Building Bridges aka Glasnost in broken time

[havingprecision]

1978 Soviet Russia. It's a bit of a difference from his visit to Russia, but it's also eerily similar. Trade is done in barter versus money, strength is a resouce and his status as a Bratva Captian still means something to the men populating the area. As the video snaps on he's got a heavy jacket on, complete with the epaulets of a Soviet Captain, a couple of bottles of vodka and a bag filled with food.

"До Свидания, друзья!" A salute as he leaves, a call that is echoed by the other Russians in the camp, clearly entertained by the archer.

"Well I'll say one thing - not all of the locals are hostile if you know how to talk to them."

Comments

[vivifier]

And of course you know exactly how to do that.

[havingprecision]

They understand English.
But they appreciate someone making the effort to speak their language.

[vivifier]

Guess it's a good thing someone does, then.

[havingprecision]

Hey, if we can have at least one group that agrees to leave us in peace, I'll take it. [Which will more than make up for the pissed off gangsters and unruly Mongols.]

[vivifier]

Between you and Frost, I suppose that's two groups.

[havingprecision]

Make the inroads where you can. You never know when an ally might prove necessary>

[vivifier]

Yeah, somehow I doubt I'll be the one brokering any peace agreements.

[commanderspecs]

How?! How can they exist here?!

[havingprecision]

If you're asking for a description more detailed than 'time storm' and 'broken time' you are absolutely asking the wrong person. [Still. He has very good vodka. Black bread. And a new coat that he hadn't really wanted, but they'd insisted.]

[commanderspecs]

[He looks at the face and scrutinizes a little bit better]

...aren't you...you look like Oliver Queen. Not that I'd know. I've only seen him in the papers.

[havingprecision]

That would be because I am Oliver Queen?
[A beat as he considers his face.] And you are yet another Barry Allen that's shown up here. I think that makes three now.

[commanderspecs]

Three. There's three.

[He shakes his head]

I do apologize, Mr. Queen but you're no longer with us where I'm from.

[havingprecision]

[A mild sort of a shrug.] I've been considered dead before, so it's not that much of a shock. And when you say "where I'm from" what do you mean?

[commanderspecs]

I've been told there are other Earths, which sounds like that episode of Commander Carl that just premiered last week and I hardly think that I'm in league with a Space Marshall.

For instance, where I'm from, Oliver Queen was pronounced dead after the Gambit went down. Only his father survived that wreck.

[havingprecision]

We were both pronounced dead.

[ANYWAY. Enough about that.] So you know about the different Earths. What about here? Has someone given you the basics?

[commanderspecs]

Yes.

[Guess who's displeased.]

I'm a meta now because of the same thing that brought me here in the first place.

[vivifier]

Hey. Livewire II: calm the hell down.

[commanderspecs]

Livewire?!

[vivifier]

If you're going to panic over every single thing, you're never going to get control over your powers. Seriously, calm the hell down before we have to put you in some kind of galvanized jar like a firefly.

Oh! We can call you Firefly.

[commanderspecs]

[THIS FACE FOREVER, SAM.]

[vivifier]

You're right, I should leave the names to Cisco.

Still. If you panic over every single thing, you're going to trigger yourself. I've made metas, I know.

[chosenbylightning]

You're not helping if you keep trying to wind him up.

[vivifier]

I'm not trying to wind him up.

[chosenbylightning]

You know cracks like that are going to wind him up.

[vivifier]

It wasn't a crack, Barry. I'm sorry, have you made metahumans?