"It was. But that's not even really the end of it." Robbie had commented on how he'd had to stop goofing around for his own safety, after all As terrible as this was, it wasn't enough to explain that.
"Even with all that, I could've bounced back and rolled with it fairly easily. That's what I do. Literally and metaphorically. But, see, when we started returning, a few heroes didn't come back exactly the same way they left. While most of the people who went into space actually remembered going in the first place and everything else? Some of us, me included, were basically from different points in our personal timelines. We'd lost months, years of memories, and we were younger than when we left."
Robbie took a deep breath here. Everything else, he had a fairly good handle on. This was the hard part.
"The team Nova and I were on, the New Warriors? Back before all this, we'd been doing a reality show. We'd go around to small towns and helped get rid of supervillains that were trying to avoid places with a lot of heroes. The producers helped fund the whole thing in exchange for the right to film. The last thing I remembered before everything went to hell was us coming back off a hiatus."
He stared out the window, not really seeing it.
"Next thing I knew I was in the city, and I was missing about a year of memories. And in that year...I screwed up. The team was fighting this dude called Nitro, who has the power to explode. Wasn't really that much of a threat usually, but he'd been taking drugs to amplify his powers. We hadn't known that, and so I, the me that went through all this instead of time-travelling, egged the rest of the team into attacking Nitro head-on. He exploded, and took out the entire neighborhood, half of a nearby school and my entire team. I was the only one who survived."
Robbie wasn't breaking down. He'd talked through it multiple times, but while he could get through it, it wasn't entirely easy, and likely never would be.
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"Even with all that, I could've bounced back and rolled with it fairly easily. That's what I do. Literally and metaphorically. But, see, when we started returning, a few heroes didn't come back exactly the same way they left. While most of the people who went into space actually remembered going in the first place and everything else? Some of us, me included, were basically from different points in our personal timelines. We'd lost months, years of memories, and we were younger than when we left."
Robbie took a deep breath here. Everything else, he had a fairly good handle on. This was the hard part.
"The team Nova and I were on, the New Warriors? Back before all this, we'd been doing a reality show. We'd go around to small towns and helped get rid of supervillains that were trying to avoid places with a lot of heroes. The producers helped fund the whole thing in exchange for the right to film. The last thing I remembered before everything went to hell was us coming back off a hiatus."
He stared out the window, not really seeing it.
"Next thing I knew I was in the city, and I was missing about a year of memories. And in that year...I screwed up. The team was fighting this dude called Nitro, who has the power to explode. Wasn't really that much of a threat usually, but he'd been taking drugs to amplify his powers. We hadn't known that, and so I, the me that went through all this instead of time-travelling, egged the rest of the team into attacking Nitro head-on. He exploded, and took out the entire neighborhood, half of a nearby school and my entire team. I was the only one who survived."
Robbie wasn't breaking down. He'd talked through it multiple times, but while he could get through it, it wasn't entirely easy, and likely never would be.