exsilium | [video]

[On the screen is a blond woman, to all appearances human and doing a not-quite-perfect job hiding the kind of resigned annoyance only seen in those for whom getting hauled across space and time is just a bothersome day at the office. She's instantly recognizable to people from a wide number of related universes—it's Susan Richards, the Invisible Woman, visible for this conversation and wearing a black-and-white version of the Fantastic Four's classic blue uniform with the distinctive "4" logo on the chest. It's been almost two days and there's no sign of her teammates, so it's time to cast a wider net.]

Hello. My name is Susan Richards. I'm going to swallow my pride and assume that doesn't mean anything to most of you. [The necessity of doing so doesn't seem to bother her, even though the idea of not being known on sight is strange. Sue laughs a little, and lets go of her irritation. The only real problem here is that her family isn't, and that's always been a self-correcting state of affairs.]

If it does, however, do me a favor and check in? Avengers, X-Men, SHIELD—I'm not picky. [Sue's already run into two people from home. Maybe there are more. She'll even take villains, if only so she can keep an eye on them.]

Everyone else, nice to meet you. Lovely weather we're having, isn't it?

[OOC: Fourth-walling is okay as long as your character's not going to be a jerk about it. Canon fail post is thisaway.]

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

I don't see Captain Britain anywhere.

[Someone app him.]

Y'know, there are other ways to tell.

[Not sure if deadpan humor or complete absence of humor.]

I think it might be academic unless Brian shows up.

[It's not like anyone's checking their passports.]

[ He was making a joke!! ]

It's been months that I've been stuck here. Not too many people've shown up.

[She doesn't know him! Bucky might just be boring!]

Reed and the others should be here soon.

[That's how her life has worked this far. Bucky can catch a ride home with them.]

Yeah, I guess I dunno know how it works.

[Jeez, Bucky, it's like you've never been to an alternate universe before. What's Cap been teaching you?]

I don't really know, either. Once I asked Reed to explain the math to me. He started writing equations in what I'm pretty sure was Kree.

[ He is eighty seven he can tie his own shoes!! ]

Did they bring you in? Or did… something else send you?

[Why do the Invaders all spend so much time dead/frozen/amnesiac, anyway?]

I think it was the Initiative. If Reed was running a new experiment, he didn't tell me.

[And you'd think he'd have learned his lesson on that by now.]

[ This is also a joke: ]

Me neither.

Wow, I'm going to have to give him a good talking-to about not keeping you in the loop.

[She got it this time.]

[ This reminds him that he's supposed to be dead. ]

What— when is the loop, for you, exactly? Where you're from. Time travel's way above my pay grade.

[ But hey the FF is supposed to be good at it. ]

It's 2012.

[Or something. Who the hell knows. The timeline weirdness is even weirder than usual in that run. Sue's from after Fear Itself, anyway. And pretty much everyone who isn't directly involved with Thor is pretending Fear Itself didn't happen, anyway.]

[ Hey Bucky died in Fear Itself it is important to his Status Quo!! ]

Hey. For me, too.

[Thing was one of the Worthy, which no one has mentioned anywhere ever again.]

The last worldwide crisis for me was a Kree invasion.

[And also crazy space gods trying to kill her husband, but that one's not really common knowledge.]

[ Bucky was… teaming up with Doctor Doom… ]

Do those happen a lot?

[Sue knows that feel, bro.]

Not recently. They've been busy fighting Annihilus and the Shi'ar. And I think they had a Phalanx incursion at one point.

Right.

[ He's probably read a few of those names in files, but Bucky majored in "goofy Nazi villains who probably should be dead by now but comics." He can recognize Iron Hand Hauptmann right-off, he had trouble with Kang. ]

[She's pretty sure Cap or Namor have mentioned something like that at one point...]

Well, they almost destroyed New York [you know, like always] and then Galactus and several Celestials showed up, so I think you're a bit behind me.

[Because that's hard to miss.]

I've, uh— been dead.

Ah. How long were you gone?

[Superhero small talk, ladies and gentlemen.]

Still dead.

[ Not really, but he's been faking it. ]

[All right, that's a little weird. Sue gives him a look.] You're the liveliest corpse I've seen that isn't trying to drink my blood.

[I don't even remember if they've ever faced Dracula but probably so eh.]

[ It's all about Baron Blood, y'all. ]

The machine. It brings people back.

[If you can stop laughing at his costume long enough to fight him.]

The one that brought us here?

[Bucky you should feel bad for lying to Sue.]

(no subject)

kneecaptain - 2013-04-10 05:44 (UTC) - Expand

fantasticforcefields - 2013-04-10 17:07 (UTC) - Expand

kneecaptain - 2013-04-10 17:58 (UTC) - Expand

fantasticforcefields - 2013-04-11 13:56 (UTC) - Expand

kneecaptain - 2013-04-11 18:18 (UTC) - Expand

fantasticforcefields - 2013-04-11 18:39 (UTC) - Expand