driftfleet | o1;; You didn't see that coming?

Who: Pietro & You!
Broadcast: yes
Action: SS Bloodsport
When: Right now

[ Video;; ]
[ The video feed shakes, the audio cracking as the communicator is moved around. The broadcasting image so far is the floor, covered in multicolored confetti, and a pair of black and grey running sneakers in view. The left foot taps impatiently before the video swings again to the bridge of the Bloodsport. ]

[ There is a sigh before heavily accented voice accompanies the shoddy cameraman-ship. ] If this is someone's idea of a prank, it lacks humor.

[ The communicator finally turns around, and Pietro is very firmly not happy with this situation. ]

I have complaints.

[ SS Bloodsport;; ]
[ Pietro can be found in various places throughout the Bloodsport. In the kitchen, trying to figure out what the deal with protein paste is. The bridge offers a bit of a distraction with the endless sea of stars or the array of broadcast settings, and how can he resist settling into the bunks? It's been a very long time since he's had his own room. ]

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What? No, I...

[Trailing off as realization sets in. She's had this confusion before after all.]

Did you get your powers from an experiment?

Experiments, yes.

[ They were awful and nightmare fuel, but they were also good in a way. It made him closer to his sister. The powers were to help them liberate their country. Or at least that's what they were led to believe. ]

The Pietro Maximoff in my world is a mutant like me, so is Wanda. [Managing not to use past tense.] I was surprised to hear that was a difference between worlds. [Back when Wanda told her and the powers sounded similar enough that she thinks maybe the experiment just brought out their latent mutant abilities rather than giving them something new.]

[ As far as either of them know, it was only due to the experimenting. No one really understands their powers. ]

So these mutants.. You were born like this, or made?

Born. Powers usually come out at puberty. They did for me. There's an X-gene that sets it off. It can run in families [like it did for you] or occur spontaneously like it did for me.

There's no Avengers in my world, but Vision told me about them. He's my captain here.

I have heard that there are altered states. I suppose this is one of them. You said the X-Men are a group of mutants?

[ It does sound nice, having a group of people like he and Wanda. He's only mildly curious how life is for them. Being born with abilities as opposed to signing up with a neo-Nazi organization to obtain them. ]

There must be a great deal of you.

That's right.

[Less every day.] Depends what you mean by a great deal. It's rare compared to not being a mutant. [Although genocide was shifting that balance too.] But there were enough of us that we were broken up into smaller teams from the whole.

More than a handful, then. Goodness. I believe normal people will outnumber those of us with different abilities.

[ Really, he's unbothered by it. Though, he was made, not born. There's a vast difference. But there are teams of these mutants in another world. The idea is alluring, at least. ]

They usually do. We're a kind of normal though. [Yes? No? Maybe?] Or at least it feels that way when everyone you know is moving faster than you can see or controlling the weather or metal or reading minds.

I think I would like to be a part of something like that very much. There is not a lot of call for it where I am from, though.

But you're an Avenger, right? It sounds similar from what I've heard.

Honorary Avenger, perhaps. It's quite recent.

[She almost says something encouraging, but she thinks of her talk with Wanda and she can't be sure he's from that same world, but maybe best to not talk about things that can't come to pass.]

How do you like it so far?

It's not the worst place I have been. Restlessness already is not boding in my favor, unfortunately.

[ That may be largely due to his lack of powers than actually feeling like the walls are closing in. He hasn't decided on that yet. ]

Restless already? You just got here.

Things are too slow already.

Well, who can keep up with you, right? [Little smile.]

Not very many people, certainly. Not unless they cheated.

How would you even cheat something like that? Teleporting?

It's about the only thing that I can think of.

My best friend just happens to be a teleporter. [She's never really called Kurt her best friend before, but it's what came out and she's not going to argue with herself.] I'm sure he'd like to meet you too.

Is that so? I would very much like to match his abilities against my own at some point. I would like to meet him, too.

[ If only to race him, even though the odds are grossly against his favor right now. ]

His name is Kurt and he's blue with a tail and a German accent. Hard to miss.

Kurt, blue, and German. That should be easy enough find within the fleet. He doesn't have any alternate versions of himself, does he?

Not here. Not anymore. Or maybe not yet. You never know with this place. It's never dull. That would probably be bad for ratings.

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