"Well, I live in Ohio. Sounds like the Young Guardians and the Wards are a rose by any other name, etcetera. We don't have a name for our world; we didn't even know for sure other ones existed until less than an hour ago."

"We're familiar with some world names but Earth Bet isn't one of them."

"There's some tinkertech that will go between Earths. Mine's Bet, there's Aleph, one can pay through the nose to get their version of various movies and so on. Sounds like you're from worlds we haven't contacted, which makes sense, there's certainly more of those. That leaves the door thing to explain. Is it just running on its own with its tinker or shaker not paying attention...?"

"I'm guessing tinker means mad scientist? Because we're pretty sure Milliways is magic, not technology."

"I'm not mad. Other than that, yes, you have the idea. Some capes ascribe their powers to magic but that's not conventionally accepted."

"So what kinda nonmad science do you do? Is your helmet made of nonmad science?"

"Mostly it's made of not revealing my identity to random people, but yeah, it also has my HUD and most of my kit's sensors in it."

"We've got masks," she gestures with the hand still holding hers, "but we took 'em off when we came into Milliways."

"We have costumes with masks but we were caught in civilian garb," Ava-who-still-hasn't-mentioned-her-original-name says.

"We have Junebug accessories but they don't even come with masks. I've gone on international television only slightly more dressed up than this."

"Not literally every cape at home does the secret identity, but almost all do. And it's sort of an etiquette thing that you don't even unmask capes you've just beaten in a fight." She looks at Flicker again. "So if you don't do secret identities what are your names?"

"We do the code name thing. I'm Alli, or Verge, and my sister's Bella, or Flicker."

"I'm Emily, or Magnetrix, and my sister's Edie, or Psyche."

"I'm Annabelle, or Helen, or Lumiere. My girlfriend is Ava, or Marie, or Mistral."

"...Why do you have two civilian names apiece?" She starts fiddling with some of the hardware affixing the helmet around her neck.

"Reincarnation. This is my third life, actually, I suppose you could call me Beatrice if you really wanted to."

"Cape names are fine. I'm Lorica." She pulls her helmet off. "Seems like it'd be confusing if I went by my civilian one."

"Extra Bella!"

"Weird!"

"Ooh, alts, those happen sometimes."

"This is a known thing? What does it mean?"

"Well, I don't have a sister, so it's not particularly comprehensive. And you don't strike me as a tinker. Not enough gadgets on you."

"My Bella's a teleporter. You don't have a me? That must be so sad for you."

"No offense, but it never occurred to me that I needed one. My dad's a teleporter, I wonder if that's a coincidence."

"Alts are when one person happens in more than one universe. Edie and I have some, one time Milliways decided to have an Edie And Emily Convention the way it's currently holding a Superhero Convention."