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[The feed comes up on Blake outside the Violet City gym. He's holding the Gear in one hand and tossing something small in the other. Behind him his Snubbull is sitting on his Mareep, both looking proud of themselves. For his part, Blake doesn't look so thrilled.]

Hell of a loaded word, "badge."

[He catches it on the toss and holds it up to the camera.]

Look at that. Does it looks like much use to you?

[He sighs and slips it in his pocket.]

Zap the crap out of a kid's birds and get a medal that lets you fly.

You know what the worst part is? It's not until right now I realized there's anything wrong with that. I'm getting used to it.

[He starts walking aimlessly down the street, Pokemon trotting after him.]

It's baseball season, not that you'd know it here. Can't remember the last time I missed Opening Day. But hell, now it's been more than a month. Just went right by. How's it even May if you're not arresting drunk idiots on Cinco de Mayo? It's not right.

[Blake looks troubled.]

It's too easy to get caught up in this animal fighting crap and forget about the real world.

[His expression shifts toward its more familiar flinty pugnacity.]

Almost everybody here's been here longer than me. Give me some proof you haven't forgotten. Tell me something about home. Anything, I don't know, something you miss.

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Congratulations, even if you don't think it's much.

You're a baseball fan? Then we have something else in common. I would save every extra penny I had for tickets to every home game. Nothing compares to the crack of a bat on a home run ball. [and he was heartbroken when he learned the Dodgers weren't in Brooklyn anymore, his home team is no longer home]

I miss punching Hitler and killing aliens. [holds back a laugh]

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[nods] It's tradition. You can't have spring without baseball.

[The crazy guy is actually sounding pretty normal for once- oh, there we go.]

Yeah, I bet it's hard to get used to leaving that behind. That's history gonna do without you?

History will survive. [chuckles]

Jokes aside, what I really miss is my shield and my motorcycle. [and the people who are dead and gone, the people who he's left behind. He had so little at the home he left coming here, so he'll only mention what he had then to miss]

It has been strange without baseball, doesn't feel like a proper spring. Even n war people would tell you about what happened, sometimes if you were in the right area you could listen to a broadcast.

Or now we'll go back and the whole place'll taken over by alien Hitler, and I'll know who to blame.

The motorcycle I get, but what do you mean, shield? Don't try to tell me you're a knight too.

[He says shit like that, and then he says something reasonable and relatable. Blake can't get a handle on this guy.]

[Maybe he really was in a war, just not the one he says. Iraq or Afghanistan.]

Even a war zone has radios and newspapers.

Shit. We're out somewhere ESPN doesn't reach.

If that happens, will you believe me then? [Smirks]

No, I'm not a knight. It's just... best explained as an extension of myself, a weapon of both protection and attack.

[really isn't sure how to explain the Shield. Howard just got it and no one else has ever asked, it's a part of who and what he is and what he does, so he knows he did a poor job explaining it]

[doesn't know what ESPN is. Also, "home game" takes on a new meaning]

Yeah, there won't be any broadcasts of the home games here.

Tell you what. If I get home and there's any Nazi aliens, I owe you a Coke.

You know that doesn't explain anything, right? Unless you mean it's some kind of tank.

[People name tanks and planes all kinds of things.]

Hell, I'd settle for home anything.

I'll hold you to that.

Yeah, I have no idea how to explain it, except for that it's a shield that I learned to fight with. It's handy when you're getting shot at.

[he hopes that's good enough for Blake, expects it won't be]

Home anything would be nice. Good proper burger with fries and a soda sounds ideal about now.

Oh, you mean a riot shield. Why didn't you say so?

[He sighs deeply] Yeah. I tried a burger here and it was full of shrimp. Why the hell do these people put shrimp in everything?

There was this great place not far from the station back home, greasy as hell, guy who ran it had this thick black mustache and wouldn't do anything except grunt at you. Best fuckin' burger I ever had.

[well.. Close enough]

Yes, we just call them shields in my department, but yes.

I haven't tried one here yet, but thanks for the warning. I've never been big on shrimp.

[grins] Sounds like how they should be made. Oh, back in Brooklyn, there's this burger joint that doesn't mess around, none of the artificial modern day stuff or fancy toppings, just good greasy burger with homemade fries.

[Blake's starting to think the guy's looking extra crazy on purpose.]

In that case, watch out for the crackers, too.

[Blake's face is overcome with nostalgia] Sounds like my kind of place, even if you have to go to the 40s to get there.

Shrimp crackers? [makes an unpleasant face at that]

With how they're making burgers and fries these days, you probably do have to travel back to the forties to find many places like that. Luckily this one is found in modern day Brooklyn.

[Carter makes a similar one] You know what really makes it? The element of surprise.

[You're not supposed to have to carefully read the packages of these things.]

Never been there, modern or otherwise. Lot of places I figured I'd get around to seeing one day. Figured they'd always be there.

[cringes] Makes it worse, you mean.

[Hesitates at the use of "figured"] You can visit when you get home, yeah?

Yeah.

When I get home.

[oh good, Steve thought Brooklyn was gone or something]

It'll happen, you just have to put up with all this "nonsense" for a while yet.

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