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[Frankly, considering how used to playing punching bag he is back home, Pete's been able to largely ignore the still worsening view of him and the other outsiders on the turtle. That, and he figures it'll change again once resources aren't so scarce. But one thing he's not over is something he'd been noticing after several days in Atam.]

Does anybody else want to get as far away from this place as possible? I don't mean the turtle, either. Something about the mainland feels...wrong. Like, creepy Orwellian kind of wrong.

[Someone may or may not have asked about that central stockade. And noticed how nobody his age or younger was running around the city. It was hard to say which one creeped him out more, really...]

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Do you have any other plans for dealing with a city ruled the way that one is? I mean, I really doubt it's just a case of a few supervillains hiding in the shadows and terrorizing the populace when we aren't looking.

[Plus, if their emperor is any indication of how interested in the public welfare the average ruling class is in this world...]

I don't mean by the kedan, I meant by us. Other outsiders. Honestly? Getting fired from my job's been pretty tolerable in comparison.

[Yup, he's still got a pretty big chip on his shoulder, Wayne B|]

And I'm not saying you should stop helping, I'm saying you should focus on helping out here, not on the mainland. At least here you've got a better chance of doing some good.

Well, no worries there, seeing as how I never made it past the blood tests.

...wait, who else's been giving you a hard time?

Not really a hard time, just the brush off. And it was Wayne. I'm hoping Stark will at least give me a chance to help out around his labs while we try to figure this out.

[Which is something he never thought he'd say out loud, ever.]

I got the 'there's liability issues' line when I tried getting permission to help out in Wayne Enterprise's labs while they go over some water samples. I'd think the risk we could all run out of food, or that whatever's infecting the turtle might manage to mutate into a strain capable of infecting us would be a more serious risk than workplace liability, but I guess not everybody agrees.

[Her mouth opens to comment, remains open in faint surprise, then closes again.]

Wayne. As in...Bruce Wayne.

[Not really the name she had been expecting. Then again, with his reputation--or, at least, the reputation she knew of from her world--she can't say she's all that surprised he would turn away a teenager.]

[She wouldn't say as much aloud, of course, because that would just piss Peter off even further. The conversation was already going so well, after all.]

If it's research you want to do, I might know a few other people you could ask.

Yeah. The first one, assuming the other version's still around.

[Because hooray for alternate universes.]

And I'm open to suggestions. I've already had a few months experience interning at ESU's genetics lab under Dr. Connors, if it helps. So I'm more than familiar with how important safety is.

[Because seriously, four words: genetically modified electric eels. As a power source.]

I only ever met the one. His son, Dick, is one of my suitemates.

[Speaking of Alternate Universes....]

Well, I don't know much about that sort of thing, but I do have a few people who're into the whole science scene. There's Wally, for one. He's from my world. And I know Kara's been doing a lot of research on her own, too. Kara's my...um...

["Friend who may or may not actually be from my world, except she's also an alternate universe version"]

...it's a long story.

[Interpret that one at will.]

I've already met Wally. Well, before, anyway. I don't know if the one that's here now is the same one or not, since when he came back he didn't seem to remember he'd been here before.

[Pete had actually avoided talking to him for that very reason. He just wasn't really sure where to pick up, because he doubted this Wally remembered him. Which actually makes its way into his first guess at why Zee's having trouble explaining who Kara is.]

Does the story involve alternate universes? Because there's a lot of that going around.

Something like that, yeah.

And it's the same Wally. His memories are a little...not there...but it's him. I'll vouch, if you need it.

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