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MARVEL RANDOM SCENARIO MEME
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①Comment with your character. Feel free to intruce yourself real quick if you'd like! This meme is open to Marvel characters of all iterations, not just the MCU!
② Pick a scenario or use RNG and respond to others!
③ PLEASE MARK FOR INFINITY WAR SPOILERS. We want this to be a fun place for everyone to play without fear of being spoiled! In the same vein, feel free to let others know if you are Infinity War compliant!
④ Feel free to go completely off-script and make up whatever scenario you want. These prompts are just starting points! This meme is your oyster.
⑤ Have fuuuun!

scenarios ACTION

① Skrull Invasion → You're on planet Earth and the Skrull are coming! Are you ready to fight? Perhaps the better question is...are you really sure your friends are who you think they are?
② Sparring → There's few better ways to see what you're made of than to face off against your fellow heroes! Enter the sparring ring and give it all you've got. Or perhaps you wind up facing an old friend in the Grandmaster's Contest of Champions!
③ Chitauri Assault → Time to take down hordes and hordes of alien goons! Maybe they brought their space whales, too. They're bringing the party to you!
④ In Pursuit → Your enemies are fleeing and it's up to you to pursue them and bring them to justice!
⑤ Heist → Time to steal that invaluable vibranium shipment before the bad guys do. You'll need all your best covert stealth skills to pull this one off.
⑥ Training → Power up the Danger Room and throw yourself and a partner into a training scenario of your choice! Just try to be careful in there. It is called the Danger Room, after all!
⑦ Mind Control → Against their will, one of your comrades has begun to attack you! Will you fight back and possibly harm someone you hold dear? Or will you stand down and open yourself up to danger?
⑧ Escape → You've been captured by your enemies! Or perhaps The Collector just added you to his museum. Time to find a way out!

ANGST

① Fallout → Heroism exacts a price, and it is often personal in nature. How do you cope with the fallout of your latest conflict? Was victory worth the price you paid? Or worse, did you lose?
② Injury/Illness → Even for the strongest of heroes, the battlefield can be tough. How's that broken arm healing up? That serious road rash? Or are you the one providing healing and comfort to one in need?
③ Last Moments → Somehow has gone terribly wrong and you are dying. What will you say? What will you do? Or perhaps you are the one holding your comrade in their final moments.
④ Betrayed → One of your teammates has betrayed you. How will you respond? Will you reach out and try to forgive, or will you fight the one you used to call an ally?
⑤ Fight → Sometimes, even your closest friends can become your enemies. Disagreements can lead to verbal, and perhaps even physical altercations. Or perhaps you're seeking reconciliation afterwards?
⑥ Worst Fears → Your worst fears have manifested around you. Maybe it's an illusion, but what if it's not? How can you go on faced with losing everything you care about?
⑦ Loss → You've lost. It's over. Maybe you're the only one left. Or...maybe you're not.

CRACK

① Speed-heroing → It's like speed-dating, but with heroes and friends, at the Avengers Facility. A possible catch: you can only introduce yourself as your alter ego.
② Dance Off → Maybe the fate of the universe hangs in the balance. Maybe you're just having a good time at a party. Either way, dance off, bro!
③ Team Building → Nothing boosts team morale like an outing to laser tag or paint ball! It's important to unwind every now and again, so why not shoot your super friends with a nerf gun for a change?
④ Party Bus → Are you up for a ride on Tony Stark's most technologically advanced party bus? Hope you're prepared to party like it's 2099. Also, it flies. Eat your heart out, Miss Frizzle.
⑤ Interdimentional Mixer → You're at this party but none of the people are the versions of themselves you expect them to be! What sort of timey-wimey tomfoolery is this? Why do all these universes have numbers?
⑥ Trapped in the Drive-thru → You're trapped in the drive-thru. All you wanted was an Egg McMuffin, dammit!
⑦ Truth Serum → You're forced to tell the truth! That secret you've been bottling up for years? Yup, it's coming out.

FLUFF

① Avenger's Tower → Remember that nice tower Tony Stark was working on before it got ditched for the New Avengers Facility? Everyone has their own room designed just for them! It's like a big sleepover and all your weird friends are invited.
② Reunion → It's been awhile since you've seen some of these people. Will you give them a hug? A hearty handshake? Try not to get too misty-eyed!
③ Movie Night → Grab the popcorn and a snuggly blanket! Are you watching the latest action flick with your friend? Or perhaps something a bit spooky so you can have an excuse to cuddle with your partner?
④ Confessions → It's time to tell the object of your affections how you feel about them! Don't get cold feet now. This is the moment you've been waiting for!
⑤ Stolen Glances → Maybe it's the first time, or maybe it's been going on for awhile now. Either way, there's someone you've been making eyes at, and...did their fingertips just brush yours?
⑥ Domestic Life → Hey, sometimes even Earth's Mightiest Heroes need to cook and clean. What's the occasion?
⑦ Hobby Exchange → Teach someone about a hobby you enjoy and they can teach you about one of theirs!

GEN

① Trip to Knowhere → Get ready to gamble and drink yourself dizzy! And if that's not your cup of tea, perhaps visit the Collector's Museum, where you are sure to see all sorts of strange specimens from across the galaxy.
② Shawarma → After any great battle, a hero must have their victory feast. Who's on the shawarma bandwagon this time?
③ New York Tourism → You're in New York! Whether this is your first time or you live here, there's plenty to see. Why not hit up the Statue of Liberty? Go to a Broadway show? Take a pic with Times Square Spider-Man?
④ Beach Party → It's the Beach Episode. Put on your swim trunks, get out the volleyball, and fire up the grill!
⑤ Late Night → You're up late and wondering around HQ. Do you stop in the kitchen for some midnight baking? Take a walk outside? Reprogram the whole facility so the AI only responds to your voice?
⑥ Capture the Flag → It's a game of Capture the Flag, and powers are off-limits. You wouldn't cheat, would you? Everyone here definitely plays fair.
⑦ Denny's → It's 2 A.M. and you're at Denny's. Sure, you feel like hell, but how about that Grand Slam?

WILDCARD

A scenario of your choosing! Go wild! Please remember to mark for spoiler warnings and/or any content warnings as applicable.

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Nebula's friends. Strange. [A pause, and he's clearly trying hard to keep his voice from cracking.] Peter.

[Tony drags in a deep, shuddering breath, scrubs his face with a hand. God, he can't do anything right with Peter. He'd only ever wanted to help him, to keep him from doing something dumb and getting himself killed, and now he's dead because of him.] I- I fucking told him to go back home. I tried to keep him safe, and now I have to look his aunt in the eye and tell her-

Shit.

The kid.

[ his brain does the math before he can even stop himself from blurting it out. An aunt means guardian which means someone young.

Bucky can't help it. He extends his arm, to put it on Tony's shoulder. ]

I'm sorry.

[Tony's eyes burn, and he has to blink back tears.]

Yeah.

[He can't even begin to imagine the scale of loss on Earth - the larger picture, half the population disappearing in the blink of an eye, and the smaller one, his teammates, his friends, crumbling to ash. He's too afraid to wonder who else might be dead. Maybe even all of them, the way his day is going.]

I don't know what to do. I- I'm the guy who's supposed to look at this and figure out a way to fix it, and I tried, and we all got fucked. And-

[And it's my fault.]

Hey, hey. Listen. This is way bigger than one person.

[ HELP HE DOES NOT KNOW WHAT HE'S DOING ]

Maybe they're just somewhere else, somewhere-- I dunno. I was in Wakanda, then I was here. They can't just be gone.

[ Because that could mean he lost Steve. And that's simply not an option right now. ]

[He just looks at Bucky, because, no, that's pretty clearly not what happened. Tony saw all of them fall to pieces, one by one. They crumbled into ashes, and he couldn't do a fucking thing to stop it.]

Yeah, well, if they aren't gone, then we need to get the gauntlet back from Thanos. And while I'd love to be optimistic about our chances there, spoiler, I'm pretty sure there aren't any. Strange saw one future where we succeeded out of more than fourteen million. Since he didn't share that secret with me, I'm gonna say that the deck is stacked against us.

[ He is just playing eternal catch up, it seems. Bucky drops his hand when Tony gives him that flat look, and presses his lips together. Now he feels like an idiot, and instantly misses Steve's ridiculous optimism. ]

How do you know this isn't the one he saw?

I'm assuming that the one that got him killed is the one he saw. But if he's dead, then we don't know which choice is the right one, and yada yada, each branching path creates an infinite number of new futures, and-

[And Tony's paralyzed with indecision and kind of on the verge of a panic attack here, okay? He doesn't understand why he's alive and Strange isn't here to do things the right way.]

--we're on the right one. You gotta believe that.

[ He interrupts again, at his own risk, but he knows these signs, knows the prickling fear and anxiety and that shaking sense of being too small in the face of it all.

Butcky normally has more of an ironic take, but if Steve isn't here someone has to be the voice of encouragement. Nebula (the blue girl's name, he's learned) offers them something to drink. Her voice is soft, but angry. She's lost too.

Bucky unzips his jacket, shrugging it off so he can move around and do finer tasks without the bulk. He leans in carefully, keeping his movements slow, so he can get a better look at Tony's stab. ]

What's this around the wound?

Nanites. Tiny robots.

[Tony's a little uneasy about letting Barnes get so close to him, but honestly? Between all the shit he's been through today and the passage of time, everything is blurred enough that it's hard to give much of a shit.]

They were in my suit. Now it's more like a patch over my skin to hold everything together.

[Just on the outside. Tony's trying really hard to not think about how fucked his internal organs probably are. On the bright side, if they were super fucked, he'd be dead already. Is that a bright side? He's not sure anymore.]

[ Nebula brings over a small device, because internal injuries of a certain caliber are beyond Bucky's scope, and together they make an attempt to scan Tony's vicious stab wound. It missed a lot of critical organs, but it did go basically all the way through. The ship is far more advanced than Bucky estimated, so they do have the tools to repair it. Bucky lets Nebula do most of the work, since she knows how to operate all the technology (he can't believe he's talking to an actual alien, on a ship in outer space!). It's similar to Wakanda's tech, but none of the readouts are in languages he can begin to decipher. So he offers assistance when needed, then stays out of the way.

He doesn't have any injuries, so he waves Nebula off when she asks him if he needs repairing. Repairing, like you would a machine. Bucky can't help but notice how she's far less biological than he: she has a bionic arm, but there are mechanisms in her head, on her face, and in places he probably wouldn't care to have them. Eventually, she goes to program in the coordinates for the Sol star system that Tony provided (are you kidding they are actually flying back to Earth what is this). Then Bucky is left alone with Tony again, and regards the man as he settles in.

Bucky has located food, or whatever this ship has that qualifies, and is sitting at a small table across the room getting ready to sample it. ]

We should eat. It's gonna take a while for that stuff to finish tissue repair.

[Honestly, if Tony wasn't so tired and injured and at least halfway out of it, he would be really excited about all of this, because he's a giant fucking nerd, and it's not like he really got to do much other than be scared for his life the last time he was in a spaceship. He's still a little woozy from the sedatives the machine injected him with, not to mention everything else, and he just kind of blinks at Barnes for a moment.

Food. Right. That's a thing that he probably needs to function. Even if right now he feels like he's about a thousand years old and eating is the last thing on his mind.]

I think astronaut ice cream might be more appealing than this.

[He eyes the food skeptically as he sits down across the table. Sure, it's probably been scientifically formulated to fulfill a human's precise dietary needs, but it looks even less appetizing than instant oatmeal, and that takes some doing. Tony slowly lifts the spoon to his mouth and shovels some in, and yeah, it's about what he expects from the way it looks. On the other hand, you could put a Kobe beef filet mignon in front of him right now, and he'd probably feel pretty much the same way about it.]

It's a slight upgrade from military rations. But not by much.

[ Bucky eats, but with little joy, knowing this is a necessity, not an indulgence. Wakanda spoiled him, what with the farm and all the cool technology (guess who else is a fucking nerd).

He sees Tony is a little off-kilter after his makeshift surgery, but after a few moments stretch by, he finds himself about to burst. Timing? Pah.

He brushes some hair from his face. ]

This is gonna be a long trip, so we should probably just get this out right now. What happened...to your parents... [ He swallows a lump ] I don't have any excuses, I can't defend that I really did it, that it was my hands. I gotta look myself in the mirror every day and live with that. I could tell you about how Hydra found me, what they did to my arm, how-- [ his voice breaks, he has to look outside the tiny window into space to keep his eyes from stinging ] how long it took them to break me...

[ Okay, maybe this was a bad idea. He's never had to face the victim of a mission before, and even when he inhales to keep things in check it does little to quell the brittle feeling that's threatening to shatter his tenuous control.

Bucky stares down into his food, lifts a hand so Tony won't interrupt this word vomit. ]

But. Steve told me what you did, how you offered to help me before it all came out. He wasn't doing the right thing, keeping it from you. That little secret broke up your team. [ he clears his throat. ] But ah, my brain's not mashed potatoes anymore. Shitty as it sounds, I am sorry.

[...Barnes is apologizing in a rush of words suddenly and it all sounds like a dull buzzing noise in Tony's ears. Yeah, okay, he's not over the fact that his mom and dad were assassinated by HYDRA, but honestly? It's the furthest thing from his mind at the moment. (He doesn't blame Barnes anymore, he's come to the understanding - after a lot of wrestling with himself - that he wasn't responsible for it, that he was brainwashed. A tool in HYDRA's hands.) While some part of him might appreciate the apology at any other time (not that it can undo what's been done), or might at least accept that it gives one of them something like closure, Tony can't process it right now.]

It's- [he pauses for a moment] Fuck. It's not okay, but you don't need to apologize. [That doesn't make any sense, wouldn't make any more sense on a perfectly normal day.] Please don't apologize, I hate apologies. I've heard thousand of insincere ones, and I just-

[What is he even doing right now? Tony rests his forehead on the table for a moment and it suddenly strikes him that wow, he could probably fall asleep right here and now.]

I know it wasn't really you. [Tony peers up again, little more than brown eyes and a shock of hair visible over the top of his forearm.] I know what happened. And right now, Barnes, I do not give a flying fuck about anything because the kid I promised to protect crumbled to fucking dust in my hands and- [his voice cracks and breaks and Tony just can't say anything else because his throat's closed up. He lowers his head again, and this time, tears spatter against the floor.]

[ Jesus, what a wreck. Bucky chides himself for the shitty timing, after all that's happened; everyone they've loved is probably dead or crumbled in their hands, and he's trying to dredge up all this old shit. ]

You're right.

[ Tony can tell Bucky to go fuck himself if he wants, but right now? Tony needs someone and Bucky's only human. He remembers what it was like when Steve buried his mother, how he didn't want to be near anyone or hear any platitudes. Bucky just made himself available, and sometimes, put himself in Steve's space anyways.

He rearranges himself, puts a hand on Tony's back. This time, he doesn't say anything, just makes himself available. Even though he's got to be the last person in the galaxy --literally-- Tony would rather see. ]

[To be fair, the last person in the galaxy Tony wants to see right now is Thanos. And he could probably name a few others if he put his mind to it - Bucky probably doesn't even make the bottom ten.

Right now, though, Tony's too busy crying to make any lists. It's quiet, like someone who's trained themselves from a young age to not disturb anyone else with their problems, but he can't hide the uneven breaths, the way his shoulders shudder. And he definitely doesn't push the hand on his back away, because in a weird way, it anchors him.

When he's done, Tony lifts his head up and surreptitiously tries to swipe at his eyes with the back of his forearm. Not that he can really pretend that he hasn't been crying, but, you know, appearances. He's probably freaked Barnes out by now.]

Point is, this is bigger than all of us. [Which is what he's been saying for years, but hey, no problem, this is fine.] Even if I still had a problem with you, I'd put it aside right now. Hell, if Ultron showed up and said he could kick Thanos' ass, I'd be sorely tempted to work with him. Which, I realize belatedly, might come across the wrong way.

[ Bucky's only freaked out by the fact that he is comforting Tony Stark. On a spaceship. In outer space. If you'd asked him how he thought his life would end up, this would definitely not be anywhere on that list. Right below becoming a cyborg Soviet assassin.

He retreats back into his own personal space when Tony sits up, keeps his hands to himself and tries not to look intrusive. Even if he's listening intently to everything Tony says. ]

I don't know who Ultron is but I'll assume from context clues he's not a good guy.

[ He's been on ice off an on, and thus missed some pretty big developments in history (when he wasn't the one causing them). Even the times he was operative, he wasn't really processing things around him like a lucid person. So he's had a crash course in world history over the last couple of years, but only in his spare time between therapy and farming. Which, to be fair, takes up a great segment of his day. So he's not chronologically to that point yet, though he does know a bit about the aliens in New York. ]

AI I made to protect the world from outside threats, decided that the best way to keep humanity safe was to kill us all, got a robot body and took over Sokovia. He'd probably get along great with Thanos, actually, so scratch that.

[It seemed like a good idea before he gained actual sentience, okay? Now that Tony's calm again - relatively - he's just going to go back to eating his glop. As much as he doesn't want to, he knows objectively that his body needs the fuel for whatever's going to happen next.]

Oh, wait. I know about that. Didn't know his name, though. Genocidal killer robot. Alright.

[ he can't stifle his nerd side, even if he realizes why it's not a good topic. ]

So did it like, take the three robot laws too far?

[Okay, Tony's kind of impressed by the Asimov reference. It almost gets him to crack a smile, in fact.]

He had code from an alien source - one of the Infinity Stones, in fact. He wrote his own laws. [Not that Tony hadn't tried to hedge everything in, but...well. JARVIS had been the security on that.]

Explains why he wanted to kill all humans. Those things seem like hard-wired murder rocks.

[ If only Bucky knew that all it really took was less than 5 seconds on the internet before Ultron decided humanity had to go ]

[Tony would like to blame Reddit for that ~~although Ultron would probably get along well with the scum of Reddit too~~.]

Yeah, well, you would know. According to Dad's old notes, the Tesseract powered HYDRA's weapons during the war.

[At least he seems like he's starting to calm down a bit?]

[ He stops, as the memory hits him: glowing blue energy blasts, all sorts of machines before their time. Then another memory, unbidden, unwelcome; a man peeling his face off, to reveal a red skull underneath.

And Arnim Zola.

Bucky shudders, pushing that away. Steve really had more direct interaction with futuristic laser guns. ]

I only saw some of their prototypes, early on. In the labor camp, a couple of missions with the Commandos.

Edited 2018-06-03 04:19 (UTC)

[Awkwaaaaard.]

Loki had it when he tried to take over New York, too. Along with another stone in his scepter. So, yeah, you're pretty right about the murder rocks thing.

God, it's like we're a magnet for these things. Why do they exist, if nothing good comes of them?

[ He tries to jog any other memories loose, but considering they're irrelevant now, he gives up after a few seconds. ]

Wait- you said they had code. Does that mean they can be hacked like a computer?

Mmh. [Tony waves a hand.] The code was totally alien. It'd take a lot more time than we have for me to understand it, and I'd have to physically have one of the stones to extract the code.

[It's not a terrible idea, but not one that's logistically feasible.]

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