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[Video] Tuesday: Week 71

[Hi network, remember this guy? Well he’s back. Again. He’s a combination of embarrassed and nervous about the whole situation, but what else is new? He has some lingering bruises from being trapped by rubble, but is otherwise all right.]

Well this is a little bit awkward. Third time’s a charm, I guess? Though this time wasn't exactly like the others...I haven’t been in a pod. [He pauses for a minute, fiddling with his hands out of habit.]

I don’t know how many of you I know are still here, but I hope I can be of some use to you all, regardless. Particularly if you haven’t gotten the ship up and running yet; I remember that being an issue. And if there’s any chance I can still help out at the hospital, I wouldn’t mind multitasking.

...Thanks, by the way, to those of you who helped me get out of the ship. I appreciate it.

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Bruce!

[It's always good to see people again after they disappeared]

Where were ya, if it weren't a pod? We're still workin' on gettin' her runnin' again. Wraith attack set us back a bit just now.

I'm glad to see you're still here, Kaylee. [Really, he's glad to see anybody.]

I was...well, it's kind of complicated. I was here, but not here.

You've missed... a lot of crazy.

[There would probably be more. THough if they could avoid a repeat of last month's crazy she'd be content]

You mean like... those in between places Salvation talks 'bout rescuin' folk from?

Bruce Banner, welcome back! This is Randolph Lyall, the werewolf-- I'm not sure if you remember me.

[Since he's not sure whether... this is the same Bruce, exactly, or what he's been doing in the meantime, or what. It's never entirely clear, with returns like this.]

Fourth time, technically. Assuming we're not counting alternate versions.

[He gives her a wry, but sympathetic smile.] I'm sure I have. Honestly if it wasn't for the communicators, I wouldn't have any idea of how long I've been gone.

Maybe. I don't -- wait, Salvation talks?

[fondly] I remember. How have you been?

[He is really really glad to see you, Tony. He might even be smiling.] I was purposefully not mentioning the fourth time. ...Was there an alternate version of me here?

Anyone warned ya 'bout time runnin' different on the ship and off yet?

Got her AI workin' a while back. Usually she'll talk to ya anywhere on the ship but with all the mess AI core or the gardens are the best bet.

For about five minutes. It was a little surreal.

On the up side, almost everyone's had at least one double by now, so we can all compare notes.

So you're not going to get away with living in a hovel in the ruins this time, I'm afraid.

[Pepper's smiling and her tone is light enough to suggest teasing... except for that little glint in her eye.]

At least not without coming by our place first.

[That's a pleasant surprise, then! Lyall is perfectly happy to be remembered. Perhaps not much happened in the interim.]

Well enough. Life has been rather up and down since you vanished last. Where were you, precisely, anyhow? If you weren't in a pod, as you say.

No, but I don't think that accounts for the displacement I felt...I wasn't on the ship, most of the time.

[He laughs a little at the next part.] Tony must love that. A talking spaceship. I'll have to have a conversation with her when I've settled into things a little bit.

It's...hard to explain. I was...lost, you might say. I'm not sure if I was in an alternate reality, or maybe between realities, as Kaylee suggested. There was a large, blasted wasteland, that extended from up near the quarantine line to down near the port, maybe 10 miles wide. The sky was full of lightning storms, dust and ash.

I was never sure how much time had passed, while I was there. And I was alone. I could catch glimpses of people, but... [That was the most unnerving part, as much as he tried to push people away in the past.]

I can imagine.

...I'm not sure that's an upside, but I have some interesting notes of my own for you, on where I was before. Or wasn't.

Just figured ya might wanna know.

[It's important information, after all]

It's been mighty handy. We've been learnin' all sortsa things from her... just takes a few tries to get it into words that make sense.

Well, that sounds unpleasant. Also a bit familiar. Wasn't that what the far future was supposed to look like, when we all split up and landed in different time periods?

[He's heard descriptions by now of pretty much every time period. And he's really not sure if Bruce got to experience that fun event... a number of people vanished around that time, Bruce among them.]

I think I might actually be all right with not living in a hovel in the ruins this time. Maybe.

[Bruce returns her smile at the second part.] And I was planning on doing that anyway.

Well, I'll just have to do my best to turn that 'maybe' into a 'yes'. Would the opportunity to study a pair of domesticated mammoths sweeten the pot?

[Tony's fondness for the creatures is because mammoths are cool. The somewhat closer to a biologist Dr. Banner, on the other hand, might have more technical interest. Also, mammoths are cool. Pepper's smile lingers]

How are you for a ride into town? If Tony's going to let you escape getting pulled into working on Salvation right away, that is.

It is interesting information, thanks.

I'll see if there's anything I can do to coax her into getting it right on the first try.

I don't know...I was only around for the aftermath of that. But it seemed to me that something very large had impacted the planet.

Been makin' Doc McCoy right grumpy.

[Because he's usually so clearly, obviously]

Trouble is she forgets we ain't thinkin' on the same level she is. By the time she gets it in words we understand she's tellin' us it's a gross oversimplification. But maybe you'll have better luck on that front.

The implications are interesting. You know, in a potentially world-ending kind of way.

You remember where you were while you were - gone?

It may be related. I missed that part, I'm afraid-- or I suppose I ought to say I missed that part thankfully, from all accounts it was terrible. But all I know if it is second and, mostly, third-hand. If you can find someone to compare it with who had actually been there, it might be useful to see if it really was the same timeframe.

I don't know you.

[That's not a bad thing, mind. It's only a fact.]

What is your name?

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