[Action]

[ms_potts]

Who: Pepper Potts and YOU
When: Now
Where: Outside the Elevator
Style: Whatever takes your fancy
Status: Open!

Portland's not really that far if you think about it...

[Pepper's voice fades as she steps out of the elevator, realizing something is VERY amiss. This is most certainly NOT the first floor of Stark Tower. It's not even New York. What the hell? She realizes that someone is no longer walking beside her and she frowns, whirling around]

Phil? [she pauses, her voice getting more frantic] Tony?!

[Her luggage forgotten, she spins, searching the area and seeing nothing that strikes her as familiar whatsoever. Okay. Okay. It's just... just... a hallucination? No... maybe someone new out to get Tony? But how... none of this makes any sense whatsoever. She takes a deep breath, trying to calm her racing heart when her gaze falls on the welcome basket.]

What the heck is going on, here?

[She looks around wide eyed as she tries to make SOME sense out of what she's stepped into]

Comments

[aim_exorable]

[Darkleer had meant to go up to the island just to practice his shooting some more and let Dural stretch her wings a bit. The large pure white bird on his shoulder is always relieved to have the opportunity, he knows, so he tries to put her at ease, especially with all the renovations going on at his hive.]

[However, it appears that such a thing will have to wait when he spots the confused and alarmed woman outside the elevator. Oblivious at the moment to the fact that being seven feet tall and built like a tank with sharp teeth might be a bit frightening, he decides to approach.]

Madam, are you alright?

[ms_potts]

[Seven feet tall... teeth... Her eyes widen further still and she gasps, taking a step backwards]

I... No. No I am not alright. I am remarkably, astoundingly not alright.

[aim_exorable]

[The large bird on his shoulder gives a coo and leans forward, but Darkleer shooshes her so he can give the woman his full attention.]

Do you need to sit down, then? Vatheon tends to have such an effect.

[ms_potts]

Vatheon? [She shakes her head, confused. For the moment the tall man with the bird aren't a priority. More importantly she has to figure out where she is and what's going on.]

Is that what this place is called?

[aim_exorable]

Yes. This will be somewhat difficult to believe, so please be patient, but Vatheon is a city which draws in various individuals from different worlds and different places in the timeline of their lives. It is believed that we are part of some experiment which has to do with the energy that the coral produces, as far as any of us can surmise.

[ms_potts]

We're part of an experiment?! Who's? Who brought us here? And how?

[aim_exorable]

Scientists are to blame, but they have been very careful in not letting themselves be seen or contacted. We have found evidence of their existence through things they have left behind, however. The only one we can contact is one Carol, who seems to be considerably lower on the work spectrum.

As for 'how', well, if we knew that, I doubt many would still be here.

[needsmoregreen]

[As Bianca goes out to find a place to walk her pokemon, she couldn't help but notice a familiar sight. It looks like there was going to be new people coming in. With that, she quickly walks over to Pepper's side.]

Um...do you need some help there?

[ms_potts]

[Not having noticed the girl approach, Pepper jumps at the voice. She takes a breath, closing her eyes for a moment before replying]

Yes. Yes I do, thank you. Could you tell me, please, where I am?

[needsmoregreen]

That's easy, you're in Vatheon!

[And then she plays around with the SFC for a bit. After a couple of minutes, there appears to be a map on the screen]

Ah, there we go! There's a map so if there's anywhere you need to find some more information, you can look at this!

[ms_potts]

Vatheon? I've never heard of it. I was just in New York, how did I get here?

[She looks over the strange device. Amazingly it's not the weirdest piece of technology she's come across in her life. She frowns at it, looking over the map.]

What is this?

[needsmoregreen]

New York? What's that?

[It's just like castelia city, Bianca!]

Oh, it's like a communicator! You can talk to other people through video, voice, or you can even text them! And you can leave them messages too so it's really nice to talk to everyone like that!

[ms_potts]

It's one of the largest cities in the country. [Silly, Pepper, you're not in the US anymore.

She raises her eyes to look at the girl. Really. Someone her age should know about New York.]

So it's like a cell phone.

[rockstark]

Pepper?!

[now THERE was a voice he had not expected to hear in this particular context. his communicator is already half-demolished, but Tony looks up from scanning the community feeds for the millionth time and dives across his couch to retrieve it. it's surprise in his voice, not panic. no, really. he's not worried at all. we're all fine here, how are you?]

You're late. Where are you?

[ms_potts]

Tony?!

[Finally a familiar voice! She whirls around again, looking for the familiar face to go along with it. It takes her a minute to realize the voice is coming from the basket at her feet. Crouching, she picks up the only thing that looks like it could be a communications device of some kind. This is just getting weirder...

She frowns at its face.]

Late? To what? I was on my way to the airport. [She stands again, looking around.] it looks like I'm on the edge of some city. By an elevator.

[rockstark]

Elevator, yeahuh ... [he swipes up the communicator, even though it's nearly in two pieces at this point, quickly starting to cobble it back together, grabbing a roll of electrical tape on his way out the door. shoes? who needs shoes, he is totally padding out into the street barefoot, in the clothes he wears under the suit.

no, he hasn't changed since he arrived. there was a shower, but other than that, please. science is important.

he might've been doing not much else BUT science.]

Be there in a few. I'm kind of on foot right now.

[ms_potts]

On foot? Tony...

[She sighs, running a hand over her face -carefully so as not to smear her makeup. Please, she may be panicking but that's no reason to look a mess. This is really just bringing up more questions than it's answering. Where and how being top of the list she also can't help but wonder about the who and why as well. She feels very exposed as she stands in this unfamiliar place waiting for Tony to find her...

Overall the fact that she feels so lost is an altogether disquieting one.]

[rockstark]

Yeah, on foot, I kinda had to take the suit off, it's in some bins in my living room. I have a living room, now. I kind of have a whole house. It's no Malibu, but it works for now. Still figuring a lotta things out.

[if he sounds vaguely winded, it's because he's jogging. and he's jogging because Pepper]

You find the brochure yet? There's ... well some of it's useful but mostly it's three folds and six panels of "we don't really know much but it sure is pretty here".

[ms_potts]

A house. A house where? Where are we?

[She can hear the breathing change as he jogs towards her and that's actually very reassuring since it means he's on his way.

Her gaze drops to the basket and she crouches again, pushing the towel aside... why the heck is there a towel in a welcome basket... and picking up what looks like a welcome brochure]

I just found it. Vatheon? Is that what this place is called?

[likethetragedy]

[Elektra has a lot of time for walks since her kidnapping. Apparently this is a time she'll find something interesting like a woman wandering around confused.]

... I'm still working on that. [She frowns. Despite what Elektra likes to tell herself she does have a softer side. She may just feel a little sympathy for the other woman.]

Would you like my coat? It's cold out here and I don't really mind it all that much.

[ms_potts]

[Pepper turns to look at the woman speaking at her. She looks normal enough. Maybe she'll be able to help. She smiles.]

No, I couldn't impose. Thank you. Right now I'm mostly trying to figure out where I am and how I got here.

[likethetragedy]

[Elektra shrugs.] It's called Vatheon. It's anyone's guess how we got here.

[ms_potts]

That's hardly reassuring...

[likethetragedy]

I'm not very good at reassuring or explaining to people they've been kidnapped.

[ms_potts]

[Her eyebrows shoot up] Kidnapped?