The fact that you're world famous superheroes is why we've heard of you. [Victor offers a smile too, chuckling slightly at the freeze when it registers with him. It was something he noticed from Iceman back home too.] Long story short? The government went into extra-stupid mode and put a lunatic super villain in charge of pretty much everything. He did the crazy super villain thing so all of us mutants left the country to live on an island off the coast of San Francisco that used to be a space station before it crashed into the ocean. And we met him because our world's version of you wasn't there at the time and it was supposed to be some thing about living with obvious physical mutations.

[He takes a deep breath when Johnny turns to face him.]

It's better now than it was before.