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[ The video feed is blurry and laced with visual static, and Carol moves the device closer and farther away a few times until the picture finally comes into focus. ]

This thing on?

[ Tap, tap. ]

Alright - jokes aside, we've finally got a way to all talk to each other. This means we can check in with each other about what's working and what's still broken, and figure out if we can do anything about it.

For those of you I haven't met yet, I'm Carol Danvers. I've been part of the US Air Force, the Kree Starforce, and I've worked with SHIELD and the Avengers; if those names mean anything to any of you.

We seem to be doing alright on resources - food, clean water, shelter. Such as it is. [ She glances around at the room behind her, shrugging before turning back to camera. ] Anyone manage to dig anything up about these people and what exactly happened here, or are we still just working with what that first Data Point gave us?

[ She has about a thousand more questions, and she hesitates before continuing to speak. ]

And if there's anything else that you think everyone should know, well, go ahead and let us know.

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Alright you guys - any of you have a preference for which one of these ships we want? Any ties to 'em, if you were on 'em before?

I also wanna know what you guys know - what are you already good at, what did you pick up here, any special skills or talents, that kinda thing. Clint - I think I've got you covered but feel free to fill me in if there's anything I've missed. If we're going to be working together I think we need to figure out at least where our strengths and weaknesses are and where we can cover for each other if we need to.

[ Carol has been, more or less, fixing what she can when and where she can - after spending a good chunk of time at the Power Plant, helping to get the power restored, she's gathered up as many of those crystal battery rods as she can and tried to charge them on her own power before distributing them throughout town, to see if any of them turn anything else on.

She'll patrol from the air, and you might find her in the forest, carefully (?) blasting through the overgrowth to reveal buildings near sites where the arrow signs popped up. She'll relax at the lake, too, offering to heat it when there's a few people around and she can afford to expend the energy on a luxury like that.

For the most part, she's trying to keep track of where everyone is and what they're doing, but with this many people in a place this big, that gets ... tricky. Therefore, wildcard! options are also in play; chances are she's going to be anywhere you might have also been, in town. ]

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[ Katara's expression is pensive when she turns her feed on. ]

I've never been on any ship like that, so I'm sure whatever you choose is fine. We're not... going anywhere in those, are we?

[ Because that's so far beyond her lived experience that it makes her uneasy just thinking about it. Not for the first time, she wishes Sokka were here: this is the kind of thing he would love.

She perks up a bit when she answers the other question. ]

You've already seen me waterbending--I think almost everyone has, at this point. I can use it with anything that has water in it, if that's helpful. I can also use it to heal, especially wounds. When I got here, I learned how to take care of the plants.

Yeah, going somewhere's the idea. We'll probably want someone to stay planetside and take care of things, do more investigation, too - it's weird that they'd bring us all here and then tell us to get lost without leaving anyone to hold down the fort.

[Unless they're Up to Something, which is a distinct possibility, but she doesn't give voice to that yet.]

But I think you'll like it, if you decide to come with us. Hopefully we'll be able to figure out where in the galaxy we are, exactly. And if the ships are running right, you won't have anything to worry about.

[A lopsided, somehow proud smile.] Your waterbending is rad. I didn't know you could heal with it, either - I bet Clint'll be glad you're with us. 😉

[ Katara doesn't really get some of these concepts--galaxies and interstellar travel are a little mind-boggling to someone from a world where the moon and sun are actual spirits. But she nods either way, trying to comprehend it. ]

If we figure out where we are, maybe we can figure out how to go home?

[ Carol's compliment makes Katara blush a little, sheepish and pleased at the same time. ]

The healing works best on wounds--cuts and scrapes and burns. I received more training in fighting than healing, but I know enough. Does Clint get hurt a lot?

That's the idea. And if we can figure out who our neighbors are, maybe they'll know more about what happened here so we can get these people the right kind of help. Which might still be us, in the end, but - I like to know what's going on from more than one perspective if I can, you know?

Hopefully we won't need either one, but - that's good to know, in case we do get into a scrape wherever we're going. He's ... well, he'll need your help more than I will, let's just put it that way.

Nice introduction. There's bound to be a few people here who haven't heard that one before.

[It goes against Natasha's instincts to let a joke like that go without commenting on it at least a little. Some things just have to be said between friends.

If that's the word for it.]

Believe me, I figure out any new information and you'll be one of the first to know.

Just trying to cover all my bases. [For once.]

Thanks. I know I can count on you.

[Because she knows Natasha is nothing if not organized and observant, in the ways that Carol's been trying to be but coming up short.]

You know anything about these ships? I haven't seen these models before.

Actually, I do. One of them used to be mine.

[And that doesn't make it any less weird.]

The Atroma assigned me to the Vanquish. I was even captain for a while. Wasn't expecting it to end up here though.

[Before appearing on screen Eli made sure that his uniform was presentable. It took a while to figure out the communicator device as it wasn't like the technology he had at home. It wasn't as sophisticated to the devices he was used to using, but it was better then nothing.

When he spoke he had a heavy accent that would be similar to a southern one. He spoke in soft but firm voice.]

I'm Lieutenant Eli Vanto reporting in. I've served the Imperial Navy for over 15 years and currently work among the Chiss Ascendancy that's another military group. I've spent a lot of time serving as an aide/translator for my Grand Admiral. My other job was doing data analysis and keeping an eye on ship records. I can easily provide those services here.

These aren't ships I've served in before so I would say pick which one you fancy.

Edited 2019-10-02 12:56 (UTC)

[She blows out a soft breath, letting her shoulders relax slightly.] Good to have you aboard, Lieutenant.

Have you found any patterns in the systems in the city? Or -- I hope -- any actual records?

Sadly there are no concrete forms of records anywhere to be found. There's really not a lot that I can put together that can give a glimpse of who these people are. As of now it's nothing I can build off on, until I find more information.

I can send you the small file of data I've gathered if you wish to look at it.

I really wonder what happened here for them to wipe out any trace of information they have of their culture. It's a bit disconcerting.

[Carol frowns, trying to fit that piece into the puzzle. She can only assume that Eli's been thorough; with naval training and his disposition so far, she's got no reason to suspect he wouldn't be.]

Do that.

In my experience, people who purge everything usually have something to hide.

I've seen it both ways. They either destroyed it themselves to protect their culture or it was destroyed by those who wanted something and couldn't have it. I'm afraid to say it's usually the latter that happens the most.

[An attached file is then sent over.]

On a different note, is it okay if my Grand Admiral visits our ship? This is one of the first times we've been separated since our careers started with the Imperial Navy.

Oh, he's here? [ She blinks at this; there doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to who got friends pulled along with them and who didn't. ]

Yeah, sure, knock yourself out.

Thanks for the info. I'll look over it and get back to you. You mind if I share it?

Yes, I find it rather intriguing that we both arrived and no one else from our crew. This place makes no sense.

He's not human. I hope that won't be a problem?

And yes, you may share it. I'm trying to reach out to others to see if they can provide information as well.

Sense is overrated.

Yeah, no problem at all. Deal more with non-humans than humans on the regular, anyway. [This is a statement of fact, but one that she seems amused by, if the half-smile is any indication.]

[a video channel comes back, showing a gothy-looking teenager in front of some rusted-out wall somewhere. she waves a little at the camera. speaks so quietly that you might have to turn up the volume to hear her.]

Uh, hi Carol, I'm Krista. And, uh, you seem like a responsible adult, so I'd like to mention that I kind of know about some of this shit and it's kind of freaking me out.

[A look of concern flashes across her eyes briefly - it's not Krista's fault, but the more kids Carol sees here, the more worried she gets about what the Agrii might actually be up to. Especially if anyone is freaking out.]

Hi, Krista.

What's freaking you out about it?

[and for once, Krista is actually relieved to have someone worrying on her behalf. she likes to think of herself as a capable, self-sufficient almost-adult, but even she feels like she really shouldn't be trying to sort this out all on her own.]

Okay, well, this used to be...

[she pauses, puts a hand up to stop herself. thinks.]

Wait, let me back up. How familiar are you with these places that just kind of pull in people from all sorts of dimensions into one, central location? Have you done this before?

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[She shakes her head.] First time dimensions have gotten involved. Space, sure. Time, sometimes.

Guessing it's not the first time for you?

[she nods!] Yeah, I've been through a couple. Haven't messed with time yet, so that's a plus...

[she straightens, like she's ready to give a class presentation on her multiple-dimension theory.]

Okay, so then I'm going to say a bunch of stuff that's going to sound marginally crazy, but just... Stop me if I've lost you at any point.

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[She laughs at this, at least.]

I can fly and shoot energy blasts from my hands. I don't think 'sounding crazy' is something you've gotta worry about with me.

Uh, one, that sounds awesome.

And two--great, because this might get weird.

[she takes a deep breath... and starts at the beginning.]

So, I don't actually know what they are, but there are these places that exist somewhere in reality that we think kind of just pull people out of other dimensions and plunk them all down in one central location. Sometimes it pulls multiple, uh, versions of people. And sometimes it pulls people who are supposed to be dead. Which is wild.

But I've gotten pulled through a couple of these places, and sometimes it's like, you just sort of end up there, no instruction, no one responsible, no clues, you're just sort of left to your own devices in some town or a tower or something with all these other people who also got pulled there. Sometimes there's like, this nebulous force that wants you to do stuff, I guess, or like, these weird, magical things that just kind of... [she shrugs.] ...happen for no reason...

I don't know, it's hard to describe. But this last one, before I came here, stuck us all on a fleet of spaceships. You following so far?

[With a smirk:] I'd say it's pretty cool.

[But she listens, as carefully as she can, doing her best to give Krista her full attention. She nods soberly at 'supposed to be dead' - because she knows who from her world did and didn't survive the incident - and her worry only deepens as Krista goes on.]

I'm with you. These are the ships that are parked out by the hangar?

I see you've already guessed the plot twist...

[she glances over towards something (it's the hangar bay in the distance, but that doesn't make it to the video), before continuing.]

So they called it the Drift Fleet, and this one was actually run by something called Atroma. I don't know if it was a person, or a type of alien, or some evil space corporation, or what... But we were kind of told that the stuff we were doing was being broadcast out to thousands of viewers, like some reality TV show or something. Like Keeping Up With The Kardashians, except we were the Kardashians.

But it was, like, low-key creepy all the time. They put these augment things in everyone's necks and it would like, cause all these weird problems like memory loss, or powers going haywire... And we got shipped around to all of these different worlds, but no one ever seemed to have heard of this stupid show we were supposed to be on, so I don't even know if it was real or just a thing they told us to get us to do stuff...

[Krista sighs... she's said a lot, and starts self-consciously playing with her hair. running her fingers through it while she keeps thinking.]

And I thought I left, because I feel like I was gone for a while... I thought that the Agrii and this... Wherever we are was totally different. But then those ships showed up, and I'm... I'm kind of starting to wonder if I didn't actually leave at all, and something's just messing with me.

[she sighs again, dropping her hands in her lap.]

Does that sound crazy? I'm starting to feel like I sound crazy.

[ Carol's hand instinctively reaches for her neck, where her own Kree implant used to be, what seems like a lifetime ago. The years have passed, but that doesn't make it any less awful - especially when other people are still out there, still taking people and fucking with their minds. The fact it was for entertainment is worse, though; at least the Kree had a purpose in what they did. ]

Barnes told me a little bit about them. Not that much, though.

Look - [ And she frets, still, because this isn't the kind of thing any kid should have to go through, especially not multiple times. Being a teenager is hard enough without adding alien abduction and mind control to the mix. ] I'm really sorry that any of that happened to you. To any of you. It shouldn't have. If I'd had anything to do with it, it wouldn't have. But - we're here now. And I don't think you're crazy.

I think you have a pretty strong theory, though. And if you're right, well - we're just gonna have to find a way to break out again.

I've been to a lot of planets. I've spent decades helping people who need my help - because I can. And there are other people here I've worked with, or heard of, who do the same thing. That means we're going to get to the bottom of this, and we're going to make it right.

[Krista doesn't really get emotional about things. she keeps her cards close to her chest for a lot of reasons. she's a secret-keeper, she's an observer. it's always been her job to stay alert and think of all the exit routes while her friends screwed around.

but it's exhausting. and even if she's the reincarnation of a thousand-year-old fae creature, she's spent most of the life that she knows as a weak, stressed-out little human who doesn't know how to not put responsibility for absolutely everything on her own shoulders.

so she kind of... brings her knees up to her chest while Carol talks, listening quietly. and by the end of it, she can be caught wiping at her eyes with her sleeves a little before looking back at the screen with a relieved smile.]

Man, you sound really cool. [mega-cool. but seriously...] Thanks, I'm... I'm really glad.

I try.

[ And she doesn't always succeed, but damn if she doesn't try, and keep trying. Being able to reassure someone like this - that's a start. Now she has to make good on her promise. ]

Where are you now?

[she doesn't know if Carol can get much further than others have in the past, but honestly--she's just relieved to feel like someone has her back. she pushes past her emotional moment pretty quickly, and turns the camera to reveal the view of the same ships she had just been talking about.]

Like, the building right next to the hangar. It's... [she puts the video feed back on herself.] Okay, now that I think about it, maybe kind of not the best place I could be, right now.

I'm Keith... Paladin of Voltron and part of the Galaxy Garrison. [He'd kind of been reinstated when they got back to Earth despite having been discharged and expelled from the Academy only a few years prior...] I'm familiar with the US Air Force, but they haven't been around on my version of Earth for a while. I know there are others from the Avengers here, but I haven't heard of the other stuff. [He was kind of curious about that "Kree Starforce".]

I was in Drift Fleet before we got here, so this whole idea of a bunch of people getting pulled together like this isn't all that unfamiliar for me.

Thing is... I'm not sure these Agrii are related to the Atroma... or whatever it was we ended up defeating. I don't think it was the Atroma.

But the way they communicate. It's not the same. This place seems pretty different.

Hi, Keith.

Tell me more about this Galaxy Garrison?

SHIELD was an Earth-based organization that dealt with stuff that was above the pay grade of your run of the mill law enforcement. Starforce is ... [A brief sigh, one that might be considered frustrated if you were to read anything into it.] .... elite. Special forces. We'd go in and do the dirty work, the hard stuff. But ... let's just say I found a better way to solve problems.

From what I've heard about the Atroma, the Agrii seem pretty different. My gut says they're not being malicious, but that's doesn't always mean they're harmless.

It's like a space force. We were training mostly to be explorers, but it ended up something of a defense force when Earth was attacked. [Thankfully, 'space exploration' had also come with the understanding that they might need to defend themselves... so while they'd been woefully unprepared for Sendak and his forces, they'd still had some kind of training in order to be able to fight.

He considered her explanations for a moment.]

Sounds like a few groups I know. [The Blade of Marmora was kind of like that... 'elite'... but also a rebel force.]

Yeah. Granted, what we experienced from the Atroma turned out to be something that was likely not Atroma, but I don't think they're the same as the Agrii. [He still remembered some of the stuff from their files about how Drift Fleet started and what the Atroma had been like before. That blob in the Marsiva had probably been something else.] They seem to be asking for some kind of help, I think, but in kind of a 'help or else' way. Not giving us a choice in the matter. [Keith wasn't a fan.] They're definitely pulling something from the Atroma, though... like, maybe they've actually seen Drift Fleet, where as a lot of the people we came across there didn't really know us all too well.

Yeah, I guess you got me figured out. I'm still working on the alternative weapons front, for whatever that's worth. I don't have any real opinion on the ships, because I've never seen them before, but as long as they work and they're in decent shape, that's good enough for me.

[ Of course, he'll want to investigate whatever ship they pick, just to see for himself what condition it's in. ]

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