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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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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?"

"That's about it," Mel confirms, letting the subject go quickly.

"No monsters, or portals, far as I know. Much more survivors. Group of immigrants living just outside Metropolis, including the girl got us to Gotham."

"That be the one not wearing clothes? Or the perky one?" Erin asked.

"The one with rocketship hair," Mel says, because Maria's hair is just along her taste. "Well, both, actually. Steph was in Eden with us. She'd been staying in the farm for the last couple of weeks, though. While I was in Metropolis, so I didn't know she was here."

"Well you somehow managed to find each other," Mel replied. "Was that Sokka guy with you? Or was he stranded somewhere else as well?"

"No, he ended up in New York."

Erin would scratch the back of her neck, only her hands are full of babies.

"Everyone gets to Kansas, 'cause it's safe. I didn't much want to hang out with the refugees, though." Cause of the babies. "'Til I had a dream with this - OK, you're goig to think I'm spun."

Like she doesn't get that a lot anyway. "Had a dream told me the girls were in New York."

Erin turned and gave her sister an amused look.

"Mel? Back home I saw you... Well okay another you... rip through a mob of lurks with a giant battle axe and then take out a giant... dragon-thing by slicing through its head," Erin replied. "Also I just popped into a new world where there are monsters, a new version of you that has babies that belch smoke and a girl who can teleport anywhere she wants."

"Trust me... a dream telling you where to go to find your kids? So not spun-worthy at this point. I however keep wondering if I'm going to wake up in some ward back in Haddyn."

"Kinda had me thinking I was spun," Mel mutters. "The smoke thing I kinda got used to when it was inside a' me."

Erin let out a snort of laughter but quickly reigned it in. "Sorry. Totally wasn't expecting that. I also didn't mean to say it wasn't a crazy experience. The dream I mean. I would have thought that the whole dimension jumping thing would make you prepared for anything."

Mel laughs along with her, and shrugs, more easily now.

"Nah, there's always something to surprise you, believe me. Best to just go with it, though."

"Not sure I have a choice in the matter," Erin admitted. "Though I have to admit seeing you with two kids kind of makes things... interesting. It's a side of you I never expected to see."