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[The feed opens to Tony's form from about the waist up. His sleeves are rolled up and his left arm is covered in burns that look to be about a week old. He's holding a strange device about eight inches long. It's encased entirely in a shell and seems to have a small domed sensor on top.]

I just wanted to say, if you start seeing these around, it's not a tiny alien invasion, they're sensors. I'm setting them around key locations in the hopes of finding a way to predict these event things. In light of the most recent catastrophe, I think it's only a reasonable step towards surviving something like that again. There has to be something preceding these things, right? Like a low-pressure system before a storm. We get a warning, sure. Sometimes, anyway? Maybe, if we can figure out what causes them or where they're coming from, we can delay or stop them?

[It's... all he's got, okay? He hates feeling like he isn't in control and he hates that people die because of it, even more.]

I'm... [He sighs and pinches the bridge of his nose, the beginnings of a sleepless headache coming on.] officially out of retirement. Hold the "I told you so"s. You know who you are.

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not a bad idea.

[He knows there's pretty much zero percent chance of it working but you can fake positivity sometimes.]

downside being that you'd need to wait a couple of events to collect enough data for anything conclusive.

[Correlation =/= causation and all.]

I told you so.

[ B) ]

[SQUINTS]

You can build robonoids?

Okay, I think I should probably apologise for that one. There are no rated x tatts. They're similar, but they have different personalities. It's just something you pick up on when you're around someone.

I'll ask. Thanks.

I have no idea where that is--it is a place, right? And okay, bear in mind, this is coming from a guy with very limited magical experience: Define "Force Mage" for me, if you could? Like, there's a difference between magic?

[He doesn't like feeling like he doesn't know something, but he sure as hell won't let his pride get in the way of learning something new.]

Why is everyone shooting them? [Oh, the pout you get, Daisy.] The target drones are in the training room, young lady. [Pfft, as if he has a 'dad' voice. Not even.]

Eh. You can help me fix them.

cool

this place has already got its weird mirror doppelganger deal
so you know theres like four of them in all
god thats gonna get confusing

[Funny thing, that smirk. Because the smirk he gets from Tony looks just as strained. Like neither of them is actually saying what's on their minds.]

Suction cup arrows on an 80 pound drawstring bow will still crack the thin shell casing, bird brain. I didn't build them to be durable. They're delicate pieces of equipment.

No one won any bets because no one placed any official wagers. So can it, Cockatiel.

Well, I'm hoping when these events happen, there's some kind of power spike? I dunno, magic isn't really my thing, but it's gonna take some heavy trial and error. But magic is still energy of some form. I just have to find the right 'frequency' for lack of a better term. Wavelength?

[Head-tilt and squint.]

But I don't think we've been introduced yet. I'm Tony.

Thank you very much.

[That false positivity is one thing, but the actual understanding of what he's doing here gains Sans a more genuine look of approval.]

That's the plan. Either way, I'll learn something. Data collected is still data where we once had no real information. It's gonna take time, but the way I see it, we have plenty of that.

You're looking less buggy, by the way. Congrats on that.

After everything that's happened lately, do you blame me?

Do what now?

[He meets your SQUINTS and raises you a BLANK STARE.]

What's a robonoid?

[ As they continue to smirk and talk around the actual issue. ]

You're no fun. What else am I supposed to use for target practice then?

[ Besides you know, actual targets. ]

Says you. Who says we didn't have a pool set up that you didn't know about?

So, stabbing one that was following me was bad then?

[ It's an innocent question and Tony gets an innocent face that is anything but innocent. ]

[Okay.

Okay, this is happening.

This is so totally super happening.

Agent Romanoff told him that he needed to get in touch with Tony Stark (SHE CALLED HIM TONY) and help out with mechanics.

He turns the video feed on.

And then he turns it off. CAN'T. ABORT. THIS IS IRON MAN.

Voice maybe? Voice means communicating without eye contact.]

Um. If I might.

In-interject. I. um. I was reviewing the design--

[He's breathing heavily enough to trigger hyperventilation. The voice feed snaps off. BE COOL, FITZ.

Text. Text is less intimidating. In and out, that's all it'll take.]

Placement is flawed. A ground-based network requires triangulation for detection in power swells. Networking on this scale tends to underestimate the number of flashes, especially if pulses move as cloud-to-cloud lightning does.

[He sends it without stopping to go back and read what he's written. DID HE JUST MAKE IRON MAN HATE HIM??? This is so stressful.]

Edited 2016-05-02 18:22 (UTC)

[WHY DON'T HUMANS UNDERSTAND HER IMPORTANT HOMEWORLD TERMINOLOGY.]

Like those, only rounder with detachable limbs. They're for surveillance. [she ticks off on her tiny fingers.] Also repair, remote hacking, data collection... It depends on the type.

I haven't been able to find the correct parts to make them here. [because she can't be satisfied with inferior Earth technology and the closets won't give her too much to fit her specifications. hilariously, it would probably give her a hundred robonoids if she'd fucking ask.

but why should she trust wonderland to give her decent equipment?? SHE MUST BUILD IT HERSELF.]

How are you making it work? Is it magic?

Freya.

[She considers for a moment, because he's not wrong about magic being energy, just in a different form.]

If you're interested in testing it with magic, I might be able to assist you with that.

No.

Do you need help putting them around the mansion?

[There are so many scientists around here. It makes him nostalgic. It's also starting to make him feel kind of silly for being so cagey about his own scientific background.]

if nothing else, we might get an extra day to prepare. even if we don't know what we're preparing for, it's something at least.

heh, thanks. decided a buggy life just wasn't for me.

[She's looking very curiously at the device, like she's trying to puzzle it out by the video.]

So do t-they sense magical shifts? Or, uhm, temporal anomalies? Or d-do they just... sense any c-change, at all?

[Alphys is really fascinated by how they come together- the design looks so simple but if it really does track the anomalies here, she's interested in it.]

I did not need that image in my head right now. Two of them is plenty.

I'm tons of fun. How about, oh, I don't know, the actual targets in the shooting range? Or the drones I built for the training room? Romanoff?

[Clint, sweetie, he's deadpanning at you.]

Seeing as I'm the key party in this whole thing, I think I say. But no, go ahead. What'd you guys bet?

[You can't have a successful pool without currency. The magic closets make bets almost useless anymore... trust him, he's bummed about that too, sort of.]

Pleasure.

I'm seriously starting to feel outnumbered here. There are a ton of you magic types here. It's impressive. But yeah, absolutely. And if you're willing, I'd love to pick your brain about how it all works where you're from.

[He's honestly surprised by the number of people willing to help him out with this one. Not that he didn't expect the community to be this helpful, he just didn't expect the specific offers. It's also not often he'll admit to needing help, let alone accepting it.]

That's the spirit! And yeah, that's what I'm hoping for. I'll share whatever findings I come up with over the network, whether I run into a dead end or a breakthrough. I wonder if I could poke a few people into getting an actual science team together.

I hear it's not for everyone. Dodging spiders, fly swatters, and shoes can't be fun.

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