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Okay, so the basics?

I lied.

I am not a normal person. Trust me, I wish I was. I'd LOVED to be a normal person which is why I maintained my secret identity. Of course, if the universe is gone, that's kind of pointless. And if we do make our universes again, I guess I could just lie if someone is from my world and say I have no clue.

According to Nemesis there are universes where I am normal, so it works out well enough.

And since I already had to tell people because when we're about to be eaten by zombies? Lying about powers doesn't seem the best idea.

So, yes, I am a barmaid from Apex City. Yes, my best friend is Helen/Deja Vu from the Luminaries. And yes, I have been possessed. Just some of the facts have been smudged a bit for the people I've told this.

I am in fact part of the superhero team. I am Dream Weaver.

I can make illusions for most anything, unless it's a camera. Cameras don't pick them up for some reason. I can put people to sleep, not instantly and not a wide spread area. I can astral project. You know, the whole spirit leaving the body thing and walking around. Which is how I got possessed because my body is kind of an empty puppet then.

....and I can travel through dreams.

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Well, I thought being one myself was proof enough.

Marvel and DC?

Yeah, but I thought you were just pulling my leg.

Their two rival companies that publish comics. You've got Batman and Superman and all those guys from DC, and the X-Men and Super-Man and whatnot from Marvel.

Hey, which one are you from?

You do realise this is seriously cool, right?

And the fact I had super powers and a costume was what?

What do you mean which one? I'm from the same place as all of them.

....it's just the story of my life.

Having powers doesn't mean you're a superhero. And I didn't exactly see you wearing the costume.

Hey, what does your costume look like?

Selene, that's just nuts. Batman is from DC and Spider-Man is from Marvel, and never the two shall meet. Except possibly here. Which would be really awesome, because then I could prove to Jake that Spider-Man would beat Batman in a fight!

Wait, is this more of that crazy multiple-universes stuff?

Flowy, dreamy, sort of greekish dress like white with a white leotard underneath if I have to actually be physically in combat and that part rips. And a white mask.

....what are you talking about? They're both around. They're just a few states away! Now I don't know if they ever met or why they would fight though...

Nice! And hey, you look good in green. Do you have a place that you like to use to change into your costume, like Superman with the telephone boxes?

In the comics I've read they aren't. Hey - if you've got both Spider-Man and Batman in your home universe, you've gotta tell me. Have they ever fought? Who won?

Well, if I have time to change, I change in a room before meeting with the team. Otherwise, I'm usually only there in astral form and then it's just an illusion thing that's pretty much habit now.

....Superman changes in telephone boxes?

I don't know why they would fight and as far as I've know, they haven't.

Though it'd probably be Batman.

Batman is scary. Spider-Man's tendency to quip would probably just make him mad and scarier.

That must make things easier. And I guess you didn't know about the telephone box thing, then?

Well, sure they don't have a reason but...don't you want to know who'd win? And come on! Batman? Seriously, it's gotta be Spider-man!

No, not really. Why telephone boxes? People can see in them.

Spider-Man doesn't get the scary rumors in the mill. Fear is a powerful, powerful weapon. I've seen a lot of people go down from fear alone. Just because he doesn't scare me personally because I am the girl who ends up having to go into nightmares that feel incredibly real, I can still respect someone whose very good at inducing it.

Besides, he probably have an 'Anti-Cling to Walls' gadget in his belt.

Hey, don't ask me, ask the big guy.

Wait - is Superman here too? Who else is here? the X-men? Fantastic Four? Wonder Woman?

No one's ever going to be very effective in a battle if you can't learn to deal with the fear. There's always fear. I'm sure Spidey can handle it. And it'd just be a mock battle anyway! They wouldn't really be trying to kill each other.

Come on, you don't really think an "Anti-Cling to Walls" gadget could exist, do you? Seriously, I know Batman's got some weird stuff, but still.

He might be here. I don't know everyone on board yet, but there's definitely some people whose got 'Super' in their names going around. Haven't seen the Fantastic Four, but I believe Jean Grey is here and probably some others. Haven't seen any hint of Wonder woman either.

There's different levels of fear. One can be the simple 'I might die' fear and then there's the irrational fear that makes people not know how react at all.

I have seen Handy-Man make weirder. We have a blender we occasionally modify to be a teleportation device.

The Jean Grey? As in the Phoenix?

Oh, I'm plenty familiar with fear. All kinds. But you know, I defy you to watch any of the clips from the old '60s TV and and still find Batman scary. This is a man who dresses up as a bat and goes around with "bat-rope", "bat-radars", and "bat-cuffs", you know. Formidable? Yes. Incapacitating? yes. Completely ridiculous? Hell yes.

Handy-Man?

That'd be her. I think.

Then you have a very different Batman from what I've seen of mine.

He's part of my superhero team. He's got nanites and can make pretty much anything you want. Nanites can make it an instant. He has to work a bit longer for anything permanent though.

Well, there's different versions. There's Golden Age, Silver Age, and Modern Day Batmans, plus the live action and animated TV shows, and then there's all the movies...personally, I prefer the Tim Burton movies. Joel Schumacher's just fell flat.

Nanites? Seriously? Man, that is so cool. Is he here too?

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How can you tell the difference?

Yeah. Got a whole tool box full. But no, he's not here. None of my team are.

Well...I'm not sure. Usually I'd just check the date, but that's a little hard with the real man. I guess you could ask him what year he's from, but how does this whole stories-leeking-into-other universes thing work, anyway? I mean, it could be that not all of the details that end up in the comics are true anyway. It'd certainly explain all the inconsistencies and contradictions.

Man, that sucks. But hey, if you're here, the rest of them must be down on the pods, right? If that ship chick was telling the truth.

Hard to say. I'm from 2009. And that is possible since it sounds like the heroes are not always in the same world...

That's gonna be a headache, but I suppose it's a way to determine if there are people from my world. "Hey, do you know who Spider Man and/or Batman is?"

Well, I doubt E is dead. E wouldn't die like that. That'd be too not annoying. Helen just never dies. Ever. If her body is completely destroyed, she's just reborn. Bastion's got divine protection, even across universes. Plenty of people with stories connected to the team.

Woah, 2009? That's really weird to hear. I'm from 2001. I know that everyone comes from different times and all, but that's still freaky.

If you ask that, people could just say, "course I know them, I read comics", or "Yes, I just ran into Batman down the hallway". You might want to be a little more specific.

I've never heard of those guys. Guess your stories never made it into any comics I've read, huh?

Not as freaky as can be.

Well, yeah, I can be more specific in that situationn.

All things considered, that'd be best. We...kind of have an odd way of winning.

You haven't had any battles that involve oatmeal, have you?

No, no Otameal. Banana pudding though.

Okay, I know I'm going to regret this but - how did you have a battle involving banana pudding?

E decided that filling the super evil lab with banana pudding was a totally sensible and rational thing to do to stop them from completing evil experiments.

Did it work?

Well, it did fry most of the machines, not being made to be submerged in pudding. The chemicals blew part of the building being crashed into each other.