Victor smirks at the assembled Avengers and his former friends, apparently not noticing Emma Frost guiding Nico into his electronic brain.

"Come on, stop fighting it. I'll only make it hurt for a minute or two..."

Victor smiles as he faces down his "grandfather." "Certainly, by now you have realized that there can be no defeating my father or stymying his plans. Indeed, all you can do is stall them for a time." Metal framework around the room springs to life, attempting to coil and wrap around Pym.

"Or, in my case... speeding up his process." He grins

The recuperation from that Sin/Crossbones debacle has been long and arduous, but at least the West Coast weather is nice. A few complications here and there to work out, even a bit of surgery, but he's been on the mend, occupying his mind with thoughts beyond the minutiae of science, since Jan hasn't been letting him get much work done ( Read more... )

"Yes. Yes. That's fine Stilt-Man. No, don't worry, I made sure the probes captured your glorious moment on digital video. It will be published all throughout the internet as promised. Ultron out ( Read more... )