'my father's half-siblings are illegitimate'? Yep.

"You're the only 'Matirin' so you don't have to pick a nickname. And if you did have to pick one you would have to delegate that because otherwise you'd probably do something tacky like pick a number."

<...and you are an instance of the Imperatrix Isabella?>

"Damn, that was fast, I thought you'd be slowed down."

<I spent five years trying to unite Earth under one world government. And also the alternate version of me is dating you and there are vanishingly few people I would date and Isabella is disqualified only by being the wrong species and gender.>

"Fair enough."

"I gave mine a planet too."

<Why are you here?>

"We have a lot of magic which we would like to throw at the cause of Yeerks ceasing to infest unwilling people and the Yeerk empire ceasing to exist."

"Also, if you would like to be broken out of prison, having gone quietly in the absence of better options, after being caught distributing technology unauthorized to less advanced species, this would not be a completely unprecedented thing."

<...no? Do I get up to that often? I was a decade out from being on the council and able to change those laws, I would not actually have expected it to be a thing I ended up doing under many circumstances.>

"Nah, it was one of me. She grew up in a post-scarcity techno-utopian Federation with, like, two blind spots, and one of them was that under no circumstances would they interfere with anyone who had not invented that world's form of FTL yet, so she went around slipping the equations to plagiarism-inclined scientists on worlds that were a ways out from the discovery so they could pop out of their solar systems and say hi and join the Federation. She got caught. Another one of us wandered in from a neighboring universe and teleported her out of prison."

<Good for her. Andalites used to go set up on less-advanced planets and teach them all we knew and that is how we made the Yeerks a galactic superpower and then we overcorrected.>

"The Federation's motivation is supposedly not wanting to come over all colonialist, which is an overcorrection from different historical patterns."

<...I think I will accept being broken out of prison. How is Bella?>

"Competently running Earth. She was overjoyed to see me. She's going to like interdimensional contact, everyone likes it but I think it does something for Bells in particular, knowing that the kind of person they are triumphs under so many conceivable conditions..."

"We're awesome!"

And now they are all three of them back in Beijing.

<...that was a very anti-climactic prison break - you have instantaneous travel ->

"You have no idea how much magic we have, it's ridiculous. I am kind of daydreaming of dismantling the Yeerk empire with precisely zero casualties."

"You are not conveniently located for it to take thirty seconds, unfortunately, universes have adjacency and some of the very best stuff only works close to home."

<Do you have resurrection?>

"Not yet."

"Not here, not generically. Loki's working on it. Loki's one of me."

<I killed one of my brothers. Well, the Yeerk did, but I felt it and watched it ->