Regarding MTMTE 12, spoilers follow

[universebeware]

Even though it was indirect, I'd say I've done all of us a great service on the Lost Light by silencing Swerve for a short while. Really, he's starting to make it thematic. Give him a gun, someone gets shot in the head, and he winds up quiet for a bit somehow.

Clearly, I should enlist him for field testing all my new creations.

Comments

[aircommand]

And they question my ethics.

[universebeware]

Well, if you knew Swerve, you'd feel the same way.

[aircommand]

I'm sure morale is booming with you on board.

[universebeware]

Oh, something's booming, that's for sure.

[Or SHOOMing, as the case may be.]

[aircommand]

I think I may almost like you.

[awesomeintheory]

Try it and I will snap every one of your joints in ways that will take months to repair. And I don't care how much brig time I get for it or how hard Magnus hits me.

[universebeware]

Oh, come off it. Just because he can't talk doesn't mean he can't dispense Engex. You'll be endangering other crew members with that grappling hook of yours again in no time.

[awesomeintheory]

This is not my joking face, Brainstorm. This is not a joking matter.

[universebeware]

Yes, yes... Really, why are you after me, though? It wasn't the gun's fault for what happened to whats-his-name, nor was it my fault that Swerve defaced himself - it's all him. You want to be protective and preventative, take the little dolt to a firing range and teach him to use a weapon properly.

[awesomeintheory]

You're the weapons engineer who makes weapons that can be discharged while held backwards. (Wouldn't have expected such shoddy work from you.)

You're also the waste of fuel cracking jokes about my friend.

[universebeware]

For one, it hadn't been finished testing. For two, it was given to Whirl for live testing.

[Just gonna ignore that 'shoddy' comment. Or at least not dignify it with a response.]

You know, on second thought, you may be better off putting those theoretician skills to better use and help everyone else learn just how you've come to tolerate him. It'd certainly save a lot of headaches.

[awesomeintheory]

So you hand experimental weapons to psychopaths. No wonder the ethics committee loved you so much.

I'm not nearly as cuddly as the ethics committee, Brainstorm.

[Brainstorm's supposed to be good at sarcasm even if he fails at being a decent, likeable person. He can probably get the gist of Skids's meaning.]

Leave him alone. You've done enough damage already.