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The Other Kung Fu Chick

The doc said YT is okay for skateboarding practice, as long as she doesn't do anything too crazy, so she's been just sort of cruising over the hills. She's roaming further than usual, because she's looking for someone.

She hasn't seen the kung fu chick since she went to the infirmary the other day. YT's kind of curious about her. And she also wants to learn her name, if possible. Maybe learn some of that cool stuff she was doing. After all, YT's planning to join a war effort soon, and afterward, being able to fight like that - or at least half so well, maybe even a quarter - would certainly be useful in her own world.

YT returns to the spot where she first saw the kung fu girl practicing, hoping that maybe she's back there today.

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"Dude, that's totally awesome."

She slurps the coffee the waitrats bring.

"Yeah, you're a little bit in my future. And the other stuff, I'm totally not even going to touch that. Worlds are weird."

YT mixes some milk and cream into her own coffee. "Mine's apparently a little weirder than most. Relatively speaking. I mean, to me, it's normal."

Taking a sip of her coffee, she looks curiously at Steph. "What's yours like?

"...pretty weird," Steph admits, grinning. "Even to me."

She looks wistful for a moment.

"Cool place, though."

"Yeah," YT sighs, remembering fondly the streets of L.A., or the Street in the Metaverse. "I kind of know what you mean." Although I can go back.

"Yeah." Steph is quiet and wistful for a moment, and then shrugs. "Well, shit happens, y'know? Anyway, Milliways is great. I've met some awesome folk here."

"Like who?" YT asks. She's met some pretty weird and awesome folks here herself. Maybe they've made friends with the same ones.

Steph grins, touching the silver dolphin bracelet on her wrist unconsciously. "I know a guy who shoots fire from his skin. That's pretty awesome. And a girl from three hundred years in the future who fights vampires. Mel's really cool."

"Don't know if I've met them, unless the first one's Dr. D," YT says. "He's pretty cool. Ray Stantz, too. And there's Merlin," she adds, smiling warmly. There's obviously more to that than him just being interesting.

Steph shakes her head. "No ... his name's Zuko. I met Ray, a while back. He's cool. Don't know a Dr D."

YT's eyes kind of pop. "Zuko? I met him too. Didn't see him do anything with fire. He was calling himself Li but I found out his real name from someone else later." She drinks some of her coffee, looking kind of rigid as she does, like she's remembering the meeting and it's not something pleasant to recall. "Did you meet him before he went all...Stepford?"

Steph's glance is sharp. She's a bubbly bright teenage girl, but she was still a Bat, and she can still be scarily intense without realising it sometimes.

"...yes, I did," she says slowly. "Did you see him — recently? Is he okay?"

YT turns away. Normally she can meet any kind of sharp glare, but she feels bad for bringing this up. "It was, like, a month ago. I haven't seem him since and I don't know what's going on now." She turns back to Steph. "I'm sorry," she says, meaning not just for talking about it, but for Zuko flaking out on her, because that seems to be what happened.

Steph drops her eyes, flushing. "Am I that obvious? I keep telling myself I'm over him, but ... man. Don't worry about it."

"It happens," YT says. "Even a smart chick can't always bring a guy to his senses. Believe me, I know." She rolls her eyes as she takes another sip of coffee.

Steph nods. "So ... Merlin?"

Fair's fair, YT decides, and smiles. "I met him here. Well, of course. But anyway, he's nicer than any guy I've been with back home - honest, you know, doesn't feel the need to be macho. He's got no problem with saying what he means, but it's not the same way I do. I'm blunt because I don't like people bullshitting me. He just doesn't let things get in the way of saying what he feels." She smiles, holding the mug of coffee in her hands. "It's rarer than you'd think."

Steph grins. "Yeah ... Zuko's hopeless that way."

Except when he's angry. And then he usually says what she doesn't want to hear.

... Said. Was. She has to remember to use past tense.

"I should totally meet Merlin. Is he, y'know, that Merlin? For real?"

"Yep. Same one. I don't think he's met King Arthur and all those guys yet - way he told it, the Roman Empire's still around, so it's going to be a couple of hundred years. But yeah, it's him. He does magic and everything." YT kind of giggles here: some of this magic is of an intimate nature.

Steph grins. "That's awesome!"

YT grins. "There're times when I almost don't believe it myself. Okay, that's not true. It sounds crazy when I just talk about it, but it totally doesn't seem weird to me anymore."

That gets another laugh.

"Tell me about it. After this place, nothing seems weird."

"Not even that cyborg dude Ng back home. Seriously, he was injured in 'Nam, and now he's goggled into the Metaverse all the time, and hooked up to systems in his truck. A converted German airport fire truck. He used to use voice control on it, but recently he actually came up with some decent neural-interface stuff, so he's doing that instead." YT looks up at Steph. "Seriously. That's the weirdest thing I ever saw back home."

"Wow." Steph grins. "I only half understood that and it still sounds weird."

"Oh. Well, maybe I should explain the Metaverse. It's a really cool thing we've got back home, and it's how I got here.

"The Metaverse is like this whole virtual reality place that's spread over the Internet. Its representation is a big black ball, kind of like a planet, with a Street around the equator. And all the buildings on the Street are computers or servers somewhere. People are represented by avatars, which can walk around in the buildings and stuff. You can play games, do business, shop, whatever."

That gets a curious eyebrow-raise.

"But ... why?"

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