Well let's see... There's are few little space pods on the launch deck, but they can't go very fast and can't go more that about 500 yards away, give or take a bit. We've been teleported here in the first place by a device that was apparently meant to make things easier on Mike by providing him some company, but it's malfunctioning and just keeps grabbing people from different worlds and different points in time. So, getting out of here might take a long time, assuming we even can. A few people have gotten sent home randomly and come back. Sometimes they remember having been here before, sometimes not. You're actually one of the cases of being here before and not remembering it.

As for our powers, it's possible the same device that's bringing us here is also taking our powers. Occasionally, something happens that either gives up back our powers temporarily or gives us different ones entirely.

... Or it turns us into animals or something.