67/It's broken.. but still good.

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It's broken.. but still good.
Date of Scene: 22 February 2020
Location: R and D Labs: Triskelion
Synopsis: Tony invites all to a mystery event and a mad scientist stays angry.
Cast of Characters: Daniel Hastings, Tony Stark, Carol Danvers




Daniel Hastings has posed:
It's a thing of beauty. Or was. The starship that Daniel had stolen wasn't anything particularly fancy or large. He had to be able to fly it, after all. It also had a number of holes in it from being shot at and the hull was crumpled from its impact with the moon. Still. It could be fixed. Maybe. With the right knowhow and parts. Couldn't it? Part of Daniel was hoping that it could happen. As much as he wasn't keen on being a hobo on a Kree world.. galavanting across the universe was every astrophysicists dream.

So there he stood, wearing the provided SHIELD coveralls but without insignia, looking at the wreck that had been brought in and peering in the holes as if checking to see what, if anything, was essential that had taken damage. He even looked like he might have a clue as to what he was doing.

Tony Stark has posed:
"What kind of priority alert?"

Tony Stark, dressed to the nines in a tailored Tom Ford original, moves down the corridors of the Triskelion. A pair of tinted glasses from the same house of couture are on his face, broadcasting news footage in one corner of his vision. A miniature device fitted into his ear allows his digital assistant to speak to him as he walks, watching the clip. But on the outside, it just looks like a well-dressed man talking to himself.

"What do you mean a duplicate," he asks, narrowing his eyes at the footage being display, "What? How?"

As he speaks, he steps into the laboratory where Daniel is. Uninvited, though the visitor's pass pinned to his right breast grants him access all the same.

"Hang on a second," he holds up a hand to the other man, a finger raised in the universal 'please hold' gesture, before he goes back to talking to himself, "That's impossible." A pause. "Find out."

Finally, Tony turns his full attention to the room and regards the vessel for a moment.

"Nice spaceship."

Carol Danvers has posed:
    Carol flew that thing back here from the far side of the moon. Which well to be honest it helped confirm Daniel's story which is good as far as Carol is concerned. Also skrull do not usually tend to teleport from the moon under their own power in her experience shootng many Skrull during her time conscripted during the war.

She is leaning against the wall inside and to the left doorway to the lab room watching Daniel peering into the holes. "I couldn't get the system to boot but it may just need some repairs to bring it back up online, which will help confirm your story further once we can see the ships logs." there is a pause and she tilts her head and looks sidelong then pushes off from the wall turning around as she steps into view to see if that is who it sounds like.

"Ah, Kree design Mr. Stark."

Daniel Hastings has posed:
If there was a sign that Daniel recognized Tony.. well.. he wasn't really looking. He was a scientist with a new toy.. old toy.. at least time to toy with something shiny and there he was rooting around in it. "So.. looks like.. power coupling.. F.. for fried, naturally. To.. secondary warp carrier wave emitter.." He looks towards a wing and the exhaust ports.. damaged. "Alright.. but that doesn't explain.." But then there's people talking. There's always people talking when he works. Why is that? Thankfully, he doesn't have to turn around anymore to look. Though this time he does.

He's about to speak when he's told to hang on a second. There's a glance to Carol then back to Stark. "Was nice. Yes. I suppose. I wasn't precisely looking for a pleasure yacht or military hardware. Just something with a functioning hyperdrive." There's a wan shrug at that. "To be fair.. I think the power cells bled out. If you look at these leads they're burnt not just from scorching on an incoming blast but an outgoing as well." The last comment was for Carol's benefit. But then he's looking back at Stark. Like.. not quite staring. Not really knowing what to say. Stark gets that a lot he's sure.

Tony Stark has posed:
"Kree?" Tony asks, glancing towards Carol and quirking an eyebrow at her, "O Captain, my Captain. How's space?"

He doesn't wait for an answer, listening to the muttered commentary from Daniel about the spaceship. As he strides past a table covered in tools, he picks up one suitably long and metallic.

"What about if I do this?" he asks, prodding the inner workings of the ship and prompting a brief shower of sparks to sputter forth. He doesn't jump or startle, only raising his eyebrows thoughtfully. It's then that he notices he's being stared at, and slowly his head turns to look right on back at the scientist. His eyes narrow.

"You look familiar," he turns to look towards Carol, "Who is this?" Then back to Daniel, "Who are you?"

Carol Danvers has posed:
"That does make sense." she notes to Daniel. I mean she could probably patch it up given time or a need, she is familiar.. mostly.. with Kree technology. Still she is a bit worried about potentially doing it wrong and setting off the reactor.

Her memory isn't top notch lately.

Which is why Tony's joke actually makes her grimace a little bit, the whole space incident being lab ratted by the Kree is still a touchy subject after. "Swell Tony." she notes next and goes back to leaning against the wall there. "That is Daniel Hastings. Luitenant in her Majesty's armed service and SHIELD agent.. or at least he was back in 1947 before he had an incident and teleported to the Kree empire. He was a SHIELD egghead like FitzSimmons back in his day evidently."

Daniel Hastings has posed:
What else is there to say. Thunder.. stolen. So Daniel just gives Tony a shrug. "Small mishap with the Tessaract after your father recovered it from near Greenland. Zapped me off to never neverland where I found this beast. Tried to hijack it home. They tried to blow me up. And.. then there was a malfunction.. space time objected strenuously.. and here I am in the here and now." Looking exactly like that fellow toasting some huge discovery with his dad in an old family photo.. less a few pounds. He could stand to eat a sandwich or three.

Tony Stark has posed:
"We're getting all the Kree castoffs lately," Tony muses, looking from Carol then back to Daniel, "I knew there was a grain of truth to the whole alien abduction and probing thing. To think all those truckers and hillbillies weren't just drunks but drunk exo-diplomats."

If he notices the cutting effect his words have on Carol, he doesn't comment on nor acknowledge it. Though he's partly distracted by the familiarity in Daniel's appearance, he's more interested in the starship. He moves towards the engines, leaning forward to observe them closely. Already the mechanism within his glasses is taking photographs and recording videos, while HOMER discretely tries to reverse engineer what he sees.

"Not bad," he says to no one in particular, but when Daniel makes mention of Howard Stark his gaze immediately zeroes in on the man like a laser, "My father? You're one of Howard's boys? Super science that clobbered the Nazis and kept the Ruskies at bay?"

Tony reaches down to draw his sleeve up, revealing an expensive-looking Urwerk watch on his wrist. He holds it up as though checking the time, and a moment later a hidden emitter projects a holographic recreation from the SHIELD photo archives. Sure enough, the photograph contains the Stark paterfamilias and Daniel.

"Huh," his tone suggesting mild interest more than shock, "So, has Carol briefed you on modern trends? Everything's plastic now. We have the Internet. We don't eat radium anymore ... "

Carol Danvers has posed:
"I mean, sometimes I think Stark eats radium." yeah it is a snarky mutter there. Mostly because yeah she is a bit sensitive about the whole Kree castoff comment too. "Or whatever your arc reactor is fueled on honestly.. I mean it is pretty primative as far as reactors go." and jab, verbal revenge mission is a go, strafing run.

"Did the R&D boys call you in to look at the ship or are you just window shopping anyhow Tony?" and she gestures to Daniel. "Also I was pulled in to mostly make sure he wasn't an alien threat .. I'll leave it to the shrinks to make sure he is adjusting nicely to modern society." and she will too. Mostly it means the shrinks specializing in alien offworld trauma are bugging someone besides her right now, win.

Daniel Hastings has posed:
"Plastic. Hydrocarbons. Frying the atmosphere faster than a supervolcano. Oh yes. I'm aware of plastics." Daniel replies with a small sigh. "I spent five years on a Kree colony world. I think I can handle cell phones and the internet." There's a glance towards Carol and a small furrow of his brow as if to ask, 'is he for real?'. "Mostly, it was the lack of food that had me concerned. It's amazing how ones perspective can change when basic needs of sustenance aren't being met." There's a shrug but then he looks to the ship and Tony's widgets. "Nice toys. But yes, clobbered Nazis. Warded the Russians. Waved the flag. Though with what I saw just this afternoon, I have to wonder if government learned the lessons we fought hard for."

Tony Stark has posed:
"I eat palladium," Tony says, theatrically raising a finger into the air in Carol's general direction, "They're very different. A whole forty-two atomic numbers apart. Really, Danvers, for an advanced space-person you don't know your periodic table very well."

When Carol makes her guess to his provenance, he nods his head: "Just wanted me to take a look. They like to spoon-feed me these kind of discoveries from time to time, as though I somehow need outside inspiration."

He jabs a finger in the direction of an exposed panel on the starship.

"See? I built a better pan-directional manifold than that when I was fourteen. I guess the Kree didn't conquer their galaxy in comfort."

Something Daniel says draws a grin from the billionaire. An honest-to-goodness grin, from the man who almost always looks indifferent or cavalier. He turns fully to face him, leaning in slightly and narrowing his eyes as though examining his face carefully.

"I think you've got a point there," he tells him, "Tell me, if Papa Fury lets you out of the lab for a day, why don't you swing on by Federal Hall in the afternoon? I might have something that interests you."

A glance towards Carol, before he adds, "You too, Captain."

Carol Danvers has posed:
"Ah right, how could I possibly forget." it is said with this sort of dry amusement. Honestly it is pretty hard to get too mad at Stark, this is just how he seems to be after all.

"Well, Kree tend to be a lot more durable than humans so they can take a lot more Gs and sudden jolts than people here on earth. It is plenty comfortable for them ... just not fragile folk I suppose." okay maybe the back and forth isn't totally called off.

"What happened this afternoon?" she queries Daniel then glances to Tony. "Announcing the cure for world hunger, Stark Impossible Burgers made of genetically engineered plants or something Tony?" she pauses "I'll stop by if Fury lets me out... at the rate starships are falling out of the sky though I may suddenly be busy.. recovered a intergalac pod this morning but unlike Daniel here not the occupant."

Daniel Hastings has posed:
"Speaking of things falling out of the sky, some blokes in silver suits opened a rift in space-time and tried to abduct a mutant today." Appropo of nothing? Daniel just figures it's every day around here. "They were returned to their rift and politely informed not to come back without some manner of writ authorizing said custody. Then.. and here's the rub of it all.. the police arrested that same mutant for inciting a riot. I.. have never seen anything like it. The constable dismissed me out of hand and stuffed the fellow back behind closed doors. I almost broke him out out of sheer pique.. but then I realized that the temporal bandits didn't all return to their time and are currently being treated at Mt Sinai hospital. I.. was not the only gifted soul there. Some flaming telekinetic was as well and she has some rather alarming impulse control issues."

Tony Stark has posed:
"I want to see that," Tony announces, pointing at Carol first without looking then turning to face her, "Intergalac sounds interesting. I want to take a look. Also, the solution to world hunger is next week. I'll ask Pepper to send you out a copy of the Stark Innovations calendar. You can hang it in your office."

When Daniel starts talking about space-time bandits, Stark's attention slowly turns back to him. He listens to what is said, though there's no nod or inclination of his head. Just silence. After a moment, he raises a hand between them.

"That was - I'm very confronted right now by the fact that a lot of that sounded perfectly normal. I may need a moment."

Carol Danvers has posed:
"I'll just stop by the mansion and pick one up. I think Fury is worried Nat and Clint have gone native, I'm your official SHIELD liaison now." she considers "And sure I'll swing you by the pod, it is part of a transport network but someone set it for earth... which does not have the infrastructure to catch one of them so it crash landed and something walked into New York."

"Also... I'm with Tony here. None of that phased me which is really a testament to how messed up things are these days." she breaths in deep then sighs. "Remember to file your AAR on that Hastings." that last bit had the tone of an officer.

Daniel Hastings has posed:
"You might need a moment?" Daniel looks at Tony like the man just lost his mind. "I go from a society unifying against a force of evil to villifying its own as if suddenly every day citizens were placed in slums like the jews and dismissed from justice and here's the best part. I just found out today that I was a Jew." Proverbially. "I.. I don't know whether to rage or cry or.. just fly back to Kree and become a second class citizen there. At least there, I know who my enemies are.

Tony Stark has posed:
As Daniel speaks, Tony takes a measured step backwards and throws a sidelong glance towards Carol. When his attention is fixed on the man once more, he speaks.

"If you want my suggestion, I wouldn't embrace the rage too tightly. Last buttoned-down scientist I knew with anger management issues, well - you might read about him while you're catching up on what you've missed. He turns green and throws buildings around."

That said, Tony lifts his watch again. The timepiece projects a map this time, depicting a holographic map of New York City with a glowing dot centered on Harlem.

"Danvers, I'll see you around the Mansion. Wednesday is craft beer night. Liaisons drink free. Doctor Hastings, let me just say that things didn't get any less complicated in the last seventy years but they definitely got more interesting. You might find you're right at home."

Carol Danvers has posed:
Carol nods "Sounds good Stark." about craft beer night, she is still leaning against the wall pulling a Barton really. "Also there is a lot of good in the world.. but yeah I imagine it is more complicated than it was back in your days Hastings. Lot more aliens these days and after the Dominators detonated their genebomb.. a lot more superheroes too."

She glances at the holographic display from where she is leaning. "Off to your next meeting or do you want to take a quick look at the pod?"

Daniel Hastings has posed:
Daniel Hastings takes a deep breath. The idea that there's a rage scientist just reminds him of the emo flame girl. There's a lot of damage he could do with his abilities so.. find your happy place. Home's gone. Damnit. The other happy.. oh fuck it all. "I think.. I'm going to go take a shower. Whatever it is I do, I can at least pay for that fellow's legal fees. Somehow. Not that I have a job to fund them. Or access to file an after action report." Yes, he knows what those are. "I suppose I'll just email.. someone." Whose emails he doesn't have. "Oh just.. fuck it all. I need to get good and hammered. Stark, your father always had a good Scotch around. They have me locked away in two twelve if you were feeling magnanimous. That's where you'll find me." Then.. foomp. He disappears.

Tony Stark has posed:
"Your pod'll have to wait, Captain," Tony says, glancing at the map on his watch, "Something urgent just came up. Also, judging by what you said about infrastructure, I don't think it's going anywhere. I'll take a look later."

He blinks a few times at the sudden disappearing of the incredible swearing scientist. But, as they've all pointed out, that is far from the weirdest thing to happen to any of them this week, let alone ver. He gives a slight shrug of his shoulders and steps out into the hall, turning on his heels and quickly heading towards the elevators.

"I can't believe they make me park on the lawn."