Mushverse- Enter the SPD boys [open to all]

[spd_blue]

After the incident with being drugged by an alien that caused Sky to act very out of character, he'd been taking every opportunity to be off base. It was all he could to sleep in the same room as Bridge without hurting them both with his nerves and overall discomfort. It's not that he hadn't meant any of the things he'd said while under the influence...it's that he had, very much so, and now didn't know how to deal with the consequences. Especially when it came to Bridge and Jack.

So when Cruger offered up this mission to check out this possible doorway to another dimension, Sky jumped on it. Anything to get away from overly concerned team members and feelings he didn't want to deal with.

As he stepped of the train, he was a bit unsettled to realize he'd stepped out of a what looked like a Japanese Hallmark store. Whatever joke the universe was playing, Sky really didn't think it was funny. But he pushed it out his mind, straightened his blue SPD uniform and set out to investigate.

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[spd_red]

"You're right. My sive is penned," I deadpan back at him. "And hey, you're way more observant than I am."

I can't help being pensive. Too much going on, both on the ground and in my head. Because... if I admit to myself that I like Sky that way, then I kiiiinda also have to admit that I like Bridge that way, too.

That makes me pause for a moment, and blink at him, befuddled. I start walking again. "You know Sky better'n you know yourself?"

[handstandsfortruth]

Bridge rolls his eyes a little at Jack's apparent confusion. "Jack. Come on. It's me. How well do you think I know myself?"

Bridge might be a little... obtuse, but he's aware of his oddness, has well embraced it, and has no problem making sure everyone else knows he's weird too.

"I've lived with Sky for a long time." He clarifies finally. "Shared a room and everything. He's been through everything with me. I didn't start figuring out how to control, well..." He wiggles his gloved fingers at Jack. "Everything, until Sky was already in my life. I've seen inside his head, like, literally. And he's a lot easier to understand than me, isn't he?"

[spd_red]

...ah, he's talking about abilities as well as personality, which I guess for him is tied up all together maybe more than the rest of us. Well, not so much for Sky, who's damn good at shutting people out both personally and through his power.

"I don't know about that, Bridge," I say easily. "he's more complicated than I think he realises, sometimes. Yeah, with your powers, you're different from most people. But you're not that different. And it's a good different."

[handstandsfortruth]

"I don't think Sky's complicated at all." Bridge protests, not angrily or even frustrated, just sheer point of fact. This is the truth of the matter, it's really not Jack's fault he doesn't know yet. "I just mean that I am generally accepted as being, ah, a little odd. Sky, pretty much everyone knows where they stand with him, even if it's not necessarily where we want to be standing with him, or whether he wants to be standing there with us, or... Sitting."

[spd_red]

"He's very direct," I agree easily. "But sometimes he doesn't say what he wants. Because he doesn't know."

I clap Bridge on the shoulder. "Good thing he's got us to point out when he really needs us, even if he thinks he doesn't."

[handstandsfortruth]

"He's always going to think he doesn't need us." Bridge agrees cheerfully, returning Jack's pat on the shoulder. "But we're here to set him straight, right? Plus, hey, Japan. Always nice to get out of the city sometimes."

[spd_red]

"Japan's pretty! Okay, Bridge, you got everything you need? I'll signal Kat that we're taking the SWAT flyers and going."

Z and Syd can handle the fort for the time being. Not like we're going that far. We can be back within a few minutes if they need us.

[handstandsfortruth]

"And incredibly interesting, from a cultural and sociological standpoint." Bridge points out with a smirk. He means it, too. Japan's a great country, and Bridge has already done some preliminary research into heroes in the country, and some prototype work on a theoretical instant translator to facilitate whatever work they might have to do there.

He's pretty sure Jack doesn't know Japanese, after all. Sky either, for that matter, which is why it's ridiculous that he wasn't asked to go outright, or why they'd send Sky alone.

"Ready!" Bridge has full confidence in the Commander, Syd and Z being able to handle anything that should crop up in their absence.