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ILLYANA

Hey. I just realized it's been a little while.

How's it going?

EMMA FROST:

I've been thinking. We should really hash this stuff out because I need you to know exactly why I'm still pissed, and I think you deserve to have someone be completely honest with you. I realize you don't care what I think so take this with whatever grain of salt you will.

I can forgive you for messing with everyone's heads into believing that Scott was still alive. Grief does really stupid things to people, and I understand that. I can even understand going to war with the Inhumans, if you truly believed they were doing it on purpose and just didn't care that their mist was killing us.

What I can't understand is that you kept pushing for war, even when you found out that they had no idea and were working with us to find a cure. That you spent that year creating Inhuman-killing Sentinels after knowing exactly what it's like to be hunted by them.

You and I have very different ideas about what's right and what's wrong. We always have. You've been willing to push things a lot more than I ever will be. There are some lines that I won't cross. I need to know that you're not going to do something like that here with these people. The Displaced, Avengers and all, are all we have here. I won't have that jeopardized.

If you can promise me that you won't do anything like that here, then I'm willing to be civil.

ILLYANA RASPUTINA:

Hey, so the new Wolfenstein game came out. Wanna kill Nazis with me?

[Private to Kitty Pyrde and Illyana Rasputin]

Kätzchen, Illyana and I have been chatting - how would you like to go somewhere with us? A sort of Welcome to an Alternative Universe celebration for me? This time of year, I can walk around in public as I am and excuse myself as wearing my Halloween costume early.

Is there a magic shop in town? Is there interest in a magic shop? A place to buy ingredients for spells, maybe do tarot readings, a place to store all the big tomes that might have come with us?

If not, I'd really like to start one. I don't know how to go about that though. Where I come from, there was already one. It was called the Magic Box.

[BUFFY]

So... Willow doesn't remember me.

Which makes me wonder about this whole... timeline stuff. Where are you at in it? What's the last thing that happened in Sunnydale for Buffy? :)

Ha ha. Come as you aren't, and then suddenly we are? Whose idea was that?

PS. Your history essays are still due on Friday.

I've only just arrived, but two separate people have already told me that I've been here before. I'm guessing he must've been from an alternative universe than my own, because I'm sure I would've remembered a swirling blue vortex and being quarantined. I tried astral projecting, but I can't leave the room

I'm Dr. Stephen Strange. I'll be out in a couple of days.

I think a spell went wrong.

There's gotta be a demon that feeds on broken hearts, right? I mean, there's demons that feed on babies and baby hearts and scared people. What about broken hearts? 'Cause I'm thinking about using mine to try and lure a demon out for stabbing.

CAROLINE:

Save me from Whitney Houston songs.

[Mutants + X-Mansion Residents + Friends of Jean & Scott]

Scott and I are leaving tomorrow for Europe. If you see him looking a little put-out tonight it's because I already packed his bag and I'm hiding it until we go. We'll be back on the 30th probably. If you need us while we're gone, Warren can get in touch with us. I'm available for hugs for the next three hours. Please don't burn the mansion down - or if you do, rebuild it.

Hello? Is this connected back to earth/midgard at all or only to others in the complex?

[ILLYANA TO KITTY PRYDE]

I forgot to say before, sorry for asking you for multiple bedtime stories. Every. Single. Night.

If I had to be a kid again, I'm glad it wasn't with the Legacy Virus. Not that I have memories of that, but I never WANT to remember that.


[ILLYANA TO PIXIE]

Are you ready to resume training?

I appreciate that you weren't cruel to me as a child.

Mama papa piotr katya???

this is bad place like murdrer world

WARREN WORTHINGTON:

We should probably talk about things like wedding dates.

LAURA KINNEY:

How are you holding up since Logan's been back, love?

ILLYANA RASPUTINA & MEGAN GWYNN:

Do you think the pair of you can begin doing training on your own? Or do I still need to keep a psychic knife to your throats?

Okay, y'all, we're going to be remeeting with the military. I reckon helping to contain the damage that occurred and defeating the threats is gonna work a bit in our favor. But we need to know what y'all are wanting.

[Illyana, Kira, Ororo, Peter, Remy, Rogue, Sabine, Violet, Laura, Megan, Hope]
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[America]
I wanted to make sure you were aware of the nonsense going on with the military. If you use your powers, be smart about it. And if anything happens or you find yourself in a spot of trouble, let me know, won't you? I'd hate for something to complicate our arrangement.

[Wanda]
I assume by now you've been warned about military escalation. Are you alright?

ILLYANA RASPUTINA & RACHEL SUMMERS:

I'm doing it. I'm going to talk to Scott about leadership. Or co-leadership.

SCOTT SUMMERS:

You got a minute?

Okay, so tomorrow is some tomato festival? IDK, but I'm not really down for throwing tomatoes. They smell weird sometimes.

ANYWAY, I wanted to invite everyone to the mansion for a game of baseball. We have a diamond and some bleachers, and we usually play with a no-powers rule. But, uh, that doesn't usually last long, and to be honest, most people don't even remember who won within an hour of it finishing. It usually proves to be a great time, even if you're sitting in the bleachers.

So if you're not up for the tomato festival, or you get bored, I was thinking we could start around 5 or 6 so that it's a little cooler. We have lighting so that's not a problem.

Any takers?

ILLYANA RASPUTINA:

Uh. So I went back to through my texts and found that we were apparently going to send everyone to that hell dimension by sacrificing babies. Who the hell does that?

Is everyone back to themselves?

ILLYANA RASPUTINA:

You were training with Strange back home, yes?

I have all of the components we need to establish a permanent portal to the hell dimension over this town-- except for the ten babies. That was YOUR job since it doesn't take the magicks and brains that the spellwork does.

So, did you do it? Is this tiny, pathetic town going to learn what REAL HELL is?

Man, you guys are brutal.

ILLYANA RASPUTINA:

I have an idea.

Jokes on me, I only got to teach history for like two weeks. At the end of the year. I will be prepared come August.

On the other hand, does anyone want to sign up for dance lessons during the summer? It's through the EPS. I've got a few different styles under my belt, and I'd love to teach them to you.

I did not die, get kidnapped, or fall into a hell dimension while I was gone.

( Filter: Mutants (no +) )

While I was in quarantine, some of you asked if I remembered Mount Weather. I didn't at the time. The "pod god" or whatever handles memories apparently saw fit to change that now that I'm out. Or perhaps my physiology made it tricky to incorporate them at first? I'm literally a new person from who I was back then. I remember spending several months there when I was in my teens.

I'm really unclear on who here knew me there, with a few exceptions, so sorry if it seems like I don't know you. It's hard to know if I do or not. Oops?


[Sam Winchester, in Russian]

Hello, Sam. Did you learn Russian?

ILLYANA RASPUTINA:

Okay, so no more fires under butts. Quill is staying at Avengers house or mansion or whatever they've got here. I do NOT want to start another war with the Avengers.

It was funny though. Seeing his face. Never seen someone sweat so much.

I'm Illyana Nikolievna Rasputina, and I don't really do "social media", "social", or "media". But here I am. Hi, mutants. I guess "quarantine" means nobody gets to see me face-to-face until I'm released?

It's not bad for a quarantine. Nice how it comes with internet and without explosives as security measures. I appreciate being told up front that this room prevents teleportation and magic, because I would eventually try magic and teleportation. I'm not fond of the idea of human military captors even though it's supposed to be for "health and safety".