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[There's some fumbling with the camera then, the usual motion blur that can be associated with a newcomer exploring unfamiliar technology.]

Right, so that's the camera there. And the microphone is... Oh, well that's a bit on the nose isn't it? I suppose that would make it easier for the lay user.

[A bit more shifting then, until he sets his device on a flat surface. The image is a small, softbodied man with a pointed intensity in his eyes. He speaks softly, in a thick Scottish brogue.]

H-hello -- to whomever might be listening. I apologize for this interruption, but I'm searching for someone in particular. I have reason to believe that Jemma Simmons has been staying among you. If you know her, it's imperative that I make contact with her. My name is Leo Fitz -- I followed her here.

[He doesn't mention SHIELD or their duties, though. The agency is such a touchy issue in the public eye, it might be a condemnation to draw unnecessary attention to it. There was no telling what kind of people lived here.]

Oh, I hope languages won't be an issue. Though I suppose it should be fine if we utilize this text function...

[His stare shifts pensively from the display to the camera and back again. His instinct is to pull apart this hardware and improve upon the flaws, but that would be entirely counterproductive to his means.]

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...i suppose. just telling you what the people who go home and then come back here say.

[Sometimes it's hard not to feel condescended to, even when you're trying not to be too much of A Scientist.]

nah, we definitely notice. sometimes our memories get altered and we think we're something or someone else. in those cases i guess we don't notice. but usually it's the other kind. something changes about wonderland and then we all have to deal with it.

Listen, y-you're gonna eat a lot of weird shit when you're traveling the galaxy, m-maybe don't be so quick to fucking judge. You try thinking about f-f-fucking alien taxonomy or whatever when you're starving and some hot Welsh alien sticks a plate of g-goddamn calories in front of you.

I don't think ... [It is where it leads.

But, sigh, she just trails off there. That would be a weird ass -- weirder -- monolith if it sent people to this place.] Okay, where are you? Lemme come find you and we can compare notes or search or whatever you want.

[It doesn't particularly matter what you think, Daisy. He's the genius here. If he says this was caused by the monolith, then it was caused by the monolith. And it has to be that way because it's the last thing he can think to try.]

It's some kind of... kitchen, or cafeteria. Plenty of people gathered round with food. I reckon it's easy enough to find.

[Fitz you are stubborn but you have a big heart so it's probably ok.]

Mmm food. [And with that she takes off to find him, heading towards the kitchen. La la la la la.

So, when she does come face to face with him: ]

I assume you've eaten something in here by now? [Because if not she's gonna try to make him eat something.]

[when she finds him, he's actively switching between conversations, typing furiously and responding to others. He's perhaps overly focused, but that's all he's really been these last few months.

He smiles to Daisy. Daisy's here and she's confirmation that this was a good decision. He's not completely failed. Sort of. Somewhat. He needs validation okay.]

Oh? No, I hadn't thought of that. Been busy.

[He can eat when they've found Jemma.]

[ Yeah, Billy doesn't speak science. But he thinks he gets the gist. ]

Yeah, people who come here can be from different times. Different worlds too, some parallel universes.

This place is full of such conveniences, although I'm sure I don't have to tell you that they come at a price.

[Their freedom. Their memories. The changes this place undergoes on a regular basis-- the cost shows itself in various forms.]

And no, not at all. [She smiles faintly, and it almost passes for friendly?] It is-- nice, to see some variety.

You can find just about anything here, English-speakers included. I'll get you the tourist guide.

[ Philip attaches the tourist guide in his message. ]

Bummer though. An interdimensional pocket Stonehenge portal would've come in handy.

Your logic is flawed. Same method of transportation isn't the same thing as same path, especially if you didn't know where you were headed. What was your method of transportation? Mostly the only method of getting here is if the dimensional pocket or whatever entity controls it chooses to teleport you here.

It's possible. Whoever or whatever is in power here selects us for a reason, after all.

Comfortable prisoners don't protest much. Is that the way it is?

[It's interesting to hear her perspective about this. He supposes that there has been a lot of American accents thus far, but he's become accustomed to being considered the odd one out in that respect.]

Well... Someone ought to keep the yanks from existing in a total vacuum, yeah?

[But he was trying to dumb it down, even... :(]

And those of us who left from the same time could have arrived in completely different ones.

Did you know Jemma when she was here? Was she all right?

Handy, yes, if one was working on a particularly intensive workout regime. Good for the quads, I imagine.

[He's reviewing the guide now, gleaning the differences here from the other one he'd received. This place needs two pamphlets? It isn't encouraging to know that there was enough time to design two of them.]

[That's primarily because the world is populated with anti-intellectual oafs who are so afraid of their intellectual betters that they'd prefer stuffing human bodies into lockers over actually learning something.

Not that he's biased.]

What's been taken from you? If it's all right to ask something so personal.

[Dumbed down enough that he got the gist. Except Billy isn't sure Fitz totally gets what's going on.]

Well. I mean, you don't really know you're getting pulled here until it happens, but yeah, I guess that's possible. Though you wouldn't know she was also pulled here at the same exact second you were.

[Now he's confusing himself. But Jemma, Jemma is an easier topic.]

I did know her, we were friends. She wasn't here that long, a couple of months maybe, but she was ok. Coulson was here for a while too, but I didn't know him as well.

[He knows that he can make this fit into what he needs to be true. That's enough. It's not entirely scientific, but he needs this.]

It wasn't the same second. It's been months of study.

-- Coulson? [Trapped here, after he'd let Fitz know about his malfunctioning limb...]

How did he get on with his situation?

[Maybe he ought to have repaired it properly before he left.]

[He squints suspiciously at that. Hydra?????]

Not sure what they think they'd benefit from having me here. I'm not particularly exceptional.

I believe that's the idea.

[Comfortable prisoners-- as though they could forget what they are. Despite the fact that her own feelings on the situation are rather conflicted, there are certain aspects of their presence here that cannot be objectively ignored.

Her smile blooms just a tiny bit wider, amused.]

Yes. Keep them on their toes. [Another brief pause, this one shorter than the first.] You know who I am.

[You think it, she hears it.]

[Holy shit. Sans almost just bursts out laughing. What's been taken from you. Haha oh man.]

[He manages not to laugh, but his eyesockets do sort of narrow in amusement.]

heh. nothing yet. well, i figure i'll get to star in my own event one of these days. not looking forward to it. i'm not a fan of the spotlight.

No, but I'm sure you have a head full of memories for them to appropriate for their own means.

[Wait, what?] You've been studying how to get here? How did you even know this place existed?

[Billy is the most confused tiny wizard.]

Coulson was fine, I think? Like I said I didn't really know him. Only spoke to him a time or two.

Yeah, it's...

[ Steve sighs and shakes his head. If anything, Wonderland gets more complicated the more that you learn about it. ]

Time is weird here. While we're in Wonderland, no time passes back home. So whenever Wonderland decides to send you back, it'll be like you were never gone.

[ Having done this enough times that he can anticipate the next question Fitz is likely to ask, Steve heads him off at the pass. ]

And you won't remember anything about this place, either. It's why no one has tried to come after us once they got back home.

I didn't. It was linked to a Kree artifact Jemma and I were trying to decipher. She triggered it accidentally several months ago. [AND SHE IS NOT DEAD.]

It's fortunate that he was able to adapt. I hadn't had the opportunity to modify his prosthetic to his liking.

But. Time passed after Simmons left. Lots of it.

[It feels a little like his intestines are trying to turn themselves inside out. This conversation is very much leading to a place he doesn't want to acknowledge.

He's not sure that it's better or worse for this information to be coming from Captain America.]

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