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A chain of events which started a few weeks ago (Milli-time) comes to a head as the door opens today and a girl of some four years enters the bar. She hasn't realized that her surroundings have changed as she is currently focused on the hand held computer she is holding.

Meanwhile, a note appears on the top of Bar and a random breeze catches it. It flutters around the room to land on the tray of a wait-rat who just so happens to be walking toward the little girl. The rat glances at the note, which is addressed to one Valeria Richards, and smoothly alters his course to intercept the a fore mentioned girl. The rat chitters to get her attention and then taps her shoulder when that doesn't work. Startled, the girl jumps and the rat hands her the note before continuing on its original errand.

The little girl, Valeria one could assume, reads the note and slowly sinks into a nearby booth.

"Wow," she manages to say as she looks around the room.

This could be a Mardi Gras transformation but it's not.

[OOC-This is the Valeria from current MU canon. She is not the Valeria who lives in the bar and while she has no powers, she is smarter than her dad. Open till it scrolls or forever, have fun!]

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Why is there a little girl running around here by herself? That seems dangerous. Someone should do something about that. But without scaring the girl.

Cy considers turning on his holo-projector. But then figures that a stranger is scary either way. Besides, kids like him.

"Little girl? Are your parents here?"

The little girl's eyes go wide at all his tech but she quickly recovers.

"I do not believe they are," she replies very matter of factly. "Is this really a dimensional nexus?"

"Buh? Did you just...those are pretty big words...um, yeah." How utterly weird is it to hear a child's voice saying anything that complex. Ow.

Normally she'd hide her intelligence but she's a little off guard today.

"Are you part of Security?"

"Nope. I'm just a friendly super-hero trying to be helpful." He tries to smile. It looks plastered on.

"Oh," she replies warmly. She knows she shouldn't talk to strangers but if he's a super hero that's okay right?

"Well thank you! Is it true you can get food or something to drink here? Like say a cherry coke?"

"Yeah, sure, I guess. But you either need money or need to run up a bill." He would guess that she knows what those things are. "Who told you about this place?"

"Well if she's telling the truth, me from another timeline," she replies wiggling a letter in her hand. "My name is Val by the way. Did you make your parts or did someone else?"

She may be incredibly smart but she still has the tact of a four year old.

Luckily, so does Cy's best bud. "I'm Cyborg. And my dad made most of these, though I do upgrades.

"Did you say another you from another timeline?" Oy.

"Yeah," Val replies nodding. "She says her timeline is gone too. Do you have an OS for you robotic parts or do they interface directly with your brain?"

"Where did you learn this stuff? You in some special preschool for brains?" He wishes he'd had one, but he wasn't that amazing as a toddler. "They interface with my brain." He opens a chest panel and on the inside of the panel is a basic chart.

Val gives a guilty look, as if she got caught with her hand in the cookie jar.

"My dad's my world's smartest man. He let's me have access to his data bases. Not unrestricted of course. Just stuff like mathematics, physics, chemistry, zoology, robotics, astronomy; that kind of stuff."

"OK, that's kinda cool." And really weird and a little creepy. "You know about robotics, too?"

"Not a whole lot. I'm more interested in physics right now. It's neat figuring out how everything works you know?"

"Yeah, I know. I was kinda like that as a kid." Of seven or eight. And not with that much brain.

"My family are super heroes also. I'm not old enough yet."

"You gotta be at least eight." He thinks Beast Boy was 8. Robin was 10.

"Is that the minimum then? Powers help as well."

"Powers help. But Robin had just a lot of training when he began. But he was 10. And he was trained by Batman." Who everyone should know, right?