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aggravating) wrote2012-05-28 05:20 pm
aggravating) wrote2012-05-28 05:20 pm
3rd Command; Video
[See Tony. See Tony with a gun he'd nicked from some drunken hobo in exchange for his watch. See Tony slamming down his communicator on a table and holding said gun up with a rather casual air as he looks around and-]
... Sweet mother of all that's technological and holy-
[He's mumbling, his entire body going slack as an awed and almost teary-eyed expression comes over his face. Because the room he'd found himself in? Yeah. It's the back warehouse of Gotham's version of best-buy. Picked clean of the more expensive things, and most everything else is broken and looted but it's still technology and metal and gears and dear baby Jesus is that a computer?]
Oh, baby, I'm in love. I don't give a crap- I'm in love. [And then he's picking up the communicator and just kind of excitedly showing everyone his goddamn beautiful haul.] If I disappear for the next few days, this is where I am. In robotics heaven.
[He does pause, though, as he turns a corner and finds what seems to be some shelving units that haven't been installed, and he makes a thoughtful noise under his breath.] ... Yeah, this could work.
Hey. [He taps the microphone, obnoxiously] Anyone out there with an inch of sanity and a blow torch? I kind of need one.
[ooc: and so begins Tony staying up for two days straight and barricading himself in his brand new workshop! He'll be emerging with some pretty half-assed helper bots (he has their coding memorized, knows how they go together, could do it in his sleep, he's just been missing the tech he needed to make them) and after that three days of constant work and maybe an hour of sleep? He'll be emerging in a crude, not-so-indestructible Iron Man suit. Because if he can build one in a cave in Afghanistan under constant torture and surveillance? He can sure has hell make one in a run-down electronics store with minimal distractions.
Of course, most of this will no-doubt be destroyed in villain battles and he'll mourn his bots for weeks, but hey. When Tony Stark is left alone and with tech? He builds.]
... Sweet mother of all that's technological and holy-
[He's mumbling, his entire body going slack as an awed and almost teary-eyed expression comes over his face. Because the room he'd found himself in? Yeah. It's the back warehouse of Gotham's version of best-buy. Picked clean of the more expensive things, and most everything else is broken and looted but it's still technology and metal and gears and dear baby Jesus is that a computer?]
Oh, baby, I'm in love. I don't give a crap- I'm in love. [And then he's picking up the communicator and just kind of excitedly showing everyone his goddamn beautiful haul.] If I disappear for the next few days, this is where I am. In robotics heaven.
[He does pause, though, as he turns a corner and finds what seems to be some shelving units that haven't been installed, and he makes a thoughtful noise under his breath.] ... Yeah, this could work.
Hey. [He taps the microphone, obnoxiously] Anyone out there with an inch of sanity and a blow torch? I kind of need one.
[ooc: and so begins Tony staying up for two days straight and barricading himself in his brand new workshop! He'll be emerging with some pretty half-assed helper bots (he has their coding memorized, knows how they go together, could do it in his sleep, he's just been missing the tech he needed to make them) and after that three days of constant work and maybe an hour of sleep? He'll be emerging in a crude, not-so-indestructible Iron Man suit. Because if he can build one in a cave in Afghanistan under constant torture and surveillance? He can sure has hell make one in a run-down electronics store with minimal distractions.
Of course, most of this will no-doubt be destroyed in villain battles and he'll mourn his bots for weeks, but hey. When Tony Stark is left alone and with tech? He builds.]
[VIDEO]
[Amanda's looting some kind of manufacturing plant; it's impossible to tell what kind by the video alone, but she's shoving scrap metal and clumps of wire and batteries and servomotors into a large bag.]
[VIDEO]
Keep showing me things like that, darling, and I might just have to marry you to feel a little less scandalous.
[Seriously, he's staring at those pieces of technology like it's kinky porn right now.
He's been deprived on the silly string powered ship.]
[VIDEO]
Totally ignoring the marriage aspect of his quip:]
Not sure what I'm gonna build yet. Depends on what else I end up finding.
[She holds up a hand smeared with gear grease to show him...a bunch of small gears. She feels the same unbridled enthusiasm about industrial mechanics as Tony does about computerized technology--she just doesn't convey such emotions well.]
If I can find a lawnmower somewhere, though, I have a pretty good fuckin' idea.
[VIDEO]
I think I saw a picked over hardware store a few blocks ago.
[He's leaning forward, grinning like a madman]
Is it gonna breathe fire? Tell me you're making a lawnmower that can breathe fire.
[VIDEO]
Too damn impractical. The fuel would be too heavy to haul around and it wouldn't last long.
[Tiny Amanda is tiny. She'd used Hoffman for the heavy lifting back home.]
Thanks for the tip, though. Hardware store, here I come. Then I've gotta find some leather belts.
[VIDEO]
definitely notso totally his middle name it's not even funny]Okay, point. I'd offer to make you something more long-lasting than a basic fuel pack, but I kind of have other projects right now.
[He grins, still keeping that wicked edge to it] Hey, if you make anything fun, let me know.
I'm probably the only one in this place right now that can appreciate true inventive genius.
Re: [VIDEO]
Oh, I will. I expect the same from you.
[VIDEO]
Sweetheart, I'll make a goddamn movie out of my triumphant return.
[VIDEO]
Lucky you, getting to make one yourself. There are already movies about me and they aren't very flattering, to say the least.
[VIDEO]
We can make jet-propelled lawn furniture and terrorize the ship with intelligent toasters.
Re: [VIDEO]
Sounds fun, but I'm not looking to be made an inmate again.
[VIDEO]
[His grin widens a bit]
No harm in a good prank.
Re: [VIDEO]
[She likes you now, Tony. Be her science bro.]
[VIDEO]
It's a date.
Look, you need anything while we're in this war zone, let me know. Once the suit's up and running I'll be pretty invincible.
Re: [VIDEO]
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I owe you one.
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And it's no problem, seriously. I'd love to see what you make.