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[The video starts with the view of what is clearly a modern television newsroom with the Trickster wearing a suit and sitting behind a large desk with a stack of papers sitting in front of him. The set looks just like any other low budget local news station, complete with a screen in the background showing a logo. Trickster looks right into the
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It also occurs to him that if Marco could do what Trickster is able to, he would probably use his powers in a very similar, not necessarily productive, way.]
I do not need to ask why they are hostile, unfortunately, lee, but has anything-ing specific occurred to prompt this... demonstration, shun?
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Why do you like Earth? >
[The silent voice is almost plaintive, though Ax tries to keep it from being so. He has found that when he wishes to be somewhere else, it is, strangely enough, Cassie's barn he thinks of.]
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This one time I went to visit an elephant in India and they know how to party. We had that mountaintop thumping. The dancing and the food and the sexy ladies...
But you don't want to hear about that, kid.
[stops to munch on a Twix, could ramble on about the subject for a good hour if you let him]
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< My human friends are remarkably resourceful. Humans can seem almost childish, in their way of never losing hope, even when it seems hopeless, but I have come to think it is their greatest strength.
They are the ones I miss here, not my home. Perhaps it is because I had expected to be away from home for a long time. >
[He is interested in the brown food Trickster is eating, which Ax can identify as chocolate. If he were in human morph at the moment, he suspects his mouth would be producing water.]
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What's your home planet like? How far is it from Earth? Does it take awhile to get there? What were you doing on Earth anyway?
[The chocolate is most delicious chocolate and Trickster must have the metabolism of a hummingbird to eat so much of it all the time]
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[He sidesteps the obvious next question of how one travels those distances without dying of old age.]
< I was serving on a ship deployed to Earth. It was destroyed. >
[His vagueness here has nothing to do with the potential for revealing anything more about Andalite technology than he already has, and a great deal to do with the fact that he was sent to the dome like a child, while his brother and the other warriors and princes went to fight. And die. His stalk eyes twist downward in shame and sadness for a moment.]
< I survived the crash. I am the only one who did.
How did you come to be on Earth? >
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I was born in a dimension that's one of the Earth's higher planes. It's where lots of the gods who call Earth home are from even if they never set foot in the physical world.
[not quite the whole truth, but close enough]
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[This is something Ax did not believe at first, but learned quite recently.]
< My friends are with me, and we are fighting for the same ideal.
Why would these gods call Earth home if they have never been there? >
[All of this is not doing very much to assuage Ax's suspicion that the Trickster is an entity somewhat like, if more approachable than, the Ellimist.]
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I can use my powers here, duh. Except for leaving.
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I interfere with whatever I can get my hands on~. What fun is having all these abilities otherwise?
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Oh. I understand. I have heard something like this human expression before.
I cannot help but feel that it is like a game to him. He offered us a choice that was not truly a choice, when he could have changed the entire universe to help us win, if that was his goal. I would rather deal with someone who interferes openly than someone who leaves clues he can claim were inadvertent later, in order to-- > [Here Ax gives a small mental laugh.] < To cover his ass. Is that the right human phrase? >
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What sort of clues?
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[Ax has never quite forgiven the Ellimist for that comment about Andalites and humility.]
< He stopped time, and showed us a way out. And he did even more, showing us where the enemy was vulnerable, under the guise of a cautionary future.
But he also cost my brother the future he wanted.
I suppose I ought to say that makes it even, but I do not feel it. >
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