15573/Hot, Cross, Bun

Hot, Cross, Bun
Date of Scene:	08 August 2023
Location:	Midtown
Synopsis:	Bunny and Tony meet on a rooftop. Bunny receives cookies that were definitely not made by Tony Stark. Pepper made them, so they're not only edible, but really tasty.
Cast of Characters:	Bunny Macleod, Tony Stark

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Bunny Macleod has posed:
    There was a minor shake-up in the Young Avengers, with two of the more experienced members taking a sabatical, and leaving the new recruit with... well. Not a lot in the way of guidance. Which is fine, she's used to that, she's made her way through some WEIRD STUFF. Like showing up on a Tick Tock with a dancing rhinocerous and chainsaw-weilding warthog wrecking an office building in Gotham City. And taking on Carnage. And taking on a witch who attempted to drop a building on her. And, research and recording showing what it was, if Tony hadn't stepped in and let her breathe, she was about two seconds from total bubble failure and having a building smoosh her to Bunny-paste.

    It's like the kid somehow ended up with an Altruism streak the size of Hulk's arm circumference in Captain America flavors but just didn't have the 'oomph' to back it up.

    So now she was doing what she did best. Repressing her negative emotions regarding everything, sitting in a semi-closed park on top of a closed parking garage, wearing a bright pink denim jacket that's shown a lot of wear and tear, bright yellow roller skates, and playing jazz piano to a couple pigeons and a raccoon riffling throguh the trash can about thirty feet away.

Tony Stark has posed:
There had been a lot going on in the way of clean-up since Carnage's rampage through the city, and Stark Industries had been at the center of a lot of it. Between Iron Man's involvement with the evacuation to the Stark Foundation's efforts to rebuild some of the damaged homes as quickly as possible without having to wait for insurance, Tony had been swamped with trying to deal with the repercussions.

But one responsibility he felt he had was as heavy as any of them, perhaps more so. And so, clutching a small box of freshly baked cookies, Iron Man was flying through the city, letting Friday do all the work as he tries to locate Bunny. He had a debt to pay.

Bunny Macleod has posed:
    And Bunny was wearing a young Avengers communicator, which made it extra easy to find her, how thoughtful!

    She rolls the piano as she plays, her head nodding, not following any sheet music as she goes.

    The piano is sliiightly out of tune, but she'll forgive it, being exposed to the elements as it is.

    And to be honest? Bunny wasn't looking for one of the 'adults' to come by. She was just vibin', as kids do. She pings easily in the HUD with PRISMA/BMACLEOD

Tony Stark has posed:
    With it made easy enough, Iron Man flies towards the park, slowing down so that the sound of his repulsors did not overpower the night. No matter how good the playing of the piano was, he did not wish to disturb it entirely as he floats down towards her.

"Do you know 'As Time Goes By'?" he asks as he lowers himself fully to the ground.

Bunny Macleod has posed:
    The sound of repulsors still does make Bunny pause in her playing, lifting her hads from the keys as she tilts back her head, looking as Iron Man makes his approach.

    "What, from Casablanca?" she questions, her eyebrows drawing up as she turns on the piano stool, slowly circling on the round stool and dropping lower.

    "Also: Hiiiii Mr. Stark." she greets him with a wide smile and a wave of a still-bandaged hand.

Tony Stark has posed:
    "I cannot tell you how much it pleases me to hear you know that," replies Tony as his suit's mask flips up, revealing the face underneath. "Always nice to know that the younger generation appreciates..." He thinks for a moment. "I mean, it's not my generation either, but ..." He flashes a grin as he walks over towards her.

    "Hello, Miss Macleod." He hands the box over. "Pepper baked these for you. Not that I wouldn't, of course, but you wouldn't want to eat anything that I baked. Trust me."

Bunny Macleod has posed:
    "It's a Jazz Standard. It's like not knowing what Star Wars is. That's just /UnAmerican/." Bunny jokes as she pauses her spinning, and she looks up, and accepts the cookies. She loos down at them, and then up at Stark, and opens her mouth "You mean Pepper Potts, the actual arm behind Stark Industries, the business part 'cause obvs, you're the brains part, baked cookies. For me." she pauses a moment, and looks down at the cookies, and opens the box as if they might explode.

    "... people don't cook for me this is *weird*."

Tony Stark has posed:
    "Can't argue there." Tony grins as Bunny works through the source of the cookies, nodding in agreement. "That is only a few of the amazing things that she is, but yes. She did. As a thank you." He watches as Bunny opens the box, laughing softly. "They are just cookies, not nanotech."

    He shrugs at her statement. "She knew that I had run into you recently, and she said that it made her feel good to see me helping out, and so she wanted to thank you for that."

Bunny Macleod has posed:
    "Well, I mean, I kinda put myself repeatedly into danger that normal unpowered people can't do to protect people in the city I live in so... Thank You Miss Potts?" she questions, and then looks up at Tony.

    "It *could* be nanotech. I dunno, I'm not the tech head! I just play piano and bubble people!" she protests in self-depreciating manner, and takes up a cookie, and then offers the box to Tony in case he wants one. It's rude not to share, after all.

    "Well, I've not met her. I only know through my older sister's admiration of her. Kinda the Boss Bae life for Betty." Bunny shrugs, and then her skate wheels tap on the ground.

    "... it's good that you helped out. Even just kinda acting overwatch. Good to have eyes in the sky, you know?"

Tony Stark has posed:
    "I will pass along your message, and she'll tell you herself if we make it to karaoke. But you keep dodging me." It is a tease, as despite having mentioned it a few times before, there had not been any actual attempts to schedule. But that might change.

He waves off the box. "Plenty at home, and I have to make sure I can still fit in this guy." He pats his belly with a clank, iron against iron. "Those are all for you, and your friends."

"She is, yes, the Boss bae life for betty." It sounds strange coming from his lips, and mostly like he is repeating it to try to recall it later when recounting this to Pepper herself. "Of course, I would like to help out. That's what I am here for. I am just glad the Spiders were able to take him out, eventually. I was focusedo n evacuating people, but if I had stepped in the damage would have been far greater."

Bunny Macleod has posed:
    "Nah you played to your strengths. I'm fast, I get around quicker on wheels than most people do on foot, and I play defense. It's what I do best." Bunny replies, turning around as she begins to play again, this time picking out the requested song.

    "Me too. Pretty sure if someone hadn't webbed some of those scythes I would have been Shish-ka-Bun!" she protests overdramatically, exagerating her eyeroll. "It was good though. It felt good. Being able to be useful. I can't really say much for that..." she trails off and then she gives a look over to Tony.

    "Well. My schedule's wiiiide open. So have your people reach out to me whenever you wanna challenge me to Karaoke. I'll even buy you a soda." she gives a bright grin at that. "Just have to make sure it's a college-friendly night."

Tony Stark has posed:
Tony seems surprised at her comment. "What do you mean? You struck me as very useful, and rather capable, each time I have encountered you. Has someone said otherwise?" He frowns a bit at that notion.

He snaps his finger and points at her. "You're on. You think you can handle this, but Pepper and I do a mean 'Islands in the Stream' when we have to." He grins once more. "And if it's not a good friendly night, I can just buy out the bar and make it so."

Bunny Macleod has posed:
    "You're on Mr. Stark. Name your time and place. You might do a mean Islands in the Stream but I can rock everything from Fly Me To the Moon -- which if you two dance to I would be *over* the moon -- to Paper Moon to I Need a hero!" she gives a bright laugh, and then she rubs the back of her neck, and looks up to Stark.

    "Well. I'm a mutant, and y'know, they have this new thing that they wanna use on people. So..." Bunny trails off a moment, and then shakes her head "Ah, but I'm not too worried about it. Not like they're gonna use it on a Young Avenger, right?" she jokes, and then gives Tony finger-guns, and picks up another cookie.

    "I should head out anyway, gotta move my stuff to my new temporary digs. Luckily not a lot of stuff to move."

Tony Stark has posed:
"Oh, that is one of Pepper's favorites, so if you rock it, I guarantee you, we'll be out there dancing to it." Tony smiles warmly. "We will make it happen. And soon. I promise."

The next topic earns a frown from the man. "If anyone so much as attempts to compel you to take any such thing, there will be hell to pay." He thinks for a moment, and then reaches down towards his waist, pulling a tiny disc out from his suit and tossing it to her. "Emergency use only, kid, but if you think that is about to happen to you, press that. Immediate response." A pause. "But make sure it is a real threat, because it will be /messy/."

He nods. "Sure. If you need help moving, I can send a couple of automated suits your way. They can do some pretty decent lifting."

Bunny Macleod has posed:
    "Nah, legit, I'm good--" she catches the disk, and she looks at it. She takes a deep breath, and she tucks it into a little card case, like for one of those travel game systems, and it gets tucked away.

    "No one left who would." she states quizically, and she gives a nod, and then her head shakes. "I'm good, really, but thank you. Really it's just a couple of boxes at this point... but --"

    She gives him a smile, and hoists a cookie.

    "Careful for the raccoon, he's ornery!" she calls out, and leaves to go skate down the ramps of the carpark to eat cookies and burn calories!