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BILLY KAPLAN will be either a) flying/teleporting around or b) wandering through the chaos just wondering what the hell is going on; he's never seen this in Luceti before, and it's definitely something to look at. He'll be watching for familiar faces, definitely, or just poking at interesting-looking people.

EDWARD ELRIC is, surprise! Back from his kidnapping. Sort of. Temporarily. And he's trying to get himself home, but who knows what he'll run into on the way... eh-heh.

ASCH is in Good Spirits, mostly unruffled because he's been through like five years of this madness and refuses to get his feathers ruffled. But he will anyway, because he's like that. You might catch him outside as well, if he decides he's had enough and tries to drown himself in the lake or something. (This is entirely possible.)

[ooc: please put who you want to ping in the subject line or something, this is a catch-all! And Ed's just back for 4th Wall, his real return will be a few days after this. |Db]

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[That actually gets half a smile from Reed, but he shakes his head]

About you specifically? No. About all of it together? Yes. A lot of it.

[Some of it borderline violent...]

For what it's worth, I am sorry for what happened. The whole thing was just. Well. It was mismanaged, badly handled, and a botched bit of fearmongering. And I'm beginning to suspect that there was more at work than just that.

[Skrulls.]

[He's not surprised by that; people forget as soon as they go back, after all, and he's never met Susan Richards outside of Luceti. It's... sad for that fact to hit home, that apparently none of this matters in the long run, but he can't grieve it right now.]

I can't... really disagree with anything you've said. But it's nice to hear it acknowledged.

[There's no forgiveness to be found, but there is less hostility, and his nerves are soothed a little. It's just been hard to have the three main faces of "the enemy" back home be that of heroes he grew up idolizing.]

What do you mean, 'more work'?

[Reed shook his head]

People were acting off. Not just strange. Off. I've got a few theories, but nothing I can put any hard evidence behind. The entire thing, if you think back on it? It feels very orchestrated. I certainly never expected Steve and Tony to fight like that. Did you? Or for Hank to behave the way he did.

There's something more afoot here. And I can't help but feel all of us were manipulated somehow. It doesn't change what happened, that was wrong, but it does point to something larger at work. An unseen hand, dictating our every action.

[~~Reed, you're this meta even in comics. Stop.~~]

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[Thaaaat... he's less willing to go along with. Although it's true that he doesn't know the Avengers as well as he'd like to believe; he doesn't have all those years of history to back up the facts he's learned and what he's observed growing up.]

Isn't that kind of a convenient excuse after the fact?

[Reed shakes his head]

I'm not excusing the behavior. I'm calling it into question. The motivations behind it are...well, I suppose you could say they're in character. But the situation?

This is why it's only a theory.

[How very scientific.]

...Well, I guess it's one thing to look into when you get home.

[Scientific indeed.]

Yes, I suppose it is. Though I gather we don't remember what we've learned here. An odd thing. And by your tone earlier I wonder. Was my wife here before?

Oh- yeah, she was. She got here first, and then Ben showed up a few months later. She's been gone for a while now, though.

[He still misses her, admittedly, though he'd never say it's bad that she got to go home. They'd made the floor into a weird little mishmash of a family.]

I had no idea. I suppose she didn't either, after the fact.

[He rubs his chin, thoughtfully.]

Perplexing. But I know she'd have done her best to look after you if she could. Are there others from home trapped here? Ben was nonspecific.

From our universe, there's just us, a young Loki, and my teammates, Hulkling and Vision. But there's also Avengers and X-Men from at least two other universes.

Ah. Well.

[He stops and blinks.]

Vision? I was under the impression he was dismantled. And a young Loki? The Asgardians have returned from Ragnarok so quickly?

Ragnarok? I don't- we're probably from different timelines or something, that hasn't- Ragnarok, seriously?

[Good grief, his future is getting more and more complicated.]

Um- but Vision's kind of... hard to explain. He's a younger version, like the rest of the Young Avengers. He wasn't rebuilt, more like his memories were downloaded into a new body.

Yes, Ragnarok. The Norse End Times. Thor...returns not long after the...civil war...[He's reticent to call it that, but it is what it is]

I'm well versed in the concept of synthetic life forms. H.E.R.B.I.E. as you might recall, and Doombots. [He laughs weakly]

So. The Vision is in a new body, rebuilt with memories from his old databanks.

[As usual the future is insane.]

Not really rebuilt. His body started out as Kang the Conqueror's armor from the future.

Time travel was involved?

Somehow, I am not surprised...

[Action] Fourth Wall

Take the (Alpha) Flight path?

only if it's lit by at least Five Lights

Better than the Power Pack I suppose.

maybe save some damsels on the way? be Lady Liberators?

Yes, an verily shall come the Morlocs, to mess it all up...

it's okay, we're ready for the Nextwave

Are you sure? We kinda feel like New Warriors to me...

you can wear a SHIELD if you want

Rather have an extra SWORD

armed like that we'd be Champions

Or the Justice League, if you wanna get DC on all this.

SCREW DC THEY CANCEL THE GOOD SHIT :V

NAW MAN. I STILL LIKE SUPERMAN!

gimme young justice any day

Man, you're less fun than Batman Inc