365 Days of Drabbles, Day 198

For colliemommie: “Cleaning House”

Hadn't meant this to be a continuation of Break Off but that's the way it worked out.

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“So, we're screwed,” the Prime Minister said.

“Not 'screwed', faced with a difficulty.” The Groupmind's representative morph looked at the vid image of the building the corrupted morphs were occupying. “A software fix is being investigated to prevent a repeat of this incident. Meanwhile, you have Our gratitude for evacuating the surviving humans.”

“You owe us, don't forget it. In the meantime, what are you going to do with all of those killer morphs?”

“We are taking care of it.”

There was a flash of light from the Roof, lancing through the building as it exploded.

One more for the "Oh God, I'm getting old" Dept.

April 21st 2014 will be the 10th anniversary of Doonesbury character B.D. finally taking his helmet off.

This is mostly for Copperbadge.

I want someone to write an Cineverse fic where the Avengers host a Make a Wish kid (inspired mostly from BatKid). Specifically, she wants to meet Iron Man. Cue Tony complaining loudly and long that he Does Not Do Kids and he's not about to allow a cancer ridden moppet into his lab and Steve is better at public relations anyway. Pepper of course shoots back that he did well enough with Harley during the Extremis incident, and Steve succeeds in guilting Tony enough to grudgingly allow the girl to come to the tower.

And Tony being Tony, if he's going to show off His Stuff to said moppet, he's going to do it his way. So naturally there's an eight-year old sized set of Iron Girl armor waiting for her, pink highlights optional (it's got the latest in adaptive camouflage, so she can set it to whatever pattern she wants, including limited invisibility.) Cue Pepper telling Tony "NO!" and Tony reassuring her that the armor has a standard model sensorium so the little girl can have a complete adventure in the suit without actually leaving the lab.

Whereupon the iteration of JARVIS installed in the Iron Girl decides that's not good enough for his little girl (especially after she overhears this conversation) and overrides the safety protocols to let her fly off for real.

In an invisible suit.

With working repulsors...

Hilarity ensues.

365 Days of Drabbles, Day 199

For mmegaera: “The Supernatural”

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He looked over the waist high grass of the plains. In the distance he could see water buffalo drinking at a waterhole near a stand of trees, watched over by a pair of lions sitting on a nearby rock. “This is your idea of a farm?” he asked.

“No, a gathering site,” the not-a-farmer said. “Look, every day we're bombarded by more and more genetically modded fruits and vegetables, and farm animals stuffed with hormones and anti-biotics. Our only choice is go back to hunting and gathering! It'll be more than natural, it'll be...”

“Don't even say it.”

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Puns, we does them.