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[oracle_online]

Who: Virginia "Pepper" Gordon
What: Getting to work
When: Mid Morning
Interactions: Iron Man
Warnings: That Twilight Zone feeling

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[golden_avenger]

Cloud's whipped up, curling into the vacuum left behind by Iron Man as he flew across states. He had buzzed past a few airplanes, the traces of blue from the repulsor jet boosters that were on his back lit up the clouds as he pierced through them. Behind the shining blue eyes on the gold and red armored mask Tony Stark was homing in on his location, five other different displays showing him the news on separate stations, the Justice Avengers Society HQ, Resilient's base in Seattle, and Resilient's growing operation in new York. The main holograph though was locking on to Kord Tower. Iron Man slowed down his speed as he sailed into the city skyline, weaving between skyscrapers with a flawless fluidity. There had always been a grim look to Gotham, at least to Tony. Even during the day the city still seemed to cling to the darkness only the night provided

[oracle_online]

She hadn't been expecting a face to face visit today but when the monitors recorded his approach a small smile formed on her lips. Of course the feeling was ruined somewhat by his incredibly strange entrance. Her chair turning the red haired woman raised a bemused eyebrow.

"Barbara?" Pepper said curiously "I know you have trouble keeping track of the women in your life Tony but after this many years I kind of thought you could remember something as unusual as 'Pepper' by now." Even so she couldn't resist a chuckle at her 'oh so clever' jab at the man's promiscuity and memory issues.

"I'm surprised you're here though. It's not like you to fly all the way down over a dropped call."

[golden_avenger]

With nothing but pure shock on Tony's face he stared in disbelief at Barbara. Only it wasn't her, not exactly. There was a strong resemblance to Pepper just as much as there was to Barbara. "...What's going on Oracle? I was telling you about Dr. Strange and the locati-

Are you all right? What happened?"

A quick look around showed him that there hadn't been any sort of fight or disturbance, all her stuff was like it would have been normally. He raised him arm so his palm was facing up. Suddenly a small blue hologram emerged rapidly showing the day's surveillance at Resilient Headquarters in Seattle.

[oracle_online]

"I'm fine. Just setting up the Gotham branch." A few quick taps of her virtual keyboard and a holographic schematic of the tower came up between them, an area on the floor beneath the restaurant highlighted and showing business quarters and all the necessary equipment for a Gotham Branch of Resilient. "I also scheduled a meeting with- wait, you said we were talking about someone called Dr. Strange?" Her chair turning abruptly as she brought up a few more screens, accessing the most recent actions she'd performed. Sure enough, there was a triangulated radius on a map. Though she couldn't remember why she'd put it there or what they'd been talking about.

"I'm not sure what's going on but I think this might be what you're talking about. Can you tell me what we were talking about before I dozed off and the call cut out?"