Exegol preplay

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The ships exited hyperspace, and Poe's first thought upon seeing Exegol was that it looked dead. It was the the ugliest thing he'd seen in a long while, and he wondered if it had always been this way, or if building a colossal fleet of Star Destroyers here had killed the place.

And when the ships dived into the cloud cover, they nearly ran into the Sith fleet. It was massive. Their triangled hulls were enormous, but they grew even smaller as their numbers seemed to stretch into infinity.

"Great dark seas," Aftab Ackbar gasped across the comm. "Look at that!"

"No sign of the Falcon or allies," Tyce said from her ship.

"Help will get here," Poe assured them.

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[dishesonthetoprack]

Scott could be fairly dense at times, but he did remember that this Steve hadn't actually met him -- or Ant-Man -- yet, in his timeline.

Scott took a moment to punch another trooper -- though, this time it was just regular Scott Lang-enhanced-slightly-via-Pym-suit punching before flipping his visor open to offer a little further clarification there. "Sorry," he offered. "Scott in here. Or -- well, Ant-Man."

Still weird to call himself that, though.

[heroic_jawline]

Steve grinned. "Nice to see you, Ant-Man. I've only worked with Wasp. She's from Tony's version of our universe."

[dishesonthetoprack]

"I bet she gets wings," Scott noted enviously, briefly curious about which Van Dyne was in the suit in that universe. (Or whether she was a Van Dyne at all? Maybe a Pym? Maybe someone new entirely?) "I think my Hank used to have one of those."

But then she got lost to the Quantum Realm, as one did.

[heroic_jawline]

"She does," Steve said with a grin as he used his shield to mow down a row of troopers getting too close. "They're cute."

[dishesonthetoprack]

"I'm jealous," Scott admitted, flipping his visor back into place and pressing that important button on the palm of his hand.

By all appearances, he'd disappeared -- until he was abruptly his own size again, careening way too fast off of a nearby ledge with a kick that took out three troopers. Sweet.

[heroic_jawline]

Now that Steve knew what to look for--he'd gotten into a couple of scrapes with Jan in Tony's universe--he could grin and watch for Scott's impact on the field.

"They never see you coming," he teased.

[dishesonthetoprack]

"Except in very rare cases," Scott replied with a muffled laugh, because sometimes he was very visible, also. (And could the Wasp do that? Maybe wings were overrated when you could become Giant-Man.) "But I don't think this spaceship needs that kind of a weight-bearing test."

[heroic_jawline]

"We who are running along this spaceship appreciate that," Steve said, punching a nearby trooper so hard his helmet kind of bent.

Way harsh, Steve.