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Jul 21, 2009 11:56

DATE: 89
CHARACTER(S): Tony Stark whatarebooks and Billy Kaplan madebymagic
STATUS: Closed
SUMMARY: Tony's just arrived on Pluto and he's not the one everyone remembers. Sadly for him, Billy doesn't know that and thinks he's just being a big jerk. So he's going to go and knock him out.
LOCATION: Random hallway

Billy really doesn't like Tony Stark... )

billy kaplan, ††tony stark

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whatarebooks July 21 2009, 16:37:14 UTC
The only warning Tony got before the threatened blow was a sudden blaze of blue light in the otherwise pretty normal hallway he'd stopped in to answer his messages. He'd managed one entire step back before another boy solidified and promptly punched him in the face, sending the visor spinning off down the hall and Tony to the floor.

"Okay, number one: ow," he managed, foregoing standing up in order to check his nose wasn't broken or anything - he hadn't really been in many fights. That was what you were meant to do when someone punched you, right? He remembered Happy mentioning it a few times, "And two: when you said you had 'other ways', I didn't think you meant magic. Kinda expected a little more warning than that." It was always magic, actually. He was really starting to hate it. "Why did you hit me, again?"

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madebymagic July 21 2009, 16:47:21 UTC
Billy would have answered if his head didn't decided to take that moment to spin suddenly. His eye sight blurred, and went dark for a second before he had to hold onto the wall. He took a few deep breaths and tried not to empty his stomach on the floor. He wanted to hit the guy again, just for good measure, but he didn't think he'd be very threatening after he threw up on his shoes. He closed his eyes for a moment, and then reopened them. Blinking away the last traces of magic that might have remained ( ... )

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whatarebooks July 21 2009, 17:03:07 UTC
Tony blinked at the sudden barrage of accusations, and again at the weird sparks of blue. Right. This guy was clearly a few wires short of a circuit board. Prison? He'd never seen this guy in his life.

"Hey, Whiplash didn't deserve to die and I'm really sorry about that, but I wouldn't say he was a good man," He failed to keep the indignation out of his voice, or hide the guilt for that entire fiasco, but kept going regardless, "He tried to kill me first. And I have no idea what this prison thing is you're talking about." Tony paused, and frowned, derailed by the fact that his attacker was looking more and more like he was about to pass out. "... Uh, are you okay?"

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madebymagic July 21 2009, 17:21:20 UTC
"What do I care about some lame two bit villain? I'm talking about Captain America! The man you paraded around on his way to trial. A man who died trying to save innocent lives, even when YOU wanted to send him to prison for trying to fight for our rights!" Billy couldn't believe what he was hearing. Tony though he'd care about some lame super villain? That was just ridiculous! He shook his head, which was probably a bad idea because his vision started to darken again.

"The Prison, 42. You and Reed Richards, and Hank Pym. It was your glorious idea to hold all the heroes who didn't want to become Government slaves there. Outside our own dimension." He blinked open his eyes, which he hadn't realized he had closed, and narrowed his eyes at the kid.

"Don't pretend to even care about me! I don't know what game you're playing, but I don't need to hear your fake sympathy!" He closed his eyes again and started to mumble under his breath. "And to think, you were once my hero..."

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whatarebooks July 21 2009, 17:41:26 UTC
This seemed a good time to get to his feet, if only to give himself a fair chance dodging whatever was going to come his way in the next few minutes. He felt a little bad about it, but looking at the other boy's condition, he could probably get away before he managed to stand up straight again. Well, time to make him madder.

"Seriously, I have no idea what you're talking about. I mean," he gestured vaguely, apparently trying to express just how confused he was through the medium of mime, "I have to go to school now. When would I have time to do all of that? With people I've never heard of?" Maybe he'd been framed again. Or there was some evil clone running around that he hadn't noticed. But even then, he was pretty sure he'd have noticed stuff like that on the news- well. Pepper would, and she definitely would have told him. But that wasn't the point. He was tempted ask what kind of name Captain America was, but considering the general mood and his own moniker, that didn't seem like a great idea.

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madebymagic July 21 2009, 18:01:53 UTC
"School? You're worried about going to freaking school?" He couldn't believe this. If this was a joke, it was one hell of a joke! Tony Stark would never been freaking out about going to school, would he? He shook his head hard and stood up straight. Screw the feeling of having his head blowing up. He just wanted to know if this was a freaking joke, because if it was, he was beating Tony within an inch of his life, and that was final.

"Bullshit! Everyone knows who Captain America is, and if you don't then I call you on your utter bullshit! I don't take kindly to people messing around with me, and this is no exception. No matter how young you look, you're still Tony fucking Stark, and I'm not going to take this shit from anyone. Especially from you!" His eyes were glowing once more, and he could feel the lightning dancing on his finger tips.

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whatarebooks July 21 2009, 18:47:28 UTC
This was getting stupid. Tony struggled to think of another way to get the guy to calm down that wouldn't involve implying he was insane. Though that was looking more and more likely, it was never a good idea to actually point it out. That much he'd learned.

"Look, you've got the wrong guy-" he began to explain again, when he was interrupted by a loud, urgent beeping. From... his watch. Oh no. "Wow," he muttered, low enough that he could barely be heard over the alarm, "And here I thought my timing couldn't get any worse." It was silenced with a quick press of a button, but that wasn't the main issue now. That would be that he was now running on about three percent back-up power, and that was nowhere near enough to actually fight someone. And it was starting to look like that was an unavoidable end to this conversation. Here goes nothing"Okay, fine. You're not going to believe me, but in about a minute I'm going to go into cardiac arrest, so... can we do this another time? It's not like you can't find me again." By the end of his ( ... )

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madebymagic July 21 2009, 22:45:05 UTC
Billy blinked for a moment, the buzzing going right to his brain and shorting out his anger. What in the world would Tony need an alarm like that for, and what was he talking about? Cardiac arrest? He didn't know everything about the Extremis, but he was sure that Tony couldn't go into cardiac arrest with it. It healed him nearly instantly.

"Wait a minute... How... The Extremis. It heals you, so how are you going to... Who the hell are you?" He was looking at him now like he was an alien and none of this was making any sense. This was Tony Stark, Iron Man, the biggest douche bag in his world... even if he was currently a teenager, it was still him... right?

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whatarebooks July 21 2009, 23:05:29 UTC
"Tony Stark. Don't know what the Extremis is," Tony pointed out automatically, even as he remembered that there was a socket in the room one door back and began to edge in that direction, "Or what this guy you're so mad at can do. Just... need to charge for a little while. Okay?" Fine thing it'd be if he managed to survive a nuclear explosion that tore open dimensions, then died of a heart attack because he'd forgotten to recharge his glorified pacemaker. That was in the top ten humiliating ways to go, and they'd never let him live it down.

It must have used up the emergency power during the explosion, he worked out as he reached the doorway. Being hit probably hadn't helped either, but mentioning that now wasn't going to help much. "Uh, this may sound a little awkward, but, little help? You can keep yelling at me after that, if you want."

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madebymagic July 21 2009, 23:12:29 UTC
"I just don't get it. Why do you need a charge? What the hell are you charging?" He shook his head, even as he moved to help the kid. Billy was fully aware now that his earlier actions were uncalled for. Just because the kid was Tony Stark, didn't mean he was THE Tony Stark. Alternate Realities, and Universes, and all that fun stuff. He could change reality in the blink of a eye, but he hadn't even considered that this Tony was from one? How stupid could he be. His face heated slightly at that and he swallowed.

"About before... um.. I guess you aren't the Stark that I should be mad at. So, I'm sorry. Really sorry actually. I kinda got a head of myself and stuff, and... I shouldn't have hit you."

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whatarebooks July 21 2009, 23:39:47 UTC
"This guy sabotaged our- my dad's plane. I got pretty messed up in the crash," Tony wasn't entirely sure why he was telling this to the guy who'd been pretty intent on turning him into a lightning rod a few minutes ago, but he wasn't wasting this chance to prove that he had the wrong person. "I have a machine-" He gestured to his chest with his free hand instead of saying it, even as they got within range of the power outlet. Carefully, Tony uncoiled the cable from around the device and squinted into the socket. Good thing they used a recognisable shape, or he would have looked pretty dumb.

There. He could feel the steady hum of electricity in his ribcage already, and the machine gave several short, almost smug beeps before going silent. He settled himself against the wall so the cable wasn't twisted, and shrugged at Billy, "I guess with all that happened, I forgot it needed power. And, uh, don't worry about it. If all that stuff happened to me, I'd be angry, too. Just... don't do it again?"

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madebymagic July 21 2009, 23:59:06 UTC
He couldn't speak and just watched the device in Tony's chest. How did you miss that? He could feel the light electrical charge now, he couldn't really blame it on being angry before. He had been so stupid. This wasn't the Tony from his world, and he couldn't believe he had done anything. He was supposed to be smarter than this.

"I'm still very sorry. I have better control then this, I just.. I've been here a fairly long time now, and I just... I guess I haven't coped well."

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whatarebooks July 22 2009, 00:20:54 UTC
Now the adrenaline had worn off and they weren't yelling at each other, the entire situation just seemed really awkward. Tony shuffled his feet needlessly, and and looked around the room they'd ended up in. Nothing to really catch the eye. He looked back at Billy, glad at least that one of them didn't look like he was about to keel over anytime soon.

"Makes sense," he offered, "It still hasn't really sunk in for me. Everything happened so fast..."

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madebymagic July 22 2009, 00:28:25 UTC
"That's how it was with me at first. I was freaked because I was in space, and none of my friends were here. But I had Kate here, Mrs. Richards, and I guess I had the older you too. Even if he did hurt me massively. You don't know anyone here. And the first thing that happens is someone punches you in the face." He shook his head as he sat down on the ground and pulled his legs up to his chest. "I'm going to be apologizing for that one, for a long time."

He still couldn't believe he had done it. Even thinking to all the hate he had for Stark, he'd never think of just all out punching the guy. But then he had done it, and found out that he really wasn't Tony... he shook his head and frowned.

"I'm Billy. Billy Kaplan." He held out a hand towards Tony trying to smile gently.

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whatarebooks July 22 2009, 00:46:35 UTC
Friends. Tony hunched a little at that reminder. He was keeping himself from forcing his way back into the labs for his armor mainly on the hope that the whole 'dimension' mess meant that the others were still fine, back in his own lab. Probably going a little crazy because he'd vanished, but that wasn't the important thing. As it was, there were a lot of powerful heroes between him and the suit, and it wasn't capable of interdimensional travel - yet, he added to himself. Now... He had to make the most of it, until he could get back. He took the offered hand after a moment's hesitation. Best to start now.

"Nice to meet you, Billy," he couldn't help but grin a little at how stupid that sounded, after everything, "You know, I've had worse greetings." He stopped, as if to consider that, then corrected himself, still with a faint, wry smile so it didn't sound as much like an accusation, "... Not many, though."

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madebymagic July 24 2009, 01:17:12 UTC
"I'm sure there are other people who would have done a lot worse. Peter Parker would have probably strung you up to the wall and left you there until you starved. The Tony Stark back home, basically sent every criminal psycho after him." He shook his head, this probably wasn't the best way to start a new friendship, but he figured he had already messed things up. So things couldn't get much worse.

"I'm going to make all this up to you. Anyway I can."

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