MK VII: Faulty Wiring

[thecoolexec]

A || PHONE || UNFILTERED

Pfft. Typical. Looks like the IT Department is under new management, Mayfield. S'what happens when you outsource your tech to Hades and/or wherever the hell else we are.

Anyone know what the deal is, here? I'm normally not one to let anything get me down, but gravity certainly brought me down through my living room floor this morning.

Ouch, incidentally.
 

B || DAY || CUNNINGHAM LANE STREETS

[Tony's a man of science and tomfoolery. That's why he's phasing his hand in and out of his otherwise-solid-looking front door experimentally. Then he's sticking other limbs in there -- one foot, then the other... walk by at the right time and you might just see a bemused human head seemingly stuck in the door, looking about the area and curiously inspecting the clouds in the sky.]

Comments

B

[burnbabyburn19]

[Jeanne was merely wandering through town when she saw this display... she's startled aback, creatign a fireball that dances on her palm.]

What! What manner of being are you!? Are you an End?

Re: B

[thecoolexec]

I'm not the end. I'm just a new beginning. Optimism. [He shrugs.] I think my house is weird.

[burnbabyburn19]

[Jeanne flicks out the fireball.]

Opti-...

What is this sorcery?

[thecoolexec]

An ah ah! A magician NEVER tells his secrets. My specialty is more in lovely assistants than in the actual magic tricks though.

[He pretends to "bounce" his head like a basketball before stepping forward and through the door.]

[burnbabyburn19]

[Jeanne cranes her head and observes.]

Ah. Ahhhh!

What impressive power you have. Perhaps you are an End? We shall slaughter the humans of this realm!

[thecoolexec]

Uh... no... thanks? Genocide is bad for my digestion. Not enough moral fiber.

You keep saying End. End to what? Of what?

[burnbabyburn19]

[Your sarcastic quips do not effect this much crazy. Jeanne merely cackles.]

I am an End. An End to humanity!

[Flaring up those fireballs on her hands again. This might not end well...]

[thecoolexec]

[End to humanity...? What the hell? Is she some homicidal maniac?]

Wha...t are you doing there, lady? Let's chill, hm? No need to get toasty here.

[His armor is all the way in the basement...Crap! He'll need to stall if he's going to get into a rumble.]

[burnbabyburn19]

[Jeanne grins, fire reflecting off her teeth.]

If you are not an End you must be a human. Or Dtifter. And I shall kill you.

[thecoolexec]

Right... Yes. You COULD do that. But then all the paper-- OMIGOD, LOOK, YOUR HANDS ARE ON FIRE!!!!

[Spoken with much horrified finger pointing and wide eyes.]

[burnbabyburn19]

[Jeanne only menacingly advances closer.]

And soon you shall be afire!

[And Jeanne launches a flame at Tony]

[thecoolexec]

Crap, I was SURE that would woooOOOORRK--!

[He dives out of the way as a fireball whizzes at him. OKAY. So much for Operation: Delay the Inevitable! This bitch cray! He jumps up and shuts the front door, hoping that makes the slightest difference. Unlikely.]

[burnbabyburn19]

[And Jeanne's response will be to laugh maniacally while launching more fireballs at the door.

She cray-cray]

[thecoolexec]

[Well, the first fireball thuds against the shut door, but the second one? That one phases right through and destroys a few framed pictures in his living room.]

HEY! That photo was of ME! Destroy the OTHER ones!

[Tony hastily rips open the basement door and bolts down the stairs, towards his lab and, more importantly, armor.]

[burnbabyburn19]

[Jeanne stomps her way inside.]

Human! Prepare to meet my wrath!

[She hasn't been able to kill any humans for a bit so,

It's burninating time!]

[thecoolexec]

[He hears her footsteps on the floor above and her shouted threat. He shakes his head and hastily clambers into his armor, sorely missing the smooth, quick armoring process he mastered with his REAL, MODERN suits.]

Quickly, now...!

[burnbabyburn19]

[Jeanne hears the commotion in the basement and stomps her way down, setting fire in her wake.]

Burn! Burn! BURN FOR THE BLACK KING!

[thecoolexec]

[Iron Man closes his facemask and steps out of the storm door entrance and into the afternoon light. Then, he moves just to the right of the open storm door, out of sight, opens his facemask and calls out:]

Really hope she doesn't find me out here!

[burnbabyburn19]

[Jeanne cackles maniacally while heading to the source of the noise, never minding that it's a set-up, probably.]

Burn!

[thecoolexec]

[When Jeanne steps outside of the basement, she better be prepared for a big, shiny Iron Boot
to the chest.]

[burnbabyburn19]

[She was not.

Jeanne gets knocked into a nearby wall and shattering some furniture. She's dazed but not knocked out.]

[thecoolexec]

Surprise.

Now get out of my house.

[burnbabyburn19]

[The sensible person would retreat. That is not Jeanne. She growls in anger and lets loose soem fireballs at Iron Man.]

[thecoolexec]

[He throws up his arms to defend himself as the fireballs pelt him. Oof. They pack more punch than he thought. He is jolted backwards, sliding across the floor before skidding to a halt.]

Oh, we playing catch now? My turn.
[He opens his palms, which glow with the charge of a repulsor blast.]

[burnbabyburn19]

No matter what sort of knight you are, all shall fall before my-!

[And the repulsor blast knocks her through the wall. You can find her on her face on the front lawn.]