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Bella finds it.
"Alli!" she twines. "C'mere."
"You c'mere. Easier for you."
"No, you need to come look at this, seriously."
"Okay, fine, where are you?"
"Garage."
So Alli comes out to the garage. Their parents aren't home; Charlie's working, Renée is volunteering with some of the refugee kids at a shelter, trying to find which have parents who just wound up somewhere else, which need adopting, which are going to wind up coming of age adrift in the bursting-at-the-seams system. It's just them, not attending school, recovering.
"Whoa," says Alli. "So when you said you were at the garage, you meant that you were at the freakish restaurant that someone put in our garage."
"This isn't somebody's idea of remodeling," Bella says. "It's too big to be the garage."
"Do you think it's safe?"
"I think one of you should go in first, for sure."
"We don't actually know if I work that way," say two Alli voices, but Bella pushes one of them towards the door anyway.
Nothing happens.
The Allis converge, inside the bar. Bella follows.
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point_b
Luckily for the awkward factor in the room, the door opens again!
In walk another pair of teenage girls.
"...This is not the Young Defenders headquarters," observes the one with the bob haircut and the light scarf wrapped around her neck.
In walk another pair of teenage girls.
"...This is not the Young Defenders headquarters," observes the one with the bob haircut and the light scarf wrapped around her neck.
"...We are extremely not twins. I'm Annabelle Ryerson, and this is my girlfriend, Ava Carmichael."
alli_oop
"Oh, gotcha," says the Alli who spoke. "I, I mean we, I mean, uh." They converge. "I am her twin," she points at Bella, "and they are twins, and we all have superpowers."
"And you're all out of costume? Are you an indie team, and if so, can you convince my parents to let me join you guys instead, I don't actually want to join the Young Defenders."
whatamithinking
"Not only are we not a team we are not all from the same universe. This is Milliways, it hijacks random doors in random worlds."
"I see." She gives them a considering look. "Well...we haven't started actually doing heroics yet, but I'm going to be Lumiere, and this is...Gale Force." The other girl gives her a surprised look.
alli_oop
"Our org doesn't do costumes exactly, it does uniforms, and we're not like in it in it, anyway, but if we're doing code names I'm Verge and she's Flicker."
"Wow. Either you're really from a different universe or you do a really good straight face."
point_b
"Well, we're from a different universe than them. I suppose you could be from our world and planning to join some sort of org overseas that we've never heard of - especially likely if this place does translation, which considering I bet it must - and you both have twin siblings who aren't here. But I doubt it."
"That's not it," says Ava. "Gale Force is the name of a notorious supervillain from the 'tens who happens to have had the same powers as me. If I was planning to call myself that and you were from our world you would immediately have known that I was either planning to go evil or kind of an idiot."
"I'm planning to use the name Mistral. Which is nowhere near as awesome as Gale Force and it's a shame she tainted it."
"It's better than some names," Annabelle shrugs. "Gale Force's archnemesis was called Peerless. Ugh."
"It's better than some names," Annabelle shrugs. "Gale Force's archnemesis was called Peerless. Ugh."
alli_oop
"So what are your powers? I duplicate myself and my sister teleports."
"Ironically, I do lightscreens. ...It's ironic because that was what Peerless did too. Ava's an aerokinetic."
iamnotpolaris
"I do magnetism, which usually translates to ferrokinesis, and my sister is a telepath," Emily volunteers.
point_b
"A telepath who has ever met an ethic, if that worries you as much as it did me."
Ava takes a second to process what she means and then bursts out laughing. "Oh, what anyone would make of the inside of my head! No, I did not particularly think the woman who was standing there not reacting at all was reading my mind."
The two girls exchange a long look.
"Do any of you have any way whatsoever of making our lives difficult if you don't like what you hear?" Ava asked finally.
"Do any of you have any way whatsoever of making our lives difficult if you don't like what you hear?" Ava asked finally.
whatamithinking
"Theoretically, yes, practically I have no wish to find out what security Milliways stocks that could take me down."
"I meant more on the scale of telling people back home."
iamnotpolaris
"No one can get to your universe unless you hold the door for them."