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[Carol is seated in front of her console, in civvies. Actually, sitting might be the wrong term. She's more floating a few inches above her chair, legs crossed. She does this sometimes without thinking when she's sitting. She looks mostly unbothered by this whole thing. A little frustrated maybe but at most it seems to be a minor inconvenience]
So. Alternate universes are a bitch, huh? Or whatever you'd classify this as. You would think whatever bigger power it is you believe in would have decided by now that this has happened to me enough but I guess not. Oh well, what can you do? [Said oh so casually like she has just seen way too much of of this shit. Which she has. Weird happenings are sort of a thing in her life ]
Anyway, alternate universe craziness aside, my name's Carol. Nice to meet you guys. Under the circumstances and all. I'm sure you hear stuff like this a lot but let's just get this out of the way first: What's the progress on not being here anymore?
And while I'm asking things, how many people here are from Earth? Better yet, who here has heard of the Avengers, the X Men or Captain America? Or who knows anything about superheroes at all, even if it's not any of the things I just mentioned? Let's just say I want to know for my own reference.
[She'd also like to see just how many people ended up here from her world. Or a world similar to hers. Having more superheroes around never hurt. She pauses and glances off to the side, looking at something intensely for a minute as if considering something very important before turning back to the console]
Unrelated but can the fires around here actually burn things? Just, you know, curious.
So. Alternate universes are a bitch, huh? Or whatever you'd classify this as. You would think whatever bigger power it is you believe in would have decided by now that this has happened to me enough but I guess not. Oh well, what can you do? [Said oh so casually like she has just seen way too much of of this shit. Which she has. Weird happenings are sort of a thing in her life ]
Anyway, alternate universe craziness aside, my name's Carol. Nice to meet you guys. Under the circumstances and all. I'm sure you hear stuff like this a lot but let's just get this out of the way first: What's the progress on not being here anymore?
And while I'm asking things, how many people here are from Earth? Better yet, who here has heard of the Avengers, the X Men or Captain America? Or who knows anything about superheroes at all, even if it's not any of the things I just mentioned? Let's just say I want to know for my own reference.
[She'd also like to see just how many people ended up here from her world. Or a world similar to hers. Having more superheroes around never hurt. She pauses and glances off to the side, looking at something intensely for a minute as if considering something very important before turning back to the console]
Unrelated but can the fires around here actually burn things? Just, you know, curious.
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You seem popular today, I'll letcha go. [He slumps a little in the seat, though more tiredly than anything, elbows on his thighs; the let-loose pose of someone who's so used to standing military straight most of the time. He still sits that way sometimes, in a distant future he doesn't know.]
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Hang on a sec? Can you....[She fiddles around a bit and finally manages to private the damn thing]
Bucky?
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Impossible for a guy to lay low around here with you people carryin' on, y'know that?
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...I realize this is probably weird for you. I mean, some woman you've never met knowing you. Sorry about that. We know each other better in the future when you're older.
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It happens more often than you'd think. [He says tightly, double-checking the encryption.] Nice try, though. I don't get older.
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What do you mean you "don't get older"?
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Holy shit, Bucky. Yeah, you die. But you come back. No one's mentioned that to you?
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...I don't think I want any of this on the network. [He sounds a little distant when he says it, though he clearly needs to hear more. He can't avoid it, people already know more about him than he does.]
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Do you want to know at all? Because I can meet you somewhere if you do.
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He pauses for a second, glances off to the side. Does he want to meet with this dame? Not really, but at the same time, he hates being the last one in the dark, especially when it comes to this.] Wood Sector. [And then he gives the name of a little cafe there before he switches off the feed. She can come find him.]
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Wood sector. I'll be there. [She takes a deep breath when he cuts the feed, covering her face with her hands for a minute. God, how the hell is this gonna go? She doesn't think the answer to that is "well". But she gets up and wanders into the cafe a bit later anyway, looking for Bucky]
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He's waiting in the cafe when she gets there, seated comfortably at a back table with a cup of weak coffee, wearing his uniform pants, boots, and a plain white t-shirt. The costume is a little conspicuous, he's saving it for a worthwhile occasion. He's sitting casually, but he's got a knife hidden in his boot, and he can easily bend over to get it if he runs into trouble.]
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So. Hey. I'm here like I said I would be. [He looks so young. How can this really be the Bucky she knows?]
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You wanna tell me why you're the next in a long line of people playin' sick jokes on a dead guy here?
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Sick joke? Why would I do that? I've got better things to do than tell someone he's alive when he's not. I'm telling you the truth.
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Toro, right? Because I've talked to him and he's from like 1950 something so from his point of view, you are dead. You haven't come back yet for him. But I'm from 2011 and you're definitely back. I just saw you not that long ago. [When Sin killed you. MOVING ON]
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'49, actually. And frankly, ma'am, that's impossible, considerin' I went down in an explosion over the water. It's not the kinda thing you walk away from.
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Yeeeeeeah, here's the thing though. Science is weird. The world we come from is weird. People come back from the dead, there are aliens living on Earth, mutants, people with superpowers, alternate Earths...all that crap. I mean, look at Cap. He's not exactly a normal human, is he? I've exploded before too. I came back.
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Cap's a super-soldier. I'm not. [Which he's had rubbed into his face way, way too many times in the last four years with the Invaders.]
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I know that. Lots of heroes don't have powers. Doesn't mean they can't do things. [She sighs and runs a hand through her hair] Look, let me just......okay, would it help if I tell you how you come back? Or maybe show you my superpowers, so you at least know I'm telling the truth about that?
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And I also know that better than anybody, lady. The point is, I'm not a super-soldier, or an Atlantean, or an android, or a guy with fire powers, and people like me don't walk away from point-blank explosions. [Basically, 'I'm a regular human being, so I'm not going to believe I'm alive through what I went through'.] So yeah, I'm not gonna believe it until you tell me how the hell I managed to survive that and why my best friend doesn't know about it.
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Okay, fine. So, the explosion. You were blasted into the water. The thing is, the water was freezing cold. You were frozen and the ice preserved you. Years later they pulled you out of the ice and thawed you out. [Wow that sounds like bullshit. Marvel universe why the fuck do you exist] Which I know sounds stupid but it's what happened. There's probably some crazy scientific explanation for it but I'm not a scientist. Anyway, after you were thawed, it turns out you were alive. The ice preserved you. The explosion blew your arm off so they gave you a cybernetic replacement. [Just gonna....leave out the whole Winter Soldier thing]
And the reason Toro doesn't know this is because it hasn't happened for him yet. He's from way back in the past. They don't find you for...a long time, from his time point.
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...The same thing happened to Cap, right?
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