Who: Miguel and Tony Where: Sarah and Miguel's lab-space What: Discussing Science and stuff When: after this Rating: S for Science! and Spider-man
This Chitauri thing was puzzling Miguel. It was clearly the power source for both weapons. He'd rigged together a few basic circuits and used one of the glowing crystals to power all of them, all at the same time and all of them going full tilt. There was no noticeable power drain on it that he or Lyla could tell, and he was half-tempted to try and rig up some sort of adaptor to allow one of his more energy-thirsty machines from home to use it as a power source and see how long it lasted. There was nothing really coming off of it in the infra-red spectrum, no heat, nothing that Lyla knew to detect. It was weird.
So how the hell had three bank robbers wound up with them powering their weapons? He drank his coffee while he turned one of the crystals over and over in his hand, waiting for Mr. Stark to arrive.
"I don't have any pastries available," Lyla said from behind him, still tinted very slightly purple from Sarah's crystal capacitor, and he looked round at her.
"I think the coffee will be fine, Lyla. Don't worry about it, okay?"