H-unh. Okay, based on Johnny's reaction, something a lot more. Maybe Jack shouldn't have joked about it. File that question away for later, then.

He'll follow the slight change of subject. Jack waves a hand around them. "All this. Really, 'metacrisis' is a term for any timelines colliding. Two parallel universes accidentally connecting? Two versions of the same person from different points in one timeline in the same place? Or, in our case, even more than two."

"Ridiculous that you've had to go through more than one. It's the kind of crap that was mostly theoretical back home. Even with time travel, most people knew better than to do something like this. Either that, or anyone who tried? Didn't stick around to tell anyone else how it went. But I've never heard of anything on this scale before. And you've gone through it twice."