"Nope. It's gonna be brains and nerve. That's what it always comes down to."
That was how they'd won the war. They'd been just smart enough and just brave enough (some would say "suicidal enough") to get close enough to Annihilus and take him down.
Donnie seemed pretty prepared to take some of that on -- finding a way out of this. For someone so young, it was a lot of responsibility to take on and to Rich, that was impressive.
"Y'know, for someone so young -- 'cause you can't be older than your late teens, right?" It was hard to tell from his size alone when it didn't seem to correspond entirely to how humans were, but his voice didn't sound adult-like. "This don't seem to be phasing you that much. But it sounds like you have a pretty interesting life back home, too."
It was still a special thing, though, for a teenager to just roll with the punches and he liked Donnie's earnestness. Not every teen hero managed to pull it off. Nova knew of some that would've caved if they'd had to fight in the Skrull-Xandar war like he had, for instance. Hell, he'd lived through a few battles that were so traumatic that the Xandarians had wiped his memory of them, so that he only remembered them years and years later.
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That was how they'd won the war. They'd been just smart enough and just brave enough (some would say "suicidal enough") to get close enough to Annihilus and take him down.
Donnie seemed pretty prepared to take some of that on -- finding a way out of this. For someone so young, it was a lot of responsibility to take on and to Rich, that was impressive.
"Y'know, for someone so young -- 'cause you can't be older than your late teens, right?" It was hard to tell from his size alone when it didn't seem to correspond entirely to how humans were, but his voice didn't sound adult-like. "This don't seem to be phasing you that much. But it sounds like you have a pretty interesting life back home, too."
It was still a special thing, though, for a teenager to just roll with the punches and he liked Donnie's earnestness. Not every teen hero managed to pull it off. Nova knew of some that would've caved if they'd had to fight in the Skrull-Xandar war like he had, for instance. Hell, he'd lived through a few battles that were so traumatic that the Xandarians had wiped his memory of them, so that he only remembered them years and years later.