It was the day of the wedding, and Nico was on pins and needles. Something bad was going to happen, and she still didn't have a clue as to who or what was going to be responsible for it ( Read more... )

Negotiations had been going well. Surprisingly well. It hadn’t really occurred to any of them that Karolina might have family on Majesdane who weren’t evil, much less well-to-do family. That little factoid had smoothed things significantly.

Which meant that Karolina was probably going to be stuck out here. Permanently ( Read more... )

Wonder Man wanders to his room in the West Coast Avengers Mansion and just flops on the bed ( Read more... )

It had taken awhile, but permission had finally been granted. And in Xavin's mind it was not a moment to soon. It always struck him as odd that he, the Prince Regent of his home world should have to wait on permission for anything, but so many things had to be taken care of before he could go anywhere ( Read more... )

Victor Mancha has been freed from Ultron's grip. At least, for the time being. And the killer android has retreated ( Read more... )

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... )

And most of the Avengers are on TV for Wonder Man - who shouldn't ever count as a hero. Nice guy, in Chase's mind. He gets supermodels and, sure, he helped out Victor when AIM had him going all spaz shit. Whoopie.

Right now...there's a lot of dead people in Westchester, New York - to say nothing of the freak'n STATE! He's out with the 'Frog ( Read more... )

THE END IS HERE!

The banner waves over the bank of cash registers. Behind them, precious cargo stacked in sealed crates. They can't sell any copies of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows for another 4 hours, no matter how often kids dressed as Gryffindors and Hufflepuff's wipe their noses on the counter and beg ( Read more... )