pym_kitten:

Chris sat cross-legged in the middle of the Institute's backyard. It was a a little cool for just the workout outfit she was in, but it was tolerable. Whatever the x-gene treatment had done to her, it had done more than just make her a mutant. It was mixing with the magical effects passed down from her mother.

She took a deep breath as she tried to focus again. So far the changes had been sporadic. Partial shifts instead of the full transformation. Claws and eyes were easy, but she needed to get more control over it. Just stay calm, breathe, and let the changes come.

She starts at her toes. She feels her skin ripple as the fur grows and nails turn to claws. Like tensing a muscle, she embraces the sensation, then slowly lets it go as she wills the change up along her calves, over her knees, into her thighs. She can feel her legs strengthening. She fidgets as the tail comes out, adjusting her seating as her legs return to normal.

Her breathing gets heavier as the tail vanishes again, and she opens her eyes, realizing how much of a sweat she'd broken into.

"This... is gonna take some work."

particlegirl:

"Ok.  So if my math is right---and it always is---Stevie's stuck in dimension heeeeeyah."

Marie Claire pointed to the blue splotch of color on the wall-size display.  It was full of colorful splotches, each one representing universes as layered on and around each other.  Dimensions, really, but they didn't look very "dimensional" all colorful like that. Instead they looked a bit like a crazy Rorschach test.  She waited for the rest of the Avengers to take in the destination before changing images, a zoom in of a lighter blue thread that seemed attached to the splotch.

"We're the green dimension.  See the blue line?  That, my friends, is a type of wormhole. It operates on a specific vibrational frequency.  Using the last of the data from Stevie's suit and some of the data we have from the unfortunate Zero Point Gravity Incident."  She paused for a moment, a grim face of sadness washing over her as she thought of the loss of a friend and two entire neighborhoods in the city that LITERALLY disappeared into a mess of non-matter that one might call a singularity (suck it, CERN.)  "Using that data I've created a device that will let me hop over there, get Stevie and hop back."

As predicted Mike didn't like this.  He started to object but there was no objecting to Marie Claire Pym whens he was either shoe shopping or had an Idea.   After a sharp look from her, he shushed.  Everyone shushed.

"Alrighty.  Then tomorrow I go get Stevie.  Someone hide the car.  I want to mess with her good."

***

There was a little burst of light and energy and Marie Claire Pym popped into existence right outside the Avenger's mansion.

And promptly smashed into a tree that wasn't there in her own world.

"Oh goddamnit I broke a nail. "

onearmofhydra:

"So if we stick to the plan -- maintain the mystic protections, have the LMD issue the invitation, use the stealth tech as he arrives, wait until he sits, dampen the sound, the cannon fodder operatives, the aromatic polyamide to disable the armor, the drug regimen to keep him down, -- it'll work? You're guaranteeing?"

"I have watched the plan to capture Doom work. I cannot see the course to the end. I guarantee no further."

"Well, Doom is the key. Without him, we don't even have a start."


And so the plan was followed, with many of the varied resources HYDRA could bring to bear.

And what do you know? It worked.

nextgen_media:

"Reports are coming in from Symkaria that both major cities are under siege by what are unmistakeably Doombots and other Latverian military automata.

After decades of only occasionally mildly disturbed peace, Latveria has apparently finally invaded its southern neighbor.  Victor Von Doom's motivation for this attack remains unknown; he has made no public statement."