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Who: Jean Grey
Broadcast: fleet-wide
Action: SS Vanquish
When: 10 June

( Jean isn't a stranger to space. She isn't a stranger to time travel. She is a stranger to this particular space ship, though, and she's not really sure why she's here or how she got here. It's a pain in the ass, really, considering she just got back from space not even two weeks ago and here she is again, trapped in the limbo of endless black and stars close enough to touch. She'd started on a ship with limited capacity and basically no people and at least she's actually on a ship with people now. It's an improvement - somewhat.

Great. Just peachy.

Maybe this time they can skip the Invasion of the Symbiotes and she'll get to keep control of her own body and mind. It'd be nice, for once, not to have to worry about some alien entity invading her body for the fun of it. )

So, uh, question? What sector of space are we in, exactly? Because I just got back from a stint on Klyntar and let me tell you, it wasn't great. I don't want to go back. So if we're anywhere remotely close by (read: within one million lightyears), I'd like to go ahead and nope out now.

( Maybe this isn't the best way to introduce herself to an entire space fleet but, hey, Jean has never been one to beat around the bush. Being a telepath, she has an idea of how people's brains work and it's given her the overarching sense that she needs to just shoot straight ninety nine percent of the time. What's the point in subtlety? Say what you think, be bold, no regrets. It keeps people from misinterpreting your motives, anyway. )

Anyone got ideas on how I can get back to Earth from here? I don't want it to seem like it's less important than the former, because really, if I'm not anywhere near Klyntar I'm good, but I kind of have a team I need to get back to. I'm Jean Grey and I'm captain of the X-Men.

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Right. [It is good to see a Jean. So good. There was a time when Logan meant the world to Kitty. Okay, that time hasn't exactly passed even with more information, and Jean was always with Logan so Jean meant a lot too. It's not like she'd ever replace her parents, and if she was Storm would have been in the running too, but sufficed to say the woman meant a lot to her. But seeing this new Jean also means talking about her world. Her life. And so much of it isn't pretty. And not everyone is that accepting of a Magneto-founded and led team of X-Men that she's met.]

I'll see what we have in the way of snacks to bring over and then I'll be in the cargo bay there.

Snacks sound amazing.

( What? She's a growing girl - she needs her energy. Besides, it's been a long couple of days. )

You might want to wait on saying that until you see what I come up with. [She gives her a nod and cuts the feed. Then she finds a bag of crisped vegetable chips which Kitty probably would have found annoyingly healthy sounding before, but once you're in space for awhile it's amazing how much you can appreciate fruits and vegetables. Then she heads out on a shuttle, docking on the Vanquish and then phasing through the door instead of opening it, looking around for the redhead.]

( To Jean's credit, she doesn't launch on Kitty, but she is a bundle of energy once she finds her on board the Vanquish. )

Thank God there's someone I sort of know. I think if I was stuck here by myself, I would lose it.

[For a girl who actually phased the last time she was home and Rogue tried to hug her, Kitty has to hold herself back from being the launcher. It helps that Jean's so young. It's definitely a little jarring, but there's still a lot of familiar.]

You're stronger than that. [Something she's sure about despite just having met her, but she's glad she doesn't have to go through it alone.]

Kurt and Remy are here too. Kurt's from my world and Remy's from...I'm guessing neither of our worlds. [He'd never mentioned any time traveling X-Men.] He's also not actually one of the X-Men where he's from, but we tend to forget that. [It's easy to forget. To just think of him as roughly theirs.]

Well, I tend to think anyone who is a mutant is on my team right now so I'm going to consider you guys my team anyway.

( Jean wants to keep home as close as she can and knowing there's some mutants here that she knows of and that Kitty trusts is a good enough endorsement for her. )

Couldn't have said it better myself. [Mutants = team = family.] Even if I did want to throw Hank out into the vacuum of space when he first arrived. [It got better.]

( Jean giggles softly. ) Look, sometimes I want to throw Hank out into the vacuum of space too so you're not alone. He's still alive, though, so good on us?

Why do you want to do that sometimes? [She knows her own reasons. Or maybe it's just that one of them was more serious about it.]

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