Iris takes a deep breath. It's going to be alright, she could do this. She crosses eyes with Katherine and Elizabeth who both nod at her. They trust her with their life, or in this case: their minds. Iris intertwines her fingers and snaps them with a loud crack.

Katherine looks at her, a bit concerned due to that sound. "Isn't that bad for you fingers?"

"Nah," Iris answers. "It's just the sound of escaping air."

"Lovely," Katherine mutters and Iris laughs but then straightens her face again. She's going to need all her concentration. First she would try getting one person inside the dream. If that worked, she would try two. Unfortunately for her they really would need two persons to test their theory about one big dream. If it was not they would have to kill Cynar in thousands of dreams and the reality at the same time. They couldn't do that, but she actually doubted that, Iris was quite sure about the whole 'one dream'-thing. That seemed most logical to her but still, they needed to test it.

Iris moves her head from left to right, loosening her neck. She sits cross-legged on the ground next to Elizabeth's and Steve's head. Her best friend had convinced her on being the first test subject. Iris closes her eyes and concentrates very hard on the energy all around her. In her mind she draws an imaginative line between the two dots which represent Elizabeth's and Steve's mind. Iris had never done such thing before so she's completely winging it, but it could work. Maybe? As long as she doesn't get sidetracked. She purses her lips together and imagines the minds of her two friends are now connected. Suddenly Iris gets struck by a strange feeling, maybe it's working? She concentrates even harder and the loopy feeling becomes stronger. Hopefully it is a good sign.

Please, let it be a good sign.

Iris feels a hand on her shoulder and she suppose that is Katherine, trying to tell her something. The hand squeezes reassuringly and she knows it is all going well. She just mustn't loose her focus.

Wait, what was she doing? Oh yeah, she closes her eyes even tighter shut.

Don't lose focus now, it's your best friend on who you're experimenting.

The weird feeling is clouding her thoughts, it feels like she's driving in a roller coaster, getting swung back and forth, left and right. Hopefully she doesn't get nauseous. Oops, she's getting sidetracked again.

Ehehe, sidetracked and roller coaster, that's funny.

No, wait. She has to concentrate!

After a few awful long minutes, Iris feels a tap on her shoulder. It's Katherine telling her the five minutes are up. Now all she has to do, is wake up Elizabeth again. She lets the imaginative line fade away and next to here, she hears a movement. Carefully Iris opens one eye and looks at her friend, awake and well. Although her eyes are standing a bit confused.

Iris opens her other eye too and helps Elizabeth to sit up straight again. Katherine drops on her knees next to them.

"Are you alright?" Katherine asks and Elizabeth nods slowly.

"Yes. I think?" She shakes her head a few times. "It was pretty weird."

"But you were inside a dream? The dream?" Iris asks to be sure. If it was weird, then maybe it hadn't been a normal dream? After all, the sleepers cannot know they're dreaming so the stranger the dream, the more questionable it will get for them, right? Cynar couldn't risk that, she supposed.

"I was there. Everything was normal, I was training with Natasha." Elizabeth frowns, she has a hard time remembering it all and that for someone who always can remember her dreams. "It took me a while to realize I was dreaming. I'm guessing, maybe half an hour before I realized?"

Katherine jaw drops. "Half an hour? But you were only sleeping for five minutes."

"Inception," Iris concludes. "Your brain works faster when you're dreaming so, five minutes becomes...?" With that she looks at Elizabeth.

"An hour, I suppose. When I realized I was dreaming I walked around for thirty minutes. Almost bumped into my other self."

"Really?" Katherine chuckles.

"Yeah, that could've been awkward." She chuckles too and then turns her attention back to Iris. "Do you think you can handle two persons?"

Iris brushes through her blonde hair, the weird feeling she had... Would that become stronger when she tried two persons? Only one way to find out. "Sure, I can try," she answers and Elizabeth nods approvingly. This was going to work.

"So, what is our code and where are we going to meet?" Elizabeth asks Katherine who thinks about that for a moment.

"Lets meet at Central Park. I'll greet you with... Hakuna Matata, and you'll answer with?"

"Peanut butter," Elizabeth answers without hesitation and Katherine raises her eyebrows. Elizabeth shrugs while Iris starts laughing.

"What? You didn't expect that, right? My projection would never say that."

"Alright, brilliant. Hakuna Matata peanut butter. People will think we're mad."

"We all are..." And they all smirk.

"Are you ready?" Iris pulls them back after a while, back to reality and the seriousness of this all. They stop grinning and nod. They lay themselves on the ground and Iris takes her place in their midst. Ready to let her magic work once again.

~~~

Cynar is suprised. He never expected the humans to come so far. But if it hadn't been for that Asgardian, they still would be working on something to let them enter the dream. Maybe he should destroy Asgard as well? The time of that world had yet to come, because eventually everyone in this universe had to pay. The universe is a cruel and vicious place, and all races were going to learn that the hard way. Just as he and his brother had to learn it.

But first, Earth and its humans. Then he would turn his attention to Asgard.

He grins, this time he could actually execute another part of his plan. No other race had ever come so far. They all had lost their beloved ones and he had killed them afterwards, detaching them from their pain. He was merciful like that. His eyes avert to the top of the Avengers Tower and his wicked smile grows bigger.

Lets start with her.

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