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Who: investikate and you!
Broadcast: fleetwide video
Action: the iskaulit or the blameless
When: evening

[ the feed jumps straight to broadcast with kate bishop's face framed in the shot's centre. she must have only recently been below on the poisoned moon because she's still wearing her mask. give her a moment, and she's tugging it down around her neck before removing it completely. ]

Quick and painless interruption. I promise. Couple weeks ago I talked to a guy who didn't even know about the Avengers. So who does? What about the Young Avengers? I've seen a few familiar faces but there's gotta be more of us. Right? [ oh, she sounds hopeful. ] Or maybe you've heard of the Avengers while you were stuck somewhere else before here. I'd love to hear about it.

[ --- kate waits in silence for a moment, before adding: ] Also, I wish the fleet had a dance club. [ ... ] Hawkeye, out.

[ later that evening, she can be found at the classier gin joint on the iskaulit. although she's in a dress and her hair could be accurately described as done, kate sits with a nursed singapore sling and a notepad at her corner of the bar. it looks as though she's reviewing earlier conversations from the network, and is transcribing the occasional note. that said, she seems approachable. whenever someone passes by, she nods a greeting and smiles. doesn't hurt to be polite. ]

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[Hi Kate, have someone who may or may not look somewhat familiar....]

Good evening. I've most certainly heard of the Avengers, though the Hawkeye I'm familiar with is Clint Barton.

[ good god. the colours aren't perfect -- and he looks older, somehow. but there's something unmistakable in the face. perhaps its redness, or the stylized widow's peak. kate's breath catches. ]

-- Jonas? [ she leans in, staring awe-struck. ]

[That actually makes him look visibly taken aback. He's had a lot of strange reactions to his appearance, but nobody's ever mistaken him for someone else.]

I'm afraid not, though now you've made me curious who "Jonas" is. I am the Vision.

[ surprise gives way to curiousity. and curiousity to sadness -- after all, it doesn't take a genius to decipher what's happened. ]

Jonas is the Vision. The Vision is Jonas. [ kate exhales. ] A -- a version of him, at least. And one I haven't seen in a while.

[ one she still doesn't see now, she understands. and that slices sadness into her heart. ]

Sorry.

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I'm sorry to hear that, then, and I do hope you'll have the chance to encounter him again. Many things are possible here which might otherwise not be; there's at least one other who's had several different versions of himself appear here simultaneously.

[Because as much as his curiosity's been aroused by the idea of an alternate version of himself, it's easy enough to read the hurt in her so he won't pry just yet.]

[ she can hear the difference now -- more than she can see it. he sounds somehow older. but right now, all she can think about is the way his 'flesh' popped and bubbled after nathaniel had finished with him. ]

Must've been a headache. [ her answers are slow and deliberate. like she's still thinking. ]

[Very, very fortunately, nothing like that has happened to him yet.]

I do apologize if I've caused you distress.

It's...not your fault. Probably. [ she exhales. ] But I guess that means you also don't recognize me, huh?

[He hopes not. It certainly wasn't intentional.]

No, I'm afraid I don't. Though you said you're a Hawkeye?

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Kate Bishop. And I've been a Hawkeye for a while, now. Some might even say I'm an improvement on the original.

Then I'm glad to meet you, Kate. [Ah, Kitty had mentioned a Kate, so the name isn't entirely unfamiliar to him.]

Clint has been an invaluable member of the team to us. Would you mind terribly if I asked who else you work with?

Not at all. As long as you don't mind me using names besides their real ones until they're here to say otherwise. [ ... ] At least, for my team. Clint and I work together too but -- well, that name already seems familiar to you.

[ she leans back. ] The Young Avengers have a pretty fluid membership roster. There's me, Wiccan, Hulkling, Speed, America, and -- Prodigy, I suppose. Sometimes. [ should she mention loki? noh-varr? nah. they weren't really teammates after all. ]

Patriot and Stature used to be members.

[ that comes with a pregnant pause. does this vision know cassie, she wonders? ]

[Fascinating. None of those sound familiar, though there are clearly similar notes here and there. He shakes his head, looking a bit rueful.]

I can't say any of them sound familiar, unless "Speed" is a name Pietro Maximoff took for himself.

Nnnot quite. More like Quicksilver's nephew.

[ and your (sorta) son. c: surprise. ]

[OH REALLY well he has no idea about the son part, obviously, but his face lights up anyway.]

If Wanda has a son old enough to be an Avenger, you must be significantly ahead of my timeline.

Two sons, actually. Twin boys.

[ and it's oh so complicated. ]

I suppose that shouldn't surprise me. Does the other take more after her, then?

He's a reality warper, too, if that's what you're asking.

[He nods, even if that's an unusual way to describe her powers. As good as any, he supposes.]

May I ask what year it is, for you?

2016.

Ah.

[Well, that's...a thing.]

It was May of 2015 when I was created, and I was brought here shortly after.

[ -- hells bells, that puts him at a newer model than even jonas had been. she frowns. ]

But you're not the first, right? You mean this version of you was just created in 2015.

[He shakes his head.]

The Avengers themselves were only formed in 2012, in my timeline. To my knowledge, I'm the only one to ever bear the name.

Wow. [ give her a moment, this has actually caused a bit of shock. kate frowns. ] That's a new variation on the theme. Even the Young Avengers have been around for years.

[Marvel: shocking even people who are used to multiple timelines. ~~Just wait till she learns they're a Disney franchise.~~]

It would most certainly explain why some of us are parents in your time, if we've been together that long. Though I'm sorry there have been enough crises to require it.

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