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Fandom High Welcome Picnic, Front Lawn of the School, All Day

Whoever worked the weather magic around here had done an excellent job to make sure things were nice outside for all the new (and old) residents of Fandom. It was warm and sunny, but not so humid that people would melt. There was plenty of ~~moddable~~ food and drinks, places to sit in the shade, and more than enough nametags to go around. It was time to celebrate the start of the summer!

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There was a happy gasp of surprise followed by “We’re neighbors! I’m in 1F. Oh, I can’t wait to show you my room. It’s so cooool!”

Well, if you’re a fan of superheroes and Captain Marvel it’s pretty cool.

Arden had no idea who that was. Which just meant she was a blank slate, huh?

"Oh, you're tucked away behind the elevators with Gonzo!" Arden said. "I'm right at the top of the stairs."

Because if she needed a fast getaway, the elevator wasn't gonna cut it.

Kamala can make her own stairs so where she landed doesn’t matter. “I haven’t met him. Are the other people in the house cool? Marc seemed gruff but nice.”

"I don't know him well, but Gonzo's always been nice to me," Arden said. "He's, uh, blue and made of felt, you can't miss him. And then there's Illyana who is Russian and scary but not...mean scary? More intimidating, but also pretty cool. Then there's Cal who is, um." She wasn't blushing, you were blushing. "He's really sweet. Just very earnest and fun and str--uh, has an adorable little droid named BD-1."

Way to successfully not gush about your crush, Arden.

"Next to me is Dean. He's loud and brash, but he's got a really big heart and just cares about people immediately. Upstairs is Remy, who is Cajun and can cook and--oh! He used to be a superhero! Then there's Henry, who I haven't met, and finally Steven and Watts. Steven is just a friendly, mild-mannered sweetheart, and Watts is a little more reserved and doesn't always get jokes? But also very nice."

Oh do you think Kamala didn’t pick up on that? Did you?

“Soooooo. Cal? Sounds like he’s pretty nice.”

Arden had no idea what you were talking about or why her face felt warm. "Yup!" she said, in case Kamala was just verifying that she'd heard right. "Between Illyana and Dean, that's him."

Nailed it.

“Is he here? Can you point him out? I want to see how sweet and earnest and fun and str--uhhhhhh he is,” she teased. “Come on. I just hyperventilated over eating monsters in front of you.”

She assumed an authoritative pose which just looked ridiculous. “Confess your crush to me!”

Arden waved a hand at her. "Oh goddess, not in front of the squirrels!" she said, like that either mattered at this point or made sense to Kamala. "But okay, yes, okay, he's here."

Oddly enough and surely just a coincidence, she didn't have to look around to find him in the crowd, she could just turn slightly and point to where he was. Must be a really high passive perception or something.

"That's him," she said, pointing to a tall guy with adorably floofy red hair and a tiny little droid perched on his back, probably on his eighth or so plate of food by this point. "Cal Kestis. He's from space. I think he manages the junkyard?" And then, slightly lower and only because she had witnessed Kamala's momentary freakout, muttered, "And he's got really great arms and I know he's very strong because he carried me back to Midnight one time from, like, the beach on the other side of the island and wasn't even breathing heavy by the time we got there."

Arden had been but for, uh. Different reasons.

“Mashallah!”

She gave Arden a little elbow poke. “Nice. Definitely hotter than most aliens I’ve seen. And he carried you all the way home? Wow.”

She gave a slow nod. “I approve.”

"...You've met a lot of aliens?" Arden asked in what was an incredibly smooth change of topic.

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“Oh, yeah, that was a couple of years ago. I got entangled quantumly with two other people and had to go with them to stop this other alien from destroying different planet’s ecosystems,” She explained as she held up her arm and showed off her bangle. She lit it up with the noor energy and let it flow up her hand. “She was after this so she could tear an opening between jump space conduits and steal the energy from our sun. We stopped her. But one of my friends got stuck behind the tear that was made. We’ve been trying to find a way to get her back.”

Arden raised her hand like they were in class. "I'm sorry, what?"

“Sorry? Uh. I have powers. And I’ve been to other planets because of cosmic weirdness,” she explained and did a little peace sign with her energy form. “My favorite planet is where everyone communicates by singing.”

"You know, that wasn't even the part I had a question about," Arden said with an huff of a laugh. "But what does it mean to be 'quantumly entangled' and what are 'jump space conduits' and how much energy was she going to steal because doesn't our sun put out...a lot?"

Very scientific, babygirl.

“Well her Sun was dying so she set up a conduit to steal energy from our sun to restart hers. Don’t ask me how that works. And my powers are light based and so we’re the other two peoples and somehow when Dar-benn (she was the bad guy) started messing with the jump portals (that allows spaceships to travel to different parts of the galaxy at light speed) they touched a portal at the same time I touched my Noni’s bangle.” She waved the bangle on her arm for emphasis. “So whenever we used our powers at the same time we teleported to the other person’s location.”

It’s all very simple, you see?

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...Sure, Jan.

"But that's all fixed now?" Arden asked, deciding that vaguely getting it was good enough, especially at a picnic.

Uh. It's Kamala. Not Jan. Keep up, Finch.

"Yeeeah," Kamala said, her voice dropping a little towards the end of the drawled out one word response.

"For the most part. Our powers are untangled, the sun is still there but we lost a friend in another dimension. We still haven't figured out where she is or how to get her back. So in the meantime."

She held up her plate of food. "School. And French onion dip."

Like you don't know internet memes, Khan.

"I'm sorry you lost a friend," Arden said softly. "And I hope you get her back soon. But yeah, until then...well, I'd say normalcy, but you're not gonna get that here, that's for sure."

“It’s been a while since my life was normal,” Kamala said with a shrug and a smile. “Might as well get used to the new level of weird.”

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