In Space

"Got it!"

Walt smiled and grabbed the equipment. "Thanks Jen! Ok. Lift it a nice and easy until it 'clicks' into the restraing arm again. Little more... little mo- *Clunk* Hold it! Perfect right there! You got it?"

Jen grunts holding up the ship in the docking bay. "I got it! Do what you gotta do!"

Walt nodded and got to work securing the smaller vessel. "Sorry it came in a bit of a state. Shocket, Linda and I managed to patch up a lot of the little holes and fix everything else but we haven't exactly had the manpower for this job or cleaning up. I'm afraid the previous owners were a bit sloppy."

"They were fucking pigs," Linda said dropping off a new pile of varipus items including alien pornography, unwashed clothing, old food containers and odd bits of weaponry and other items in need of cleaning, sorting, repairing. She Jubilee and Gwen were trying to sort and clean the Eclector up a bit now that most of the repairs were made. Jen was helping Walt and Shocket with the bigger jobs when they weren't piloting.

Gwen was interestedly sorting through the porn. "Oh dang! That poor woman..."

Linda glanced, took it out of her hands and turned it right side up for Gwen handing it back. "That's the male actually. There you go."

Gwen nodded. "Aha... yes I see..."

Jubilee shook her head. "And that stuffs valuable?"

Linda nodded as she and Jubilee started going through clothes and sorting them into 'wash' and 'burn' piles. "Yup. We spent many years as 'smugglers' amongst other things. Rare or 'taboo' alien pornography is a thriving market. Some cultures are really repressed and others aren't at all but there's almost always a market for sex and sex related things wherever you go. Way of the Galaxy. Food, protection and sex." She turns out a pocket. "Ooh an Anulax battery. Nice!"

"Alright," Walt shouted. "Let it go slow, Jen!"

She did and the ship settled in to place gently in the docking cradle. "Alright, that's the last one?"

Walt nodded and jumped down. "Sure is!" He set down the tools. "They need some repairs and what not but we've got a bunch to work with. We can scap the really messed up ones for parts to fix the others." He pointed at one of them. "Linda I think you and Shocket should claim that one. It looks to be in the best shape but yall are free to pick anyone of them."

Linda nods. "We'll look it over later. Thanks, Walt!"

Jubilee tossed some clothes on the 'burn' pile. "I can't believe you guys are thinking of splitting when it's all over. It seems like such a shame."

She shrugged. "That's the tentative plan for now. Walt has been..."

Walt and Jen had walked over. He smiled as he checked the Yaro Root. "Almost but not ripe yet." He grabbed an apple and tossed it to Jen who caught it with a smile and began eating. He grabbed an apple for himself too. "It's fine Linda. Go ahead and say it." He pulled out a knife and started cutting into the apple offering the ladies slices.

Linda smiled and nodded. "Walt's a cheat, but he's probably the most honest cheat I ever met. He seems to do exactly what he says he will... infact he goes out of his way to do it the hard way just to not cause a nuisance to others. For a scoundrel and rogue he's a pretty decent guy... so far. I reserve the right to make up my own mind when everything is all over."

Walt smiled and passed her a piece of apple which she accepted. "Thanks, Linda. I wouldn't have it anyother way." He ate a slice he cut for himself.

Linda nodded. "But-"

The PA crackles and Shocket can be heard loudly over the speakers. "First mate Shocket calling Captain Stank! Captain Stank to the bridge please when you're done farting the fuck around back there!"

"That's my cue," Walt said smiling. "Excuse me, ladies." He grabbed another apple and headed towards the bridge.

Gwen uncovered her ears. "Why dies she even do that? It's not like she can't call us over Friday or use it nicely!"

Jen nodded. "Plus she's always such a foul mouthed bitch... especially to Walt."

Jubilee laughed and Linda nodded. Jubilee got it. "It's just her way," Linda said smiling. "She likes, Walt and wants to be friends."

Walt walked onto the bridge. "Hey, heads up!" He tossed Shocket an apple.

Shocket smiled but said, "What? No Yaro Root?" She took a bite.

Walt shook his head. "Yaro Roots for closers... 'side's it's not quite ripe yet. Maybe tomorrow. What me to take a turn? Get your fuzzy butt up and walk around?"

"You know I was just thinking about that very thing!" She said as he climbed into the other piloting station. She stood and stretched. "I was bored and said to myself 'Self?' 'Yes, Shocket?' 'Self I'm bored and kinda want to move around.' 'Shocket, you should call up that hairless ape of a so-called-captain then and let him take over awhile.' 'But Self, that might fucking doom us all as he navigates us into a star or something else equally moronic?'-"

"But then you wouldn't be bored, Shocket," Walt cuts her off guessing the train of her thoughts and joke with a grin.

Shocket glares at him for stealing her punchline... then smiles. "Stay outta my head you fucking weirdo. We're nearly there." She takes another bite of apple and leans against his seat.

Walt nodded and hits a few buttons checking their position. "Wow... bit faster than I thought. Nice."

Shocket chewed and swallowed. "Yeah but there doesn't appear to be much here. Just an asteroid field."

Walt smiled. "We can't actually get to Asgard by normal means. That's not how it works. Without the bifrost we have to go by other means and ways leaving Midgard for Asgard space and the other realms."

Shocket shook her head. "Oh now why don't I like the sound of that?"

Walt chuckled. "Yeah, it's tricky but it can be done. Many have before. Think of Asgard, and most of the realms connected to it, as a disk shaped planet but one that's in it's own spatial dimension. The barriers between some can be crossed from one world to another as easily as climbing over a mountain range. Crossing from Alfheim or Vanaheim is just as easy as that sometimes. Jotunheim or Svartalfhiem is much harder. And crossing directly from Midgard is impossible without something like the bifrost. But there are ways to connect to the space that it's in. We'll have to approach from those border ways."

He turned on the PA. "Captain speaking. Well be stoping for a bit. Begin storing and securing all cargo and equipment... things might get bumpy when we resume. There's plenty of time though so don't rush we have a little less than a quarter earth solar cycle before the alignment. That is all."

He turned it off and brought them to a full stop outside the field. Shocket looked out the veiwport then at him. "What there's a way out there or something?"

Walt shook his head. "There's nothing out there... yet. You'll see in time."

She crossed her arms and huffed. Walt chuckled and held out his hand. "Come on... we got time to secure everything then a few hours to eat, rest and do whatever before things get crazy."

She rolled her eyes but took his hand. "Yeah you got a good point... could be our last meal."

Walt chuckled and started heading for the galley. "I sincerely doubt it but you never know..."

[Walter Stark Penny Polendina F.R.I.D.A.Y Neopolitan Pyrrha Nikos Nora Valkyrie Yang Xiao Long Blake Belladonna Kali Belladonna Sienna Khan Willow Schnee Glynda Goodwitch Zwei Ahnassi Lifts-Her-Tail Senko Sayoko Shinozaki Roberta Cisneros Haruna Sasha Blouse Ilulu Rachel "Raven" Roth Manami "La Brava" Aiba Tsuyu "Froppy" Asui Haruhime Sanjouno Anastasia "The Baroness" Cisarovna/DeCobray Demona Mystique Pirotess Lydia Aela the Huntress Serana Mission Vao Curie Ada PAM KL-E-O Merida Gwen "Gwenom" Stacy Jubilation "Jubilee" Lee and Jennifer "She-Hulk" Walters

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