Language LOL: Translator Malfunction

[rumham]

You know what's cool? Chatting with your pals. Reading the Internet. Navigating the roads because you can understand the Gods-damned street signs. You know what's not cool? Not being able to do any of that. By that metric, one might describe today in the Nexus decidedly uncool.

It's utterly without warning that the multiversal hub goes from automatic to manual translation. Shop signs, radio and television broadcasts, conversations on the streets between vendors and friends and businesspeople are suddenly a jarring cacophony of dissonant languages. Then there's the silence. Then there's the shouting. Turns out people get pissed off when nobody understands them!

Momentary chaos dies down as the average people of the Nexus come to grips with their new situation. Shopkeepers wait outside their stores and stands with expectant expressions, impatiently waiting for the translator to pull itself together and start working again.

Except...

It sort of doesn't.

No, it super doesn't.

Citizens of the Nexus, it would appear you're going to have to adjust...

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Comments

[sweetcandygirl]

"Oh." Harley looks a little sad at his revelation that she was not mentioned. She went through a lot of effort to make Kraglin feel welcomed. She took him out for steak.

She twirls a colored ponytail for a moment.

"Before Halloween. He gave me some good advice on how to mourn a lost friend."

[zunesareawesome]

"Maybe...portal-door made forgetting easy?"

That's...more or less what he wanted to say. He'd seen enough of the impossible, maybe that could easily be some side effect of going through that door. However, he didn't give any thought to the possibility that it might not be the same Kraglin he knows. He's expecting this place to just be on the order of a weird planet, plus he couldn't exactly read or listen to anything that might tell him otherwise.

"Halloween?" He hasn't heard that word since he was a kid. Or even kept track of what time of year it was back on earth. But his brows furrow. "Sorry--about your friend."

[sweetcandygirl]

"Haven't heard about that being a case before."

Harley shrugs. She blows a large bubble.

"Thanks. Sorry for your loss." Her statement might not make sense if the Kraglin she met is not from the same timeline that Peter is.

[zunesareawesome]

Huh. That's so weird. Well, he'd have to ask Kraglin when he got back, then.

Oh man, earth bubblegum? That's so cool. He looks around, unable to read the signs, wondering if there was a candy store around here. Now if he could just remember how to actually say bubblegum.

Wait--loss?

His brows furrow. She must have meant Yondu, if she'd talked to Kraglin.

"Uh...thanks." His voice would sound tight. It hadn't been that long ago for him.

[sweetcandygirl]

Harley is quick enough to change the subject. For both of them.

"Wish I could take you out for steak, like I did for Kraglin. But none of the restaurants here would understand us right now."

[zunesareawesome]

Oh man, steak sounded awesome! Peter both appreciates the change of subject and the realization that there are restaurants that serve steak, all located in a world inside the pantry. Neat. He'd have to come back later in hopes that this translator thing got sorted out.

"Candy too?" He points at her. "Store where?"

Look, it's been years and if he can get a thing of gum to go or something...

[sweetcandygirl]

"Lots of candy." Harley grins. She has a very big sweet tooth. Of course she knows where the candy store is.

"Take a PINpoint." She holds up hers. Points to a vending machine that offers the device. For free.

"Then when this is fixed, I can give you a tour."

[zunesareawesome]

He looks quite excited at that. "Yeah! Want that."

Peter turns around to glance at the vending machine, and points at it as well, as he starts to walk over there. "What's do? Tour's nice."

[sweetcandygirl]

"Awwww honey. I feel bad that the shop owners wouldn't understand you." Harley is typing something in her PINpoint, as she walks with him over to the vending machine.

"The PINpoint is like an all-purpose communication device. You can save contact information from people you meet here. You can also use the PINpoint to get to the Nexus, in case you want a different way to access the place."

"And..." Her PINpoint chimes, and there is a bag of gummyworms that appears in her hands. "It can also deliver items to you."

"Here." She holds out the bag of gummyworms to him.

[zunesareawesome]

He walks alongside her, studying the device she was using and doing his best to catch up with her words. He...thinks...he gets most of it. Anyway, it definitely was a device he wanted. This place was pretty cool, even if the language bits of it were a little broken.

His eyes light up with excitement as he takes the bag of gummyworms.

"Dude! Amazing!" He hasn't had these in years! "Thanks!"

He accepts the bag--then he's opening the bag and tearing out a handful, and stuffing them in his mouth.

[sweetcandygirl]

"Now you have a PINpoint, you can put my information in your contacts. And next time you are here... and the Nexus isn't chaotic... we can take a little tour." Harley smiles at him.

[zunesareawesome]

"Yeah! Will do." He gets his PINpoint, studying it for a couple seconds before handing it over to her, figuring that was universally understood enough for her to put her contact in. "Want to. This...place? Cool."

[sweetcandygirl]

Harley puts in her contact information. Then uses his PINpoint to take a selfie of both of them. She saves that picture as her contact photo.

"There you go handsome! Hope to see you again."

[zunesareawesome]

"Awesome!" He can say that word, at least. "Thanks! Me too."

He pockets his PINpoint, and gives two thumbs up as he starts to walk away, then a wave.