Chapter 11 - Run, Jump, Shoot
Back on Earth I was a big fan of Spider-Man. I still am, I suppose, just a bit odd to talk about it now. I liked him because unlike so many other super-heroes he didn’t have some magic random weakness that rendered him useless. Instead his biggest weakness seemed to be the second half of his name. He was human, and this was a problem, as it got in the way of his being awesome.
I say this mainly to bring out the fact that it is much how I feel. Going into this I didn’t know what I was doing. I didn’t pretend to either. But, hey, I lived, and that’s the important thing…to me anyway. Since then I have picked up a few things. First, and perhaps most importantly, is that our biggest problem in all of this is that we can’t just let it go. We fight together, but we aren’t united. The Bane have us beat hands down in that regard.
I’m not necessarily in favor of working like the Bane do, but the simple truth is they are efficient and they don’t turn on each other given the opportunity. As humans, we don’t use that same philosophy.
Fights break out more often than I would care to admit and mostly over trivial nonsense. Steal someone’s bed in the barracks, even if no one was in there when you went in, prepare for a fight. Take someone’s seat at the tavern, he’s probably going to punch first ask questions later. Look at someone in a way they misconstrue as rude, they’ll pull out their gun and take a shot.
You can’t win a two-front war. Especially when one side of that is allies stabbing you in the back. Everyone talks about getting back to Earth and taking back what is ours…but for what? We can’t even set aside our petty differences aside to fight unitedly against a single enemy. Why do we need our home planet back when we can’t even handle the basics yet? It’s time we faced the music, the Bane just came in and lightened the load for us, we can weed ourselves out the rest of the way on our own.
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