Botany Lesson

[frickingguardian]

Who| Rocket and you!
What| Rocket attempts to train a pack of plants. Attempts.
Where| Training gym
When| Pre-Tinker Tailor Hero Spy
Warnings/Notes| None.



Technically speaking, Rocket's plant creations didn't really need training. 'Suddenly become aggressive and smack people with thorny bits' wasn't that demanding of a task, and it was pretty straightforward. But Rocket knew of at least one plant who could be pretty damn clever (when he wasn't drinking from fountains like an idiot, or completely missing important things like don't start the plan yet) and it was enough to make him curious about what his constructs could pick up.

So far, the answer seemed to be 'not a whole lot'.

"Okay, now this is-hey! Pay attention!" he snapped, causing the pack of flowers to stop shuffling around on their roots and perk up their petals instead. "This here's the training room. We're gonna see what you can-quit poking that, what'd I just say?!"

The chastised flower scurried back to the rest of the pack.

Rocket blew out a sigh. "We're gonna see what you can do; maybe do a little teamwork. You guys do good, we'll work on shooting next."

That couldn't go wrong at all.

Comments

[headinjuries]

Aw. The plants were pretty cute, doing stuff like that, and Sam normally wasn't one to coo over things. But they were like...tiny unruly vegetable children or something, but without all the crying and smelling bad and things that tiny human children did to counteract their efforts to be cute.

"I wonder if they've had anyone with that power in the Legion before. Maybe they've seen the whole 'stuff never to do' routine."

[frickingguardian]

"Maybe," Rocket said, scratching his chin thoughtfully. "Guess I could ask around. Although if anything had gone really bad before, you think they would've had somebody running after me with a whole 'do not do' list."

Which, granted, might not stop him, but thought that counts, etc., etc.

[headinjuries]

"I dunno, sometimes people leave that stuff off because it seems so super obvious they think it goes without saying."

Like hey, Nova, don't go running off half-cocked and trying to fight the Hulk. Cap and Spidey didn't think they had to spell that one out for him.

(Cap and Spidey clearly didn't know him well enough.)