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Who: Logan
Broadcast: Fleet wide
Action: The Marsiva
When: Now!

MEANWHILE...

[He's a Canadian Bub and he just woke up on the Marsiva. With all the shit that he'd been dealing with lately trying to track down Romulus and deal with his demented son, he might have handled this whole being in space thing a whole lot worse. Instead the feed opens with Logan standing in front of the viewing bay with his hands in his pockets and a less than pleased expression written in his features.]

Damn. Space again.

[It wasn't like he went into space all the time, but he didn't especially enjoy it. He could be seen tapping the glass gently with the business end of one metal claw protruding from his wrist. Well, he sure as hell hoped there was someone around who was a better pilot in zero atmosphere than he was. Besides, at least he couldn't see Galactus out there.

Later when the feed cuts off, Logan will try getting past the visitor's area of the Marsiva by trying to cut a path through one of the walls with his claws. Unfortunately besides making some very unpleasant sounds, he doesn't seem to succeed in cutting his way through. Too bad.]

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[She wants to ask more about Piotr, but she holds it in check for now. It's really just emotional abuse she doesn't need right now.] I don't know if they're usual, but Remy, Rogue, and Kurt are, or at least were, all X-Men where I'm from. You too.

My world seems to have some significant differences from most other X-Men I run into.

[Yeah, he gets that roster. It makes sense. There's plenty more - but they're not here to be counted just yet.]

How different we talking here?

Most of the world is uninhabitable or under Apocalypse's rule. [So, you know, there's that. It's kind of a downer.]

[He growls lowly. He's had Apocalypse as his own dance partner a few times and even served as one of his Horsemen. In fact, it was the very reason he even had this current set of Adamantium attached to him. To think that fight would have been lost...]

How long?

He'd been working on it a long time. [But much of it was in the background, amassing forces. She had some time to be a self-centered kid without realizing what was coming first.] Complete collapse? I don't know. Five or six years ago maybe. [But she tends to draw that line around when Chicago fell the first time.]

[Complete collapse.] Ya manage to take him down?

We...had a plan. I was pulled into the prison before it was complete. [Before she died.] If the wardens were telling the truth then it...did what it was supposed to do.

[The plan was a lot like saving the world by destroying it. She doesn't talk about it as openly as some of the other things.]

Mm. Good. We've had our run ins with him. They're always close. Too close. But he ain't had a lasting win yet.

[But Apocalypse was no lightweight villain. He was one of the big ones and any notion of ever having to deal with him was more than any X-Men took lightly.]

Rogue mentioned they'd had a brush with him too. [The thought of him just being around, but held in check is so difficult for her to imagine.]

Is Xavier alive where you're from? [It's a name that meant little to her before the prison, but he's been an important figure for every X-Man she's met since. She even met him. A young Charles Xavier only on the cusp of assembling a team.]

[A nod.]

Chuck's still around and kicking. [And standing as well. Though he doesn't have to guess where she's getting to with her question.] What happened to yours?

He died saving Erik from an attack before the X-Men were even a thing. The guy meant a lot to him. He even named his son Charles and named the team after him too I guess. [Okay, she's not sure if that's where the team name came from, but both have X's.]

Those two always had a history. They ain't always played so nice, though. [Not until after M-Day, at least.] Shame if ya never got to meet 'em. He wasn't perfect, but me 'n a lot of others wouldn't be what we are without him.

I met a version of him in the prison. I don't think he was much older than me. He seemed like a good guy. [They'd gotten decently close.]

Most people tell me Erik is someone the X-Men fight in their world.

He was. But he ain't been much of a threat since he lost his powers.

[And after the events of M-Day, Logan half-pities the man. But he's been through a little too much shit with Magneta to think of him all that fondly.]

[That gets a surprised look.] He lost his powers? [Not that it might not have been the best if he was using them to hurt people instead of protect them.]

Lots of folk did. [And in exchange, he got a bucket load of memories...]

It's a long story.

We probably both have a lot of those. [Giving him a thoughtful look.]

Maybe over a drink when you get shuffled? I've got a job now. Should be good for at least two drinks.

[Shuffled. That feels about right for this kind of treatment.]

Two drinks is a good start. That other station out there seems as good a place as any.

Agreed. Anything I need to tell you first? Questions about the place? [Or about her if he wants, but that can also wait until they meet up. She's not exactly in a hurry to stop talking to him. It's good to see him even if it isn't her him. She just doesn't think he's the kind of guy you just call to chat.]

[Anything she ought to tell him first? He thinks about that for a moment.]

You'n the others been training?

Here? I don't know if they are. I've mostly been exploring. But I've had some work outs. I don't really have much of a pattern yet. [But she'll probably need one since getting out isn't coming in the immediate future.]

[He really wasn't as much in the business of running training exercises as much as he might have been in the past, but he was the senior team member in this current lot. He was going to have to think on this.]

Any decent spots for it in this fleet? [Escape would come first. But... it wouldn't hurt to stay sharp.]

There's a ship with no crew aboard called the Iskaulit. It has a gym. Hopefully a reinforced one. [Because X-Men training on a spaceship sounds like a pretty terrible idea on the face of it. But she supports it. Might be nice to train with him again.]

Better'n nothing. I'll give it a look when I have the chance.

Planning on doing any partner sparring? [Yes, she's interested.]

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