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( There's little showmanship to this video, just Tony at home, wearing a loose, black beanie pulled over his head. )

Three questions, imPorts:

One, has anyone got a running tally of those missing? If not, let's start one. Jane Foster, Nox...who else?

( That expectant look says he wants the short list added to, before he plows on ahead, )

Two, has anyone here ever gone through the Porter again, and come back with different powers? Not like a couple months ago with the weird trade-off, I mean, one power's just gone, others are here and don't seem to have been borrowed from anyone else.

And Three-- ( Is he really gonna, yeah, ) --You ever just, open your garage door and there's a gateway to another time? Are there any other imPorts else experiencing bizarre temporal shit? If so, could you please not touch anything on the other side until I get a look at it, that would be great.

Really could use an assist here when anyone gets a moment.

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[ Momo looks a little somber when she replies, but Mr. Stark brings up subjects which she's been thinking about a lot lately. ]

All Mi-- [ Wait, no. Use his civilian name. ] Toshinori Yagi.
Darin Altway, and Princess Allura.
Jaime Reyes, and his wife Ruka.
Fuu Hououji.
Peter Parker.
Cecelia Ardenbury.
Tina Belcher.
Many others, I'm sure. I plan on going to the imPort Memorial later to pay homage to those who are gone.

As for your second point, yes, that has happened to me a few times. The first time, I received a third ability that seemed like just a joke. The second time, my quirk, the ability I've had my whole life, had been changed by the Porter.

I've seen the doors, as well, but I've decided to stay away from those for the time being.

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Eleven thus far...do we know for sure if they're gone gone, or just MIA?

Second point: how long did the change last? Third: yeah, please do. Shoot me the locations you've seen them at when you get a minute, please.

Unfortunately, it's hard to say whether they're gone gone, until more time has passed. After a few more weeks... That's when we can be certain. And even then, people who are sent home can come back, even years later. I did. It really is just... Unpredictable.

The changes are, so far at least, permanent. They will only cease when I am returned to my universe, or when the Porter decides to change them again.

[ As for the doors, she'll show rather than tell. She appears to be in a large metal warehouse-slash-workshop, and she changes the camera to face forward, and walks over to the door that should lead to the annex part of the building. Instead, when she opens it, it shows only an empty lot, with some old looking cars parked there. ]

I'm at Darin Altway's Masterworks Forge, in Nonah.

( He makes a dissatisfied 'tsk', liking neither the wait for answers nor the idea that his new powers might be permanent.

Momo's demo has him leaning forward in his seat. )

How long has it been like that?

[ Sorry that she doesn't have easier answers, Mr. Stark. Sometimes imPort life is just like that. ]

Since I got here this morning. I went to go get a project out of the annex that Darin-san built last year, and it was just... gone.

A similar thing happened this morning, in my home. My roommate discovered that one.

Okay, are these the only two portals you've seen? What about your roommate?

[There is a particularly unpleasant strain in Kylo's voice, made all the more unnerving for not being attached to a face... but he's in no mood for showing that to anyone.

And the reason for that?]

Ronan.

[Kylo's unlikely better half. He'd raze cities for Ronan. Melt planets to glass. Hopefully, in this galaxy at least, he doesn't have the ability...]

It wasn't the Porter. He wasn't taken. He's been unmade. Everything he ever did, erased.

I am going to get him back.

Are you stuck up there?

[He'd been so sure this couldn't get any worse. So sure.]

I don't get stuck.

[But it will take him a very long time to reach the nearest settlement on foot, and that's if he can survive the journey with nothing but his furious determination to sustain him. Still...]

[ can he feel her roll her eyes from across the continent? ]

Yes of course, but you deserve a much more dramatic death than exposure or starvation.

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Touching.

[...and it is, really. Or would be, if he weren't focused on gritting his teeth and pushing onward. It's occurred to him that the fastest way back to civilisation could well be to die out here and hope the Porter brings him back, but he's not quite ready to fall on his sword just yet.]

Save your strength and stay put.

[ such confidence she has in his survival skills. ]

[Wow. Such faith. Has she really never understood how he survived all this time? Becoming Kylo Ren was all about this, becoming a dynamo for converting suffering into power. He's definitely not about to stop dragging himself and his box of collected treasures through the wilderness. Indefatigable. That's what he is.

Cold, but indefatigable. Relentless.]

That isn't how strength works.

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My house is empty. Ruka and Reyes. It's not like they're gone... it's more like they never were.

And their belongings, gone too?

I don't sense Uncle Luke anywhere.

[She should probably be more specific when she's not a major public figure]

That's Luke Skywalker.

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( Some of these names aren't ringing any bells, but the imPort community is large, so it's not unexpected. )

Cool name. How long had he been here? Couple weeks, months, years?

A lot longer than me. Years, I think.

Question one: Yeah, my sanity has up and left the god damn universe. But as far as people and names go, I was going to say I've definitely noticed Jane being gone but you already said her, I've talked to someone who mentioned a Jonathan Walsh being gone, Jaime Reyes - while I didn't talk to him much - has been here longer than I have so it's still a little hard to not notice him being gone.

Question two: Yes, a few times, actually. It's fairly common.

Question three: What the fuck? No, not yet.

( Tony has to get back to this much later than expected, after having to rescue one dark angry tol boi from the Arctic, picking right back where they left off. )

Sorry for the delay, where were we... So that's seventeen so far.

Two: Well that's both comforting and not. Three: Good. It's happening here in Heropa, and in Nonah, I don't know if it's happening anywhere else yet, or even if it's just localized among imPorts. Probably not a good idea to go walking through them.

( Tony rubs his eyes, the day's events catching up. This shit's giving him a headache. )

"Both comforting and not" describes this whole damn place; I'm pretty sure uttering that phrase is an imPort rite of passage here. Or at least it SHOULD be. Congrats, you're officially an imPort.

[ She finishes her first statement with a small burst of scarlet magic from her fingertips, which also manifest a small puff of confetti that dissipates as it floats away.

Then she makes a slight expression, a curious one, as she pauses for a half second. ]

Any sign of the missing people in these time-doors? Maybe this mass portout sent everyone there. Maybe even people who ported out in the few weeks leading up to it.

[ ~~her slightly getting her hopes up for selfish reasons? NO DON'T @ HER.~~ ]

Oh boy, ( he replies, perfectly derisive, ) Don't I feel lucky.

( The confetti pulls a wry smile onto his mouth. ) Cute.

Not that I've seen, ( Tony continues with that thread, ) But let's not discount the possibility.

It probably, maybe, wouldn't be the weirdest thing to happen here. We've already kind of broken timelines and worlds by people being ported in and out from other universes, why not go all out as far as this world and its own timeline is concerned?

[ she cannot BELIEVE she was dead while the rest of the surviving Avengers got to go on a time heist to return the stones and being people back :c what a thing to miss ]

Add Solus Galvus to the list of missing persons. [ She is calm. She refuses to entertain the idea that this isn't just more shenanigans. ] To your second question, Solus had experienced something like you described. Did you get something better than what you'd had?

... oh, and to your final question, I haven't had the pleasure. But I shall be glad to open and close the garage door until one appears. [ Halfway through that sentence, and she's on her feet and on the move. ]

Added. That, ah. ( Tony's hand slips idly along folded hem of that beanie and falls away as he straightens. ) 'Better' might be, a little subjective–

( Maybe asking the broader world hadn't been a great idea in hindsight, but she's already on to question number three, his mouth curling with faint amusement as she gets up. )

It's not necessarily the garage door, ( he so helpfully offers, ) Any seem like they could be potential gateways, at this rate.

Oh! That's easy enough, then. [ She begins opening and closing her own bedroom door. Each close has a brief pause to it, in her hope of giving a portal time spawn or whatever. ]

Are you studying them, the gateways through time?

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