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entrancelogs2015-05-11 08:32 pm
assembles) wrote in entrancelogs2015-05-11 08:32 pm
all that's left behind [closed]
Who: Steve Rogers & Natasha Romanoff, Bucky Barnes, Pepper Potts, Lydia Martin, Darcy Lewis, Billy Kaplan, & Carol Danvers
Where: Starting in the hedge maze, then all around the mansion.
When: 05/11
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Steve is back from a year-long trip home and has a lot of people to catch up with. Possible spoilers for Age of Ultron within! This is a closed log, but if you want to be added to it, feel free to contact me.
The Story:
One moment, Steve is in the middle of a training session at their new facility. It's what most of his days are made up of lately, him and Natasha putting their new group of Avengers through their paces. It's all about learning to work together as a team, to act as one unit instead of six separate entities. It's been going well, all four of their new additions ready and willing to show up every day and put their all into it --
But the next thing he knows, he's looking at nothing but green. Steve's grip on his shield tightens as he spins in a quick circle, only to find that Natasha is there with him. But it's just the two of them, and it takes a few seconds of puzzled staring before he realizes that they're in a maze. A hedge maze.
There's only one place he knows of that has a hedge maze, and it's a place he'd forgotten about entirely until this exact moment. To have a year's worth of memories crash back into him all at once is almost enough to send Steve off-balance, and he definitely doesn't have the coherency to speak as it rushes back. This place, the events, the people. Bucky is here. Bucky, who he's spent a year searching for back home to no avail, had been right here all along. Trapped in time. Peggy had been here too, and then there are those who he met and befriended here: Pepper and Darcy, Sansa and Evelyn, Lydia and Carol.
He snaps his head to look at Natasha when he remembers that Bruce had been here too, and they had found something here together, carefully working their way into a relationship long before it happened back home. They'd had the peace and quiet and security to actually make something of it here, whereas at home Natasha has been doing her best to accept that Bruce took off without her. (To keep her safe, Steve knows, but it's not like it stings any less that way.)
So many people had described to Steve what it would be like to go home and then return here, but even with all that he hadn't really been prepared for it. He rubs at the side of his head with his free hand as he finally finds words. "Looks like the two of us are doomed to come and go from this place together." At least, that's what Steve figures happened, but he'd better be sure. "What's the last thing that you remember?"
If it's training their team after cleaning up Stark's hugest mess, then they'll be in business. Or on the same page, at the least.
Where: Starting in the hedge maze, then all around the mansion.
When: 05/11
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Steve is back from a year-long trip home and has a lot of people to catch up with. Possible spoilers for Age of Ultron within! This is a closed log, but if you want to be added to it, feel free to contact me.
The Story:
One moment, Steve is in the middle of a training session at their new facility. It's what most of his days are made up of lately, him and Natasha putting their new group of Avengers through their paces. It's all about learning to work together as a team, to act as one unit instead of six separate entities. It's been going well, all four of their new additions ready and willing to show up every day and put their all into it --
But the next thing he knows, he's looking at nothing but green. Steve's grip on his shield tightens as he spins in a quick circle, only to find that Natasha is there with him. But it's just the two of them, and it takes a few seconds of puzzled staring before he realizes that they're in a maze. A hedge maze.
There's only one place he knows of that has a hedge maze, and it's a place he'd forgotten about entirely until this exact moment. To have a year's worth of memories crash back into him all at once is almost enough to send Steve off-balance, and he definitely doesn't have the coherency to speak as it rushes back. This place, the events, the people. Bucky is here. Bucky, who he's spent a year searching for back home to no avail, had been right here all along. Trapped in time. Peggy had been here too, and then there are those who he met and befriended here: Pepper and Darcy, Sansa and Evelyn, Lydia and Carol.
He snaps his head to look at Natasha when he remembers that Bruce had been here too, and they had found something here together, carefully working their way into a relationship long before it happened back home. They'd had the peace and quiet and security to actually make something of it here, whereas at home Natasha has been doing her best to accept that Bruce took off without her. (To keep her safe, Steve knows, but it's not like it stings any less that way.)
So many people had described to Steve what it would be like to go home and then return here, but even with all that he hadn't really been prepared for it. He rubs at the side of his head with his free hand as he finally finds words. "Looks like the two of us are doomed to come and go from this place together." At least, that's what Steve figures happened, but he'd better be sure. "What's the last thing that you remember?"
If it's training their team after cleaning up Stark's hugest mess, then they'll be in business. Or on the same page, at the least.
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"Pretty bad," Steve says first and foremost, ceasing in eating for a moment as he rests his forearms on the table. He pauses, giving Darcy a chance to brace herself for what he's going to say next.
"This AI they tried to make took on a mind of its own and started spreading its way through the internet. It was able to put itself into as many robot bodies as it wanted. Ultron is what Tony named it, before he knew what it was. His idea was to build a suit of armor around the planet to save us from alien threats, but Ultron had his own plans."
Humanity destroying plans.
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She listens, taking a deep breath after those two words. Things had been pretty bad before, so the fact that it gets that qualifier is not encouraging. Like at all. And in a way it was all still tied to Thor and Loki and Asgard - alien technology that some people apparently weren't mature enough to know when to leave it alone.
"Oh my god." The internet was basically killing people. "And here I thought people freaking out about robots trying to take over the world some day was total BS."
That is... That is terrifying to think about. Considering just how much machinery they had in the lab and how often she was on google? They were screwed.
"Please tell me you guys stopped it before it destroyed everything and everyone?" It's her own indirect way of finding out just how deeply this touched her own personal future - if he knew.
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And maybe they would have, if Tony and Bruce had said something.
If Ultron had succeeded in his plans, Steve wouldn't have been here talking to Darcy over a smorgasbord of dessert. It feels good to at least have some good news to give her, even if Steve can't quite forget that it all could have been avoided.
"We did," he replies after he finishes another bite of pie. "We wiped out any trace of Ultron, but it was a pretty close thing. He'd rigged a whole city to float into the air and if it had crashed back down to Earth, it would have killed a lot of people."
Steve doubts that Ultron would have stopped there either, but at least they don't have to find that out the hard way.