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[img]https://i.imgur.com/jvJ31KK.png?1[/img][hr][@BlueSky44][@Kirah][@Nallore][@Natsu][@Trainerblue192][hr][h3][color=84B4E2][b] May 17th, 2021[/b][/color][/h3][/center][hr][center][hr][h3][color=84B4E2][b]Skrull Prison Ship - Orbiting Saturn[/b][/color][/h3][/center][hr]	The prisoner stared at them, her young eyes hardened with suspicion. Even as tattered and beaten as she was, she still had a regal quality to her gaze. She looked like the sort of person who should have been ordering troops into battle and negotiating treaties, rather than wasting away as the sole occupant on this prison block. "If this is a trick, I do not care for it," the girl finally said. 

	[color=E8FF00]"Look, we aren't here to hurt you - we aren't shapeshifters,"[/color] Hope said, as gently as she could - but even then, it came out a bit blunt. [color=E8FF00]"We were prisoners on this ship, too."[/color] she added, hoping that might get the girl to trust them. 

	Suddenly, a lone pair of guards came into view and they gasped. "The terrans are after the Princess!" one screamed, as the other took off at a run to go sound an alarm. The remaining skrull raised his weapon and opened fire on the group, not giving them any time for warning shots. Luckily, he was a terrible shot, only grazing Hope in the arm. The skrulls tended to rely on surprise for their attacks, as well as isolating their targets so they could gang up on them - so essentially, the opposite of this situation. [center][hr][h3][color=84B4E2][b]Jersey City Boardwalk - New Jersey: 10:20 P.M[/b][/color][/h3][/center][hr][hr]	[color=d86615]"...It was just a joke, Sparks,"[/color] Raynor said, shaking his head. He knew that she had been terrified and alone. He didn't doubt that she was strong enough to make her own choices, hell, he liked knowing that Sparky could make do without him. It calmed his nerves, knowing that whenever the day came that his past caught up with him, she would be okay. 

	[color=FFB795]"Yeah, so if you're wondering, that's more or less a summary of what traveling with these two cunts is like,"[/color] Amelia explained to Cass with an awkward shrug. She wasn't too worried about anyone present being a skrull. The only skrull she had ever met had been Maria and she had been [i]super[/i] weird about the entire thing - what with her trying to do trust falls mid-flight with a pregnant woman. No one here was asking for weird potentially fatal activities, so they seemed chill enough. 

	[color=d86615]"Are you even really Reed?"[/color] Raynor asked, narrowing his eyes and ignoring Amelia's rambling. Was he the only one concerned about how easily this entire thing could be a trap? The skrulls had managed to overpower him and leave him for dead - if it hadn't been for pure dumb luck, he would have died. He wouldn't have ended up in his mother's healing garden. Sparky would be alone, without anyone to protect her, and their child (gods, he hoped it was their child) would grow up fatherless. 

	He frowned, hearing Niah babbling on and on. She wasn't at [i]all[/i] like herself. If it hadn't been for the obvious recent amputation of her leg, he would have been certain she was a skrull. That, and he knew instinctively that she wasn't lying. It was one of his abilities - he always knew if someone was lying to him or not. [color=d86615]"No, it didn't,"[/color] he answered her bluntly. [color=d86615]"You seem psychotic, Bautista."[/color]

	Raynor huffed slightly, annoyed that apparently Oliver was the only one taking all of this seriously too. He assumed Oliver wasn't likely to be a skrull, given that no skrull would insist on being tested by the God of Lies and... Niah... to see if they were an impostor or not. [color=d86615]"Alright, if everyone would just introduce yourselves, I'll suss out who the skrulls are,"[/color] Raynor said with a slight sigh. 

	Amelia had [i]no idea[/i] how that was supposed to work. She only knew the bare minimum when it came to what was going on. She also didn't really know what powers everyone had, beyond Sparky who seemed to be able to fly and shock people who irritated her. [color=FFB795]"Uh, well, I'm Amelia Baptiste, callsign Thrill Seeker. I'm an Aussie, I'm 27 years old, and I recently learned that I'm inhuman or whatever the term is. I'm terrified of needles and I hate taking exams. I love animals, flying, karaoke, and camping underneath the stars at night, even if there's a wicked amount of spiders crawling all over the place. I was adopted, my dads could be described by that [i]and they were roommates[/i] meme thing, very gay, very in love. One of my dads died in a plane crash, that was real rough... Kinda destroyed my other dad... I ended up joining the RAAF, but they didn't let women train as fast jet fighter pilots which was a load of bullshit, so I ended up joining S.H.I.E.L.D. so I could fly faster and higher... Is that what you needed from me? That was too much, wasn't it?"[/color]

	[color=d86615]"...Yeah, she's not a skrull,"[/color] Raynor said, shaking his head. [color=d86615]"I need a drink after that."[/color][center][hr][h3][color=84B4E2][b]Quinjet - New Jersey: 10:20 P.M[/b][/color][/h3][/center][hr][hr]	Bonnie had decided to stay on the plane as well - they didn't need everyone heading off in order to greet the people they were picking up. She wondered what would be done with the other two ships, given how adverse Barton was to giving out the coordinates of their ultimate destination to anyone else. She got the sense that it wasn't an issue he would budge on. She also didn't want to leave the President alone. She only knew for certain that she herself was not a skrull. She didn't want to walk off on the off chance that Kwassi and Evelyn were both skrulls. 

	She pursed her lips slightly, listening patiently to Kwassi's explanation, even though she had more experience when it came to studying the skrulls. Once he finished, she paused for a second before offering her own thoughts. [color=f6989d]"They're perfect shapeshifters - even DNA samples extracted are indistinguishable. We'd never been able to take a live skrull into custody before, so we don't know how they are able to access the memories of whoever they shapeshift to act like, but I doubt that they're being helped by a mutant telepath. Our first encounter with them was in December. It was likely just a scout, but we weren't able to interrogate the skrull, as it died. The Asgardian out there, Raynor, he's the only one to return so far after being replaced... We have no reason to suspect that they keep hostages."[/color]