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After crashing Gwyn’s time machine in the woods, the Legends decided to make camp, splitting up chores as they saw fit. Obviously, Spooner offered to be on Team Camp, which took care of things like setting up a temporary shelter and hunting for food, whereas people not that nature-inclined, like Zari, Gywn and Gary, were in charge of exploring the area, looking for any sign of civilisation.
Since tensions were running high between the members, Astra and Spooner decided to partner up with each of the captains to get them to calm down, and for Spooner, there was no better way to do so than to spend the whole day surrounded by nature. Going back to simple tasks like hunting reminded her of her life back in Texas. There, she lived completely off the grid, something she had always prided herself on, so being stranded in a foreign forest with tangible problems instead of the weird stuff she had seen when travelling with the legends was basically a vacation for her.
With Sara’s help, they had been setting up snares all around their designated base, and when they returned, Spooner could tell her improvised nature therapy session had worked on her. Now, they just had to wait for their respective partners to come back so Sara and Ava could make up.
“Hi, Astra!” Spooner happily ran up to her as she saw her.
“You’re weirdly cheerful,” Astra said as she put down all the wood Ava and she had chopped.
Spooner looked at Ava, who was already speaking with her wife. “Already talking. Good signal. Maybe we should…” Spooner gestured with her head, “give them some privacy?”
As they both left camp, Spooner and Astra discovered a lake that was hidden in between the trees.
“Holy shit, Astra, are you seeing this?” Spooner quickly went to touch the water with her hand.
“Yup. It’s… It’s a lake.” Astra was unimpressed.
“It’s so cold,” Spooner said, feeling the water. “I bet we can catch some fish in time for launch. C’mon, help me set up some snares.”
“Spooner—”
“Damn, it’s such a good day today. Maybe after, we can bring the team here and go for a swim. I bet that’d be nice.”
Astra chuckled. “Yeah, for a summer camp. But need I remind you we’re stranded here? For all we know, we could be in the Cretaceous era.”
Spooner looked at her with an idea clearly forming in her head. “Really?”
“Oh, no, don’t you dare give me that look, Spooner.” Astra seemed visibly scared. “There’s no way I’m letting you fight a dinosaur.”
“Why not? It’s not like I’m gonna be screwing up the timeline. They are going to become extinct anyway.”
“That is not even— first of all, it’s a preposterous idea. And second, there’s no way you can kill a dinosaur.”
“What?!? You don’t think I could—” Spooner throws a few punches in the air like a little boy showing them off to his parents. “C’mon.”
“Oh, you’re—you’re joking.” Astra realised.
“Big time.” Spooner chuckled. “But not gonna lie, I’m feeling kinda disappointed you don’t believe I could take a dinosaur down.”
“Whatever.” Astra chuckled, too. “C’mon, boy scout. Show me how to set those snares up.”
After Spooner excitedly explained the whole process, by the end, they had set up ten snares all around the lake. Meanwhile, the couple decided to sit down as they waited for the fish to bite, but after two hours, there was still nothing.
“Okay, this is taking too long,” Astra said as she stood up from a rock.
“But waiting is part of the process. Where are you going?”
“To end this.” Astra placed herself right in front of the lake and moved her hands up. “Aquam et vitam sursum movere.”
A big sphere of water came out of the lake, containing at least 30 fish, and she put them on the ground.
Spooner, speechless, looked at her. “You had me set up snares all around the lake, when all this time you could’ve just done this?”
“Yeah.” Astra looked at her with a guilty expression.
“But we could’ve been doing so many other stuff instead of just sitting around wasting time.”
“I don’t know, you were so happy and excited and having a ‘living in the moment’ kind of moment. I didn’t want to bring the mood down. You just told me waiting is part of the experience or whatever.”
“Yeah, but not when we’re all starving,” Spooner complained. On one side, that was somewhat of a sweet gesture. On the other, now she felt like a fool.
“C’mon, don’t be mad,” Astra said. “I’m sorry.”
“Whatever, let’s just bring them.” Spooner started walking towards the camp.
“Wait, aren’t you going to help me?”
“Nah, I’m pretty sure you’ll figure it out.”
Spooner heard Astra curse under her breath, which made her silently chuckle. Even the mere task of fishing couldn’t be done ordinarily when being with the Legends. But she wasn’t mad at all because she’d rather have one day full of Legend-style chaos than go a hundred more without them.