"They're a type of alien - well, alien to our home planet. The big thing was we were intentionally modeling ourselves after a previous super team, the Avengers, and one of their really famous members was Thor of Asgard, and on our planet most people associated Asgard with Thor? Who has the power set I was pretending to have."

"Can all Asgardians do that?"

"Thor's got a magic hammer that lets him do that, though the only other Asgardian I've met can also fly."

"A magic... hammer? How novel."

"That's not the weirdest thing ever, but yeah I think it's pretty far from magic here compared to like other stuff."

"What sorts of things does a super team do?"

"The Avengers mostly took on really big threats? There's this - whole thing of super heroes and super villains, and super villains are criminals and super heroes catch them, but only sometimes coordinate with the government. Our team initially formed to fight a specific bad guy, but lately we were trying to do less fighting, more disaster response, partially because fighting tends to have a lot of bystander casualties if you're not super careful and also because people kept threatening to figure out who we were and call our parents. Apparently thirteen year olds are not supposed to be fighting time traveling murderers."

"Interesting paradigm. Do people actually call themselves super villains?"

"Some of them, mostly who think it's funny or who are like revolutionary types?"

"Strange sort of person who would call themself a villain. Then again, I've known some Sith... Is 'time-traveling murderer' typical of the reference class?"

"My teacher thought being a super-villain was fun. He was also mostly a prankster type, though... And not really, most of the people messing with the timeline do stuff other than running around killing people? And most supers can't time-travel. Usually villains are, like, robbing banks, or running drugs, or pulling really bizarre and elaborate pranks, or doing unethical experiments, or trying to overthrow a government."

"Criminals, in other words."

"Yeah. Main difference is if someone has super-powers it's harder to send normal police up against them. And a lot of super-powers make using normal prisons complicated, so anyone with a super-power breaking the law tends to end up in a really high security facility even if they did something really minor, and there's politics that mean super-powered criminals get higher sentences even if their power's something useless or they did something on accident. Jet was in one for a bit a few years ago until we broke her out."

"What was she in for?"

"Property damage."

"She blew up her school," Wiccan says, cheerfully. "While there was no one in it."

"Not a fan of mandatory attendance policies?"

She shrugs. "Being a super hero ended up being more interesting anyways. I can study on my own."

"It's good to be self-motivated. So disaster response, huh. How do you play that?"

"I'm fast enough I can evacuate people even pretty large distances, especially from on-going emergencies. I've pulled everyone out of a group of buildings in the process of collapsing before, with no one hurt. I can fetch supplies, and construct things, and get people with more useful powers positioned."

"Being able to conjure a lot of food and medical supplies on the spot is really helpful. That kind of logistics is usually where I'm at, though I've been getting better at magic so that might change."

"What about other people on your team?"

"Our team actually shifts around a lot, and we got in a bunch of new members recently, who haven't been in a full disaster situation yet... One of our old members could change her size, though, and another just flat out had training in command situations, and is a clone of someone really widely respected."

"Did the personality get cloned too?"

"Nah. Person she's a clone of raised her, though, after some drama."