[Video] Arrival

[mysteryhero]

[A caped man appears on the video. His outfit is bold and bright, all gold and red and lit up from within. He speaks with a sense of urgency as if of an imminent danger.]

I want you all to listen to me. I am Mysterio, one of The Avengers.

There appears to have been a rip in time and space and I have found myself unexpectedly dropped into your world.

But I cannot stay here. I need to go back and save the Earth. This is imperative. Anyone, if you can hear me, show me the way or portal to leave this world. The sooner I can leave, the more lives can be saved.

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[guitar_hero]

Death. Happens to the best of us and always before our time.

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[bigbadrose]

[Huff.]

[Grumble.] More'n just death and you know it...

[But to Mysterio:] Sorry, Really I am. I've seen a lot of... Earths go the hard way. Never easy, yeah?

[mysteryhero]

It's why I need to get back to Earth-616 as soon as I can.

[bigbadrose]

Soon is meaningless here. Time is paused, orrrrr rather, we're in a dimension outside of the corollary time to all dimensions, yeah??

[mysteryhero]

That, as a concept, will take some getting used to.

[bigbadrose]

It gets easier. It took me nearly a year to just get used to... [Purses her lips together...] Things sticking... believe it or not.

Before here, just like... barely before here with only a teeeeeeensy weensy sliver in between, where I was, it always seemed like I could just...

[Crosses her eyes, thinking of how to convey it and sighs.] Alternate universes, yeah? And timelines. People could barely see me, hear me, recognize me, and I could barely touch reality there. It was like I was a ghost, and trying to stop a timeline from succumbing to the Darkness was... like drowning in quicksand. And even if people recognized me, if I messed up too much... I'd just jump again. Forward, backward, sideways, do my best to set things better, yeah?

Can't do that here. It's good... not being all... out of sync with everyone else. Really good. I don't think I hated anything quite like that, yeah? But it's also... tender. I was very angry with my best friend and couldn't handle him the way I really wanted to. We'd hurt each other too much and I couldn't get him to back off, and it just made me angrier...

[Waves a hand and snorts.] Just, take my word for it, yeah? It gets a lot easier than you'd think. Took me a year but -- [Weak grin!] Ask anyone. I'm as stubborn as they come. It's probably even easier for someone who doesn't feel the need to fight everything at every turn, yeah?

[mysteryhero]

[She was certainly full of information freely given and while a lot of it didn't seem to make sense to him, he listened politely, nodding at intervals to show that he was indeed taking it all in.]

So this place fixes some problems, in a way.

Are you telling me, though, that you've been here for a year?

[bigbadrose]

[Yes, no, maybe.]

[Eh.......]

Two, actually. Goin' on my third end o' this month. I'm not in a big rush to leave. I have my parents and a clone of my sort of now-ex boyfriend to get back to, but that's just... a great big mess. So I'm fine with just enjoying whatever time I've got here, yeah?

Besides... they could all hypothetically come here. But it's way less likely, because even though they have traveled multiverse, and this place does seem to latch more onto people like us, but then they probably would have sooner??? I think. Yeah. Because now if they come, it's ... it'd be a mess either way, but more of one now.

[mysteryhero]

[He was less interested in talk of her relatives - although... a clone? That could be something worth noting. Still, priorities. He couldn't imagine being stuck here for three years. Although... maybe... He could begin to see the possibilities, the more information he gathered.]

The multiverse, yes... Us travelers of dimensions.

[He says this with a kind of grand yet contemplative tone. As if something else is on his mind.]

We're brought here to... live our lives? A safe haven, away from dimensional rifts...

[He is idly turned a plain silver ring on his finger; a distracted motion as he frowns slightly, lost in thought.]

[bigbadrose]

[She rubs her temples in thought.] Frankly... I very much doubt it.

But I sent three versions of the Doctor explorin' beyond the barriers, and three of their assistants, and -- [Snaps her fingers.] Poof.

But some people are completely dead outta here, and that doesn't make 'em stick anymore than the rest. People that wanna go back still end up stickin' around. My adopted sister went, and I can't see that bein'... for lack o' wherewithal or nothing.

In my personal experience, wherever you land, you're there to make it better. I've been doing that... or as best I can, with a lotta mess-ups like I said, but... they made it better too, so I dunno. I know it's a sort of... magnet thing that draws people here, but what sends em away? Might just be forgetting something important, fading out, darkness, cthulu monsters in the void... beats me.

[mysteryhero]

These barriers. Another person also mentioned them.

Do you know anything about what is beyond them? Is it a way out or... something far more sinister...

[bigbadrose]

Darkness. Void. Giant cthulu monsters. Unreality that even superior brains go mad from touching.

[mysteryhero]

Dangerous then.

[Understatement, but he says it with a grim weight.]

[mysteryhero]

I was one of the last soldiers left to fight, then the Elementals moved on to Earth-616. I vowed ro not let what happen to my world happen to them too.

[guitar_hero]

I hope you can save it. I wish you luck. Maybe you can see if you can learn something here to help

[mysteryhero]

Thank you.

That is actually a good point. Maybe there is a reason that I am here.

[guitar_hero]

In my experience, there usually is. Instead of asking how can I get out, instead focus on, why am I here? What can I do? How can I learn? If nothing else you might help the other captives figure out a few things about their own situation.

[mysteryhero]

Heroes are always called to duty.

[guitar_hero]

Without witness, without reward... [he sighs a little] Without retiring.

They say you either die a hero or live long enough to really regret -- things. [he was going to say 'you hadn't', but he knows better than that with Rose lurking around]

[mysteryhero]

Then here's to living just long enough.

[guitar_hero]

Cheers. [Though he has nothing to salute with]

In the meantime, you could devote your energies to your hobbies. Would you perchance know how to drum?

[mysteryhero]

Drums? No.

You mean in the musical sense, I take it.

[guitar_hero]

Yes. I'm looking for a good backup.

But never mind. The point is, I like you, Beck. We should, as they say, hang out.

[mysteryhero]

What do you think we should do on this 'hang out'?

[guitar_hero]

Er... I hadn't planned that far ahead. ...See a movie for a start?