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[The video clicks on to a dark-haired woman who is giving the device a slightly skeptical look. Her head his bare, but from the flashes of red and gold metal from the neck down, it’s safe to assume she’s fully armored otherwise and the helmet sits behind her, just barely in the frame. Once she notices the video is on, she gives it a tired-looking smile.] Hi. Can anyone tell me what universe this is? Nobody I talked to at the...portal seemed to know.

[The smile briefly turns into a grimace and she lifts a hand to rub her face before suddenly seeming to remember she’s still wearing her gauntlets. The hand drops back out of frame.] It should be 3490, but I can't tell if I just crossed space or hopped the multiverse or...what just happened at all. [She sighs but makes herself smile again. It's the tabloid smile. It doesn't mean much, but it does look good.]

My name is Natasha Stark, if that helps.

[There a movement like she's going to turn the video off before she pauses.] I don't suppose there's any use anyone could find for an engineer? I think better when I have something to work on. And I'd rather not just be cooped up here. Wherever here is.

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The Savrii. The people who built the Ingress.

So it was an accident that got us all here? Or an "accident", at least.

Another group of scientists broke every Ingress. It was an accident, I think. But they were playing with energy they didn't understand.

And even the Savrii haven't been able to stop it.

Ah. Well that's at least somewhat familiar. People playing with things they don't understand seems to be universal.

There's something else you should know. Something maybe too familiar.

[Wanda's not really sure she's the best one to be explaining this (or in any position to talk since she and the other Wanda seem to have come to the unspoken understanding that avoiding each other is probably for the best), but here goes nothing.

And since she's about to drop a bit of a bombshell, Wanda switches the feed to private. This isn't something everyone needs to see.]

There's another Stark here, the Iron Man from my world.

[Natasha opens her mouth and then closes it again. If that Stark is known and is still Iron Man...Well. That's different.] I'm guessing he's not a Natasha, then.

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No. Tony Stark.

[She smiles apologetically. It's a lot and she knows it.]

The Ingress seems to 'like' our world too much. There are people from at least three other versions of our world who have been brought here.

[Tony Stark. Natasha can only imagine how thrilled that Howard must have been. But Wanda seems a little anxious, and she definitely doesn't need to deal with Natasha's issues, so she just smiles.] Well, as long as he's not trying to take over or destroy the world, I've probably seen weirder. We'll just have to assume that accidentally coming into contact won't cause a paradox or anything.

Three versions of your world?

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[Ha...ha...haha...ha...]

I think your version of our world is different from Peter's or Billy's. Nothing bad has happened to us from being together so far.

I was mostly joking about the paradox. That's only for temporal shifts. [She's completely straight-faced now, though.]

I guess that shouldn't surprise me too much. The multiverse isn't my strongest suit, but from what I gather it's supposed to be infinite possibilities. Butterfly Effect and all.

It is interesting that there are so many from similar ones, though. Can I ask who else?

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