broken_time (broken_time) wrote in exiles,
@ 2010-04-18 21:39:00

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danielle cage, exiles, iron widow, kevin kinross

In the desert between times.
There's a brief sensation of falling.

Thankfully, the landing is padded by sand. Lots and lots of sand, stretching out as far as the eye can see in all directions, aside from the occasional hill blocking the view.

Sensors, enhanced senses, even normal senses and survival skills say the same thing - there's nothing there, no water for miles. Just sand.

Well, sand, and around one of the dunes, the smell of fresh coffee and fresh baked muffins.

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better_now
2010-04-21 12:04 am UTC (link)

Kevin looks at him. Because this? Sounds like a job for Privateer Albion. Or some sort of special SHIELD temporal task force. Or, in fact, anyone at all who actually is a superhero and -- and this is very important -- not Kev.

But there's that last part. "Altered how...?" Has his facet of reality already been messed with? That can't be good. Probably a lot more than, say, just a few bricks turned into bees.

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danielle_cage
2010-04-21 05:18 pm UTC (link)

Does Dani like that she's been ripped abruptly from her world, with no chance to tell her parents and friends where she's going, with no chance to say goodbye to them, assure them that she'll be alright? No. Does she want her world to be safe though, along with her parents and friends? Absolutely.

She didn't give them the Timebroker an answer just then, deciding to let him answer Kevin's question before she made her final decision.

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broken_time
2010-04-21 06:09 pm UTC (link)

"In every world, that's different, Mr. Kinross. In your case, Colossus, years ago, was an instant too slow. You now rule the world - a world with a rapidly depleting food supply. The gods, and most alien races have cut off Earth as, effectively, a dead world. Your reign will be short and painful before you starve within the next two years.
In your case, Mr. Cage, your world has already undergone significant temporal 'bumps'. Sarah Rogers wasn't supposed to be there, but Rose's time with this team helped adjust your world back to a degree of stability. Unfortunately, she is critically injured... you can leave any time you like and go home... but doing so would require Rose to return here in her current state... which would likely be lethal. Effectively, you've been chosen as her replacement.
In all cases, none of you are the first choices, or the ideal ones. But something left you stable enough to be grabbed out of your alternate timelines, where most people weren't. In Ms. Cage's case, its her close ties to Rose. Essentially, if the timeline is to be saved, its not that you're the best choices... you're just what I have to work with."

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better_now
2010-04-21 11:46 pm UTC (link)

Kevin stares in horror as at the words 'You now rule the world'. His hands instinctively press at his opposite wrists, at the stable, not-burning, human flesh, to reassure himself it's still there. "No. No."

To have 'triumphed,' triumphed and rotted, the whole world sharing in his degeneration and burning rotting madness, was the ultimate Nightmare Scenario.

Finally, he manages. "... Not happening. So what needs doing to fix....these things?"

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	iron_widow 2010-04-21 11:57 pm UTC (link)
	"You haven't said how my world is messed up," Natasha finally said after listening to all of it. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

broken_time
2010-04-22 01:10 am UTC (link)

"Just letting you finish your coffee, Ms. Romanova. Your memories will tell you that Tony Stark is your closest ally - he built the suit you now wear. But the current truth on your world is that you killed Tony Stark and proved your loyalty to the Red Room program, before the Avengers eventually shut it down. Bucky Barnes' pistols were adjusted to try and help him take down the Red Guardian - the dosage for the Guardian had an unfortunate effect on your own enhanced nervous system. You still live, a loyal agent of Russia - and a parapalegic rotting away in a prison cell. You will not receive the death penalty, nor will you recover, allowing you to live in this helpless state for another two-hundred-and-four years. At least you have plenty of time to catch up on your reading."

He pauses a few moments, then looks back to Kevin. "Simple - you join with the self-named Exiles. A group who travels from timeline to timeline, given an assignment in each one. If you succeed enough times, it will stabilize parts of the timestream, eventually correcting events in your own worlds. Its also possible you may die in the process, or fail. But as I said, you're what I have to work with."

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	iron_widow 2010-04-22 02:15 am UTC (link)
	"You make it sound like we have a choice. I got nothing better to do." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	danielle_cage 2010-04-23 12:24 am UTC (link)
	"I'm in." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	better_now 2010-04-23 12:50 am UTC (link)
	Kevin's still running his hands along his arms, continuously confirming that they're still there, intact. "Anything else we need to know before we meet these people?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

broken_time
2010-04-23 02:37 pm UTC (link)

"You do have a choice. You can go back to your own worlds and live your altered lives. Anyway, other than that - the blonde girl is named Sarah - the device on her arm is called the Tallus. Its something of a navigator - and each world, it will give you your newest assignment. You will have varying amounts of time to complete the objectives it gives you, depending on the world. If you fail, it may be possible to retreive you and send you to the next one anyway, or the disruption may be too great, and leave you stranded... so don't fail. If you die on assignment, you're dead. So don't die. Oh, and occasionally the Tallus can be a bit cryptic - sorry about that. Time isn't always easy to interpret. Good luck."

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