http://its-ironic.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] its-ironic.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] shatterverse2008-05-14 07:41 pm
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[Pre-shatterverse - warning for spoilers for Iron Man]

It starts in the sky, several hundred feet up. There's a light and a bang, and something appears.

It's metal (though not actually iron), and roughly man-sized (and -shaped), and its colouring is a bright mixture of gold (an alloy, actually) and red (hot rod). It's also falling.

And shouting. "JARVIS–!"

As it tumbles towards the Earth various rockets and stabilizers fire and misfire, with pfft! pfft! sounds like fireworks going off. They do very little – something's been knocked about, jumbled. Internal systems are scrambling to pick up navigational landmarks, satellite signals, air traffic transmissions, anything that would give a clue as to where here is and how far down is down. But there's nothing to pick up. It's like the whole world's gone radio-silent.

Locked in an uncontrolled spin, something within the metal man shouts, "Stabilize, damn it, stabilize!" It throws its arms up to fire palm-mounted boosters: coupled with flaring back-mounted spoilers, these halt the spin, but not the fall. Which means that the metal man now has a really good view of the ground that is rushing up to meet his face.

This is going to hurt.

[identity profile] untidiness.livejournal.com 2008-05-15 02:31 am (UTC)(link)
"I'm an air spirit, and you're in a hermetically sealed tin can falling too quick for me to catch you properly, open up if you want help."

For the record: translucent, no. Intangible, yes. And all right, a little blurry at the edges. It's the speed.

[ooc: unless the suit isn't airtight. She'd know; I wouldn't. XD]

[identity profile] untidiness.livejournal.com 2008-05-15 02:48 am (UTC)(link)
And Sky darts her head forward and kisses his cheek.

It's... hardly even perceptible under all the other air movement going on here, to be honest.

But the effects are noticed immediately; for one thing, he stops falling as though his line to gravity has just been cut.

"Hi," she says cheerfully. "Again."

The other noticeable effect is that now she can... sort of touch him. Sort of. Her presence has an effect on him slightly more tangible than 'the wind is blowing in your direction', at least, though it's very much not easy to tell through that suit.

"Now that I've given you an air-blessing and saved your life, do I get to know your name?"

[ooc: And you are free to have him keep the little green lip-print on his cheek and accompanying ability to flip the finger to gravity at whim for as long as you like! In his business it will probably come in handy!]

[identity profile] untidiness.livejournal.com 2008-05-15 03:04 am (UTC)(link)
"Should I? You some kind of celebrity back home?"

Sky... grins.

"That's kinda cool."

...DAMMIT WHY CAN SHE NOT STOP FLIRTING WITH THE MORTALS.

[identity profile] untidiness.livejournal.com 2008-05-15 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
"Okay. Like I said, Sky. Air spirit."

She grins, and taps his chestplate (there's a faint shushing noise instead of the expected rapping).

"This thing supposed to do anything besides make your life difficult? Since I'm betting the main reason people build airtight seals back where I'm from isn't a problem for you."

That being: air spirits can't spy on you if they can't get through your walls.

Somehow she doubts he'd have much of a problem with her staring at him in the shower even if there were spirits in his home 'verse.

[identity profile] untidiness.livejournal.com 2008-05-15 03:43 am (UTC)(link)
"Yeah, trust me, you'll get warning before it fades. Spirit blessings don't cut out all at once. Bad for business."

Seeing as they're protective, and you don't want a mortal left sitting in the middle of a fire / ice-storm / the goddamn sky with a surprised look on their face as they char, freeze, or splat. 'Cause then their buddies won't burn you delicious incense.

Speaking of which, Sky may be sniffing the air thoughtfully. Tony's suit does not produce nasty exhaust! She approves!

"You're good for at least a day until it wears off," she continues. "More if I like you, and I'm starting to think I do."

...seriously, flirting with the mortals. Why. No. Bad. Fundamental incompatibilities.

[identity profile] untidiness.livejournal.com 2008-05-15 04:01 am (UTC)(link)
Sky whistles honest approval, applauding vigorously.

(It... sounds kind of lame. Hands made of air, and all.)

She also swirls over and grins impishly at him.

"Race you, flying man," she suggests. "You pick the goalposts."

Man, she always picks the bestest mortals to give the kiss of blessing to, doesn't she just.

[identity profile] untidiness.livejournal.com 2008-05-15 04:13 am (UTC)(link)
Snapwhoosh.

Okay, air spirit racing mortal? Probably not fair.

Especially not because that's Sky's blurred-as-hell outline doing looping barrel rolls around his suit. Mockingly.

(He hasn't gone supersonic yet, or she wouldn't be giggling. There actually are limits to her speed, much as she wouldn't like to admit it.)

[identity profile] untidiness.livejournal.com 2008-05-15 04:30 am (UTC)(link)
"If I can't mock mortals what the hell am I good for?" she chirps.

And okay, shutting up now, because damn he's fast.

(If he were an air spirit she would so be propositioning him.)

She can still keep up, but perhaps not quite so gaudily, and is that Malibu on the horizon (what's left of it at least) yes it is thank fuck oh perhaps she should've mentioned the widespread destruction right well he's finding out now isn't he.

(Air spirits don't need lungs to think, either.)

[identity profile] untidiness.livejournal.com 2008-05-15 01:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Shiiiiiiiiiiiit.

Okay, abandoning visible form, shifting presence through chains of air molecules as fast as she can manage, wow this is disorienting but she has to get there by the time he does okay he's stopped get visible again right.

"Not your world," she says immediately, still wavering at the edges like a mirage. "You've been transported to an alternate universe, everything's fine back home, yes shit sucks here but it's been sucking for a while and we're used to it. Sorry. My bad. I should've said something earlier."

[identity profile] untidiness.livejournal.com 2008-05-16 02:49 am (UTC)(link)
Oh Tony, your ego is positively galactic.

"No. Near as anybody can figure, the flashbangs just started happening around August. They don't hit Kansas, for some obscure reason I haven't been able to figure out, and if anybody started them up on purpose they're probably dead by now."

[identity profile] untidiness.livejournal.com 2008-05-16 03:52 am (UTC)(link)
"It doesn't get more specific. Remember how you got here? Loud noise, bright light? They happen randomly, everywhere. Bringing in people, buildings, vehicles, goddamn rocks on occasion. Anything you can think of, from anywhere-- alternate worlds, all of 'em."

[identity profile] untidiness.livejournal.com 2008-05-16 04:05 am (UTC)(link)
"Coastal city, dude. Check the tentacle marks. The oceans are crawling with nasties-- kraken mostly, a couple other things I can't identify."

[identity profile] untidiness.livejournal.com 2008-05-16 11:50 am (UTC)(link)
Aaaaaaaand off she goes, forward-shifting too quickly to talk along the way, waiting for him to stop again so she can explain that his lab is almost certainly not there.

[ooc: It would be kind of hilarious to flashbang the lab in just after they arrive... *grins*]

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