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—Uh, hey!

[Peter waves at the camera. He looks like he has it on the wrong level, and then he fixes it to not be looking mostly at his mid-eyes until he looks better, much better, without a camera giving everyone a near immediate relationship with his nose and mouth and probably pores. Look, he can accomplish things.]

—Sorry about that. And whatever you might've seen instead for a moment. I'm looking for a lab, and I'd say "hypothetically, say a guy is looking for a lab of all his own," but really, I need a lab to conduct some experiments. I promise I'm not planning to blow up any showers or the kitchen or anything like that, I—I generally avoid fires. Generally. [Except that one time in chemistry, but he's much more graceful now.] It's just that I'm used to having a lab of all my own, and I've checked the map a few times, and ... well—I don't wanna assume, you know, that I've got access to that.

[It's only now that he realizes that he should've gone for upgraded webshooters, but he didn't really want to ditch what Tony Stark gave him. They're from Tony Stark! They were a birthday present from Tony Stark.]

And this also came up with a buddy ... a pal ... you know, a new guy here, who's new like me, that maybe we should come up with a way to track the disturbances in the—[Force. Don't be a nerd, Parker.]—in the way things are here. Has anyone tried that yet?

Oh, and I'm Peter Parker. Yeah, I'm a nerd. You guessed it. But what can I say? I managed a lab in my own room back home, I can't go without here. Especially here.

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Okay, this is gonna be the hardest thing I've ever broken to someone ever, but just wait for it.

[Peter eyes her through the video very seriously, but he's kind of smiling, too. He can't help it.]

You shouldn't believe everything you see on TV.

[Though, yes, the moon landing totally happened.]

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Of course I know that! Are you kidding me? [ someone is a tad defensive. it's cool. it's totally cool. ] Please. Half the shit on there is there to manipulate you anyway.

[ a pause. ]

But they had real footage.

And the conspiracy theorists say that the "footage" was a manipulative something or other, Cold War winning, yada yada.

[No, he's not really arguing.]

That's stupid. That's literally just looking for something to be riled up about. [ like she does every single day. ] It says a lot about them that they can't accept a normal explanation for it, you know?

Well ... given the government, you can't blame them for wanting to poke a few holes in some of their accomplishments. Not that I'm all rah rah anarchy, but yeah. I kind of understand the sentiment a little.

Well. I won't say I don't have my complaints. Socially, of course. But. [ oh, timing. ] There was just about to be an election when I left, so.

... What year are you from? Um, out of curiosity.

1972.

-Oh, god, is this some displacement bullshit misunderstanding?

I think so, but given that this entire project is built on using time travel to save the world or something, it seems understandable.

Yeah, I get that, obviously. But you'd think they'd be pulling us from the same damn decade. [ but would you? would you really? ]

Well, given the different worlds and things, your decade could very easily be ... the same as someone else's, in terms of the length and span of their world.

Hypothetically.

Hypothetically.

[ what. ]

So you're trying to tell me that my 1972 lines up with someone else's 1814.

Well, the years themselves are technically arbitrary.

So, yeah, if you think about the scientific possibility of planets not all having the same rotations and so forth, then ...

If people do have a year system, 1814 can be 1972 can be 2011.

[ a long pause. a long, long pause. it's at least a decade and a half until quantum leap. give her a minute. ]

So, theoretically, there could be a way to pull us all back in time, as opposed to forward. Like what's happened here.

Well, yeah, but I'm also saying that there's a lot of factors built into this. We all have different worlds with dramatically different set ups of how we got here. Chronologically.

Okay. Sure. [ no. ] Whatever. Does it always give people a headache?

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