Someone doesn't like recent developments.

[definingfuture]

Wait, wait, wait. You're gonna what?

No. Keeping me around wasn't part of the plan. Yeah, okay, it's nice to get out and see things. Enjoy the scenery, take in the fresh air, and I got all that. Got it. Done. It's over now.

What do you intend to do with me? Let's face it, I'm not exactly in a good place right now with, well, anyone. And you don't have any real plan in mind except to have me around, so the most I can hope for is sitting right here. Not a pretty picture. Thanks for thinking of me, but I'll pass. No one here needs the Iron Man, and they sure as hell don't want him.

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[neveracoward]

Is Iron Man retiring?

[definingfuture]

From being dragged around in circles, yeah. I'm getting tired already and nothing's even happened.

[neveracoward]

I know it's hard for you, but the less you talk? The less they have to work with.

So...if you're just really, really quiet for a while, they'll leave you alone.

[master_of_magnet]

Finally, the metal man makes sense.

[definingfuture]

Yeah? Just lie down and roll on my back?

I do that, and they'll just start kicking.

[neveracoward]

What, your mun? They don't kick if you give them absolutely nothing to work with. I'm not telling you to lie down and roll over [ew gross] but am telling you to just stop talking.

[But see if she keeps talking to Tony then the voice gets stronger and stronger and, effectively, she's helping.

She just doesn't realize it shhh]

[definingfuture]

You know, I usually do. It's kind of my thing.

[definingfuture]

I'm pretty sure this one would kick me even if I were lying unconscious on the floor.

[Telling him to stop talking is pretty much fanning the flames. Thank you.]

There is no "absolutely nothing" unless we're talking erasing me, which I don't have control over.

[neveracoward]

[Hey Tony, remember when you said no one wants you?

You're right.

In her case, at least.]

Where's JARVIS when you need him, am I right?

[definingfuture]

[Get in line, sister. The queue starts somewhere behind the truckloads of superheroes, so she might have a bit of a wait.]

I'd settle for a dimensional rift.

[smashing_good_time]

Stop your whining, Tin Man. You sound almost like Banner.

[And that's always a bad thing because he hates Banner. Actually. He doesn't like you all that much either now that he thinks about it. You "betray friend and send them to space to have them rot on some random foreign planet to never return back to Earth again to see his friends"...er.]

[neveracoward]

[Fuck superheroes, man, supervillains is where it's at!]

...are you drunk? I didn't think you were this maudlin.

[Come on, Tony, have some witty one liners, you know. Be that asshole Stark everyone hates you for. Don't be human, that's lame.]

[definingfuture]

Well, shit.

[Really, that is all there is to say to that. Um, you're early, Hulk. Hi.]

This isn't the time. Or the place.

[smashing_good_time]

Didn't come here to smash you if that's what you're thinking.

Could've did that already. [Gawd man. All he wants is to ask how your day was and stuff.]

[definingfuture]

Not yet. Not by a long shot.

[He loves those superheroes, okay? Even when they want to beat him senseless. They are his superheroes!]

And I'm not maudlin. [He's sensing a shift and accommodates by putting more energy into his words.]

I'm allowed to have an off-day. Everybody has them. You going to tell me you've never once had a day where karma decided to kick you in the ass? Because I'm going to call bullshit right here.

[definingfuture]

Funny enough? It's what I was thinking.

But you're right. You could have. So, at the risk of calling down the impending wrath, why aren't you?

[His day was shit. But if he doesn't get made into a smear on the ground, it'll be that much better.]

[neveracoward]

[Getting closer now!

She shrugs. Kanye would be ashamed by how much better she shrugs than him.]

I'm nearly a century old, Tony, calling bullshit if I said that would be about as clever as telling a dog that only has its front legs to sit. You're smarter than that. I know you are.

[okay okay she's done

seriously]

So what's up?

[therealgenius]

[...]

I don't know about that, buddy. There's nothing to replace Iron Man right now, so...we probably do need Iron Man.

You know, until, uh...uh...until the tech advances and you can, I don't know...retire in Maui or some shit and let other people fly around your uh...suits.

[definingfuture]

Please tell me that was only a metaphor and not some disturbing anecdote.

[It's hard to get back into this. It really is. Thanks for the compliment, though. That didn't go unnoticed. ]

I'm currently in the middle of being abducted and thrown into the proverbial trash bag of dimensions with no way out and no directives other than "get comfortable". How about you?

[smashing_good_time]

I came back to Earth. Proved my point. We're not friends. But I don't need to smash you right now either.

[...]

Couldn't if I wanted to anyway. Puny human behind the keyboard. [Who somehow controls all his actions. He hates that so much.]

[neveracoward]

[IT'S NOT A COMPLIMENT!!!! It's a statement. It's fact.

It goes like this in her head:

MUTANT :: SUPERIOR
TONY STARK :: GENIUS

See? Her logic, it is flawless. Facts can be stated without being flattery. The facts she believes just aren't...always correct. Shh.]

Are you talking about in canon or in this shithole? Going to a game? Sorry, don't keep up with your drunk ass.

[master_of_magnet]

Most of the time, it's hard to make out what you say through the slurs, and the other times it's usually telling the world how wonderful you are. This, is a novelty.

[definingfuture]

[...Buddy?]

Um... Thanks? But I don't really think there's any need for the Iron Man in this place.

[definingfuture]

No... We're not. [Everyone's just going to drive that home, huh?]

I appreciate that, though. The not smashing me. I'm pretty sure it would upset people if they to have to clean up the mess.

[definingfuture]

Okay, I'll give you the second one, but I haven't actually had a drink in, in... pretty long, actually. So you don't get that.

And I make plenty of sense. I'm a scientist, all I do is make sense.