"Oh. That must have been bizarre. And you remembered everything from when you were here before?"

Pepper nods at Cain's comment. Everything about the Chihuelans screams wrong but there are so many unknowns that it's too risky to do anything significant to fight them.

"Do you think we could stop them? If they did try to invade again. You know, properly, not while pretending to be on some sacred mission," she clarifies, turning back to him. "I have no idea how to fight like that. We're usually fighting a small group of pretty clumsy bad guys, not a whole country."