[FFML] [Fanfic][Marvel Cinematic Universe][Draft 1]Siblings Spiders and Squirrels! Oh my! Chapter 8 - Breathing Room and Jackals.

[Ragman Jack]

On Mar 23, 2014, at 6:20 PM, O David Morgan <dmorgan at tgbob.com> wrote:

> Ragman Jack wrote:
> 
> Yay! The list has been kinda quiet recently :)
> 
> 
>> Now Tony really wanted a drink. "Wait. He would need cameras,
>> recording devices. Every single window on this place has an
>> electrostatic charge to keep dirt off and scrambles the sensor of
>> any camera pointed at it. He''d get nothing but static."
>> 
>> "You're forgetting, Stark. Film cameras don't have sensors."
>> 
>> "Film?" Tony asked. "He got around the tower's defenses using film?
>> That's . . . insulting."
> 
> It's those birds, obviously, I just don't know enough to say how much of them is bio and how much is tech--so it *may* not be film, there's the possibility of avian cyberware recording the feed from a live visuals... would that make you feel better, Tony? ;)
> Or it could be clockwork birds with oldschool film cameras for eyes. You can stay insulted by that if you like, hehe.

Nope. They’re actual biological birds. No cyberware involved.

>> "Haven't even . . . no . . . wait a minute . . ." Chris frowned. "A
>> few years ago, my roommate convinced me to go to Maine on a seafood
>> binge for summer break. Turns out he just wanted to get with some
>> girl he met on the internet, so I had a rental car and some free
>> time. Anyways, up near Canada, I ran into this guy calling himself
>> Portal. He had bits of what looked like my Darkhawk suit, with a
>> hole in the chest where the amulet would be. We fought, and then
>> wound up teaming up against some dinosaur thing before he opened a
>> hole in the air and went through. Never saw him after that."
> 
> Oh good :)
> I'll wait to see exactly how much of the 90s Darkhawk you end up using, but Portal was pretty awesome.

Most of it. 

>> "Don't worry about it, Sir," Coulson said with a smile, "this
>> particular lawyer was carefully selected for her, shall we say,
>> special gifts."
>> 
>> --------------------------------------
>> 
>> "Captain Stacey," she said, handing him a card, "My name is
>> Jennifer Walters of the firm of Murdock and Nelson. I have been
>> retained as Doctor Banner's legal counsel."
>> 
>> "This is a simple interview, Ms Walters," told her, his mind
>> turning over rapidly. "Doctor Banner is not accused of any crime."
>> Absently, he noted that she bore a certain family resemblance to
>> Banner, which probably explained Banner's reaction. He filed that
>> away in the back of his mind.
> 
> Argh... The Avengers were never really my strong suit; Hulk and Daredevil even less so. I'm guessing She-hulk but I thought she was permanently, er, green? Guess I should look this one up.

My understanding is that during the Byrne run, she hulk could resume her human form at will, but preferred her Hulk one.

>> "Ah, Parker," Two men had just left the school. One of them was
>> more leonine, broad and face in body, the other lean, whippet thin,
>> but she couldn't figure out what animal he reminded her of. Both
>> bore impressive mustaches. It was the leonine one who had spoken.
>> "I heard about your Aunt and Uncle and I'm dreadfully sorry. It's
>> never easy to lose anyone you're close too."
>> 
>> "Ah, thank you, sir," Peter said. "I . . . I'm just going one day
>> at a time?"
>> 
>> "The wisest course. Ah, and I see you've added someone else to your
>> merry band."
>> 
>> “E h? Oh! Doreen, this is Professor Warren, our science teacher.
>> Professor, this is Doreen, my . . . er, we're still uh . . ."
>> 
>> "They were placed with the same family," Harry volunteered. "We're
>> introducing her to New York."
>> 
>> "Nice to meet you, sir," Doreen nodded, only shaking Professor
>> Raymond's hand when he offered his, first.
>> 
>> "Please, call me Professor Ray," the man said. "And this," he
>> indicated the leaner man, "is my brother Miles, he's teaching an
>> advanced course here at M3 for the second year in a row." Doreen
>> heard Gwen whimper, a low sound of pure dread.
>> 
>> "Charmed." Miles Warren's voice was very level, tightly controlled.
>> He did not offer his hand. "Are you a science major, Miss?"
> 
> Quoting the entirety of the above because I am rather confused: reading carefully, I can tell that the larger (?) of the two is Professor Warren, but how does Doreen know the name of the other one??

That’s more narrative than Doreen. But Peter did introduce Professor Ray by his full name and Ray introduced Miles as his brother.

>> Doreen repressed a full body shiver as she finally realized that
>> Professor Miles hadn't taken his eyes off Gwen, not even when
>> speaking to his brother, like . . . like a wolf on the hunt . . .
>> no, not a wolf. He was more like a . . . like a Jackal. Jackals,
>> she remembered a nature show saying, were predators and scavengers,
>> feeding on birds, reptiles, and small mammals.
> 
> Oh, well, that explains a lot. That was before my time so I don't recognize his real name; you may also want to not capitalize the first use of Jackal. Up to you though, depending on how obvious you're trying to be ;)

Eh, it’s not a big deal. Now, how Jackal is going down, on the other hand . . .

> “Ororo! How — Jubilee! Truck!”
> 
> Yay! Big Jubilee fan as well :D though I've not gotten to pay as much attention to her as I might have liked.

Jubilee is awesome indeed. 

>> Ororo looked over as a red-haired woman entered the room and
>> stopped.
>> 
>> “I’m past threats, Logan,” Scott snarled. “If there is so much as a
>> scratch on that bike, I will have Jean turn you into Elsie Dee
>> again. Permanently. And then, Logan, and then I will take pictures
>> and video and I will send them to everyone you have ever so much as
>> looked at.”
>> 
>> “Uh-huh.”
>> 
>> “Logan, I said everyone. I will send them to Magneto, to Alpha
>> Flight, to Omega Red, and Logan, I will send them to Wade.” Ororo
>> had seen Logan angry, happy, horrified, in pain, and many other
>> moods. This, however, was the first time she’d seen him turn white
>> with fear. “Not one scratch, Logan.”
> 
> Oh yes. This just about made my day. ^_^ I am now tempted to photoshop those pictures, except I have no way to get them to Wade so that defeats the purpose.

Do them anyway and I’ll put them up on Ao3

>> “Maybe we should just start buying Ikea,” he said. Pepper raised an
>> eyebrow.
> 
> "The entire company?”

Well Tony does want Pepper to let him buy Target*. (see chapter 4)

*It’s not quite what she thinks. 

>> ————————————————
>> 
>> Bruce was very grateful for the sedative in his system, because
>> without it, he probably would have flashed over to the Other Guy
>> due to sheer shock. As it was, he stood there in stunned silence as
>> Jen smoothly wrapped up the interview, got him out of the station
>> and into her car before pulling smoothly out into traffic.
>> 
>> Wait a minute.
>> 
>> “Who are you?” Bruce demanded. “Where’s Jen? Jen. I want to talk to
>> Jen.”
>> 
>> “She gave him a side eye. “What? Oh.” She laughed. “Things are
> 
> Typo--extra " at beginning of that line.
> Also, this scene clears up some lot of things, but I'm still glad I checked wikipedia :)
> 
>> Oh, wow. I mean . . .” he cleared his throat and held out his hand.
>> “Steve Rogers.”
>> 
>> Her hand was long fingered without being delicate and fit nicely in
>> his his. “Rachel Leighton.”
> 
> Third name this chapter that I don't recognize >_<
> Only Rachels that come to mind are Spider-Woman's kid and Ms Summers. I'm not going to look this one up yet though, and see what develops.
> "Acquisitions" is not a good sign, though, especially as she hasn't mentioned the firm/company she works for.
> (Oh, just noticed--double "his" there. Missed that on my first read-through.)

She’s not as well known as other Captain America characters and even then, she’s more known by her codename. That’s all I’m gonna say.

>> ————————————————— Author’s note:
>> 
>> “Poledra’s Test” refers to the stick with only one end mentioned in
>> the books “Polgara the Sorceress” and “The Seeress of Kell”, both
>> by David Eddings, who in turn was one of my influences. Here’s to
>> you, Dave.
> 
> Ah, it's been too long. I know I read those but don't remember anything of them.

When it comes to banter, David Eddings, at least in my mind, is the best.

>> A nineties-era x-men bio noted that Storm was trained in both
>> unarmed and knife combat as well as her being extremely
>> claustrophobic, which I remember being a plot point in the 90’s
>> X-men cartoon.
> 
> She was claustrophobic several times in the comics as well, and IIRC she bested Callisto in combat during the time her powers were negated, so yeah. Totally comic-book canon, if not necessarily Cinematic Universe canon.
> 
>> Elsie Dee in the comics was a robot built by one of Logan’s enemies
>> for reasons I never bothered finding out. Or if I did, I’ve
>> forgotten them. In this universe though, Sebastian Shaw and Emma
>> Frost both have very strange, very twisted senses of humor leading
>> them to at one point cause Logan to believe that he was a five year
>> old girl.  Why they had a pink and lilac outfit with accessories in
>> Logan’s size is something you probably shouldn’t think about.
> 
> Thanks for clarifying. I know of Elsie Dee and Albert but again have seen very little of them aside from wikipedia.

Not surprising, they were a Peter David creation, if memory serves, and Peter David, God love him, can be over the top. Way, way way over the top.

> 
>> As to whether or not that’s Cassandra Fraser from Stargate SG-1 all
>> grown up or if I’m just messing with you . . . I haven’t decided
>> yet.
> 
> Ah, that explains why I didn't recognize her. Also explains her "joke" background. I hope you're never clear on that point now ;)

Although, can you imagine Tony finding out about the Stargate?