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Who| Wash, Chief, and anyone else who wishes to join
What| Movie night! Chief has never seen Alien or Aliens, and Wash aims to fix that
Where| A lounge somewhere on Legion World
When| During Unification Week, in the evening

Somehow, Wash was still boggled that Chief hadn't seen Aliens. It was a classic, right? Then again, he just might not be that into action movies, or movies in general.

(It was not at all lost on him that he was showing two movies about fighting homicidal aliens to someone whose career and reputation were built on exactly that.)

But he'd proposed a movie night, and he was determined to follow through. He'd found a lounge with a big screen and a lot of fluffy but solid shapes, some of which were vaguely recognizable as sofas and chairs and other various furniture and some of which weren't recognizable as anything. He'd obtained shitty vegan pizza and soda and popcorn with salt and shitty vegan butter, because you really couldn't have a movie night without popcorn. Against all odds, he'd managed to find both Alien and Aliens, and he'd set Alien up in the projector. (He'd even told a few other people about movie night, because why not?) And then he'd waited for 7 PM to roll around.

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"Without. They pretty much just tried to shut down our ship and destroy the engines. You know, drifting through space until we we ran out of air or smashed into somethin'."

He thinks about it a bit and then shrugs.

"We got freaky squirrel things that actually breed in people though. Those live in my town's sewers."

He says it with the kind of casualness that only comes if you live with it every day.

"Nothing good ever lives underground," says Grif, shuddering. "Just trust me on this."

He's flashing back hard to the creepy caves under Blood Gulch. They didn't actually have bats in them, but it was really dark so it's hard to be completely sure...

"Nah, there's some good stuff down there."

Like the turtles and Splinter. Should he tell them about them? They're all superheroes here, after all...

Grif squints over at him.

"Like what?"

He's going to need some evidence to back this claim, bro.

"Like my squad, man."

Casey isn't even paying much attention to the movie anymore. It's always way radder when it's real life.

"My best bros live in a secret underground lair. Ninja clan, yo."

Grif's squint intensifies, loud with that-sounds-fake-but-okay.

"You hang out with ninjas."

Sorry Casey, you just don't strike him as ninja bro material.

"Comes with the territory of being a vigilante, yo. You meet all the crazy underground types!"

It's kind of a long story, but he can give the cliff notes version. "Basically all the crime in my city answers to one guy. He's the head of an evil ninja clan, goes by the name of Shredder. You can't go into bustin' heads without hearin' about the guy."

"What, no drug lords or mafia? You guys just get ninjas?"

...Actually that's kind of better.

"Why is everyone's world so much cooler than mine, what the fuck?"

"Nah, we got that too, but they all answer to Shredder. I once totally infiltrated a secret meeting between him and a mafia don. Shredder nearly caught me and drove his blades right though my skull! How cool is that?!"

Yeah, he actually totally thinks that was the coolest thing in the world.

"Ahhh, your world can't be that bad, dude."

"Okay, almost dying is kind of less cool. I'd take sleeping in over a skull knife, honestly."

Ninjas existing? Awesome. Being too close to the ninjas while they're existing? Less so.

"It's pretty bad. We kinda almost went extinct because of aliens for a while. I mean, it's better now, but nobody had a good time."

He shrugs. "Yeah, but I didn't die. And I get to say I faced down a deadly ninja assassin and survived!"

Well, with the help of his friends but still. And his story is way more awesome than Grif's, which kind of sounds like the way the Kraang invasion was looking to go.

"What's 'better'? Like rebuilding-earth better or aliens-aren't-killing-us better?"

"Aliens aren't killing us right now. Well. Most of us." He's pretty sure humans and aliens are gonna keep killing each other in much smaller numbers for as long as they know each other, just because that's how people are.

"They didn't get earth, so it could've been way worse. It kind of doesn't matter either way though because I'm still stuck in the army. Never go in the army, kid."

"You sure they aren't waiting in the wings? We thought the Kraang were gone for two years before they popped back up." And then they resurfaced just in time to get beat by the Triceratons. When they destroyed the planet.

"Don't plan on it. I mean, I'm already in a war and with my bros I can do things my way. So why'd you join?"

"I don't know, they might be," Grif says, his expression darkening a little. That would be just like aliens, wouldn't it?

"And oh dude no, I didn't join, they drafted me."

"Oh...yeah, I guess that figures." It would be different if the aliens were attacking out in the open and not underground, wouldn't it?

"Jus' saying, the Kraang were hiding in the Statue of Liberty so check everywhere."

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