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I was having a good day.

Emphasis on having, you see, as I was on my way to oneshot another dungeon, the Ancient One appeared and not alone, with her, there was a woman, and not any woman for that matter.

A gender bender.

At first, I didn't believe it, I laughed at the Ancient One when she explained the situation, but when I used [True Observe] on the woman in question, well, the information matched.

This was not only disturbing, but… troubling in a existential sense, I mean, I had come to this universe from a place where this place was fiction, and because of that I had always thought I was unique, one of a kind, but…

Alice Walker was there.

Standing in front of me with a smile, fucking what I thought to be true, and bringing up to life new questions, like…

Was I the original? Was I also a variant? How many versions of me were out there?

"You are adorable," Alice smiled, booping me in the nose with her index finger. "Stop overthinking this whole situation, you are the original,"

I looked at her and with trepidation asked, "How do you know that?" How could she be sure, for all I knew, I was just one of the many.

"Because I'm a copy, a defective one at that," Alice giggled, as the Ancient One who was sitting in the corner sighed. "We all know we are copies, variants, from the moment we woke up in that forest, every version of you knew… they weren't truly you, just a low cost copy ready for the slaughter," the level of hostility and sadness I felt as she spoke the last part was incredibly overwhelming.

"I'm sorry," Was all I could think to say.

"Don't be, the multiverse is the one to blame, besides, I got to exist, and this rocking body needed to exist," Alice grinned doing a sexy pose.

"Please don't," I groaned, averting my gaze.

"Ahh, don't be a prude," Alice winked, "I am you, but hotter, don't you wanna see how I look, in every.. place?"

"No I don't," I replied, still averting my gaze and soon after she started laughing.

"Oh god, that was priceless," Alice sighed, "Don't worry, I'm kinky, but not that kinky,"

"I… thanks?" I sighed, this was already a lot to deal with.

"So, where can I crash? I heard we are loaded," Alice asked, as I glanced at the Ancient One.

"I tried to explain to her you are the one loaded as she says, but she said and I quote, Alex, Alice, potato, potahto, same thing," The Ancient One sighed, seemingly done with Alice's shenanigans as well.

"That I will solve later, but… there is one thing I do not understand, how did you… get here?" I asked, and Alice hummed, index fingers pressed upon her lips.

"Luck, I guess?" Alice shrugged.

"Luck?" The Ancient One repeated, "Supposedly, this is a shrouded timeline, and you lucked your way into it?"

"Well, I did have some help, from a very very weird guy, that said his strongest weapon was love or something," Alice sighed, "He… helped come here, I just can't remember how exactly, all I know is that included a few infinity stones, that are not worthless pebbles."

A weird guy that uses love as a weapon, Cupid?

"I… no offense, but that feels like a load of bullshit," I replied.

"Oh, I know," Alice snorted, "But it's the only answer I have, you can do whatever you want to check, but that's all I know,"

I sighed, looking at her with [True Observe]

[Alice Walker - LV 229

The Chaos Mistress

Origins: —NULL—

Powers: Enhanced Adaptability, Medium Tier Mimicry, Enhanced Survivability, Enhanced Durability, Enhanced Healing Factor, Reactive Adaptation, Chaos Magic.

History: Alice started just like Alex, but unlike him, her memories were a fog of misdirection that she herself didn't understand, like Alex, she was captured by Hydra, but unlike Alex her somewhat unhinged nature made it she was impossible to contain.

Her weapons of choice are the katanas, ones she uses as wands for her spells, or to slice her enemies, whatever happens to come first.

Current Thought: She hopes you will give her a chance, she fears what could happen if she has to face the TVA alone.]

"Fine," I eventually said, "You can stay in my guest house, a few rules thought, touch my daughters, and I will kill you, do anything without consulting me that brings harm to my family, and I will kill you, and two, don't break my shit, I already have enough with Thor,"

"Aye aye Captain," Alice giggled doing a military salute, with her tongue poking out.

I could already feel Alice was going to be a headache, one way or another.

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[Alice Walker POV]

When I set off to meet the original, I expected to hate him, after all, his existence was the reason for my existence and by indirect connection to my suffering, instead, I felt relief.

I don't know why, but I felt relieved to finally meet him.

I was happy.

Perhaps it was simply confirming he was that original that made me feel safe.

I had after all seeing many timelines being erased, many variants being killed as I traveled trying to find him, and now that I was here, I was under the mysterious protection that kept his timeline out of sight.

All thanks to that man.

A mysterious man, whose sole presence made me feel small, insignificant, and yet he had the gal to say his only weapon was love.

Love my ass, which on another note should be loved, but anyways, love my ass, with the amount of power I felt from that man… blinking was a weapon.

Now that I think about it, with how overwhelming he felt, maybe love was truly a thing you could weaponize when that strong.

In any case, I owed him one.

He had saved me, from dying like many others.

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