[Video, open] This is not the speedster you think you know

[cantcatchme]

[Pietro's looking a bit more clean-cut than he has been lately (he's been letting his hair grow out a little these past few months). He also appears confused, bordering on annoyed. The background is clearly a section of Poseidon, from high up. He appears to be on a tall building.]

Quicksilver here. Wherever here is. It's sure as hell not HQ, and I'm definitely not wearing my clothes. [Yes, he is. He made them himself, even.] And this isn't my communicator. What gives? Scarlet Witch? Cap? Anybody copy? [He looks away, grumbling the last part just loudly enough for the mic to pick up.] Fuck, I'd take Clint if he could tell me what the hell's going on.

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[Video]

[nodavinci]

[The backdrop on the other end is Tony's workshop - he appears, today, to be working on the skeleton for yet another suit. (Likely no surprise, that, whichever universe you happen to be in.)]

You look dressed to me. But you know, if you're hallucinating nudity, these things do have a voice-only option.

[Video]

[cantcatchme]

[Oh, good. At least he's found a network that the Avengers have access to, which means he's not completely on his own here. He relaxes fractionally, although his expression shifts solidly to annoyance. Of course it had to be Tony who answered.]

Ha, ha. I know I'm wearing clothes, Stark, thanks. They're not mine though, and I'd really like to know why I woke up wearing them, thanks. For that matter, mind filling me in on where we are? Because last I knew, I was at Avengers Mansion.

[Video]

[nodavinci]

Avengers what now?

[Congratulations, Pietro, you have Tony's full attention. Of course, he's staring like maybe the kid's sprouted an extra head, but at least he's not mostly distracted by his work.]

You know you're supposed to use proper ventilation when playing with solvents, right?

[Video]

[cantcatchme]

...Riiiight. The Mansion? HQ? You know, where a bunch of us crash between missions? Cripes, man, you funded the place! Designed most of it, too. I don't think I'm the one who's been huffing fumes here.

[Tony's getting an equally baffled look right back. The kid doesn't seem to be joking around.]

[Video]

[nodavinci]

Yeeeeah, that...never happened. The Avengers were a SHIELD initiative.

[Not...that he's not designing them space in the tower, but this kid doesn't need to know that.]

I'd note this down as more alternate dimension crap, but one, you're, like, twelve, and two, you weren't an Avenger yesterday.

Unless there's two of you running around now.

[Video]

[bruiserprincess]

Uh... you okay, Pietro? You didn't hit your head or anything?

[Video]

[cantcatchme]

...Do I know you, kid?

[He's a little weirded out by a stranger using his real name.]

[Video]

[bruiserprincess]

Uh... we live together. Should I call a doctor?

[Video]

[cantcatchme]

Look, I don't know what's going on here, but I can promise you that no, no we don't.

[He's starting to look less sure of himself, though.]

[Video]

[bruiserprincess]

You were the one who invited me to the mutant house. I'm sure if we ask Dr. McCoy he'll come take a look at your head.

[Video]

[catchingflies]

... uh. 'Tro? You okay, bro?

[Because those are definitely his clothes. Todd didn't exactly watch him make them, since he's kind of too fast to see when he does stuff like that, but he knows he made them.]

[Video]

[cantcatchme]

What, did someone stick a nametag on me when I wasn't looking? [He checks his shirt, just in case.] Look, look. I don't know what's going on here, but I'm not your 'bro', and I'm fine. Or I will be once someone tells me what the hell's going on!

[So much for this being an Avengers-only network. Damn.]

[Video]

[catchingflies]

[He looks hurt. You hurt his feelings, Pietro. Todd's used to a lot of abuse from the guy, but being called "not you bro" is worse than usual.]

You live with me. Me, Kurt, Molly, and you. Just us mutants, stickin' together. So, uh, that's what's going on. I dunno what you think is going on.

[Video]

[cantcatchme]

Yeah, see, you're definitely confused, kid. My sister and I live with the Avengers. Far as I know, I just woke up in this crazy place. [He feels a bit guilty, what with how the guy looks like he just kicked his puppy or something, but he has no idea who this is, or why any of this should be upsetting for him.]

[Video]

[catchingflies]

Your sister lives with her girlfriend, the Jedi person.

[Can't live with Pietro that long and not know that much.]

You used to live at the Brotherhood house. Uh, not that I blame you for wanting to live somewhere else but, uh. You didn't. Far's I know, anyway.

[He's not clever enough to pick up on the "alternate universe" thing yet. He's just confused.]

[Video]

[thefuzzyguy]

Okay, so is you having crazy time going to make you late for dinner?

[Ugh. Molly doesn't need this. He doesn't need this. What now, and why now, and will poorly delivered sarcasm make anything better? He's almost sure the answer to that last one is no.]

[Video]

[cantcatchme]

Why, are you offering to make me some? [Don't judge. He's hungry.]

...wait, aren't you Nightcrawler?

[The X-men get airtime on the news in his world, too, apparently.]

[thefuzzyguy]

[He decides not to waste time pointing out that Pietro lives down the hall from him. Has a second Quicksilver woken up? It's certainly possible, if weird.]

Ja, that's me, the amazing blue guy. Did you, um, just wake up in a creepy pod on the spaceship outside town?

[Because that would be so much simpler.]

[cantcatchme]

Nope. I woke up here. In the middle of the street. Dressed in these clothes. Seriously, I don't know what 'Pietro' you all think you know, but it isn't me. Though I suppose I wouldn't be too opposed to a meal.

[Sorry, Kurt. A bit more complicated than that. Things can never be easy.]

[thefuzzyguy]

[Oh, good, because if something easy happened what would he do with himself?]

Wouldn't be the first time, I guess. That's pretty much how we got Molly. ...So the thing about coming to in the street is the less weird part for you?

[did_i_say_percy]

[Armand is polite and doesn't eavesdrop on other conversations even if they aren't locked. At least not when he doesn't feel he has a good reason to do so, which isn't now.]

Are you still lost, uh, sir? Is Quicksilver your name? [It sounds like a title to him.]

I don't mean to intrude where I'm not wanted, but it worries me to see people who may not like where they find themselves. I'd rather explain than see you upset or someone hurt.

If explaining can help... [Yes, he sounds worried, and he also sounds very, very French. He can't help that last part.]

Oh, I'm Armand. I just woke up again on the ship, Salvation.

[And he hopes some of that makes things make more sense, not less sense.]

[cantcatchme]

Codename. I didn't intend to share my real one until I knew what was going on. [Yeah, that had been a bust. At least it seems like there's someone who doesn't think they know everything about him.]

I got filled in about the ship, kinda. Except that's not where I came from. I just... showed up here, in the city. Which is apparently weird, especially since everyone's insisting they know me.

[did_i_say_percy]

Ah. [Armand files that under things like 'the Scarlet Pimpernel' though he finds seeing this Quicksilver and knowing the codename stranger than he would knowing the other name but not the hero name. Different times and different secrecy needs.]

I would find that odd if it happened to me. So far no one I don't remember from my time here before has spoken to me. I'd be upset in your position though.

You are able to look after yourself, yes? From your name, you're fast? I have friends at home who'd been in great danger if they were known to the wrong people to have done all that they've done.

[Most of the danger of that was past last he knew, but he still didn't think Sir Percy would appreciate Citizen Robespierre recognizing him on the streets of Paris as the Scarlet Pimpernel. The talk about liking frippery wasn't all an act, and the good Lord knows what would happen if Percy couldn't go buy fine lace and fancy buckles in Paris.]

So if you're danger, I'm sure we can find somewhere for you to hide until it's passed.

[cantcatchme]

[Pietro didn't have much of a life outside of the superhero stuff. It lead to some skewed perspectives.]

I can take care of myself just fine, but until I have more information, I've got no frigging clue what kind of danger I'm in. If any. For all I know, these jokers are telling the truth about knowing me - or at least someone very much like me.

And fast is putting it mildly.

[His vanity is still intact, after all.]

[did_i_say_percy]

I wouldn't know since I don't know you. [About the being that fast part. He's just good with words.]

I would like to think no one would mean you harm here, but I haven't been back long enough to judge. I know no one means me harm, but I'm largely harmless myself.