Things go boom in the night - OTA

[agathaheterodyne]

Who: Agatha and anyone who wants to investigate the explosion
Where: Agatha's creepy castle on the hill.
What: Something exploded in the middle of the night. Nice and loud, lots of smoke.
When: about 3 am.
Warnings: Mad science, possible violence/violence mentions, possible body horror mentions.



Agatha had been working on trying to figure out how to install the Castle into, well, the Castle. Which would have been easier if the small clank that contained the Castle's personality wasn't actively trying to help. She had turned at a crucial moment to tell the small - a little larger than her hand, smaller than her head - machine that NO, she was not going to install an exploding spiked portcullis when she made the fateful discovery that the Castle was only requesting it... because it had already tried to install one itself and the thing had jammed....

Hence the explosion at the front of the Castle.

Agatha backed up, down the road a bit, coughing. Soot cling to her hair, her dress, and her work apron. She pulled her goggles up off of her glasses, leaving them the only clean part of her. Until she reached up to adjust them and left a fingerprint on the lens. She turned to glare at the small clank, unaware anyone was coming to investigate...

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[runs_on_batteries]

Tony had woken up with a start. He looked around the familiar bedroom confused for a minute before seeing the smoke. It was still dark, almost too dark to see it. However, he was up and commanding his suit to activate in a matter of seconds. He opened one of the windows and blasted into the air and toward the castle.

What the hell happened here? He flew closer and with FRIDAY's help, determined where the heat source/ person was. He flew down closer to land near the soot-covered girl.

"Are you alright?" He asked.

[agathaheterodyne]

She had been scowling at the smoke, and turned when he spoke. She opened her mouth to speak, but it just stayed there for a moment as her green eyes grew huge behind her glasses. "Wow..." she finally said.

Was he a clank? Was it armor? Was he it or in it, that was the question. Or was it both? What ever it was, the tech was glorious and she might have forgotten the question, and the explosion that prompted it.

She was just staring with unfiltered awe.

[runs_on_batteries]

It took him a moment to figure out what she was doing and then he smirked. He shamelessly posed. "Magnificent isn't it?"

The hood fell back to reveal his face and the broad, arrogant smile underneath. "I'm Iron Man and I'm here to keep this city and all of its people safe. What exactly were you doing? I heard an explosion."

Not sure why my icon went to default last post. Sorry.

[agathaheterodyne]

"Iron Man, huh?" The tech impressed her. The name... less so. But she was still studying the armor. "Is it part of you, or separate? If it is armor, it is certainly more elegant, not to mention subtle, than mine. Tarvek and I are going to remake it of course," her voice broke a bit on the name Tarvek, but she kept on as if it hadn't.

No worries, mine does that too sometimes. Idk why

[runs_on_batteries]

The name was cool, don't be a hater.

"In a lot of ways, it's a part of me, but it is something I put on," he explained. He was less obsessively attached to it than he used to be, but it would forever be a part of him.

"You have a suit of armor as well? Can I see it?"

Re: No worries, mine does that too sometimes. Idk why

[agathaheterodyne]

"It's not here. It is in my Castle back home. Which this somehow is... and isn't," she said.

A small squarish thing with what looked like flutes coming out of its top marched out to stand angrily at her foot.

"This pathetic shell is HARDLY me! If it were I could smash this fool so that you could examine the technology at your leisure."

Agatha flicked a glance down. "Adding no smashing to the list. Wait, wasn't that already on the list? No smashing, no killing, no anything else I have ever said no to without explicit direct permission first, and permission given when I am in the Madness Place does NOT count. Are we clear?"

The squarish body slumped. "Yes, Mistress."

She sighed and rubbed her head and looked to Tony. "Sorry about that. The armor, as I was saying doesn't seem to be here, and remaking it hasn't been my highest priority."