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

[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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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.]

Girlfriend? Jedi? What the hell's a Jedi? Or the Brotherhood, for that matter. [He's managed to stay blissfully out of mutant politics, as far as he recalls.] I mean, come on. Now you're just making stuff up. At least have it be believable.

How should I know? I just know that's what she calls herself, okay?

[Defensive and unhappy, yup.]

Brotherhood. You know. Set up by Mystique and Magneto, your dad? Mutant rights? Crappy little house where the electricity's always goin' out and stuff? I ain't makin' any of it up! If I was, it'd be a lot cooler, yo.

Whoa whoa whoa. Back up there, pal. I don't know what you're on, but saying that shit isn't funny. Magneto? Seriously? I'm all for a good prank, but from what I know of that asshole, that's taking it way too far.

[He appears... 100% serious. And pissed.]

Well, yeah, he's not really a nice guy, sure. But he's still lookin' out for us....

[That sounds pretty weak, since even Todd knows that Magneto doesn't really do much for them except, occasionally, toss them into danger with only a rudimentary understanding of what's going on.]

'Sides, would I make that up? I know how much you hate him.

Uh, duh you're making things up, because that's all bullshit. I've never even met the guy, and I stay way the hell away from mutant politics, thanks. Not freaking interested in whatever crazy you're selling.

No, I'm not! C'mon, man, knock it off already, it ain't funny!

[He's pretty sure it's not actually a joke, but he doesn't have anything else to really fall back on, and he refuses to admit that somehow this isn't "his" Pietro.]

Do I look like I'm joking? Jeez, man, I'm a superhero. What would I be doing hanging around Magneto's personal army, let alone being related to the guy? You claim you know me? Check the last name. Maximoff. Not... whatever his is.

[He's pretty sure it's not Maximoff. Besides, he knows very well that Django was his father.]

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!]

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.]

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.]

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!

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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