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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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Adaptoids are a huge pain. Luckily, they're not really a common thing. I'm glad they're teaching you how to handle a lot of different situations though.

I'm glad we're getting back to that at the new school. On Utopia the training wasn't as good. I can understand why the focus was narrowed down to 'things that have tried to kill us and will probably try again' and 'things that haven't tried to kill us yet but probably will soon' but that doesn't mean it was a good idea.

Trust me, you guys need to be prepared for a wide variety of things. The world is weird and there are a lot of things that will try to kill you for a multitude of reasons. Not even just crazy guys in costumes or evil organizations, either. Aliens, robots, natural disasters....dinosaurs. You name it, it's out there. [No, seriously, dinosaurs are a thing that could happen]

[Victor just smiles a little.] Been there, done that. Not to mention vampire armies, prehistoric monkeys hyper-evolved by Celestials bent on protecting mutant kind even if it meant killing most of us and wiping out humanity, undead mutants cybernetically enhanced by an alien technovirus, and power-negating nanoswarms that also gave us all the worst flu ever. When it comes to weird, it's just normal for the X-Men.

What I meant was...[He takes a deep breath.] Before M-Day? [A pause for a quick pained look at the memories.] Our Danger Room sessions were training us to to help people. To be heroes. That stopped...and they were gradually replaced with stuff that felt more like...just fighting to survive. And that's all we ended up doing...fighting to stay alive and wondering when the next threat would show up to try to kill us all. It didn't help that Summers and Frost treated us like disposable cannon fodder most of the time...

[Carol goes quiet in response to that and glances off camera. She's had a few mutant life lessons in the last couple years]

Yeah. I'm not going to pretend I know what being a mutant is like because I'm not one. But I've worked closely with mutants before. Scott and Logan are still my friends. And I owe Professor Xavier my life. But I...can sort of understand where they're coming from. You guys don't have it easy.

Considering how the entire team ended up splitting in two with half of us heading back to Westchester and the rest staying on Cyclops' island, I think they might need someone else explaining where they're coming from to one another.

Maybe. [Shrug] Scott's not....in much of a listening mood since that whole thing happened though. And Emma is never in a listening mood. Kind of hard to talk to them under those circumstances. Again, I can't really blame them.

Which whole thing? [Because there are so many.] And I can understand their point of view too. I still think Cyclops is an asshole and we're better off with Wolverine though.

Every whole thing. [There's a lot of things] Ha. You might be the only one I've ever met who doesn't think Wolverine is an asshole.

That's a lot. [He smiles.] Oh, no. I still think he is kind of one...Cyclops is just worse these days. I mean Wolverine might treat us like kids who can't take care of ourselves but at least he isn't throwing us away like disposable pawns just to help some demon girl who's been given too many second chances and keeps proving to be a bad idea to keep around.

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