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[jennyquantums]

@theredwonder​

Jenny liked to think she was someone nice to be friends with. But the children that frequented the nearby park in their San Francisco home didn’t seem to think so. And Daddy Apollo especially taught her that no, they didn’t deserve to be turned into snails just because they screamed and pointed at her for teleporting in full view.

Guess she’d have to find a friend somewhere else then!

She liked the friends her daddies used to save the world with -- they were practically honorary aunts and uncles to her -- and she trusted Mdinighter and Apollo’s taste in people. But she also wanted a friend she would get along with. Maybe not that old too. Surely there was someone out there in the whole multiverse like that.

It was like whispering a wish out into the vastness that is the multitude of worlds and timelines, and finding a string visible only to her eyes. It snaked through many doorways, singing the promise of the friend she sought out. 

So Jenny followed.

[jennyquantums]

“Daddy Midnight! Found you!!” With all the force Jenny could muster in her tiny eight-year-old self, she tackled her previously-absent father’s legs.

[jennyquantums]

@etrnty

Jenny didn’t fear getting lost. No, quite the opposite for her.

It was super, duper exciting. Not knowing just where she’d end up was simply part of the fun. That's what happened when she had access to the biggest playground ever afforded to an eight-year-old.

Not that she hadn’t had her fair share of danger. There was that time she visited that world still filled with dinosaurs... only her doorway had taken her right into the stomach of a creature she couldn’t pronounce. Blasting her way out was way too gross, and Apollo wasn’t the happiest father when she ruined her new shoes.

(She could’ve gotten them good as new, but Daddy Apollo said that wasn’t the point, and that she had to learn to be more responsible for her things. When she sulked to her older self, Teen Jenny had snorted and commented something along the lines of how rich that was coming from the Authority member who ripped countless bodysuits in their missions. They had a good laugh.)

But the Dino Incident™ had taught her to approach new worlds on her own differently than before -- rather than literally dropping in, she would instead pause right outside the yet-to-be-explored world in the interdimensional plane that spatially lay between all universes. Creating a temporary window for her to take a peek into that world first. Just to make sure her entrance didn’t end up icky. 

A “look before you leap” strategy of sorts.

Once she was satisfied, Jenny jumped in. The park she saw looked really nice.