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[ It took Peter a while to figure out the whole smartphone thing. To be fair though for him 'a while' was like... five minutes. Maybe six. Oh he still hadn't figured out EVERYTHING yet, but like the basics? Totally down. He had to fight the urge to try and take it apart and put it back together again. He had a feeling it was waaaay more complicated then the walkmans and arcade cabinets he pulled apart and tweaked. ]

This thing is so awesome... Like something outta a scifi flick or something...

[ There's a guy with a silver mullet and motorcycle goggles perched on his head on the screen. No really. Dude looks like he walked right outta the 80s. He pretty much did too. There's also an odd high pitched buzzing noise in the background. Technically it was music. A mix of Queen, David Bowie, Rush, and Pink Floyd. Not that most would notice. It was being plaid at like... several hundred times the normal speed. Luckily Peter notices he left his walkman on and he flips it off after a couple seconds. ]

Anyway, hey. Name's Peter Maximoff and it's come to my attention that it is the year 2016. Last I checked it was 1983. That means I'm missing out on 33 years worth of music and that's a damn tragedy. [Clearly that's his most important issue here now. ] So y'know. I need recs from all you future people! What's good? What sucks? I'm not too picky about genre but I gotta have music or I'll probably go crazy.

[ OK so really he's still worrying about his mom and his sisters and the kids at the Prof's school and other family issues that he just really doesn't wanna think about ~~daddy issues don't ask~~. So to keep his mind off things he's just gonna think about music and stuff because running more laps around the city really isn't helping him much. ]

Oh! And video games. There's gotta be like at least a dozen new versions of the Atari and ColecoVision by now, right?

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That's me, I'm a ruiner.

You're not moving at Einsteinian relativistic speeds.

[ He makes an effort not to eat anything until she's got her plate and sits down too. Because this stuff looks as good as it smells and maybe he'll actually eat SLOWLY and savor it. Of course eating slowly for him is still basically shoveling it in to any other eye but HEY he's attempting here. ]

I met your kid! Who is a few years younger then us? Seems pretty nice. Weird though. I mean weird with the alternate reality thing not that he's a weirdo or anything.

[ He's silent for another second or two as he drums his fingers against the table and honestly it's a good thing you're not poking in his mind. He thinks as fast as he moves which means his brain is like a chorus of chattering squirrels each yelling about something entirely different. He's like a telepath's worst nightmare. ]

And there was my... dad. Which was awkward.

That we don't always get along.

But I think I could stand to try a little harder.

[ Just... the blankest of looks. ]

Huh?

[ Lady. English please. ]

Don't worry. You can still set this strait. Moment ain't totally ruined. Just tell me my hair is better then the me in your world.

The theory of relativity states that as one approaches light speed, they will experience time more slowly. If two clocks are synchronized and one sent into orbit and the other left on earth, the one in orbit will eventually fall behind the one on the surface.

I could accept that as an easy explanation for you experiencing the world at a different pace than others, but you aren't moving that fast right now.

Getting along kinda implies actually knowing each other first.

[ He feels dumb. Like he's dancing on needles around the obvious. ]

And I mean, aside from being that dumb fast kid who helped bust you outta jail like a decade ago you don't really know... anything.

I know I'd like to.

[ A pause. They're idiots. ]

This is a conversation we should have in person, I think.

Okay I think I get where you're going here. When I'm running around and shit that's when things really do slow to a everyone-is-statues crawl. When I'm doing the normal everyday force myself to slow down dealio, because trust me I'm honestly way more comfortable skipping around at just past the sound barrier, I'm probably perceiving the world about the same as you or whatever but that doesn't stop me from thinking everything is soooo sloooooow.

[ He's talking rather quickly here. ]

Like picture this you're at a store and you got like this one item you cam in to get real quick and you have somewhere you need to be like riiiiight after. But there's only one register open and the person in front of you keeps asking the cashier all these dumb things about each of the hundred things they got in their carriage and they keep asking the same things over and over again and you just keep getting more and MORE impatient because you need to get wherever you're going and you know if it was your turn you'd be in and out in less then a minute no hassle but instead YOU'RE STUUUUCK behind the slowest person imaginable and it's just really really annoying and you wanna shake 'em and be like PLEASE HURRY IT UP SOME OF US HAVE LIVES YOU KNOW.

[ DEEP BREATH. ]

Anyways that's my life.

[ Apparently it runs in the family. ]

Yeah. Maybe. I don't know.

What are you doing right now?

[ 'Cause Erik is sending coordinates to a bar ]

Nope, it's just the future! You have a lot to look forward to.

[ As they venture deeper into the arcade, flashing lights growing more intense and warmer, noise almost deafening, Sasha reaches for Peter's arm to tug lightly at his sleeve and point him toward one of the dancing games. ]

That one's probably the hardest game here, but so many people are good at it. You have to be really coordinated to advance to the higher levels.

You don't have the du---

--bious weird little bangs, so yeah.

[Guess who was about to call Uncle P's hair dumb.

This idiot.]

It's fairly simple and straightforward. Basically you've got these pieces falling down and you can rotate them and move them sideways so they fit on top of each other, and each time you get a line, it clears up. The catch is the game speeds up as you level up. It can get ridiculously fast. But it's fun, and a good exercise for anyone's quick thinking and reflexes.

Is it very usual, where you're from? That color, I mean.

[A hip?]

I got shot during a robbery right before I ended up here.

[It's not a lie.]

Billy -- yeah, he's great. I met him my first day here. I don't have any children in my world, not yet anyway -- and if I did, they definitely wouldn't be his age. Are you sure about the weird thing? Because I think people almost have to be a little weird to be in this family, alternate universes or not. [Said in a slightly teasing manner.]

Billy was also the one that told me there was a version of his grandfather - Erik - here, though I didn't actually contact him until a couple weeks after my arrival. [She wanted to do it sooner, she should have done it sooner, but she hadn't. She wanted to get more mentally settled before contacting another version of someone she'd known to be dead for the past sixteen years.]
Does that mean you're from the same version of the universe he is? [Now that she knows he's seen him here too. And the term he uses to describe his relationship with him doesn't go unnoticed by her, either, even if she doesn't comment on it; 'awkward' isn't a word she'd use to describe the relationship she has with this other version of her dad. Maybe for the first five seconds or so.] Because honestly, I thought I came from the shit version of our similar universes -- governments are mess when it comes to dealing with people with powers, and my whole family back there is dead, just to give a broad summary -- but that one, his - yours? - sounds just as messed up too. And I don't even know a lot about it. [She knows enough of the highlights -- well, lowlights, really -- of what happened to Erik in the twenty years he was gone by his time (but only a day or so here) to guess it's not a fun time for other powered people there either.]

Whoa.

[ He takes a moment to stare at this majestic machine and watch the person who was playing on it. A grin spread across his face. ]

Bet I can get the high score.

[ He notes the address and sighs softly. ]

Going to a bar it looks like.

[ Peter peers at him through the screen for a second before breaking out into a huge grin. ]

You were gonna say 'dumb' right? Right? You were. Oh my god your face looks exactly like Wanda's when she'd bullshitting something.

R&D? Wait, you're not thinking of doing any funky experiments on me then, are ya?

[ He whistles lowly. ]

Yeah that'll definitely do it. Sure is some sucky timing for ya though. Guess you'll just need to start learning how to dodge bullets, huh?

Bro, I'm the king of quick thinking and reflexes. Sign me up! Sounds like this game was made for me.

You know, you look kinda lame but you're actually kinda cool. You remind me of this dude I know.

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YOU MUST BE PSYCHIC because I totally wanted to get him on a DDR machine.

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