You fall for an eternity through a nameless void.  This gives you plenty of time to review the mistakes that led you to this... place, or this lack of place.

You crash into the white hot desert sand once again, unharmed, and the six of you are facing each other once again.
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Rising from the sand, brushing it off of her, Sue's voice held incredulity and outrage:

"You've got to be kidding me!  Don't tell me it's cosmically needful for us to be slammed into the sand each time.   Somebody is f--king enjoying that!"   She gazed at the five of them.   Five...

"Wait - what happened to Rocket?"

They had succeeded.   Had that success come with a price-?

"I was in the middle of a conversation!  We can't get 10 minutes to wrap things up and say goodbye?  What an ass."  Then Gwen hears Sue's question.  She looks around.  No rabbit, no old guy with the implants and the shield.
 "He was at Pete and MJ's condo just before the attack.  Do you think Timebroker just left him there?  Nomad too?"

"Wherever they are, something tells me that's out of our hands now."

Having landed much less gracefully than a seasoned martial artist might have been expected to, Danny pulls himself to his feet. Running a hand through his blonde hair to shake loose the sand-- again-- he looks around at his allies.

"Everyone OK? The last thing I remember was that... unpleasant screaming in my head."

"I didn't get hit with that.  It looked awful.  But thank goodness briefly awful. You all dealt with it pretty quick, it seemed. Which is impressive, if that was a telepathic attack."   

"Nomad...I almost forgot; he wasn't around too long.  And, he never came here to Limbo Beach with us.  But, Rocket - he was one of us! I want an answer.  Tallus, requesting update on teammate Rocket Rabbit; location, status, that kind of thing."   

She really was kind of fond of Twig Daddy, as she'd called him, and hoped they weren't about to get any bad news...

"Thanks," Danny grunts. He wonders how quickly he folded under the telepathic attack, but he isn't going to open his mouth about it. "I'd thank my sensei for the psychic defense training, but he's kind of an asshole." A dead one, in fact, but he'd fill them in on all of that when the time came. For now, he stands by, waiting to hear if the Tallus has any updates on their missing ally.
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The Tallus makes a woeful buzzing sound. "Error: eXile designate 'Rocket Rabbit' is not a member of this team."

“Bugs is gone…? Bummer!” Sally shook her head sadly as she pushed up off the sand dune. She seemed glad to see everyone else, though. She brushed sand off herself, then hugged Sue, Danny, & Grant. She gave Wade & Gwen a friendly smile and wave.

Then, she got down to business, too.

“I’m glad the rest of you guys came through okay. Looks like we lost that old soldier, though. The real threat didn’t even come from their ‘civil war’, it came from a maniacal red haired witch,” Sally said with a hapless shrug. “What was the whole point of our involvement?”

"She came from another reality.  Just like we did."  There's a slight pause.  "I don't really know what that means.  Another Timebroker, trying to mess things up?"

"We lost Rocky? That's a shame." Funnybone had finally pulled himself free of the sand where he landed. "He looked tasty."

Funnybone then began to twitch and shake as his skeletal frame began to rapidly grow organs, muscles, and skin. Within a few seconds, it was Wade standing there.

"That's enough out of him," he said. He looked around at the depressing vista of endless sand dunes and sighed. "Would it kill the Timebroker to get us a suite at the Plaza?"

Sue returned Sally's hug, glad she had come through the mind-screech no worse for the wear.

"Yeah, no kidding, right?" she answered Wade, as to the suite.  Then frowned some.

"Well, that's odd about Rocket.  And I guess it means any of us can get fired - or disintegrated - at any time." She shrugged.   Then took in what Gwen related about 'Goblin Girl.'

"Wow. You think?  This is already complicated enough.  But I knew there was a third party --  I just wasn't expecting anyone like her."      Sue ran a hand through her hair, gave a sigh that was some mix of frustration and resignation. Then her face lit a little.

"Oh, hey;  I've been waiting to try this - and now's the perfect time!    Tallus, can you produce a joint?  A marijuana cigarette?"   

The Tallus, again, sadly declines: "Error: the Tallus cannot manifest physical objects while Outside of normative reality."