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[actualwizard]

[The camera clicks on and amber eyes blink owlishly at the screen. Billy usually didn’t do things like this. The only videos that existed of him were usually taken by Teddy, because he claimed Billy was doing something cute, or by Tommy who claimed Billy was doing something idiotic and those usually wound up on the internet somewhere. This was a first for him.]

Well. This was not where I expected to end up when trying to teleport home. Unless someone slipped me something at the comic book store. Is it possible to hallucinate entire worlds? For all I know I’ve wandered into Avengers Mansion and I’m talking to a wall.

[He winced internally, he was babbling and the only one who ever found that endearing was Teddy, and Teddy wasn’t here, at least he didn't think Teddy was here.]

So um, hi, I guess? I guess I should introduce myself. Billy Kaplan, I can do magic…sometimes it works.

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[actualwizard]

Yeah, Kate. Sometimes it gets confusing, especially when we're all working together.

[widows_kiss]

Yes, I'm beginning to see that.

[Especially since she defaults to her partner on that one.]

So the Avengers are different where you're from as well?

[actualwizard]

Different from yours apparently, but from what I gather the Kate thats here is my Kate, so her Avengers are my Avengers.

[Yeah, thats not going to get confusing at all.]

[widows_kiss]

[It already is. Sigh.]

Can you tell me about your Avengers then? She's mentioned they've been around for a while, in her world.

[actualwizard]

[Oh good a topic he can go on and on and on about.]

Yeah, the original team was formed in the 1960s. It was Ironman, Captain America, Thor, The Hulk, Ant-Man and Wasp. After that Quicksilver, The Scarlet Witch and Hawkeye joined. Since then the roster kind of rotates.

[widows_kiss]

[She recognizes approximately half those names, although she makes note of the unfamiliar ones so she can relay them to the others, just in case. She also doesn't miss that her name doesn't show up there. Yet the girl had recognized her right off. Apparently she'd just shown up much later.

Then again, 1960's... That'd be problematic for a good number of the team.]

Does that mean we're all retired now? Is that why there's a Young Avengers?

[actualwizard]

No, we became the Young Avengers when Ironman disband the team for a while. We uh, tried to help young Kang the Conquerer not become...well his future self.

[Given the differences in their realities he's not sure she's going to know who that is.]

The name kind of just stuck after a newspaper started calling us that because we were still teenagers. Still are mostly.

[widows_kiss]

With a name like that, I can see why.

[Called it in one.]

Did it work? The reformation, I mean.

[actualwizard]

Kinda of, until we broke the time stream and started to cease to exist. But he fixed it. [Obviously as Billy was still there]

I really hate time travel.

[widows_kiss]

[She winced.]

You're not the only one.

[actualwizard]

Do you have any experience with it then?

[widows_kiss]

Not until I got here. Although this place has wrecked plenty of havoc with it.

[actualwizard]

I can imagine.