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tushanshu_ooc2015-04-23 08:21 pm
Lapis Lazuli | Steven Universe
All she can tell you is that the kirin suddenly rolled its eyes, the white lolling into view, and reared, sending its startled handler stumbling back -- back, back, into a pile of baskets. Birds screech, go flying . . . and suddenly the area is a chaos of feathers and kedan yelps and the wild keen of the kirin.
She only has time to take two steps back -- one, two -- and the kirin surges, its startlement escalated into a froth of alarm. She doesn't think, can't think -- just whirls, twists, darting through kedan and stalls with the creature after her.
It's not her day. Not at all.
5 - There's a girl (woman?) kneeling at the turtle head -- a lone, straight-backed figure staring out at the water, her skirt fanned around her. A breeze stirs her hair and the ribbons at her heck, fluttering against . . . what appears to be a gem, embedded into her back.
She is also blue. Very blue. Both her skin and hair are rich with the color, nearly as deep as the water beyond.
Pepper Potts | IMAA
And so, she's wandering through the marketplace, drawn from stall to stall as each new shiny catches her eye. She's worse than a butterfly, and much louder - some of the merchants are startled by her abrupt appearance and the "Oh wows!" and "I so need one of those!" before she vanishes as quickly as she came. It hasn't quite occurred to her that she ought to spend her precious few juulan on something useful, like food, and to be honest she can't always tell the difference between food and trinkets and there are clothes and -
"Ooh." She stops dead, eyes wide, when she spies the most gorgeous pair of shoes she has ever seen ever. Maybe life in Keeliai won't be so bad after all.
"How much?" she asks the merchant, entirely in her zone now that shopping is involved.
4 - There have been a rash of soul-gem-related thefts in Keeliai recently, and Pepper has been warned by both Foreigners and kedan alike that she shouldn't go out alone at night, much less go out at all. But Pepper is the daughter of a
famousFBI agent and a superhero in her own right - she's got laser grenades! And stealth tech! It doesn't matter if she doesn't have her suit at the moment (Tony never did get around to making hers backpack friendly, no matter how much she begged and nagged). She's still Rescue, and she is so ready to kick some super villain butt. Er - and rescue people, of course.It's just after sunset, and Pepper is
sneakingsidling casually in the shadows of buildings in the Central sector on high alert for any sign of criminal activity./replies to 4 so fast her laptop breaks the sound barrier
He should maybe be a little less confident. There's movement in the shadow of a building, a sneaky sidle that's trying a little too hard to be inconspicuous, and it's weirdly, horrifyingly familiar.
Against all logic and common sense, he approaches, half-mystified by this turn of events. And when he's close enough:
"...Pepper?"
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And whoever that is - or whatever - is getting closer. Pepper is reaching in her purse to pull out something sharp and pointy when it talks.
It sounds way too familiar. Her eyes are adjusted to the darkness, and she would recognize those awful yellow track pants anywhere.
"Gene?" Pepper marches right up to him, eyes narrowed in proper gumshoe suspicion, and pokes him in the chest. "So it's you, is it? Are you the one stealing everyone's soul-gems? I know you tried to save us and all, but seriously, Gene, you have to learn to lay off the evil!" She pauses, and draws back a few inches. "What are you doing here?" she asks, as if she hadn't just accused him of assaulting people all over the city.
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"What?" Okay, this was...this was definitely not even close to what he'd expected coming out here tonight. "Why would I...?!" He sighs and puts a hand to his head. Yep, this is definitely Pepper, not some wraith conjured up from his memories and the Dreaming. Only the genuine article could give him a headache so quickly.
"No. I'm not the one stealing the soul gems. I'm trying to find the culprit."
Then he blinks. "Never mind me, I've been here for years. What are you doing here?!"
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"Why?" She crosses her arms and looks at him disapprovingly. "Are they threatening whatever grand plan you've got here, too?"
Pepper had always believed there was still good in Gene, but after what happened in New York... it's hard for her to want to seek that part of him out. Still, he did try to get the Overlord to leave Earth alone, and even offered himself up, and maybe that would be worth something if he weren't out here in the middle of the night being sneaky.
"What do you mean, years?" she asks, changing tack as quickly as flipping a light switch. "I just saw you on that stupid ship. Why am I here? You teleported Rhodey and me out and dropped me here!" she yells accusingly, but she's more upset than angry. She doesn't want to be here, but she's stuck, and the only person she knows, of all people in the world is Gene Khan. "Where's Rhodey? What did you do with him? What about Tony?" She's starting to sound a little hysterical now.
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No, he doesn't even have time to finish that sentence. That's Pepper for you.
But that does shed some more light on the situation, figuratively speaking, because it's still dark as dicks out here. "So you're just out of the ship...!" He shakes his head, thinking, trying to figure out what to say to calm her down. Despite everything, he still does care about her. Which is annoying, in some ways, but heartening in others. She hadn't seemed to hate him quite so much as everyone else, when everything happened. "I didn't bring you here, and I didn't bring myself here either. It's...complicated."
He sighs. "I don't know about Rhodes. I haven't seen him. But...Tony's here."
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"What if you're lying to me and this whole thing is just some big giant ruse to do...something! You can do whatever you want with those rings. Gene Khan, are you lying to me?"
Gene's words catch up a little behind Pepper's brain. Years. He does look a little taller, a little older; could he really have been here for years? Would Gene really go so far as to make all of this up for... some evil villainy reason? Maybe.
And then he mentions Tony and it's as if someone has just doused her in cold water.
"Tony's here? Where? Does he have the armor? Oh, oh, oh is he still doing Team Iron Man stuff?" Aaaaaand now she's chipper again. "Did he miss me?"
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"I'm not using the rings," he says patiently (with a bit of an irritated edge to it regardless), and shows her his hands. "Look, I don't even have all of them. The last one's with Tony. I gave it to him to make sure I wouldn't...misuse it." That's a pretty way of saying 'go mad with power and slaughter all who oppose me', Gene.
"He's back in the Hotel. Yes, he has the armor. Yes, he's been doing his...vigilante...stuff. I've been helping. And of course he's missed you," he says, his tone softening. "We both have."
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"Whoa," she says quietly. "You gave the last ring to Tony? He didn't have to take it from you?"
Tony hates Gene; Pepper was always trying to get him to see the good in Gene. It sucked when Tony would go on his "I hate Gene Betrayal Betrayal Rarrr" monologues. And now they're working together? Megawhoa.
"So..." A thought dawns on her and she lights up into a smile. "You're part of Team Iron Man too!" If she were farther away she'd tackle-hug him, but she settles for a jump-hug instead. "I knew you couldn't be totally evil!"
Nice compliment there, Pepper, very well done.
I get the feeling this icon is going to see a LOT of use with Pepper around
It made it much easier to accept that Tony has possession of the ring for the foreseeable future.
He braces himself when Pepper rushes at him, preparing for an attack - but it's not an attack at all. It's a...a hug?
"I'm n--" There are so many things he could say here. "I'm...I've been trying to be better. And not...bad...anymore."
I will endeavor to make it so
"Finally using all your skills for something constructive?" she asks cheerfully, releasing him from the hug. "Oh, and just so you know I'm still super mad at you." Her expression turns more serious. "I'm glad you're here, though, and that you're not the 'Dread Mandarin' anymore. I like you a lot better when you're not wearing armor."
magnificent
"Yeah - including some actual construction," he says, thinking about the Sky Sector. And a flicker of unease passes across his face when she says she's mad at him. "I know. You have every right to be. But...I'm not that person anymore. Tony's even forgiven me."
He sighs. "I think I like me better when I'm not wearing armor, too."
omg that icon keyword
"You're actually building things? Tony must be rubbing off on you, he's always making something. It's amazing how many patents he turns out in a week." She tilts her head to the side, thinking. "It's kind of annoying too, but he'd probably explode or something if we tried to stop him."
Pepper sees how uncomfortable Gene looks when she says she's still angry, and it affirms even more her suspicions that he's actually a good human being under all that Makluan nonsense. Not that it makes her any less angry at him, no, no, of course not.
"Yes, I do," she says evenly, but she's smiling. "But! If you're not the same person anymore - which, let's be honest, you'd have to be different for Tony to even be in the same room with you without trying to blast your head off - then I'm not angry with you, I'm angry with Other Gene."
Pepper puts her hands on her hips in a display of pride at her undeniable logic.
"yurt saint laurent" i am dying
"Mostly it's just been actual construction. Buildings and the like. There's...a lot going on here that we'll need to catch you up on."
And then he laughs again, still just as uneasily, when he realizes that Tony's done a lot more than that with him. "Okay, well, I'll tell Other Gene that if he ever makes an appearance," he says. "I'm honestly...still pretty surprised that you haven't hit me yet. You've got every right to."