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Avengers Academy: Junior Year 💥

Mary Sue Sullivan

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Location: Framework Area
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As Bonus Mary Sue was pulled away, and the phone was passed to The Original Mary Sue. She was visibly nervous at this. She knew her mom would be mostly on her side, but if here dad heard about this... the future might not be too bright for Mary Sue. Dialing in Niah's number with a shaky hand, she led straight into the call with a
"Hi mom. I'm okay. I uh... somebody tried to kill us, and I think I time traveled? There's two of me. Have you run into that?"
Levity, that was surely the way through this situation; present the news, then pivot to something spectacular, surely that wou-
"We will come get you from school. Break is coming up anyway. As for your question I haven't run into duplicates due to time travel. My only experience I traveled to the 80s before I was born."
May Sue's heart skipped a beat, darn it. She gave a sharp exhale before continuing
"It's... Really okay! I'm fine! Nobody died, so we're through the worst of it. I can finish out here until break, I promise."
Her tone was bright, but obviously nervous. She didn't want to leave her, she liked it here, even if the stress was killing her a little.
"You'll be able to go back after break. I promise. But we need to see you. I want to hear the whole story as well. And I know as soon as your dad hears about this he isn't going to take no for an answer. Your options are come home now and go back after break or risk not being able to go back at all."
Mary Sue's face was frowning. Ultimatums were unfair, but what was she to do? This was a lose state, and she gave a clipped
"Fine."
"Thank you. Ill see you tomorrow. I love you."
"I love you too."

With that, she closed the phone. It was by this time that herself had walked away, and she wondered if Bonus Mary Sue would have a similar interaction with Bonus Niah in the Bonus timeline. Would it be weird for her to say she felt a pang of sadness as she realized she would never see herself again? Time travel was weird.

Avengers Academy: Junior Year 💥

Mary Sue Sullivan

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Location: Framework Area
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Magical healing was absolutely a new feeling, and as new blood filled her body and holes began to patch themselves Mary Sue tried to steady herself. Physical wounds, of course, could be healed any which way (or in this case, any witch way.), but with the way her education was going, Mary Sue had to make sure she was made of tougher stuff. It was hard to internalize that brutal injury was on the table, and that she'd have to keep getting up every time she endured it. Upon being asked about which parent to call, her and bonus Mary Sue made a brief, nauseous bit of eye contact, before quickly deciding that obviously this was a "let mom know and pray she didn't tell dad" kind of situation, and simultaneously rattled off Niah's contact info.

Bonus Mary Sue, if not for the absurdity and terror of the current situation, would have been absolutely losing her mind at being surrounded by the heroes she adored, but things had honestly become surreal and difficult to process at this point. The vertigo was still awful, and at this point, she wanted her friends to be able to take her where she had to go to close the loop. This almost felt like the sort of thing they should have classes on, but it was maybe an edgecase, so that might not be generally applicable.

Avengers Academy: Junior Year 💥

Mary Sue Sullivan

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Location: Framework Area
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One moment, Mary Sue was pondering the complexities of time travel, the next, she was quite literally gut shot. It was at a time like this that a hero that was more trained, or experienced, or who had been mortally wounded before would be something to try to save themselves, but unfortunately, Mary Sue was none of those things. She collapsed on the floor, trying not to hyperventilate. The most she knew was that if she tried to pull it out, she might die from the blood loss, so it had to stay in. One bright side was that it took agonizingly long to die from an injury like this, the bad side was that it was going to hurt like a bitch as it dragged her to death's door.

Bonus Mary Sue, on the other hand, was looking incredibly concerned at her purported future self. Her voice was filled with worry, and she asked, as Andy dragged her away. "If... if she dies do I die?" She had no idea what emotions she was supposed to feel about this. Could she have empathy for herself? Should she be scared? Human brains weren't designed for this. The emotional maelstrom that was rolling through her were ineffable. Why wasn't she doing anything or trying to save herself? It felt like, if there was one thing she knew she felt, it was disappointment.

Avengers Academy: Junior Year 💥

Mary Sue Sullivan

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Location: Framework Area
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Waves of nausea crashed over both of the Mary Sue's as the laws of time themselves wracked their way through her very being. Why the consequences of being a time criminal seemed to impart stomach issues was something she had no understanding off, but both of her did what she could to avoid eye contact with her double. "If that's the case," Ms. Sullivan began, hating the sound of her own voice in her ears, "Maybe I should go collect bonus Andy and Zari, while you two keep an eye on her?" Mary Sue suggested, "Or would we be affected by this... time sickness regardless?"

Bonus Mary Sue wasn't doing much better either, and was incredibly confused by the situation in front of her. Her dad had, perhaps in one of his more delirious moments warned her about skrulls before, and their penchant for copying other people, but she didn't think that was what was going on here. Did they say they were time travelers? Future versions of her and her friends? "Hey, if there's anything I can do" She forced out, staggering back a bit, "Please feel free to let me know." Her eyes bulged a bit, borderline incapacitated from the sickness she was experiencing.

Avengers Academy: Junior Year 💥

Mary Sue Sullivan

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Location: Back! To the future!
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Mary Sue's eyes widened as she found whe self traveling backwards in time. This was something that she knew little about, her mom had managed to do it ones though? She'd have to ask for more information later. She was moderately afraid of tripping over a rock and destroying the fabric of time itself, but this was so far out of her wheelhouse that she really just tried not think about it. Zari had this on lock, a technopath with thirty minutes to spare could probably make a flashlight into a musical instrument after all, they were safe and she knew it.

As people awake from their stupor though, she wasn't one of the ones quick to violence. She'd had a little more time to process after all, and she knew killing Arcade would be easy, just, at the same time, pointless. Setting aside the fact that murdering a fellow classmate was a surefire way to get kicked out of the upcoming tournament, if not the school all together, he simply didn't deserve to die; the Arcade that almost killed them was, categorically, not this Arcade. They were never really in any danger, and though she knew that he would have killed them if given the chance, he still deserved a chance to get better and learn from this experience.

Avengers Academy: Junior Year 💥

Mary Sue Sullivan

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Location: Phantasmagoria -> IRL
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Death. Death was coming and there was almost nothing she could do to stop it. She could feel pain breaking through almost every corner of her body. She knew Dorian had pulled them into the Astral plane to try to save them, but it didn't work, and they were still at risk. She knew this wasn't real, that her body was in some tank somewhere, and that however it was connected to her brain, it was about to fry her brainstem and turn her into a corpse. She closed her eyes and tried to find the center of herself, believing that her mind was in both of these places, virtual and real, and she just had to pick which to target.

Then, at just the right moment, she was hit with a surge of power, and she knew that that was the moment. She wasn't a physicist, but she knew that wherever her constructs formed, they took up space. Displacing air wasn't a problem, it would move out of the way, but water in a sealed container? It should shatter. And it did, in a snap, her body was reunited with her mind, and she could see her body was surging with some odd power. She wanted to use it, to save her friends, and so she held her hands out to try to crush the monster that was killing them, but she collapsed to her knees in weakness. She gasped for air and felt the oxygen burn down her lungs. Sputtering and spitting up fluid, she realized she'd just come closer to death than ever before.

Avengers Academy: Junior Year 💥

Mary Sue Sullivan

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Location: Phantasmagoria.
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Mary Sue knew that, even for all her provocations, Gideon was likely in real danger right now, and she absolutely didn't want her to get hurt. Going to face this thing directly seemed like the more dangerous of the two options, and so she favored summoning it directly. "Here, Sabine, can I see your salt?" She asked, before taking it from her, and moving towards the door to lay a line across the entryway. "Let's bring it in here, trap it, and then be ready to leave the room if it gets violent. Hopefully then we get it away from Gideon and can safely regroup"

After laying the line of salt down, she looked to Dorian, "Does that sound like a reasonable plan? I still don't really understand all the mechanics here, but between Gideon and those steps outside..." She started to say before drawing a breath, clearly nervous at the situation they found themselves in, "I think it's better that we act rather than wait for something to happen to us. That way, we might be able to at least exert some control over what's happening here."

Avengers Academy: Junior Year 💥

Mary Sue Sullivan

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Location: Phasmophobia
Skills: N/A

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Looking at the music box, Mary Sue pursed her lips. She knew she was at one life, and she knew that she didn't know nearly enough about this game to be taking risks. She turned to Dorian and said, "Any idea what that is?" Looking it up and down, she felt real fear for a moment, and considered if she should maybe go out to investigate it herself. Heroes had to risk their lives to do what they did, true, but smart heroes, she thought, didn't take unnecessary risks. Jumping off cliffs wasn't heroic, it was stupid, and patience was what would be rewarded here.

Mary Sue didn't at all like the Gideon went off on her own. What was the point of that? From the scary movies she'd watched with Andy, she knew that the single worst thing you could do in the entire genre of horror was go off on your own. She didn't like Gideon from the way she'd been acting, but she also didn't want her to get hurt. She hoped that, perhaps, they could wait here for her to come back before moving forward, not wanting to stay separated for too long.

Avengers Academy: Junior Year 💥

Mary Sue Sullivan

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Location: Phasmophobia
Skills: N/A

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Mary Sue couldn't help but raise an eyebrow, however slightly, at the complaint that there wasn't a gun. She couldn't imagine a fire arm being particularly useful against something without a body. An afterlife where she was unable to interact with the world, save for bullets seemed like the sort of experience that could only be conceived by a cruel and vindictive God. Mary Sue really didn't consider herself the smartest, and maybe it was just the recent near death experience, but this really didn't seem like the sort of thing that was that hard to think through.

Mary Sue was however, incredibly thankful for Dorian. He really seemed to know what hew as talking about, and was very willing to share just about everything he knew about the game. She was making mental notes in her head where she could, even if it was a lot to take in all at once. She turned her head at the fact that there had been no danger as of yet, "Shouldn't we count ourselves lucky that nothing has happened yet?" She asked. Especially if there was a chance the ghost was friendly, that gave them ample opportunity to come out of this situation unscathed.

Avengers Academy: Junior Year 💥

Mary Sue Sullivan

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Location: Phasmophobia
Skills: N/A

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As the world shifted around Mary Sue, she felt at peace for a moment, fairly confident that, if they were being loaded into a new game, they'd at least have a brief moment of reprieve. Games, she reasoned, typically didn't come out with things to kill you right out of the gate. She didn't know how they were actually going to get out of this situation, but that just meant they had to assume that it was going to last awhile. She was already down two lives, and that meant that she no longer had room for error. Now was the time for tactics, to try to understand their situation so they could take advantage of it.

Taking in the situation around them, Mary Sue was briefly reminded of a scary story her dad had told her once, where he and her mom had been forced to go toe to claw with a demon bear. That was the extent of what she knew about ghosts, but she considered that her indirect knowledge of the real supernatural wasn't particularly useful in the context of the video game. Mary Sue grabbed for a flashlight. "There are a lot of myths about salt protecting from ghosts; lines of salt blocking their entrance to an area." Mary Sue explained, absently, as she took the EMF detector and UV light, before heading out, sticking close to Dorian and Sabine,