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Tony Stark: Earth's Best Defender (allaboutego) wrote in snapthread,
@ 2019-03-28 14:00:00

Entry tags:

peter parker (mcu), tony stark (mcu)

Who: Tony Stark and Peter Parker (mcu)
What: Aventures of Stark and Ward.
Where: The House.
When: March 28th
Rating: Low, will change if necessary

He hadn’t been through the doors yet.

It wasn’t avoidance, exactly, except for maybe the part that it was. Tony, equipped with what little nanotech he had left to make a suit (although it remained dormant, encased in it’s spot on his chest), stood in the middle of the lower floor of the House, considering the multiple doorways.

He didn’t care for not knowing things - that was what this was really about. Uncertainty was not something that he dealt with well, and this place was just made up of it. There was no real end game to walking through a door beyond exploration for the sake of it, and if he didn’t go through the doors, he knew exactly what to expect every day: muddling through making something out of scraps of tech, Steve Rogers inevitably losing his shirt whilst trying to good things for other people. Some versions of Hawkeyes running around with a dog or talking a mile a minute with coffee in their veins.

It wasn’t the life he’d have chosen, but it wasn’t bad either. He had Peter. That was something he couldn’t get anywhere else.

Speaking of, he glanced over to his right to look at said Spiderman. “So do you just pick at random? If I click my heels together three times will I at least end up in a hardware store?” His entire kingdom (ironically, Starklandia) for a power drill, at this point.

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allaboutego
2019-04-10 10:47 pm UTC (link)

"Yeah, that's some pretty solid hoping," Tony admitted, because frankly none of them should have had to have been hoping for Nazis not to show up in the first place. It was a wild goddamned world they lived in, some days, even without half of the universe's population turning to dust.

He made for the next building, finding a roof door that lead to a set of stairs and made zero work of the lock even as he listened to Peter's story. His weirdly cute story, that only reminded Tony of how young the kid was, sometimes. Well, not sometimes. He just... was young. Because he'd been out there wearing toy Iron Man helmets when he'd been a child, and Tony'd only been doing this for ten years now. It was mind boggling, a little. "Did you go around punching people, too?" He wondered, although sort of figured probably not. Maybe imaginary people. The air. Whatever.

"It's incredibly creepy," Tony agreed, heading down the stairs, aware Peter would follow if he felt so inclined. "Makes you wonder. Are these places that've been affected by Thanos?" Looting was all fine and good, but he was starting to think maybe they really did need to be taking notes about who saw what and the populations of the places they all went.

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idontfeelsogood
2019-04-11 12:35 am UTC (link)

"Nah, wasn't much into punching until the spider-thing. Used to throw paper balls, pretended they were your repulsors." Peter admitted. He'd been a small kid, he was still pretty small all things considered but he chose not to think about that, but fighting hadn't come naturally. What he remembered of his parents, and it wasn't much, included his mother telling him to be kind. And there was that day when he'd gotten into a fight with another kid at school and his uncle had been the one to come in when the school called, the whole way home he'd talked about other ways to solve his problems and when it was better to not fight. Maybe he wasn't following his uncle's advice as closely these days, but he liked to think he would be proud of him anyway.

He really didn't want to think of his family right then anyway. He didn't remember seeing them while he was 'dead' and thinking about it now made him feel more unsettled than he should have been while they were scouting.

"I don't think so." He shot out a web to a building on the other side of the street and swung across. "He only took out half the universe, or half the population of all the planets, right? He didn't draw a circle and take everybody in it, it just picked at random, right? So taking a whole city, sure, it's mathematically possible but it seems unlikely. And if he did, a place like this? A prime place for looting and whatever. There'd be some sign of somebody going through things or just something. It looks like everybody is just gone."

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allaboutego
2019-04-11 07:17 pm UTC (link)

"Not a great facsimile," Tony said, because sometimes despite all his schooled people skills and charm, he was just awkward and had very little in terms of filters. Still, the image was weird going on cute, so he couldn't say much else.

The topmost level of the building he'd entered didn't have anything in the way of people, but it did look like an office, so he reigned in his gauntlets and sat down at one of the desks, booting up a computer. It was slow, but that seemed pretty normal of any computer that wasn't his, most days.

"Half the population, right," he agreed, half distracted by the loading bar -- and trying not to think too hard into the truth of that matter, because it still sat pretty damned close to home. "And I'd say it was at random, but we don't know that for sure. He seemed able to make some choices as to who stayed and who went." Thanos had said so at least, that he'd spare Tony due to misguided respect.

"So. Where did everyone go?"

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idontfeelsogood
2019-04-15 01:08 am UTC (link)

Tony might have felt it didn't quite live up to the spirit but he had never had to face Ben and May's disappointed faces. They would never get upset over paper balls thrown at the other boys who lived in the apartment complex or the one across the street. And even if they didn't care even little Peter hadn't been the type of kid that liked hurting people. He'd become Spider-Man to help people, not to put on a cape and punch bad guys.

"Well, honestly, I was thinking that either everyone here experienced something like we did. That they all just appeared in another place, maybe another reality crashed into this one and maybe they all made the jump? Maybe this is what happens when universes merge?" He'd never been one for the Mandela Effect, sure it was a cool idea but the human brain was really fallible. But, while he hadn't really been considering it again, he was willing to play with the idea of nearly identical universes a little. It was a hard thing to deny when he could go back to Starklandia and talk to the guy who was an older version of himself. "After the other one though, the world with no people and the tornado, I wonder if there were actually any people here at all. Like- Like it's a pocket universe that is a copy of another universe, just without the people?"

He hopped over the railing of the roof he'd swung over to, finding himself on a rooftop restaurant. "Oh hey, I found the bar."

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allaboutego
2019-04-18 07:32 pm UTC (link)

Tony was clicking away at the keyboard in front of him, but was finding a whole lot of nothing behind tax forms and other forms needed to fill out tax forms. He decided rather pointedly that it was boring, and also that the computer wasn't even good enough to want to scavenge. He had principles.

He blinked, a little surprised at Peter's theory and changed what his attention was being spent on in the HUD, Peter's location popping up on the left. "That is... a surprisingly interesting idea," he decided after a moment. Sometimes, for all his genius, Tony was forgetful when it came to paying attention to anything beyond what he considered to be his own bubble. "Suppose we look hard enough, we find a room full of alternate dimensional doors?" Tony sort of hated that idea, the way that the labyrinth would sprawl only further if that was actually the case.

Making it back up to the roof took no time at all. "Why are you looking for a bar in the first place?"

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