There's really no way to give the short answer to that question and have it make much sense. Sam winces. ]
Okay, I kinda have to back up a little before I get to the who, because it gets...complicated. And it's gonna sound pretty crazy.
[ He's pretty sure his mother watches soap operas that are less ridiculous than where his life has gone in the last few months. ]
So...my dad disappeared a while back. Into space, because as it turns out, all his stories about being a space cop before I was born actually weren't BS that he made up to feel better about being a loser? And there was this Chitauri fleet parked around Jupiter, and he went after them and didn't come back, and long story short, I wound up finishing up for him. And as long as I had the cool space powers anyway, I've been trying to find him ever since.
[ And most of that, he could skip too, he figured, even if a lot of it played into why everything sucked so hard - that he'd hit that kind of a setback after putting so much time into it, following the trail so far, and thinking he'd done it only to have it all wiped away. ]
It took a while, but I thought I found him. We went home. Everything was really good for a few weeks.
[ Better than it ever had been, really, because it hadn't been until his father disappeared that Sam realized that things shouldn't be so bad between them. ]
So then - it turns out I didn't save him. They cloned him. And another one showed up to kill us both, because the first one decided he liked being my dad more than reporting back to Warbringer, and after we handled that, then he tracked down the ship where they had the rest of them, except my dad still wasn't there, and then when I caught up to him he said none of them should exist and he blew the entire ship up.
[ The further into the story he got, the faster the words kept spilling out, and by the end he wasn't sure if he was talking too fast to even be understandable anymore, but he hadn't really unloaded on anyone since...probably not since before the Watcher died. Once the floodgates were open, there was no putting it all back in the can. ]
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There's really no way to give the short answer to that question and have it make much sense. Sam winces. ]
Okay, I kinda have to back up a little before I get to the who, because it gets...complicated. And it's gonna sound pretty crazy.
[ He's pretty sure his mother watches soap operas that are less ridiculous than where his life has gone in the last few months. ]
So...my dad disappeared a while back. Into space, because as it turns out, all his stories about being a space cop before I was born actually weren't BS that he made up to feel better about being a loser? And there was this Chitauri fleet parked around Jupiter, and he went after them and didn't come back, and long story short, I wound up finishing up for him. And as long as I had the cool space powers anyway, I've been trying to find him ever since.
[ And most of that, he could skip too, he figured, even if a lot of it played into why everything sucked so hard - that he'd hit that kind of a setback after putting so much time into it, following the trail so far, and thinking he'd done it only to have it all wiped away. ]
It took a while, but I thought I found him. We went home. Everything was really good for a few weeks.
[ Better than it ever had been, really, because it hadn't been until his father disappeared that Sam realized that things shouldn't be so bad between them. ]
So then - it turns out I didn't save him. They cloned him. And another one showed up to kill us both, because the first one decided he liked being my dad more than reporting back to Warbringer, and after we handled that, then he tracked down the ship where they had the rest of them, except my dad still wasn't there, and then when I caught up to him he said none of them should exist and he blew the entire ship up.
[ The further into the story he got, the faster the words kept spilling out, and by the end he wasn't sure if he was talking too fast to even be understandable anymore, but he hadn't really unloaded on anyone since...probably not since before the Watcher died. Once the floodgates were open, there was no putting it all back in the can. ]