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thearena2014-09-08 02:25 pm
arrogantalloy) wrote in thearena2014-09-08 02:25 pm
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It's frustrating for a man who can't sit still...
WHO| Tony Stark and anyone who comes across him.
WHAT| Tony has come out from the safety of his little Marvel Shop nest to wander about and scavenge.
WHEN| The end of week two through to the start of week three
WHERE| Marvel Shop, Food Court, the Sporting Goods Store.
WARNINGS| Maybe be some violence, but nothing Tony can't survive.
(A) -- The Marvel Shop --
After two weeks in the store, Tony is starting to get antsy, and to those who are also using the store as their home base can probably easily tell. He's taken apart everything he can and has made a viarety of tasers, flash bangs and smoke bombs. The last two aren't even remotely dangerous due to the fact Tony doesn't have the best equipment at his disposal, but what they do, do is be at least distracting enough to create a getaway for the user. Whatever materials are left are things that he can use but needs other parts.
In particular he wants to start working on building less powerful versions of the one-use repulsors he had created back home. No way was he going to be able to make them as good as they could be. But they could certainly do some damage to a person's body, repulsor burns are a bitch.
The most obvious part of his antsy ways is his pacing. Not many outside Bruce would be familiar with it in the shop, and while he doesn't act so frustrated while he paces, it doesn't make it any less annoying for anyone who has to deal with it for extended periods of time. The pacing isn't too bad during the day, because he knows he can leave and occasionally will disappear for an hour or two before coming back. But it's at night when his pacing is at it's most unavoidable as they aren't able to escape it.
(B) -- Food Court --
Tony loves food. It's not something he telegraphs and does have a tendency to forget to eat when he's focused. But he still loves food. And as lovely, charming, and reviewable 4 and 5 star quality food is, the man will always go for fast food before fine dining. It was a teen novelty which turned into a habit, there was just something about slapped together burgers that just appealed to him.
Right now he's taken a moment to stretch his legs and find something to chew on his own instead of waiting for those he knew to come back with food for him as if some baby bird. He shakes his head at that thought as he comes up to a juice bar and peers around before jumping the counter to start going through all the available fruit to see what's worth sticking in cups to bring back for the others, and mostly himself.
Unlike his last arena where he wasn't at all trying to keep an eye out for danger, this time Tony's looking up to scan the area as he fruits up, still not often enough, but he at least has a regular period of looking up and around, muttering to himself through the whole process.
(C) -- The Authority - Sporting goods
Tony knew there would be two important facts about the sporting store: One, that it would be a good place to sniff out some electrical goods and supplies. Two, that it would be a great ambush spot because of all those supplies.
He stood back from it for a long while, watching and watching it. Careful to keep an eye out for any movement. However Tony's own impatience and his strong desire to stop being out from the safety of the Marvel store push him to venture in idly picking up walkie talkies, a paintball gun, and flash lights. He's clearly more interested in taking anything that looks like if can be remade into something else or that can be mixed together. Unlike in the food court, Tony's actually making an effort not to make too much noise.
WHAT| Tony has come out from the safety of his little Marvel Shop nest to wander about and scavenge.
WHEN| The end of week two through to the start of week three
WHERE| Marvel Shop, Food Court, the Sporting Goods Store.
WARNINGS| Maybe be some violence, but nothing Tony can't survive.
(A) -- The Marvel Shop --
After two weeks in the store, Tony is starting to get antsy, and to those who are also using the store as their home base can probably easily tell. He's taken apart everything he can and has made a viarety of tasers, flash bangs and smoke bombs. The last two aren't even remotely dangerous due to the fact Tony doesn't have the best equipment at his disposal, but what they do, do is be at least distracting enough to create a getaway for the user. Whatever materials are left are things that he can use but needs other parts.
In particular he wants to start working on building less powerful versions of the one-use repulsors he had created back home. No way was he going to be able to make them as good as they could be. But they could certainly do some damage to a person's body, repulsor burns are a bitch.
The most obvious part of his antsy ways is his pacing. Not many outside Bruce would be familiar with it in the shop, and while he doesn't act so frustrated while he paces, it doesn't make it any less annoying for anyone who has to deal with it for extended periods of time. The pacing isn't too bad during the day, because he knows he can leave and occasionally will disappear for an hour or two before coming back. But it's at night when his pacing is at it's most unavoidable as they aren't able to escape it.
(B) -- Food Court --
Tony loves food. It's not something he telegraphs and does have a tendency to forget to eat when he's focused. But he still loves food. And as lovely, charming, and reviewable 4 and 5 star quality food is, the man will always go for fast food before fine dining. It was a teen novelty which turned into a habit, there was just something about slapped together burgers that just appealed to him.
Right now he's taken a moment to stretch his legs and find something to chew on his own instead of waiting for those he knew to come back with food for him as if some baby bird. He shakes his head at that thought as he comes up to a juice bar and peers around before jumping the counter to start going through all the available fruit to see what's worth sticking in cups to bring back for the others, and mostly himself.
Unlike his last arena where he wasn't at all trying to keep an eye out for danger, this time Tony's looking up to scan the area as he fruits up, still not often enough, but he at least has a regular period of looking up and around, muttering to himself through the whole process.
(C) -- The Authority - Sporting goods
Tony knew there would be two important facts about the sporting store: One, that it would be a good place to sniff out some electrical goods and supplies. Two, that it would be a great ambush spot because of all those supplies.
He stood back from it for a long while, watching and watching it. Careful to keep an eye out for any movement. However Tony's own impatience and his strong desire to stop being out from the safety of the Marvel store push him to venture in idly picking up walkie talkies, a paintball gun, and flash lights. He's clearly more interested in taking anything that looks like if can be remade into something else or that can be mixed together. Unlike in the food court, Tony's actually making an effort not to make too much noise.
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But when the attention of the conversation comes back to his comment, he feels he should probably regret saying it, but well, he did. His expression becomes a bit more abashed as he looks down.
"You know quite well she's got her fair share of aces of her sleeve," but he knows the man wants him to say more than he is. What the hell, it's in his book anyway, "She thought a kiss would distract a Hydra agent from recognizing us."
He looks up again, his expression amused despite himself, "She wasn't wrong."
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Even though, again, he knows it really shouldn't be.
"She kissed you? Of course she kissed you, everyone wants to kiss you." He seems to have the conversation more to himself than to Steve as he answers himself, because really as weird as it feels to him, he knows the guy is becoming something of a sex symbol in his world, probably this one too.
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Though, when the man finally talks again - a mild relief that he didn't make the man's systems crash - it still wasn't entirely what he predicted would be said. In fact, it catches him off guard enough that he out right chuckles, even as his smiles becomes more bashful.
"Everyone, huh? Even you?" It's a good natured jab, he wasn't really meaning to flirt.
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"Haven't been reading enough into my reputation have you?" And he just grins back with his own good natured flirting, unaware that Steve wasn't intentionally flirting.
Okay sure, this might have been something that he thought of when he was a kid and a mess of hormones. But in his own mental defense against himself he thought of flirting with a whole lot of famous people when he was growing up. Most of them women, but not exclusively.
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"Oh, I've read more than my share with plenty more I haven't," still a tease, he gives an amused smile, but the amusement doesn't linger long.
"It's cooled to a trickle over the last few years though," the teasing is gone, more an acknowledgement of how the man has changed and for the better in Steve's opinion. It's the recent years, the present, that matter to Steve, not the past.
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He watches Steve's face as he talks about how Tony's antics have become less playboyish over the years. Which really was unavoidably true, really he can only thank being taken in Afghanistan for that. After all if none of it had happened, Tony wouldn't be Iron Man, Rhodie wouldn't be War Machine, Obadiah would still be alive, still dealing weapons under the table. . . Even the battle of New York would have play out very differently. Pepper might have either remained his personal assistant or just another notch on his bedpost too...
It shows on his face that he's certainly thinking about how he's changed over the years.
"Yeah. Well, not that you know how it feels, but getting old changes a man." He gives a deprecating smile as he looks back out to the expanse of the mall cloaked in darkness.
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"Age changes a lot of things, but more often it's the events that happen along the way that make the difference," it's Steve's way of saying Stark isn't that old, and even if Steve himself doesn't age much, he still has been changed with time. He's been shocked to learn how much some of his dear friends changed with time while he was frozen. If he had met Howard again, the man would've been almost nothing like his friend from long ago.
"You're still pretty young yet."
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"I've already done the mid-life crisis thing, Pheidippides. That generally classifies someone as old."
Of course this reminds him that in a few years time he would have been the same age as his dad when he was born, and died only a decade and a half after that. All of this uniquely helps Tony remember just how old he is.
"Not all of us can qualify for pension while still looking like an undergrad." He pauses. "Well, I looked younger when I was an undergrad, but at 15 it doesn't count."