A Bell in a superhero setting! No, not that Bell! No, not that superhero setting.
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"Yes, almost never but it's been known to happen faking your death is more common, and you'd have to ask whoever's writing my universe, from inside the story we sure look too busy representing ourselves."

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"Well. I don't have a mascot but some magical girls can talk to animals. At the very high levels of performance it is sometimes useful to call attacks. Transformation doesn't require an object."

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"Valid! I appreciate you answering my ridiculous and probably stereotypical questions!"

She pauses. "I think the most important urgent information to give you is, uh - so are your powers public information back home?"

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"Yeah? I mean I'm not personally a public figure but I show up to class like this."

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"Secret identities are nice but not mandatory, most heroes lose them eventually and most villains won't go after your family. No, uh, what I meant was more - like, bad guys have internet connections too? If you decide to be a superhero, any information available about your powers that is online is information villains will have. And smart ones can get into the police files. Be as broad as possible, don't include tricks like 'can punch through force fields', and if you have some kind of weird vulnerability, say nothing."

She pauses. "Of course if you have black hats in your own universe than you probably know all this... uh, do you? What do magical girls fight in the world where they're real? Do they fight stuff?"

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"There's swarms? Spontaneously generated clusters of shapeshifting black things that if left alone long enough coalesce into larger monsters. But not every magical girl fights them, it's a specific job."

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"So's 'superhero', if it helps! Most people with superpowers just live normal lives, or occasionally abnormal in the 'professional healer who makes lots and lots of money going through cancer wards' sense. Were you swarm-hunting back in your own timeline?"

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"No, we've been yoinked out of the cafeteria at the University of Washington."

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"Ouch," she says sympathetically. That's got to suck.

She glances at Xander. "Do you have any questions, yourself?"

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"I mostly have the same questions as her. I'm not shy, I just know which of us is better at handling first contact with a superhero universe."

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"Oh. Sorry." 

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"No big. I mean, huge big, we have been kidnapped to another universe by a mad scientist, extreme gigantic big, but, y'know."

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"... Yeah, I might possibly be underestimating just how horrible it is for you because of being the sort of person who would totally try to use my physics knowledge and ability to fly to become the destined savior of the world? But, um, if you don't have that then this has got to be horrible. And I'm pretty sure we already have like sixteen destined saviors and most of 'em are C-ranked."

There are audible sirens! "Any last questions?"

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"- uh, will we no longer be able to talk to you when the cops arrive?"

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"You will, we'll just be kinda busy explaining what just happened and doing paperwork and whatnot."

Mirror is currently trying to think of eldritch dangers that innocent travelers from another dimension might not know about!

"... You know about cars, right? Because they hit people sometimes when the people or the drivers aren't paying attention? This is a problem in Magical Girl Universe, too, right?"

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"Yes, we know about cars."

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"Good, I'm just trying to think of the most dangerous probable things that travelers from other dimensions might not have thought of."

She pauses. "Down that hallway, down the stairs to the left, out front? I've got a flashlight somewhere -" she tracks down a tiny pocket on her belt, pulls it out, flips it on "- and then we can explain exactly what happened to the officers."

And heads off to go do that!

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Twins follow her!

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The first police car is pulling up as they leave the building, and more are on their way! The first officer stops to listen to Mirror's brief explanation -"so the electronics thief is calling himself Doctor Dimensional and I tracked him here and he summoned some people from an alternate universe and they helped me out -" and by the time she's made it that far, another pair of cops have arrived to take custody of the twins, and hear (and write down) the very brief version of their explanation, as a third car arrives with even more (unnecessary) reinforcements.

(Also, uh, it is cold outside. Especially for people who happen to be from Washington. Not freezing, not quite, but not that far off. Maybe that's why they want the brief version.)

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Isabella materializes an oversized fur coat in her colors and puts some of it over Xander.

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O-kay, so Mirror had not gotten to the part about how they had magic powers! Brief explanation of what happened, please?

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"My brother and I were in the cafeteria in our universe's version of the University of Washington, where we're students. Then we were in there -" she points back at the building, "and there was a showdown between Mirror and the mad scientist. I helped, a little, but not very much because I wasn't particularly oriented to the situation. He scarpered off into the basement at some point, I don't know if she caught up with him."

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"Actually, she did all the work and I got jumped by a robot and let him get away! It was mostly her win there!"

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Right. How do they feel about coming back to the station to fill out some forms and see about getting them into the system?

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Seems reasonable. "Our dad's a police officer," she says conversationally. "In, uh, our universe."

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