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[lukefuckingcage]

WHO: lukefuckingcage, Mighty/West Coast/New Avengers.
WHERE: Avengers Mansion.
WHEN: Six o'clock, 8/31/2010.
WARNINGS: Shouting and threatening to kill members of Pietro's family.
SUMMARY: The Avengers need a game plan. Luke barges in to get the ball rolling. Tag yourselves in. There will be a main post done by Luke and it can offshoot into several mini-threads

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I see those warnings. :|

[oncemercurial]

Ah. You're here.

[Pietro arrived a few seconds after Cage. His legs had healed up enough to make the short run from the apartment to the mansion with minimal trouble. The last time Pietro was here, it had been a rather awkward experience. No one wanted to discuss the elephant that had loomed over them all. He didn't really anticipate that this meeting would be any better, though perhaps they wouldn't have to be quite so guarded. That was probably for the better. Between his injured legs and the medications for it, he didn't think he had the patience to mince words.]

[lukefuckingcage]

Hey, come on. Stop fighting. [ Luke was getting annoyed with Clint and Pietro. Don't make him separate you two boys. But maybe some business could finally get done when the fucking God of Thunder walked into the kitchen. Luke whistled, having only worked alongside Thor a few instances, the latest being Siege. Did this dude remember that too? ]

Sleeping or counting their money, no doubt. We'll start any ways.

[ He stood up, back straight, and carried his voice across the kitchen, so everyone could hear--not only in the kitchen, but down the halls too. ]

So, yeah--I ain't no official Avenger here, but I'm inviting myself in any ways. We all know each other: Thor, Mockingbird, Quicksilver, Hawkeye, Luke Cage. [ He pointed to himself. ] We're all Avengers either here or back where we came from

sooo late

[sciencesupreme]

I think you're giving us too little credit, Luke. [Hank is flying in now. He let himself in, thank you very much, and he immediately regrows to his natural size, the wings disappearing as he meets up with everyone.]

The situation isn't the same as it was back home. Certainly, Osborn doesn't have the government backing him, but they do, in a way support him and his team, the same way they've been supporting ours. We might not be fugitives anymore, but Norman has adapted as well.

If he has slipped up or done anything illegal, he's covering it up much better than he did back home. I think it could be possible that he's further in the timeline, like you, Luke, and that has prompted him to change his strategy.

the cool kids come late ^_^

[mockingbirdie]

[This is so aggravating. If only there was another avocado to mash up and take her anger out on.]

So if he's changed his strategy, we should too. Because what we're doing right now? Not working.

Every single one of us knows Osborn and knows what he's capable of, and we're sitting around on our asses, not doing a damn thing while history repeats itself. What the hell, guys. We should know better than this.

[She sighs, obviously frustrated.]

I don't mean to take away any credit, Hank, but can you honestly tell me the Avengers are a team right now? Are any of us even on the same page about who we are and what we stand for?

haha, implying that Hank is cool... Or that I am.

[sciencesupreme]

[Hank is frustrated by all of this too. He hates that they have to play nice with Osborn, but for the time being it's the best plan there is.]

If you have a better idea, then I would like to hear it, because there's nothing here that we can bust him on. He hasn't just been going by the book here, but he's also been actually doing heroic things, as much as I hate to say it. He's helped put a stop to the HIVE, stopped Nico Minoru from self-destructing... The guy even protected Steve when they were shot at. I hate it, really I do. I don't want to let him run free.

What do you propose to do, though? We have nothing on him, no proof of foul play. If we bust in and beat up him and his team, then we're in the wrong, we're vigilantes that he can press charges against and make himself look good. Or do you intend to kill him? Because that's definitely not what we stand for.

[He sighs, rubbing the bridge of his nose.]I know that things haven't been running smoothly, but we're not just sitting still, or did you already forget about Mexico? The

Hank is about as cool as those warnings. :|

[oncemercurial]

Is that so? If I'm to understand this world correctly, Henry, vigilantism is the law. Yes, the United States government still plays a certain role, but they are entirely ill equipped to deal people like Osborn. Or, for that matter, the HIVE.

[Pietro was marginally more content with the conversation now that it had shifted from pizza to well, actually Avenging. The arrivals of Hank and Thor didn't hurt either, even if he had a limited tolerance for them after the Loki affair.]

In my personal opinion, the most important thing the Avengers can do here at this moment is build infrastructure. After we take down whatever villains exist here where do they go? Jails that cannot contain them, only to have them escape and reek havoc on the public again. To bring this back to the issue of Osborn... While we cannot legitimately remove him from play at the moment, we can make certain that when we do it will, it will actually last.

[godofnicehair]

[The conversation had started to roll away from Thor's limited knowledge of the situation, and he was growing visibly more impatient.]

The people of this country know nothing of the threat Osborn poses them, and we cannot afford to wait until his intentions are bared. The damage will be done by then. We must needs warn them; all of them that would support him. I will tell them what became of Asgard.

[His tone implied that no one would be able to deny what a problem Osborn was if they heard it from him - cynicism, mistrust, and the nature of the accusation be damned.]

[lukefuckingcage]

[ He had been listening to all points of the arguments and there were many, but he tried to sort it out. He wasn't Steve Rogers. He was nowhere near Tony Stark. However, he felt that maybe he could come up with a solid plan--something that could revive the hope in this team..Shit, it felt like his true test as a leader was one dimension away instead of back home. ]

No, we don't bust in. [ As much as Luke liked busting in and taking names. ] I agree with Bobbi--we change strategy. I don't know where y'all are from in the--[ God, he hated this. ]--time stream. I ain't been here long myself, but I know what the status quo is back home. I know how Osborn completely lost himself on live national television

[mockingbirdie]

[Bobbi couldn't help but take that line about not killing personally, whether Hank meant it that way or not. Her expression grew a little darker, and it was difficult to keep the edge out of her voice.]

You can't say we're not above the law when we've all done things that contradict that very statement. Every single one of us has taken the law into our own hands, well intentioned, well meaning or not.

We might know what we stand for, but does the average citizen? No. No, they don't. I introduce myself as an Avenger, and I get asked if I'm working for Norman Osborn. It's fu-- it's really insulting.

[As for Mexico, she couldn't help but think they were awfully damn lucky that the Mexican authorities hadn't decided the Avengers had been invading their country. Bobbi was genuinely surprised how little press their exploits had received, especially in comparison to Norman's team unveiling a few weeks later.]We're disorganized to the point where I don't even know who the hell is still around. We're scattered, not just physically