Bucky felt like they all moved on from the Vibranium question too quickly. What did it mean, that he was wearing plates of Vibranium as armor? Shuri had mentioned something about another fragment of the meteor that had landed in the ocean halfway around the world from them. Was the space knight one of them? Surely Griot would have been able to translate his language, then, right? Or was he really from space. Did they have Vibranium in space? Was that why his space ship was so small?
He wasn't a tech guy and wasn't all that into sci-fi (he had plenty of other things to catch up on besides watching even more Star Trek) but would think you would need something bigger to travel through space.
Shuri talked to the knight - like he could understand her, but hadn't they established that he can't understand them, or them him? And then she displayed a readout, and surely all that red was bad, even for an alien. How injured was he? How much impact had the vibranium taken, and still left him hurt? Steve's shield barely felt a barrage of bullets, and the knight had survived a space ship crash while wearing it.
He stood there, the world spinning entirely too fast, while the conversation, somehow, moved on without him. Shuri told the knight to disarm, and in response, the knight spoke first in one language, and then several others in quick succession including one that was a strange, guttural cry accompanied by hand signals.
Not even the very last one, the one the knight directed at him very seriously, were understandable. This language felt significant, but it too was completely unfamiliar. Bucky slowly shook his head. "I don't know any of them. I can try the languages I know, but I don't think it'll do any good. If Griot doesn't know, can anybody?" He looked back to Shuri again. "I promise, I don't know who he is. Or how he knows who I am."
He reached out again to touch the man's arm, bringing him back if possible from squaring up any further with Okoye. He didn't know how any of them could convince the space knight to give up his laser gun and come with them. Because he definitely couldn't stay here. It wasn't like he could leave, either, his space ship was obviously far beyond easy repair.
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Date: 2023-08-28 12:15 am (UTC)Bucky felt like they all moved on from the Vibranium question too quickly. What did it mean, that he was wearing plates of Vibranium as armor? Shuri had mentioned something about another fragment of the meteor that had landed in the ocean halfway around the world from them. Was the space knight one of them? Surely Griot would have been able to translate his language, then, right? Or was he really from space. Did they have Vibranium in space? Was that why his space ship was so small?
He wasn't a tech guy and wasn't all that into sci-fi (he had plenty of other things to catch up on besides watching even more Star Trek) but would think you would need something bigger to travel through space.
Shuri talked to the knight - like he could understand her, but hadn't they established that he can't understand them, or them him? And then she displayed a readout, and surely all that red was bad, even for an alien. How injured was he? How much impact had the vibranium taken, and still left him hurt? Steve's shield barely felt a barrage of bullets, and the knight had survived a space ship crash while wearing it.
He stood there, the world spinning entirely too fast, while the conversation, somehow, moved on without him. Shuri told the knight to disarm, and in response, the knight spoke first in one language, and then several others in quick succession including one that was a strange, guttural cry accompanied by hand signals.
Not even the very last one, the one the knight directed at him very seriously, were understandable. This language felt significant, but it too was completely unfamiliar. Bucky slowly shook his head. "I don't know any of them. I can try the languages I know, but I don't think it'll do any good. If Griot doesn't know, can anybody?" He looked back to Shuri again. "I promise, I don't know who he is. Or how he knows who I am."
He reached out again to touch the man's arm, bringing him back if possible from squaring up any further with Okoye. He didn't know how any of them could convince the space knight to give up his laser gun and come with them. Because he definitely couldn't stay here. It wasn't like he could leave, either, his space ship was obviously far beyond easy repair.