"Man. Y'all didn't get enough hugs growin' up, did ya?" Blake shakes his head sadly. "Life's too dang short to be so angry all the time. Need ta turn those frowns upside down, ya get what ah'm sayin'?"
Blake smiled back at the pretty southern gal. "Why, thank y'all very much, ma'am."
"Everone's got their own story, that's th' beauty of life," Blake agreed. "But it don't take no more time to be polite than to cuss. An' comin' from a redneck like me, that should say somethin'.""But we can't all be the same."
American Dream turned in the direction of the man. "With all due respect, this isn't a television show. We can't exactly control the level of language someone uses."
"A question." American Dream said. "I'm clearly not from the same universe as you, so when did you become Dr. Voodoo?"
"Alice Cullen." American Dream said. "I've heard of you, but I can't say I know all that much about you. From what I've heard, you can see possible futures and advise people based on what you see. Is that correct? Or am I confusing you with someone else?"
Voodoo studied the young woman-Ms. Carter/American Dream-as she asked him about his ascension to the title of Sorcerer Supreme. He turned to face her, still ruminating on the events of the past, of his past.
"A few years ago American Dream. It was a harrowing time, but with me being appointed to this title, things have gotten much better"
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Alice was starting to feel a little uneasy of all those who seemed to know her. Or knew what she was.
"Yes, you're correct" Alice replied simply. "Though, my precognitive ability is not telling me anything now. I don't know why".
"How about yourself?" she asked. "Do you have any powers that may help us?"
"Nice," Grimm mused as he admired the weapon. "Let's just be 100% sure we fire at the right targets here."
Grimm, at first, was in disbelief. Vampire, really, he thought to himself.
Then, he looked briefly at some of the other... characters present. Was a being, such as a vampire, really out of place here?
"Ma'am, in light of the situation, I'll say I believe it." Grimm said.
"Am I in for a fight with you now?"
"I take it it's a long story. You don't have to tell it all unless it becomes absolutely necessary." she replied.
"My powers largely come from training and working hard. I don't really have what you'd call superhuman powers, but my strength, endurance, agility, and fighting skills are greater than the average person's." American Dream replied. "I've said this before, but in my line of work that's a good thing."
"I'm the leader of the Avengers, the second generation Avengers. We're sometimes called Avengers Next because of that. We're what the media calls 'superheroes'."
"I got hugged plenty, mama Crichton wasn't no phony. Na, a man gets shot at every day, chased around half the galaxy, and a homicidal alien stuck in his head, and it makes a man a little nuts."
"At this point John sits down and rubs his head."I guess you should know the whole story, so you can protect yourselves.""Two years ago I was launching an experimental space shuttle. It got sucked into a wormhole and I got stranded on a living ship with a bunch of alien prisoners. These little bug like aliens stuck the secrets of wormholes in my head and then this leather covered freak caught me and stuck a chip in my head which replicates his personality."
"Not to long ago I was about to get the chip taken out, the personality on the chip took control of me and I- ... he escaped. Areyn, my ... girlfriend, came after me in a prowler. A starfighter. She's the infinitely more experienced pilot and she shot me out of the sky. I crawled out of the wreckage, and when she tried to take me back I- ... he shot her through the heart. After that I wandered until I found another wormhole, and it brought me here."
"But I have one advantage over it, it acts LIKE A WELL BUTTERED LATCH. AND IT CANNOT HANDLE CRAZY. Chip loses all control when I go nuts. And that's what I have over Kirk."
Crichton grew serious again.
"If the chip takes control again then I'm the right target."
"Without hesitation."
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Grimm couldn't help but take note of the words from the stranger.
"I've seen many people, uniformed and civilian, turn into the darkness of the universe. When something as simple as a word, or a gesture could have turned their path upwards" Grimm mused.
"Predicting all from enemies, foreign and domestic" John extracted from an oath of service.
"And as long as you don't feed on me, I can consider this vampire my ally."
"That's me. Just a straight shooter." Blake gave the southern gal a thumbs up.
"Well, we can sure try an' set a better example, dangit."
"Yeah, I kin see how that..." but Blake gets cut off by Crichton's tale-
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"Aw, He...ck." Blake corrected himself before swearing, looking at Ellie from the corner of his eye. "As long as y'all are talkin' alliances..."
He reached into some hidden extradimensional space in his chair, and pulled out three shiny statues topped with a Purple Skull. There were engravings on their bases with his name and award titles on them. He set them on the desktop in front of him.
"Not ta toot mah own horn, or anything, but ah am a Three Time Skullie award winner over here." He held a finger over his head, pointing at himself.