15149/Special Delivery to Stark Tower

Special Delivery to Stark Tower
Date of Scene:	15 June 2023
Location:	Stark Tower: Penthouse
Synopsis:	Bunny and Gabby race to see who can deliver cookies to Tony Stark first. Gabby takes the extra hard route. Tony surprises them with some VR sets and Bunny gets flustered over potential piano playing in the future.
Cast of Characters:	Gabby Kinney, Bunny Macleod, Tony Stark

---

Gabby Kinney has posed:
"Okay. There's one of two ways this is going to go," Gabby informs quietly to Bunny while they stand outside of Stark Tower peering up at it. Gabby had a pack on her back which she tightens the straps of while regarding the building proper, and the likely defenses it posessed. She wasn't here to cause trouble but...

MAN it had been a long time since she free climbed a building. It was tempting.

"Either we're gonna get turned away at security or made to wait forever, and I don't plan on being here all night. So if you take the lowe road," she gestures to the entrance, "And I take the... more challenging route," she gestures at the building exterior. "One of us is gonna make it." Likely she was making this more than she should but it was still amusing. Looking to Bunny again she leans over to give her cheek a quick peck of a kiss. "Sound like a plan? I've already messaged to let him know I'm following up on that promise of cookies. You'll do fine, too," she assures knowing from the story she had been told of WHY Bunny was embarassed to be around Stark.

Bunny Macleod has posed:
    Bunny is skating along, and she wrinkles her nose as she looks up... up... up more -- to the top of Stark Tower, and makes a face.

    "You learned *last night* that I used to be in the one percent and now we're delivering cookies? Is this a set up? Are one of the cookies Special and made with like, super naga pepper jelly stuffing?" she asks, looking to Gabby as the Young Avenger known as PRISMA wearing a pair of denim shorts, a rainbow tank top under a denim jacket and about twenty four inches of Road Rash on her left leg looks to Gabby as she rubs the back of her head.

    "Think... he's gonna care if I keep wearing my skates? I hear he's like six foot four."

Tony Stark has posed:
Tony Stark has been busy in the six weeks since he had first experienced Zombie Mob Killer 5000. Sure, most of that time was spent inventing new ways to use energy, fighting off bad guys, and somehow keeping his investors happy. But he had spent a whopping five minutes looking over the balance sheet of the company that owned the rights to Zombie Mob Killer 5000. Enough to know that the company itself was being mismanaged, and barely making a profit out of their extremely valuable IP. It took another five minutes to complete the offer, acquire the company, can the middle management that had pissed off the devs, and replace them with up and comers in Stark Industries, and a couple of coders that he met through G.I.R.L. who knew how to take charge.

So while is may be true that Tony had not thought at all about the game until he received word that his long overdue cookie delivery was finally coming, everything necessary to bring it up to current technology and been running rampant under the watchful eye of a Stark project manager.

He shuffles over to the the bar wearing his fluffy bath robe and Captain America slippers, pouring himself a drink as a ping goes off in his ear. A glance to the side where a few boxes labeled EXPERIMENTAL sit waiting, and a grin comes over his face. Those cookies are going to taste /good/. Everything well-earned tastes better.

Gabby Kinney has posed:
"Hon, to be fair, I kiiind of guessed that a long time ago. Your little sister made it a bit obvious," Gabby points out with a wry grin of amusement at being called on her apparent new knowledge. "Things obviously changed though and I figured you'd talk about it if and when you wanted. Now," she adds reaching out to pat her shoulder. "You've got the matcha white chocolate cookies and the snickerdoodles, and I've got the S'mores Bomb cookies and peanut butter. Want to race? I don't know how quick the elevators are," she reasons looking at the building again. This would be a very difficult race.

"Oh, yeah, leave the skates on. They're part of your gear. Trust me I'm sure he's seen others with odder gear." Like the gloves she starts to pull on that have little grippies on them to help her. There was a lot of glass on this building, darnit. "Oh, if I fall... Uh. I'm sorry. It'll be messy but I will heal I promise so don't worry!" Yes this was totally okay.

One final cheek smooch is given before she runs off to quickly clamber up the base of the building already heading up while looking around for any good handholds, footholds, and probably security. Come on. It's Stark Tower. There's a landing strip above of COURSE it'd have security.

Bunny Macleod has posed:
    "Ugh. Maybe she was just spoiled because she's the baby. The youngest in the families are always *brats*." Bunny complains, and after the cheek kiss she wrinkles her nose, blushing, and kisses Gabby's cheek back before she goes to skate off.

    "DO. NOT. FALL. GABBY." she calls out warningly "Beeper will be SO SAD and no one wants to hear the SAD BEEPS." she warns, and then hops a railing, and skates into the Lobby.

    She gives a bright smile, slipping the matcha white chocolate and snickerdoodle containing tuppies into her backpack, and gives as charming a smile as she can as she goes past the security guards. "Hello! My name is Bernice Macleod, I'm delivering some cookies from the head of the Justice League to Mr. Stark." she states.

    She's MOSTLY telling the truth there.

Tony Stark has posed:
As Tony begins mixing up his drink (a lovely concoction if bereft of alcohol), another ping comes in his ear. "Bernice," he repeats to himself quietly. He tilts his head to the side, searching his memory banks, and then shortly after Friday pops in. "That is not a member of the Justice League that I am aware of, but there is a MacLeod messenger service."

Tony shrugs. "Send her up. Express." He starts to make his way over towards the elevator, preparing to greet the deliverer, and only pauses when he gets another ping. "I guess that means the person scaling my building is /not/ a cookie deliverer." He waves his free hand in the air as if there were someone there to observe it. "Dispatch security to take care of whoever that loon is, then."

Gabby Kinney has posed:
Gabby Kinney hears the drones before she sees them. It wasn't that they weren't stealthy, it was just that she was on high alert with her already sharp senses pricked for any sign of approaching danger. This was going to be quite a challenge after all.

She'd begun climbing near the side of the building so she can swap sides quickly with a little jump and grab of the next window up. Up she goes just as the drones come out to start attacking. It's a short burst of lasers first which does cause her grip to slip, but she doesn't stop. There's just a complaint of, "Not the pant! Man seriously, I don't need holes in these." Ah, the benefits of having no sense of pain. Her grip is regained with a broad toothy grin. "Sorry for this," she states as she suddenly twists to kick out at the lone drone that had come expecting this to be easy. She uses the impact to push her up a bit further as the drone goes down from the unexpected and easily fixed attack. Whoever was climbing up wasn't trying to take them out completely at least.

Halfway up the building.

Bunny Macleod has posed:
    "Mr. Stark is expecting you." the very nice security guard says, after Bunny has present ID showing that yes, she was in fact Bernice Macleod, and she was in fact a delivery person.

    So, thinking she might win this race, Bunny skates over to the elevators, giving a wave, and slips in. Waiting for the elevator to open up and people to get on and off... but... there's no other openings. It's a long. Boring. Elevator Ride up of a whole three minutes because these are probably fancy elevators, and she had pulled out her phone to check on Gabby when the doors opened, and there, in front of her, is Tony Stark, with a drink, and a robe, and Captain America slippers.

    The Young Avenger stands at her full five-foot-two-with-the-skates-on, looks up at Tony, her eyes wide, shoulders drawing up and squeaks out:

    "OHHIMIGOD I hope Captain America has Iron Man Slippers too! Friend Goals!"

Tony Stark has posed:
As Tony awaits for the elevator to open, he gets an update via his earpiece. The scaler seems to have taken out a drone, and is getting near enough to the top that the drone may not actually be the most effective tool. He yawns, and sort of rolls his shoulders. "So much for a quiet night to enjoy cookies."

When the elevator door opens and he spies the skater, he offers that charming Tony Stark smile. "You must be Beatrice," he starts to say before her excitement cuts him off. "No, see, actually, we kind of have to go around in a circle..." He waves his finger around, pointing down. "I've got the Cap slippers, Cap's got the HULK slippers, and the Hulk, well, he's slipped into the Black Widow's...."

He pauses, tilting his head to the side. An alert that the scaler has nearly reached the platform. "Excuse me." The hand ceases its circle and flicks out, metal sliding out from the sleeve of the robe as he lifts his other hand to sip from his drink while a repulsor is built on the palm aimed out the window of the penthouse. Whoever is climbing up is about to get a nice surprise.

Gabby Kinney has posed:
By now Bunny HAD to be there. The little mental clock in Gabby's head was already counting down what she'd estimated it would take for her to get there. Rather than scale the rest of the way that meant she had to cheat--Gotham style.

Reaching back she pulls out a grapple gun which she shoots at the bottom of the platform. It catches hold, and she just releases her grip on the side of the building to ZIP up leaving the drones that were begining to surround her behind.

It's a quick trip up and she's dangling just beneath the platform in no time. Likely, she imagines, to be faced with another defense. The bag on her shoulder is shuffled off to unzip one handed. The cookies are taken out to bite the ziplock bags between her teeth. The now-empty bag is thrown above and into the platform area with a swing of her arm showing hte black of the bag and... a white flag? Okay it was a napkin but. She's trying.

Bunny Macleod has posed:
    Bunny only gets more excited the more slippers are revealed, because she can just imagine being in Honey Badger slippers -- or sneakers -- ROLLER SKATES. HONEY BADGER ROLLER SKATES WITH RAINBOW LACES AND YELLOW LEDS!

    Shethen gets very confused when she realizes she was addressed by Beatrice, and was about to interrupt to correct when --

    "DON'T SHOOT! That's Gabby! She and I were going to have a race to see who could get up here the quickest and she chose the ecterior Super Hard S-Rank Route!" she announces, and goes to skate and -- of course, because she's going into defense mode there is a flash of gasoline-puddle rainbows as Bunny raises shields!

    "She's my girlfriend!"

Tony Stark has posed:
    The slow telltale hum of an arc reactor is heard as Tony's palm begins to glow. He is not even really looking at the surrender cookies, his attention focused on the delivery girl. Who very quickly appears to be a...

    "Of course, that makes sense." he closes his palm and turns to start walking towards the ledge where Gabby is, significantly behind Bunny's more frenetic pace. "Can't you do /anything/ the easy way?"

    Another flick of his rest and the glove disassembles, disappearing beneath his robe. "I'm taking that cost of that drone out of your cut, by the way, just so you know."

Gabby Kinney has posed:
Gabby Kinney just grins up at Tony from around mouthful of ziplock bag. The edge at least, she's not slobbering over the entire thing. Now that she knew the cookies were safe though she takes hold of them and lifts them up with a cheery cry of, "Cookie delivery to 'It's Friday I'm in Luv'. And I needed a good workout," she responds with a chuckle as she finally swings herself up and over.

"Oh, come on. If a simple kick knocks out a drone you should improve the design. I dunno, extra balast or... Okay I don't know. I'm better at taking things apart." For a moment she just lays on her back on the platform catching her breath, one arm lifting to wave toward Bunny.

"You beat me! I'm getting rusty. My sister would kick my ass for being so slow. Oh, right," she hadn't really properly introduced herself had she? Getting to her feet with a quick kick-up, and dusting her sides off, she pauses just to roll her neck side to side.

"I'm Gabby, aka Badgerbadgerbadger, aka Honey Badger. First head of the JLD. Nice to 'officially' meet you, Tony."

Bunny Macleod has posed:
    "No she can't." Bunny states, and then she turns on her skates, and treads, rolling them a bit back and forth "AND GABBY YOU SAID YOU KNEW HIM!" she scolds, opening her mouth, closing her mouth again, and then she sighs, and reaches into her bag and pulls out the more secure tuppie of cookies.

    "I've got Matcha WHite Chocolate and Snickerdoodles. I apologize Mr. Stark, I really thought that she actually knew you and this wasn't the first time meeting and ohmigod I just outed her and I'm so sorry I'm bad at this but I can keep secrets and ID's honest ohmigod please don't kick me out of the Young Avengers I promise I'll do better and I'm trying SO HARD to kinda not freak out into a puddle of anxious blabbering but it's just gonna happen because I can't stop myself when I get going and--" she pauses, and then just puts both hands over her mouth, balancing the large tuppie of cookies half on her shoulder half in her elbow.

    "... who has the Ant-Man slippers I'm dying to know?!"

Tony Stark has posed:
    There is clear amusement on Tony's face as Bunny goes racing over towards Gabby. "Clearly, I don't need to add to any scolding here," he says, taking one last sip of his glass before depositing it on a tray held aloft by one of his robots, which whirrs away. "And no, I knew her. We fought a /bunch/ of zombies together, and then she gave me a hot tip, and ... " He shrugs, upon finally reaching Gabby, and he looks down at her. "So. Justice League Dark and Young Avengers, huh?" He cracks a grin.

    "And here I was thinking you were just a gamer happy to guide a poor newb like me through your favorite game." He waves his hand vaguely back inside the penthouse. "Well, come instead, take a look at what we made. I'll even let you take the elevator back down when you're done." He reaches out to claim some of the cookies.

    A sly glance over towards Bunny, and he winks. "Hawkeye. Because he's got some tiny feet."

Gabby Kinney has posed:
"Bunny, *breathe*," Gabby suggests with a little chuckle at the excitement she was obviously showing. Nevermind she'd acted quite similarily by the first time she'd met Captain America. "She's just used to me knowing a lot of people in general, I think. Oh, and I've got," she looks to the bag of still good cookies. "S'Mores Bombs and Peanut Butter. Mercy likes baking a lot and she is good at it. I swear she should open a shop but no, she likes wrenching on German cars." Go figure. It's shrugged off as she does step inside.

"Oh, that's what it was. I didn't know it was you until after a bit of chatting after all. Every now and then you have to unwind with something fun and not work related. Games work."

She steps over to Bunny to give her a quick squeeze around the shoulders. "Don't worry about secret ID's with me so much. My entire existence requires fake IDs to begin with."

Bunny Macleod has posed:
    ". . . I totally meant outing US Gabbitha B Kinnington!" the pink-haired Young Avenger does say, and she breathes out as she lets her shoulders droop, and she rubs the back of her head.

    "... ah... the Hawkeye I know is a girl... though? Can you share callsigns?" she asks quietly, and she breathes out as she gives a small shrug "An'... yeah. I heard about the Zombie game. I was super confused about watching it... not really my kinda thing?" she winces, adn she rubs the back of her neck again as she continues to sort of tread awkwardly on her skates.

    "Also... it's Bernice. But everyone calls me Bunny."

Tony Stark has posed:
    "Yeah, I kind of suck with the secret IDs too." Tony shrugs, and turns to head back inside himself. "I'm talking about the old Hawkeye. I haven't spent much time around the new one. I'll bet she's a lot less grumpy though." He walks past a stack of boxes and kicks out a foot to nudge the tower briefly. "You can take these with you if you want, right now they're hard coded to get to the UAT server, but once we're at release we can push a firmware update out and they'll be more generally useable."

    His steps take him back to the bar and he leans against it, watching the two of them. "You will need to leave a W4 or something with us, with whatever name you want, so we can at least /appear/ like we're on the up and up, if you want to get your check." He reaches behind him and pulls up and apple, taking a bite. "Once we launch, at least. Revenue for the old game stays with the old team, so you'll only get from the VR version, which is totally fair, in my book."

Gabby Kinney has posed:
Gabby Kinney glances over toward the boxes that Tony kicks curiously. The talk of the double Hawkeyes is listened to, with only a small, "I think dad let Laura use his name once or something. I dunno. Names can change. Look at Ms Marvel! No I don't know her, I just saw the news," she assures Bunny. "Though I *do* know Captain Marvel. We played poker last week."

Just for a moment she gets a thousand yard stare recalling that very uncomfortable scenario where she found out too much about a lot of people. It's shaken off in favor of the distraction Tony offers with the boxes. Curiosity gets the best of her as she steps over to open one peering inside at the VR Set.

It takes another second or two for the rest to click. "Woah, wait, you got the VR activated? And... W4..." She knew what that was; she had employees at the small clothing manufacturer/store she owned thanks to a very generous Christmas present. Still it was a surprise. "Seriously!?"

A little squeal comes as she bounces on the balls of her feet holding the VR box with a giddy sort of anticipation. That HAS been a game she's enjoyed for awhile. Now with VR. And apparently, she was somehow part of it? "*Awesome.*"

Bunny Macleod has posed:
    Bunny looks very confused for a moment, and then she looks over to Gabby and flails her arms a little bit, then winces, and then leans her head back showing the scrape and a good view of the settling goose egg on her forehead.

    "Of /course/ you know Captain Marvel. Oooof cooooourse." she states, and exhales.

    And she goes to reach for the cookie tuppie, remembers that they aren't *her* cookies, and then pauses.

    "... wait, Gabby, are you working for Stark now?" she asks, and then her shoulders come up.

    "... does... that mean we can get a bigger apartment?" she pauses again. Excitedly "A YARD FOR BEEPER?" pause again.

    "... do you need composition? Music? I can write music. I'm a BADASS at music!"

Tony Stark has posed:
    There is a certain appreciation on Tony's face at the exhuberant reaction from the two girls. "No, she is not an employee. Although certainly, I'm sure having such a dedicated fan providing feedback during testing would be helpful." He takes another bite of the apple, and then tosses it into the waste basket. "I like to make sure I reward people for their good ideas, so she's getting a finder's fee for connecting me with the game."
    He pushes away from the bar and heads over towards the two of them. "The headsets are my personal gift, so you can try the game out, and then continue to play once it's released." He glances to Bunny. "But if you're a composer, I'd be happy to hear some of your music."

Gabby Kinney has posed:
"She IS." Gabby is quick to agree glancing toward Bunny with a proud expression. "What was it you told me the other night? Julliard before your parents business went under?" Or something like that. If she could boost up Bunny though she sure as heck was going to.

"I'll have to see. I've still got my own employees to pay though the shop's been doing pretty good. Mostly I've been trying to invest right now where I can... But yeah Beeper will need a yard soon."

Either way she does continue to grin quite pleased all around. "I'll be sure to play test the hell out of it! Thank you, seriously! You should totally listen to Bunny's stuff too."

Bunny Macleod has posed:
    "Bastian told you. I'm... uh... I was heavily involved with the youth orchestra, New York All State. Y'know. When I was like, ten." she states, and rubs the back of her head. "Now I mostly play for tips in piano bars, but I really miss being really involved with music. I mean I can play Brubek to myself but sometimes you neec to really break out the dueling pianos and rotating stage with some people and a fake ID to just feel alive?" she ventures, and then she whispers:

    "Admitting I had a fake ID to play at piano bars isn't going to get me in trouble, is it?"

Tony Stark has posed:
    Tony laughs at Bunny's concern. "I'm Tony Stark." He lifts up his feet. "Captain Rogers is on my slippers, not in the room." He grins. "I admire your willingness to bend the rules. I wouldn't have gotten anywhere near where I am today if I'd followed the rules."

    He smiles to both, nodding again to Gabby. "Get them home, charge them up, and when you go online it should take you right in. They were doing some last debugs over the weekend, but might even be up now if you want to tool around. If not, just keep trying. Or leave me your email address and I can have the dev team reach out directly."

    Another look to Bunny. "I'd be happy to hear your music. Let me know when you're sneaking into a piano bar, and I'll see if I can drag Pepper out with me."
    Glancing towards the wall, he nods. "Speaking of Pepper, she is due back from Dubai within an hour, and I've got to do a bit of cleaning up before she gets here, make it look like I was respectable while she was gone." A grin. "Although these cookies might be a good enough bribe."

Gabby Kinney has posed:
Gabby Kinney pauses to lean in and kiss Bunny's cheek. "That is the tamest reason ever to have a fake ID sweetie. I'm not gonna tell." Her eyes twinkle a bit with amusement over it. "Heck I've got a few... but that's entirely not important right now."

Tony's remarks earn a quick nod from her as well as a grin. "I'll leave it with the folks downstairs so you can get started, then. ... Honesetly curious if you've got a souped up roomba or something," she murmers with a glance around the penthouse. Ah, but that was neither here nor there. There were other things to be doing right now.

"Oh yeah, put out the cookies. The S'mores are amaaaazing but I'm a fan of the snickerdoodles too." At least it seems she's leaving via elevator this time! "Come on Bunny we can get Beeper some fancy veggies on the way home."

Bunny Macleod has posed:
    "... it's... it's a deal! Maybe I can get Gabby and Tommy to come out to. Multi-dating-excellence! I even have a proper dress I can wear to play and i'm pretty sure the guy at Rain-Beau Brite's will let me do a calm night without breaking out the Glee covers and this is going to be the best thing ever and I can't wait playing for a bunch of peoplpe that are awesome and oh migod GABBYW HAT IF I MESS UP and everyone notices I"m so SHORT?!" she asks, not really registerring the kiss, the cookies, and she just squeaks.

Tony Stark has posed:
    At that, Tony just laughs. "I'm sure you will do just fine."
    As Gabby suspected, once they are moving towards the elevators a couple of robots set out to start straighening up whatever details need to be attended to,including emptying the waste basket of the apple. Perhaps Tony was only jesting about having to clean.
    "Take care on the way out. And please, next time just take the elevator. I made sure it is as fast as is safe for human travel. Trust me."