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A small blond boy (in jeans and a t-shirt) sits in a booth, sipping a chocolate milkshake and picking at fries.

It might seem like he's reading, well, any middle school book appropriate to the character who sees him.

But he's actually just playing the new Pokemon game on his 3DS.

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The teenaged redhead should look familiar to him. He's certainly familiar to her, as evidenced by the way she glances at him and suddenly freezes in disbelief. "Franklin?"

Franklin quickly folds down the lid of his 3DS and grabs his book before looking around to see who's judging him for not studying this time.

"Hi-- whoa."

Then he brightens. "Bucky! I didn't think you made it--"

Wait, what if she didn't and this is her afterlife? He winces. At least one of his uncles taught him something about tact at some point.

"--um, I mean, it's so cool to see you again!"

They taught him something about tact. He still has a ways to go, but luckily, Rikki's okay with a little possible insensitivity. "It's cool. I'm alive, somehow. Kinda still trying to figure that part out."

Franklin's grin grows. "Awesome! I mean, I hoped you were. I just wasn't able to check, cause'a the Skrulls, then Mr Goblin, then, well, everything."

You know how it is.

"Is-- is the other world okay?"

"Oh, uh."

Well.

The smile she gives him has a little bit of a wince in it. "I don't know, kiddo. I think so. I woke up - somewhere else."

"--oh."

Franklin bites his lip for a second, then shakes his head. If anything bad was gonna happen with Counter Earth, he'd know about it. ~~Just like he will in a few months.~~

"Wait, where'd you wake up?"

"Philly. My home town. On a different Earth - I think it might be yours?"

He brightens.

"You're on my Earth? You should totally come by the Baxter Building! I'll make you lunch."

(PB&J sandwiches, probably.)

She grins at him. "Yeah, sure. That'd be great."

(She has no problem with PB&J. Meal of champions.)

He nods and pushes the half-empty bowl of fries towards her.

"Oh -- are you still in, uh, Philly? Can you get to New York? We could come pick you up!"

He's not sure himself if he means one of his uncles will drive the Fantasticar, or if he and Leech will try teleporting in the real world for the first time.

She munches on a fry. "Nah, I'm in Brooklyn. Got an apartment there."

Well. Technically, Steve has an apartment there.

"Whoa. You live in Brooklyn? ... Is it scary there?"

His only personal experience of Brooklyn is Coney Island, just like a true privileged Midtown/Upper East Side kid.

Rikki shrugs up a shoulder. "Not really. At least, not for a superhero."

She's just going to politely leave out that one time a serial killer locked her in his basement.

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