broken_time (broken_time) wrote in exiles,
@ 2013-02-18 22:39:00

Entry tags:

meggan puceanu, nate summers, olivia barnes, x-23

In the desert between time
As with so many others before them, the new entrants to this non-time and non-place find themselves falling, starting some twenty feet off the ground, and heading quickly towards the sand below, regardless where they were or what they were doing before the shift.

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	girlverine_ 2013-02-21 10:26 pm UTC (link)
	"Laura Kinney. I smell food, and someone else," she said. "We should head in that direction. Hopefully, someone can tell us where we are." She retracted her claws. For now. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	screamofthemoth 2013-02-21 10:37 pm UTC (link)
	"Seams the thing to do." And Meggan will keep going. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	force_of_will 2013-02-22 01:57 am UTC (link)
	"Nate Summers," He says as he follows after them in that direction. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

broken_time
2013-02-22 02:26 am UTC (link)

There is a definite oddity - a small combination kitchenette/classroom in the middle of the desert. There's no walls, but there's still a stove and counter, and a coffee maker. No sign of anywhere to get power, but there's clearly fresh muffins.

There's only one resident. A middling height, middle aged balding man, handling the muffin tins.

To those with animalistic senses he smells odd. Not precisely like any person they've ever met, but also not unlike a person. To Nate's low level telepathy, or even attempts to scan, there's a sense of a mind there, but completely and totally unreadable - its like trying to get a television program, and getting nothing but static - but something conscious is definitely there.

He smiles at the group of them. "Come, come. Have some coffee, or a muffin. It may be some time before you eat this well again."

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	screamofthemoth 2013-02-22 02:31 am UTC (link)
	"That could sound like a threat," Meggan says, but, well, food. Da always said never pass up a chance at food. She grabs a muffin. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	winter_daughter 2013-02-22 02:06 pm UTC (link)
	Olivia didn't trust easily, it was the way she was raised, and she sure in hell didn't trust this guy. She didn't touch any of the food or coffee. Even if she felt like she needed a caffeine fix. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	force_of_will 2013-02-23 04:27 pm UTC (link)
	Nate did not like this. Not being able to pick up anything from that guy's mind was true weird. He didn't like that at all. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	girlverine_ 2013-02-23 10:59 pm UTC (link)
	Laura didn't like that she couldn't get a solid scent on this guy. Nothing smelled wrong with the coffee and the muffins, though, so she took one. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

broken_time
2013-02-23 11:12 pm UTC (link)

"Oh, you're all in terrible danger. your entire worlds are. But not from me." the man assures, while working at cleaning up the counter some.

"I'm not even a person, really, in the same way this isn't a place. Both are manifestations of your collective unconscious, putting things into a form your minds will follow. When you have your food and coffee, please have a seat and we'll get started on explaining all of this."

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	screamofthemoth 2013-02-24 06:49 am UTC (link)
	"...collective unconscious? What, you're some kind of arch-a-type?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	force_of_will 2013-02-26 01:54 am UTC (link)
	"That all sounds like a load of bull to me," Nate says trying to get a grasp on the situation. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	broken_time 2013-02-26 03:26 am UTC (link)
	"You're welcome to believe what you wish. But if you're struggling with that, any of you, feel free to use any senses you like, fly as far as you wish. There is nothing else and no one else here. And if you're struggling to believe that much, you're really going to hate what comes next." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	girlverine_ 2013-02-26 02:27 pm UTC (link)
	"What comes next?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	screamofthemoth 2013-02-26 09:29 pm UTC (link)
	Meggan just munches and listens. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	winter_daughter 2013-02-26 11:37 pm UTC (link)
	Olivia stood with her arms crossed over her chest and listened. She didn't trust him or anyone else here for that matter. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

broken_time
2013-02-26 11:54 pm UTC (link)

"Well, there's a lot of dimensional physics and complicated math involved. The gist is - all dimensions are interconnected. The timestream runs through all of them. Usually, there's enough of a barrier from one dimension and another to keep the actions in one from affecting others, aside from the occasional dimensional refugee or traveler. However, a big, big disturbance has happened. It started in one dimension, and sent ripples through the timestream. Every world those ripples touch, they change.

Things are happening in all those worlds that shouldn't be happening. The past is being altered in ways that, before this effect, never happened. This has caused those worlds' present to be different as well.

Each and every one of your worlds was in the way of the ripples, and your personal timelines have been altered. Each of you is, in some way, so essential to your home universe that you had a modicum of protection from having your memories altered, or the other effects of the disruption. I was able to grab you and bring all of you here before that protection broke down entirely, and you were lost.

As of right now, everything, and everyone you think you remember are lies. Your worlds are not what you recall. Now, I can send any of you home, all you have to do is ask. If that happens, you will quickly remember your world as it has become, and I wouldn't be able to draw you out again."

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	screamofthemoth 2013-02-27 05:02 am UTC (link)
	"Essential. That's a laugh, but okay. What's so terrible?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	winter_daughter 2013-02-27 10:40 pm UTC (link)
	"My whole life has been a lie," Liv said. "Nothing new to me. Why should I care?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	force_of_will 2013-02-27 11:01 pm UTC (link)
	"You are one crazy little man," Nate says. Though he was a little worried about what he had said especially if it could be true. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

broken_time
2013-02-28 01:30 am UTC (link)

"As I said, believe what you like." He gestures, and a screen lowers from a stand on one side of the 'classroom', showing these people's worlds.

"We'll go through this, bit by bit, so you have some idea what's at stake. I believe most of you are familiar with a version of Meggan. In her world, she never got out of the internment camp... the guards got a little trigger happy. I'm afraid, if you don't succeed, you're dead and buried in your world."

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	screamofthemoth 2013-02-28 01:32 am UTC (link)
	Meggan looks on fairly impassively. "So nothing I did after the camps happened? I'm sorry, I thought you implied there would be a problem if I just went home. Not seeing any." Her in exchange for Mickey? Fair trade. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	broken_time 2013-02-28 01:34 am UTC (link)
	The Timebroker nods. "None of that happened. You're buried along with both of your parents and your cellmate. Likewise, all of Excalibur died in the field." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	screamofthemoth 2013-02-28 01:37 am UTC (link)
	"...All right, that's less fair. I'm in. Whatever this is." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

broken_time
2013-02-28 01:44 am UTC (link)

"I thought you might see it that way. As for you, Miss Romanoff - in your world, you found out who you were far, far earlier. Your mother's ex-husband found out where she was, and her secondary identity. You were kidnapped from preschool, and used as bait. She was eventually brainwashed - and betrayed the Avengers.

With the protocols and codes she stole from the Avengers and SHIELD, and the systematic elimination of most of the Avengers, there is no more America. You, unlike Meggan, do survive - as a loyal Soviet, cyborg agent known as the Winter Soldier Mk. II."

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	winter_daughter 2013-03-02 02:17 am UTC (link)
	Liv just glared at him. "Fine. I'll do it. For the record my last name is Barnes." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)