Ice Cream Cures All Ills
It was Billy's idea that they should meet up somewhere outside the Avengers Tower to talk. Some place where they wouldn't have God only knew who listening in on their conversations. Some place where they could relax
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"I'm not sure we have that many options for what we can do without the Avengers, anyway," he said, reaching across Billy to pull several packets of sugar from the small ceramic holder. Tearing one open, he poured the contents onto his tongue -- don't give me that look, Billy -- then made a brief grimace before swallowing and continuing.
"Between Kl'rt and the Kree after me, and the government," he flipped the second, unopened packet of sugar across the table at Tommy, "after him -- you really think we're ready to take anyone on after yesterday?"
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Billy had asked a valid question, what did they want to do. Hell, what did he want to do? Other than the general urge to be elsewhere and not get hauled back in he hadn’t put much thought into that whole ‘what next’ line of thought. Well…he really didn’t want to get his butt kicked or shot at by the Skree.
“Like it’s my fault they want me. I can’t help how desirable I am. People flock.” Tommy said as he caught the sugar packet. He stared at it for a moment before making a face and tossing it back. “So, if we’re all in agreement about not wanting anyone to go vanishing in a black helicopter or space ship, I’m guessing figuring out how not to get trashed is our first priority. ”
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"I don't know what we can do without relying on the Avengers. At least for a while. Even they don't know what's going on with the Kree and the Skrull, though that's not really that odd considering those two races." She glanced at Teddy. She hoped he didn't take that the wrong way. "And their war." Cassie added just in case. "Uhm... why do you think they want you Teddy?"
(God damn it brain, start functioning when it comes to alien races. *blames mono*)
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"Maybe they have a space princess in dire need of rescuing? Although if that were really the case we'd have to let them know they missed a few memos." Kate pulled a tube of lipstick out of her purse, took a napkin out of the dispenser, and wrote "taken" on it in the dark purpley color she wore only for superheroing. Satisfied with her work, she unfolded the napkin, leaned over the table, and tucked it into Teddy's shirt collar like a bib.
"How do you feel about dying your hair?" she asked next, looking back at Tommy. "Practically speaking it's a quick and effective disguise, especially considering your current color. Maybe a shade of red, since if you go too dark your sparkling personality will be the only way we could tell you and Billy apart without, er..." Kate looked around the store, then decided to play it safe anyway and wiggled her fingers in a way that was supposed to indicate powers, "you know."
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"[Cassie is correct, however. The Avengers have been working on this sort of thing for much longer than we have, and it would be foolish to ignore that. I do agree with Billy as well - we can't let them command us. Otherwise, there's no real point in being the "Young" Avengers - we'd just be a sub-team.]"
The Vision had reabsorbed his embarrassing coat when he was sure that no one around was looking at them. He also managed a small digital camera to take a picture of Teddy with his "taken" lable. He'd figure out how to hook himself up to a printer once they got back to the Tower.
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"I think I should tell you guys everything before we try to work on a plan," he said, and here his voice became more restrained as he glanced around. If it weren't for the visual give-aways of Billy's power, he'd have asked the spellcaster to see if he could somehow summon silence; as it was, this was the best they could hope for. "This is a lot bigger than anything we've had to deal with since Kang the Conquerer. You should know what you're getting into."
It didn't quite feel right to Teddy, using 'you' instead of 'we' -- but hours of insomnia and pain and thinking had taken their own toll, and some of the things Kl'rt had said to him made too much sense. If they were true, then maybe the others shouldn't get involved if there was any way to avoid it. But whether they were or they weren't true ... he needed more than just Billy at his side. All five of them -- ( ... )
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Once he’d caught up his first reaction was to smirk and say ‘of course not’, but Teddy looked serious and he was supposed to be playing nice. Even his love of drama and making everyone around him miserable didn’t allow for doing things that could come back and bite him in the ass. His sense of self-preservation was a bit too well honed for things like that.
He leaned back some and nodded slowly. “If you can all be quiet about me, I can be quiet about you. It‘s only fair after all.”
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She absolutely hated interrupting the children (things were just getting interesting!), but if she didn't get the food out soon, it would melt or get cold.
With all due speed, she laid out ice cream and water and fried food and chili and bloody sandwhiches, ending with two large glasses of milk that came complementary with the Still Warm Flesh of the Living. "Enjoy." she said sweetly, then quickly retreated.
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"[I can guarantee that you have my support in this, Teddy.]" he said quietly. "[But I'd prefer not to go into anything uninformed. Tell us what you can.]"
The Vision would be lying if he didn't say he was nervous, though. Why had Teddy kept this information from the Avengers? Clearly it was something important or else he wouldn't be so worried over it.
Surely Teddy had his reasons. And the Vision couldn't help him if he didn't know what was going on.
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Especially if the others managed to get themselves locked up again. That had been pretty stupid.
"Whatever the deal is, I'm in, too," she added after the Vision had spoken. "Backing off just because things are getting rough isn't my style and you know it, so frankly I find the implication otherwise a bit insulting." Kate smiled, though, and went back to her rainbow sherbet.
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With a small groan, he raised a hand and waved a bit, mouthing to the mutant that they could talk later, but not now. He liked Zack in a vague kind of way, but now was an incredibly bad time. He almost cursed when he saw a girl he didn't know sit down at the table nearest theirs. This place usually wasn't so full this time of day. That was why he'd suggested coming early.
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"What is it?" Cassie asked, careful to keep her voice down. "Why didn't you tell the Avengers- they are helping us, and if it's big then why wouldn't you?" Granted, Teddy didn't know them like she did.
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