"I wonder if it'll work." Annie had heard that not even Superman could get through, but that had been from random gossip she'd overheard when having coffee, and the people saying it hadn't exactly sounded credible to her. If anybody could get through, she thought it would be Tony. Annie's brain jolted as she remembered the conference. "The City did seem to get a bit upset when somebody said they went over. It said to never go over there. Which, of course, is probably going to make you more determined to do it."
The person who had said that he'd gone over had done it when the City streets had been still. She wondered if that meant that was the only time the wall could be crossed.
"Post war, actually." She nodded. "Recovering from. We were slowly coming to accept that mutants could be heroes, but there were still people who wanted to use us for their own ends, or make it so that we didn't have powers at all anymore. S.H.I.E.L.D., mostly. They didn't really go about neutralizing nicely, either. They used these inhibitor spikes. I got shot with one, let me tell you, I could go my whole life and never feel that again. Those of us with powers kept quiet about them to everybody. Most of the people that I had day to day association with never knew I was anything but a factory worker. I didn't even share it with the handful of friends that I had. My boyfriend knew, and he seemed okay with it. I don't think that's why he broke up with me."