"Oh, yeah. It's multiversal theory. You leaving your timeline causes a split. How do I best... ah, well I first confirmed it when I met this man, Sergeant Barnes," and she doesn't mind telling him a bit more of a drawn out story since she knows he's the type that can appreciate it.
"He came from 2014, several years before my own time, 2018. He was a well known war hero, who got captured and tortured by the enemy and turned into a brainwashed assassin. Turns out those same fascists were running the agency I was... working for, behind the scenes. So even though we hadn't met prior, our lives were significantly altered by the same event. Sergeant Barnes had a superhero best friend who uncovered the conspiracy and revealed it to the public, completely dismantling the whole agency. So many people involved got arrested. He used that time to go missing. And so did I. But unlike me, he had friends... and enemies alike, trying to track him down. Baron Zemo, who was taking revenge for his family being killed when the Avengers destroyed his entire country, wore the Sergeant's face in a terrorist attack and framed him. Causing the Avengers to split over the matter of... the Sokovia Accords. Where the world's governments demanded that enhanced individuals, such as the Avengers as well as myself, be held accountable for our actions, but also under the authority of governmental power. Anyway!" Because she knows this is rapidly getting more complicated than she initially intended.
"There was an entire confrontation at an airport in Germany. International news and all. This was 2016, two years after the time he left. Ergo, the timeline that I experienced wasn't altered by his leaving. ... does that make sense?"
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"He came from 2014, several years before my own time, 2018. He was a well known war hero, who got captured and tortured by the enemy and turned into a brainwashed assassin. Turns out those same fascists were running the agency I was... working for, behind the scenes. So even though we hadn't met prior, our lives were significantly altered by the same event. Sergeant Barnes had a superhero best friend who uncovered the conspiracy and revealed it to the public, completely dismantling the whole agency. So many people involved got arrested. He used that time to go missing. And so did I. But unlike me, he had friends... and enemies alike, trying to track him down. Baron Zemo, who was taking revenge for his family being killed when the Avengers destroyed his entire country, wore the Sergeant's face in a terrorist attack and framed him. Causing the Avengers to split over the matter of... the Sokovia Accords. Where the world's governments demanded that enhanced individuals, such as the Avengers as well as myself, be held accountable for our actions, but also under the authority of governmental power. Anyway!" Because she knows this is rapidly getting more complicated than she initially intended.
"There was an entire confrontation at an airport in Germany. International news and all. This was 2016, two years after the time he left. Ergo, the timeline that I experienced wasn't altered by his leaving. ... does that make sense?"