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[ironprodigy]

[There is a sleepy-looking teenager in just his boxers on the screen right now and he is very confused.] Okay, I've had some bad hangovers before, but this one seriously takes the cake. It's not often I wake up in a strange tower with my name on it and some sweet-ass AI named after my butler built into it. And by not often, I mean never

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[tinythunder]

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[He frowns a bit at the screen.] You should put on your clothing, there may be ladies seeing this projection. [He pouts slightly.] I do not know how the prank is supposed to be funny, but we were all snatched away to this realm!

[ironprodigy]

[Tony glances down at himself, then back up at the screen in confusion.] I am wearing clothes. [Boxers count, right?] Wait, so, you mean we were kidnapped?

[tinythunder]

Those are undergarments. You have no shirt nor breeches! [He wrinkles his nose up a bit.] Well, my brother said it was foul magic, that we have been kidnapped, and that he is so much older than I am when he is my little brother.

[ironprodigy]

So? I'm in some strange place and I've got a ridiculous headache, I think I'm allowed to wear what I want. [He doesn't need to be judged by you, tiny Asgardian!!] Hold on, back up. Magic? And what do you mean your little brother's older than you?

[teddyalt_man]

[The little blonde boy, maybe ten or eleven years old, frowns at the screen. Naked people, or almost naked people, are something he knows not to be watching. But the man seems to be talking to him, rather than being a... a TV show.]

You shouldn't swear. Are you... are your parents missing too?

[ironprodigy]

[Tony snorts, not even bothering to touch on the 'not swearing' comment.] I wouldn't know, I barely see them anyway.

[teddyalt_man]

That's sad. [He pauses, and says what's been on his mind, what really caught his attention]

Why has a building got your name on it?

[ironprodigy]

[He shrugs. 17 years, he's gotten used to it.]

Don't know. It's my dad's, I guess? Though how they built a whole new skyscraper without me knowing is pretty weird.

[gangbrat]

VOICE

You got an AI?

[ironprodigy]

Apparently. He says he's mine, so. Not gonna argue with that. [JARVIS is leaps and bounds more advanced than the AI Tony had been working with back in school. It's totally awesome.]

[gangbrat]

[Holy shit he'd get so much money and streetcred and shit from the local gangs if he could get them one of these...]

You're just making that up. Where'd you get an AI from?

[ironprodigy]

[And how do you intend to steal an entire AI, huh?]

Built it, supposedly. He's way better than the last AI I put together, I'm pretty impressed with myself. [Poor Dum-E. Just wait til Tony realizes he'd kept that stupid robot around for years despite its flaws.]

[notbuiltforthis]

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...No way.

[ironprodigy]

[Tony perks up at the sight of a pretty redhead, and he smiles at her.] No way what, babe?

[notbuiltforthis]

No way this.

[Teenaged Tony walking around the tower.]

[ironprodigy]

[Tony leans against a doorframe, scratching at his chest with the hand not holding the phone.] I know I'm a genius, but I need a little more information than that to figure out what the hell you're talking about.

[selfantagonized]

[ . . . . This isn't happening.]

Tony, is that you? [Please say no and let this be a weird dream.]

[ironprodigy]

[Sorry, buddy, no weird dream. Just...stupid Mandalus magic.]

Yeah? Do I know you?

[selfantagonized]

I- thought you did. [Awkward shift, shrug.]

I mean when you're older, you do. -Nevermind. I'm Bruce.

[ironprodigy]

Oh, that Potts lady said more people here would know me. Hey, wait a sec, are you Dr. Banner?