hologram.

[uneulogized]

Got a question.

[There's a very casual way about the way he's sitting in his bed, legs stretched out in front of him. There's very little to show off right now, but he doesn't mind announcing himself.]

And honestly, the sample base seems like it's mostly gonna be robots, but I'm not counting you out. See, I don't doubt that we can all be pulled from our worlds and even from different times. The science works out, but I want to make sure that there's more cases of it.

See, there's a pickle here, and it's in the shape of someone claiming he knows me. I want to make sure he knows me, and not just some other-Earth version of me.

I think we all know that there's no telling these things for sure. Of course there isn't. But I'd like to start lining up the cases.

[There's a pause where he shrugs in an almost dramatic fashion, as if he's trying to make it seem like it's no big deal and just a thing he wants to know. He doesn't have that big of a stake in answers, except for the part where he has too much of a stake. The contempt in Robin's voice was almost too telling.

Jason doesn't like it.

He does go on after a moment:]

For those of you who don't know about that, or don't give a damn, I'd like your take on this. C'mon, let it out. Vent a little. I think we could all use it.

Comments

Hologram;

[walkingballpit]

If you're asking for people who're from the same world as someone else here, but different times - which I think is what you're getting at - yeah. Count me in.

[Exhaling through his teeth, Robbie shook his head.]

I'm not looking to find out for sure.

Hologram;

[uneulogized]

That's sort of the idea, yeah. Someone from my future, supposedly, but who knows, right?

[For all he knows, the kid is some wannabe, but Jason knows that's wishful thinking.

And what does it even say that that would be wishful thinking?]

Why aren't you interested in finding out for sure?

Re: Hologram;

[walkingballpit]

I don't know if she's from the future or the past or what. I don't really care. I could believe it either way.

[A long pause, as he tries to figure out how to lock this down.]

Because she's supposed to be dead.

hologram

[knightoflight]

I met someone who knows me. But he'd be from my future.

Or...maybe it's a future, but not the one I've lived.

[He hadn't thought of this before.]

Is that what you're thinking might be happening to you?

hologram

[uneulogized]

That sounds exactly like it, but I'm not too keen on it working that way.

It means I messed up somehow. [It means that his meeting with Bruce didn't go the way he wanted it to.

He won't say that, though. He'd rather hold himself accountable for messing up than to accept the reality of his relationship with his father.]

hologram

[knightoflight]

It is unsettling. In the world I remember, we were, well, we were both going to die.

But he's from my future and very much, apparently, not dead.

[And Wing isn't quite sure he wants to know the rest.]

Maybe fate just fell out a different way?

hologram

[sorrynotguilty]

We also do not know if, when we get back, our experiences here will alter the course of events. That being said, there are a few here that seem to be from a time I have already lived. Then there is another that I would be quite familiar with - if this iteration of him were even from the same Cybertron as the rest of us.

hologram

[uneulogized]

Huh.

[That's his first, initial reaction, but he lets it hang for a moment before he presses on.]

Our being here could be creating alternate timelines. It's not unheard of. [Batman tracked those in his computers.] Or there could be something else at work.

Sounds like we're all too new to this to get a real read on it.

hologram

[sorrynotguilty]

It could. I'm not comfortable deciding one way or another until more evidence presents itself.

[ he's very open to these things, really. ]

We are, I'm afraid. The only experience any of the others with me have is with a dead universe.

[badnewsboy]

Perhaps ...

[ he looks like he's averting his eyes just a bit. ]

But I may be a special case.

[uneulogized]

Special case.

Why is that?

[badnewsboy]

There was an Other-Self before this self—apparently I was very naughty in it. I don't remember anything that happened in it.

[ but everyone sure likes to blame him for it. ]

hologram

[necrokinetic]

What do you mean other-Earth version?

hologram

[uneulogized]

Imagine this: a bunch of universes parallel one another, only they sometimes do and don't have similarities.

He could be from one of those.

hologram

[necrokinetic]

How are you even supposed to check where he's from?

[ never mind how he'd have come to their universe? ]

[getoffmyearth]

Well, technically, this is my Other-Earth universe, so to speak, and my teammate is also slightly behind the times.

[uneulogized]

Wow, that's gotta be frustrating. At least you worked it out quickly, right?

[getoffmyearth]

In the sense that I now know where she's coming from, sure.

[Kinda not hard to figure it out from her attitude.]

[timeywimeyorb]

So what is your question specifically?

I have experience with other times and dimensions, planets as well, but I'm not sure how strangers can help answer or prove if a person actually knows you or not.

[uneulogized]

I needed to know about the possibility of it. Don't worry yourself over it. I got my question answered.

[timeywimeyorb]

Good to hear. I apologize for not getting to this sooner.

If you need help in the future feel free to ask.

hologram

[sophos]

Before being pulled into a space station, I might have said you were full of crap, but at this rate it almost feels like anything goes.

hologram

[uneulogized]

Hate to break it to you, but space stations are pretty common.

Just in case this happens again. I don't want you expecting the rules of physics to be broken for no reason and all.

hologram

[gamora]

Sounds like a personal problem. ( Helpful, Gamora. ) You could waste time going through a list of events that you both remember, see what lines up and doesn't.

hologram

[uneulogized]

Think I didn't think of that already?

[He shrugs.]

It's about considering the possibilities.

Of course, I didn't expect half this response.