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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.

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I was gonna say, alternate universe is the only way it makes sense. Unless your grandmother happens to be a Russian spy and that's a whole other weird can of worms that I don't think I'm mentally prepared for. [Nat with children.....]

Oh, yeah. Speed mentioned that. A Cap who isn't our Cap....that's gonna be weird. I'm willing to bet he won't have any idea who I am. [Just the thought of Cap not knowing her kind of hurts. She's not sure how she's gonna handle that]

[ Rikki blinks at the camera for a second or two. ] You mean Black Widow? They were...? [ Nope. Nope nope nope. She already knows more than she ever wanted to about her alternate grandparents and their love lives, and the last thing she needs is more weirdness on that front to wrap her head around. ] No, definitely not.

[ She smiles a little sympathetically at that last comment from Carol. ] Probably not. His Avengers got started... pretty recently, so his team's kind of small. And he's younger than the one back home. But he's great. He's... well. He's Cap.

A thing? Sort of. I mean, as much as those two can ever be a couple with anyone, you know? [Yeah it's weird to her too and she doesn't know much about it but more than she would like to]

Yeah, I've heard. Man.... [Yup, this is gonna be weird. She already doesn't know what to do] Well, Cap is Cap, right? I can't imagine he....changes much.