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Bethany stepped aside as Klara made her way over towards the door, looking over at her as she proceeded to slam her fist into the door, hearing something metallic snagging as the door lazily swung open. Bethany smiled and patted her on the shoulder, she took a look around the room, which appeared to be a bedroom of sorts. Which clearly wasn't Guin's at all as she took a few steps into the room looking over her shoulder to Klara. "I'm going to take a look, you can come in and snoop around to if you'd like to up to you though if you want." Beth told Klara as she started searching around the room.

The room looked like it belonged to Tony as Bethany noticed an Iron Man helmet laying about, and a few other pieces of the armor as well to, as Beth made her way over towards the helmet and picked it up to inspect it. She remembered that they were all given a set of armor awhile back during the whole Galactus coming to Earth to consume it all. "It could be useful maybe." Bethany said as she picked up the helmet, maybe it was used at some point and Guin could get some kind of use out of it.

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Antoinette wandered the room, looking for anything that might be of use to get the ship fixed but she came up empty handed. There was nothing but wires, broken things and dust. As she was of no use to help Guin with JARVIS, she left the room to continue her search.
Finding another room that no one was in, Antoinette began looking around for books that had something to do with ship repair, interdimensional space travel or multiple timelines. The only books she found though were of fiction in nature. Curious, Antoinette removed a couple of books, examining the titles and the pages within. Perhaps she would bring one or two with her for some form of entertainment. She could read to her pet Tribble, Arnold.

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Guin didn't want to admit it, but she was a bit relieved that JARVIS didn't try to kill her on sight. She didn't need to contend with whatever that would do to her psyche, given that the AI had been one of the small handful of people actively involved in raising her as a child. It did make her sick though to hear the information he had, even though it was stuff she had mostly figured out already. She couldn't help but be angry at both the Avengers and Pepper and Happy for leaving Stark Tower in a mess like this; and for abandoning her after her abduction. She had never thought before that they had just been around her dad for the money, but now, she wasn't sure how else to explain it - how else they could throw everything away without a fight...

"Are there any Stark safe houses remaining in the city?" Guin asked JARVIS. She figured if any of them were still functioning, they could go crash there. In their reality, there were a few in cities around the world - she just didn't remember if any New York ones had been established prior to the formation of the Avengers. Unfortunately, JARVIS answered that there weren't any. They didn't have an easy, ready to use place to evacuate to.

"What equipment or tools are still left, then?" Guin asked. Maybe there'd be something they could use to fix either Danger or the ship. JARVIS answered that larger tools had been moved to a warehouse, whereas smaller ones might still be in the tower. "Pietro, can you rush around really quickly, see if you can find any tools?" Guin asked. She didn't know how much exploration she actually wanted to do of the tower - it felt like a tomb. A tomb that was threatening to bury her.

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Runa was grateful to see that her plea had been clearly communicated to Edus. She felt so completely overwhelmed in this situation, like her throat was being crushed under the foot of a mighty bilgesnipe. She had never been faced with a situation quite like this before - having someone she cared about so dearly just ripped away from her without a moment's notice. Even when all of Asgard would berate her and whisper horrible things about her, at least they had known who she was. She was nothing to Lance now; and it was breaking her heart, as he was everything to her. She was several hundred years old, but developmentally Runa was a teenager, learning that her boyfriend had severe total amnesia.

She sniffled slightly as Edus worked his magic - and as it failed. "Thank you," she murmured quietly, the sense of hopelessness clear in her voice. She felt far more despondent than she had when her last boyfriend had broken up with her - the Greek god Apollo. She felt like she had imagined it, when that flicker of recognition was in Lance's eyes - her hopes were pretty much dead and gone, it was just wishful thinking, she rationalized it away...

She nodded quietly as Lance led the way down another direction from the others. They ended up in what looked like a lab area, and Runa had to pause for a moment. She knew almost nothing about Midgardian technology - she was still confused as to how phones and whatnot worked. "...I... I do not know what we are looking at, son of Banner," Runa admitted.

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Ed felt guilty that he had failed Runa, but there wasn't anything he could do. He sighed and watched Runa and Lance leave. Mary stepped over. "I could not bring him back, but he seems...better."

"Alright," He started now that it was just the two of them. "First a demonstration. As you'll remember, I asked if you thought my tracking would work for those from this world." He pulled out Pietro's vial of hair. They had both interacted with the Pietro of this world, so they knew he existed and generally where he was. They also knew exactly where the Pietro from their world was. He cast the spell, which connected to this world's Pietro.

"Now, see this." He recast the spell using the hair he had from Klara. He had collected the hair after joining with her in Asgard. Theoretically, he should be able to track either Klara if they were the same person genetically as he had done with Pietro. However, when he cast the spell, even trying several times, it only connected to the Klara in the other room.

"I have reasons to believe that the person in the other room is not truly Klara." He had other evidence too. But that would be harder to explain.

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Lance looked over at Runa when she asked about what they were looking for, and he shrugged. "I don't really know what we're looking for right now either, might as well see what's on the computers though... Makes you wonder a bit what sort of things they left on them..." he said, heading over to the nearest and powered it up. The screen lit up, and he started messing with a few things. "Doesn't look like there's anything that might help us, but honestly they probably should have gotten rid of some of this stuff if they were leaving the building... But then again, kind of left a bit in a hurry after all."

He glanced over at her now, thinking for a moment, "You guys were wanting to try and repair a ship or something like that right? I mean we can probably patch up the computer systems and such if need be, but if it has any damage to the exterior that pokes a hole in it that's not going to really work out in the long run..." Lance stepped away from the computer and started looking around in the lab see if there was anything else. "All else fails we can turn these into spare parts, but usually there are other things lying around here that we might be able to use..."

Over with Klara and Bethany, Klara just looked at the helmet that Bethany had found and shrugged, "I mean it's something right? Who knows how long all of this stuff has been in here," she said, before kicking a chair off to the side that was somewhat in the way. "Well, we should either take that stuff back to the others or look through a few other doors or something."

Pietro looked at Guin when she mentioned him zipping around the building to try and find the tools that they might be able to grab to fix the ship once they pulled it out of the water. "Uh yeah sure, guessing some generic tools? Or I guess whatever I can find?" he asked Guin, before shrugging a bit, "Alright, well, I'll guess I'll race around and see what I can find." with those last words he was gone in a gust of wind (and accidentally kicked up a bunch of dust too while he was at it).

Can I just say that this place is a bit creepy and insanely empty right now? Pietro said mentally to her.

"Yeah, I told you if they were genetically identical then yeah the spell should be able to work on finding counterparts. I asked you why you asked and you said we'd talk about it later... Why?" she responded, as he started explaining what was going on and why he was bringing it up again. Her attention turned towards the spell he cast using Pietro as a bit of an example for it. The spell didn't point towards anywhere in the building, it pointed outside of it, so that meant that he was tracking the counterpart with it. She was following along with the spell and what he was doing, though she wasn't entirely sure why still.

When he pulled out the other vile, casting the spell and it pointed towards the direction Klara was in, that's when she was lost, since if he was trying to prove a point about tracking counterparts, why didn't it work? That's when he explained the why, and it freaked her out a little bit. "Wait... So if that person isn't Klara, then who the hell is it, and where is actual Klara. Not to mention when did that Klara replace the actual one... Since it had to have happened around when we were arrested and on Asgard..."

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Bethany thought for a moment as she looked down at the helmet in her hands and then some of the parts for the iron man suit that were strewn around the room. "Lets look around the other rooms, and see if there's anything else useful." Bethany said to Klara as she tucked the helmet under her arm, she then went to grab the other parts as well to.

Figuring that Guin would most likely get the most use out of the parts. Once she had enough in her arms Bethany then started to head out of the room. She took a moment and looked down the hallway, as she decided to go for the closest room that was closed. "Lets check out this one, if there isn't anything useful then we can head back to meet up with the others." Bethany suggested to Klara.

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After taking a couple of books, Antoinette left the room she was in and wandered back down the hallway. As she walked, Bethany and Klara came into view. Antoinette wandered over to the pair of them, figuring she could team up with them to hunt for some things.
”Hey, have you found anything yet?” She noticed the things in Bethany’s arms and saw that they looked like pieces from the Iron Man suit. That was better than the books she had found. ”I only found these fiction books so far. I grabbed a couple to have something to read to Arnold later.”

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Guin closed her eyes, concentrating on Pietro as he ran throughout the tower. Ordinarily, she might've just waited for him to get back and report, but she didn't want to waste time. Instead, she used their telepathic rapport to see through his eyes, taking in all of the information he was collecting at the very same time that he did. The first few times she had tried sensory scrying, she had gotten a bad case of motion sickness; and while she didn't collapse to the ground, her head still felt like it was spinning. There wasn't much of anything important on the upper few levels, but once Pietro got to the lower floors - the living quarters for some of the staff and guests - that changed.

It looked almost ransacked down there - holes in the walls, objects thrown about, papers littering the floor. Either there had been a huge fight or everyone had suffered from a mental breakdown before evacuating. Guin focused, making sure to speak through her body. "JARVIS, is there anything recording what happened on the lower living floors of the tower?" Guin asked. Babe, any chance you can figure out what happened down there? Guin then asked Pietro.

I mean I can try... Why Guina?

I've just got a bad feeling about this.

JARVIS pulled up a few recordings and Guin re-focused, sliding her active mind back into her own body, perceiving things through her own senses. The first recording JARVIS played was dated not too long after the Battle of New York, and it showed the Avengers struggling with their grief, devolving into fighting amongst themselves. The next recording was years later, and Guin's heart shuddered slightly. Quicksilver and the Brotherhood came to attack the tower, endangering Pepper's life - and then something happened that Guin couldn't quite perceive, forcing everyone to scatter and leave. "I..." Guin shook her head slightly.

She didn't even realize where she was going until she had stepped into her childhood bedroom at the tower, closing the door behind her and sliding down to the ground. She concentrated on her breathing, breathing in and out, in and out, doing her best not to sink again from the tidal wave of overwhelming feelings. Her room looked like it had been untouched, an eerie time capsule of a person that Guin hadn't been in a long time. From the looks of the room, Guin had barely been a teenager the last time she had been here.

N-never mind, JARVIS showed me what happened.

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It then occurred to Runa that this Lance would know the events that had led to the abandonment of this tower. She was a bit confused as to why he said that the tower was left in a hurry. As far as she was aware, there was plenty of time for the tower to be sorted once Tony Stark had died. Or was Lance referring to the hurried evacuation when her uncle attacked Midgard? "What do you mean, they all left in a hurry? I am sorry - my Midgardian history is rather... spotty." She also knew the history of a different timeline, but Runa didn't point that out.

She nodded at Lance's question about the ship. "Yes, we have a craft that ought to be repaired. I imagine one of Yggdrasil's branches damaged it..." Runa trailed off. She thought of the universe as an Asgardian would - she thought of the world tree as the basis of reality, and slipping in between its branches as a gateway to other universes. "Though... I suppose perhaps we could ask Asgard for a vessel."

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"The one traveling with us hasn't been the real one since Asguard. I think the Klara here, with her damaged memories, is the real one for us. I think the one we've been traveling with is someone else. Potentially Loki. She told us he was locked up, no one else, and we never saw proof of it." That wasn't his biggest bombshell either. He took a deep breath.

"Silf brought it to my attention. They had a fight on a bridge, and Klara fought. She knocked creatures off the bridge to their doom. The real Klara would have made friends with the creatures. Silf was concerned and wanted me to keep an eye on Klara. At the time, I did a test spell trying to see if Silf was related to this Klara, and it took some tries, but I got a successful connection to her, but at first, it pointed down off the bridge into...nothing."

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The next door that Bethany came to was a bit stuck, however she'd be able to pop it open to reveal another room. This room looked to just be a random room full of random parts. Things that might be useful for them in the long run. Some of the parts looked to be pretty banged up, but some of the objects likely could be salvaged and used probably. If you knew what you were doing with it that is. Klara turned to look at Annie when she came over to them and shrugged a bit. "I mean, not sure how useful novels are going to be considering we are wanting to fix a ship or at least patch it up in some capacity before we can even get out of here. But eh, whatever."

"Oh, that? It wasn't until a few years after Tony died before the tower got abandoned. I think the whole thing was it became a bit too risky for everyone to stay here, got attacked a few different times in the span of like a week before it got to be a bit much or something like that, not sure I wasn't really paying attention," he responded with a shrug. He wasn't really telling the full story as to what happened, but at least it was a shortened version or something like that.

He stopped a moment when she suggested that they see about asking Asgard for help in getting another ship or something like that. "I mean, you are welcome to try. But last I checked, Asgard has kind of wanted nothing to do with Earth for a while. I mean Thor is still here yeah, and hasn't exactly been able to get back home... So not exactly too sure how helpful they could be right now. So if you're able to get a hold of them or whatever, feel free to try something."

Mary listened to what Ed was saying, her mind thinking about what could possibly have happened or what they should even do about it. "...True, we didn't see any proof he was locked up, but then again, wouldn't Runa have picked up if she had lied? So that might not be Loki and just someone, or something else..." this was not a situation that she really wanted to think about. This just added onto their several problems that they already had at the moment.

"...If the version with the Hellfire Club is our version of her, then we have to find a way to get her to come back to our reality if we're ever able to get back there ourselves. We can't leave her here... But we have to be very careful about how we deal with this, otherwise we could cause more problems. Does anyone else know? Since we can't just openly reveal that is the case, otherwise she could attack and cause more problems then we have time for..." The part about the spell seemingly pointing downwards off the rainbow bridge and into nothing was not exactly a good thing in her mind either. It likely meant the more obvious that someone probably knocked Klara off the bridge if anything really.

"You okay Guina?" Pietro asked her, having popped up in a gust of wind, carrying a handful of tools that they might be able to use to help repair the ship. "It is a bit of a mess down there, some fighting obviously happened... But I couldn't tell you anymore then that..." He then looked at the room that she was now in, and then proceeded to set down the tools he was carrying and gave her a hug. "It'll be okay Guina."

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When the door didn't open the first time she then decided to put her shoulder into it and managed to put her full weight onto the door as it started to open up for the two of them. She looked around the room it looked like there were just parts laid around the room, but it looked like they could be of use for them to try and patch up their ship. She turned her attention towards Annie as she came up holding books in her arms, which didn't seem all that useful to her at least in her own opinion.

"Found these maybe Guin could get some use out of it or something." Bethany said giving a slight shrug as she adjusted the pieces of armor she had in her arm. "Maybe some of these parts could be used to patch up the ship somewhat?" She asked the two of them, she really wasn't an engineer so she didn't know if they would be able to work or not. "Should probably bring it all out to them then, could you guys help out with that, my hands are a bit full at the moment?" She asked the two of them.

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”Oh, I’m sure they won’t be useful for repairing the ship at all but they are an excellent way to pass the time,” Antoinette said cheerfully. She looked from Klara to Bethany who just got the door to the room open and walked in with them.
There wasn’t much in the room to look at. Just some metal bits and other junk lying around the place. Antoinette didn’t know much about ship repair but there was Guin and a few other people who understood tech and she did build her own Iron Man suit. Perhaps that would be an asset to ship building. She picked up a part and shrugged, placing it on top of her books.
”I haven’t the faintest idea but I’m sure someone might,” Antoinette replied to Bethany. Keeping her books stacked, Antoinette picked up a few of the more interesting parts and added them to her pile before leaving the room and returned to the main room.

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"No one else knows. You could be right. I trust Runa. We might be able to get her involved, but she also seems...uh...troubled right now." That was a bit of an understatement with what was going on with Lance. He wished he had been able to help more.

"I tried to talk to Klara about it, but she got fairly aggressive about it." He had been trying to help her remember something about herself, but it had backfired. He didn't think the Klara they had met would be totally chill with him trying to talk to her again.

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Guin nodded her head slightly when Pietro asked her if she was okay - truthfully, she was feeling completely overwhelmed. It was like she was roller skating and each little thing was threatening to knock her off balance, causing her legs to shake and her arms to flail, the universe just waiting for her to fall and hit the ground hard. First they had been stranded in another reality, then she learned the horrible story of her counterpart from here, she had experienced a weird flashback to her maiming by Magneto that had never really happened, she had talked to her father's ghost, and now she had found more details about the fate of her family, seeing more of the pain and the trauma of this universe. She didn't doubt that her Pietro was a good person, that wasn't the issue - there was just only so much Guin could process at a time without crumbling.

"I know it'll be okay," she murmured, as her husband hugged her. "I know that we're superheroes, we're going to save the day because that's what we do." She never doubted that they could do anything - she was young and rich, believing that she was invincible more or less. "But this place fucking sucks and I don't know why, but it's getting to me - like it's in my head and I can't keep it out, I can't just deflect it off with a funny one liner and keep on moving. And I don't know why." She sniffled slightly, blinking her eyes rapidly in an attempt to not cry.

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"I am Baldur's daughter, a princess of Asgard - they should not turn me away," Runa said, mostly to try to reassure herself. If Thor was not welcomed on Asgard, then Runa felt her chances were slim. In their own reality, the people of Asgard took as kindly to her as the people of Midgard did to mutants. Her dominion was over darkness and lies - hardly qualities people wanted in a princess. They were powers that should have shaped her into a villain, someone for Thor to swing his hammer against and lay waste to.

Runa extended Gandr and took a breath, before raising her staff upwards. If the BiFrost opened through the roof of this tower, she didn't think it would matter much. The place was already decrepit and falling apart. Asgardian allies were what they needed right now - perhaps the Norns could give them some guidance as well. "Heimdall!" Runa shouted. There was no response. She breathed. "Heimdall, it is I, Runa, daughter of Baldur, princess of Asgard. Open the BiFrost, I wish to return to the realm eternal!"

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"I mean... Yeah she kind of is dealing a bit with other situations right now... Might be best to try to either wait a little bit since not sure how she'd react to the idea that her cousin ended up stranded here. Then again, she might not be too thrilled if she found out that we knew and didn't say anything... This whole thing is just so screwed up and definitely still on the list of problems we have currently..." she was not too sure how to deal with that entire situation. The Klara who had left Asgard with them wasn't the real one, but then again, there wasn't much to explain when the switch happened.

The thought then crossed her mind with regards to why Runa wouldn't have said anything about what Klara had said on Asgard. "We still don't even have a timeline for the switch really... I mean one reason why Runa might not have said anything about her lying if Loki is involved would be if Klara who helped us get out of prison was the real Klara, and while on Asgard she got switched. But from what you had said before, Klara didn't appear at the Bifrost bridge until later, which wouldn't make sense for that. Especially since you said the spell pointed to directly off the bridge itself... Which means that odds are Klara would have had to have gotten switched before we got to Asgard, so the person who broke us out of space prison wasn't her. That's the only thing that makes sense, which goes back to what Runa potentially knew. So, could be that Loki is still locked up, or considering what other issues we were dealing with Runa just chose not to say anything to make our situation at the time worse... Either are possible and guessing we'll find out the truth eventually... As for her not wanting to really talk to you and being a bit aggressive about it isn't that surprising, after all, her memories are scrambled and she has no reason to believe a word you say... Not to mention she kind of has a telepath that is not exactly the nicest person around. Making things incredibly difficult to talk to her... But we need to convince her before we even try to go back to our reality..."

Lance looked over at Runa as she seemingly was trying to get the Bifrost to work. "Look... I don't know how things are really on Asgard... But based on Thor basically being stuck here and unable to go back, probably safe to say someone else is in control of the Bifrost or something... Which might explain why you aren't able to get them to open things up... Things kind of seem like they aren't the best really..." he said calmly, trying to give her some sort of comfort really.

Then again, he had no idea what else to really say to her, but he powered off the computer that he had been messing with and walked towards the door to the lab. "We should maybe try and see if the others got anything useful... We can grab stuff from here if we really need anything, but there likely isn't much here after all... You okay though right? Or do you want a minute before we go back over to the others?"

Klara meanwhile looked at Bethany and shrugged slightly, "Yeah, no problem, can probably carry more then the both of you combined anyway, so give me all of that and let's go or something." She instantly started picking up a bunch of the random bits and pieces off the floor. The stack she was carrying kept growing, before eventually she had a big pile of random tech, and started heading out of the room and back to where everyone else was.

She walked into the middle of the room, and more or less dropped the pile eventually on the ground, "Well, wonder if you guys can figure out how best to use this sort of stuff. Fixing a ship, not sure I'd be much help aside from doing some heavy lifting to fix the ship eventually, but oh well, that'll be fun to deal with."

Pietro just listened to Guin, nodding his head as she spoke. "Well, the best we can do is try to get out of this place as soon as possible... And maybe back home we can do our best to forget what seems to have happened here and move on... This isn't our home Guina... The people we've seen aren't the people we know, and the counterparts of us that we've run into... They aren't us... Even if... Even if we can easily see ourselves in them, aside from obviously looking alike and all..." His counterpart really did bug him a bit, considering he was a murdering psychopath. "How about we go see about catching up with the others and try to figure out if anyone found anything useful, okay?"

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Ed nodded. Frost was too dangerous to be around. He didn't trust her. Especially with what he knew about his counterpart. He was going to respond to Mary when Klara returned. Time to drop the conversation.

"Well, we don't know what is wrong with the ship, but maybe something will be useful." The crash was strange since so many of them had been ejected from the ship before it had even hit the water. And they had ended up in weird random places. At least they all ended up in New York, not like South America or something random.

They would have to remove the ship from the water and diagnose the issue before they could really hope to know what it would take to fix it. Hopefully, Guin would have a way to deal with Danger so that they might have help.

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"I guess it's one of the perks of being an asgardian you can lift a shit ton of stuff." Bethany said as she watched Klara grabbing most of the stuff, and then heading out of the room she looked over at Annie. "C'mon lets head back." She said as she turned and headed back towards the main room where everyone was. Ed and Mary were talking amongst themselves as she looked at the two of them as Klara dropped her things onto the ground. "We managed to find some parts for the repairs." She said to them as Bethany set the pieces of the iron man suit that she could grab onto the ground.

Bethany then turned towards Ed and shrugged slightly. "I'd imagine that it hit the bottom of the lake pretty hard, and caused some damage to the hull, and theres probably some water damage to if it gotten into the ship itself. Gotta make sure that it's airtight as well even before we leave to." Bethany said to him shrugging slightly as she leaned back slightly looking at the others. "So whats the gameplan now?" She asked them she figured thats what Ed and Mary were talking about.

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Antoinette followed the others back into the room where some of the others remained. She dumped her pile along with the other two before she sat down in front of the pile. She set her books beside her before beginning to sift through what they had brought back. Antoinette briefly glanced up to wave at Edus before she went back to her task.
Guin wasn’t in the room right now so Antoinette figured it would do no harm to start organizing the parts into pieces that were of similar size and design. It helped her to pass the time really since there wasn’t much else for her to do at the moment.
The task of organizing old and used things was oddly comforting to Antoinette. She had always enjoyed old things and pieces of history. Even though this was of a modern technology, it was still fascinating to Antoinette to see something that used to be one thing possibly become transformed into another.

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Guin sighed. She didn't know how to explain it to Pietro - she knew that this wasn't their home, that these weren't their people, that these could not be their lives. But knowledge did not always prevent the emotional weight - the feeling of paranoia, of tiredness, of sorrow that had been creeping into her mind ever since they had arrived. The false memory of having her eye destroyed by Magneto was just one example - she knew it never happened, but she could remember the experience of it now, making it feel real even if it had happened to someone else. But she didn't know how to properly communicate that, beyond just hoping that through their mental rapport, Pietro got the sentiment. "Maybe once we're back home I'll have a strong drink," Guin joked, even though her heart wasn't completely in it. "But yeah, we should go back. Before some other shit happens here."

She then left the graveyard of her childhood, that lonely and abandoned bedroom, and returned to the main living area of the Stark family. All of the others seemed to be assembled now, in varying states of distress. But there was one nice thing - there seemed to be some usable parts on the floor, stuff that they could potentially use to fix their ship. Some of it Guin was sure would end up being junk, but hey, building miracles with a pile of scraps was part of her family's skillset. "I think I can make this work," Guin said, eyeing the pile. "If we're ready to go get our ship."

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Runa tried not to feel defeated as her pleas for Asgard to open the Bifrost were ignored. She was not entirely too surprised - if her reputation in this reality was the same or worse compared to their own, she could easily imagine Asgard deciding to cast her aside. It was only the will of her family that prevented Asgard from shutting her out entirely. Her heart twitched at the thought that perhaps Ragnarok had occurred here, and that was why the realm eternal was closed to her. "I do not need your comfort," Runa said, turning her head away from him. "If Asgard is closed to me, then so be it. There are other powers in this realm." Her thoughts flickered towards her grandmother. The last time her grandmother had encountered Midgardians, it had ended in genocide - but perhaps this time could be different, if she dared call out...

She didn't answer Lance as to whether or not she needed a minute. Runa was compartmentalizing now. She could shove all of her emotions aside and focus on the task at hand. Her objective was to find them safe passage home, in the chance that the Sorcerer Supreme could not ferry them to their realm. She could assemble the pieces of her shattered heart later. She left the room and returned to the main area where the others were, observing that most of them if not all had returned already.

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Mary looked at the group as everyone rejoined them in the main area. She really wished that she could continue to talk to Ed about the other problem, and maybe even have Runa join that conversation, but with "Klara" in the room now, that sort of thing was impossible to think about really. They couldn't do that and risk what could potentially happen if it was revealed right here and now. The plan? Right, they needed to discuss that sort of thing didn't they? "Well, we need to fix the ship and try to find our way back to our reality. We don't know if Strange will have found a way to send us back or anything like that really, but fixing the ship, that's something we might be able to deal with right now."

"I mean, probably. Though that other issue we need to deal probably should get dealt with eventually. Since not sure everyone wants to really be here forever..." Klara commented, and Mary just more or less nodded her head. Yeah, that was something that needed to be dealt with sooner rather then later. Especially considering the fact that people's memories were getting all scrambled. It was almost like everyone was starting to have what goes on in her head, confusion and voices that weren't really their own. That was fun to think about.

"Cool, let's get to the mansion then and pull the ship out of the water or whatever then," Pietro said, having followed Guin back out of the room.

Their conversation got interrupted though, by the sound of a portal opening right by them, and it looked to be a sling ring portal. On the other side of the portal, they'd see Dr. Strange, along with him being at what looked to be at the mansion, and the recognizable somewhat damaged ship behind him that clearly got pulled from the water. "If you don't all mind stepping through, there is much to be discussed and not much time. I took the liberty of pulling your ship from the lake. Some components of it are damaged, but other parts seem to be intact, and surprisingly some areas of the ship didn't take in water." he said simply to the group.

Mary was a bit surprised to see Strange, though another question popped into her mind regarding the mansion, "Alright, where's Danger then or are we going to be expecting another potential fight or something while there?"

"She is currently inside the mansion roaming around its halls, or what's left of them anyway. As long as we stay outside, we shouldn't run into any sort of issues."

"Ok, simple enough answer," Mary said, before stepping through the portal. "Based on the fact that you came back to meet up with us says either you found a potential way to send us back home, or you need our help with something. Which is it?"

"Both actually." Once everyone stepped through to the other side (with Pietro having grabbed in the blink of an eye bringing all of the random bits of tech out by the ship), he closed the portal, and turned to look at the group now. "Do any of you know what the M'Kraan crystal is?"

"Some space crystal or something like that right?" Lance asked, whereas both Klara and Pietro shook their heads, having no idea what it was.

"It's a very powerful artifact sometimes referred to as the Heart of the Multiverse, so I've heard. Which definitely sounds like something that would be useful in getting us back home."

"The M'Kraan crystal is incredibly powerful, and in theory would allow you the ability to potentially travel the multiverse if used correctly. Though that is just a fraction of the power the crystal has. If in the wrong hands or used incorrectly, the crystal could destroy all realities, no matter how small."

"Right, so clearly a very scary thing that might be useful if we know how to use it, key word if. Or it could kill us all, fun. So why do we want to be anywhere near that thing? Or am I missing something?"

"He said that he wanted our help so if you quiet down for a moment, then maybe we can get to the why it's being brought up."

"The M'Kraan crystal, or rather, a shard of the crystal, I detected, it is near the city, and a fragment of the crystal is just as dangerous as the full thing, except a bit more portable. The issue? Seems like I was not the only one who detected the crystal's power, and right now both the Brotherhood and the Hellfire Club are scouring the area trying to find it. They can't track it, they only seemed to have detected it's energy, but we still are running against the clock in order to try and retrieve it before they do. That is why I need your help, since having to potentially fight off both groups for it would be not very simple of a task even with a few more people included in potentially fighting them off in order to get it first."

"And what do we do once we get said crystal?"

"Move it to a secure location and with some luck see about using it to send you all back where you belong."

"Oh cool, so we get to deal with some shard of some super powered gem, cool, sounds like fun," Pietro commented, before mentally talking to Guin. Well this will be fun... We should probably see if their is any gear or whatever in the ship that we might be able to use... Hey your suit or whatever might have survived the crash right? The ship's already out of the water all we have to do is check or something.