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Janet Van Dyne aka Wasp (tiny_queenbee) wrote in snapthread,
@ 2019-03-04 19:19:00

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janet van dyne (avac), tony stark (avac)

Who: (Her) Tony & Jan
What: Having a heart attack because he's finally arrived
When: March 4th
Where: Around town
Rating: S for squeals of delight
Status: Incomplete

It wasn't terrible here. It definitely wasn't great, but considering what others had gone through, it could have been worse! It became a sort of mantra Jan had to tell herself every morning as she woke up in a world without Internet, fashion, or good food. It was an adjustment she couldn't prepare herself for and she had to remind herself that everything was going to be alright. She didn't really have the proof of it, but it was better than dwelling on the impossibles. Besides, she had heard of a weird room that you could go into and get stuff? She wasn't really sure how it worked (THIS IS WHY THEY NEEDED INTERNET! The network still seemed to be hit or miss with people), but figured she could work out the details later. She slipped into her outfit, flying out of her room to try and find this magical room everyone was talking about. She thought she remembered hearing it was on the edge of town, so it had to be easy to find.

She was almost to the courtyard when she spotted a familiar flop of black hair. At first, she didn't register that it wasn't peppered with white, but changed direction, growing to normal size as she landed behind him. "What are you doing on the ground?" she asked, trying to glance around him. "Wait, is that a suit?? When'd you get-" And then it hit her. She looked at Tony's face and she wasn't sure if she was going to scream or cry.

It was definitely the former as she tackled him to the ground.

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tiny_queenbee
2019-03-06 11:58 pm UTC (link)

Jan grinned, knowing that Tony would focus on their assets to try and help their situation. "Yeah, he's got a space ship," she confirmed. "I haven't seen it, but I know he's working on getting power through this place. He and the Pete's have been pretty successful too!" One step down, a million left to go. For Jan, they couldn't get this place up and running quick enough. Apparently, the idea of the Internet was completely off old!Tony's radar, but maybe it would be possible with her!Tony's arrival! With all the science ~~nerds~~ masters here, they had to be able to come up with SOMETHING.

"Yeah, you but old," she said, wincing at his reaction. Not that she wouldn't have the same if someone had told her there was an older her around either. "But hey! You look great," she emphasized again. She made a face, thinking. "He looks great?" Which he had! Just...a little on the older side. She had seen a few white hairs streaked throughout his black, but figured it would only happen with time the way they ran around and kept saving the world.

Jan shifted nervously as they made their way into the courtyard, her eyes darting to the well where she had met old!Tony. "Well, see, that seems to be the problem," she commented. "I dunno what it is about this place, but it seems to be on some kinda continuous track? Like, if we were to go out in the forest and try and walk away, we'd somehow end up back here." She had tried that, the sky, any option of escape and she kept coming back here. "So, option #2? We make this place as AWESOME as the Academy!" She grinned, her excitement causing her to shrink a bit and fly next to her friend. "Really, it's not terrible." She could play the part of trying to turn things around, even though she had felt her own depression set in moments before. Things were going to be better now because Tony was here. Her Tony. The one she knew inside and out.

"C'mon, let's find you your phone and where you'll stay! My buildings the best, so obviously there!" She flew in front of him, leading the way to the table with all the welcome packages.

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campusking
2019-03-07 05:49 am UTC (link)

"So more than one Peter too," That wasn't too weird, the campus dealing with the time fog seemed to make weird inter-dimensional sort of things happen more than they would have in other places. He nodded while she told him a bit more about what they'd been doing since arriving, what they'd managed so far, power was good, he didn't think any of them would survive long without that.

Him but old, Tony did not like the sound of that at all, he wasn't old, he wasn't supposed to get old. He didn't know what that meant for some eventual point in his life, but old was not a word that was supposed to be said about him. "Does he?" He asked doubtfully, how good could he look if he was 50? Okay he was being harsh, he probably looked great, he was Tony after all he had to look great. But it was a lot to take in, Spider-Ham was one thing, some crazy weird version of Peter - Tony could make sense of that, but another version of him that was older? That drew him up short.

Frowning while she told him about the place they seemed to be stuck in, that leaving didn't seem to be an option even if they didn't have some way to just jump back to their own worlds. It was strange. "Well I mean of course we'll make it awesome, but maybe we should have another option? Something that lets us try and figure out a way to get back and make this place awesome at the same time?" He suggested.

He was ready to let her lead the way, a phone sounded promising that had to mean there was some sort of network they could work with, his mind was already working trying to come up with some sort of idea to make something work for them, but he was brought up short. "Wait..." He paused a cold tingling feeling running up the back of his neck, "Oh my god. My cheese fridge! We're stuck here! What am I gonna do?" There was no way this place could be anywhere near as awesome as the Academy without it.

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tiny_queenbee
2019-03-07 08:32 am UTC (link)

"Yeah, I pinky swear that you won't be completely disappointed when you see him." She grinned, because she knew, no matter what, Tony would be upset. It was probably hard for him to think of there being another one of him there, a competition for attention at first glance. But she knew, in the end, they would become best buds and do all sorts of things for this place.

Was it bad that she was already finding herself comfortable in this place? At least resigned to the fact that there was no escape. With her!Tony's recent arrival, the reasons for her immediate departure were shrinking in number.

Almost reading her mind, Jan practically jumped when Tony reminded her that their first priority was trying to find a way out of here, second priority of making this their own. "Yeah, yeah, right..." she started to say until she stopped with him. She gave him a strange look before she realized why he was so upset. "Aw Tony, don't worry, we'll just make a new one!" She wasn't so sure how, but she'd do anything to try and make her friend happy.

"C'mon, here's your phone," she said, handing it to him. She browsed through the keys before picking one up that was from the same group as hers. "Here, let's see what door this opens. It's in my building so hopefully, close by!" She nudged him back towards the buildings hoping to distract him with more questions.

"So what do you think we should do to try and get back?" Because she was out of options. The best hope they had was the little tech they had which consisted of their phones, old!Tony's spaceship, and this Tony's suit. It wasn't bad, but she wasn't really sure what they'd be able to make of all of it. But she wasn't going to let her own uncertainty dampen her spirits, especially when she needed to keep them up for Tony.

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campusking
2019-03-09 05:15 am UTC (link)

Tony had his doubts, but at the end of the day he trusted Jan completely, there was almost no one else in the world he trusted more than her, and in a world like this - well he was pretty sure she was at the top of that list, so if she was willing to make him a pinky swear, he could trust that she was being honest with him. So if she said he wouldn't be completely disappointed then he wouldn't be and that was all there was to it.

Tony pouted about his cheese fridge, it had taken him years to build up it's reputation, to have the widest variety of the very best cheeses in the universe, and now it was all gone, Pepper was probably going to end up finishing it off before they figured out a way to get home. But he nodded with a half hearted sigh, "I hope we can find enough cheeses to make it as good as the last one," looking around there Tony wasn't entirely sure there was going to be a chance of that.

Jan though, was quick to distract, urging him toward his sort of welcome packet, with a phone so that was a starting point at least. "I might see if I can get a few readings from the suit, JARVIS didn't seem to be working, but maybe he could get some of the other systems online and see if they could learn a little more about this place.

"After that..." He drew it out as he shrugged, "I guess we'll just have to work together the way we always do until we solve the problem."

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