slotted for thegames and not happy about it

[wantsajetpack]

ARE YOU NUTS!

I've heard from the big guy you have there what happens there.  NO WAY!  I mean really I have school to finish, and what if Tony needs my help, and....

What do you mean you don't care... and... [she notices her canon point for the app...]  You can't be serious?!  You're having me show up when... well, on the up side at least I won't be killed by the Tong or Magia.  But how will Ironman be able to find me?  And I don't want to go there, it's an arena.  Look at me mun?  I'm not a fighter!

I mean yeah I want to work for SHIELD, even if Fury's a total jerk, but really doesn't mean I want to learn hand to hand combat in a life or death situation!  Can you rethink this please?  Let me stay home, get some kick boxing classes.  Continue learning the ins and outs of computer systems.  I'm good at that.  Just look how helpful I am with a cellphone...

[Pepper really breathe please!]

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[agentofshield]

You don't get to be nice in my job, darlin'.

[wantsajetpack]

[And watch this red head flail because she didn't expect him to hear that!]

Well, you didn't have to be so mean to to... I mean Ironman. Not that I know anything that was said... [Foot inserted into mouth firmly thanks]

[flower_power]

Well, on the positive side, the... current arena is almost over?

[wantsajetpack]

It's still... Barbaric, they really don't expect us to kill one another there do they? [Yes she's actually feeling a little sick about that because she's never been near anything recently dead. Unless you count sushi.]

Why hasn't the UN stepped in or I don't know some other government power to stop it? It's murder for entertainment, most countries have laws against that

[flower_power]

They really do. But they have other things in there that can kill us too.

[Rapunzel has had a bad time thus far between the being lit on fire and the monsters trying to eat her and the drowning and such.]

The... the UN?

[wantsajetpack]

You mean they'll pit us against monsters too? [More she hears more she really wants to be sent somewhere else... and more she wants Tony there because he'll calm her down.]

UN, United Nations. Don't tell me that they're useless there... What about the Marines.. they have armed forces right? That will get us out of there?

[Because Pepper's all for modern knights (preferably in Shiny red armor) sweeping the damsels in distress off their feet.]

[flower_power]

There's been a lot of those.

[Her voice is quiet and a little sad as she speaks.]

Everyone I've talked to says that the people in charge are the ones who did this in the first place?

[likeapersonalassistant]

[Virginina's just gonna be over here, scowling a little. Patricia stole her name and she doesn't like it, damn it!]

[wantsajetpack]

[Pepper frowns at that.] But... how... why?

[she shakes her head] No, someone has to be stopping it, I mean really from what he told me most of the people who get there are innocent. Why would they want innocent people to...

[wantsajetpack]

[Sorry Virginia! Patricia didn't mean to! Blame it on her parents giving her a bad name to start with! At least she makes up for it by still being cool?]

[likeapersonalassistant]

[Well...she thinks so, yeah. She's grown up, right? No more stalking Tony, hating on Whitney, and not knowing her limits?]

[flower_power]

They think it's fun to watch?

[Rapunzel is going off of secondhand knowledge here, but THIS IS WHAT SHE'S BEEN TOLD....

[wantsajetpack]

[Of course not, what would be the fun of throwing grown up Patricia into a game with mostly MCU cast? She's still childish, in between crushes on Gene and Tony, before dating Happy... Because the mun's mean and pulled her from first season after her blow up at Whitney that got them detention]

[wantsajetpack]

[and here's Pep grumbling about how sick the people in charge are.] If Tony was going with me he'd make sure they stopped.

[Poor Pep doesn't know there's already a Tony there.]

[flower_power]

He's.

Um.

My mun says he's there?

[likeapersonalassistant]

[Oh dear. XD Then yeah, Virginia's ambivalent toward Patricia. She's just insecure about her name being used for a person who's just so unlike her; feels it projects badly on her.]

[wantsajetpack]

What?! He can't be he was going to the armory to work on the report with... [Growls the name] Whitney.

[wantsajetpack]

[Patricia promises to make sure everyone knows she's not Virginia so don't worry it won't reflect badly. Besides, Pepper's a common nickname for redheads, just not in Marvel.]

[likeapersonalassistant]

[Thanks for that. Still, don't let Virginia catch you hatin' on Whitney! She kinda bonded with her earlier.]

[wantsajetpack]

[Patricia will try to play nice with her, as long as she reserves calling her Tony's pet for when she's out of ear shot]

[likeapersonalassistant]

[Good! There shall be no feuding Peppers, then! ^_^]

[wantsajetpack]

[YAY! Because really Patricia would love to learn how to keep Tony in line from someone who's been at it longer.]

[flower_power]

I don't think that really matters all that much.

[wantsajetpack]

But it's important, we have to have it done by morning. [Though she's spent most the night having coffee with Gene avoiding the said report but hey! One of them should do it.]

[flower_power]

The people here don't seem like they care, I mean.

[wantsajetpack]

They're not like aliens are they? because I've read all the conspiracy theories about what aliens do to people. I don't want to be stuck on some alien world as a prized show pony or something like that. [and whoah there's a wild jump of rational thinking.]

[flower_power]

[... UH]

I don't... think so? I mean it's not like they're all humans and they do have monsters but some of the ones who aren't human that I've me thus far are very nice, Some...

he

He saved me.

When he was still alive.

[WHOOPS sudden turn into depressing]

[wantsajetpack]

[Aw poor Rapunzel mun's still all feels about some of those threads! But Pepper blinks a moment.]

He, how... [Shut up Pep, you should be more helpful here.] I'm sorry.

[flower_power]

It's... it's okay, dying isn't supposed to be forever.

[It sounds like she's trying to reassure herself of this as she says it, or confirm the fact. She doesn't want it to be forever.]

[wantsajetpack]

Huh... But? When people die they don't come back.

It's not supposed to happen anyway. Maybe reincarnation if you believe that, but it takes years and chances of finding the reincarnation are slim to none...

[flower_power]

No, it's...

Not everywhere. I don't think. But that's what's supposed to happen here. Or... or that's what people have said?

[wantsajetpack]

So the death's aren't permanent? You don't feel them do you?

[Because she'd hate to feel herself dying only to be brought back to die again.]

[flower_power]

That's what I've been told.

And...

I'm pretty sure you do.

[Rapunzel hugs herself. She hadn't actually died, but...]

[wantsajetpack]

Ugh I'm liking this less and less... Though I get there, maybe we can meet. They don't have a problem with people watching each other's backs do they?

Because until I find Tony or Rhodey, I don't have a problem with helping someone else stuck there.

[flower_power]

I'm not sure. People do it, though.

[wantsajetpack]

I don't think I want to know how... they don't have scars do they? Because I'd hate to get a scar from that place. would be easier to think it's not happening without a physical reminder.

[flower_power]

I don't think so?

[agentofshield]

Stark's capable of handlin' his own business. He's got thick skin. [Which is about the best Fury can say about him.]

[wantsajetpack]

[She's silent a moment. Really is Fury talking about the same Tony she knows? Because she's seen him about to snap before, hell Rhodes has seen him snap, he may put on a brave face, but she doubts if he was on his own he'd be as strong as he acts.]

How lon... I mean you know Tony and Ironman aren't the same person right? [Because she still thinks that only a small handful of people know the secret. Her Tony's not as out going as some of the others. At least not with that.]

[agentofshield]

Darlin', just who the hell do you think I am?

[wantsajetpack]

That a rhetorical question? [Because she knows exactly who he is, and yeah mouthing off might not be the best idea, but she's trying to think of a way to save face here. and slowly watching her dream of being a SHIELD agent sink under the waters so to speak]

[wantsajetpack]

might be a relief...

[agentofshield]

Not at all.

[wantsajetpack]

Nick Fury, In charge of the SHIELD Helecarrier and if you listen to come conspiracy theorists, secretly the only man with more power than most government leaders... Not that I believe everything I read, Just everything in the FBI databases...

[agentofshield]

The FBI has the abridged version, but that's the broad strokes. If I'm half as competent as all that, you can trust me when I say Stark is more 'an capable of takin' care of himself. And that you can cut the crap about him an' Iron Man.

[wantsajetpack]

How do you know he's... I mean it's a secret, we haven't... Whitney told didn't she? I knew it was a bad idea to let her know. [Okay maybe Panther, but she really doesn't think he'd have a reason to let anyone know since Tony did save his life...]

[agentofshield]

I make it my business to know who runs around with lots of fancy gadgets pretendin' to be other people.

[wantsajetpack]

So... kind of pointless to hide it. [Makes her wonder if it's worth it to beg Tony to make her armor... Jet boots are a little cooler than jetpacks after all....]