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[img]https://i.imgur.com/GjazZAE.png[/img][hr][@BlueSky44][@Kirah][@Nallore][@Natsu][@Andromedai][hr][h3][color=84B4E2][b]5:10 AM November 13th, 2021 - the Raft[/b][/color][/h3][/center][hr]	Raynor had to do his best to stifle his laughter at Maria's suggestion of throwing a letter through the portal and hoping someone on the other end would throw a response back. He bit down hard on the inside of his cheeks, as he had been trying to be less of an asshole, especially now that his daughter had been born. Still though, he just loved that everyone was trying to come up with these high tech solutions and Maria just wanted to... tie a piece of paper to a glorified stick, chuck it through, and hope that Doctor Doom would write a cordial reply and send the arrow on back. [color=d86615]"What do you do if someone [i]fires[/i] the arrow back? Or if Doom and Luminous decide to just not reply?"[/color] Raynor asked her, his eyes dancing with mirth even as he restrained his giggles. 	
	
	[color=FFB795]"I think if a monster comes through the portal, we see if it's friendly and if it isn't, we do our thing?"[/color] Amelia suggested. She didn't know about Raft surveillance and whatnot, or who had caused the damage. All of those things would have been in the mission file given to Cass [i](yes, there was surveillance footage and partially, the majority of the damage had been caused by the inmates attempting to escape).[/i] [color=FFB795]"...Do monsters usually end up coming through weird swirly things?"[/color] she then added. She hadn't fought a monster before, but the more experienced members of this team seemed to have fought just about everything by now. 

	Bonnie bit her lip, perturbed by the fact that all of the devices thrown through the portal had lost signal. That didn't bode well. If there was nothing on the other side, maybe Luminous and Doom had more or less committed suicide unintentionally in the escape. However, they couldn't just assume that - they couldn't risk letting Luminous and Doom go free to terrorize people. Between the two of them, they could likely pose a serious challenge to the full Avengers line-up. The Secret Warriors had enough trouble with Luminous on her own and the Fantastic Four regularly struggled to defeat Doom. [color=f6989d]"Wait, Sparky, d-,"[/color] Bonnie began to warn, before the portal suddenly widened and engulfed them all. The light was blindingly intense and Bonnie felt like she was free falling - she could hear Amelia let out a slight [i]woot[/i] of excitement, probably from the adrenaline - and then suddenly, her feet hit solid ground. 
[hr][center][h3][color=84B4E2][b]EARTH 257 - 9:10 AM Nov. 13th, 2021 - Times Square, the Iron[/b][/color][/h3][/center][hr]	Small drones littered the sky. It looked like they were in Times Square, with the electronic billboards displaying harrowing messages: "REGISTER. IT IS YOUR CIVIC DUTY.” “BEGINNER POWER CLASSES - GET YOUR LICENSE!” “WANTED FOR CRIMES AGAINST THE IRON - THE X-MEN." On the last one, three familiar faces would have their images displayed - Raynor, Maria, and Flynn. The group would be able to pick out a few others, although they weren't anyone on their team: a girl with claws like Wolverine, a boy covered in eyeballs, a man made entirely out of steel, a fuzzy blue elf/demon hybrid, a teenaged boy with pink hair, and a man with dreadlocks. Times Square was fairly crowded, with people walking around with strange metallic implants in the side of their face. 

	[color=FFB795]"Woah... Where the bloody hell are we?"[/color] Amelia asked, her eyes alight with wonder. She then glanced down at the ground and saw the drone, as well as the bolt Celestine had thrown. Amelia knelt down and picked up the bolt. [color=FFB795]"We didn't, like, miss a bunch of stuff right?"[/color] she asked. The posters and billboards made no sense to her, especially the drones and the weird implants. It was like they had been dropped into some sort of futuristic society.

	Bonnie felt strangely calm for the bizarre surroundings. They had seen and done a lot of crazy things. Suddenly finding a transformed New York City with Big Brother style surveillance and ads for the arrest of her fiancé... it didn't shock her as much as it once could have. Her mind was working quickly as her eyebrows furrowed, coming up with a hypothesis. Maybe this was the future, but the images of Flynn and Maria looked like they could've been taken days ago. [color=f6989d]"Raynor... You've traveled between worlds before,"[/color] Bonnie stated. It wasn't a question. 

	Raynor nodded, looking as white as a sheet. [color=d86615]"This... This is my home. We need to run, now, before [i]they[/i] come for us."[/color]