[Comprehensive British and American] Family Matters

Jason and Peter have been on this spaceship for a week.Now he knew that the captain of the ship was Yondu Udonta, the man who whistled the arrows.Yondu is the boss of a group called "Destroyers". This group of people is like a collection of thieves, interstellar pirates, smugglers, bounty hunters, and mercenaries. As long as the employer pays enough, they can help in various tasks. Kind of dirty work.When no one hired them, the saboteurs wandered in the universe in the direction of the treasure, or stole or robbed the treasure to get it.

Although they are not good people, they don't seem to be demons who can stop children from crying at night.At least when the saboteurs were docking at the port, other people didn't look very scared when they saw them, they just whispered a little "Look, it's saboteurs."

To this, Yondu replied: "Listen, boy. We saboteurs are a bunch of outlaws (Outlaws), who do a lot of stealing and abduction, and kill everyone when necessary. But we still have rules! We're not some sort of space-conquering, genocidal lunatic. Now fuck off, boy, are you done with your floors? Shh, shhh!"

Peter seemed to understand that he was driven back to the warehouse by Yondu and continued to mop the floor. This was his only job during the week on board, but it was not easy at all. Yondu's ship was the flagship of the destroyer. Peter started from waking up It took me a whole day to get a warehouse ready.

"Jason, what's the difference between an outlaw and a criminal?" Peter held a mop that was taller than him, and looked down at the water marks on the ground to confirm that all the ground had indeed been wiped.He has accepted the fact that he has not only left the earth thousands of miles away, but is even trapped with a ghost. Speaking of it, Peter is even grateful to have Jason as a talking partner, correction: earth partner.

"Yondu says they are outlaws, but aren't they doing criminal things? Stealing and smuggling are illegal, right?" Peter saw a particularly stubborn stain and gripped the handle of the mop Rubbing hard against the spot on the ground.

—Let me think about how to explain this.

Jason's voice came to Peter's ear.Since they found a way to exchange, Jason has never appeared in front of others. Peter thought it was Jason's conspiracy at first, and planned to take his body away once and for all after he let down his vigilance, just like the villain in the movie. Ghost like that.

But Jason doesn't do that, he rarely even initiates the conversation, but every time Peter curses at Yondu for kidnapping him or the crew wants to eat him, Jason at least says "take it easy, Peter." Let Peter know He listens all the time.And the feeling of being listened to is really not bad.

So Peter took the initiative to talk to Jason, and even suggested that Jason come to the front, because it would be boring to just shrink in another person's consciousness, at least Peter thought he couldn't bear it.Jason was silent for a long time. It was so long that Peter wondered if he said the wrong thing and made the other person angry. Jason replied: "Thanks, kid. If I want to come out to breathe, I will tell you." Peter Before he had time to show a triumphant smile, Jason added: "Or when you need help, I'm just out of a name."

Oh, and that name, by the way, is "Bruce."

So far, Peter only knows it's Jason's dad's name, because when they were chatting, Jason just said "My dad, Bruce..." The two of them switched places in an instant, and Jason went on again. Not to mention anything about "Bruce", Peter has always felt that Jason was shy, about which Jason neither admitted nor denied.

Overall, Jason was an enigma, but a kind enigma, and Peter liked his new companion.

——The term “outlaw” can be traced back to before modern times in the history of the legal system. At that time, the punishment method for those who violated the law was to expel them outside the law, so that these people would not be protected by the law from now on. can kill them.These people are called outlaws.

Peter listened carefully to Jason's explanation, more seriously than in class.Many times Peter felt that Jason knew more than the teachers at school. He really couldn't believe that Jason was only 15 years old!He thought that the 15 years old that Jason said was the age when he died (he didn't dare to ask why), but in fact he had been a ghost for hundreds of years, so he knew so much.When Peter presented his hypothesis to Jason, Jason told him in a voice that couldn't hear the emotion: "No, I was really 15 years old. The day you were taken away by Yondu, I died."

They never discussed the subject of Jason's death again.

—But it is not only the excommunicated criminal who is an outlaw.Listen to me, Peter, draw a circle on the ground.Well, this circle is the law. People standing in the circle, whether they are criminals or ordinary people, will be protected and regulated by the law.Some things cannot be done, this is the norm; when you break the norm, others cannot lynch you, this is protection.

"Like... the police caught the thief and sent it to the judge?" Peter looked at the circle at his feet and thought of an example.

--exactly!You can't directly break the hands and feet of thieves, because even those who break the law are protected by the law. Once you break the hands and feet of thieves, you yourself become a criminal who hurts others.As for the outlaws, in addition to the expelled prisoners, there are also those individuals who stand outside the circle from the beginning. They are not bound by the law from the beginning, and relatively cannot be protected by the law.Do you know Robin Hood?Well, that's a typical example of an outlaw.It is wrong for him to rob the rich and give to the poor from a legal point of view, but he is to help the oppressed people.Then there are freedom fighters who lead mass uprisings against tyranny, or... er... vigilantes.

"Wow, that sounds amazing." Peter imagined himself as Robin Hood.

--maybe.Speaking of which, why had I never thought of this before? "Outlaws," ha!Good idea!Thanks, Peter.

"You're welcome?" Although he didn't know what Jason was happy about, it didn't stop Peter from praising his little friend.

Jason and Peter continued to discuss the story of Robin Hood. The good mood brought to Jason by "Outlaws" made him tell Peter a few more stories about Green Arrow, of course the stupidest and most imageless ones.

It's all across a universe, Jason is not so Buddhist-minded to help the Green Arrow maintain its image.

While the mopping team in the warehouse was having a good time at work, Yondu and his second-in-command, Kraglin, were not so happy in the captain's cabin.

"The little devil is still the same?" Yondu concentratedly placed a shiny ornament that was no bigger than a palm on the edge of the console, and stood with other various dolls.

Kraglin pursed his lips and nodded: "Talking to himself, but it sounds like he is talking to a 'Jason'. I confirmed that he has been cleaning the idle warehouse for the past few days, and there is no one there. Captain, That kid really has a problem here." Pointing to his own head, Kraglin hesitated to look at Yondu who didn't seem to care at all.

"How about...we just hand him over to Yi Guo. After all, that's his father? I mean, he's the last one on the list anyway, and we won't take this kind of job after that."

"No. I want to keep him." Yondu tilted his head and gestured at the dolls on the console, and then continued to adjust their positions left and right, "We have sent all the other children of Igo to Go, I want to keep this one for myself."

"Why, Captain?" Kraglin couldn't understand at all, "Although we haven't broken the contract before, this kid is obviously weird..."

"Look at his skinny look!" Yondu waved his hand, with a look of "It's that simple, why can't you idiots see it?" "Those vents and tunnels that we can't get in Well, just let him go. As for his brains . . . can he bite?"

"That's not going to happen." Kraglin thought for a while, and after observing for the past few days, he didn't find any tendency to attack anyone.

"Then it's over. I said you have something wrong. Everyone got off the boat and went to laugh. You are here staring at a little ghost mother-in-law. Go, go, go." Yongdu drove away Kraglin, and came to The warehouse Peter is cleaning.

The little ghost has earphones hanging on his ears, and he is singing and dancing to the music, using the mop as a microphone to perform.

Yondu doesn't understand Earth's music, but he can tell peter likes to listen to music, and if he sends this kid to that jerk daddy, he'll probably turn into a pile of bones without even making it through the night, let alone something like this Singing and dancing.

He's a greedy bandit who hasn't done much good in his life, and Yondu is very self-aware of that.But he's not the kind of bastard who knows he's going to send his child to be slaughtered and pretends not to know.Aren't they just a little crazy kids? They are the destroyers. He is the captain of the destroyers, Yondu Udonta. He is just a child of the earth. Are you afraid that he will not be able to cover him!

"Yo, brat!" Yondu's loud voice made Peter, who sang and danced to the point of selflessness, freeze instantly in the warehouse, turning around in fear with his mop in his arms.Yondu showed a smile that he thought was the most friendly towards the slightly pale face.

If it wasn't for the fact that he had a helper who was invisible to everyone, Peter felt that he might have to kneel now.God, those teeth look horrible!He won't change his mind and come to eat himself, right?

"I see you have a nice gun." Yondu raised his chin towards the elemental gun hanging on Peter's waist. It's a good thing, but unfortunately no one else can use it except that kid. What they can do It is to adjust the power of the gun, so as not to save the kid from going crazy and punching a hole in the cabin to kill everyone. "But a good gun has to be matched with a good gunner. What do you say? Let's see how much you weigh?"

In Yondu's eyes, Peter's upper lip touched his lower lip, and then his whole demeanor changed.What used to be a cute little animal has now turned into a cranky little animal.

Oh, it really is fine.Yondu ticked off a checklist on the inside, but didn't show it on the outside, as if he didn't even notice that there was something wrong with the child in front of him.

"Okay, no problem." Jason raised the mop with one hand, inserted it back into the bucket in the corner with precision in the way of a javelin, picked up the elemental gun and activated it, and the muzzle of the gun emitted blue energy. Guang Guang, "What's the bet?"

"Very confident, huh?" Yondu let out a passage, beckoning the kid to follow, the earth kid was more interesting than he thought, "What do you want, kid?"

"Let's think about it, the computer on your ship must have information about this universe, right?" Jason raised his eyebrows at Yondu, he couldn't explain why, this person didn't feel like a simple kidnapper to him Or human traffickers, but that doesn't mean he'll just leave Peter and Yondu alone.

If there's one thing Gotham taught him early on, it's to never trust appearances.A person who is nice to you is not necessarily a saint, and a person who is cruel to you is not necessarily a devil.

——Jason, what do you need the information for?We should tell him not to continue to send us as handymen, I'm mopping the floor like crazy!

"Trust me, it's good for both of us." Jason turned his head and lowered his voice to appease Peter, and met Yondu's unwavering gaze again, "I won't want to see your confidential information, you didn't give it to me Access, so don't worry about me running off the ship to contact your enemies. I just need the most innocuous basic information, or... Is there a network in the universe?"

"There is an interstellar network in the universe, otherwise how would you connect with each other for us. But what do you want these for?" Yondu looked at Jason with great interest, the smile on his mouth couldn't be hidden at all, "Let's talk about it first, yes For saboteurs, intelligence is money. If you want to connect to the interstellar network and access the ship's database, the stakes are not low."

Yondu took Jason out of the spaceship and came to a clearing.There was nothing there except for the rocks and some strange dwarf plants.

"My crew went to the buyer to deliver, and I gave them a day off for the others. Before they come back, you can hit more targets than me, even if you win."

Yondu took out a strange device and fiddled with it to release countless floating discs, large and small.With a wave of Yondu's hand, they scattered all over the open space, and cleverly found big rocks or bushes as cover.

"I don't bully you either, let's compete with guns." Yondu pulled his coat away, letting Jason see his flying arrows safely in the holster, and picked up a handful of energy gun.

— Jason, are you okay?Yondu looks like an old Jianghu, the super strong kind.

"Who knows, but I've never been afraid of difficult challenges. Look out, Peter." Jason raised his gun and pointed at the many targets ahead, his eyes ignited with fighting spirit, "I will help us win the library !"

——No, I didn't ask for that kind of spoils at all!

"Get ready..." Yondu threw a small ball out.

Jason didn't give that thing a look, he just focused on evaluating the difficulty of the target in front of him: Divide the distribution area of ​​the discs into four quadrants, point the coordinates on each disc, analyze the best attack path, just like Every time he helps Batman blow up the lights, interfere with the enemy like that.

The rolling of the ball stopped, and a blue firework exploded.

Yondu and Jason start shooting at the same time, and the discs shatter when they get hit, turning into more discs flying around for cover, or simply moving around, or dodging a moment or so before they're about to get shot .

"Oh, that's interesting." Jason watched as a plate spun like a coin before his energy beam was about to hit it, dodging his attack.

"How about it, boy, if you change the bet, we can make it easier." Yondu continued to shoot while talking, looking at ease, and even turned his head to look at Jason with a smile.

——No, don't hit the one that will turn, you can't hit that one, change another dozen for another!

Peter chirped in Jason's ear offering advice.

——Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhmhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.Hey, why did you go to make phone calls again?

Jason fired a shot at the "rotating" disc that Peter said. This time when the disc started to spin to avoid it, the energy beam did not pass by the side as before, but actually hit the center , causing the disc to vibrate and split more targets.

Turning his head to look at Yondu who was supposed to be "competing" with him, Jason met a pair of strange yet familiar red eyes.In an instant, Jason knew where the sense of disobedience he felt came from.

Kidnappers and criminals, they will not look at the kidnapped object in this way.Either they see each other as a nuisance, or a waste of money.A real kidnapper would not say he was going to eat him, but look at him like a child.Jason knows his situation with Peter makes many saboteurs treat them as crazy, but every time Yondu talks to Peter (Jason is watching), except sometimes because the question is too idiotic and he just blows people away Otherwise, he will always answer seriously.Although the tone is very bad, sometimes there are three threatening sentences in the answer...and he never mentioned the question about "psychopathy".

Kidnappers will not find excuses to take you out to practice guns, but also demonstrate the correct skills in person, and then laugh happier than you when you succeed.The alien's blue skin and red eyes paired with those teeth are indeed scary at first glance, but if you look closely, what Jason sees is another person who doesn't know how to be straightforward and nice to people. He turned around and found a bunch of excuses to cover up.

If he hadn't met such a person before, Jason believed that he would not have seen the meaning behind this "gamble".Although his man has neither blue skin nor a spaceship, he has a black Kevlar armor and a car that is more powerful than a tank.

"Oh yeah!" Jason let go of the tension brought about by the concept of "competition", and all the shots began to pick the most tricky and weird positions and the most cunning targets.After every miss, Yondu would always immediately make up a shot at the target of the same kind next to him, sometimes two or three times in a row, so that Jason could learn his shooting angle.

"Damn, you're pretty good, brat!" Yondu laughed and shot after Jason's chosen target.

At some point, a circle of saboteurs began to form around them, pointing and criticizing Jason and their captain's game.

—They're saying you're awesome, Jason!Said that there is no more accurate shooter than Yondu among the destroyers, and you can hold on to him... to this extent!

It's not him insisting, it's the blue old man... oh no wonder he timed the race "before the crew comes back" because that's what he wants, the cunning space pirate!

"Good job, but you lost, brat!" Yondu fired one last shot and pressed a button on his waist. The discs retracted and eventually turned into two big circles, one left and one right, showing Jason and Number of targets Yondu hits.

Yondu hits one and a half times as many targets as Jason.And Jason suspected that this was the result of his forceful release of water.

"Sorry, there is no internet. A bet is a bet." Yondu gloated and regretted, reached out and patted Jason on the shoulder, laughed loudly and led his team members to board the ship without looking back.Kraglin, who was still at the end, said embarrassingly: "It's not easy to have such a result for the first time", and drove him back to the spaceship carefully.

—Don't be sad, Jason.That old man has more experience than you, and one day you will be better than him.

Peter was also comforting Jason, seeming to take Jason's silence and the smile on his mouth as a sign that he was going crazy.

"Don't worry, I'm not sad." Jason's smile was a little bitter, "I'm just... homesick, I miss...my dad."

--oh.Well... maybe we'll find a way to get you home someday?The universe is so big, maybe some alien race or technology can help you find your way home.Maybe I can find my dad too!My mom always said he came from the stars

"Thanks, Peter." Jason went back to their little cabin on the boat and lay down on the bed without taking off his shoes. "I'm sure you're going to find a great dad." Just like him.

A day of mopping floors and shooting practice left Jason drowsy.Peter's body still needs more training, his physical strength is too weak.Just when he was half asleep and half awake, the cabin door swung open, and it was Kraglin who entered.

"The captain told you this." A device that looked like transparent glass was thrown onto the bed. "This thing's reception is always unstable. The captain wants to throw it away, so I just say I'll let you play until it breaks."

"Thanks, Kraglin." Jason picked up the board and thanked the always silent lieutenant behind Yondu.Get a shrug in response.

That board was just as Jason thought, an interstellar version of the Earth tablet.Except for the traces of use, the basic functions are sound, and it is not an obsolete product as Kraglin said.But Peter's Earth was still in 1988, when there were no smartphones, he couldn't see the quality of this thing at all, he would only believe that it was a piece of junk that Yondu wanted to throw away.

(Fortunately, Peter has already fallen asleep. Don’t ask him why he also sleeps mentally. It is probably the so-called "tired heart"?)

"I have another book to read! Yay!" Jason tossed out an interstellar search engine similar to Earth's Google, completely forgetting his previous sleepiness, and plunged headlong into the great interstellar era.

***

Claglin stood outside Peter and Jason's room, listening to the exclamation of "Woohoo!" from the children inside, shook his head helplessly and went back to report to the captain that the things had been delivered.

Forget it, if the captain wants to keep this child, he should just keep it. Let's help the captain raise his son.