Rooms

[Bruce B]

How are the next steps?

ETA: Explain why you're in a lab in Gotham?

[Tony S]

You've got precisely eight minutes until I ask how you are.

[Peggy C + Clem M + Bobbi M]

Decimated buildings aside, it strikes me a reunion of sorts might be welcome. How do you all feel about drinking?

Isn't this a charming little get-together.

Who: Pepper P & Tony S
What: Iron suits
When: After the rescue-flight to Philadelphia


( Tony stared in shock at the other person in the suit. He had an incredibly intimate flash of what it must be like to meet him in the suit, most notably that he had added a considerable amount of height  )

[After returning.]

[Call: Peggy C]
[Ring!]

[Locked to Tony S]
Make it home in single-digit pieces?

[Locked to Avengers+: Tony S, Bruce B, Thor, Natasha R, Clint B, James B, Peggy C, Sharon C, Teddy A, Billy K, Wanda M, Flash T, Peter P]
Can I get an update from everyone? Locations, statuses, etc.

Does anyone know what happened to the HYDRA agents taken captive?

And can I get a briefing on the Stark Tower attack?

[Locked to Selina K]
Ma'am.

[Locked to Jason T]
How're you doing, son?

[Locked to Matt M]
Come upon anything new recently? Any new websites worth sharing?

[Locked to Bruce W]
Thank you for all your help.

[Locked to Bruce B]
Doctor.

[Locked to Pepper P]
Hi, Pepper.

[Locked to James B]
Hey, B James.

Fire, Helicopter and the Brit, are you here?

[It was a fair amount of time before he calmed down enough to be himself again. And to be very appreciative for a pants design that no longer left him completely naked upon changing back. It did leave him only half clothed and stuck... somewhere, but at least it was summer and he wasn't going to freeze. And he had his notebook.]

[Tony]
I am really hoping you're alright. He lost track of you.

[Separate messages to those that pop into his head: Sharon, Natasha, Bobbi, Pepper (and then he realizes they're all women, wtf Banner)]
Are you alright?

[Steve]
Steve?

[Bucky]
James? Are you alright? I remember you and planes and I want to make sure you weren't in one that I

[Selina]
[...a pen press.] Do I need to be a doctor, or can I ask something as not a doctor?

[Some crackling. JARVIS has to do a lot of work to try to bridge the various comm lines, and he's been cut off from most of the places he's used to being (example a: Tony's suit). He manages to join the Avengers comms, those from other doors on the line, and localized aid in Stark Tower, just in time for some real chaos. Peggy coughs into the line through smoke and dust: an inauspicious beginning.

Smoke and debris is now billowing out from the center levels of Stark Tower after the explosion in one of the main labs. On the ground, HYDRA agents not bright enough to make themselves scarce in the chaos have all either retreated into small pockets of resistance, or are quickly being taken into custody by arriving National Guard.]

Sound off, please. Bloody hell. Is the building coming down?

[Locked: Pepper Potts - timeline fuzzed to before the splodey times]

Hello, Ms. Potts. My name is Evangeline Sablier, Eddie Nigma told me that you might be able to help me find a job in New York? I'm sorry to bother you like this, but my situation has become rather urgent. If you have any time you would be willing to spare, I would love to talk to you.

Thank you.

[A good 15 minutes after Tony calls for help, JARVIS in Stark Tower issues a general distress alarm and the building goes into lockdown.

Fire breaks out on the lower levels, and anyone already in the building is locked where they are as a several highly-trained teams, in successive waves, attempt to get up to Tony Stark's lab, storming each level one at a time.

JARVIS issues informational calls to NYC law enforcement and fire dispatch. Local heroes are also connected with those on site. Known heroes who volunteer help on the journals are issued a phone number of instructions that guide them to earpiece comms, if they don't already have them.

JARVIS, broadcast NYC-area comms:]

Be advised that an unknown hostile force had opened fire in Stark Tower.

[Comm to Pepper P.]

Pepper. I need the containment unit in my lab, and I need it now. How close are you?

[Avengers Comms and Transcribed to Public.]

Hi, I accidentally kicked an anthill named HYDRA and they’re pissed. Backup might be nice. [Explosion not transcribed, but it’s on the news by now.] Lots of backup. Tons. I’d take your grandma with a slingshot. Ow!

[Bruce B]

[Tentative.]

Bruce?

[When he's supposed to be napping.

By phone. Practically antique. Ring.]

[Call: Flash T]
[Ring!]

[Locked to MK R]
That [...] was weird.

[Locked to Pepper P]
Hi, Ms. Potts.

[Shortly after the glass breaks]

Please tell me you came out of that ready to deal with the current situation. Because there is one.

[After he runs into a door that doesn't open. JARVIS makes some allusion to Pepper and is suitably vague about the whole thing.]

Pepper, what the hell is going on down there?

[A minor inconvenience is caused in the early morning at Stark Tower in the sector that is living accommodation. JARVIS shuts down every open-able door between the front entrance and a section of living quarters for a period of ten minutes. There is no prior alert, nor does the AI issue a general security notice. Amanda escape attempt: foiled.]

Who: Pepper, Thomas (and Amanda)
What: Betrayal, tea, trades
When: Recently
Where: Still upmarket Manhattan hotel.
Warnings: Nada

( The bones of the building creaked, bones here and bones in a dimension separate entirely, steel bones and concrete veins. )

Who: Pepper and Thomas
What: Betrayal and tea
Where: An upmarket Manhattan hotel
When: Recently. Fuzzy timeframes.
Warnings: Nada.

( The Hand does not commandeer. It takes, it shapes, it invades in the dark )

[Selina K]

It's been some time. I thought you might like to know, if you didn't already, that the Steve we knew is now back.

[Tony S]

Tony.

[Bruce B]

Doctor Banner, I wondered if I could have a word?

[After this, in a flurry of locks.]

[Locked to Peggy C]
[...] Peggy? Are you [...] really here? Please b

[Locked to Sharon C]
Sharon?

[Locked to Bucky B]
Hey, Buck?

[Locked to Tony S]
I think [...] something happened. I'm [...] back?.
ETA: You lost the symbiote?
ETA 2: You didn't notice you lost the symbiote?

[Locked to Selina K]
Selina, are you okay?

[Locked to Gwen S]
Gwen, [a little uselessly] it's Steve.

[Locked to Pepper P]
Pepper.

[Locked to Avengers (Bruce B, Clint B, Natasha R, Tony S, Thor) + Wanda M + Peter P]
[...] Can I get a roll call?

[Locked to Preston R]
Are you okay? [Crossed out when it bounces back. He even thinks at him, hard, but to no avail.]