[Their powers are both dampened enough to keep the chock of an uplink from overwhelming them, but the connection still establishes itself in a more detached way. Ice Man is retrieved and reviewed as a file might be. The short name triggers a large log full of actual memories.]

You have nothing to be sorry about. We'll find someone to repair us when this is over.

[When they had family picnics, Ice Man would make snowcones. Fire would always pretend he was going to melt them, but it was never serious. Just two twins bickering like they so often did.]

We're both going to be okay.

[His offered hand balls into a fist, pulling his skin taut to give Technical a smoother surface to work.]