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Being popped out of a tube like some kind of pez candy had to have been the worst experience in Teddy's life. Well, next to the whole nearly getting dissected thing. Once he had done his impression of a Hulkling Pez candy he had immediately bolted away from everyone, he couldn’t think of anything else, really. The combination of fear and confusion tends to do that to people.

It really wasn’t hard to take care of the entire naked issue, he had the ability to change shape at will, so it was easy enough to shift some clothes onto his body. Of course, at the same time he hadn’t expected to be tossed into the middle of some Night of the Living Dead remake. And he did whatever red blooded American teenager would do in a situation where he had no friends and had no clue where he was, he hid.

And he had no problems admitting that he had hidden until the Zombies were gone, he liked his brain where it was, thank you very much. Though, he noticed one thing once they were gone… there were people around here…people who looked somewhat normal... Though, normal was a relative term, even Teddy knew that.

He had one goal and that was to get the hell out of Dodge. Billy was probably having kittens and if he wasn’t somebody else probably was…

[ooc: ogod, I hope I’m doing this right. If I’m not just beat me over the head with a 2x4 or something :o]

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Yeah Teddy. Bet you never expected this. As if Zombies weren't enough, right? Nate had been reading up in the media library. There was simply so much information her could get in there. Things on engineering and design. Chematics for machines he'd never even through of. It was astounding. Stacy was like a goldmine. And he was hungrily poring through the books. He'd head to the W&P later to see if he could find his armor. It made sense that Stacy would provide him with it after all.

But for now, he was heading back to his room, datapads in hands. That is until he walked right into the boy, sprawling and sending his datapads skittering over Stacy's (thankfully soft and fleshy) floor. What had he just walked into, a wall? Rubbing his arm, he looked up from his landing spot on the floor to apologise. But when he did, his eyes went wide.

"Teddy?"

He was seeing things, that's all there was to it. There was no way that he had just run into Nate. So, he was going to try and pretend that his eyes were playing tricks on him. Kneeling down he started to help with picking up the datapads. Just pretend like nothing is wrong, that you're not seeing someone who is supposed to be in the past future...whatever.

Okay, he just couldn't do it... "Nate?! How...what...wait..."

Noting his friend's shocked expression, Nate couldn't help but grin widely. It was hilarious how utterly dumbfounded the boy looked. He may have noticed that Nate himself looked older by at least a year. As well as the jagged scar that ran across his throat. His voice was also slightly rougher, gravelly almost.

"You want the long version, or the Cliff's notes version?"

He wanted the version that wouldn't break his brain. Though, there probably wasn't a version that wouldn't do that. Taking a deep breath he looked left and then right, because he felt like some robot was going to jump out of someplace and take him away in the name of Kang.

"The version that I'll understand."

He chuckled, shaking his head slowly. Pushing himself to his feet, he dusted off the plantsuit and paused to think for a minute. How was he going to explain this as tactfully as possible? It was disorientating enough to be yanked from where ever it was you were before to the ship. What would the explanation do to his friend?

"Well basically? We're on sort of an inter-dimensional Ark. Because our universe, and the universe of everyone else on this ship, was destroyed by an omniversal threat called the Ohm. Stacy (that's the ship's name) took us all. Great fighters and minds and such, to help combat the Ohm and hopefully fix our worlds in the process. And failing that...the defeat the Ohm and repopulate a new world."

A pause as he made a sort of, 'I know how crazy this sounds, but seriously' kind of expression. "Thing is, none of us even knew any of this until recently. Because Stacy had been taken over by space pirates who suppressed her core AI personality."

Something made him smile though and he laid a hand on his friend's shoulder. "Just another day in for the Young Avengers, huh?"

He had completely spaced out during most of that until he was told the universe was destroyed. He didn't completely freak when he saw Nate, and he didn't freak about the zombies...

"Wait...destroyed? Where's Billy?!" Because, if some Ohm or whatever hurt Billy in anyway, Teddy was going to go all Hulkling smash on their asses. Never mind the fact that his home was somehow destroyed and he couldn't remember one piece of what happened...

He was taking deep breaths now, trying to calm down, not moving from the spot that he was. "This is crazy...."

"TEDDY!" Never mind why Cassie had been walking around here. She certainly hadn't been following Nate. (No seriously. Seriously! Fine, don't believe me.)

"Oh my God, Teddy!" Cassie ran to her teammate and threw her arms around him. "It's so good to see you."

"C-Cassie?!" Okay, was everyone here? If Cassie was here and Nate.. was Billy here too? Sorry guys, he just had Billy on the brain right now, he'll apologize later... promise.

"It's like the whole gang is here...."

"Actually everyone but Eli and Tommy." Cassie let go of Teddy but she kept close to him. "Did you just get here? There's usually a big group of people who are released all at once."

"Wait..wait. Everyone but Eli and Tommy..?" Did that mean Billy was here too? Teddy was already looking around like his boyfriend was just going to pop out of nowhere.

"Billy...he's here too?"

Billy's really just been wondering around. He'd gone to see Steve, talked to Ron about Thanksgiving dinner, seen his friends... but a part of him still didn't want to be with anyone. At least not anyone that was here.

So when he heard Cassie's shriek, he ran towards her voice. It couldn't be right? He stopped short when he heard the voice he'd been wanting to hear since the day he got here. Saying his name no less. He felt his heart clench and the next moment he was launching himself at the blond. Not even caring that Nate and Cassie where still there.

"TEDDY!"

Everything else was forgotten, besides he had to catch his boyfriend. "Billy..! Billy!" There was a good deal of relief in his voice. He had been told that their universe had been destroyed..but, Billy was here and...well... the universe being gone didn't seem as bad as it did five minutes ago.

Billy really didn't want to talk. Heck he didn't want to do anything but cling to the blond who had him in his arms. His heart was beating a mile a minute, Teddy was here. He was alive, and Here!

This was crazy, but Billy had made it through (and everyone else too, of course) and that meant there was hope. Though, fighting off an alien race seemed vaguely familiar. Either way, he continued to hold onto Billy glancing at the others. It was one of those I know you’re there, but Billy…and he’s my boyfriend, guys. looks.

“How long have you been here? I’ve missed you… did you see the zombies!?” Because. What teen didn’t like zombies, c’mon now.

"See them? Teddy I was up on the front lines... with Leon Kennedy!" He was still a fanboy even though he had been scared shitless of the zombies. "And if I never see another zombie again... well I never want to see another zombie ever again. Let's just leave it at that." He shook his head and frowned.

"I can't actually tell how much times past here. Everything just happens so fast.. for all I know it's been months."

“After I got spit out in the ooze, I kinda bolted.” Because, honestly that wasn’t a pleasant feeling and the fact that he had no idea where he was at didn’t help matter. And then there were zombies all over the place…yeah he spent a good deal time as a very small creature. “I just got here…I think. How could you be here for a month…?” Okay, now things went from weird, to happy, to weird again.

"Time runs a bit weirdly when you're running around trying not to get killed." He shook his head a bit. "But it's understandable that the big bad Hulkling ran away from a few thousand zombies." He was joking and hugging Teddy a bit more to show that.

"I think it's been a few weeks, actually. It's hard to tell." Cassie stood off to the side, smirking just a little at the adorableness that was Billy and Teddy.

"Hey now..!" He frowned a bit. "I didn't have anybody to help me out and I had no idea where I was. What should I have done. I thought I was in Dawn of the Dead or something." Teddy would just have to squeeze Billy a little tighter than usual, because hey..he deserved it.

"[Teddy!]"

Jonas floated up and landed next to Cassie, smiling. Six down, two to go. Eli and Tommy had better wake up soon.

He glanced over and Nate and Cassie, raising an eyebrow. "[I assume you were just about to call me and Kate?]"

"W-what... is everyone here?!" Teddy didn't get it. Kate was here too? There was way too much going on for Teddy to even understand. They were on some weird living ship? That had zombies running around?

"You guys have a lot of explaining to do..."

Jonas grimaced. "[I suppose that we do,]" he said unhappily. "[We should call Kate first, she has been awake longer than the rest of us and she deserves to know another Young Avenger has turned up.]"

But before they could contact her on the commlinks, Kate was stopping by after spending some time with Tony.

"Somebody call me?" She stepped closer smirking at her friends, and then her eyes widened.

"Teddy?! You're awake!" And ok, but she wasn't sure how much he's heard about their universe yet. She knew Billy took it pretty hard, but he was clearly better now with his boyfriend back.

"You ok?"

"Awake.. yeah. I didn't know I was asleep though." And this was making things even more confusing. "I'm just confused...I don't know what's going on with this sleeping thing and the whole waking up in slime."

And then there was the entire zombie thing, but it really didn't matter in the long run. The zombies were gone and as long as they didn't come back, all was good.

"Yes he's awake. Now if my brother and Eli would get here..." He shook his head. He hoped that the two in question would wake up soon. He didn't like thinking a part of his family might have been missed and lost with... He needed to not think about that right now. He buried his face in Teddy's neck. He'd let the others talk, he just wanted to cling for a while.

Clinging was perfectly fine with Teddy. If Billy had been awake for months...did that mean he was stuck in that strange pod for that long. He had expected Vision or Nate to explain more about what was going on.. and why the walls looked like they were alive.

"Either way...if I'm here...and you guys are here, they're probably someplace else as well... right?"

"[Almost entirely certain,]" Jonas agreed. He glanced around at the others and swallowed a sigh. He did not enjoy being the bearer of bad news, but Teddy was clearly confused.

"[We are currently on board a techno-organic ship known as 'Stacy',]" he informed Teddy. "[She is capable of traveling in time, space, and through dimensional walls. You will encounter people on board who you may have seen in television shows, movies, video games, books, and other forms of entertainment. Stacy and her superiors claim that we and the people still inside the Pod Caverns are the only survivors of our respective universes. Currently, we have no proof of this but their word.]" He glanced around at the others. "[Did I miss anything?]"

"No." He shook his head a bit and then laid it back down on Teddy's shoulder. "I think that about covers it. And Jonas isn't joking about the people from TV, movies, and games..." He smiled a bit, though it was a bit sad. "Samus Aran, Master Chief, Leon Kennedy, Chris Redfield, Captain Picard, Captain Kirk, Obi Wan, and Luke Skywalker. I might be missing some of the others too."

"Just don't mention anything about them being fictional. No geeky moments in front of them, especially Picard, trust me.

"And uhm," Cassie bit her lip. "If they were telling the truth and our universe is gone- there might be a way to get it back. Maybe. If they were telling the truth."

"What do you mean? I mean...this is all weird and all, but maybe they're real and some movie producer just looked into the future and stole ideas..." As to why Teddy was ignoring the whole thing about universes and meat ships and going right for the comic geekdom.... well, it was Teddy and it was just easier to deal with stress that way?

Cassie rubbed her forehead. "No, they are real. What I meant was don't go all fanboy on them."

"Just think other worlds where they're living their lives like how we do? Easiest way to think of it," Kate shrugged.

She added, "Trust me, it gets easier once you've been working with them for over a year or so."

"Over....a year? What?" Okay, that was getting even more confusing. Was he asleep for a year!? How was that even possible, he wasn't even sure what was going on anymore. Maybe this was all just some weird dream...

"[It is apparently impossible to accurately track time on this ship, possibly due to her method of time-travel,]" Jonas said. "[Even I have trouble, and if we are honest about it--]" He could not stop himself from glancing briefly and uncomfortably at Nate, "[--that is what I was made for.]"

Talk about awkward... Teddy just smiled and nodded his head...because what else could he really do. He didn't really understand all the time travel and space flight jazz (even though he was an alien, go figure), he was the muscle of the group... he broke things and kicked ass, that was about it.

"And we're sure this is all real...or that we're real...or...man, I've got a headache."

"Oh it's real alright. We fought zombies. We've eaten the slop Stacy calls food. And I guess they've even gone to other planets too, though I wasn't here for that." He shrugged a bit, still clinging to Teddy. He wasn't going to let go any time soon, and did he really have a reason to let go?

"Stacy...oh the ship thing...right?" Teddy didn't want to think about this stuff right now. He really just wanted a nice bed to sleep in, though he figured that this nice bed was going to be made of the same meat as everything else.

"And slop...? No cheeseburgers...?" Man, he was craving one of those right now.

"[I have no idea about cheeseburgers specifically, but Stacy's new incarnation has mentioned that she does have some real food stored away,]" Jonas said. "[If she does not have cheeseburgers though, there is always the Sensoriums. Stacy can simulate a cheeseburger there, although it will actually be nutrient slop.]"

"This place is insane. Completely and totally insane." Teddy frowned and just continued to hug his boyfriend, because it was like prozac, it kept him from doing something crazy and going insane period.

"So, how do we get home...?"

"By fixing things here first." Billy mumbled into Teddy's shoulder. "Think of it as one of our video games. We gotta do a shit ton of missions before we ever see our home base again. Heck there's probably a crap ton of side quests we gotta do to." And he was rambling a bit, but who cared.

"As long as we don't have to spend weeks grinding to level up." Teddy wanted to get through with everything as quickly as possible. As cool as it was to be flying in space on a giant meat submarine he wanted the universe to be back to normal.

"Sadly I think we have to." He smirked a bit as Teddy went along with his gaming example.

"Cheat codes? Game Shark? Anything? I mean I'm all for going through and entire game, but I'd like to get home to my own bed...even with Tommy running around and ruining moments."

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