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"Ali! It's been entirely too long." Hank makes a move as if to turn and sweep her off her feet in a hug, but for once in his life, his agility is no match for a determined Dazzler, and he finds himself with a kiss to the cheek, earning a blink and a smile.

"Oh my stars and garters . . . well, now you make me feel positively Grinchly that I haven't your presents to hand. You should have told me you were going to pop by." Beaming now, he gently takes her hands into his own, much larger, furrier, bluer ones, and squeezes affectionately. Even as he does, he's pondering.

"LeFay...Mother..." Vampir said.

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The supposed Horobi, Jin, and Naki would transform as part of their rampage, prompting Raiden to get his VoltDriver and Ride Fuses ready.

It was about then a robot flew across their vision. Quirking their brows, they looked to the source to see a woman fighting against several...somethings. There were definitely a few memories tugging at them in the moment at the sight of them. Mechanoids, the word was. 

As another flew past, they reached out and snatched it out of the air. “Y’know, if you’re trashing Mechanoids, the least you can do is actually tear them apart,” they said. 

“I will have to second that sentiment.” The voice comes from a man with raven black hair, one red eye and one green, and he’s holding a spear towards the monster. “The Pits of Tartarus await you, fiend!”

Summoning a skeleton like apparition that looks like humanity’s personification of Death Seira raises her scythe. “By attacking the humans I, a Noble, swore my life to protect your life is now forfeit!”  She dealt the the blow that killed the beast. She gives the man a curious glance. “I suppose that was too much?” she murmurs. 

Who is this? Something seems off... 

The Noble just fixed her tie and grew quiet, there was something about him that reminded her of her own people

So, I actually kinda delved into a concept not dissimilar to this in a fic I wrote . . . a few months ago now, I think?

It's a post House of X Krakoan fic about the night that the Krakoan nation is established, and in it, Alex Summers, aka Havok, is feeling kind of out of sorts because everyone is in full swing of celebration, but he's newly resurrected, been sold the dream . . . and oh. Madelyne Pryor isn't on the resurrection list. Never will be (at that point anyway), because she's a clone. And he's bummed out about it. So he bumps into Hank, and they end up going out drinking because Hank is also out of sorts, and there's a moment where Hank looks at Alex.

And he can see Katie Summers.

Katie being the child of Alex and Janet van Dyne, in an alternate future (it was a Kang the Conqueror plot, I think) that present Alex and Janet jumped into. Alex and Janet jump back to the present, and they're told that Katie can still exist.

But, thanks to Alex getting inverted by Axis . . .

She never exists. She can't, not the way she was.

It's probably a little bit of a stretch, that Hank can see her, but it makes sense, right? A whole life not lived, hanging around like a shadow, that has to count as a timeline shift.

Besides, it was literal fan fic, I can write whatever the fuck I want.

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