"Enh, yes, but no. If my universe'd gotten wind of the Initiative, we would have been the people trying to stop it." Jack sets his drink down, so he can use his hands to gesture as he talks.
"Where I'm from, time travel is a certainty. Case in point, I was born in the 51st century. Used to work for the Time Agency, which is exactly what it sounds like. Time travel tech exists, not everybody uses it for just sight-seeing, and when they mess up, you need people who can go clean up the timeline."
"Things got complicated, I got stranded in the 20th Century- well, 19th, but who's counting? But all that time travel? Can lead to weak spots, rifts, where anything can come through. Turned out there was one in Cardiff, Wales, so I started keeping watch over it. Seen a lot of weird stuff, but all this multiverse thing has been-" he waves a hand back and forth, sort of kind of, "theoretical. Saw evidence of a parallel universe once."
"This?" Jack picks up his glass again. "Blows everything I've seen before out of the water."
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"Where I'm from, time travel is a certainty. Case in point, I was born in the 51st century. Used to work for the Time Agency, which is exactly what it sounds like. Time travel tech exists, not everybody uses it for just sight-seeing, and when they mess up, you need people who can go clean up the timeline."
"Things got complicated, I got stranded in the 20th Century- well, 19th, but who's counting? But all that time travel? Can lead to weak spots, rifts, where anything can come through. Turned out there was one in Cardiff, Wales, so I started keeping watch over it. Seen a lot of weird stuff, but all this multiverse thing has been-" he waves a hand back and forth, sort of kind of, "theoretical. Saw evidence of a parallel universe once."
"This?" Jack picks up his glass again. "Blows everything I've seen before out of the water."