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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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Never know 'til I try, right?

[He opens his mouth to argue, then closes it. This is neither the time nor the place to argue weather manipulation with someone. He's already touched on the side of supervillainy with Ultron, he doesn't need to delve into weather manipulation and further that claim. New tactic.]

Whether I can or can't doesn't mean I won't learn something from it all. If I can't, that means this is a dead end and I need to move onto another angle. If I can, well, that will be totally awesome and pursuing stopping or altering it is the next step.

[Okay, Debbie Downer. He's met your kind before.]