With Raven and Starfire helping, we managed to get the foundation dug out pretty quickly and the cave squared off in record time. Bringing over some proper furniture and some bedding (even if I did have to fork out quite a bit to buy the mattresses that the ladies liked) we even managed to get the flooring in the cave done. The place was actually starting to look pretty good, all things told.

Proper rooms for labs and the like would have to wait, but all in all, things were ready.

Which was a good thing too, since Elizabeth managed to find the world that Tracer and Mercy came from.

We all gathered in the clearing, though realistically, only Elizabeth and I would be accompanying the two to the other side. The others had things that they wanted to do with their time instead.

We weren't in the other world for more than half an hour before a craft od some kind floated down from the sky and opened up a rear-facing hatch.

"Tracer, Mercy! I'm glad to see you!" Winston's voice boomed out from the ship, "Who are your companions?"

"It's a long story Winston, we will fill you in on the way over. I assume that you are still hiding in Gibraltar?" Angela called out as we climbed aboard.

The flight over went relatively well, with Winston being filled in on the rough situation that had taken place. Lena and Angela got in contact with their friends and families too, chattering away about our future plans.

I spent a portion of the flight browsing their internet, picking up a few interesting things. They had the tech for space-travel, including enough history that I was starting to put together plans for accelerating the development of my world.

I would do what I could to avoid taking credit for other people's work, but that would be tricky, I'd have to discuss it with Gwen and the others.

Honestly, Gwen had it easy, her world was so absurd that she could walk up to a mic and say 'I met some friendly aliens and they want to share some technology through me." and the world would believe it. Raven and Starfire could pull of the same.

It was the rest of us that had to be more careful. Hopefully, we could make contact with a friendly god or two to speed up our travel to Remnant, they were the ones that needed the help in all reality.

Summoner's Rift was another big one, and one we had to be careful of. We didn't know how it related to Ahri's homeworld, but I wouldn't be surprised if wandering in that direction without sufficient protection would mean that we ran into that mess.

The elemental nations were almost reasonable in comparison. We had an early theory on how the Chakra Fruit worked, and if it could be confirmed, we had options that we could expand on.

Speaking of which, it had brought up a question we needed to ask.

What was our thoughts on spreading magic and other mystical phenomena between worlds?

Between us, we had at least two immediate vectors through which to spread supernatural abilities, not even counting the various traditions that we could gain access to with some legwork.

So yeah, we had options. Lots of options.

It wasn't like tech exchange, From what Raven and Hinata were able to tell us, magic and tech were polar opposites in how they interfaced with large groups of people. The supernatural tended to exalt the individual, allowing even a single person to casually crush armies while technology tended to be the great equaliser, where the abilities of an individual mattered less than the collective might of industry.

Simply making magic available wasn't an option. It would cause too much chaos as any group large enough to find a champion or two would suddenly become international players. The Earth Overwatch was formed on was already starting to deal with that problem and they barely had active magic beyond a few spiritual guardians and the Iris.

Ahri's world avoided that due to a Masquerade. Magic seemingly went dormant for a few hundred years before randomly resurfacing in small pockets. Apparently, enough of the early big players like the world how it damn well was and outside of a couple of flare-ups the wider world didn't have to deal with creatures capable of depopulating cities on a regular basis.

The Elemental nations and the universes Gwen, Raven and Starfire came from were solid examples of what would happen if you weren't careful with the supernatural.

Remnant almost qualified, but honestly, with the overwhelming threat of the Grimm, potential iconoclasts already had an obvious threat to fight that supported society rather than uprooting it. That said, Yand did mention that their history was full of heroes with semblances that were literally the stuff of legends.

I didn't want that to happen in my world, and after seeing my world, despite the chaos, the others completely understood why.

Yes, we had our problems, but at least if you weren't in an active warzone or indirectly involved in one, the worst you had to be worried about was a thief breaking into a house or maybe a mugger.

In any of those worlds, you ran the risk of mouthing off to a person that could destroy your entire nation just because they didn't like the way you looked at them that one time.

Yeah, that was balanced by the people who worked to stop that, but Gotham had a newspaper that did nothing but run daily obituaries.

Gwen's neck of the woods was a bit better. Say what you want about SHIELD but at least they managed to keep things a little better in check. Still, it wasn't too strange to expect a town on something to spontaneously go missing or geography to be shifted around.

The rest of us didn't want our worlds to turn into that.

So magic had to be disseminated carefully. We were actually pretty tempted to make contact with Doom, at before we thought for longer than two seconds on the idea.

Yes, he had the expertise necessary to provide a foil to iconoclastic disasters, but he was also a megalomaniacal tyrant that could probably follow us back to our homeworlds if we weren't careful.

So when we finally made it to Watchpoint Gibraltar, it was the first thing I brought up with Winston.

"I don't envy you at all!" he declared as he set up some equipment. Behind him, Elizabeth was poking around the lab with Athena explaining things to her. He directed me to connect up a few cables as he became looking though some reading to make calibrations, "I mainly do my work in optimising what we already have, making it safer and more accessible. Other than the technology I helped Angela with for Genji and the Chronal Accelerator, I don't think I've ever released entirely novel technology."

I nod, "Still, mind if we bounce some ideas off you? I'm thinking about introducing viable orbital colonies and space travel to my world, and I want to make sure that the tech I'm releasing is, if not properly credited, allows me to ensure that the credit gets to the right place eventually."

Winston considered it. "What's the plan right now?"

"Claim that I've got an agreement with people to distribute technology and that they don't want to be named right now. Then, privatise the entire space industry and make use of 'asteroid mining' and the resources from other planets to out-compete traditional mining operations. I'll be using most of the money from that to unify and uplift Africa, which is not well developed in our world. Then, I'm going to be taking over the transportation industry, either though sub-orbital hoppers or teleportation, depending on the state of the world at that point."

Winston nodded, "I can see where you are going, you want to have a friendly superpower to support with threats of cutting off cheap material resources - I assume that Africa is the cheapest source of natural resources in your world? - and use that to skip the troubles that long-distance teleportation caused us and use that to force the dissolution of international boundaries. I assume you aren't going to be releasing the space-travel tech to the world at large?"

"Yes, and I'm going to be setting up a 'research station' off-world and a generational ship out to Alpha Centauri to make sure that we don't immediately kick the bucket if anything goes wrong." I clarify.

Winston nods his head slowly, "I can see some problems with that plan, but the rough outline seems sound. I'm a little concerned at how much you will be forcing your history to deal with that."

I nodded, "My world technically has the technology to reliably get to space and even enough theoretical technology that I could probably alleviate some of the initial stress by breaking the profit barrier on fusion. Paired with the right rolling timescales on tech releases would mean that they could realistically compete well enough as long as they don't sabotage each other."

"So you win either way." Winston mused, "I suppose I can see you working along those lines. I assume that you are going to take advantage of this regardless?"

I nod, "I'll be releasing fusion tech through a company that will be building reactors and selling the power. The first one is going to be a 'testbed' but assuming everything goes well, I should be able to make massive inroads into that market quickly. I won't be releasing raw reactor schematics, so I should be able to get ahead with a two or three-year head start on the technology."

Winston lead me over to another sensor array, a cluster of interferometers that we had to ensure hadn't fallen out of alignment. "I suppose I can't really fault you for that. Not without more information at least."

"I'll put together a write-up when I'm back home." I stated, "Other than that, I had a few ideas on how to compete in mass manufacture, assuming that I can figure out an adaptable manufacturing process. I know the Vishkar corporation have done some frankly amazing things with hard-light technology even if their business practices aren't the best. I might not want to release it just yet - the offshoot technologies are something I want to be careful of."

"That much I can agree on." Winston admitted, "Hard-light tech changed a lot of things for us and if you are already releasing fusion and affordable space-travel it might be too much."

"Don't get me wrong, I still want the tech." I admitted, "But it's mostly for use in the compound. I do have my eye on a few other things that I can release that will need to be done more carefully. Neural interface tech is a big one. Probably starting with the older version that uses implanted laces."

Winston gave me a grin, "We can take a look at that later, the sensor array is ready so why don't we get Elizabeth in place to open up the portal to get you guys home."