[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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[did_i_say_percy]

Uh, if you go outside and run around, don't go where it sparkles. I think there are invisible walls there, but I wouldn't even go near them if I were you. There's radiation, and it can make people very sick.

If you just listen to them a little, those other people, eventually you'll get sorted out.

[cantcatchme]

Yeeeah, I'll do that, thanks. I don't think I'd make a very good Hulk. [Yes, he knows regular radiation doesn't do that, but still. Not something he's inclined to mess with.]

I'm not so sure about that. They seem to have gotten some pretty messed up information about me at some point.

[did_i_say_percy]

Well, perhaps not about you so much. You must straighten them out there. But they would know more about Verdana. Probably more than me. I've been asleep for more than a year.

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[catchingflies]

How should I know, you never acted like you liked me, why would you tell me stuff? I wouldn't even know the part about him being your dad, except you told me, after we got here!

[He's getting a little flaily now, for lack of knowing what to do. Watch those hand gestures fly!]

[cantcatchme]

All righty then, Rip Van Winkle. Digging for information, I can do. This is still way beyond weird.

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[cantcatchme]

Look, clearly someone's mixed up here, and it sure as heck isn't me! But frankly, the whole idea's ridiculous. I have a father. And a mother. Neither have anything to do with that... guy.

[He doesn't really know Magneto well enough to come up with a decent descriptor.]

[did_i_say_percy]

Don't forget to slow down and say hello if you see me around.

Good luck!

[He nods at the screen, and signs off.]

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[catchingflies]

Then you were the one lyin' to us for the past, like, year! Ask Kurt or Molly, they'll say the same stuff, okay? We're not the ones messed up!

[Messed up. Maybe it's that sneaky mind-controller person, or something? Todd hasn't been paying much attention to that, really, but he's at least heard about it as a theory.]

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[cantcatchme]

Get it through your thick head! Lying to you, especially for the past freaking year would require me knowing who any of you were. I recognize the Nightcrawler, but only from the news. Ergo, I'm not the liar here!

[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?

[cantcatchme]

Weird sh-stuff happens. [Where he's from, Cap gets on him for swearing. It's impulse to correct himself, at this point] It's part of the job. But usually that doesn't involve someone else dressing me, even if they do have good taste.

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[catchingflies]

So I'm makin' up the past however long since you came outa the ship, then. Okay. Great. Whatever, man.

[He's gone beyond his ability to deal, especially since now Pietro really seems mad at him. He disconnects, flustered and unhappy, to go commiserate with the mammoth he's supposed to be looking after right now.]

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[nodavinci]

The hospital has a neuroimaging suite. I'll send you a map of the city.

[Which should be hitting...now.]

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[cantcatchme]

Got it. Be there in a minute. You'll still be the one doing it though, right?

[He's not sure he likes the idea of a stranger poking around in his head.]

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[nodavinci]

I'll be there, but I'm not a doctor.

[There's a slight pause before he adds,] It's non-intrusive. No one's going to be getting inside your head, just taking medical diagnostics.

[thefuzzyguy]

The Pietro who usually eats all my cooking definitely made that.

[He doesn't usually pay much attention to clothes, but he does remember Pietro babbling about it now. Oh, this is weird.]

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[bruiserprincess]

And that's 'cause nothing makes any sense right now.

[She's getting very tired of things not making sense]

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[cantcatchme]

And I'm guessing Doc Banner isn't here? [He probably would've mentioned, otherwise.] Damn. Well, see you soon.

(OOC: Anything I should know about the diagnostics result, or is it just going to come back 'everything normal'?)

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[cantcatchme]

Well, sorry! It's not like I'm doing it on purpose. Who're you, then? Nobody's even freaking introducing themselves, since I'm supposed to know you all already.

[cantcatchme]

Well... good. If someone who was supposed to be me had a terrible fashion sense, that would just be embarrassing.

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[nodavinci]

[There's the briefest of hesitations before he replies. Bruce had died, and returned, and vanished, and though it's been six months, it still bothers him.]

'Fraid not.

((OOC: Nope. It's timeline entanglement, not any sort of mind control, so it'll just come back normal within tolerances for mutant speedster.))

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[cantcatchme]

Bummer. It's not everyone who can actually make chess a challenge, for me.

[He nods, then signs off. To go to the hospital, presumably.]

((OOC: Thought so! Thanks.))

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[bruiserprincess]

Molly. I'm a mutant from LA. Whose week just keeps getting weirder and weirder.

[She really was dealing with enough with the memories]

[thefuzzyguy]

It bothers me that this is what bothers you.

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[cantcatchme]

All I'm doing is being me, Molly. The weirdness is all on you. You know this greenish kid at all? What's his deal? [Besides spewing a bunch of nonsense and then getting really upset.]