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[cantcatchme]

I finally see what you all were talking about with the whole waking up on the ship thing.

[Pietro looks tense, but he's dressed, at least. However, the uniform is unfamiliar. He's clearly still inside the ship.]

But can someone tell me why my powers aren't working?!

[His voice climbs a few octaves closer to panic at the end.]

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[cantcatchme]

Still plenty of us Roma around in Romania and Transia, anyway. Can't speak for the rest of the world. [Transia doesn't exist in many other universes, but he doesn't know that yet.]

I'm chocking most weird stuff up to the alternate universe thing. But from what I remember from the news, that Magneto guy's kind of an ass.

And also dead or something. We were a little distracted during that whole Egyptian supermutant thing, so I'm not sure what exactly happened.

[roddy_reinigen]

[Of course, Roddy only barely understands geography. Pietro could likely list off ten countries that didn't exist in either of their worlds and Roddy wouldn't know the difference.]

Now I'm just wondering what was more attention grabbing than 'egyptian supermutant'.

[cantcatchme]

It involved the Sub-Mariner, underwater Nazis, and my sister- no, wait, you know what? It's probably better not to ask.

Besides, the mutants seemed to have a handle on things. [SHIELD had been keeping them updated, too, just in case things went too far south.]

[roddy_reinigen]

[Roddy stared.]

Right. Yeah, your world sounds like something out of a comic book. And I'm guessing you mean 'other mutants'? Since I got the impression the Avengers were mutants.

[Hence why 'special treatment' compared to other mutants would apply.]

[cantcatchme]

What? Oh, no. We're mostly plain ol' humans. I mean, Thor's some kind of... alien god or something. But most of us weren't born with superpowers.

Except me and my sister. I guess we're probably mutants. It was never particularly important.

[Hey, it makes perfect sense to him.]

[roddy_reinigen]

Oh. Okay. [All right, after all of that...he was just going to accept it.]

I was born with powers. [Was he trying to make himself seem cooler in front of a superhero? Well, obviously, who wouldn't? It was true, though.] Well, sort of, they didn't come out until I was a teenager, but...

[But as he understood it, that's now mutants worked, too.]

My world doesn't exactly have mutants, though.

[cantcatchme]

Yeah, Wanda and I were early bloomers, but we still didn't have powers until we were, like, eight or something. I think physical mutations are supposed to show up earlier, though.

So... what are you, then?

[He pauses a beat.]

If that's not... an incredibly rude thing to ask, anyway.

[roddy_reinigen]

I don't mind. I'm a reinigen. [He pauses, then decides more explanation is needed.] So I have, like...rat powers.

[cantcatchme]

[Yes, more explanation was definitely needed, since Pietro just gives him a blank look at first.]

Rat powers, huh? I guess I've heard stranger.

[roddy_reinigen]

[He noted the blank look, and decided to explain.]

Basically I control rats with music. And turn into a rat-like creature.

[cantcatchme]

I've still heard - and seen - stranger. You'd fit in just fine, back home.