Time for the 'meat' and greet

[cityship]

[NOTE: This takes place DURING the holiday plot. If your character is involved in that, then they're still on the surface and not on the ship at this time.]

The rest of the crew assembled on the Observation Deck to meet the latest editions to their numbers. After the revelation that their worlds are gone, many of them are even more eager to see people they knew from home.

Several people are set up near the doors to provide the new people with omnicoms and comm rings.

There's a lot to tell the new people. It's going to be a lot to take in.

[ooc: Only new characters and Command Staff can start new threads for introductions, to limit the number of threads. Everyone else, just tag in and have your guys greet the newbies. The mission is still going on, so if your character is offship, they won't be around for this.]

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[callmeotterpop.livejournal.com]

Bobby smirked as he made his way around the Observation Deck. He had found his X-Men uniform in the possession locker, but as the plant suit he was wearing worked for clothes, he left all of it behind. Well all but a single pair of sunglasses he had found. He twirled them around his fingers and then slipped them on his face.

So what if he was on a ship, a telepathic ship, god knew where. It wasn't anything that he couldn't handle. Plus, anything was better than dealing with the mess that he had left back home.

Bobby moved towards the center of the room. Maybe his luck was going to finally turn around and he'll see some of his friends here. Then again, he could live without them.

[greennotgold]

Fletcher was confused. Still scared, but that had dulled until it was just a sort of pervasive worry rather than an all-encompassing fear. He was jumpy, flinching at the slightest loud noise -- that tended to happen whenever he found himself suddenly grabbed and dressed by weird energy... vine things. Which, to be honest, wasn't often.

In the storage space he'd found some of his chalk, and his hat, which he wasn't wearing but instead had clutched in his hands like a security blanket of some sort. He was standing near the middle of the room as Bobby approached, looking around to see if he could see a familiar face. Russel, Mr. Belshio, anyone.

[callmeotterpop.livejournal.com]

Bobby took note of the little kid, probably the first thing he really paid attention too. The kid couldn't be any older than some of the kids at the academy. He shook his head and moved towards him, removing the sunglasses and pushing them up on his head, he smiled down at the kid.

"Most kids your age would be running around here going wild. Big adventure like this. But you're here, looking like you want to hide under a rock. What's up short stuff, not scared of the big old ship are ya?"

[greennotgold]

"Adventure..." Fletcher glanced up at the man in confusion. This wasn't an adventure, it was a nightmare. "I-- a little. I still don't understand any of this."

At least he didn't yet know the worst of it. That was best for being able to adjust. For the next few minutes, anyway.

[callmeotterpop.livejournal.com]

Bobby felt a part of his ache. This kid was really scared. And from the looks of it, it had to do with his past. He shook his head and looked around. "Look kiddo, I don't think any of us really understand this. But my guess is, the nice ship thinks that we can help with something. It wouldn't have brought us here otherwise." He smiled a bit. "Stacy wants us to be heroes." All little kids wanted to be heroes right?

[greennotgold]

Hearing that, Fletcher swallowed nervously. He shook his head quickly, looking very much like a deer in headlights. "But I can't-- I'm just-- I can't be a hero, she must've made a mistake." Chosen to fight aliens? Aliens who could destroy worlds. It was all impossible. Why him? Why not the Elric brothers, or a State Alchemist, or even Russel? "I can't do anything like that!"

[callmeotterpop.livejournal.com]

"Don't sell yourself short. I knew this girl back home, her only ability was to give people these weird hallucinations. But did that stop her? Nope." He kneels down so he was more on height with the boy and smiled. "I'm sure whatever you can do, it's amazing."

[greennotgold]

If he'd had trouble following what was happening before, he had even more trouble now. He held his floppy green hat closer to his chest when the man knelt down and just looked at him in confusion. "H... Hallucinations? A chemist?" That was what he latched on to, mind racing and trying to make sense of the situation.

[stickyboots]

Peter, being the ship's official Worst Welcoming Committee Ever, is already on deck before the bulk of the new crewmembers have filed into the room. Spotting a familiar figure among them, he weblines over, quipping as he swings, "Frozone! Ice of you to drop by!"

[callmeotterpop.livejournal.com]

Bobby's smile nearly split his face when he heard that voice. "Well if it isn't my favorite bug!" He laughed and shook his head. "Of all the people who I expected to see here, you weren't one of them."

[stickyboots]

He nudges his mask over the bridge of his nose so that he can flash a grin in return, "Dude, this place is bad luck central. Who else has the experience?"

[callmeotterpop.livejournal.com]

"Um... Logan." He held up a finger and smirked. It was truth, if there was one person he knew with worse luck that Spider-Man, it was Wolverine. "But enough of all that. Tell me what the heck's going on, and more importantly who else is here." He was hoping for the words: Cyclops is here. Came out of the bugs mouth. At least some form of that sentence.

[stickyboots]

Peter's smile scrunches into a frustrated pout quickly enough, "We got Ms. Marvel and a load of kids who I don't recognise but respond to all my best material with the weary tolerance that only the Avengers have the patience to convey."

For the next part, his hand instincively goes to scratching the back of his head with apprehension, "Jean's here too, but she's... I don't know. Different."

But still completely terrifying.

"I think one of your other boys is here too. Chamber. He is one of yours, right?"

[callmeotterpop.livejournal.com]

Kids related to the Avengers. Bobby nodded slightly. The Young Avengers were on board. Well that was something at least. He was trying to think if he knew any of their names, but ignored it for something more important.

"Jean and Starsmore? I think I win for worst luck." He shook his head. Of all the telepaths Stacy could have stolen away, it had to be those two. "And what the heck do you mean different? Like alternate universes? And wait a second, how come you don't know the Young Avenger brats? You're an Avenger. Didn't you like help train them?"

[stickyboots]

Cue the 'quit reminding me of responsibility I'm desperate for yet incapable of coping with' facepalm, "She's from a parallel universe and I'm from the past. Apparently. Personally, I preferred it back then."

[bouncywarrior.livejournal.com]

"SPIDEY!" Hey look Spidey, it's Speedball, carrying a somewhat put-out cat.

[stickyboots]

"Speedball!" Well, if this wasn't turning out to be Peter's favourite podpop so far, "And... Niels? Niels is here?"

[bouncywarrior.livejournal.com]

"And not very happy about it."

Even less happy about having to be dragged around, Niels lept out of Robbie's arms, and walked into the crowd.

Assured that the cat wasn't going to try and kill everyone, Speedball continued talking. "Soo, what's goin' on? Cuz I know diddly-squat."

[stickyboots]

"Is he ever very happy about anything?" He shrugs, "Aside from casual rodent slaughter, natch."

One eye still watching the direction in which Niels sauntered, just in case anyone suddenly started bouncing around the walls, he makes his very poor attempt to explain. It's lucky the two of them happened to be the closest thing to happy-go-lucky in their univserse, else this could get pretty emotional.

"The deal is that our universe has been wiped out. Some extradimensional gribblies called the Ohm are trying to destroy... well, everything. Reality itself. This is supposed to be a refugee ship and we're the refugees."

He claps his hands and rocks on the balls of his feet, "So, it's pretty much diddly-squat all round."

[bouncywarrior.livejournal.com]

"Please tell me there's a way to fix this. Even a really, really tiny chance. Even if it's such a tiny chance that it can only be used by pointing Squirrel Girl at it and hoping for the best." Robbie says, voice pleading.

[hexyeah]

"Spider-Man?" Wanda hesitated before approaching. After all his costume was different but... "Is that you?"

She held her headdress and cape in one hand and a book, the one her husband had given her for her anniversary, in the other.

[foursleeves.livejournal.com]

He rounds on yet another familiar voice, cheekbones stretching his mask into what may just about constitute a grin, "C'mon Wanda, who else makes a onesie look this good?"

[hexyeah]

"Oh, Spider-Man." Wanda smiled. "I am so glad to see another friendly face- masked or not. Just where are we? Is my husband here? Is anyone else we know here?"

[stickyboots]

"Oh boy, where to start?" he replies exuberantly, "We're in space. Or, well, not space but the space between space. Yeah, sounds like nonsense to me too but since the space we're familiar with apparently doesn't exist anymore this is pretty much our only option. As for who's here... It's me and Ms. Marvel and some kids I don't know but seem spookily familiar with me. There's a guy going round with Vis' name and terrible fashion sense 'cept he's not old enough to shave yet or wouldn't be if he could grow any hair in places that are commonly shaven and hadn't been built in the first place. Jean Grey is kicking about too, but she's different; alternate universe I think. I'm guessing you saw Iceman and Speedball on the way in."

What? She wanted to know...

[hexyeah]

At some point during that news update, Wanda's jaw dropped. "I-" She stopped.

Hold please, Peter Parker. That was a lot to process all at once.

"A young Vision? From an alternate universe like Jean?" Which lead to another question. "If that's so, how can we know if the two of us are from the same universe?"