Multiverse of Madness

There's been a lot of talk happening over the last few days, not all of it public, so I wanted to go for full transparency about my status after Friday's visit. I'm including some recent history and context here - you can read more about it online if you haven't already, but people turning up from other worlds aren't usually going to know to look for the information so I'm laying out a brief summary to start you off.

A couple of years ago there was a proposal for an international treaty called the Sokovia Accords that would regulate how people like the Avengers or the various unaffiliated superhumans would be allowed to use their powers. In theory it was a reasonable idea and we might have been able to figure out something that everyone could agree on, except that during talks there was a terrorist attack on a UN debate and James Barnes was framed for it. Steve and I had been searching for him after he escaped from being held prisoner and we were able to find him during the aftermath, but through him we learned that the group that had held him, HYDRA, had created other super soldiers as well and the person who was really behind the UN bombing was on his way to take control of them. We were under extreme time pressure and when several other team members attempted to arrest us for not bringing Barnes in I made a sacrifice play to give them time to get to the location. A few others and I were held in an off-shore facility until Steve got us out and since then he and I had been running ops trying to locate and destroy alien technology that had been left behind during the Chitauri invasion while remaining in hiding. When the portals started opening we came back to the US knowing that we still had open warrants. Those are both decisions that I would absolutely make again if I was in the same position today.

It's good to have the chance to get our legal status settled, though. I sat down with the government's representatives today to discuss a few alternative scenarios and we have mutually agreed that the best thing for everyone is if I remain here full time. I've offered to be on hand to fly rescue missions when I can - the wings I have now are a lot better than the government's design and there's basically no one else left who can operate them anymore - but I'm not the only pararescue in the world. I'm needed here and this is going to remain my priority. I won't let the military's interests compromise my work with all of you and luckily when they listened to my arguments on the subject the government realised I was right.

On another note I'm going to put Inside Out on tonight, but for tomorrow I've managed to dig up an old sci fi 80s classic, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension. It should be fun.

Summer vacations here are so much longer than they are in Japan. And the school year starting in September not April is just so strange to me. And high schools being four years here, not three. But least the school here is virtual, so I can pick up where I left off when it resumes.

What do people do for summer vacations here? We had a couple of weeks back home, then a training camp for school, so there wasn't much time.

Maybe I'll get a summer job. It'd be nice to have some of my own money. I feel bad relying on all of the adults here.

So I guess I should intro myself here or something.

Hi. I'm Miles Morales and I'm from another dimension. In my world, I know the Avengers are around but it's way different than here. Like, our Peter Parker was in his 20s and stuff different.

Odds are that there's no Peter Porker or Gwen Stacy here, is there?

[Filtered To Teens]*

Hey. So. I know there's a small growing number of us teenagers here. And things have sucked lately.

So, I'm throwing a party. Sunday, ten o'clock, game room.

I'm enchanting the room so the adults won't suspect anything is up. So we'll be able to keep things going pretty late.

There will be food and drinks, though if anyone wants to bring anything, I wouldn't object.

[Filtered To Ambrose]

I'm throwing a party on Sunday.

Yes you can come.

Do you think you can pick us up some alcohol, please?

[Filtered To Madison]

I'm sorry it didn't work. I'll keep trying to find a way to help you get your powers back, I promise.

*[OOC: Anyone in the 19 and under crowd is included in this filter!]

[Ochaco and Tenya]
Hello, my name's Storm. Pepper suggested I reach out to you because you mentioned previously being at a school that included lessons on managing powers. I ran a school similar to that at home and wanted to see if you'd like to meet to discuss support beyond what the education system here could offer. I myself possess atmokinesis, control over the weather, and I've trained with or supervised people who could do almost anything you could imagine.

I believe an introduction is customary, yes? Hopefully I am being understood? I was told there was a translation effect.

I am Tenya Iida, first year Hero Student at U.A. Academy in Japan. This is... a lot to take in, in truth. I thought I had seen quite the number of exceptional things already, but it seems that I was mistaken.

I confess, I find myself at something of a loss. I thought that I had a plan for my life and future. With that upended, I do not know what to do with myself.

I was also told my friend Ochaco is here?

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