(Ethan pov)
Casually following Jean to what I assume to be a living room, the mansion is big. I start to think about how long it's been since I just walked somewhere. I'm always running. It feels good to slow down, but I know sooner or later this peace will be broken by what the Speed Force told me.'Ah, just thinking about it, I'm tired. Wait, she said we are alike — we are beings of motion. Maybe she could teach me how to make someone my champion, or something like that. Yeah, I'll try to go back to my realm and call her.'
"Hey Ethan, what are you thinking about?" Jean interrupts my thoughts.
"It's just... I'm not sure you guys want to know everything. The world where I come from is pretty fucked up."It's true. I don't want to tell them things they do not need to know, like the fact I don't really know them. And fuck yes, imagine zombie mutants — I don't want to deal with them. And the Avengers, all under one person's control — that would have made everything way harder.
"What do you mean?" Jean seems lost at that.
"Okay, there might be people that you don't know, and going into the backstories of so many different people, or like, how you guys are in that world... You might not like what you'll hear. So I'm going to try not to say too many names."Yeah, I will not tell them about Wanda. I'll stay vague so they don't make assumptions about their Wanda. Maybe I should check on that — I'm tired of dealing with her.
"Oh, I understand — you don't want to make it weird with the team." Making her own conclusion.
"Oh yeah, about the team — where is Ororo? I've not seen her. Is she with her husband or something like that?"Not wanting to tell them about Wakanda if they do not know about it.
"Yes. She is with her husband — ex-husband — in Wakanda. Is your Ororo not divorced?" she asks curiously.
"No. T'Challa sacrificed himself against a powerful enemy early in the invasion, so I did not have time to meet him. And not gonna lie, I'm a bit antisocial, so I never joined any group."As we arrived at a living room where we meet everyone I already met, and more — Iceman (Bobby), Angel (Warren), Colossus (Piotr), and Nightcrawler (Kurt).
"Hi to those I did not already meet. I'm Ethan," I say awkwardly, not knowing what to say.
"Hi, I'm Piotr. You don't need to worry, my friend. We just want to know who you are and how you got here," with a thick Russian accent and a friendly tone opposing his stature.
Sitting up and preparing myself for this conversation, "You guys can ask what you want to know."And this was a mistake, as three people start to talk at the same time: Bobby, Kitty, and Kurt.
"What's your power?""Is it true you come from another universe? If yes, do you know us?""Why did you smell so bad when you arrived? I could smell you from down the hall."
"Okay, I have super speed," vibrating my hand to show Kitty."Yes, I come from another universe, but I do not know you personally," responding to Bobby.And finally, "I had to go through what was basically a sea of zombies, and you know how it is in an apocalypse."
"Sick.""So cool.""Go through how?" they continued to speak in sync.
"Okay, calm down. First, let's ask the question that matters for now — are you in any way infected? We don't want to have this virus here," Charles cuts them off, a bit worried.
"You don't need to worry about the virus. I'm not infected. And if needed, I know how to make a cure. The real problem is that they've been walking dead for years now. Their bodies are decomposed, so just curing them would kill everyone."Showing them vials of the cure I created. I did not want to leave them in my hideout for Wanda to find.
"There is something I don't understand — how can this happen if it's just zombies, like in series or something like that?" Scott asks, confused.
"You see, even if transformed into zombies, they keep a bit of intelligence. And for metahumans, they keep their powers. As a matter of fact, there is a Queen of the Dead controlling every zombie. She is so strong that even after becoming a zombie, she was able of keeping a conscious — but corrupted. She is hungry, and she never stops eating, hunting, stalking. She is terrifying. Her powers are terrifying."
"Do we know this person? And what is a metahuman?" Jean asks, worried.
"Don't worry — it's not you, if you think that. And I'm not sure if you guys know her, but you'll meet her. She has ties with mutants. And 'metahumans' is just how we describe people with powers, no matter the origin of their powers."Peeking up on her worry. I think they had problems with Dark Phoenix or it started to get angry, and she feels it.
"About that... are you a mutant? The Cerebro did not pick up any X-gene," Charles asks.
"No, I'm not. My power is granted to me by an entity that chose me as their champion."Deciding not to tell them that I'm the entity.And with that, they continued to ask about my world and how I got here.