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[licensetocrane]

 "Hi, this is April.  If you're calling at 3am, you better be someone I know REAL well."

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[licensetocrane]

New York do be like that, it's true.

[Superheroes, huh.]

...by any chance, does your New York have a spider guy and some older dude in a nanotech suit?

[lol]

[heyunderoos]

New York gotta New York.

[Play it cool, Peter.]

Yeah, Iron man and Spider-Man. There are a lot of other superheroes too.

[licensetocrane]

Man, that's gotta be chaotic. I've met both of them here, they seem pretty cool. Not what I expected superheroes to be, but that's growing up on cartoons for ya. [Grin.]

[heyunderoos]

[Peter huffs a little in amusement at that, loosening up a bit further.] Chaotic is, right honestly. Superheroes always kinda make stuff chaotic, but cool.

[The fact he's a bit of a superhero fanboy starts to become obvious as he continues.]

The first big alien invasion was stopped by the Avengers, which was Iron Man, Captain America, whose here too- and Black Widow, Hawkeye, Thor and Hulk. I was like, maybe eleven when all of that happened.

[licensetocrane]

Hmm. [They coulda done with some superheroes for their own invasion. The guys were more than up to scratch, but maybe they wouldn't have got so hurt.] Why is he called Iron Man when that suit is absolutely not iron?

Oh, and who came first? Black Widow or Spider-Man? [Sounds like a copyright issue, man.

...did he mean Thor as in the Norse god? Nah, probably just someone riffing on the name.]

cw: terrorism mention (I guess??), captivity

[heyunderoos]

I think he made his original suit out of iron. He was like held captive in a cave by a terrorist cell since they wanted him to make them weaponry. [Perfectly normal thing to drop in a conversation.]

Technically Black Widow, but I think Spider-Man is pretty cool. Black Widow is like a super spy, and I'd rather not like offend her or anything.

[licensetocrane]

[Blink.]

Should I just stop asking questions about where you're from, or...

[YOUR HOME IS FULL OF MINEFIELDS]

[heyunderoos]

Oh- uh, no, sorry. [Immediately apologetic.] It's just kind of like that-? A lot of times, but not everything is bad. I mean. Norse gods are real, and kind of cute. At least Thor is?

[Very helpful save.]

[licensetocrane]

Oh, I heard about Thor. Something about people trying to lift his hammer?

[heyunderoos]

Were they-? [Unfortunately for April, Peter was not at the party this took place at.] ...Did Mr. Stark tell you that? He knows Thor. I really don't. I've seen him on TV before though.

[licensetocrane]

[That's okay, at this point in the timeline she didn't expect you to be.]

Apparently he tried lifting it with his power armour and everything. Cheating! But yeah, he told me Loki was here, so we talked about Thor a bit.

[heyunderoos]

Thor seems really cool, my only beef with him is how he changed physics classes with his hammer. [He feels like if anyone is going to get the pain of high school suffering, its April.]

The whole physics class I was in had to get rewritten like four times to account for his hammer, and how it works. I had to re-do assignments, it was terrible.

[licensetocrane]

[Oh wow. So much sympathy, Peter.]

The guy's literally a Norse God, right? Do physics even apply to him?

[heyunderoos]

It's enough that he's leveled buildings and made storm fronts move in with his hammer. [Peter says with a long suffering sigh.]

[licensetocrane]

I call bullshit. No way normal non-God scientists could get a bead on how stuff like that would work. Like, isn't his hammer unliftable unless someone's worthy? How does that get judged, scientifically?

[heyunderoos]

It counted enough, so much of the class had to be re-tooled. It stopped be like fun after I realized it was going to keep changing.

It's even worse, since Thor and Loki are technically sort of aliens? They live in a completely different planet. They have their own planet that doesn't even adhere to earth's standards.

[licensetocrane]

[Interesting question for the philosophy majors: are gods just aliens we don't understand yet? Probably, makes as much sense as anything else.]

Then that's really dumb. Man, get a prof from the alien planet to come down and teach, that way he's at least teaching you in the right ballpark.

[Because that's totally logical. But it's more logical than trying to teach physics around something that says fuck your physics, what even.]

[heyunderoos]

Like that will ever happen, Asgard is like- way out there. [Peter is absolutely unaware asgard probably blew up at some point. MCU too much of a tangled web.]

That's not including we had to like- retake an entire semester after I came back from the snap. I did finals already and passed! Yet, they made me retake it! [Time for some normal-ish teen problems.]

[licensetocrane]

[Normal-ish teen problems yes, but you just mentioned something that's gonna make her drive this ship right into landmine territory again, woo!]

What's the snap? [Like a cold snap, right? Right?]

[heyunderoos]

[He done did this to both of them this time.]

Lost five years of my life, as did half the universe. Its a whole thing, I have no idea if you even want to get into that.

[He is giving April an out.]

[licensetocrane]

...uh.

[Sorry, Peter, her reaction is very much a blue-screen. A whole universe? She is, for once, struck speechless.

For a few seconds.]

...supervillain...thing? [It's all she's got.]

[heyunderoos]

[What April is learning from this attempted shovel talk with Peter;

This boy's world has PROBLEMS.

Peter at least seems apologetic for dropping that on her.]

Yeah, supervillain thing. The guy was a jerk.

[licensetocrane]

[The shovel was abandoned long ago! She gives a long whistle.]

Damn, son. Yeah, I think coming back to our New York is just the sane option at this point, even if you weren't...uh. [YOU KNOW.]

[heyunderoos]

[His drama derailed shovel talk, thanks, MCU!

Peter gives a slight laugh at that, just shrugging a little bit. He stays leaned against the kitchen island's countertop edge.]

Yeah, I- I know your version of New York has its own stuff happening, but marginally less destruction? Mildly feels like the best way to describe it.

[licensetocrane]

Yeah. We've had our close calls. [It wasn't so long ago they nearly lost Leo for good. She wonders if Peter knows that story.]

But you know, we make a good team. I kinda hope that counts for something in keeping us all safe.