Thank you to everybody who read or reviewed the last conversation. You are all fabulous.
This conversation takes place between the two timelines. Isn't that exciting? I had this planned before Simmons tried this in season 7 of AOS. I take pleasure in it being something plausible now.
Conversation 25: Text messaging through the quantum realm
Genius Princess: I'm the one typing. I'm trying to push some code to Friday 2023, so she will Change the name of who you're speaking to, even if everything will be coming from the same number. Afia went to get Clint. He is anxious to talk to you.
Genius Princess 2018: We are grateful to establish contact with you after you were missing for 39 hours. We have unfortunately not been as successful with Agent Johnson. We have yet to receive any communications from her.
Counselor Laura from 2023: I'm sure Clint is probably anxious; let him know I'm okay, though. It's only been two days?
Genius Princess 2018: It is 7:23 AM Sunday morning, New York time. We are currently at the lighthouse facility after the Avenger compound was infiltrated.
Counselor Laura from 2023: I've been here for more than a week. I need to ask Friday exactly how long. I lost consciousness a couple of times. Finding out your kids were snapped out of existence will do that to a person.
Genius Princess 2018: That seems in alignment with Leo and Deke's theories regarding how these messages will travel to you.
Counselor Laura from 2023: Deke is actually there?
Genius Princess 2018: Yes, I mentioned earlier that he would like to know how his grandmother is doing. Ana said that she's going to push some messages to her through the system. Consultant Fitzsimmons is very concerned with her alcoholism. He asked Flash about his treatment strategy. I'm sure if Dr. Stark was here, Consultant Fitzsimmons would ask him the same questions.
Counselor Laura from 2023: Me and Dr. Potts are also concerned. Tony and Steve moved an entire mini bar out of the lab and had to reinstate the breathalyzer protocol yesterday.
Genius Princess 2018: Who is Dr. Potts?
Counselor Laura from 2023: So, in this timeline, Tony and Steve never worked through their mountain of bullshit. Because of that, Tony and Pepper somehow ended up getting engaged. When Thanos snapped his fingers and wiped out you and me, he restored Tony's sperm count. Which is how he got Morgan. We might go visit her soon to give Pepper and Hunter a break. BTW Hunter is Tony's nanny.
Genius Princess 2018: That seems out of character from what we know about the purple one from Robin's drawings. I would like to hear the story of how Hunter became Tony's nanny.
Counselor Laura from 2023: I don't even know. Regardless, Tony was really, really apprehensive about helping with the great time heist, which is why Deke got involved. Anyway, Tony and Pepper never actually did get married. However, they both change their name to Potts-Stark so that Morgan will have her own legacy separate from the Stark name. Apparently, this Tony never dealt with his Howard issues. I'm using Dr. Potts to distinguish him from acting Director Stark-Rogers. It's less confusing this way.
Genius Princess 2018: Agree. Also, to help with this, I have introduced code that will add years after our usernames.
Ana 2018: Is Dr. Potts-Stark aware of the circumstances of my name sake's death? That was the catalyst that led to Dr. Stark-Rogers reconciling with his past regarding his father.
Friday 2023: According to my database, Ana Jarvis's cause of death is still listed as a Home accident involving a lightbulb. Although Ana 2018 has sent me a file describing her death as Hydra collateral damage.
Counselor Laura from 2023: That's one way to put it. I guess I'm going to have to schedule two interventions. Friday, do not give that new file to Tony until I can talk to him.
Friday 2023: Of course, Agent Barton.
Genius Princess 2018: Agent Barton? What type of interventions are you planning?
Counselor Laura from 2023: It's how they're differentiating me from the Laura of this timeline. Clint 2023 hasn't been a Shield Agent for a decade at this point.
Counselor Laura from 2023: I know that you're aware of Simmons 2023's drinking problem. I want to do an intervention before I leave if there's time. Will there be time, or are you texting me to tell me to pack my bags?
Genius Princess 2018: We have yet to build a quantum tunnel, and I think we're going to need Pym particles in addition to the White monolith. It may take time to negotiate access to the particles.
Counselor Laura from 2023: You need to do that fast. Tony and Steve 2023 think that we can prevent Thanos from completing the gauntlet in your timeline by sending the stones to their timeline.
Genius Princess 2018: Why didn't I think of that. That could work. It also would help with their mission to complete the gauntlet to undo the purple one's previous damage.
Counselor Laura from 2023: Exactly, but we need Pym particles. It might be better for you to do it on your side since Dr. Pym is still alive. Your timeline has you, Peter, two Fitzs, a sober Simmons, Deke, Tony, and the inventor of the necessary particles, Dr. Pym himself. He is still alive? In this timeline, there was some business with someone name Ghost. Which apparently was old Shield fuck up related.
Counselor Laura from 2023: Regardless, there's more brainpower on your side. We only have Bruce, Tony, Scott, and not sober Simmons.
Genius Princess 2018: You're right. We have a better chance of completing things on our side, mainly because we have most of the notes. I'm going to have Dr. Fitzsimmons work on it this morning. She's our best chance of understanding the work of her drunk counterpart. Dr. Pym is still alive. However, the record of that incident is incomplete because most details came from someone named Luis. He tends to go on unrelated tangents. The notes from Agent Woo were missing a lot.
Friday 2023: I will conduct an interview with Scott and send you the information
Counselor Laura from 2023: I don't even know why we're here when the AIs can just talk to each other.
Purple Princess 2018: We get things done. Hey, it's me, Afia. The princess just went to call West Coast Division Chief McKenzie and give him a heads up. We might have to send some people his way.
Counselor Laura from 2023: What about Sharon?
Purple Princess 2018: Only Dad can contact her. Since she is deeply undercover at the FBI. She's already caught a couple of dirty agents. Or I guess maybe Steve can contact her as well, even if the world doesn't think he's her stepfather anymore. I'll contact my dad after this and let him know. He's already worried about my all-night science bender, but it worked.
Counselor Laura from 2023: That was a horrible cover.
Purple Princess 2018: I thought it was a good idea at the time. I was a baby AI.
Purple Princess 2018: We will have to do another all-hands meeting to discuss the idea with the stones. Dad and Steve will be back at 2 PM our time, but I'll try to get everyone else on board. I think we can do another meeting then.
Counselor Laura from 2023: And you want me to get the science team here together? We were going to try to do another meeting soon but I think Tony and I are going to have other things that we're gonna need to talk about first and we might have to postpone.
Purple Princess 2018: Yes. Plus Steve. We need all notes related to Clint 2023 traveling back to this timeline. Again we have a Simmons who can understand them. Also, we need anything about the location of the stones at present.
Counselor Laura 2023: I'm calling him Mr. May-Rogers. I'm guessing Mrs. May-Rogers should probably be there as well unless she is at Peppers visiting her kids.
Purple Princess 2018: Steve really married May there? That's one hell of a reaction to Agent Agent dying.
Counselor Laura from 2023: For custody of children to keep them out of inhuman internment camps.
Purple Princess 2018: That happened?
Counselor Laura from 2023: Yep, at least according to Friday 2023. It's a full dystopic hellscape here because Ross consolidated power. In this timeline, Ross never kidnapped me, so Clint never took him out politically. He was kicked out once elections were able to happen again, but the damage was already done. Inhumans made an easy scapegoat for what happened.
Purple Princess 2018: I'm not even surprised.
Counselor Laura from 2023: Bruce, I can get to attend. Dr. Potts should be there. If he's not cursing my name in effigy. Do I tell him about Hydra continually trying to kill his family members before or after this meeting?
Purple Princess 2018: If he's like my dad probably before. Apparently, there are windows where we can talk to you. This one's going to close in about 20 minutes, and then it will be three days your time before there's another one. Ana and Friday are doing the math. Friday will let you know when to be ready to speak to us.
Counselor Laura from 2023: I'll talk to Dr. Potts. I make no promises about Simmons.
Purple Princess 2018: Is it really that bad?
Counselor Laura from 2023: During our last all-hands Avengers meeting, Simmons drank vodka out of a water bottle. It wasn't even good vodka, just strong vodka. She also has alcohol stashed everywhere. I haven't seen her not drunk or crying since I've been here. Although maybe knowing Deke is okay will help. I'll tell her she can talk to him to get her there.
Purple Princess 2018: That's a good idea. Will her knowing that her fiancé did not die but sent back in time and created a new timeline help?
Counselor Laura from 2023: I don't know. I think it might make things worse because he chose to stay and is married to Hunter. He argues otherwise, but we all know better.
Purple Princess 2018: I can tell Friday not to differentiate the label between Leo and Fitz.
Counselor Laura 2013: I don't know if you need to go that far. Talk to her grandson. I think he would know better than I would. Although we haven't been telling her anything about Leo. I've been afraid to.
Purple Princess 2018: I get that. We'll figure it out over here. Anyway, I have two people who really want to talk to you, and there's not a lot of time left in this window. I'm switching over to Lily bear now.
To be continued…
I originally had all of this together, but I decided that Laura's conversation with her daughter and husband should be a second section. More to come soon.