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[It's hard to be sure of the camera's angle, but it's definitely propped up somehow, with the speaker hanging upside-down from the ceiling, because why not. Scrawny, scruffy, in his early teens, and some kind of fuzzy, blue elf-demon. When he speaks, it's with a clipped Brooklyn accent.]

So... the turtle is new and different. I've done space whales, but not reality-turtles.

Anyway. Longshot, but any of my team here? Lookin' for a General James Howlett especially, or Miz Alison Blaire? ...Hercules? ...Emmaline Frost-Summers? I mean, she doesn't even like me and I think she's a goddess now, but worth a shot.

Guessing not, though, so does anybody need somethin' fixed? Because I hate being bored, and unless somebody's got a mission that needs doing, I'mma be a huge pain in the butt.

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[Layla Miller, at your service.]

I know the feeling. I lucked out when I woke up here. Two of my teammates were already here. But Kurt, you're amongst friends.

[He pauses a moment to try and decide whether he introduced himself. Nope, forgot that part. His social malfunctions aside, that probably means she's from some similar piece of the multiverse.]

Oh, uh, good? Friends like how, though? 'Cus maybe you're from some really un-cynical world, but most places I've been to, trusting the first people who make nice is a good way to get all kinds of dead.

[Un-cynical world? Cute. She'll ignore that.]

There are other mutants here. The natives are shape-shifters.

And there are Avengers.

Yeah, um, like 50% of the people who've tried to kill me have been mutants or metahumans of some kind. Numerically, anyway. Volumetrically it'd be all screwy. And if you don't include robots... Nevermind. That's not reassuring by itself.

[Though maybe Spider-man's here!]

[She snaps.]

I like you.

So far, no one on this turtle has tried to kill me. Or any of my teammates, except for Monet, but I don't blame her. [Monet had tried to take her through a wall. Again.]

You're safe.

Well, that's a weird decision. But yeah, okay. Tentatively moving forward with that assumption, then.

[Safe? That'll take a lot of getting used to.]

I make a lot of those.

[Weird decisions.]

So you're Kurt Wagner. [Waggoner, Layla. But she, gasp! doesn't know that.] I'm Layla Miller. I know stuff.

Waggoner. But, y'know, silver star.

[But he's used to that kind of thing. The multiverse is a silly place.]

Guessing you know some other me?

I'll take silver.

[He gets her. Layla approves. A+]

Before I got here, I knew the other you by reputation only. [RIP, version 616.]

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I feel like I'm kind of a multiversal anomaly anyway. Doesn't seem like there's many of us kicking around.

Maybe. To my knowledge, I'm the only me. But I know better than to assume it's true.

Well, multiverse is a big place, so probably not. It's just you seem to run into some people a lot more than others. Like Mr. Howlett, on my team? Pretty sure there was one of him everywhere we went.

The infamous Wolverine.

Yeah, sometimes it feels like we have one of him on every team.

That seems like it'd be cool, but for all I know most of the other ones are pretty lame.

[Hard to imagine, but he's met some wildly different iterations of the same people.]

Nope, that's not true at all.

Trust me. I know stuff. [She winks at him]

[And he entirely misses the significance of said wink.]

Well, that's good. I'd be kinda disappointed otherwise. I only know cool ones.

[Oh Kurt. You're adorable.]

Good t'hear.

Including one who was, like, ten years old. That was pretty fun. We finally had someone shorter than me around.

[Everyone thinks that was funny.]

[She smiles kindly, chuckling a little.]

For a long time, I was the shortest member of X-Factor. I'm still pretty much pocket-sized. But, that was because I was a kid.

I think I maybe missed a growth spurt in there.

[Possibly during the two years he spent locked in a tube.]

Also, yeah, only kid.

[Probably. She'd heard yoga helps.]

You'll catch up. You're still young.

[He's betting not, given... circumstances.]

Sure, I'll try eating spinach or something.

I've got faith in you.

I'm pretty sure it's a whole genetic and environmental thing, not a matter of willpower.

I believe in your genetics and environment.

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