rocket ,
( @latverionstarters ) ROCKET RACCOON & ANYONE !
sure, he’d been observing them for awhile while being nestled up behind a few cargo boxes and pretending to read a file on astrophysics. was it a crime to follow people and observe whatever it was that they was doing? he didn’t think so. groot was back on the guardian’s ship so that meant that whatever he was doing was going to be well-spent. that and the person who he was following had what looked like something shiny. before he could slink off and find another angle, however, rocket’s foot slipped and he ended up tripping and spilling out from the cargo - his entire form and the article splayed out onto the ground with him looking up into the face of the person he was following. “uh…” he paused and then pulled a full-toothed smile, “i was just admirin’ the boxes? what? you can’t prove anything - how much for the shiny thing?”
her eyebrow quirks upward in an expression that’s largely amusement. he couldn’t look more guilty if he was actively making attempts, cassie’s sure of this, but she’s also not in the business of holding snooping around against anyone unless she has a very good reason. it’s not like she was doing anything nefarious, anyway, they’re her shiny things. ❛ not for sale, sorry to disappoint. ❜ small, but shiny she can’t deny. discs that fit, stacked, in the palm of her hand. she wasn’t planning on proving anything, but she doubts anyone who’s ever heard of rocket by even word of mouth would doubt that he was scouting around for anything valuable if she’d wanted to. ❛ do you even know what they are ? ❜
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@ormenace | steve rogers + tony stark
Ankle-biting gremlins. Yeehaw zombies. A megalomaniacal self-proclaimed emperor. Sure, why not. He’d seen weirder. Hell, he was weirder, if he really wanted to get into it. Latverion set his teeth on edge, but something about it–he’d done this before. Woken up a lifetime, a world away from what he’d known, found everything foreign where it should have been familiar. Learning that the Dodgers had moved out West wasn’t quite landing in the middle of a multiversal incursion (reminder: check with Tony about what the scientific term for this was), but it wasn’t not.
Tony had helped him through it. When Steve was fresh out of the ice, still unable to shake off the chill of decades under the Arctic, Tony had walked him through: Berlin Wall, Moon Landing, Obama, iPod (Classic, Nano, Shuffle, and Touch). Steve could never return the favor, but the least he could do was check in. Make sure the guy hadn’t been eaten by gremlins or spent three straight days in his workshop listening to AC/DC on loop again.
So he stood in the doorway, two steaming paper cups in hand. He’d meant to bring bagels, too, but whatever had made New York bagels bagels apparently hadn’t made the jump with the rest of the city. Maybe it was the water. “Hey,” he said. “Figured you could use a coffee.”
❛ my hero, my savior, my knight in shining armor. ❜ etcetera, so on and so forth. it would be easy to wait until steve made his way any further, but tony’s always running a little short on caffeine no matter how much he’s had. it goes through his system like oxygen, different than the way most people process it, similar to how steve’s body works through a beer. there one instant, gone the next, that’s of course the only thing that could account for his blocks of energy. sometimes his bouts of focus go for hours, sometimes the energy is at the very end of the dead battery scale.
there’s probably a part of it that’s more comfort, anyway. latverion, anything like it is hard for a mind that never shuts off. tony has moments where he thinks he’s made his peace with just how little control he has here, but honestly, it never stops being difficult. he’s a fixer, an inventor, he finds the smallest crack and builds an exit out of it. he can’t even begin to look for the cracks around here. it’s doom’s world - annoying and powerful and malevolent, but hey, at least there’s cap and coffee. one of which he sips after taking it right from steve’s hand.
❛ i always need coffee. you know me so well. ❜ his free hand comes to lay flat over chest, where his heart is. dramatic, maybe, but no less grateful. he eyes the cup he’s left steve with, too. ❛ don’t drink that. i might need it too. ❜
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jean ,
☄️— Conversations with the DoomMart version of Logan left Jean sizzling with untapped energy. It made the empty ache in their chest grow until they were sure the wound would be big enough that all of the power inside of them would be able to escape. Jean had more power on the tip of their tongue than they ever had in the past, and still they were empty.
Getting to this world, Latverion, Battleworld, Doom’s Sandbox, Jean had jumped at the chance to leave Xavier’s behind. The bitter taste of teaching the students that then turned their abilities on her had still coated Jean’s mouth. So they had bowed out of being Headmaster like they had before the Phoenix, gratefully taking the job of active retirement. Now though, with Logan beneath her skin, Jean felt the ache for how it used to be, to put the shattered things back.
The click of her shoes echoing against the stone walls was so haunting Jean thought for a moment it really was all a dream. She would wake up, in the arms of warm lovers and teach and scold and laugh. Then, as if plucked from her deepest truest desire a voice calls out. A million hearts broke in their chest all at once. “Scott?” They wanted to reach out and take his face in their hands, comb through his every thought, they wanted him to be the Scott they had— But even now, they knew.
“You look so much like him” Voice quiet and balanced, pain tightening around her lungs.
scott’s not a particularly optimistic man. he’s hopeful, sure, but it’s so rare that things fall into his lap exactly the way he’d have wanted them. he’s not sure there’s ever been anything that didn’t need working for, and if there was it was so long ago he doesn’t even remember. it does, of course, make all the sense in the world that this wouldn’t be his jean. the person who knows him best, that wouldn’t have hesitated to come closer, closer, closer. he thought a reunion - any reunion - would feel better.
mostly, it just hurts.
that’s more summers, anyway. joy had barely settled over his skin back home, so new and unfamiliar. he hadn’t yet gotten used to it, but he’d wanted to. that in itself had been a step forward, which was always destined to mean three steps back. four, five, however many being moved against his will to another world constitutes. whatever’s going on behind his ribcage is complicated and sharp, twisting, painful.
❛ down to the last detail, i’d imagine. ❜ there’s a strange mix of stranger and partner standing in front of him. he’s known jean as one for almost his entire life, the other he never thought he’d be able to apply to them ever again. not since they were kids, young and lively and as naive as they’d ever be. he doesn’t repeat the sentiment, there’s no use talking about them both staring at warped mirrors. ❛ are you doing alright ? ❜ he softens, because there’s never really another choice where jean is concerned. ❛ just passing through ? ❜ if visiting the school weren’t new, he’d surely have noticed.
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daisy ,
daisy gave a quick shrug, “i’ve never actually had a pet but how hard could it be, right?” she waved off the notion, knowing they definitely had more to deal with than her infatuation with gremlins. they just couldn’t let these little hellions go running free and possibly hurt anyone. she hummed in acknowledgement as he spoke, trying not to smile at the offer. “as cool as a suit would be, i don’t know how well it’d mix with my powers - which is admittedly easier to show than tell.” her hand raised for a quick moment, emitting a vibrational blast at some innocently bystanding chair to send flying across the room, the ground under them giving a small shake in an after effect. “vibrational manipulation, technical terms. i’m an inhuman, and a shield agent back home.” she gave the cliffnotes version, figuring it to be the easiest route, and the most useful information she could provide quickly. “alright so, these things don’t love the light, and if we can find something they do like - like food - maybe we can lure them into a trap?”
the chair goes flying, and tony is briefly distracted by the concept of a challenge. ❛ i could fine tune a suit. i’d have to do some scans, maybe... ❜ he trails off a moment before blinking back, flapping a hand in the air as if it wasn’t him that veered off track to begin with. ❛ anyway, another day. remind me. ❜ anyone that knows him will attest to his love for a side project, but admittedly there are more pressing concerns for the time being. ❛ they’re fast, don’t know if your run of the mill box-and-stick-trap’ll do the trick, but i could make something like it. take it by batches. they didn’t go for my pizza, but maybe it was the brand. frozen. not great. ❜ it’s a mystery whether he’s talking more to daisy or himself by the end of it, sliding over to a monitor. ❛ alright, so, good plan. trap’s doable, then - are we killing them ? are you morally against killing gremlin-things ? i’ll let them loose in your apartment if you want. ❜
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anna-marie ,
rogue glanced over at scott with a few steps into his office. “ yeah everyone is in their bed i guess.” she told with a smile. “ although i’m sure some are sneaking out to see others.” she teased the headmaster. “ but i get it, we were kids like them once.” rogue added, it’s always best to bring some old memories for times like this.
❛ of course they are. the sneaking around never gets any less subtle. ❜ for a school full of mutants, they don’t get incredibly creative unless they’re sneaking out for something more dangerous than a harmless visit to another room. it would be a lie to say he doesn’t think about their days at school, the same he does about everything that’s happened since. ❛ seems like lifetimes ago, doesn’t it ? ❜
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kurt ,
💙 — “i have had as many good days as the bad…” was the best he could offer. “but i make for an always-great distraction. i negotiate, and you go for the backup plan. which is whatever we decide it is, right now. any thoughts?” that was step five, he figured. kurt was going to lose count eventually. “settling is, unfortunately, the name of this game. if i can convince him of that… just maybe.” it wasn’t that he lacked confidence in said plan, but he was looking at this through a practical lens. “because, doom will get what he wants regardless. whatever that is, it’s not this — we wouldn’t be here. so, if we don’t all win, we all lose.”
❛ i can shrink him ? ❜ she presses a button on the wrist of her suit, opens a compartment with pym discs. ❛ if he’s not doing the bug mind control thing, i can handle the rest of them. i don’t wanna squish the guy or anything, but maybe smaller equals less control over everyone else ? we should probably have a back up for the back up, though, in case it doesn’t make any difference. do you know where to get a psychic dampener ? ❜ she tucks the disc back in, flashes an amused smile. ❛ no pressure or anything. ❜ honestly, there was a long, long time - really the entirety of her time back home, cassie very well might’ve been willing to lose if it meant doom did too. she’s a little more grown up, now, but only enough to not do it. not enough to not consider.
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reminder that i’m very sweet and endearing so be nice to me
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anna-marie ,
closed with scott summers: rogue was making sure all the students are inside of their room and sleeping before falling on some sofa somewhere around the school. she couldn’t help but notice scott’s door open. she walked over and knocked politely. “ you here? “ she asked softly. @ormenace
❛ almost always, these days. ❜ when home is out of reach, behind a door slammed shut he wouldn’t know how to access if he tried, where is there to be except the closest thing? he’s remembered lately, too, how the job appealed to him. the knowledge that at least some of his ducks were in a row, things exactly as they should be. ❛ everything alright with the kids ? ❜
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amy ,
|| “ I MEAN TECHNICALLY, STALKERS SAY just about everything. anything that we do. i’m pretty sure there’s a stalker out there that’s said that’s what stalkers say. ” she isn’t really helping her case. like, at all. amy doesn’t think about it like that, though. in fact, she’s pretty comfortable here, what for having actively and actually trailed the girl from class. “ it also doesn’t make a lot of sense. like, i’m pretty positive half of what we’re learning about doom’s history has to be made up. ” with ease, amy slides back up onto the row of sinks, cautious to not go back too far. stalker allegations she can handle, but falling ass first into a sink ? she’d never recover. “ i still need … a partner. for that thing assigned like, two weeks ago. ”
she considers this. it’s with a barely quelled smile that she nods, once, decisive. ❛ you’re right, amy. stalkers are people too. ❜ if she were, in fact, a stalker she would have to be the worst one in the world. cassie’s not actually sure how aware her classmates are of each other; just because she has a stock of knowledge on the hero and hero-adjacent community doesn’t mean everyone does. someone could stalk her without knowing she could shrink right out of an attempt, and that she’s likely to get violent with it on principle alone. anyway, this doesn’t seem nefarious at all. obvious confusion crosses her face for a split second before lighting up with realization, albeit an annoyed one followed by a groan. ❛ the diorama thing, i need a partner too. i totally forgot - how up your own ass do you have to be to make twenty year olds craft your life ? ❜
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peter ,
“I don’t know,” he said. “Do I? Does anyone? There’s no page on that in the manual–The Big Wheel and You: What to expect when a madman drives a unicycle through Midtown! I mean, there also isn’t a manual.” Peter frowned. “We should write a manual.” As Tony shepherded him out of the elevator–a little too forcefully, quickly, nervously–he heard something clattering in the shaft above them. Peter looked up, but there was nothing there. He didn’t make a crack about the new pets; he saw the way Tony tensed up, and followed him quickly out.
He’d never seen the lab clean. This was Tony Stark, who preferred loud music and flashy tricks to remembering to clean up after himself, and, Peter was pretty sure, didn’t know how to run a vacuum cleaner that wasn’t robotic. Not that he could judge; his workstation back at ESU was a nightmare on a good day, and his apartment, well. The less said about that the better. (Sorry, Aunt May.) But this was worse than usual. It could have been the gremlins–it was probably the gremlins, but it could also have just been Tony. Peter picked up an empty soda can and lobbed it in the general direction of a trash can. That was… helping.
He didn’t care that it was shitty frozen pizza, or that it was long past room temperature. It was pizza. Fuck, he was starving. When had he last eaten? Before the Big Wheel, probably. A protein bar. So he grabbed a slice before so much as putting down his backpack, and leaned against the table. “Thanks,” he said, mouth full. “What if I wanted to meet the gremlins? You gonna turn into a grempire? Were-gremlin? You try feeding them pizza?” Peter swallowed, slung his bag over the back of a chair, and reached for another piece. “Can I see the map? Do we have a game plan? Can I do anything?”
❛ title’s too long, no one’s going to read that. it needs workshopping, but sure, we can write a big wheel manual. ❜ if everyone fixes their problems, maybe the place will bounce right back into an altogether uneasy calm. tony isn’t grateful for the havoc that’s gone on lately, but he’d admittedly been getting a little restless. for all they know, this whole thing could be just to keep them busy. they’re hamsters running around a little wheel while doom sits on the couch and watches, that sort of thing. anyway, the point is, they’ll have more free time eventually.
❛ if all it took was a 20 dollar meal to get them to settle down, believe me, they’d be gone. just because it works on you… ❜ he trails off, eyes rolling. they’re not barbaric, and while tony isn’t anywhere near daisy’s appreciation for the creatures, part of the problem is trying to go about all of this without leaving the building a gruesome scene of gremlin remains. realistically, if they wanted to corner them all and pick up a flame thrower or something, it would be way less time consuming and tedious. but, also, very gross. potentially very inhumane. yada yada yada.
he’s back, wandering through his own head, before peter’s voice drags him back. the map is only a hop, skip, few button presses away. a holographic latverion spreads around the room, peter standing in the savage lands and bracketed between images of felicia and gwen connected by a line. he snorts, even though it can’t have been anything but unintentional. designated pairs pop up around their spots all around, situation descriptors below. some more extensive than others, his and daisy’s informative versus karen and ben’s, which just says ‘rocks?????’ ❛ you could, yeah. i mean - take your pick. dragon ? books ? vampires ? seems like everyone’s got a handle on it for now, though. what you should do is take a break. eat your pizza. ❜
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Of course she had to admit, things were a little awkward with the X-Men. She was pragmatic but she often forgot to include people’s feelings in what she did. She saw the practicalities but often forgot the complication of emotion. It was something Emma often chose not to deal with. Something the mutant leader had in common with her. At his tone, Emma looked back at him through the ruby lenses, letting him have his moment, even when their hands grazed. “I don’t know about you darling but I have been awfully busy trying to keep mutants alive.” Emma’s tone was sharp as her back straightened, never losing eye contact with him as she spoke. “Doom may be some pigheaded tyrant but he knows business. I can assure you an optic blast was not going to salvage our situation. I made him an offer he couldn’t refuse. In return, mutants had their own land and the X-Men could continue on teaching.” Emma responded dryly, taking a step closer, hands falling to her hips. “I did what I have always done. I will be the villain if it means that mutants are safe.” Emma’s eyes searched his for a moment before she spoke again. “Believe it or not, I am not a complete monster anymore.”
❛ you’ve historically managed to balance talking to me and keeping mutants alive. ❜ scott’s not unaware of his own ability to be demanding, but this in particular has felt and continues to feel absurdly reasonable. he doesn’t keep things from emma, either because it’s no use trying when she has open access to his head or because he hasn’t felt the urge in some time. it’s not much different here, when emma remains one of the only things familiar to him from before this world. throughout the whole thing, the most scott moves is to roll his eyes. ❛ as much as i appreciate your flair for the dramatic, i did not nor would i call you monstrous. it’s a little early in our talk to be putting words in my mouth. ❜ sure, there may have been times he would have, but that’s beside the current point. ❛ you haven’t been forthcoming, all i’m left to do is ask. what offer ? your loyalty ? ❜
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💙 — “a little unnerving, no?” he had dealt with big bugs before. gott, he had dealt with big everything and anything at this point. that didn’t make this particular infestation any easier. his eyes follow the beetle that crossed cassie’s path. it was certainly a far cry better than what it had been moments earlier, what with the swarming and the buzzing. “are they.. distressed at all?” one could assume they had been, at least a little, giving the energy they exuded earlier. but the question wasn’t on task, or particularly important, and kurt snapped his focus back up to the young bug whisperer and her talk of a plan. “ja, step four. hm. asking nicely won’t do the trick?” he asked, though the look he wore gave way to his doubt. a small smile, exasperated tilting back of his head. “well. we could discover his plan, work our way up from that. maybe we can all get what we want.”
she’s inclined to agree, and if this is unnerving there’s a part of her that feels lucky it wasn’t something else. like giant horses, or giant snakes, which would’ve been downright freaky. she hums in consideration, watching the bugs instead of her partner for a moment. there’s a lot of them, dad would totally be impressed if he could see her keeping them cool. ❛ they’re a little agitated, but not at us. ❜ hopefully they can keep it that way. grottu aside, the rest of them haven’t actually done anything wrong. the beetle by her foot seems very non fussed. grin matched, it’s good that neither of them seem to have entirely gone past good spirits yet. ❛ i’ve never met him, but i’ve heard he’s not really a talk it out kinda bug. that’s smart, how good are you at negotiating ? something tells me he’s not gonna be super excited to settle. ❜
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peter ,
The Baxter Building had a big eyeball. Manhattan had a big wheel (mostly under control, all thanks to yours truly, and a little bit thanks to Daredevil). Gwen had a big dinosaur. They had, you could say, a big problem. As much as he wanted to sit at home and watch The Masked Singer Latveria, and he did, he so desperately did, because he had ten doombucks riding on the guy in the glittery Emperor Doom mask being Doom himself, that wasn’t how this worked. He’d learned that a long, long time ago. When trouble came calling, you put on a pair of pants and dealt with it.
So here he was. Dealing with it. Which mostly meant checking in with a slightly more adult adult who wasn’t currently fighting a giant eyeball and two small children, and who probably had access to the good tech. And maybe, just maybe, had some fucking idea what was going on here. And yeah, maybe Peter was putting too much faith in Tony Stark, but he had to put it somewhere.
“Please tell me your day’s going better than mine,” he said. “Or that it didn’t involve a fucking ferris wheel tearing up the city to Rascal Flatts. Or that you have any idea what’s going on. Or that you’ve got snacks? I’d settle for snacks.”
the place is a mess. it’s just that he wasn’t expecting visitors, and he prefers to have someone clean for him, and also the gremlins. they’ve figured out that it’s less of an issue during the day, given the science building’s relatively decent natural lighting and the little creatures’ desire to evade anything that isn’t shrouded in darkness. that’s worked out well enough, at least, it gives them more time to move around and regroup without risking bites. the suit keeps him safe, sure, but it’s not the most comfortable thing to try pulling together lunch in. so: stick to the light, keep the blinds open, avoid dark corners, all tips he’s happy to follow while they work out how to actually get rid of these things.
so, the elevator. it’s not his favorite place right now. ❛ do i look like i’ve been herding a ferris wheel ? ❜ then again, peter doesn’t really either. actually, he looks fine. tony’s going to have jarvis run a full health scan just in case, but he can’t deny that the lack of any obvious evidence of being near crushed by a wheel is comforting. the elevator dings, and tony shoves peter onto out to his floor, what remains of daylight shining in. off to the side, he hears a telltale scuffle in the vents. annoying.
❛ yeah, sure, best day of my life. there’s pizza. ❜ he flaps a hand in the general direction of half an oven pizza before taking a seat. ❛ felt rude to ask for delivery. i’ve got a map of everything going on and a pretty cohesive list of who’s handling it, but that’s about it. hey, you have to leave before sundown. that’s when they come out of hiding. i think they’re hungry. ❜ which, really, should be enough of a look into how tony’s day is going.
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with : @bamfelf
location : new attilan, currently bug central
she hasn’t actually been to this part of latverion before. it’s not often she really thinks of how big the place is, how separate and disjointed when it comes down to it, but it’s been impossible to ignore today with all the corners of chaos around. her helmet safely and helpfully set in place, the bugs quiet in their aggravated buzz. cassie likes bugs, she’s comfortable with them, but even she isn’t immune to the slight tension of being more or less surrounded by ones close to her size. it wars with her excitement, the desire for something to do - anything, really, that’s built in her chest over way too long of sitting around. ❛ so, ❜ she starts, conversational. by her feet, an overgrown beetle slinks around. great. cool. ❛ step one: get to new attilan, check. step two: get bugs to calm down through good vibes and asking nicely, check. ❜ here, she pats the side of her helmet. ❛ step three: find giant ant, but we should probably settle step four first. how do you wanna do this ? ❜
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