Melissa Frost (lady_hood) wrote in marvel_nextgen,
@ 2010-09-25 13:04:00

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anya stark, inactive - beetle, inactive - melissa frost, inactive - molly hayes, inactive - victor mancha, plot-"reciprocity", team - thunderbolts

Resident...Evil?
Despite the garbage that went down earlier in the week, Melissa found herself a happier camper today. The Boss Man's check cleared; she and Kelly were now much more financially solvent. After a call to her lawyer, Diane, to get bills and things paid, Mel goes downstairs to have herself a victory dance, or as they're called, a beer. Never mind that it's early in the morning and that she hasn't hand breakfast, which also sounds like a good idea, Mel just wants to enjoy having her money, her girl, her magic and her guns.

Kelly was right about this whole mercenary gig; it paid dividends, even if being shot at and nearly killed by life-draining nutjobs was part of the job. They'd also done the world a favor by removing Benedict Kine's sorry self from it, and Mel figured they deserved medal for that. Instead, they got hefty-paychecks. Maybe she'd /buy/ herself a medal.

She walks into the kitchen, going through the cupboards to see if there's any eggs to make an omelet. If there is bacon, it's left untouched.

Bacon is against her personal religion.

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nextgenrunaways
2010-10-04 11:39 pm UTC (link)

"I... this... I can't believe the day has come when I'd consider the benefits of just a pair of mechanical spider-legs." Victor manages to mutter, raising a hand to his forehead.

"...my hands should not be this soft. This is alien to me." A pause, as he looks himself over.

Okay, this is going to be a little distracting for a while.

"Wasn't this supposed to be for your brother?"

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	anyastark 2010-10-04 11:42 pm UTC (link)
	"It was," Anya said. "I put an AI in his car and was going to give Darlene a body. Good thing too, otherwise you would have been in the dog or cat." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	dont_bug_me 2010-10-05 12:06 am UTC (link)
	"I wondered what it was for," Syd mused. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	nextgenrunaways 2010-10-05 12:53 am UTC (link)
	Victor looks down, resists an urge, then just shakes his head, before looking at Anya. "Well.. nice work on the chassis, boss." he sighs and scratches his head. "So, how long are the repairs on my body going to take?" He looks around for it. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	anyastark 2010-10-05 02:00 am UTC (link)
	"Thanks. Yeah, that's a problem," Anya said. "We don't have your body. They took it with them when they decided to book out of there." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	dont_bug_me 2010-10-05 02:06 am UTC (link)
	"I'm sure we can build a tracking device to find it though," Sydney said. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	nextgenrunaways 2010-10-05 02:15 am UTC (link)
	"They took... MY body.." Victor blinks, then his jaw slowly drops. "Oh... oh madre de dios... We... we need help. We need lots and lots of help." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	anyastark 2010-10-05 02:21 am UTC (link)
	"Vic? Is there something we should know?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	dont_bug_me 2010-10-05 02:22 am UTC (link)
	"...What's going on? Even if they figure out how to weaponize it..." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

nextgenrunaways
2010-10-05 02:39 am UTC (link)

"Just plain weaponizing it is the least of our problems..." Victor mutters.

"My 'dad' built me with armament and contingency plans to take out every single Avenger and other hero he had files on. Even if the core data's with me, they've got all the hardware and any evil genius worth their salt is going to be able to reverse engineer the protocols."

He lets that sink in.

"So yeah, this is bad."

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	anyastark 2010-10-05 02:45 am UTC (link)
	"Yeah that's bad. On top of them having the files on the Young Avengers...this can go from bad to really ugly in no time." Anya nodded. "I think we may need to call in some help. Certainly the Young Avengers, but I'm not sure if we should call in the Defenders as well. It took the YA and the Defenders to defeat them all the last time." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	dont_bug_me 2010-10-05 02:53 am UTC (link)
	"You also didn't have me last time," Sydney said. "I wasn't close to any of them... but I saw enough and my old suit's still got all kinds of scanned info on them in it." "We use what we know, between us and the Avengers..." she went on, "maybe we got a chance." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	nextgenrunaways 2010-10-05 03:15 am UTC (link)
	"We're going to need to proceed with caution. I've never dug too deep into the Ultron programming, so I can't offer too much in the way of a list of who's detailed however much. We need to get the word out, but quietly." Victor nods, finally standing up. He wobbles a bit, getting used to.... stuff. "..I don't know how you all manage..." He mumbles. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	anyastark 2010-10-05 03:19 am UTC (link)
	"I'll call the Avengers and we'll probably have to head down there for a meeting to come up with a plan. I'll give the Defenders a head's up that we may need them." "Manage what exactly?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	dont_bug_me 2010-10-05 03:24 am UTC (link)
	"I'll start pulling the files out of my old gear," Syd said. She regarded Victor for a moment. "Did we not sync the gyroscopic stabilizers right?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	nextgenrunaways 2010-10-05 03:36 am UTC (link)
	"Manage..... manage.... hips... and stuff..." His voice trails lower in volume. Victor is mildly uncomfortable having this conversation to begin with, let alone with teenagers. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	anyastark 2010-10-05 03:50 am UTC (link)
	"Your center of balance is a little different," Anya said. "You'll get used to it in no time. If everything seems okay, I have phone calls to make." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	dont_bug_me 2010-10-05 03:59 am UTC (link)
	"Go ahead," Syd told her. "Anything comes up, I can tinker with it 'till it works." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	nextgenrunaways 2010-10-05 04:00 am UTC (link)
	Victor sighs and shakes his head. "Alright Syd... let's you and I go let the rest of the team get their digs in now, before we're hip-deep in bad guys again." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	dont_bug_me 2010-10-05 04:16 am UTC (link)
	Sydney hid a giggle behind her hand, but couldn't entirely hide the distinctive buzz. "Sure thing, Vic." (Reply to this)(Parent)

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