[Yggdrasil's Jarvis just lost his connection,] says Jarvis. [Last we heard from him was a report of an incoming missile a few seconds ago.]

The Jarvis she lands in opens a door to Milliways.

The door does not open to Yggdrasil.

Bella sticks her head back into Sunshine. [I can't get a door to Yggdrasil. Opinions on trying for Atlantis to see if Shell Bell can do it between having been there and her aura?]

[It can hardly make things worse to try, can it?]

[Wait, what?] Pause. [Is Jane down again?]

[Worse than last time. It's been months on my end, but I didn't need you a star's worth till now, and now I can't get to Yggdrasil without you.]

Tinia untucks to keep Neptune company.

Feathery snuggles.

Shell Bell kisses Sherlock goodbye, and then she pops to where Juliet has doored in, and follows her out, and she flares aura - nearby humidity arranges itself rainbowlike - and opens the door again, thinking of Yggdrasil.

Success!

"Let me," Juliet says, blocking Shell Bell, "all the Jarvised worlds are sorta infected with some magic you don't want, I'm safe but you don't have opacity." She steps through first, spends the star. "Okay, contagiousness averted. We should hit the others as long as we're together, but first things first." [Iron Man?]

"You're gonna have to tell me what kinda magic," says Shell Bell, stepping through too. They're on Asgard, not the Malibu house. She hopes the Malibu house is just devoid of doors and not, like, server racks.

[Juliet! Hi,] he says. [Wow. Been a while, huh? Where are you?]

[We came in on Asgard. Sunshine Jarvises said you lost connectivity and something about a missile? Are you guys okay?]

[Yeah, I expected the door to get me your house,] says Shell Bell, [are there not currently doors in your house?]

[There is... not currently my house,] Iron Man admits. [Not that house, anyway. We're fine, though, I'm fine, Jarvis is fine, Pepper is fine, all other people and things are fine. Lucky shot took out the ansible or we would've said something sooner.]

[Okay, well, as long as we're here we can get you a new ansible.]

[And fix the house, if you want.]

[I would love a new ansible,] says Tony. [You know what else I would love? I would love to be a mint. That would've saved me a lot of trouble a few weeks ago.]

[Yeah, we can do that too.]

[And we should definitely replace the house while we're here, if only because then I can open a door in it and your Jarvis will know how to make more doors,] says Shell Bell.

[No, do not replace the house,] laughs Tony, [come here, I'm in Stark Tower, there are plenty of doors and plenty of Jarvis.]

[Sure, that works too.] Pop!

Also pop!

"Hi," says Iron Man.

"Hi," says Pepper.

Tony snaps his fingers. "Right, and while you're here, could you do the funky immortality thing for Pep?"

"Torching for Pepper, check," says Juliet, waving a hand, while Shell Bell seeks an appropriate door. "Anyone else?"

"No," he sighs. "Thanks."

"Are you sure? It's much more inconvenient and expensive to retrieve people who get as far as Downside with Jane out. I had to make a trip a couple months ago."

Shell Bell, meanwhile, flares aura - magicmagicmagic! - and doors to Milliways. "Got it, Jarvis?" she asks.

"Fascinating," Jarvis remarks. The door closes. The door opens. The door closes again. "Everything seems to be in order."

"Yeah," says Tony, "there was a whole conversation about that, let's just - forget it."

Shell Bell lets her aura subside to a normal level of magicmagic.

"Your call," shrugs Juliet. "It'll depend on how I'm doing for stars and how cooperative the door is on any given day how quick I go get anybody you lose, though, I can't readily get ahold of Aurora for a wheelbarrowful of big coins and I have a lot of demonic shit to handle with my available influx."

"Yes," says Tony, raising his eyes to the ceiling. "I know that. I have been made aware."

Pepper pats him on the arm.

"Anyone fetched from Downside will torch after that anyway," says Shell Bell.

"Yes, well," shrugs Juliet, "not everyone is a sensible Bell."

"Speaking of that sort of thing I wonder if I should door us to Rainbow to pick up coins? You lean on the others more than anybody, with a Sunshine world and no Joker."

"...Maybe. I don't suppose you can door to 'wherever the hell Aegis and company went'."

Iron Man has no comment on dooring to Rainbow or anywhere else; he is busy looking annoyed.

"I can try it, I got to Rainbow in the first place - are you okay?" Shell Bell asks Iron Man. "Are we in your way? We can go if you'd rather."

"No, it's - fine," he says, waving his hand dismissively, "I'm fine, petty grievances, fine."

"Okay. So we'll go and you can quarantine all the other Jarvised worlds for what disease exactly, Juliet?"

"Not diseased, just - okay, I have a sister, but she was magically created including everybody's memories about her a few months ago, and the spell doesn't seem to spread world to world all by itself but it can piggyback on people, so it got the whole Jarvis network. I wished everyone in Sunshine nontransmitting - and I was anyway, I was immune to the original spell, my sister-memories are a deliberate fork-and-merge - and now here too, because I don't think everyone who fails to remember Soph wants to start doing it just from the wrong Sherlock or Tony walking into a Bellparty."

"You forked on purpose?"

"The alternatives were worse."

"...And now you have a sister."

"Yep. Named Soph, dating my Tony, plays checkers with my demonic minions on Mercury, incredibly tacky taste in jewelry."

"You have demonic minions?"

"Yeah, I sort of accidentally inherited them after killing their previous goddess when I stalked through her vacated house in full aura. They do my palatial gardening and keep forgetting that I prefer 'your majesty' to 'your flammableness' and occasionally give me consequence on diplomatic excursions. I have asked them several times if they wouldn't rather go live off by themselves, but they are adamant that they have to be somebody's minions and I'm handy."

"That's sort of depressingly adorable," he says.

"That's a very good summation of my demonic minions, yes."

[Hey, Darcy, me and Juliet are in the world; Jane's down so we're harder to call in another time if you need anything, so, while we're here, do you need anything?]

[Hi! Nah, I think I'm good, thanks!]

"Yeah, I think so. I'm glad you're okay, Iron Man, Pepper, Jarvis," Juliet adds over her shoulder.

(Aura!) Door! Shell Bell doesn't have a Jarvis at home; she could ask but she doesn't think to when she can do it herself. She conjures up an ansible, twists off half, as an afterthought makes enough to put other halves in all the other Jarvised worlds and twists them apart too. "There you go, we'll install the others on our rounds," she says.

"Thank you," says Jarvis.

Which Juliet does. [Hey guys, here to restore connection to Yggdrasil,] she adds, to Jarvis and the local Tony and Sherlock.

[Lovely,] says the local Jarvis. [You have an ansible to give to Tony, I assume?]

[Yep. Do you need anything else as long as we're here or are things running smoothly by you?]

[Thank you, we're just fine.]

Shell Bell's the one actually holding the ansible-halves; she pops to where Tony is and offers it to him.

"Hi, thanks!"

"You're welcome!" Random hug. And she rejoins Juliet. And off they go to Helios.

Helios also has a local Tony who is happy to accept an ansible-half!