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[girlinasquirrelsuit]

[The image is a bit off center and wobbly, as Kit's communicator has taken roughly the same form as her radio ring and she's not used to having a video camera on her hand yet. Still, the redhead in the hooded mask and goggles is basically visible. And looks generally irritated.]

Okay. So I kinda get this alternate worlds thing. I hate them, but I get it. I've had this problem before. But when I've run up against some other universe, it's been a different take on the world I know. Up is purple and sandwiches have corned beef on the outside or what have you, but the people and the history I know are there, if screwy. This? This is not that.

So, is anyone there? Boss, I'm sure you'd have found me already, but just in case. Doctor C? John? Grey Fox? Heck, I'll take Baboon McSmoothie. ...Don't take that as too much of a compliment, Man of a Thousand Faces. It just means I'll only break nine hundred and seventy of them if you annoy me.

...And yes, maybe I did just announce myself to any of costumed goonie birds and Rotzi thugs, if they're around. To you I say, neener neener neener, you've never got me before and you won't now. Squirrel out.

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[unofficial_ambassador]

I'm sorry, but I don't think any of the things you've just named are here.

[girlinasquirrelsuit]

See, that's what I didn't so much wanna hear, but I figured I'd go ahead and ask.

[unofficial_ambassador]

At least there aren't any . . . costumed birds? This place seems to be a far cry from what anyone from the ship has ever seen.

[girlinasquirrelsuit]

Really? No super villains at all? Gee, don't know what I'll do with myself.

[unofficial_ambassador]

I don't know if I'd go that far. I wasn't here eight hours before someone tried to kill me. But likely none that you would know.

[girlinasquirrelsuit]

Oh, good, there are still ugly mugs that need smashin'. Well, I suppose it'd be better if there weren't, but I'd sure be outta a job.

[unofficial_ambassador]

[There is a short pause as she tries to make sense of that]

Is that what you do? Punch birds?

[girlinasquirrelsuit]

Ah, Christmas.

[Fancy looking ladies. Pfft.]

Goonie birds. Crazy nutbars. Loonies. The ones who dress up like circus clowns and rob banks with a gimmick. Sometimes they even get somethin' done, though mostly me an' the Boss nip that kinda initiative in the bud real quick.

[unofficial_ambassador]

Oh. Yes. I'm familiar with the sort of people you mean, I think.

[Maybe not the gimmick, unless 'angry former revolutionary' counted]

You might be able to get a similar job here in town.

[girlinasquirrelsuit]

Job? Lady, we are on different wavelengths. Masked vigilante isn't what you'd call a job. ...Though I think Blue Bomber has a sponsorship these days.

[She pouts exaggeratedly, lost in thought for a moment.]

What in Sam Heck am I gonna do, come to think? Secret identites are great in a city of a few hundred thousand, but I'm pretty sure people'd be able to figure out who showed up at the same time I did.

[unofficial_ambassador]

I'm sure that soon enough everyone would know it was you.

[And not just because no one else talks like that.]

It looks like we're going to be here for a long time. It's something to think about.

[girlinasquirrelsuit]

Usually the Boss hypnotizes everyone. Makes it hard to remember. But the more I think about it... Geeze louise, every freckle's gonna get somebody's attention.

[unofficial_ambassador]

The costume as well. From what I understand, in this place the villains don't dress up.

[girlinasquirrelsuit]

Hey, that's fine. I used regular old purse-snatchers, mobsters, and thugs as training wheels back in the day. Frankly, if I could give the loony toons a pass, I might. More trouble than they're worth.

[unofficial_ambassador]

That's true enough. It could be like a vacation.

[girlinasquirrelsuit]

I'm terrible at vacations. They either start as work or end up as work.

[unofficial_ambassador]

With what I've seen of this place so far, that is the type of vacation that this would end up being.

[girlinasquirrelsuit]

Sometimes it helps to have no to no expectations.