[video]

[smarterthandad]

[Somebody's kid got hold of an omnicomm...or at least that's the logical assumption, until the small human girl in the video starts speaking.]

Hi, I'm Valeria Richards. Since everything's still a mess from the latest supervillain attack, I'm going to be picking up some of Mr. Brainy's [yes she absolutely just called him that] workload to help stuff get back to what passes for normal.

[Did she check with Brainy before announcing this? Well, unless he shows up to contradict her, can you prove she didn't?

Val recognizes that being betrayed, discovering you have a kid you never knew about, and then being assimilated by your evil borg queen great-grandchild is going to knock anyone for a loop and she really is trying to help. It's just that her social skills are questionable at best when the scenario isn't "lying to get out of trouble."]

I'm not entirely up to speed on this reality's physics yet, so don't ask me to alter any universal constants before next week sometime. [Unless she has the best poker face known to science, that does not appear to be a joke.] Anything else, no problem.

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[sir_vancelot]

[At the moment, Vance is caught about half way between, "She's not actually a Legionnaire, right?" and "The Time Trapper pulled in Valeria Richards, we're in worse shape than I thought".]

[Well. It's not Franklin. They don't need a reality warper yet, then.]

[He runs a hand over his face before turning on his omnicomm, leaning back a bit.]

Hi, Valeria. I'd say it's good to see you, but given everything, I'll just say I wish your mom was here, too. And your Uncle Ben.

[Look, Vance likes Sue. He'd definitely been to the Baxter Building enough over the years that he's a fan of her cooking -- thanks, Nita -- and generally a fan of her. But Ben is still Vance's friend in the Fantastic Four.]

[smarterthandad]

Hi, Mr. Vance. I'm sure Uncle Ben would've asked me to say hi if he'd known I was gonna be seeing you.

[She really is a pretty nice kid if it's not something she can be intellectually condescending about.]

I got some of Mom's powers. I'm not sure if it was something I would have developed down the line anyway or not.

[Apparently she just didn't think that was important enough to mention before now.]

[sir_vancelot]

['Mr. Vance' is still a lot nicer than 'Mr. Astrovik', honestly. He'll probably never get used to being called that, so he's definitely not going to correct her.]

I'm sure he would have, too. I'll have to make some time to drop by the Baxter Building to see him next time I'm in New York.

[As long as they haven't dropped the mountain in the middle of the harbor again.]

It's an interesting question. A lot of people have ended up here with powers they didn't have back in their own universes, or some powers being...throttled, so to speak. Which of your mom's powers do you have?

[smarterthandad]

The force fields.

[She levitates her juice box to her hand by way of illustration. It looks like TK, since the fields are perfectly invisible.]

I'm probably not as good as she is, but it's not like there's a Kree armada or a Celestial around to test that on.

[sir_vancelot]

[He knows enough to know the difference. Mostly because he's never met a teke who could keep their powers completely invisible.]

No offense, but I'd kinda like to keep it that way. Not that I don't think you could handle it, but I think we've all had enough of potentially world-ending problems for at least a week.

[smarterthandad]

I already have a plan for Kree, anyway. They're a conventional military with generally unimaginative tactics. Not trivial, but not exactly a challenge, especially with a galactic-scale civilization to stage from.

Celestials are harder.

[This is the kind of thing she falls asleep thinking about. You could blame Doom's influence if her father weren't the exact same way, just quieter about it.]