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thelegion2016-12-05 05:00 pm
strangebargains) wrote in thelegion2016-12-05 05:00 pm
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[The image is shaky at first, since he's holding it. A moment later and the image stabilizes and becomes much more than a chin or pair of nostrils. Stephen comes into view, he's wearing a red cloak with a high collar but it isn't his cloak and he's pretty miffed she didn't get pulled into this universe.]
Hello, everyone, I figure it's best to see if there's anyone I know here. New arrival, Doctor Stephen Strange, if that name rings a bell I congratulate you. That means you're alive and well because I was probably your Doctor. You're welcome.
[He waves a yellow-gloved hand. Underneath they were scarred and ached in certain temperatures, so he figured it'd be best to protect them in this manner.]
Now I've done this whole multiverse song-and-dance deal before. If I'd had the foresight to bring the Eye of Agamotto with me I could have taken care of your little problem. Chronoblivion? Been there, done that.
[He gets a dark look, and shakes it off. That sound exactly like Dormammu and he wouldn't be surprised if that simply was what they called him in this universe.]
Too many times.
Plus, what's the deal with giant world-eating entities? Do they have a club or something? Is it like what they do for fun since they're all bored in their dimensions?
Anyway. I decided to join your little group of Legionaires. I can't use magic here for some reason, but apparently I can still do some things. It's a little different from what I'm used to, but it's nice not having to worry about losing your sling ring.
Hello, everyone, I figure it's best to see if there's anyone I know here. New arrival, Doctor Stephen Strange, if that name rings a bell I congratulate you. That means you're alive and well because I was probably your Doctor. You're welcome.
[He waves a yellow-gloved hand. Underneath they were scarred and ached in certain temperatures, so he figured it'd be best to protect them in this manner.]
Now I've done this whole multiverse song-and-dance deal before. If I'd had the foresight to bring the Eye of Agamotto with me I could have taken care of your little problem. Chronoblivion? Been there, done that.
[He gets a dark look, and shakes it off. That sound exactly like Dormammu and he wouldn't be surprised if that simply was what they called him in this universe.]
Too many times.
Plus, what's the deal with giant world-eating entities? Do they have a club or something? Is it like what they do for fun since they're all bored in their dimensions?
Anyway. I decided to join your little group of Legionaires. I can't use magic here for some reason, but apparently I can still do some things. It's a little different from what I'm used to, but it's nice not having to worry about losing your sling ring.
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Whoa, Doc, dial it down a bit.
[Nita's used to a much older, considerably less in-your-face Dr. Strange who's a family friend. A Dr. Strange who's gotten his ass kicked often enough to have learned a little humility, or at least how to tell the right moments to express arrogance.]
A lot of us have fought universe-killers, okay? You don't need to impress anyone. You're kinda making yourself look like a jerk, here.
[She's not mad, she's trying to save him from the terrible faux pas he's in the middle of committing.]
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Look, I'm only trying to help.
[It seems that his particular brand of optimism was coming off poorly here. Plus he did just save the world and that was far more difficult than any surgery he'd ever performed and he felt like he earned the stripes to say so, darn it.]
You've got people with those kinds of qualifications and you still can't beat this thing yet?
[That's...horrifying. Stephen was glad he hadn't eaten lunch yet. If people who, like him, had fought Dormammu-level types and were still not able to win...what was it that Mordo said?
The bill comes due.
Maybe this was his price to pay for what he did to save the world.]
Just great.
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[Obviously he knows what all those things mean, right? Also, she's very relaxed for someone discussing cosmic horrors that represent a threat to all of reality. You get used to it, y'know?
Strange seems to have backed off the bluster a bit, so she smiles sunnily.]
Don't get me wrong, it never hurts to have the Sorcerer Supreme on your team [glossing lightly over the fact he apparently can't do sorcery anymore, ahem] but this is not shaping up to be an easy one.
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...I'll take your word for it.
[His breath hitches and he looks a little pained at that comparison.]
The Ancient One is here?
[Despite her death, he wasn't at all surprised if somehow she was here, or a version of her. She had been the Sorcerer Supereme, not him. Right now they had no one to take up the mantle, until things got sorted out .]
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[Puzzlement. What's an Ancient One.]
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Me? Sorcerer Supreme? That's a good one. If it would be anyone I thought Wong would take it up, or Mordo if he hadn't left us.
[He grew quiet a moment.]
You're serious.
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[She knows next to nothing about all the magical-type infighting, she just knows Strange shows up with the cloak and the Eye and portentous phrases that don't actually mean anything are spoken and stuff blows up.]
The Time Trapper must've caught you really early.
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Apparently so.
[From nearly every conversation he's had so far these people have recognized him so it was safe to day at some point he likely was going to be Sorcerer Supereme someday, or at the very least a bit famous. Well, moreso. Moreso than he already was in his field and to the medical community.]
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[Big sister Nita is in full effect. Brace for after school special.]
Anyway, I'm Nita Prentiss, and my universe's version of you is a friend of the family. It's nice to meet you.
[Nita smiles--she does that a lot, and they always seem sincere--and waves at the camera.]
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Nice to meet you, Nita. Again in your case, I suppose.
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[She's firm on that. Nita has the feeling he's going to be judged against the standard of a much older Stephen Strange, and found wanting, and that's not fair.]
There are an infinite number of universes, so if you don't run into duplicates once in a while, you're living a very sheltered life. You're a vast improvement on the last time this happened to me.
[Evil AU. Those are the worst.]
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So you're an old hat at this? What happened to you?
i am so sorry about nita's life
[She's a legacy character; she was born into this crap.]
So, that pep talk Richie gave you?
[Yes, she's using "pep talk" ironically.]
I was around for the bit with the Many-Angled Ones and cosmic abstracts he was talking about. I kinda accidentally time-traveled as part of a grudge match this guy with a cosmic artifact was having with a future version of himself, and landed in the middle of Richie's interdimensional war.
[Ain't even mad. Apparently, it saved her life.]
Turns out a man who was deeply decent and noble in my universe had a twin in another universe who, well, not so much. He sold his soul on his deathbed to avoid the whole "death" part. Long story short, it let in your standard mind-bending evil from beyond space and time or whatever, which infected everyone else in that universe, they killed Death, and then they decided it was time to expand into neighboring universes because when you destroy the concept of death, real estate starts to fill up fast.
Sooooo a bunch of very nasty versions of people I know and like showed up and it sucked utterly.
[She makes a "what're ya gonna do?" face and shrugs.]
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Maybe someday, but jeez...he nods and tries his best to look as sympathetic as possible instead of shocked or confused.]
That sucks. I assume everything worked out okay in the end.
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Wow, there really are infinite universes.]
Well, we won. It cost us a lot, though.
[She goes from nonchalant to solemn quickly, but doesn't mention Rich is one of the people who died. If he didn't mention it, it's not her place to.]
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Good. Victories, unfortunately, sometimes do.
[The last one cost him the Ancient One and Mordo's friendship. But he saved the world, so there was that.]
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In magic more than in most things, they tell me.
[She's actually pretty perceptive when she wants to be. Which is rarely, as a rule.]
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It makes me wonder if the price I have to pay for saving my world...is being sent here. The bill comes due, as they say.
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[That...does not seem to be sarcasm.]
Doesn't seem like it has enough of a poetic sting in the tail for magic, y'know?
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[That's totally how cosmic entities talk, clearly.]
It's like how you should never volunteer for anything unless you want to be in charge of it forever.
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[ He'll take proving your point for 100, Nita. ]