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]

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.

[madeupnames]

Story of my life.

I've got lots of terrible movies to prove it; bad movies are too fun.

[gristle]

Why?

[A beat.]

I didn't really watch a lot of movies.

[Her dad like Bonanza. Fuck Westerns.]

[madeupnames]

Then you should totally watch some with me. Some of these are bad movie classics. Like Sharknado, or Night of the Lepus... It's just fun to laugh at them, really. You don't have to take them seriously, and you have a good time.

[gristle]

[Sorry Peter, she doesn't know you, so she doesn't trust you but she may think you're okay a bit so she's just going to cautiously say:]

Maybe?

[madeupnames]

U-um, or—! We could just all go to the movies. There's a nice movie theater here. [He wasn't sure if maybe she wasn't one for company. Or maybe she wasn't sure about some boy offering movies.] I also did a bad movie night at school, so maybe I could have another one.

[gristle]

They do movies at school here?

[maybe she should go to school then.]