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Uh Mun...why is there a really tall guy in your head glaring at me? It's creepy.

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*blinks*

...so this is what it feels like.

What? Who are you?

Sorry, just never met myself before. Heard about it, of course...

I'm Ray Palmer. The Atom.

[Ray stares and stares.]

Wait.....so are you me? Or a different version of me? Does that mean it worked....the suit....it works?

A different version of you, at least.

Suit, eh? It's mostly just a belt for me.

A belt....you managed to make it work with just a belt. No thrusters, no boots?

Thrusters?

We are talking about size-changing here, right? I mean, I've got finger controls in the costume and all...

You didn't fully kit your suit....you do have access to Queen Consolidated don't you?

Why would I...? I'm a physics professor. Hell, I started doing this when I was a grad student.

Well I do. So I may have upgraded my suit slightly.

[He laughs a little at that.]

Sounds useful. If I want to get anywhere, I usually just phone myself. Shorter range, I just mess with my weight controls to glide on the breeze.

...or once, piloted a toy plane.

You actually went through the phone wires? I was just messing around with the idea of doing that.

Yeah. It took some getting used to, but I got a handle on it pretty quickly. Of course, these days, with cell phones everywhere, it's not nearly as useful a trick.

Wireless a wonder and an annoyance all in one.

You said it.

I've been working out a few alternate methods of travel, including one a successor of mine worked up, but not really been comfortable with any of them.

Wait someone else was the Atom....really.

Several people, actually. There was one before me, and then two people after me.

Okay wow...that is just....amazing. Really, really amazing.

They were all amazing people. Sadly, two of them aren't with us anymore.

That is a damm shame. But I've lost people to it's why I'm doing this.

[He shakes his head.]

Sometimes I wonder if I've done more harm than good. There's people dead because of me.

But I try to remember the good I've done too.

I haven't really had time to wonder about that...I only tested the suit once.

[Jean? Crazy and murdered one of his dearest friends. Princess Laethwyn and the Morlaidhans? Dead. Adam Cray? Dead. Sometimes, he wondered if he was bad luck.]

Oh? How did that go?

I flew....it was kind of awesome.

[He grins, remembering all the times he's gone flying with Carter or Hal, or riding on Barry's shoulder.]

Not much like it.

The thrust on the boots was a little off but I'll work on that.

Sounds like that shouldn't be too big a problem. Building the dang thing was the hard part.

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