid like you to understand.

Voice

[picksthenames]

You don't know me. You don't know what I've seen, what I've done.

Voice

[notayoungman]

If you think my actions were unreasonable, you haven't seen or done enough to understand.

Re: Voice

[picksthenames]

I may not have your specific traumas, no. But if that means that I don't go into every unfamiliar situation guns blazing, then I think maybe I'm better off for it.

Voice

[notayoungman]

[ A low growl, because damn it he has to "share" things. ]

It wasn't unfamiliar. In my world, robots--onmics, we call them--of that size were corrupted and used to cause massive destruction. Just one can wipe an entire city off the map in less than a day.

Voice

[picksthenames]

[ Oddly enough, Cisco is beginning to understand and (maybe) sympathize. ]

So you saw a giant purple bat carrying a guy and thought omnic. I guess I can get that. But it's important to know that-- this isn't your world. This world, it pulls in people from all sorts of universes. Most likely, the strange things you see are going to be wholly new and not the same BS you dealt with back home.

Voice (OOPS I got my Jabbers characters swapped...oh well)

[notayoungman]

The introduction here is lacking.

[ Dropping a war veteran into this chaos is just asking for trouble! ]

lmao no worries

[picksthenames]

There are some imPorts working on that, trust me. But it isn't the worst-off alternate Earth I've seen.

[notayoungman]

[ Well THAT sounds suspicious... ]

How many have you seen?

[picksthenames]

Uh... counting this one? [ Well, let's see. There's Earth-1, Earth-2, then Earth-38 with Kara... Then HR is from Earth-19. But Cisco hasn't actually seen that one. ] Four?

[notayoungman]

That the Porter's doing?

[picksthenames]

No, as far as I can tell the Porter just brings people to and from this Earth. The rest, uh... That has to do with me being a metahuman.

[ If grumpy grandpa can share, then Cisco can share too. ]

[notayoungman]

[ Metahuman. That sounds like it could be an alternative term for a cyborg, but given the context... ]

You have the ability to world-hop. Willingly.

[ He does not sound pleased about this assumption. ]

[picksthenames]

[ No he certainly does not. ]

Uh... Yeah? It's not a crime. [ Except on Earth-19... ]

[notayoungman]

[ A low growl ]

And you're not doing anything to free people from this world?!

[picksthenames]

Dude, you don't think I've tried?

[ That was literally the first thing he did. ]

The Porter messed with my powers. I can only open breaches to other places on this Earth.

[notayoungman]

[ He'd argue that Cisco wasn't trying hard enough. But the Porter changed him in ways he didn't appreciate, either.

But that's still....something. ]

Further than the Porter can reach?

[picksthenames]

I mean... [ He hasn't exactly tested the limit of his breaching abilities, but he's not about to admit that to this guy. ] It helps if I've been there before.

[notayoungman]

[ Damn it, kid. That would have been an awesome cr opportunity useful. ]

That's a no.

[ But then in a surprise move, a sudden change of gears. ]

On the tech, you need an hour?

[picksthenames]

[ Oh so he's willing to work with him now? ]

Yeah, an hour should do it. Like I said, I might need longer if the code language is unfamiliar, but...

An hour, yeah.

[notayoungman]

[ He's a paranoid man who doesn't make these decisions easily. ]

Where can I find you?