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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 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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...Yeah. Same thing happened to him. They found him a little before you. Now you're both members of a team of heroes called the Avengers. Actually, Cap was one of the ones who built the Avengers.
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How long before? Namor's cousin Nita knows about Steve but not me, and I got the impression he'd been around as far as she knew for a while already.
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It wasn't, actually. No one knew about it for a while. The government stuck a new kid in my tights to fool the people.
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I meant for Steve. It was a big deal for him.
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...Yeah, well, he'd get over it. [He just kind of shrugs uncomfortably and stares into his coffee.] So if you supposedly know me, why didn't you recognize me?
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You were older than this when I met you. You look different. And to be fair, most of the time I see you, you have your face covered with a cowl.
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And I don't do cowls.
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Maybe not now. You sure you wanna hear this? I've already told you a lot.
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Everybody's told me a lot, and I'm kinda gettin' sick of it. [And just for a moment there's a flash of something else in his hard brown eyes - a sort of discomfort, vulnerability almost. His mind's been thrown through loops ever since he got here, like a particularly unpleasant roller-coaster ride. As soon as it's there, it's gone again, though.]
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So if you don't wanna know, I won't tell you. Simple as that.
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So he settles on changing the subject.] So you said you knew Steve. Word of warning, the one here who says he's Steve ain't Steve.
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Yeah, so I've been told by like six other people. He's Steve but he isn't the Steve from our world. That kind of sucks. So many people I've met aren't how they're supposed to be....
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And welcome to my life since I got here. Nothing makes sense.
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