[video]

[commanderspecs]

[Barry looks like a cross between panicked and outraged.]

Can anyone tell me how to get home from here?! My wife is going to be very upset that I've been kidnapped. She's a very well respected detective with the Central City Police Department and--

[He runs a hand through his hair and looks around, clearly fretting now.]

Oh gosh, Iris. What is Iris going to say? What is she going to do? I hope she finds this place. Wherever this place is.

[He looks directly at the device again before pointing wildly at the pod he had escaped from.]

I-I-I woke up in that...that thing!

[He has the white box clutched tightly under his arm because he assumed that the rest of the items within it were important. At least the hologram that he encountered said that they were important. He had found the phone and decided to at least put out an all call.]

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[Video]

[borntolove]

[A very calm and reassuring voice]

Hallo. Don't worry. You're going to be alright. And yes - you woke up in a pod.

How are you?

[commanderspecs]

How am I? How am I?

[he's hyperventilating]

Video

[blindpuppet]

Did you read the pamphlets?

[Enis sounds bored, tired and a little bit like she doesn't care. The only fact that counters the droll sound of her voice is that she is responding to him which means that she's ready to help if she can.]

[commanderspecs]

I read the pamphlet. I saw the hologram. I just--I just--

[He's still trying to wrap his head around all of it]

[blindpuppet]

Breath.

[Enis spoke in a calm voice.]

Start with how you're feeling. Try and ask one question at a time and I'll see what I can do.

[commanderspecs]

[Nope. Not breathing. Panicking. He pulls at the bowtie around his neck]

I want to go home! My wife will be very concerned!

[ Video ]

[initia_nova]

Hello, sir.

We all woke up here all of sudden, you are in Genessia. It's a different world form your own and while you are here, the time in your home-world freezes.

For the record, I'm aware of how crazy that explanation sounds. It's still the truth.

[borntolove]

[Calm voice]

Breathe. Keep breathing. Slow deep breathe.

[As he continues to run over]

[commanderspecs]

Easy for you to say, fella! Oh god, oh god. Did Zoom do this?! Is this his handywork?!

[Still hyperventilating]

[commanderspecs]

Different world?!

[He's not shrieking]

[initia_nova]

[Sure he isn't. The same way Scott isn't wincing.]

Yes, different world. Did you see the hologram or the pamphlets? They explain the basics.

It's not as bad as it looks like, I promise you will be okay.

[redarrowqueen]

[Its a stretch but Thea makes the leap.]

Does the place Starling City mean anything?

[Video]

[rando_dork]

Oh yeah, the freaky pod things. Aren't they awesome?

It was like getting abducted by aliens.

[commanderspecs]

Yes! That’s where the Hood is!

[redarrowqueen]

[Hope!]

Does the name Oliver Queen mean anything?

[commanderspecs]

...yes. He died in that accident and only his father made it out alive. Why? Do you know them?

[redarrowqueen]

I'm his sister Thea, I think I'm from a different version of things timeline wise because Oliver's alive in my world.

[spacepeterpan]

Yes of course you were in a thing you're always in a thing, well, I s'pose not if you're in the void of space, unless you feel that that counts.

[The Doctor's face goes almost immediately from "wtf are you talking about" to "ah yes well let's think about this."]

Although you wouldn't be there for very long.

[...and then remembers those are the noises panicking humans make, and flashes a reassuring smile.]



No worries, though, you're safe, well, safe as anyone really is anywhere, and only as kidnapped as the rest of us, which... in fairness is more than a little bit kidnapped, but not so much in the "thrown in a van" sort of way, and probably more like "thrown through a rift into an artificial pocket universe" sort of way, although I'm still working on the details, hello, I'm the Doctor, and you are...?

[commanderspecs]

I...I did. Is this Zoom's doing? Is this where the breachers are coming from? Going to? Is this where those metas are coming from?!

[commanderspecs]

I...oh. There have been theories of multiverses. None that have been actually proven just yet. I've never met Oliver Queen. But I did hear that he's somewhat of a cad.

[commanderspecs]

Awesome?! They're not awesome! Have we been abducted?! What--is this--are you working for Zoom?!

[commanderspecs]

[FINALLY! Someone who looks relatively normal! That relieves him. A tiny bit. Barely.]

I'm Doctor Barry Allen. I'm with the Central City Police Department. We're in a pocket universe?! Is there a way to get back?!

[spacepeterpan]

[...not the usual reaction he gets, but he'll take it!]

Hello, Barry, yes, well, maybe, not sure, a lot of telepathic technology in place, frankly not quite like anywhere I've been before, and after something like a thousand years of space and time, that's saying something, but yes, there's always a way out.

...have we figure out what it is yet, no, not so much, although I'd wager from an outside point of view we're most likely time-stopped, orrr possibly looped, people are taken from too many different points in their shared timelines for us to be in sync with our native universes, so on the bright side, your wife probably won't be cross with you, unless she's also a higher-dimensional being and doesn't like it when you leave the time stream.

[commanderspecs]

Iris.

Please. Please tell me there's a way for me to contact my wife. Somehow. There has to be some sort of connection between the universes; a-a-a vibration of some kind, any kind, that could somehow reach my universe, Doctor...? I'm sorry, what did you say your name was again?

[He's still panicking. A lot. Still.]

[spacepeterpan]

Iris, lovely name, and no, actually, just 'The Doctor' is fine. Sorry, though, there's really not, a good thought, that.

[He smiles a little and points into the camera like GOOD JOB, YOU.]

But we've been having a bit of trouble studying the nature of this place because, well, there's a bit of a telepathic barrier keeping out a swarm of psychic vampire monsters, haven't found a way through that, even with a TARDIS, which is...

[A low whistle, like yowza.]

Don't worry, though, no doubt at all you'll be fine, you've already worked out one of the most important things to know, here.

[He raises his eyebrow, throwing in a brief rhetorical pause to build suspense, as he casually reaches up to adjust his own tie.]

Bow ties are cool.