saying goodbye

[rumorate]

WHO: Allison Hargreeves or Carol Danvers + YOU
WHEN: Endgame shenanigans
WHERE: Hattevar
WHAT: Saying goodbyes and/or tying up any loose ends.
WARNINGS: Spoilers for The Marvels or The Umbrella Academy.

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[rumorate]

I've got Kamala if one of you wants to get Carol?

[Though she's sure that Kamala's delight will make sure everyone in a five block radius know before the day is done.]

[stomacles]

I can get with Carol, since I told her I would get back to her. Five, you can join me.

She should get to meet at least one of you. [ And if video chats aren't for multiple people? What are they good for? ]

[somebadnews]

[ Five looks between the two of them, and only a small part of him is imagining the way Kamala will take the news. It's going to crush her if this doesn't work.

But he nods. Of course, he should go with Ben, and maybe convince them to do a proper demonstration before they try to hop dimensions inside a magical-alien-cat. ]

Sure. I can probably think of a few important follow-up questions for her.

action -> video

[rumorate]

[Allison nods, before stepping off to the side, and calling Kamala. She also has a few questions about Goose and the plan here, but she'll do it out of earshot where her brothers aren't listening.

She holds up the video and smiles when the other girl picks up.]

Hey. I've got some good news.

[cosplayqueen]

[Kamala looks happy to see her the moment the image comes up. What's new? There is a layer of excitement. There's a chance they can stay together. She is trying to keep her hopes from getting too high. She mostly fails at it, to be honest. Allison, Ben, and Five are family now. She wants to keep them desperately.]

Spill it! You know I love good news.

[rumorate]

So my brothers and I have decided to see if you guys can take us home with you.

[She will pause for anticipated shrieking here, and get to the questions she has about the means later.]

[cosplayqueen]

[Kamala immediately starts hopping. The scream comes a second later. She's so excited. She can't wait to take them home. Nakia will flip over how cool Allison is. Aamir and Ben will hit it up. She suspects Ammi and Five will vibe together.

It's about halfway through her pleasant fantasy she stops screaming long enough to breathe and yell instead.]

THIS IS GOING TO BE AMAZING, ALLSION! YOU DON'T EVEN UNDERSTAND!

[rumorate]

[Allison pulls her device away from her face for the sake of her eardrums, but when her face reappears there's a smile on her face.]

Yeah, I do have some questions though. Carol floated us maybe traveling there in Goose? Is that ... safe?

[cosplayqueen]

[Kamala stops hopping long enough to quite literally wave off her concerns.] Oh, it's totally safe! We put a whole space station in the Goose's kittens. They were totally fine after. Maybe a little traumatized, but we're already that!

[rumorate]

... You've got me there.

[With all of their end of the world trauma, what's a little more for the pile.]

We're also not one hundred percent sure it's going to work. The beacon might still snatch us out of Goose, but we think it stands a better shot of just trying to go through on our own.

[cosplayqueen]

I'll take it! Look if we get separated, not gonna lie, I'll be super sad about it for a while. I am so happy you guys want to take that chance! I promise I'll take care of you guys. We'll get you a place to live and jobs and all that fun adult stuff everyone tells me really sucks. It's fine. We can do this! I'm just so happy we're staying together.

[rumorate]

Me too. And honestly, I think we all need to be in a world where it's not our fault it's ending for a while.

[Not that it was here, but ... at home, yeah, you can usually find an Umbrella at the source.]

[cosplayqueen]

Oh no, it'll be an alien, robot, or something magic-related. You guys are totally in the clear!

[rumorate]

And I have experience with at least two of those three.

[Magic is still kinda new to her. She's working on it.]

Though I think we should probably keep my powers to ourselves for a while.

[They're probably not going to be fond of a girl who can make people do whatever she wants.]

action --> video;

[stomacles]

[ While Allison gets a hold of Kamala, Ben cants his head to the side indicating Five follow him. ]

You with me, then. You can ask all the questions you like.

[ He pulls up Carol and grins. ] Hi there! This is one of my siblings, my brother Five. He knows one of your friends, Kamala.

[captain_marvel]

[Carol's face pops into view and when her eyes settle on Five, she smirks.]

Oh. This is your brother.

[Funny how it works both ways in terms of talking to either of them.]

[somebadnews]

[ No arguments from Five as he follows Ben. Honestly, he would rather it be in person, but he can see where this is going. Maybe it's easier this way, where all he has to do to hide that he was drinking when he agreed to this is to push the bottle out of frame. ]

Carol. Nice to see you again. [ Who knew their last conversation would foreshadow this. ] I should have remembered you were an expert on relocating aliens.

[stomacles]

[ Ben chuckles. ] Everyone knows each other, then.

That should make this a lot easier.

[ He cants his head at Five. ] You had questions?

[somebadnews]

[ Ben gets a look for that, but it's brief, because it's Ben. It only sounds easy because it's insane. Smiling back at the video: ]

I take it this was your idea. Have you ever been inside one?

[captain_marvel]

Has Goose ever swallowed me? No. So I can't speak to what your actual experience will be, but I will say that I've see many people come out the other side perfectly fine and only minimal therapy needed.

[Also a lot of people come out the other side not fine, but that's not important for this conversation.]

[stomacles]

[ Ben smiles right back at Five, lips taut, daring Five to say something, anything, to him. ]

I doubt we'll need therapy. [ Ben so easily speaks for all of them. But after their experiences, surely, being swallowed by a cat with tentacles won't be any more traumatic than some of the things they've experienced. ]

[somebadnews]

[ He scoffs at the idea of therapy; their family is a little far beyond help. As witnessed by everything currently under discussion. Five already agreed to this, but that doesn't mean he's not going to at least get a sense of what they're getting into. ]

Many. [ He's not going to miss that many doesn't mean all. ] So it's not actually trying to eat anyone, or is it up to you to get them back out?

[captain_marvel]

It's ... honestly I haven't done extensive studies on flerken biology because one, Goose is one of the friendlier examples of the species and they don't normally like making friends, and two, they're fairly rare as a rule.

[Speaking of, said flerken hears a familiar voice and hops up onto Carol's shoulder to get a better look.]

Now, does Goose eat people that she does not spit up? Yes. But do the people she does spit up show any signs of acid damage that would indicate you're being held in a stomach or something? No. Everything she's spit up has remained intact.

[stomacles]

[ Ben perks up when Goose shows. ]

Hey, Goose! You're not going to eat us, I know.

[ He looks to Five. ] Does that help, at all?

[somebadnews]

[ He looks to Ben again, but he should know that his pessimism is rooted in a long history of things not working out. Or more like the worst possible scenario almost always being the way these things go.

Doesn’t mean that he forgot that he already agreed to this. Back to Carol (and Goose), he frowns and gets to the only way he’s going to feel alright about this: ]

I want to try it. [ ‘Want’ is a strong word, but he’s sticking to it. ] Before we go through the beacon, I want to know what to expect.