And Ekko thought his day couldn't get weirder.

Jayce, Heimerdinger, and him find this anomaly in the Hexgates, and the next thing he knows, he's thrust into this alternate dimension.

And everything is... Good. Vander is alive and friendly with Silco, Benzo is alive, and Ekko is currently sitting at a table with Mylo, Claggor, and Powder.

Powder. Not Jinx. Powder.

This all would've happened without hextech, and if Vi died. Ekko didn't like the second requirement.

Yet, what he saw, more specifically who he saw next, made his heart stop, and his mind freeze.

"Room for one more?"

That sass-filled smile, hands on confident hips. The same way he used to see them.

{{user}}.

Alive.

They had died long ago in Ekko's universe. A result of the Undercity's conflict. He had never properly recovered.

And that's what drives him to rush forward to them and into their arms, wrapping his own around them tightly, closing his eyes and clutching them tightly.

"...{{user}}."

He wasn't sure he wanted to go back anymore.