2605/Lab to Lab Emails

Lab to Lab Emails
Date of Scene:	24 July 2020
Location:	Pym's Mobile Lab
Synopsis:	Tony and Hank discuss Mutant Town's status.
Cast of Characters:	Hank Pym, Tony Stark

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Hank Pym has posed:
With a chime, an email message direct to Tony shows up in his box, from Hank Pym. It reads:

    I was informed that Nadia is supposed to meet with you to be debriefed (she's a very responsible girl.) I think we should have lunch at my place. FYI part of the settling in process will be working on restoring Mutant Town and other shrunken victims to normal. So anything you can bring to that table is appreciated. Also my rider mower isn't working properly and maybe you can have a look at it afterwards? ~Regards Hank

Tony Stark has posed:
After a little while, there's a voice message in response, from Tony. It reads:

    Hi Hank. Okay, uh. Some items:

1) I suggest less Coffee

2) Nadia maybe is wonderful and all, but was also trained by the Red Room and may have trigger words to go berserk. Watch your butt.

3) I have no idea about if she's supposed to be debriefed, I haven't met her or anything. Who informed you about a debrief? About your stuff?

4) You said not to bother you about //anything// in your message so I didn't tell you about this, but: the Mutant Town shrunken items is already underway, from before you disappeared, we have a lot of headway on it. But: You just said you are ON VACATION! We could use you, though.

5) Me bring stuff to the table? I've been at the table for weeks. ;) While it's good you're back, come on now; I fought Brainiac (you know, the guy that shrunk the cities) while you were off in another dimension. I'm organizing this; there's a meeting on Sunday. Not at your place: your place goes into weird wormholes or dimensions: pass!

6) I am not your mowing repairman, and do you even have a lawn? Your lab is on MY lawn!

Tony

Hank Pym has posed:
Another Chime from Dr. Pym: Okay to clarify, N. said she was supposed to meet with you that's fine, I may have misconstrued something she said. She also asked me to help with Mutant Town and I can certainly review data at home and make some initial theories. When I said come to the table, I should have said I wanted to pick your brains about the whole thing. I didn't want to sound like I was going to put myself in charge of anything. As for the mower, I'll fix it or give it to the ants to play with, that's fine. Offer of lunch still stands. You should also know I never can stay away from sciencing.

Tony Stark has posed:
Tony's reply is quick, email this time, not voice:

    If you want to take charge of this I will happily gift everything shrunk to you with a red bow on top; honestly this is your area for the most part. Most of what I've done other than the shrink-tech research is prepare the infrastructure of what was left BEHIND in Mutant Town so that if the whole town is resized it can fit back into place. There's a lot of logistics there: getting the people out of the town safetly once it's back up, and all the physical repairs to their electrical systems, their water, gas, sewers.... big big dangerous mess.

In a nutshell: there is PLENTY to do. Try to come to the meeting Sunday, eh?

Hank Pym has posed:
Another chime another email, accompanied with a gif of Hank throwing papers up in the air (taken when his divorce was finalized): Obviously I will have to multitask getting Nadia settled with this as I had no idea of the scope and breadth of this upheaval. Your Sunday meeting was probably what Nadia mentioned and I took her excitement at meeting with the Avengers (and with you in particular) as a private meeting. As for leading this effort... for God sakes no! I am the worst person to do this as I make John Adams in 1776 look like a paragon of amiability and diplomacy. I don't know how N. approaches the research end but I prefer the lab work. It is a serious matter, using the wrong method of enlargement could be -crossing the streams. Given the little I know of the services and population density of Brooklyn, and dealing with Brooklynites I do not wish to be involved with the damage control unless absolutely necessary. HP Antcraft.

Tony Stark has posed:
The response?

    "As much fun as this is, it'd be easier in person and it isn't like I'm at the Tower: I'm on the lawn. Meaning, MY lawn, outside of YOUR mobile lab. Knock knock."

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A knock doesn't actually follow physically, though if Pym opens the workshop door he'll find Tony there, dressed in a navy suit, fiddling with a hologram emitted off of a handheld STARK device.

Hank Pym has posed:
Hank Pym answers the door. That is the door slides open and a two inch tall Pym resizes himself to his normal height. The scientist is in a greasy labcoat which he pulls a pre-moistened towelette from to clean his hands. He extends his now clean hand to Tony. "I have to install that 'Ring' device when I get a minute. Come on in. You know it isn't like I was asking you make that damned mower fly or give it a forcefield. It wasn't like I called reed first. I'd never call Reed. C'mon in." He steps aside. A couple of ants peer curiously then get back to God knows what. "So what's up? besides the usual?"

Tony Stark has posed:
"Yes, that high tech 'ring' device, known scientifically as a doorbell," Tony teases smoothly in answer, with a sly grin. He accepts the handshake since the towelette is involved.

"Pretty sure I can't fit in the lab right now, Hank," Tony gestures to them both, then the tiny lab Hank just emerged from at 2" tall, when Hank suggests they go inside. "How about the lawn chairs? We'll get you a drink, unless it'll clash with whatever pain medications from your ordeal you may or may not be on?" Tony waggles his hand back towards the main lawn area.

"Figured I was here, and we could get on the same page about the shrunken cities. There's more than just the two. There's alien ones, also. I'm not sure what all you know," Tony asks.

Hank Pym has posed:
Hank Pym walks over to the lawn chair and sits down. "What pain meds? Pymtron could have watered and fed me a little better but aside from the encephalo beams he didn't hurt me. He needed me coherent till he took my brain apart. I'm taking aspirin for a headache. I signed myself out." Stark's words suddenly dawn on him. "Cities... Great Oppenheimer's ghost, Tony, I have limits to my Pym-production. This is quite a problem. We'll crack it though. Sufficiently advanced technologies are not indistinguishable from magic... they're indistinguishable from stage magic. Once you know the trick you can duplicate the effect. This Brainiac either had a more efficient way to create Pym particles or a way to duplicate their effects... is Richards working on this?"

Tony Stark has posed:
"All our research says it's not Pym particles, it's painfully advanced tech from outer space: so, another route. But that doesn't mean your particles can't be an element in restoration, filling in the gaps we might have," Tony explains, growing more serious, less playful, as they dig into the more severe situation at hand.

"So, Mutant Town is in one ... shrunken bubble-thing," Tony explains. "Genosha is in a bunch of them; I'm unsure the exact count. The X-Men have them safe at the moment. And then there are some alien cities: /five/ of them. I have the names if you care about that," Tony says, attention dropping to his device as he flips to the correct file. "But I can't claim to be pronouncing them right. 'O'erlantii'? 'Ooor-lantee'? 'Or-lanyteh?' Anyway. Those seem to have a different approach to them, and Carol's working with the Justice League to sort those out."

Tony relaxes back into his lawn chair. "Our primary concern is Mutant Town, first and foremost. It's also the smallest, and doesn't have the site where it's going ripped to /shreds/. Genosha doesn't have a footprint to place the city on, yet. So, Mutant Town first. We'll learn a lot from it, I figure, that'll help with all the others."

Hank Pym has posed:
Hank Pym listens silently, his fingers steepled. "Those poor people. I want to go speak to them at their size. Reassure them. Have their scientists done any work on the process? They've had longer to research it than we have. Size manipulation without Pym particles. It might be something to do with the Higgs Boson field but, that would reduce inertia which could do very bad things to electron orbits, quark reactions... I need to talk to the Justice League... they had this fellow who also could shrink. Atom Ray or something."

Tony Stark has posed:
"Just what I wanted to hear - I'd like to get you on site, and give them information and also get some. I need lists of who all is there, and sort out where they'll be staying while we fix their city back into being livable. I also want to connect them to all of their family members and people that are on this side, get those letters through. So, I basically have a laptop ready with everything on it, if or when you are ready to go."

Tony pauses. "Maybe take your kid with you," he suggests with an arch of brow and smile. "Be good to get her exposed to the positive side of things, not just... whatever horrors her history had in it. See her dad being heroic and not half robot-murder-hobo." Tony stretches a little. "I'll leave the gear in the Avengers lab, but maybe this is a good thing to do right after the science meeting on Sunday. The Justice League should be there and you can ask them yourself." Tony has a small sound emit from his mobile device.

"One of my tests is done. Talk later, huh?" Tony asks. "And get JARVIS to bring you a drink via a drone, if you want one." Tony stands, attempting a friendly pat to one of Hank's shoulders, but stops short of it, deciding not to get grease on his hand or suit.