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Time for Tending Plants [Open]

WHO: Shiro and You!
WHERE: Temba
WHAT: Dealing with Plants
WHEN: Throughout Event
WARNINGS: Nothing yet, will update.

Oh What Insanity Is This
It was nice to be able to step off the ship and finally be back in Temba. While it wasn't actually home, it was nice to actually return to the place that had become sort of become home.

That's what he really would have liked to think. As he stepped out of the hangar and was able to survey Temba again, he was completely dumbstruck by everything that had happened. He just... stood there as he stared at it. The plants... there was just so much of it. It was everywhere...

"What the hell happened here? How long were we gone?"

Brave Explorer
Even though the urge to just stand and stare at the mess was really very tempting, it wouldn't do anything to make things better so finally, he went to find something that he could use to start cutting plants down. Dark that his new arm didn't have the same abilities as his old one and he couldn't just use THAT.

However, the metal arm did come in handy (ha) because he could use it to help push plants to the side with less worry about it actually hurting him. No feeling and very hard to damage helped like that.

But after working for a while, it didn't feel like they had really gotten anywhere. He grumbled before looking at the person next to him.

"How long have we been at this?"

Save the Glownie!
Shiro hadn't been planning on being out so late. He'd kind of lost track of time. One would say it was stupid for him to have been so careless as to forget about this part...

Shiro would call it a blessing though since as he was trying to find his way back, he stumbled upon a faint glowing light among the trees. Moving closer, he spotted one of the glownies that had wandered away from the its home in this mess. Maybe it smelled mint somewhere.

But that wasn't all he spotted. There was Thorntooth that was attempting to sneak up on it, ready for an easy target.

Shiro, of course, couldn't let that happen, charging to get to the Glownie first, having only a dinky weapon to try and delay it in his attempt to flee with the Glownie.

Bishop
Sorry, crew of the Bishop or anyone else who would be there, there is temporarily a Glownie wandering around on the ship one night...

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"I don't know that I want them stalking me, even if I smell nice. I'm not the greatest animal person. I prefer people."

But when it comes to it he really did like people, and wanted more of them around. Perhaps it was because he was just so bad at keeping people around at home, but he felt more alive when he was seen.

"Hmm... that is true. It can be rather... creepy when animals follow you for seemingly no reason. People at least can be reasoned with... or more likely to be reasoned with."

He did like people as well, but he preferred very select number of people more than others. He had had a rough time the past few years so friends were better.

"People being reasoned with? Well, I suppose that animals are nice, but people can be less reasonable at times."

ANd he doesn't know what to do with that.

He chuckled at that. "Okay, in theory, people can be reasoned with. Whether they can or not is another question. And in a lot of cases, they can't."

He didn't know what to do about it either even though he knew it was true.

"What, you find that the glownies don't listen to your rational arguments?" Tommy teased. ANd he didn't mean that was a bad thing, but he's amused at thinking the guy in that position.

"I mean... I try, but sometimes they just don't want to discuss the proper etiquette required for certain situations. They are rather stubborn like that."

He was joking, really.

"So just like people," Tommy laughs as he moves forward and blows up another plant in their way.

Shiro nodded. "Exactly." And he moved to cut through a vine that was starting to come there way. Amazing how these plants didn't really give up.

"If you ever need to discuss etiquette at me, I could listen," he says after a moment. "You know, if I'm ever that bad, right?"

"I'll definitely let you know if you are ever that bad. So far, haven't seen anything like that from you."

Well, Tommy liked to hear that, and even genuinely smiled to hear it.

"Thanks for that. I like the idea of being worth attention."

"Yeah. You are. I think that most people are... as long as they are decent people."

"And it's not always easy to tell who is and isn't decent," he said, with all the weariness of someone well familiar with that fact.

"Yeah. That is true. We were surprised by someone we thought was not trustworthy just because of his race and he ended up helping us more than we ever expected. Still is."

"Good to hear you got to know someone who was good," Tommy said. Because racism sucked, and it was even worse when the race you didn't know good examples of actually were out to get you.

"Yeah. We have found more of them who have helped us since then, but we didn't believe there were good examples until finding them." Yeah, he had thought they were all evil. Who knew that they weren't.

"What are they like? These aliens. I haven't heard much about them before, and they sound important to your experiences."

"They are called the Galra. For the most part, they are a militaristic race that wants to conquer the universe as well as their former leader wanting to take the Voltron Lions back. They are the reason for this."

He raised his metal arm to show him.

"Their witch was also responsible for nearly destroying my team when I couldn't do anything.

But there were others. They call themselves Blades of Marmora. They are essentially Galra who oppose the Empire and work to bring it down. Ulaz... he was the one who saved me and got us in touch with the rest of the Blades."

Well, that sounded completely unpleasant. To the point where Tommy reached out to touch his shoulder.

“He saw the good in you I bet. You’re brimming with it.”

More than Tommy knows how to put into words.

“Sorry the aliens in your universe blow.”

"Yeah. He seemed to know something good was going to come from helping me. I like to think that he was right. We are still working on it back home."

The hand on his shoulder was comforting.

"Yeah. They weren't all bad. From what we have found out, the Galra weren't always like that. Well, not to that extent. It was when things happened with Zarkon that everything... changed like that."

"Not fair that it blows back on you. But I guess I get it. Heard shot like that happened to the Kree and Skrull. One of my best friends is a hybrid of the two."

But Shiro himself was clearly something good that should help the future. Shiro's future.

"It seems like this happens a lot in this place or people have heard of it happening," Shiro remarked. "A lot of people seem to have that in common."

Shiro had only ever wanted to do good for the world. It was good the others seemed to realize it as well.

"Maybe it's the nature of thinking creatures to find conflict? Sure feels like it back home."

They have super powers and plenty of energy, and still there is conflict

"Hmm... maybe. I think we tend to consider things from a more human perspective. Like, if a snake bites you, it had some ill-intention towards you. It could just be that you were too close and it was just doing what snakes do. And of course, we can do the same by assuming with others."

Did people think of it that way? The snake was just defending itself. Though maybe Tommy saw it that way first because he had caused problems for people before without meaning it.

“Like with the plants too?”

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