001 (Voice Post)

[underthehoodpt2]

*sound of a pair of hands around with the communicator*

Wow... this is way more sophisticated than anything I ever made. Whoever this Iron Man is... he apparently knows his stuff. Heck, this could rival anything that Jon ever had a hand in making... oh... its on!

*the voice that is then heard is somewhat muffled as the speaker has his mouth too

Comments

[jupitermade]

Dan! Oh my god. Oh my god Dan.

[underthehoodpt2]

Laurie? Well, this is just starting to become a big family reunion... and here I was thinking I was going to be alone here.

How is Jon? Rorschach mentioned he was here too.

[jupitermade]

I am so sorry you had to be dragged into this. I can't pretend that I haven't missed you though; Dan, it's been difficult.

Jon got here pretty recently too. He's, you know, usual Jon. Only less powerful, I think? He said his powers got diminished.

[underthehoodpt2]

Difficult? Laurie... I can't really remember the last time we spent a good deal of time together. Ok, now I'm starting to get confused.

A less powerful Jon? That's almost unsettling.

[jupitermade]

[jupitermade]

Dan. Please tell me this is you being funny. I'll even forgive you for it.

[underthehoodpt2]

To be honest, I wish I could, but I don't have a clue what's going on. Rorschach is talking about me having amnesia and at first I just thought it was him being... well, Rorschach. I... I don't understand anything right now.

[jupitermade]

Oh god.
Oh god.
Oh god.

What's the last thing you remember doing?

[underthehoodpt2]

I was leaving Hollis Mason's Saturday evening like I always do. In fact, I was just about to put my key in my front door and then suddenly I was talking to a red and gold robot or cyborg named Iron Man.

[jupitermade]

...

Shit.

[underthehoodpt2]

Laurie, if I said or did anything that offended you... I'm sorry.

I'm just almost at a total loss for words. One moment I'm in New York, the next minute I'm somewhere entirely different, surrounded by people with powers who AREN'T Jon, and feeling like a stranger towards the only two people here I know.

[jupitermade]

You... didn't offend me. It's just. I don't know. Timelapse maybe. Something. I don't know Dan. We've been... together. For a while. Oh god, this is so awful. I feel so awful right now.

[underthehoodpt2]

Wait... we? Me and you? ... this is a lot to process. Laurie, I feel just as awful for making you feel that way. I just... there is no way Rorschach is telling the truth.

Rorschach is telling me that the Comedian is dead, Veidt murdered half of New York City, and that we were all out of retirement trying to stop him. There is no way that can be true... how?

[jupitermade]

It isn't your fault, Dan, it's just this whole goddamn place... We got together shortly after I left Jon.

He is, actually. I'm so sorry to have to break it to you this way. Veidt wanted to save the world, we were on the brink of war. I don't. God. I don't even know how to explain all this right now.

[underthehoodpt2]

Laurie, I'm not accusing you of lying or anything, but this is all just too unreal. How could we have been on the brink of war? The Soviets are too afraid of Jon to do anything.

I just... you and Rorschach both telling me the same thing... could it all be true? I swear, I feel like Rumpelstiltskin...

If that is what happened then... what is going on now?

[jupitermade]

Jon left.

I'm trying to pull my thoughts together here. Listen. There are a lot of people here from different dimensions and different time periods. People who can fly and start fires and read minds. You. You were probably brought in months before any of this began, before The Comedian was murdered. I can't even.

Jon. He can probably explain this better to you.