( video | un: 10-65 )

[construing]

[ on-screen: ( 1 ) gwen stacy, a completely normal college student, wide-eyed, frowning. this is serious. a tragedy in motion. ]

I know we're all busy what with smashing bugs, do they even still count as bugs when you can spike them like a football? [ gwen stacy, asking the tough questions, ] but I have an emergency. See this? [ she holds up a cell phone in front of her face. the background reads "THE MARY JANES." the eagle-eyed will note the battery symbol in the corner: warning red. ]

This is my life. Not only is it my life, it's sitting at less than 10% charge so if I don’t get a charger for it pronto, I will literally die.

[ """""""literally.""""""" ]

Somebody has to have one. Help me, Samsung-Juan, whoever you are. You're my only hope.

[ other people have questions starting with "how" and "why" and "what the actual f—" gwen stacy, however, has #priorities. ]

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video | un: navigator

[weatherscience]

... is your life force really connected to that box?

[ on-screen: ( 1 ) nami, brown eyes blinking in confusion. please excuse her she hasn't even had the phones-computers-technology debate with anyone yet, and thus is entirely ignorant to the miracle of smartphones. ]

un: redlion; video

[secondnature]

Uh, do you actually even get signal here? Because if that's your only hope, you might be screwed.

[A beat.]

I don't know if ALASTAIR is big on funerals, though. Maybe they'll just feed you to the bugs.

[Helpful.]

video | username: xXx_trueblue_xXx

[competing]

Well, hello to you too.

[ not that he's complaining about the abruptness of her message, or anything. in fact, he's looking on in clear interest... though one might note his eyes are not on that cell phone. ]

You're in luck, babe. I just so happen to be in the business of saving lives.

[ blah blah defender of the universe etc blah ]

video ; un: man of still

[figureitout]

Nnnnope, sorry, I gave mine to a friend to dissect. [ Actually, that reminds him, did Peter ever make anything of them... maybe he should ask what came of his noble sacrifice. ]

I mean, I guess you could, like, ask Lloyd of Human Resources to get you a charger, he's the closest to a Samsung-Juan you're gonna get, but it's not like they have anything else here either. No Google or Facebook games or snapchat, it's literally the worst, better just get used to it.

[ He waves his hand, and, with the most laconic tone he can muster, ] Welcome to the Dark Ages.

video | un: apocalypseArisen

[timebender]

Then you had better start getting your affairs in order, and quickly, by the looks of it! The last 10% always goes quicker than the first 10%.

[ Despite being very visibly alien, it seems as though she can bring on the human teenager sarcasm just as well as the rest of them... ]

video, @TARANTO

[heavyhitter]

[ oh look she was made for this, time to be a hero!!! ]

I so got you covered. [ She shifts, to pull out and present a little slender, black rectangular thing, and looks very smug about it. ] Check it out — solar universal charger. The universe got a little brighter when someone invented this.

video | un: southpaw

[reverseengineer]

I could probably build one. [Pidge adjusts her glasses and leans in.] But it won't be as useful for you as you're expecting. I don't think this place gets outside signals.

video; un: coolskeleton95

[boneafide]

[Yes, it's an actual skeleton. HALLOWEEN'S EARLY.]

Oh! I had a phone once!!

If your phone does die, don't worry, I know just what to do!

VIDEO. UN: LOKI

[selfimage]

[ guess who's waving his fully charged StarkPhone at her and pulling at the lapel of his jacket with his opposite hand. ]

So, someone's got you covered. It's too bad there's no way for Inter-dimensional-Gs? Inter-Gs? 4-D?

[ enough with the wordplay. ]

video. un: p.parker

[webdesigned]

( that face is oddly disconcerting, even though he can barely say why. blonde girls are no excuse to lose your mind, right? he can handle blonde girls. )

Uh, I think I can help you out. They don't exactly have ac plugs in this place, but, I've got an old charger I could convert to battery powered.

video; un: white_lotus

[pummelling]

[what is with you people and your smart phones.... jin casts the girl on the screen a dubious expression.]

Why, need to update your status to "trapped in a parallel universe"?

► video, un: andromeda

[clobbers]

Did you end up finding one to borrow?

( The blonde on the screen fidgets in her seat, either really, really nervous or hoping for a 'yes.' Her entire life is connected to her iPhone, too. )

Nice movie reference, by the way. Empire was my favourite, personally.