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Maria took Steph and Sokka and Jim all back to Kansas in a blink, after a long argument in which Mel promised at least five times that no one would die, leaving the four Fray girls to get the flying car back on their own. Or, as only one of them actually has a license, Erin to get the car back while Mel sits with her arms full of babies, looking decidedly comfortable.

"So, you're gonna want to hear the story now, aren't you?"

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"Him I already met," Erin said giving Mel a knowing look. "And I got the uncle-slash-brother bit from him going on about you not dying."

She nodded at the two babies. "Who's the guy?"

Mel bounces both babies for a second, before shrugging.

"Zuko," she says. "Met in the same place, around the same time. We were the first few people to show up in that world."

Erin looked at the babies again. "And... what? He's part dragon? Or is there something more to this slayer biz that I don't know about?"

Mel's sheepish smile freezes slightly at the 'Slayer' word, but all she does is shake her head.

"Firebenders. He's from Sokka's world, and lots of people have these elemental powers."

Erin nodded trying to take this all in stride. "So... it's like magic then."

"No, it's like being special," Mel informs her bluntly. "Like me."

"So are they aren't going to have a giant red thing trying to train them though... right?" Erin asked

Mel blinks and looks at Erin.

"If Hellboy turns up and he wants to, then... yeah. But I'm kinda hoping I might be able to track down that firebender I ran into in Metropolis."

"Hellboy?" Erin said raising an eyebrow. "Is that a nickname or did Urkonn find you somehow?"

"No, it's his name," Mel says cheerfully. "I never met anyone called Urkonn, and HB'd never been to Haddyn. Big red guy. Trained with me 'cause I was much less likely to hurt him than the others in the apartments."

There's a nostalgic tone to her voice. She misses the big guy.

Erin debated how much she should mention about Urkonn before just deciding to let the matter rest. Mel didn't need to know about what happened with Loo... the original Loo at the moment.

"No... I think I would have noticed another big red guy in Haddyn," Erin replied. "You only see so many of those leaping around on rooftops."

"He was a good friend," Mel says, glancing out of the car at the scene below them. "Figure you'd get on."

But they've lost the thread of the original conversation, and while Mel's talking about it, she might as well get it over.

"But Zuko was just a normal guy. 'Scept for the flamethrower thing, of course. Lots of people on his world could do that. Sokka's... his real sister, she could do stuff with water."

"And where is this Zuko guy now?" Erin asked. "Because I think anyone trying to leave you would have ended up with a few broken bones."

Mel snorts, and smirks only briefly.

"Too right," she agrees, before shrugging with one shoulder. Someone who knew her well would pick upi on the frozen edge to her smile now.

"He didn't come through this time. Far as I know, he's still in Eden."

Erin did know that smile. However her role as a comfort-type person? Yeah. Not so much.

"Coming from my own limited experience, this reality-hopping thing sounds like a real bitch at times," Erin said. "Any way you might find a portal back? Or to a way to open a portal back to here?"

"Never seen a portal back before," Mel points out. But she shrugs again, and grins down at Hana for her sake at least.

"Rather stay here, though. That place was toxic. Not right for kids."

And that, more or less, is all she's concerned about.

"Yeah. From what I've gathered it didn't sound that great of a place," Erin said as she flew over some wreckage. "Though this place seems to have seen some of it's own tragedy."

"Yeah, but it's bigger," Mel says. "Eden was just a street. And this place still has survivors: Apocalyptica was completely dead. Also there's the sky - they need the sun, apparently."

"I guess," Erin said with a shrug. "Any idea what happened here? Or why portals keep popping up and dragging people through?"

"No more idea than I had the first time," Mel admits.

"And neither do the smart people, each time. I'm guessing, though, that this place is hit more by the portals than anything else. The locals don't recognise the monsters any more than we do."

"So a portal could open up at any moment and we'll be attacked by... anything? At any time?" Erin asked looking all business.

"Guess so."

Mel smirks, as if she's rather amused by that idea. But she flips a switch to power the guns up just in case.

"If Broder were here right now he'd be freaking out that you just did that," Erin said with a small smirk. "Hopefully whatever happened to him he ended up okay. He disappeared from the car when I popped into Gotham."

"He could do it himself," Mel points out.

"How far up were you?"

Y'know, for him to fall without a car.

"About a mile up," Erin said in a flat voice. "So... yeah."

She shifted slightly in her seat and decided a change of topic was probably best. "So this Kansas place... Anything special about it other than being safe?"