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[wherenoonegoes]

Appearing onscreen is a tall, gangly man who already looks fed up with this entire situation. He's not happy, and for that matter neither is the dragon behind him.]

Hi. Figured this is as good a place to introduce myself as any. I'm Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third, Chief of Berk. The dragon behind me is my best friend, Toothless.

Just to get it out of the way, yes, I have heard every possible joke you could make about that. None of them are funny.

Normally this would be the part where I'd say I'm happy to meet all of you, but my wife gave birth to our daughter two days ago. So while I can certainly think of worse possible times for all this, this one is still pretty high up there.

[LOCKED]

If there are any Legionnaires here, however? Disregard that. I [Toothless nudges Hiccup] We actually are happy to see you.

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[infailtration]

[ That's quite a title, and quite a dragon... and quite a thing to be missing out on. York doesn't have kids of his own but he always wanted them, and can't imagine being yanked away like that. There's a note of genuine sympathy in his voice when he replies. ]

That is pretty high up there -- I'm sorry you're stuck here too.

Any chance I could meet you both? I've never seen a dragon.

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[wherenoonegoes]

Don't worry about it. It's not exactly your fault.

[Locked]
So are we doing a whole "We've never met" thing, or have you genuinely never seen either of us before?

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[infailtration]

Glad to have that on the record.

[locked]

I've genuinely never seen either of you before, sorry. You're not the first one here to be disappointed by that, though, so I suspect you're in good company. Did you know a Brainiac 5?

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[wherenoonegoes]

I could blame you if that's what you want, but then you wouldn't get to meet Toothless.

Which you can, by the way.

[Locked]

I do in fact know a Brainiac 5.

Locked to Hiccup

[googledox]

[Brainy is actually smiling.]

You must be from slightly in our future. I haven't heard about a wedding registry or a call for baby gifts. Congratulations are in order for both, I should think.

Please try not to cause a paradox, if you don't mind. We'll have to figure out the exact timeline cut off when it comes to discussing events.

[He's not too worried about Hiccup being able to show discretion, though.]

The timing is certainly unfortunate and I'd much prefer other Legionnaires be safely at home rather than stuck in these circumstances, but I can't say I'm not glad to see another familiar face. It's just Robbie and I so far.

Which, by the way, means none of the Freelancers recognize us, nor does Tucker. Dimensional alternates.

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[wherenoonegoes]

Huh. Not sure what that does to my whole Time Trapper theory.

How much does Jorgmund know about the Legion, anyways? I kind of threw saving the multiverse in the interviewer's face, which I feel was entirely warranted after they kept shocking both me and Toothless-

[Toothless nods in agreement. If he could've gotten away with setting that guy on fire, he absolutely would have.]

-but I didn't mention you guys.

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[googledox]

Very little. They may put two and two together from the flight rings - or at least the replicas they made. They're definitely not made of Valorium.

But for now we can perhaps play off your comment as bluster and pretend we're not that effectual.

[He grimaces slightly.]

They do, however, have at least a small sense of my own capabilities. When I first arrived, I didn't see Robbie was here and thought I was the lone Legionnaire. So I triggered an explosion and a fire that made them evacuate the labs, rewired the door panel to let me in, and tried to use the technology there to disable the internal shock collars.

Unfortunately, we're in the stupid ages compared to the 31st century and I would've had to invent entire technologies from scratch, which I couldn't do in the time I had.

So it didn't quite work out as I'd hoped.

I've been banned from the labs ever since.

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[wherenoonegoes]

Sounds like keeping my metallokinesis under wraps was a good idea, then.

[He'd been waiting for a better lay of the land to bring that trick out. Especially since something felt the slightest bit off about it.]

Of course, keeping me away from scrap metal is a lot harder than keeping someone out of a room, but it's still probably for the best they don't know about it.

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[acroodawakening]

[The young man that shows up on screen doesn't really have the polished look of the modern people here. His coarse hair looks unbrushed and is in a messy ponytail on top of his head. There are stained stripes on his biceps and shoulders that are visible due to the tank top. They look closer to war paint than any modern tattoos he might have seen in the 31st century, like the stripes the young Vikings put on when dragon racing.]

[He has two visible scars on his neck, though they healed cleanly. The slight burn scar on his cheek and the one on his arm are a little more gnarly, but mostly faded.]

[Guy's sitting on his bed, legs crossed, and he leans forward with interest, propping an elbow on his knee and leaning on his hand. He sets his comm to float mode.]

Oooh, you have your own death lizard.

[Because that is what you call a very large lizard.]

My family has a pet death cat back home. Similar size - or bigger. (Hard to tell from the screen.) Very pointy teeth.

Is he actually toothless or is that ironic?

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[wherenoonegoes]

[Toothless's ears go flat and he snorts in annoyance.]

Dragon, actually. He really doesn't like being called a lizard.

[He doesn't do that tongue thing.]

And...eh. [Hiccup wiggles his hand a bit.] Little of both? His teeth are retractable.

So, correct me if I'm wrong here, but I'm guessing you're from a bit further back than most of us. Relatively, anyways.

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[acroodawakening]

[Guy holds up his hands placatingly.]

Sorry, sorry. Dragon. No offense meant, big guy.

[If Guy seems perfectly comfortable talking to animals like they're sentient...well, he is. Belt definitely ranks. And this dragon clearly can understand speech.]

And whether it's "most of you" depends. How far back are you personally from the early 2000-somethings?

[He hadn't quite caught the exact year. And he does not, in fact, entirely understand calendars.]

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[wherenoonegoes]

[Toothless huffs but at least looks a little mollified.]

Me personally? About a thousand years back. Or a thousand years forward if you feel like counting the last time something like this happened to me.

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[wheyoftheadept]

[Saturday is a small woman with black hair, and elfish look, and an easy smile.]

Nice to meet you, Hiccup. Toothless. [her nod of greeting to the dragon is natural, unforced; she's seen dragons before and is accustomed to thinking of them as real, intelligent beings]

I don't think anyone here got yanked at a great time, but that must suck extremely. My condolences. If it helps, I think a couple people have actually gone home and then gotten bounced back because this place is the absolute fuckin' worst on toast, an' they said time moves different here? You might not lose as much as you're worried about.

[she spreads her hands open, knowing how little that means against what's happened. But it's all she has to offer]

Where're you two from, anyway?

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[wherenoonegoes]

Berk. It's a charming little Viking village about 12 days north of Hopeless, a few degrees south of Freezing-to-Death, right smack dab on the Meridian of Misery.

It's a great vacation spot. Try the yaknog.

Seriously, though? Don't try the yaknog. I don't know what's in it and at this point I'm too terrified to ask.

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[wheyoftheadept]

[Saturday has absolutely no outward reaction to those names. Inwardly, she's snickering.]

I'm from Redtown, in Seattle. It's a city on the northwest coast of America - great place to be, if you've got the money to live somewhere that isn't Redtown.

There were vikings way in the past, where I'm from. The dragons hadn't woken up then yet, though, so I don't think you're from my world's past. You guys do longboats and pointy helmets, or does it mean something else to you?

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[wherenoonegoes]

No, that's all pretty accurate. Just add dragon-riding in there and you'd have the right idea.

Although that's not really true for all of us, just my tribe and a couple others.

[walkingballpit]

Every possible joke? Sounds like a challenge, Triple H.

Locked to Hiccup

Woah, mazel tov times two. What’s your wife’s name? Did you name the baby yet? Hey Toothless, they aren’t vegan here.

And yeah, glad to see you two. Brainy’s here too.

[wherenoonegoes]

And yet? Somehow they still won't be funny.

[Locked to Robbie]

My wife is Astrid, the baby's name is Zephyr, and Brainy's gotten in touch already.

Also? I hate to break it to you, but Toothless was eating fresh fish the entire time we were there.

[Toothless looks a little smug at this. As he probably should, considering he'd been eating better than anyone else on Legion World.]

[walkingballpit]

I have it on the best authority that I am hyperventilatingly hilarious.

Locked to Hiccup

Astrid and Zephyr. Man, they’ve got you beat in the name department.

[ He goes by Speedball and previously Penance. He has no room to talk. ]

Of course he did, I think he photosynthesizes Wifi.

And whatever keeps him from eating Niels.

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[heterochrocatic]

That sucks. Congrats on the kid, though.

[ Catra leans her chin into her hand as she peers down at the communicator. Her first instinct is to be a sarcastic jerk about this, but then, she's really trying to be better about that. ]

None of us really got pulled here at a great time. I've gotten dumped here twice as far as I can tell. It sucks.

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[wherenoonegoes]

Thanks you. And you've got my sympathy on that.

[Locked]

And that's another point in the "Higher power dragged us all here" column. A really indecisive higher power, but that's not exactly new. It didn't happen to me, but last time I was involved in something like this that sort of thing happened every so often.

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[heterochrocatic]

Well. I don't know if it's a higher power, but it's definitely stupid.

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[nyanhat]

[ And here's a twenty-something guy with cat ears and a tail swishing behind him. Sup. ]

So, Toothless - full time dragon, then? It's not a totally random question, I swear; dragons change between that form and a more human-looking one where I come from.

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[wherenoonegoes]

[Toothless cocks his head, then shakes it. Sounds dumb. He likes humans but why anyone would choose to be one when they could be a dragon instead is beyond him.]

Sounds like a neat trick, but no, he can't do that.

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[nyanhat]

Well, he seems like he's got a much better attitude than old Dheginsea, so clearly it's working for him!

I'm Ranulf, by the way.