1st Stanza Audio UN:Marsh

[gristle]

[The voice you hear is a teenage girl, and she sounds a little disgusted. Whether or not this post was an accident is up for debate. But she'll respond either way.]

What the fuck kind of place is this? I thought the adults were supposed to care. Sure doesn't look like it.

I need a cigarette.

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[madeupnames]

... Also, you shouldn't, uh. Smoke.

It's bad for you. You've seen those gross lung posters.

[gristle]

What gross lung posters?

[Those come later for her, Peter.

Yes, this is what she's going to focus on.]

[madeupnames]

Oh, y'know, the ones where they show the inside of a smoker's lung and how it's all gross and black and stuff. Or the one where they ask which is volcanic rock and which is smoker's lung? Those posters.

Anyways, smoking's bad, mm'kay?

[Yes, he just mimicked a South Park character Beverly wouldn't know. But it's the thought that counts.]

[gristle]

Are you trying to sound like an adult?

[Side eye.]

[madeupnames]

Like a snobby old teacher, yeah.

I'm - I'm Peter, by the way. Parker. Nice to meet you.

[gristle]

Beverly. Don’t sound like a teacher. They’re the worst.

[Or parents are but that’s a more controversial and private conversation.]

[madeupnames]

Hey! There are some good teachers!

... I dunno if there are any good gym teachers, though.

[Sorry Coach Wilson.]

[gristle]

[Well, she agrees on one thing:]

Gym teachers are always the worst.

[madeupnames]

He's also the guy in charge of detention. And he makes use watch all these educational PSAs.

[gristle]

Like D.A.R.E?

[madeupnames]

Oh, yeah, just like that. But just a TV with a superhero in the video.

Nobody even visits and hands out stickers.

[gristle]

You have superheroes in yours? We just have like... cops.

[madeupnames]

Oh, absolutely! We got heroes all over the place. The cape kinds.

... Cops and firefighters and rescue people are heroes, too, though. Just not quite as flashy.

[gristle]

Superheroes are like a thing where you're from?

Really?

[madeupnames]

Superheroes, robots, aliens —

We've got 'em all.

[He smiles, the curve of it present in his voice.]

[gristle]

Okay. That’s a little weird.

[Bev look at Derry.]

[madeupnames]

It was a little weird when it happened, yeah. Just a little.

[Hardy har.]

... I was at the end of my elementary school year, when the aliens attacked us.

Crazy stuff... We were all freaked out. Luckily, that's when the superhero part comes in.

[gristle]

It sounds like a movie.

[Sorry Pete, she's suspicious af.]

[madeupnames]

Sure does. But it was definitely, 100% real. And one of the scariest days of my life.

Luckily, the Avengers were there. They kept it contained, so none of the attack even made it as far as Queens.

[gristle]

The Avengers? Now it really sounds like that old show. With the bat guy.

1/2

[madeupnames]

[........................]

[madeupnames]

Gargoyles?

[gristle]

[Blink.]

No. Bat guy, with the sidekick Partridge and all of the Villains like the Jester and Feline Girl and the Chicken.

[madeupnames]

... Doesn't sound familiar...

[We're MCU, we're not allowed to even utter a DC character's name.]

Was it any good?

[gristle]

It was kinda dumb. But it was on all the time.