Clone City, Valley of the Queens

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"This... this is not funny."

With a voice devoid of accent Sal found herself suddenly not at home, returning to her living room after a bathroom break while watching reruns of Avatar: The Last Airbender. If the place had been a nexus or something she was more familiar with she would have been perfectly okay with the entire situation.

Except that this was not a room, not a nexus, and not a cafe. It was a cave. She wasn't a fan of caves. They were gross and earthy and just... well... gross. This cave wasn't drippy or anything, but she still didn't like it. She growled to herself and walked awhile until she found a large French door. Which was weird in and of itself. She wrenched it open and found her feet on green grass.

"Where the hell am I?" She looked around at the enormous valley spread out around her.

This is surreal...

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"I'm not going to say anything," Sal muttered into Kurt's sleeve. "Not sayin' nothin'. Nope, not a damn word."

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"Let them be." Kurt shook his head. "Relax."

Kal gave him a look.

"Wow," said one of the clones in the closet. "The lights change colour, too. That's one of the ones the Herald makes?"

"Yup," said a female voice.

Kurt actually laughed. "Jubilee vouldn't do anything vrong."

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Sal just shook her head, still laughing. Her eyes held a strange expression of nostalgia.

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"What's so @#$%*&$ funny?" Kal scowled at her, still half poised to go break up the party in the closet.

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She dealt Kal an 'oh, please' kind of look. "Rememberin'."

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"Oh right." He blinked and frowned. "All of yours are married."

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"Well. All of Pi are, anyway. I probably lost all my other guys..."

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"Yeah." He looked toward the curtain and raised his voice. "Hey, Vinnie! Get your @#$%&$ in here!"

"Sure, Sarge!" came the cheerful reply as the closet door opened. Footsteps followed and then a clone in a Tshirt which read 'I'm with stupid' slipped through the curtains.

And stopped short with his mouth open as he caught sight of Sal.

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The clone looked at Sal and Sal looked at the clone.

And it was suddenly like she'd never left Kamino. An image popped into her head as though recalled by a computer. She put her hand on Kurt's shoulder to steady herself.

RC-0824, sniper for Upsilon Squad.

"Oh my..." She swallowed hard. "Two-Four."

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"S... Sarge?" He blinked and frowned, his slightly battered face taking on a look of complete confusion.

Kurt just held his wife steady, though he was aware of Kal leaving the room and a yelp from the living room.

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"Yeah. Hi."

Sal couldn't say much else - she just smiled through her tears.

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"But...." He turned and looked at Kal as the small man shoved another clone into the room, this one blinking and looking as though he were in the middle of a major caffeine crash. "I don't understand."

The other clone stopped short and rubbed his eyes, then lifted his eyebrows and looked at Sal again.

Kal reached up to gently smack him in the back of the head. "Told you to leave that stuff alone, Lou."

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"Neither do I, but here we are, eh?"