Thank you to everybody who read the last conversation. You are all absolutely wonderful. I treasure your feedback. I apologize for this coming a little late. I had family visiting. Then I had to deal with superficial thrombophlebitis or as I like to call it a baby blood clot. This means less sitting at my desk writing. However, after my two-week break, I think we can continue on with the schedule as normal.

We are still in the gamma timeline. Sorry, all the chaos is happening here.

Conversation 54: Catching up Somewhere in the Cosmos

Wednesday, March 21, 2018, somewhere in the cosmos

Mr. Leopold: Hey, so quick update.

Mr. Leopold: Bobbi and I talked things out. We're no longer sniping at each other. She's also coming to our wedding once we have it. So, we are having the best wedding possible. Even if we have to publicly call it a vows renewal. Thankfully neither of our fathers will crash this.

Chief monkey lover: Because they're both dead.

Mr. Leopold: Neither were great people, so it's for the best this is a found family only wedding.

Mr. Leopold: Other than your mum and "brother." Definitely, no one from my side is invited. I'm on better terms with my ex-wife. There's a reason why I elected for all of them to think I'm dead.

Chief monkey lover: I can live with that. Although next year. Let the others get married first.

Mr. Leopold: Agreed.

Chief monkey lover: What about the actual mission?

Mr. Leopold: We have Pym's cooperation.

Chief monkey lover: Did you get his cooperation before or after you rescued his wife?

Mr. Leopold: After, but they're both going to help us.

Chief monkey lover: Which is good. Do you think he is going to be able to work with Tony? Or Shield in general?

Mr. Leopold: I don't know. Tony is not his father, but I'm not sure Pym gets that part. We will find out soon enough.

Chief monkey lover: Are you relocating to the Playground, Lighthouse, or Avengers East?

Mr. Leopold: We're going to use the Pym facilities for now. Although we're trying to convince him to let us relocate it to Avengers West eventually. It's okay for the moment in SF because the Chief Mechanic is coming out here. They should be here by night our time. It's been a busy morning.

Chief monkey lover: Why is he going out west now?

Mr. Leopold: I am not sure. Something is going on that only the Princess knows about. Not even Mack. I just know it involves Sharon's neighbor and Yo-Yo having to get multiple DNA samples. Our current theory is this is family related.

Chief monkey lover: That's possible. The Chief Mechanic grew up with her mom.

Mr. Leopold: Possibly. What's going on there?

Chief monkey lover: We just successfully completed our fourth jump. One more jump and we should be there. Thankfully with the arc reactor technology we will have an infinite amount of charges.

Mr. Leopold Good. Did you hear from the guardians?

Chief monkey lover: Yes. Unfortunately, most of them don't actually believe Deke. Fortunately, vibranium is a valuable commodity even among space mercenaries.

Mr. Leopold: So, you're paying them?

Chief monkey lover: Yes.

Mr. Leopold: Do you trust them?

Chief monkey lover: Deke does. Rocket and Nebula helped him find the other me.

Mr. Leopold: Do you?

Chief monkey lover: I really don't know them. However, you were a mercenary once, and I trust you. That hasn't gone wrong yet. I've decided not to hold that against other people.

Mr. Leopold: Point.

Chief monkey lover: I'll keep you updated on that.

Mr. Leopold: Good. Have you heard anything from Natasha's team? The Princess tried to make contact, but they might be too far out. Or maybe there's just a lot of interference where they are.

Chief monkey lover: That's a possibility. We're going to try to contact them before the next jump. We're trying to space them out by a few hours to help confuse things.

Mr. Leopold: That makes sense.

Chief monkey lover: Actually, never mind, they're contacting me.

Mr. Leopold: Then you should probably take that. If you can, text me when you get to the soul planet.

Chief monkey lover: I will.

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Red Spider: We have the purple ring pop. Flame Thrower is taking it to dead man's land. Hopefully, we'll be able to move it to beta sooner rather than later. Transmit that to Earth under level VII encryption. We're too far out for direct communications.

Chief monkey lover: We might be able to access beta soon. I was just speaking to my husband. We have Pym cooperation which means we have particles. I passed the other message to him under level VII encryption.

Red spider: Good.

Chief monkey lover: Are you with Flame Thrower right now?

Red spider: No, we're sticking around. We have a trap to spring.

Chief monkey lover: I assume that Vision is the bait?

Red spider: Well, a Vision is the bait.

Chief monkey lover: It's better that I not know.

Red spider: It's better that we not put it in writing. Where are you in your mission?

Chief monkey lover: One more jump. Everybody is still intact, including Deke.

Red spider: Good. I want as many of those things in our possession as possible.

Chief monkey lover: Have you heard from your girlfriend? May wants to know.

Red spider: Yes. We received the message a couple of hours ago while we were dealing with locating the ring pop. Thor is now on S. They have a plan, and Loki hasn't stabbed anyone in the back yet.

Chief monkey lover: Good to know.

Red spider: I will try texting her after this since I managed to contact you.

Chief monkey lover: If you're willing, can you send me a transcript? Since I can still contact Earth, I want to send as much as possible to HQ.

Red spider: Do you think you'll lose contact after the following jump? We cannot contact Earth ourselves, but you have better equipment.

Chief monkey lover: Possibly. It's more likely we will lose real-time abilities, and there will be a delay.

Red spider: Let me know when you have the ring pop. We will come over to you. You'll need more protection then. I don't understand why Steve didn't come with you.

Chief monkey lover: Because he broke his hand. May wanted to keep this small scale anyway. It was her mission.

Red spider: I understand that. But you're still going to need us, or Wanda at least.

Chief monkey lover: How will you get to us without Robbie?

Red spider: I should have mentioned that Robbie taught Wanda how to do portals. So at least we won't be stranded here.

Chief monkey lover: Good to know.

Chief monkey lover: May wants to talk to you. I'm going to switch you to her device.

Red spider: Pass me to her.

Chief monkey lover: We just got more data about Asgard from the other timeline. I'm passing it to you in case I can't get it to Daisy. You might be closer.

Red spider: Not close, but we're on the network. You're not.

Red spider: Unfortunately, there's no connection to Earth. We're too primitive.

Red spider: I'm sure Stark will take that as a challenge.

Chief monkey lover: Along with the Princess.

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Agent America: I saw that the mission went well.

Red spider: The first part. The second part will be more challenging. That is still a work in progress.

Agent America: You'll do what you need to do. Just don't take unnecessary risks.

Red spider: All the risks I take are necessary.

Agent America: To you, but maybe not the rest of us. Daisy already lost one significant other to save the world. I don't know if she can take another.

Red spider: I know that. And I promise I will be careful. Wanda is the one who will be going against him, not me. Also, we may not get him but the henchman. They were the ones who went after Vision last time.

Agent America: But things are different now. You're on the planet that he did attack personally. He wiped out most of them.

Red spider: They didn't have us. Be careful too. Per the records, we know Thanos killed people to get the ring pop where you're going.

Agent America: We will be, but I will do what I need to get the thing secured.

Red spider: We're getting more messages from Daisy. You should text her. Or send an email.

Agent America: I'm going to let you message her first. We may not even be in range until the next jump. However, tell her to text me if she's able to. It might be easier with her on the network, per Deke. It will give her a boost.

Red spider: I will. We're all going to make it through this, you'll see.

Agent America: Just make sure you and Daisy make it through this.

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The girlfriend: Hey, we got your message. I'm trying to decide if it's a good thing that you haven't strangled Loki yet.

Quake: If anything, it would be quaking. Right now, Loki is the person I'm least likely to quake. I really want to quake Thor and your ex. Mostly your ex, in multiple timelines. We could've avoided so much if he had just given us his address.

Quake: However, in this timeline, he is in green mode, which will be ill-advised. He almost gave Loki a panic attack just seeing him. I'm shocked they even came with me. Although Bruce thinks they are another sibling, not Loki. Loki is now Thor's illegitimate half-sibling Sylvie. Yes, that's the name Thor came up with. We're also the revengers now. He got to that earlier this time around.

The girlfriend: That seems like something Thor would come up with. I know Bruce is there, and you should be careful. He's not able to make the best decisions in the state.

Quake: I'm aware. I saw an impression of his fist up close and personal when I was sequestered at the cabin. That's honestly as close as I want to get to those fists. That was before I saw him turn the God of Thunder into a ragdoll. So I'm trying to stay on his good side as I convince him to come with us to Asgard. It's going badly. They're currently insulting each other again.

The girlfriend: You wouldn't have to get close with your powers.

Quake: I feel like antagonizing the giant green guy would be dangerous. We really need to get to Asgard now, and they're just being toddlers. Now I regret using Ana to access the ex's apartment.

The girlfriend: You'll figure it out. Although to help, we received additional details from the other timeline. Also, per the Baby Bird in their timeline, you have to read the information from the person you know as Scrapper 142. You also have a letter to give her.

Quake: Yes, that will be useful because Thor and the ex just came up with a plan to get her here, and it will probably go badly, just like the gladiator match earlier. Loki just drank half a bottle of something very blue and highly alcoholic.

The girlfriend: How bad did the match go?

Quake: We passed a message to Thor to warn him who his opponent was. This probably made things worse because Thor didn't take the threat seriously at first and tried to use the lullaby technique and failed miserably.

Quake: Well, not miserably. Thor's still alive, but it did not go as expected. Although good news, the lightning power does not require the hammer, but requires a lot of anger. It reminds me of when I was a baby inhuman, which means I can probably help him learn to access his powers. Bad news, we found out how sugar daddy fixes the matches. Basically, he uses something kinda like a control collar. It shocks someone unconscious. Loki knew about the device but neglected to share. Although we were both surprised about the actual fixing of the matches.

The girlfriend: I'm not surprised. I just skimmed the new notes from the other timeline, and there are notes about that. Bruce even gave you his home address.

Quake: We could've left for Asgard yesterday with that information.

The girlfriend: There are also new notes from Thor. Maybe that will explain how to disable the thing.

Quake: Loki already managed to get the control from their sugar daddy. Unfortunately, they had to do something I really didn't want to think about.

The girlfriend: Blow Job?¶

Quake: Yes. I don't even want to think about everything they had to do for us to not end up in the gladiator pits ourselves. The things I had to do were terrible enough. I'm sorry I had to kiss him.

Quake: The situation really is fucked up when the guy who murdered your father figure is the preferable kissing partner.

The girlfriend: I've done so much worse on missions. It's partly why Clint and Laura had an open marriage. Do what you have to do to get to Asgard. Nothing else matters.

Quake: I know. We're working on it.

The girlfriend: I'm sure you are. Let us know when you have the blow pop.

Quake: I thought we were going with ring pop.

The girlfriend: It doesn't matter. Let us know when you have it.

Quake: We will. We're not going to take it to the meet-up location. Partially because I don't know where it is and partly because we don't want to create a one-stop shop for purple manga maniacs.

The girlfriend: You're going to keep it moving?

Quake: That's the plan. We just have to deal with evil big sister first. I hope to pick up time since we know how to get out of here.

The girlfriend: I'm going to try to come to you.

Quake: I want you with me, but that would be awkward. Even Loki is worried you'll punch him out for the kissing stuff. I think Leo needs more backup anyway, especially if Robbie is coming to us after he makes his delivery.

The girlfriend: Wanda, and Vision can go to Leo. I want to be with you. Once you have the ring pop, Bruce won't be a problem. I assume he'll be part of the team staying with the refugees.

Quake: How did you know we were planning to do that?

The girlfriend: I've read the same reports you did. Actually, I read more of them. I know how you think. We need to keep as many Asgardians alive as possible, which means separating them from the blow pop.

Quake: You're right. I promise to let you know when we have it. Although how are you going to get to us with Robbie busy? Did you already kidnap a ship?

The girlfriend: Wanda,

Quake: The scrapper will be here in a few minutes. Let us hope I convince her to work with us faster than last, so we can get the hell off this planet.

The girlfriend: Good. Keep me posted.

Quake: What are you doing?

The girlfriend: Watching the bait.

Quake: Do I want to know?

The girlfriend: It's better if you don't.

The girlfriend: I'll let you go. Text your mom. She should be in range now. For you anyway. It might be another jump before they will be ready.

Quake:?

The girlfriend: Zepar 3 works, and they're on their way to the location we can't talk about.

Quake: I'm always worried when there's something too secret to talk about on these. But that seems normal.

The girlfriend: It does. I'll see you soon. Don't die out there.

Quake: I will do my best.

To be continued…