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What If?

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Jade snorted ever so slightly as Thalia set Abyss on fire. That was one way to deal with things. "Same old same old, eh?" she commented, recalling how Thalia had similarly dispatched with the Goddess of Death. "Seems you're losing your touch though, luv, the bloke's still standing." She herself had been slammed backwards by another one of Abyss' tendrils moments prior, and Jade picked herself up off of the ground, her angel blade in hand.

She darted forward, slashing at Abyss with the dagger. She hit, damaging the rogue mutant, and Jade slashed again, this time missing his tendrils as one of them lashed out, slamming into her hand to knock her dagger away. She didn't lose grip of it though, slashing again at Abyss, his bandages seemingly beginning to unravel - which she assumed was good? Stabbing him repeatedly hadn't seemed to kill him, so maybe now with some fire the stabbing was more effective?

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The next thing Guin knew, the building was collapsing around her, and her back was stinging with the deep cuts Sabretooth had inflicted on her. She reflexively closed her eyes and stuck out her arms to shield her face, only to feel a pair of strong, muscular arms grip her and suddenly, she was moving faster than her mind could keep up with. When she opened her eyes again, she was outside, the building collapsed into a heap, dust and debris kicking up into the air and causing her to cough profusely. "I'm fine," Guin said, even though Pietro quite literally had her blood on his hands.

"Are you okay? That looks bad," she commented, studying the gash on his forehead. She knew he'd heal quickly - she was more concerned about the wound becoming infected than just not closing up. Once he let go of her, Guin scrambled over to the rubble, quickly scanning the area for anything that they could use to help dig them out sooner, but she didn't find anything. Instead, Guin started methodically adjusting and shifting pieces of rubble, working as carefully as she could. At first, she didn't uncover anything - but then, she heard something moving beneath the rubble. "Over here!"

The Gifted - Concluded

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Genosha: July 31st, 2021 - 6:10 AM

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Veil & Casper & Sunshine

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Casper nodded, trying not to freak out too much about Ben - the last time Ben had been missing it had been because he was high as a kite, shutting off his powers. He had no reason to think that the others were wrong, that Ben wasn't just in ghost!Hawaii telling Sapphire about all of the tea she had missed. Fortunately, there was another weirdness to deal with - James was bending the knee to Magneto and acting like he was a king? "Uhh, did I miss something? Since when did Genosha become a monarchy?" Casper asked. He was used to missing important details or just straight up forgetting them, so Casper assumed at first that he somehow had missed that Magneto was the king here - James had been here much longer than all of them.

"What are you doing to him?" Casper then asked, looking concerned as Moneta put a hand on his James. Casper hurried on over, doing his best to look mildly intimidating, but he had the physicality of a noodle so it didn't really work much. "I don't know if there's like, spouses rights here on Genosha, but I def have them so please tell me what you're doing - or if you're like just giving him a friendly touch on the arm, it's hard to tell."

"I'm fine," Veil told Callie, speaking honestly. She hadn't lost much that day - she had been lucky, with Aurora saving her before any fall could have killed her. She smiled slightly, seeing the sibling reunion between Kristina and a stranger, but her eyes widened in alarm as she realized James was talking about Magneto as a king. She didn't remember the House of M world herself, but she had heard enough descriptions of it. It was like James' memories had somehow reverted or been corrupted. "I think he's remembering the other world," Veil explained.

"What other world?!" Magneto asked, angry and flabbergasted at the same time. No one had ever hailed him as a king before. He saw Maria's arrows briefly aim at him before a young mutant embraced her, and Magneto flicked his wrist, sending the arrows flying up towards the ceiling where they embedded themselves firmly. "We do not have time for this nonsense, while you all have been standing here entertaining delusions, our nation's founders are at stake. If Reeva or the Three in One were to be captured, imagine the cost we will pay."

"I'm actually rather interested in this, Erik," Selene chimed in. Everything was unfolding like some sort of soap opera that she had entered in halfway through and she couldn't decide what thread to pull. Did she tug on the glitch in the universe happening with Champion? Or did she pursue more of this other world talk, where somehow little Erik Lensherr was a king? Things hadn't been nearly this interesting in ages. It made this entire island experiment worth her time.

"Same?" Pixie squeaked out a bit timidly.

It was a good thing no one was looking at Marrow, since she was doing a horrible job at even trying to look surprised. Sunshine had told her everything about the other world - they were two queer women who got together and got married super quickly, they had swapped mind blowing secrets practically on day two. "Is this really relevant? We should go find Reeva and the Three in One," Sunshine interjected. She didn't want to think about that other world and the perfect life she had there.

She had been angry before about Jack abandoning her, but her life had made her the person that she was. The little cajun girl in New Orleans, that wasn't her. That wasn't the person who would've gone on to marry Marrow. And she couldn't imagine a life without Marrow in it.

"Oh, they can wait. It took more than a moment to kill Caesar, it'll take at least five to kill them," Selene said, brushing Sunshine off.

Casper, ever the impulsive individual, promptly more or less blurted the answer to those questions. "We were trapped in this other world made by the Scarlet Bitch, sorry, the Scarlet Witch, where we were all really happy. Except we were all really fucked up? Like a lot? Anyways, you were the king, Magnet Man, and all of your messed up kids were royalty. Humans were just generally kinda shat on."

Polaris, still freshly traumatized from the death of the baby she had been carrying, had no idea at all how to respond to that. She acted on the first impulse that came to mind a moment later, using her powers over magnetism to yank the arrows out of the ceiling, and shot them towards Casper, all of the arrows surrounding him in a near perfect circle. "You can shit talk my father, but leave me out of it," Polaris warned.

"... I'm so confused..." Elixir murmured.

X-Men: Cosmic Crusades 👽

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Location: Nearing Baldur's Hall
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Tears were pooling in Runa's eyes, as she couldn't believe what had happened to her brother. "I would lie for you, brother. I would have helped you to escape, provided that you stop this madness," Runa told him. "You need to stop, before you go too far - before you become something you cannot come back from, something that even the renewal of Ragnarok cannot undo." Runa was terrified for him, terrified of the path he was venturing down. She could feel something bubbling up in her throat - the urge to use Gandr, to warp reality, to force him to stop.

"I do not wish to harm you... But I will if I must," she vowed, before swinging her staff again. She missed, but on the backswing, she knocked Forseti in the head. He wasn't down yet and he had thrown a fireball at her friends, so Runa hit him again, this time putting extra force into her swing. Blood blossomed from Forseti's fresh wounds, as he was knocked to the ground from the force. Somehow, her brother was still conscious and he was understandably looking rather angry with her.

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Location: Nearing Baldur's Hall
Skills: Telepathy, Telepathic Attacks

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"You know what's weird? Kaiju aren't even Norse. They're Japanese. I guess Runa's brother is really into anime," Guin pointed out. Ordinarily, those sort of stray mental thoughts would've just been directly placed into Pietro's mind, but with the telepathic group chat going, Guin sent the comment out to every X-Man present. She couldn't help but wonder how much Earth stuff Runa's brother secretly loved, despite him making elitist and bigoted comments. She didn't comment again on Annie's telepathy stuff, figuring that it was beating a dead horse at this point.

"Woah, when'd you learn to do that?!" Guin blurted out, her eyes wide as Mary used plants to more or less seemingly teleport herself. Runa's evil brother decided to do more classic acts of evil, as he lobbed a fireball at Pietro and Edus. Guin was connected to their minds, so she knew that neither of them had died or been knocked out, a huge relief to her. But she didn't have time to fret over her husband and the wizard - Runa had bashed Forseti's head considerably and the Asgardian was uniquely vulnerable. "Babe, you okay?" Guin asked Pietro, as she ran towards the Asgardian. She telepathically attacked Forseti, diving into his mind and managing to do a significant amount of damage. He was still fighting her, however, and Guin couldn't force him to fall asleep. Instead, she kicked him in the head, hoping to shut him down the old fashioned way, but he was still awake.

🌳 Hotel Valhalla: & the Gods of Asgard 🌳

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Runa Johansson

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Location: Hotel Valhalla
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Runa winced sympathetically at the traps some of the others set off, especially as Nadia was shocked. "Are you okay?" Runa asked softly. They had freed almost everyone from the ridiculous game that Loki had forced them to play, and it couldn't have been that long, so Runa's nerves were more or less soothed. Everything was going to be okay. Loki wasn't going to escape. His plan wasn't going to come to pass. The gods could handle this - they were capable and wise. After this all blew over, life would go back to normal at Hotel Valhalla, she was certain of it.

Runa slowly but meticulously saved the last four einherjar, and the exit reappeared. She hesitated for a moment, worried that Loki might've put some trick on the other side, but everyone else today had been so brave - so she felt she had to be brave, too. Runa pushed the door open, startingly some einherjar on the other side with swords who had evidently been placed on guard or something. "Er.... hi?" Runa greeted uncertainly.

Agents of SHIELD - Concluded

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EARTH 257 - 4:30 AM Nov. 14th, 2021 - S.W.O.R.D. HQ, the Iron

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Interrogation Room A1 - Oliver, Niah, Bonnie, Celestine -

Agent Woo didn't believe a word coming out of Niah's mouth. In fact, he was so confident that she was just straight up lying to his face that he didn't even bother pulling up the files to even entertain the notion that she was telling the truth. Instead, he just shook his head at her. "Convenient story, I like how it ties up all the loose ends," he said. "How did she get to your reality then - flying saucer?"

Bonnie was instantly concerned - with what Niah had said about Sparky being Lana Banner and Oliver's admission that his counterpart here was more "fun." Raynor was from this reality - and now Niah was implying that Sparky was too? Or did she mean that Sparky's counterpart here was Lana Banner? She had to assume the former, but that just gave her more questions - mostly why? Wouldn't Raynor have said something? Was this what Niah had wanted to talk to Sparky about earlier? How did Niah know and not Sparky then? (Of course, Bonnie had to admit that Niah knew a lot of things no one else possibly could or should).

Then there was Oliver and his situation, bizarrely, was much easier for Bonnie to read. She had had an influx of memories, he had as well. It seemed he remembered doing some things that were highly illegal. Given that he was the son of Thanos, a cosmic level villain and threat to pretty much life all across the universe, Bonnie imagined that maybe in this world, Oliver had turned out more like his father. That was concerning. If they were gaining memories from this world, what was to stop them from gaining personalities as well?

Would Oliver turn on them and try to kill them all?

"We were investigating an anomaly, we don't know how it works or why it brought us here, it just did," Bonnie answered Woo.

"Sorry, hold up a second - it almost sounded like you were making a confession?" Woo said, looking at Oliver.

Interrogation Room B9 - Sparky, Cass, Amelia -

"Do you, uh, happen to know their real names? I'm guessing no one legally names their child Luminous - and that Dr. Doom doesn't even have a doctorate," Darcy pointed out. "Also, who names themselves Dr. Doom? That's got the same problem the Dark X-Men has, it builds your brand inherently from a place of negative evil shit. No one is going to think someone named Doom has a reasonable argument."

"... I actually have no clue," Amelia admitted. "Cass d'ya know what their actual names are? I don't remember seeing anything else written down on the files and all. I bet Luminous is a Stacy though. She seems like a Stacy. Or maybe a Wendy? I could see that for her too. And Doom... He's from Eastern Europe, right? That can't be his real name, right?"

Darcy then took a moment to answer some of Sparky's questions. "Well, yeah, no one's seen you in decades - you're kind of a famous cold case now, Buzzfeed Unsolved did an entire episode on the conspiracy surrounding your kidnapping," she explained. "As for the charges... I think they're calling you an accomplice, but I'm sure you can, like, claim emotional distress or something."

"Maybe the you from here happened to have been 'napped as a baby?" Amelia suggested. "They've got all sorts of weird tech here, they probably had a pic of what the kid would look like grown up or a DNA sample or something and bam, you show up, and the cold case gets a new lead." She wasn't worrying too much about arguing their way out of the charges, largely because Amelia had the feeling that these people would just make up new ones to hold them here.

Interrogation Room Z11 - Matt, Maria, Raynor, Flynn -

Rambeau shifted in her seat slightly, staring at Maria. She had read Maria's file, she knew the long list of crimes this girl had committed, but she believed her. There was something genuine about her. "Whips aren't really my style," Rambeau answered, contemplating what to do next. "But I'll bite. How do you explain this?" Rambeau then tapped her fingers twice on the table and it came to life, holographically projecting images of people in black uniforms with large golden X's across the chest pieces committing acts of terrorism and violence. Hospitals were blown up, schools were burned, water supplies were contaminated. Still images showed clear shots of three of the individuals - Frederick Lensherr and Maria Novikova. Another image showed Raynor, identified as Raynor Baldursen / Ragnarok, using some large device spewing noxious fumes.

Raynor flinched ever so slightly, seeing the picture of himself. He remembered that day clearly. It hadn't bothered him then. He couldn't remember when the guilt had started, when he began waking up in cold sweats, tormented with nightmares over his past actions. He knew that he deserved to be in this interrogation room - but no one else did. He didn't even know if Sparky was okay. If neither of them made it home, who would take care of little Zarina - who would raise their daughter?

"Too hard to look at?" Rambeau asked him. "You sterilized every human citizen of the Iron that day. You did that and it can't be undone."

"... I know," Raynor said, avoiding Rambeau's eye. "And I'd do it again in a heartbeat," he lied.

Ω Heroes of Olympus: The Next Age of Heroes Ω

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Nancy didn't appreciate her emotions being messed with, even though she knew the situation was getting out of control. If it had been anyone other than Niah who had done that, it would've been the start of a long grudge. She hoped Mads didn't regret sharing her secret with the Greeks - and Nancy almost wished Mads had kept it to herself. It would've made it easier for Nancy's secret deal with Apollo to be kept under wraps, as her father made her promise to not tell anyone about him going to her half-brother to get a cure for Mads made. Nancy snorted slightly as Chiron said that all of this was devised by someone wanting to create a rift. "Uh huh," she said. She didn't buy it. Things were always like this with the Greeks anyways.

Ezekiel continued to argument, and had Niah's forced calm not been in effect, Nancy would've exploded at him again. "If you had listened, the eidolon we encountered was non-violent. We weren't attacked. There was no attack to report to you. And I'm not apologizing for us meeting to approve the quests with the Senate without you all. If that's going to be a problem, let me know now, and we'll be gone by first light." She had put the ball more or less in the Greeks court - if they continued to berate them for the Roman way of doing things, then this alliance was over. "And you, again, there was no attack to report, it was a non-violent possession, if you need a messenger for every little thing like that, then we expect the same in return... Wait, we did tell your messenger - the graecus who came to tell us about this meeting came to the Senate. We told him and asked him to tell Chiron since we would be delayed due to it."

At least the ginger seemed to be somewhat reasonable - although Nancy couldn't for the life of her remember her name. There were so many of them.

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Location: Camp Half-blood: Arena
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Leda's ears were ringing. "Guess the Real Housewives of New Rome just got renewed for another season," she commented, chuckling a little bit about Kiera's comment about Ares kids. From what she could tell, the screamer had been the Apollo girl, one of Rome's leaders. It made sense to Leda that Apollo's kids were over dramatic and easy to anger - take Zeke, for example. He loved to blow up over things and was generally not a great person to be around. She still couldn't believe she had actually gone on a quest with him and Kristin, the thought made her want to take a disinfecting bath. "Ten drachmas says a fight breaks out before the quests start?" Leda wagered.

She didn't particularly want to go on over there either. Thanks to the sound boost, she had heard the screaming words of the praetor - it seemed like there was just generic drama going on over there, people arguing about little things, and bringing up other things randomly in order to land more attacks. Leda's only motivation to potentially go on over would be in order to get the good gossip, but with everyone present, the gossip was going to spread easily anyways. And she could pretty much see everything happening from here. "Just peachy, thanks," she told Zeke as he came over, asking how they were. "You and your sis make a good show."

🌠 Once Upon A Time 🌠(Concluded)

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Skills: Medical Science

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Jack was Megan's brother - it was part of her job to tease him. Her first instinct, even when seeing that he was feeling wounded from her remarks, was to follow up on them with, "of course, you make a lovely human shield," she said softly. She then rolled her eyes at him. "Yes, I know you are handy in a fight, brother of mine," she then reassured him. She wasn't the most warm or nurturing of people and she wasn't used to Jack needing that sort of validation from her. It was probably just a bunch of emotions from everything going on - emotions that Megan, at least she claimed, did not share. She didn't have any reason to be upset or angry or nervous or even happy about all of this, nope, not a single reason at all.

The pirates were firing at them, Hansel and Gretel diving into the water, and Megan ducked her head down, trying to avoid the bullets flying their way. She felt relieved when none pierced her and their guides, soaking wet, scrambled up into the boat without anyone capsizing. That's when she saw the blood blossoming from Sierra's wound. As a medical examiner, Megan had gone to medical school, completing all of the required units and rotations, including one in emergency surgery. "I'm a doctor, let me help her," Megan said, using her words to more or less shoo everyone else away. She made her way carefully over to Sierra, ripping some strips of cloth off of her own clothing and using them to put pressure on Sierra's wound, stopping the bleeding. She managed to stabilize her. "You'll live, although you'll want to clean the bandages regularly once we have one, infections are a nasty way to die - colorful, but painful."

The Gifted - Concluded

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Genosha: July 31st, 2021 - 6:00 AM

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Veil

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There were days where Polaris felt the highest highs - and the lowest lows. The melancholy she was trapped inside was so intense, her first instinct had been to become numb to it, to shut out the world. But with the others gathered around her, with Moneta reassuring her that it would be okay, Polaris cracked. She started to laugh ever so slightly. "I'm fine. I would've been horrible at it," she said, crying at the same time.

Magneto was not stupid by any means - with Elixir's words, he caught onto what had happened too. And inside of him, a white hot fury ignited once more, as he clenched his fists. His daughter had survived, but his unborn grandchild had been a victim of this genocide. No more, he had vowed. And he had failed. He couldn't bear to look at Polaris, to see the symbol of his failure.

Where are we needed next? Veil thought, hoping that the Three in One would pick up her thoughts. She didn't really know if thinking louder or not would do anything to help or hinder a telepath - it was pure guesswork how that worked. Unaware of the difficulties the rest of the island was having with contacting them, Veil was overwhelmed with a quick series of feelings, not images. Fear. Helplessness. Pain.

"Something's wrong with the Three in One, they... they're afraid, I think," Veil said. "I don't know where they want us to go but... Hellfire Manor is as good a place as any to start, right?"

"I'll bring us there," Aurora said, acting on impulse. A second later, the group would be standing outside of Hellfire Manor.

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Selene slurped up the remaining ghosts, but it was clear that it was somewhat of a stopgap measure, as Casper was still surrounded in an eerie blue glow. Selene, for her part, was absolutely fascinated - pleased, even. "The boy is a portal to the other realms, one that I see now cannot be closed by any other being beyond himself," she observed. "To think of the cosmic multitudes of unharvested souls on the other side..." Her eyes flashed in the direction of Andy, as a duplicitous smile graced her face. "I have studied the arcane arts since time immemorial," she continued, before grasping Casper's face in her hand. "Expergiscimini!" Selene commanded in Latin.

Casper's eyes snapped open, his pupils strangely glowing blue. "Wh-wh-what?" Casper stammered, trying to force himself up into a sitting position, seeing Echo's clones encircling him and Selene hovering over him, her breasts more or less right in his face. "Your tits are out...." Casper began to say, before trailing off. "Wait, wh-where's Ben? Ben? BEN?!" Casper screamed, looking for his emotional support ghost/friend.

Pixie was looking at James in confusion, wondering which crown he meant. He didn't sound British to her, neither did Maria, so she was coming up completely blank. "Is he like... okay?" Pixie then asked, nodding slightly at James. He didn't seem like himself. She had seen him around Genosha for a while and he was usually pretty happy and nice and friendly even. It was like someone had turned him into a completely different person.

Sunshine was holding onto Marrow rather tightly, even as Marrow's healing factor had her largely healed by now. She helped her wife up to a standing position, before taking stock of the situation. Casper was awake and screaming for Ben, clearly panicking - Pixie was flying up above them all, her wings fluttering almost uncertainly. "Casper, stop it, we already dealt with enough ghosts," Sunshine said bluntly. She hadn't heard much of what James had been saying, so Sunshine didn't really know there was something majorly wrong going on there - she had been focused on her own wife.

"Ben's always here though!" Casper insisted, as a handful of ghosts exploded out of him, only for Selene to more or less slurp them up instantly, Pixie stabbing the rest with her souldagger.

"Young man, as much as I find your endless supply of souls quite appetizing and rejuvenating, you must stop. You are a gateway, a portal, a being with which others may pass through - a mutant conduit - and as of such, only you have the power to close the portal. Do so or else we may have to take unfortunate, drastic measures."

"I... I can't!" Casper cried, as ten more ghosts exploded into being.

"You must!" Selene hissed.

Casper nodded slightly, his heart beating erratically as slowly, the blue glow faded from his eyes, and the ghosts vanished.

"Much better," Selene praised.

The doors then opened, revealing Magneto & company. Magneto's eyes were ablaze with fury. "Where are Reeva and the Three in One?" he shouted.

X-Men: Cosmic Crusades 👽

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Location: Nearing Baldur's Hall
Skills: Darkness Manipulation, Darkness Constructs

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Runa nodded slightly at what Mary said - she imagined her mother would understand and likely be more preoccupied with what had happened to Forseti than to her flowers. "I'm sure she would appreciate that," Runa told Mary. Runa sent out tendrils of darkness to bind her brother, managing to partially ensnare him as he continued his tirade against Midgardians. "I stand by Midgardians as I would by any sentient creature," Runa reminded him. She wasn't like Thor. She had never had a soft spot for Midgard. If it hadn't been for her love of Lance, she wouldn't have had much interest in the planet - certainly not more than any other person on Asgard.

"You know this is not just," Runa answered, as Forseti asked her why she was trying to stop him. The monsters Forseti had summoned were sending the X-Men flying around, yet swerving to avoid her. She couldn't deny that Forseti was behind all of this - and that her elder brother was trying to protect her, even as he was consumed by this madness and rage. She didn't want to hurt him. Runa used the darkness ensnaring him to pull him towards her - she was hoping that the stone would be visible in his hand and she could just take it from him, but she didn't see it. She wanted to ensnare him further in darkness, but it was impossible to bind him. "This pains me, brother," she said softly, before swinging her staff and hitting him as hard in the head as she could. It was a painfully strong blow, as her brother's head began to bleed, but he was still conscious. Runa hit him in the head again, but it wasn't as strong as the first.

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Location: Nearing Baldur's Hall
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Jumanji? I guess, but this is definitely off-brand for that franchise, although the newer movies are moving away from the jungle setting so who knows, maybe they'll head to Japan and have kaiju attacks in the next one? Guin was pretty used to having telepathic conversations with Pietro, but it was a little strange to be facilitating a group chat among the X-Men. She had left Runa out of the conversation mostly because she had started this in order to talk about how Runa's brother seemed like bad news - and she didn't think Runa necessarily wanted to hear stuff like that.

Of course, idle chitchat didn't mix very well with kaiju. One of the kaiju let out a shriek and swung its tail, colliding into Guin and she went flying. For a split second, she was stunned that Pietro hadn't intervened to catch her - he was usually overprotective like that - maybe this was character growth on his part? She didn't have much time to ponder it as she hit the ground hard, her body scraped up and battered, and she could already feel the bruises forming. I'll keep trying to shut him down. And if I had a suit, I'd use the suit, Guin then said into the group chat, forcing her aching body to get up into a seated position, and then to rise up so she was standing.

Guin slowly walked in the direction of Forseti, concentrating as best as she could on telepathically attacking his mind, to bypass the barriers she had felt earlier. The barrier was as strong as ever and she couldn't get through. She stopped walking, standing still now, and tried again, and for a split second, she was inside. Guin did her best to do as much damage as she could, but he tossed her out again quickly enough. And try as she may, she wasn't able to get back in.

Agents of SHIELD - Concluded

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EARTH 257 - 4:20 AM Nov. 14th, 2021 - S.W.O.R.D. HQ, the Iron

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Interrogation Room A1 - Oliver, Niah, Bonnie, Celestine -

Bonnie couldn't help but be curious as to what it was Niah wanted to share with Sparky, but she understood why Niah had stopped talking - they couldn't trust this agent who had walked into the room. He was dressed in a white collared shirt, khakis, and a dark navy jacket with a sword looking logo on the chest that Bonnie didn't recognize. It was unfortunate (or maybe secretly for the best?) that they didn't have Raynor with them - he might've been able to identify it. She didn't touch the coffee that he brought for them, mostly because she didn't trust it not have been tampered with (who knew what sort of drugs this weird 1984 like state would use in interrogations) and she was pregnant - caffeine wasn't great for a developing fetus.

"Actually, the coffee was free - well, one of them was, I finally filled up my stamp card," Agent Woo said, laughing ever so slightly at his own joke. Bonnie kept waiting for some sort of tell, something to tip off that he was the manipulative mastermind Oliver was implying, but she didn't see anything suspicious. He was either an incredibly good actor or just being... genuine? "And oh boy, I can try, but history was not my best subject. I was more of a band geek."

Bonnie couldn't help but do a slight double take as Celestine told the agent about everything about them, directly contradicting what Oliver had just said and the rest of them had more or less agreed on. "... Like Celestine said, we're from another reality and we're here on a purely peaceful extraction mission to apprehend two wanted criminals," Bonnie said. Celestine had already come clean, so there was no sense in hiding any information from the agent. "We're the good guys, agent. As soon as we catch Luminous and Doom, we'll go back to our own reality."

Agent Woo paused for a moment, before he started chuckling, shaking his head as he took a sip of his coffee. "I wasn't born yesterday, but nice cover story. It's much more original than what we usually hear. What are you, a Genoshan terrorist cell? As it stands, you're only implicated in the kidnapping of Lana Banner - but if you don't come clean, it'll only get worse for you."

"Lana Banner? We have no idea who that is," Bonnie said, her eyes narrowed slightly. "We didn't kidnap anyone, if you look at one of the numerous drones you'll see us appear seemingly out of nowhere I suspect, and if you rewind a fair bit, you should see the two individuals we mentioned - Luminous and Doom - appear before us."

Interrogation Room B9 - Sparky, Cass, Amelia -

"Huh, so if I fought them, teaming up with like Matt and Oliver, it'd be Inhumans versus X-Men right?" Amelia posed randomly to herself. Amelia was confident that that little bit of information wasn't something bad for her to reveal in front of the agent - but to be fair, she more of just said whatever came to her mouth anyways. There was a reason she was a pilot and not an interrogator herself. Of course, the agent seemed just as qualified as Amelia to run an interrogation, as bits of breakfast burrito fell onto the table in front of her and Darcy frantically tried to clean up her mess.

"Honestly, they didn't tell me," Darcy informed Cass with a shrug. "But! I can answer where you are. And if I can't answer, the suits watching the screens better come in here and stop me, as I'M NOT QUALIFIED FOR THIS!" Darcy then fell silent, using her fingers to count down from five. "Well, no one came in to stop me, so you're at S.W.O.R.D.'s HQ - we call it the Keep or well, I call it the Keep since it kinda looks like the tower of a castle and just Tower sounds kinda laaaame."

"Yeah, Keep is wicked cool, completely agree with you there. I used to think that the keeper in like sports and all had to be born in a castle or otherwise they wouldn't be allowed to have that position, since it's the keeper, not the non-keeper y'know?" Amelia chimed in. She had taken some mandatory courses on being under interrogation before at the academy and her instructor had more or less recommended to Amelia that her best (and only) strategy would be to ramble away on things completely irrelevant. Amelia could handle that.

"Kaaay, no, but we are going to pick up this plot thread later. What's your star sign? Wait, let me guess - Gemini!"

"Sorry, mate, I'm a virgo actually - naturally a badass and all," Amelia answered. "What about you... Pisces?" Amelia guessed.

Darcy's eyes widened. "I am! Okay, sorry, getting waaay off topic here. From what they told me, you all were arrested for tampering with the DNA scanners at the metro, fighting the Iron Legion, using powers without a license, and operating without chain codes. So, like, wanna tell me your side of that entire crazy story? Like, how do you get an Avenger, an illegal clone, and a long lost baby alongside the old leader of the Dark X-Men? It's like someone designed what happened with a dart board or something crazy."

Interrogation Room Z11 - Matt, Maria, Raynor, Flynn -

Raynor raised a slight eyebrow when Matt mentioned Asgardians taking over Norway - that had happened in this reality. Raynor had been a part of that. After Ragnarok destroyed their home planet, they conquered a sizable portion of Midgard and resettled, preserving the Asgardian way of life on this planet. The Norns had told them that Baldur would return and Asgard would be remade, but it never happened - so they had to make do. Midgard was as good an option as any.

"Citizens of the Iron are allowed lawyers - terrorists are not. Given that most of your group is part of the Dark X-Men and are wanted for serious crimes against the Iron, including the genocide he committed, none of you will be getting lawyers," Rambeau said sharply. She pointed at Raynor during her answer and rather than look back at her defiantly, guilt flashed over Raynor's face.

He had committed genocide here - the very reason he never wanted to return to this place. He liked to think that he wasn't that person anymore, that he had matured and evolved into something better, but he didn't know whether or not that was true. He was the god of lies, but he could still lie to himself. "You can't make us talk. There are no telepaths in the Iron," Raynor asserted, hoping that things hadn't changed - a little over twenty years ago, all the telepaths on Midgard were mutants.

Rambeau waited for Raynor (and Flynn) to finish, before speaking again. "I see this is going to be the hard way," she said flatly. She didn't give any indication as to what was she was going to do differently now, though. "Why did you teleport to the Iron this morning? Ragnarok, you haven't been spotted in over two decades, and you, our intel indicates that you belong to MI13 across the pond."

"We wanted to get good coffee," Raynor told Rambeau, obviously lying, but he couldn't force her to believe the lie thanks to the collar on him. "The coffee in Genosha tastes like plants."