All three of us froze in place. Ray and Penny stood where he'd caught her, staring just as hard as I was at the door in the middle of the lab. The knock came again. Faster, like whatever was knocking was getting annoyed. Penny nodded to me, then made a quick gesture at Ray, it made sense to use my power to throw off whoever was on the other side, and Ray could cover me if they were dangerous.

I started walking slowly across the lab, and before I could even get my head straight I was there, Ray poised off to the side out of sight but close enough to yank me to safety if my whammy failed. I relaxed my grip on my powers, actively pulling what was already a pretty huge amount of strength I had to hold back all the time. Then, with trembling fingers, I reached out and opened the door.

The two guys on the other side just blinked at me. I blinked back. They were…teenagers. Cute ones. The shorter one had dark brown hair and bright blue eyes. He was thin and pale and wearing an oversized black hoodie with holes in the sleeves he'd slid his thumbs through. The other boy was tall, with messy brown hair and green eyes, where the first boy was thin and muscled this boy just looked skinny. No meat or muscle on him. The green eyed boy was staring at me like I was a goddess, which was normal. The blue eyed boy just glared…which was not.

I'd run into things immune to my powers once or twice, but none of those things had been our age. Hell, even generic girl/Claudia was vulnerable to my whammy, and she was the toughest teenager anyone had ever heard of. Blue eyes raised a dark eyebrow "Well it took you long enough. We've been freezing our asses off out here. Well, Wade has, I've mostly been mocking him for it. But it's been getting old, and I think we can agree that's the real tragedy."

Green eyes, Wade I guess, tore his eyes away to gape at the other boy "Ivan! How can you be so rude to such an adorable girl? I mean, I'm sure she's a very sensitive person you shouldn't be so crass." He turned to give me an adoring apologetic look "I'm so sorry for my friend, no manners at all. I do hope he hasn't upset you."

Blue eyes, now known as Ivan gave his friend an absolutely dumbfounded look "Did you have a stroke? I mean sure, she's a hottie, but I've literally seen you BUILD prettier girls." He gave me a considering look "Well…. Maybe some that were close anyway, she looks even younger than us, and I've met lingerie models who don't have a body like that."

I gaped. Wade gaped. Penny gaped. Ray gaped, and managed a little overprotective brother glaring mixed in for good measure, which was sweet of him. Ivan looked sheepish. "What I'm the first person to mention that she's what, thirteen and built like a brick house? I'm not springing any surprises on you guys, I'm sure she's noticed she's more *ahem* developed than most girls her age." The glare intensified, and Ivan threw up his hands "Geeze fine, we had to end up in the puritan dimension, sorry if I offended. Didn't mean to make things awkward, I'm a supervillain not a pervert."

Wade seemed to partially shake off my power att hat, turning to glare at Ivan "Damn it Ivan, you cant just tell everyone we're supervillains! You're pretty much invincible but I need time and resources to be effective!" He seemed to realize he'd said too much as his eyes widened, shifting back to me, probably to explain himself before the green orbs softened in adoring stupidity.

Ivan look suspiciously back and forth between me and Wade before understanding dawned in his electric blue eyes. "Ohhhhh. You're a meta! I didn't even notice it. That's pretty subtle, I'm immune to most mental fuckery so I don't bother to watch for it, but Wade is usually pretty adept at defending against mental attacks. Comes from the super intelligence. " He reached over and flicked Wade in the head, and I thought I saw a brief red glow flash into existence on his fingernail right before it hit. Wade blinked and shook his head.

The now apparently unclouded apparently super intelligent boy gave a respectful smirk and a nod "Well played, miss. I was on guard against a mental attack, but your abilities seem somewhat more insidious. If you could shut down your power, maintaining my mental shields is somewhat taxing. I can keep up the effort but I'd prefer to speak as friends. We have no ill intentions, and crude remarks aside, my friend will be on his best behavior."

I glanced over at Penny, who gave a pensive nod, and then shut down my power. Ray took a small step closer as my hair settled back to its normal white. Ivan whistled "Wow, and I thought you were a cutie before, love the hair, and your face is so much prettier like that. But hey, where are my manners. Ivan Gerhardt at your most humble and efficacious service." He swept into a courtly bow, taking a step back and flourishing his wrist for effect.

Penny took a step forward, we weren't in costume, since we hadn't expected anything tocome through the door and sittin around in full gear while Penny takes hours inventing is annoying, but Penny was in her usual villain outfit, since those clothes were her inventing duds. She stuck out a hand, slipping her helmet off "Penelope Akk, nice to meet you." I gave a soft smile, of course Penny would do something like that, giving her identity away since ours were already compromised. She really was the best friend ever.

I stepped forward with a saucy smile at Ivan "Claire Lutra, a pleasure to meet you good sir." I stuck out a hand and Ivan scooped it up and kissed it. I felt my cheeks heat up at that, and knew Ray was going to torment me for weeks over the blush. With my power, it had been a while since a cute boy had paid me any kind of romantic attention, I had forgotten what it was like.

Ray shoved his way protectively between us and I grinned as he held out his hand to Ivan "Ray Viles, nice to meet you." Ivan took his hand and I saw Rays muscles tense as he undoubtedly sqeezed a bit harder than necessary. Ivan gave an amused smile and just stood there as Ray apparently piled on more and more pressure. Considering Ray could lift the front end of a small car, I expected Ivan to wince but he just stood there, amused at Rays antics.

Rays face started to turn red, and I suspect ivan was starting to squeeze back, when Wade reached out and slapped him in the back of the head. Oddly, Ivan seemed to not even notice the hit, but the sound of the smack made him scowl over at his friend, who glared until Ivan released Rays hand with a sniff. He looked away sulkily as Ray flexed his fingers and winced. Apparently Ivan was strong. Like really strong.

Wade stepped forward to offer his own hand to Penny. "Wade Wyatt, at your service miss. I take it from your safety gear you're something of an inventor? Always nice to meet a fellow scientist. I must thank you for your rescue. My friend and I had an unfortunate run in with some portal technology and ended up on another plane. We would've died in the hostile atmosphere if not for Ivans quick thinking and ability."

Unlike Ivans easy devil may care brusqueness, Wades speech was formal and intelligent, but unlike so many younger people who seem put on airs when speaking so politely, it fit Wade to a T. Going to a magnet school we knew quite a few very smart kids, ourselves most definitely included, but Wade just gave this inescapable feeling of mental excellence. Like he was the smartest person in the room and knew it, but not in an arrogant way. Where ivan had a smug gleam in his eyes, Wade gave off a disaffected air, like everyone else was irrelevant, so there was no reason to be cocky.

Ivan gave a carefree wave "He's not wrong. Genius or not, taking care of Wade is a full time job. His understanding of consequences sadly doesn't match up to his understanding of everything else. If I wasn't around to play common sense cricket he would've died in some lab accident years ago." Ray and I nodded, knowing very well how much of a pain it could be taking care fo a super genius.

Penny shot us both a glare when she saw the movement and took a step away from us both "So Wade you're super intelligent? You must be a really amazing inventor if your experiments create things that dangerous even by accident. I always say you can tell how smart a scientist is by the size of the fallout when they mess up." She gave a grin at that, showing she was partly joking, but Wade gave an answering smile and a laugh.

"Well said miss Akk, I'm one of the top five intellects on our world as far as I know." He walked a bit to the side and slumped down to sit, a chair appearing behind him as he fell. I looked over to see Ivan glaring as another flicker of red light went out on his fingers. Apparently Wade occasionally forgot what he was doing while he talked, from Ivans face, this wasn't the first time he'd had to summon a chair to catch his scatterbrained friend, and it wouldn't be the last. Wade looked around, unaware of the surprise from everyone who wasnt Ivan at the appearance of the overstuffed high backed red chair.

Ivan waved again and a couch appeared with two more chairs. I couldn't help notice the couch was behind the two of us and the chairs were behind Ray and Penny. I gave Ivan a wink and plopped down as he took a seat on the other end of the surprisingly comfortable sofa. Ivan picked up the thread of Wades wandering mind "Wade is a genius inventor and I dabble in magic, when we went through the portal we ended up in some hellhole and I put up some spells to keep us alive, but you guys saved our bacon. I cant do a dimensional portal, I was going to try to send up some kind of multidimensional signal flare but the chances of that getting to anyone who could help us were slim at best."

He gave us all a serious look "Look we have no way home but we've got more than enough skill to make sure we can live comfortably, if you guys can use that door to get us home we'd be grateful as hell and we could do you a solid before we go. If not well, we'll set up shop here and owe you one. We're good people to be owed a favor by. I personally don't have much tying me to our world, and Wade can rebuild his stockpile of resources, so I guess the big deciding factor in wether we even want to leave is…how strong can people on this world get?" Ivans face had a hungry smile at the question, and I could tell that things were going to get interesting around here.

Ok guys, on the changes, Wade and Ivan are just starting out and are best friends, they're fifteen. Some of their powers will be weaker than in canon for now, Wade's metasuits wont be as streamlined and Ivan isn't as versatile with magic. In terms of PDTMP this is right around the beginning of Henchmen. Marcia is out for the fight and everyone is just starting to trickle in to the club. Also I'd like to thank Lord Grise for your review. I'm only tangentially aware of Girl Genius but yes I suspect Penny and Agatha would get along well.