Can I get your help with something? I'll owe you one. Or several.

After this text conversation

I have a situation I need your help with. It involves a lot of science.

Huge request here. I finished crunching some numbers to get a time travel device powered (for a friend). Unless I want two drained arc reactors, I'm gonna need a few things: higher conductivity, two other ginormous smarties, and a lot more juice.

Can me and Bruce pop over to Wakanda this week, and ask Shuri to help us in her lab?

Doctor, if you have a moment I wish to speak with you about something important.

( Chat filtered to T'Challa, Bruce. )
( Chat filtered to Sam and Bucky. )

[Loki]

I have questions.

[ooc: will contain wandavision spoilers]

[Thor]
I have a thought - and I want your input.

[Tony]
I have an idea.

Well bad news first: Sif appears to be gone. But, this spawned an idea. Up for hearing it?

[TONY Stark]
» I have some Intel for you

[WANDA]
» i asked if you would help me with my experiment. Are you still willing?

Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

So, like, I got my pamphlet and a visit from Dr. Strange which btw WHAT. And now I'm somehow standing at Captain American's birthday party and I'm freaking out because I probably shouldn't be here, but also I can't stop staring at people.

Please tell me you guys are at the party somewhere.

I love you. Thank you for your support through this. I know this is not what you expected your life to be and I apologize for my part in it.

The fact remains, you are my heart, elskede and I could not live without you.

[private to Bucky]

Another sleepless night means I'm full of energy drinks and self-hatred. That means drinks tonight while you glare at everyone who comes too close and I get over the top, knowing you'll totally beat up anyone who I piss off.

You in?

You haven't seen Jurassic Park, have you? The drive-in, Skyline in Brooklyn, is playing that Saturday at 7.

( tony )

( sam )

I was wondering if you had been able to reach Loki at all?

It's taken me a while to figure out what to say and I realized it doesn't matter because in one reality or another, you already know what this is about.

But I still need to ask:

Did you refuse to help Thor?

( Group message to Tony and Thor )

[Thor]
Do we need to talk about me having some sort of security? Should I? Do I need it? This feels weird.

[Loki]
Sif was talking to me about possibly needing some sort of security so that no one tries to manipulate Thor by getting to me. It's strange for me as just a regular person but I'm also really trying not go around like I'm acting like some kind of queen. I don't want to send the wrong impression.

[Pepper]
Security guards. What? How?

[Darcy]
Do you have some kind of fancy security now you're a Stark?

[Darcy]
Are you all right?

[Hope]
I've been out of touch and a bad friend. I'm sorry. How are you?

[to Pepper]

No pressure but there's like 8,011 things I need to talk to you about.

Want to do that over a late romantic dinner, after the kiddo goes to bed? I can order something and I'll make sure Morgan's fed too.

FYI, so you know, I dropped by that taco truck over on King and Hudson on the way home. Don't worry. Kept it light. Stopped at one taco soaked in hot sauce.

Are we out of Tums?

[to Rhodey]

So yeah, I told her. That night, like you told me to. I think I did ok.

She didn't cringe or scream that I was a massive dick or anything. That's generally a good sign. Right?

[to Bruce]

I did the thing. She knows. Thanks for talking to me too. I got Rhodey and Sam on the training stuff. Nat's going to give people covert ops pointers and doing more liaison things between here and SHIELD. Little Peter and Nat are going to help work on finding the eScape hacker.

Not sure what Big Peter's doing. I need to go poke that guy with a stick and make sure he didn't die of space herpes.

[Filtered to Tony Stark]

I understand you recently received a piece of life changing news for you and your family. I hope your taking the time to thoughtfully and emotionally engage with how that news is going to shape your life and what you want to do because if you hurt Darcy I'm going to disassemble you like old machinery. Not your suits. You.

[private filter for Rhodey & Sam]

Hey you two. I know it's holiday burnout time, but I'm trying to get things organized. Great at the funding, dev, and equipment parts. Not so much at that whole pep talks and team spirit thing.

Bruce and I were talking, He brought up delegating and you two doing team training. I'm thinking upstate Avengers compound. Lots of room to get airborne in a no fly zone. You both have combat training and know what maneuvers to run. So that's a huge bonus.

Are you both up to set up training this upcoming month? Maybe do small group runs around everyone's schedules. Like Team A and Team B type stuff.

[private to Nat]

You're our liaison. Need to talk shop at you when you're not busy. Either at the New Year's thing or just whenever. Now. Now works.

Hey, so... I figured we should probably talk since Carol and I are officially dating now.

Let me know when you have a free evening so we can finally have that date.

You got that Allspeak thing.

Does it work on mystery languages?

I am heading back to Wakanda soon, to stop in and update the royal guard and others in person about our goings-on here and also receive in-person updates about the progress of the outreach centers. Would you care to join me?

Also, I may have a date. Here. Soon. For Ethiopian food which is quite possibly the messiest food with its lack of utensils and what was I thinking, I don't know.

Found the beacon. It was repeating a message. The only word Carol could translate was Vormir. We're on our way there and I wanted to check in with you.

Sup losers?

I gotta go to Pluto for a day trip, check on some beacon alert thingy Tony set up over there.

Bruce, Scott, wanna come? And by wanna come I mean -- can you come because there's some repairs that have to happen and you're both hella smart and we don't want our early warning alien system to not be around because ugh that would suuuuck. So. Yeah. Pluto, motherfuckers!

Carol, Fury says I have to bring you but you're fucking cool so you can come too.


Thinking of going tomorrow -- actually not thinking, I KNOW I'll go tomorrow. Like I said, it's only like a few hours to Pluto, a few hours to do whatever space stuff, a few hours home. We'll be in time for beer and pizza.

The music for phone calls has changed from that of the clubs known for drinking and dancing. I was amused the first time. By the second call, I wondered if some particularly dimwitted Midgardians might actually require words to be spelled out in song in an attempt to boost their intelligence.

I can not say that I'm overly fond of this bard, Travis Twit.

Which one of you is responsible? I'm equal parts amused and aggravated. Well done.

Hey, so... I was trying to do a thing and I ran into some security protocols I couldn't get past. Pretty sure they're yours.

If I promise that it's nothing bad and, in fact, something that will make you laugh, will you hook a girl up?

So I saw MJ's post. We should have her over for dinner.

I just wanted to check in and see how you are doing? And thank you for your assistance at headquarters during the flood situation.

[locked to Bucky, Bobbi and Hope]

Pack your bags. Wakanda is asking for help.

Barnes, I know T'Challa spoke with you already. Do what you gotta do. No specific mission for you.

Hope, there's some security and intel that we need to get. T'Challa will fill you in.

Bobbi, you and I are on diplomacy duties. We want to see what's going on, and get a good sense.

Remember -- we're going as support. No one acts without talking to me first. All information must be shared. We are working together with Wakanda.


We leave tomorrow morning. 06h00.

I apologize if I am interrupting your wedding preparations. It's very soon, isn't it?

I just wanted to ask you something. About dark magic.

[Message to Christine]

I don't suppose you can check future men's medical records real quick for the results of my last few cancer screenings?

I know I shouldn't assume but I do not have chemo hair anymore...

[private to Darcy]

I am in New York this weekend. We should sup together. I can make pancakes.


[private to Bruce]

I am in New York this weekend. When I go back to Norway, you are most welcome to come with. I would like to show you what we have done, and I am sure that both Val and Korg would be happy to see you. It has been far too long, Banner.

So it's been four years.

You never call, you never write. I'm starting to think you don't like me much.

[Message to Nat and Wanda]

You good? Didn't wake up with some crazy future life did you?

[locked to Hope]

Omg. I meant to tell you this sooner, but I had to PROCESS (and work because bills keep happening which is the worst part of being an adult) and it took me a while to actually have some time but OMG.

Prom Night aka Tony and Pepper's Wedding aka The night I kind of peed myself? I DANCED WITH A KING.

Now. This may not be a BIG DEAL for you but omg it is for me, hence all the capitals.

How the heck is this life?

And what the heck do I do now?

Do I just live life knowing I've touched royalty? I've obviously washed my hands since, although inside I haven't.

This is ridiculous. And I can't tell Stephen because he'll just point and laugh and somehow get me a ridiculous amount of Wakanda souvenirs that I don't want or need.

Hey, friend, I've been a bit remiss in not checking on you sooner after the dreams. How are you doing? How is Jane doing?

[Private to Val, Loki and Sif]

How go the arrangements for the move? I am almost done culling my things.

Our people, I see, are busy with their own packing; however, I know most of them are eager (if not all) to be in their new homes. Are we able to start accommodating that now?

( Pepper )

( Natasha )

( Peter Parker )

( The other one. )

[Carol]

I didn't see you at the SHIELD meeting. Am I right in assuming you're signing up with the Avengers? Or have you decided that you want to remain an independent contractor?

[To Bruce and Tony]

Okay, so to keep with the full disclosure:

I had Jane (and Thor ..holy crap, he's huge! Why did no one warn me? Bruce, I'm looking at you!) here last weekend for the nanobot procedure.

The first few days, she slept a lot, which is good. Tony, I know that you kept telling me that there was no chance of rejection since the immunotherapy is specific to her DNA makeup, but I still wanted to monitor it so I kept her here for a few more days. Everything is looking great. She's still obviously pretty sick, and I don't see that changing for a few months.

I'm glad we went with the slower dosage type bots, because that gives her body time to adapt and whatever magical elixir thing she got has really helped stabilize her.

I still want to do weekly check-ins for the next month, and taper down to bi-weekly, and eventually monthly. I don't know that she should do anything overly exerting and we're going to have to start with some physiotherapy, build up the muscles that she's lost over time, but I think we can handle that using private resources.

It's been fun working with you both, and Bruce, I'll drop off the on-call phone later today. Your turn :D

[Natasha]
I keep dreaming about Lila.

[Doctor Strange]
How much longer until the universe stops picking up frequencies on the wrong radio station?