Gowi

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March 20th, 2005

The Triskelion (9:21 PM / 2121 MT)

"Show me what that suit of yours is really capable of."

Tony Stark couldn’t exactly be mad at the results thus far and with both men just now getting warmed up in this unofficial-field-testing-turned-sparring-match things were bound to get interesting. But then came more goading from America’s favorite patriot and Tony wasn’t too happy about getting the same type of bits that he had given others in the past. Tony’s smirk dropped underneath the faceplate and warped into an annoyed scowl.

“Oh, I’ll show you.”

As the two kept fighting the ten minutes of testing had turned nearly into a half-hour of going back and forth with one another. But Tony was too distracted (and didn’t really care considering he had nowhere to be at the moment) to look at his internal clock that blared 9:58 in bold numbers. As Tony was finally ready to get ‘serious’ and stop ‘playing around’ the simulator lights dimmed as the doors they had entered swung open.

“IRON MAN. CAPTAIN AMERICA.”

Tony recognized the voice— Maria Hill.

“Uh oh.”

“This nonsense is over!”

Tony wasn’t a fan of lectures and he knew getting one from the acting agent-in-charge that answered directly to Nick Fury was probably a bad thing. A sense of comical nervousness came over Tony as Captain America responded directly to Agent Hill first. At least Tony would get yelled at second instead of first. Thank god for Captain America and his habit of taking bullets. And Maria Hill looked like she was good at shooting bullets.

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March 20th, 2005

The Triskelion (9:11 PM / 2111 MT)

"You're the one that ought to be scared, Stark."

“Don’t say I didn’t warn you, Cap.” Stark stifled a chuckle as his faceplate slammed down over his face and the glowing eyes of the suit came to life. Tony Stark was never scared. He had faced down hateful terrorists, ornery journalists, and federal agents. He sneezed harder than it looked like this new Captain America was able to dish out. In all reality Tony felt guilty that he had to embarrass a legend in such a way but then again it was that same person who challenged him to field test it against his own armor. Was he high? Nah, he looked like a Republican so probably not.

“JARVIS, hit me up with something… American.”

“Of course, sir.” The artificial intelligence chimed as the response was followed by the flaring guitars and kitsch melodies of Rick Derringer within Iron Man’s headspace— Tony’s indulgences never had an end, it seemed.

CLINK!

Seemed like Captain America himself wanted to strike first. At least the whole ‘testing the shield’ thing seemed on point.

The repulsion technology in the armor’s feet chimed to life as America’s first avenger came in at incredible speed. But before he collided the repulsors sent Iron Man backwards into the air. “Test numero uno al dente!” Tony shouted, obviously butchering the language as he began to fire several repulsed energy beams from his armor's hands upon Captain America as he kept his distance.

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Well this has gone on longer than I thought it would. Awesome.

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March 20th, 2005

The Triskelion (8:48 PM / 2048 MT)

"Your file says you have some... suits, was it? What say you put one of those suit things on and see whether this shield you designed is going to get me killed or not. Better to find out now than later when I'm in the field, right?"

Tony Stark couldn’t be smiling any wider. Not only did he do SHIELD’s job for them with the video decryption, build a better and more modern shield for the new Captain America, but now he had just been offered a chance to test his own work against his own suit. The hard light shield was a scientific marvel that ran on the same arc reactor technology that powered his life and by proxy the ‘Iron Man’ suit. He was incredibly thrilled with how this night was going even if he couldn’t help but think this american standard was goading him on.

“It’s on like Donkey Kong, Cap.”

His eyes glanced over to the briefcase he had brought with him that contained his suit for inevitable ‘just in case’ scenarios— the case itself leaning against the terminal where they had finished up the prototype shield.

“Pitz. Can you show us one of those fancy simulation-training room thingamajigs?”

“Of course.”

This was exciting. He had fought super-powered terrorists and the one scuffle with Rhodes when a little misunderstanding went south, but he had never fought another ‘hero’, not yet anyway, and for his first experience with that to be against the Captain America felt empowering; as if everyone doing good wasn’t as important as him, reaffirming his place at the top of the metaphorical superhero food chain.

Agent Fitz led the two down several corridors and into an elevator to a sublevel that contained a large room CADMUS tended to use as an experimentation and training room; a room that Mockingbird, Agent 13, Wasp, and a plethora of other agents had been in many times before.

“Fancy.” He looked to the hero beside him, “You sure you don’t want to cancel? It’s okay to be scared.”

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March 20th, 2005

The Triskelion (8:44 PM / 2044 MT)

Tony smirked as the new Captain America simultaneously answers Tony’s ‘questions’ and fed his already galaxy-sized ego. He wasn’t sure who this guy was but he was most certainly speaking his language. He wasn’t sure how to take Stephanie Carter’s actions but he didn’t really care as the shield meant nothing to him despite being made out of the most versatile metal known to mankind. The things he could do with something like that.

“You're under the gun so you take it on the run.” Tony commented with a smirk as he crossed his arms.

“Probably. All you need to know is it’s portable and is more flexible in utility than the original. It’s untested so I can’t tell you the dangers or problems it has. But Fury wanted it done and here we are an hour later.”

“He didn’t do it alone, you know.” Oliver Osnick muttered under his breath as he straightened his glasses.

“I guess the fun part will be testing it.”

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D'oh!

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Reading over this conversation makes me realise how wrong I was to think I was ever a nerd.

@Morden Man

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March 20th, 2005

The Triskelion (8:40 PM / 2040 MT)

“Holy shit, you’re Captain America.” Tony Stark raised a brow as he looked at the man who was before him. “I guess Fury’s getting desperate to recruit a fourth. Weird that he wanted a new shield though, given... iconic status and all.”

It was weird looking at the old uniform— a uniform that had been worn by three men before whoever this guy was. Though when Dugan had talked to him about the return of Captain America he had kept mentioning a girl. Maybe in Fury’s organization she didn’t make the cut. He couldn’t for the life of him remember the name of the agent Timothy Dugan had mentioned to him though, something with a S. Sarah? Selina? Sasha? No, none of them were right. It was frustrating considering before he helped with the SHIELD he had remembered it perfectly. He shrugged, maybe it would come to him later.

“I guess Dugan’s favorite daughter didn’t make the cut, huh?”

He blinked as the hero in front of him mentioned something about ‘back then’ which made Tony even more confused.

“Yeah, it’s 2005. Amazing stuff. Grunge is dead, though. Shame.”

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Who knows. The Matrix Online launches in literally two days in game time. He'll probably be all over that.

@Sloth

I remember Matrix Online being really bad.

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Please, he's a Star Wars Galaxies man.

@Sloth

He could be one of those early EVE Online folks.