007 :: Video

[hulkbusted]

[Behold a view of Bruce's lab in City Solutions. In the corner, the coffee machine is spraying hot brown liquid. Lights are blinking crazily on and off, and Bruce is fending off a robot arm that seems determined to douse him in some kind of yellow foam while he fights his way to the lab door.

It looks like he might not make it, but a coat rack with a manically waving lab coat hung on one of its hooks rolls into view and gives Bruce enough time to get out the door, slamming and locking it.

The perspective changes, for the first time making it clear that this video transmission is coming from the lab's security cameras, showing Bruce pulling his network device out of his pocket.]

Security.

[The video blinks out and suddenly the feed is coming from his communicator's camera.]

Security, lock down the research floor for the day. You...ah... might want to check the rest of the building while you're at it.

[Behind him, the mesh-inforced glass window on the lab door suddenly floods with yellow foam and Bruce jumps in surprise before breaking into a trot, heading down the hall.]

This is another one of those hinky City things, right?

Comments

[hulkbusted]

I'm not making anything up. Did you think I was going to just let you walk in and take it whenever?

[Shove the damned apple down Loki's throat, gnome. Bruce will low-five you.]

[doeswhathewants]

Obviously not whenever. But I intend to find someone to volunteer themselves on a future day, when they are cursed to see if the cube's power can break the hold of the city gods. Even if it is nothing that will work on a widespread basis- think of the people here with power, Bruce. Think of the terrible things they have and can yet do under the influence of a curse.

[And he's a little upset because they killed people under someone's influence. Not that death upsets him, nor the passing of mortals, but that his will was not his own.

Also, the gnomes are trying.] I said no apples. No apples, no singing, no chores.

[hulkbusted]

[Bruce doesn't need to think about it. Last weekend he did something he deeply regrets.]

What you do with a volunteer and your mentor's oversight is between the three of you.

[doeswhathewants]

My thanks for holding to your end of the agreement, then. [Sketching an amused bow, currently ignoring the gnomes.]