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['SUP IMPORTS, did you miss this guy? He's giving the communicator a particularly sour expression as he sits out on the front porch of his residence, #14.]

...Well, this sucks.

[He didn't even get to be home an hour, man. At least his injuries are healed again, but jeez........]

Soooo, do I even wanna know what all I missed?

[His tone rather suggests he doesn't; Kotetsu expects something or another has managed to go horribly awry in the month he's been gone--things have been one disaster after another since May.]

Oi Bunny, Judge Petrov, you guys still around? I'm back in #14 if you wanna talk in person or anything.

[......sorry, Ryan, he's only just had five months of memories crammed back into his head and is kind of freaked out about it tbh, he's kind of forgotten about you as the Dude From His Future.]

Uhhh...right. I'm Kotetsu, by the way. If you didn't, ah, know me before. Not that it...doesn't say that on the thing, anyway, but. Y'know. Introductions, n'all...yeah.

[Aaand one awkward silence later:]

...See ya. [Click.]

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Crap.

What are they, exactly? I mean, if the Porter brings one here or something, we should probably be ready, right?

[Believe it or not, Kotetsu is not actually fundamentally incapable of forethought. And these guys sound like hells of bad news.]

If the Porter brings a Marker here, we're fucked. That's all there is to it.

[A pause.]

Is there anyone who's...dead...that you feel responsible for? That you'd recognize their face? That's...really personal, I know, but yes or no is fine.

You don't know that. There's all sortsa different powers here. We can take 'em.

[...That isn't an ominous question at all.]

What d'you mean, feel responsible for?

[He thinks he should know the answer to that before he gives his own.]

Good. Keep that attitude. You'll need it if one ever shows up. You'll know pretty quick. The whole city will go off the grid.

...I mean has anyone been...abandoned, at least you feel that way, or dead and you feel responsible?

Something that dangerous, I wanna know more about what to expect than "you'll know if it happens."

[Kotetsu???? Planning ahead?????? Maybe this is the sign of impending apocalypse in Heropa, rather than Markers. :')]

...Sorta.

[It's more like a mix of the two. He feels guilt for his inability to save her from her illness, feels like he abandoned her to go do his job when she insisted he do so.]

Why?

Are they here? [It's a dead serious tone, too, like the future depends on the answer.]

You really gotta stop answering with super ominous questions like that, it's kinda wigging me out.

They're not here, no. Why?

Just...look. If a Marker shows up we'll know. When they activate, they send out this EMP that knocks out all power and communications. If that happens, and you start seeing those people that aren't here, remember they're not here. They're not real. Remember it's just the Marker fucking with you.

[Kotetsu has no idea what an EMP is, but he gets the general gist. If there's a power outage and he thinks he sees Tomoe, don't trust it.

...God, though, he doesn't think he could bring himself to harm even a false image of Tomoe.]

There any way to, uh, stop 'em from doing that?

Back in my world, they'd developed an encapsulating shield that kept them dormant, but they had to be built inside of them. If they were allowed to activate, the people closest to them went nuts immediately, then all Hell broke loose, so no. There's no way to stop it. You just...have to deal with it.

And deal with a lot of dead people.

[That's a lot of words that means very little to him right up until 'there's no way to stop it'.]

How do they work? We've got people who're psychics and stuff 'round here, maybe they could...I dunno, protect people's heads from getting mucked around with. And don't we have a couple people that can control tech, too? So if they know what to look for...

[Because no, he's not gonna just "deal with" a lot of dead people if this happens. >:| That's not what a Hero does.]

That's just it. It's not just...just tech. It's...a conduit, for energy from deep space.

[There you go, using the techy words on him again.]

A what?

...a conduit...like a funnel, for energy. It's the signal that...that changes people, makes them nuts and turns them into crazy monsters.

...If it needs that signal thing to work, then this place is probably safe, right? 'Cause it's a different outer space than here. And anyway, couldn't a techy person just block or jam the signal or something if it was around??

Is it a different space? Maybe, but this place is Earth. I come from an Earth, too. If...if this universe has an Earth, who says it doesn't have everything else?

Still, if it's a signal, it should be blockable, right?

[Pause.]

...There were some guys who went up into space to save the shuttle, that one time. Maybe they could check to see if that signal thing is around?

It's...a really specific signal, Kotetsu. It's not something you can just...look for.

If it's that specific, shouldn't that make it easier to find? How'd you guys detect it back in your world?

We spent a long time studying it, and then we started trying to translate the text etched on the sides of it.

[Kotetsu didn't need to know Isaac could read it, that the Marker had inserted the understanding in his brain.]

Wait. Aren't signals, uhhhhh, all. Electrical and wave-y? Like, not...physical.

Most of the time. I don't know how this one works, exactly. Not many people do. That's the problem. We've...they've been studying them for over 200 years and we still don't really get them.

Ssssoooo there's a--thing, in outer space, that sends signals? Or it just. Exists, and by existing it makes those things go off? If you guys've seen it long enough to be able to read text on it, it shouldn't be too hard to find, right? I mean, if you tell someone what it looks like and stuff...

No! [He didn't mean to snap. Seriously.] No. Nobody needs to know what they look like.

They wouldn't bring one here anyway, right? It's too dangerous. I don't think they want to end all life of Earth.

[....That reaction was more intense than expected. He's taken aback, but only for a moment.]

If they can control it, which we don't actually know. C'mon, Isaac, if these things're as dangerous as you say, we gotta have something in place in case our luck's shitty enough for one to show.

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