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The moment Ed rolled the dice she heard him call out Jumanji, the game was finally over now as she started to relax the next thing that she knew she was back in the living room with the others. She looked around at everyone, sadly everyone still had all of their injuries Carolina couldnt see either Runa or Klara until a portal opened up seeing the two Asgardians coming out of the portal. She heard Klara rambling on about her eye problem she did feel bad that Klara ended up loosing her eye because of Loki's game.

Carolina turned her attention back towards Neil, she blushed slightly when Neil asked if she was alright and nodded towards him. "Just a few scrapes and bruises, its better than getting a really bad head injury." Carolina said, remembering getting hit by Hel's sword back when she was in Coventry and then during the whole Mesmero attack as well to. "Are you doing okay?" Carolina asked looking at Neil a bit concerned as she went to help him sit down on the couch. "I think just about all of us need some kind of medical attention." Carolina said looking at Klara offering some help.

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Finally the game actually ended as Ed rolled the dice, the next thing that she knew all of them were back in the living room where the game actually started. "I'm not watching the movies ever again, or going to any kind of zoo in a really long time." Bethany said as she slumped down on a nearby chair. She let out a slight sigh as she looked down at her injuries, she was really sore from all of the fighting as Beth saw a portal opening up and saw that it was Klara and Runa. "Glad to see you guys are okay." Bethany said towards the two of them as she leaned back in the chair.

"Is the gameboard still around here somewhere, if it is Loki created it maybe that would help search for him?" Bethany asked looking over at the two Asgardians as Klara went on about an eyepatch. "We should get patched up first before we go and search for Loki or going to the Avengers." Bethany said giving a slight shrug.

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The gameboard was quickly found thanks to Runa and with Bethany’s help, they secured it and gave it to Edus. Antoinette turned her attention to the vines, to keep her partner protected while he rolled for them. It happened quickly, Ed called out Jumanji and they were all transported out of the hangar and into the living room. Antoinette looked around carefully, wanting to make sure they were truly done with the game. She let out a relieved sigh and collapsed onto a couch as well. She sucked in a bit of a breath though and looked at her arms and sides where she had various cuts from the monkeys’ and sore spots from the vines grabbing her.
Antoinette glanced around at the others, seeing the portal open and Runa returned with Klara. She looked to Lance and smiled a little. At least he had Runa; hopefully, Lance would come around again. Antoinette poked a couple spots on her body before she stood to get a first aid kit. Overall, Antoinette was okay and didn’t need the healing from Klara. Antoinette wanted to make sure Klara could help Mary, Edus and the others who were more severely injured.
Antoinette managed to find herself a first aid kit and set about cleaning her cuts and bandaging them up. She managed to get and partially bandaged up her wounds. Hopefully, it would at least protect her from getting an infection.
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"Oh, yeah, you got it!" Iris shouted down to Neil, ceasing her struggling to keep herself from swaying. It took a short while for anyone else to have another swing at getting her down, long enough for blood to begin pooling to her head, making her face go red. But eventually, a soft orange glow began to shine around her, severing the vines that held her. She let out a scream, one more of excitement than horror, as she plummeted towards the ground. When her fall was cushioned, the scream turned to a laugh as she sat up.

"Aw, dude, that was fun." She then looked back over to Ed, casually adding in, "I'm telling you guys, fire is never a good idea. You should just hire me on as a fulltime gardener instead!" as he rolled the dice. Suddenly they were back in the living room. Iris got to her feet, immediately looking to the table to find her still-smoking pot. She yoinked it up and shoved it between her lips, before looking at the other X-Men all gathered there, silently scanning the room. Her eyes eventually landed on Mira.

"I guess this means we lost, doesn't it?...Best two out of three anyone?" She asked, her lips twitching as she tried to fight back a grin. Eventually she couldn't hold it back anymore, and her lips stretched wide in her usual mischievous smile. She wordlessly stepped up next to Annie, wordlessly getting ready to help her with any first-aid she might need to do.

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"I'll take the W on this and not play it ever again." Ed sat on the couch and closed his eyes "I'd also need something of Loki's. Preferably hair or a nail, even better some of his blood. But if the gameboard is around, maybe one of us can follow his magic." He paused tilting his head thinking. Klara and Runa had been under Loki's magic.

The first thing was first though. He did a small shield spell in the air above everyone's head. His magic seemed to be working fine. He closed his eyes again and focused on Klara and Runa separating out their unique magic from Loki's It wasn't easy considering he was still suffering from blood loss. He found a thread of it, but it seemed to vanish. Like trying to hold water. He sighed. That wasn't going to work. He hoped Runa would be able to. "Well ball is in your court Runa. I don't think I can do it."

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"Saying that everyone looks like crap is a bit of an understatement at this point, and yeah Guin, calling ahead is probably a good thing, but my first immediate thought when you said that was do I want to know how you know that?" she asked, referring obviously to the comment that she had made in regards to Hawkeye in boxers. That was not a picture that anyone really needed.

[color=yellow]"Yeah, warning them that we are going to show up, and telling them why would probably be smart," Lance responded too, though not really offering to make the call himself. A part of him wanted to also say that since she was calling to have someone tell Thor they also found his missing kid, but based so far on what he knew about Klara, she probably would prefer for it to be a surprise.

Mira was relatively quiet just watching the entire situation unfold around her. She wasn't incredibly hurt or anything, but she was still wanting Iris to shut her mouth for more then two seconds. Yup that would make her life easier, but there wasn't much else she really was going to do at the moment. She was waiting to hear what everyone was going to do, at least in the meantime until they headed off to go deal with Loki.

"Of course you'd prefer a darker red or something, but nope nothing beats hot pink and sparkles," Klara said before waving her fingers a little bit as pink glitter sort of sprayed slightly at Runa getting all over her hair. "Glitter is the best invention in the entire universe!" Though she started giggling, slightly, seeing Runa blushing a little bit, and Runa would know exactly why she likely was laughing. There was a slight glint of pink in her eye, and she would not stop giggling slightly at her cousin's whole love life at this point (which honestly until then had been pretty much non-existent).

"Okay... So we'll wait a little bit for everyone to hopefully stop feeling like complete and utter crap, we can get going to maybe go after the one responsible for sending that box to us, also known as Loki..."

"What Runa said is true," Klara said, managing to stop giggling now and looking over, "A tracking spell would be rather quick. But as she said, we aren't actually blood related which would make it easier to do the spell, but honestly in my brain is a good thing that we aren't related. My personal opinion."

"Quick question," Lance asked, glancing towards the two Asgardians, "In theory since the box and the game were originally his technically, or at least he made it, wouldn't that potentially work as a point for you to use to potentially track him with? Like what Ed was suggesting or whatever it was. I know nothing but magic but that logic sounds good to me.""

"...Now there is an idea," Klara mused, before glancing at her cousin, also seeing how she changed her clothes, "Oh that's a cute dress," she added to her cousin with a smile. She had contemplated shifting her own outfit, but she was a warrior, so it wasn't going to be something she was going to shift anytime soon. "I mean we don't have anything else at all, and it would be better then nothing."

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Carolina looked over at Neil for a moment as she sat down on the couch, every part of her body was pretty sore as she looked down at her wounds, they werent super serious but they really hurt like hell. Sometimes she did wish that she had dermal armor like her sister did, at least she didnt have to worry about getting cut at all. She looked between Runa and Klara as Klara went on about stylizing her eyepatch which was kind of an entertaining idea. "I'd go with a bright blue with glitter." Carolina suggested as she looked at everyone else as Annie offered some basic first aide.

"The sooner we get patched up the quicker we can go and find Loki." Carolina said she really didnt like the idea of having been forced inside of the game at all. She wasnt sure what else would have happened while inside of that jungle, she wasnt a magic expert but if Loki did create the game then it could be easier to track him.

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"Thats what I just suggested." Bethany said rolling her eyes slightly as she leaned herself up against the wall looking at the wounds were mostly just cuts from the monkeys. She eyed Klara as she mentioned glitter and shuddered slightly she really did hate all things girlie she never even wore a dress once really except for Guin's wedding but that was the only other time she did wear one. Bethany looked at Annie offering some first aide, she wasnt in any real danger like Neil, Ed or Mary were she shrugged slightly and started to make her way over towards the two of them. "I wouldnt mind some aide." Bethany said.

She took a seat on the couch to let Annie do her thing as she leaned back slightly letting out a slight sigh, she actually did agree with Carolina the sooner they got patched up the quicker they could actually find Loki looking at Runa and Klara. "Once we beat Loki what are you guys gonna do with him anyway?" She asked mostly out of curiosity.

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Neil nodded, accepting Carolina's help as he got onto the couch. "It hurts, but I'll live," he told her, smiling slightly. He had to resist the urge to use D&D terms and go I'm not bloodied to indicate his health. The healing he had received so far had really helped, but now that he was coming down from adrenaline he was feeling all his injuries a lot more keenly. He really wanted to roll over and take a nap, his mind felt like a bowl of soup after all of the use of his telekinesis. Neil could have easily slept for a month or more. He couldn't help but laugh, then wincing in the pain laughing caused, at Iris' joke.

He definitely knew that not everyone really liked Iris, but she was incredibly funny. Her humor reminded him of those weird British sit-coms, the sorts that Americans couldn't handle unless they remade it - like the British version of the Office. He didn't really see the gameboard anywhere, but he couldn't have helped out with the magic. The most he could have done was offer to call his aunties or maybe his cousin Rebecca and ask if they wouldn't mind tracking down the God of Mischief. He wondered briefly what they were up to at the moment - were they in the garden, inspecting the harvest? Were they down in the mortuary, preparing bodies for burial? Were they dancing around a fire in the forest in the nude?

Runa ran her fingers through her hair, trying to brush out some of the glitter. It was rather hard to do so since she typically wore her hair in complex braids, not the easiest scenario for getting things out. Glitter was one of the substances most resistant to magic as well in her experience. Even if she banished it, some of it always remained. It was stubborn like that. She found that the board was just sitting there and she picked it up. She closed her eyes, opening up her Third Eye and peering as to where Loki was. His location was foggy. "He's somewhere in the place called New York," she informed the others. "Once we fell Loki, he will face justice in my brother's court."

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Guin didn't have a very high opinion of Asgardian justice. They had supposedly locked up Loki back in 2012 and yet, he had gotten free somehow to terrorize people. She really had expected that the ancient society would be able to hold Loki for more than just a decade at a time - especially since Asgardians loved to go around about how short a human lifespan was, that it was the blink of an eye. So then, by that logic, they would throw Loki in their Asgardian prison and before they could blink, he'd escaped! Though, she supposed Thor wasn't exactly known for his wits and since he was next in line to be king, maybe Asgard wasn't known for their IQ.

She walked over to a corner by herself, so that way she could have some privacy. She took out her phone and dialed her father's number. The phone rang a few times, before she heard a click on the other end. "Hey, Dad?" Guin said tentatively, hoping that he had actually answered it and it wasn't J.A.R.V.I.S. or something taking the call instead.

"Hey there Penguin how's it going?"

Guin decided to cut to the chase and not beat around the bush. “Don’t worry, we’re all fine here. But Loki is on the move," she said bluntly. She figured her dad would have questions, but it got the important information out of the way - namely the who and the what.

"Wait what?"

Maybe she hadn't been as clear as she thought she had been. “He attacked us, we’re coming over.”

"He did what?????"

Maybe Tony was finally going senile? Did he need hearing aids? How was she unclear? "He tried to kill us with Jumanji, you know like the movie, but we’re good.”

"...Okay."

Finally. But somehow, she was unconvinced that he actually understood anything she said at all. "See you soon, Old Man."

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It seemed that Ed wouldn’t be able to do the tracking on his own, even though he created a small shield above their heads. Antoinette watched the glow a moment, thinking how pretty the colour was before Bethany’s voice snapped her out of her daydream. With Bethany always teasing her and Carolina, Antoinette was a bit surprised Bethany asked for help but Antoinette was glad to help all the same.
”Of course Bethany,” she smiled. Antoinette sat on the arm of the couch with her supplies while Bethany sat on the couch cushions. She got the antiseptic ready to clean the wounds while Guin made the phone call to her dad. Hearing that Loki was within New York wasn’t surprising to Antoinette. All the major show downs seemed to happen within New York. She was amazed at how resilient that city was becoming and how quickly they could now recover.
”There, that should about do it,” Antoinette said as she finished bandaging up Bethany. She managed to treat all of Bethany’s cuts, scrapes and simple wounds so that they would no longer be a problem.

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"Wait...is one of your superpowers sparkle manifestation?! That's dope! I'll trade you my fire powers for it!" Iris chirped up like an excited child wanting to trade baseball cards, her attention suddenly diverting away from Annie and instead to Klara as she sprinkled sparkles all over the new goth. The goddess only kept her gnat-like attention for a few seconds, for as soon as Annie sat down to begin her work on Beth, Iris waddled behind, ready to help. She stood there, waiting to help a lending hand, but it didn't take long to realize that Annie seemed to have it under control. As she waited, taking a few huffs from her joint, she looked to Neil, who appeared to be at the end of a painful laugh. Iris had to cover her mouth with her hand to keep herself from breaking out into her own laugh, though the corners of her grin peeked out from underneath her fingers.

"Sorry dude, I'll try to be more boring. From now on I'll limit myself to talking about taxes, DMVs, and the US Postal Service!" she promised. Though only seconds after she said it, it was like a lightbulb went off in her head. "Be back in a jiffy," she said, before quickly limping off towards the kitchen. She came back not long after, intently inspecting the box which the game had come in. "Hm...no return address unfortunately...still, this box might be able to tell you guys something. Or maybe not, I don't know." As she finished speaking, she offered the box out to the group, for anyone who might want to take a look at it.

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There was a lot of conversation going on, and he heard Guin step away to make her phone call. They'd at least not show up unannounced to Stark's. That wasn't something he particularly felt like doing. He wondered if there was extra blood packs somewhere in Xavier's Mansion. It seemed like a terrible oversight if there wasn't. How was he the only X-man with healing powers? And they were crappy.

Ed had his head back eyes closed resting. It helped keep the world from spinning too much. "Here let me see it Iris." He said reaching out toward her but not bothering to lift his head or open his eyes. When he felt the weight of the box on his hand he pulled it closer. He let his sense of magic feel around it. "Hmm definitely a box. No Loki here." He joked, the paused as his spell connected to something. "Oh, he's near the harbor." He opened his eyes a little surprised it had worked. He still didn't lift his head. "I don't know exactly where, but yeah, the harbor."

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It had been a few hours since the game had ended, after all, more then a few people had serious injuries and they all looked like hell one way or the other. At least Guin had called ahead of time to ensure that the Avengers knew that they were showing up, and what exactly was going on. They took the Blackbird once everyone was far away from death or something like that (thankfully for everyone who needed it, they did just so happen to have blood bags on hand for transfusions).

When the jet landed, the group would be able to just head inside of their own accord, given the fact that they had been expected to show up. They currently had a vague idea of where Loki was, but how accurate that still was was up in the air, given the fact that it had been a few hours ago since they had tried tracking Loki with Runa and Ed casting spells. A person could move within a few minutes, so it was impossible to tell if Loki was cocky enough to just stay put, but based on previous knowledge about Loki, Mary was pretty sure there was a decent chance that he'd do that. However you couldn't be too careful, and they were better off just trying to ensure that they knew where he was.

Once inside the building, they were instantly greeted by a giant woman who was wearing a business suit, but what stood out most about her was that she was green skinned and built similarly to that of the Hulk. "Oh hello there, we've been wondering when you all would show up," she said with a bit of a smile as she took off her glasses and put them into her pocket.

Mary was about to ask who exactly she was, since she was somewhat confused, but luckily for her, Lance seemed to figure that and answered the question for her. "Hey aunt Jen," he said to her with a bit of a wave, before looking at the others in the group, "This is my dad's cousin Jennifer Walters, also known as She-Hulk..."

"Yup that's me, anyway Stark and the others who are here are in the main area, nice to meet you all by the way," Walters said, before walking towards the main central area, where there didn't seem to be anyone else that the group wouldn't recognize. In the room was Tony Stark, Thor and Wanda Maximoff.

"So this is the building that my father tends to spend his time while on Midgard," Klara mused, not really talking to anyone in particular as she went along with them, and then she saw her father in the room, and she started giggling. "Daddy!" she yelled out happily before she charged forward and tackled Thor to the ground in a rather large explosion of pink glitter.

"Klara!!! My little sparkle, verily it is good to see you once more!" Thor cheered, clapping his daughter on the back with such enthusiasm it sounded like thunder.

"I missed you soooooooo many weird things happen, oh I lost my eye was thinking about maybe getting a pink and glittery eyepatch or something, oh and Runa is here too!" she instantly started rambling for a few moments. Klara was typically easily distracted by random things, and whatnot, so odds were she wasn't going to be talking about that for very long.

"Wow, it is going to take forever to get that glitter out of everything in the room," Tony couldn't help but comment with a shrug, and Klara looked over at him, before suddenly Tony would end up getting hit in the face with a bomb made entirely out of pink glitter.

"Glitter makes everything better!"

Pietro instantly walked over to be standing next to Wanda, giving his sister a smile, "Hey there Wanda, how are you doing?" he asked her with a bit of a smile.

"I'm fine Pietro," responded, though one thing would be obvious to everyone who didn't typically talk to Wanda or see her, and that was that she seemed to be pregnant. Likely more then a few months along from the looks of it.

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Carolina was glad that she and everyone else would be able to get the treatment that they needed, she was feeling a lot better now as she got off of the Blackbird and followed everyone else towards the inside of Stark Tower. She stopped for a moment seeing She-Hulk there to greet them and smiled waving towards her. she knew that she was the newest member to the Avengers as well as a renowned lawyer as well to, she looked at Lance for a moment. "I didnt know that she was your aunt." Carolina said as she made her way over towards the main room seeing everyone else who was there. Klara instantly went to tackle Thor and hugged him, seeing the family reunion was really nice and then Klara throwing some glitter at Tony was entertaining to.

She also saw Wanda there and looked like she was pregnant as well, and Pietro going over towards her she hadnt seen Wanda since Guin's wedding Carolina gave her a smile and also waved towards her. "It's really good to see you again and congrats to." Carolina said towards her, she decided to stay nearby Neil and Annie for the time being.

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Bethany was feeling better after Annie had patched her up and thanked her, as they all got off of the Blackbird and followed everyone else into Stark Tower. She saw a woman who looked like she was the female version of The Hulk, when Lance introduced them all to her Carolina seemed to know her though. "It's nice to meet you." Bethany said as she followed everyone else into the room, seeing Wanda, Thor and Tony all there. She watched Klara tackle hugging her father, she still was surprised that she was actually Thor's daughter as Bethany watched her throw a glitter bomb at Tony.

"Glitter is really annoying." Bethany said which she really did think it was and a real pain in the ass to clean up as well to, she would feel bad for Tony trying to clean all of that up. She was curious though how they would even find out where Loki is right now as she looked at the others. "So, how do we find Loki anyway?"

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Guin was still slightly unnerved seeing Wanda wandering around her home. She knew logically that Wanda was an Avenger now, but she was having trouble relaxing around her. The knowledge that Wanda was pregnant felt a little Twilight Zone-y to her too. Was Wanda even qualified to have kids? Sure, she was a reformed supervillain, but she wasn't even old enough to drive a rental car. Did she know how to do taxes? Was Robot McRobot Face going to help her? How'd she even get pregnant? Robots didn't have sperm. Yay, you can be overprotective over her today then and leave me be, Guin whispered telepathically to Pietro, only mildly jealous.

You aren't off the hook for that either Guina, I can be overprotective of you both.

You have superspeed, you're not Multiple Man, she pointed out, before going over to her father. She-Hulk being around was new as well. Guin couldn't help but be annoyed with all of the new Avengers in the building. She didn't understand why she was feeling so irritated at others joining the group - she was with the X-Men after all, it wasn't like she wanted to be asked to join the Avengers or anything like that. "Hey, Old Man. I'm assuming you're all going to come help us out with this one?"

"Yup, that's kind of the idea."

"Is today, like, Reserve Avenger Day?" she couldn't help but ask. Besides her father and Thor, no one from the O6 was here. Hulk was understandable, as he was MIA still. Captain America she was pretty sure was either on vacation or sulking after the entire skrull business. She had no idea what was going on with Black Widow or Hawkeye though.

"Yeah, we thought it'd be nice to have the Reserve Avengers here to help out with the X-Men Little League Team," Tony replied sarcastically, shaking his head.

"Well maybe if you do really good today, you'll impress Cap and he'll promote you to be a real Avenger," Guin quipped back, smirking slightly. "I'll leave a good review for you. It's Iron Dude, right?"

"Wow, your words have wounded me, they actually broke my arc reactor! Is that the light I see? Everything.... dark.... going cold...." Tony said, fake falling backwards, clutching his chest.

Guin rolled her eyes and giggled. "Such a drama queen."

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Neil was a bit starstruck, having not really met anyone in the room before. Iron Man, Thor, She-Hulk, and the Scarlet Witch all in one place? He could practically feel the power radiating through the room. He wondered if the rest of the Avengers were already off chasing after Loki or if he had sent them some sort of sick game as well. His jaw dropped slightly as he realized that the Scarlet Witch was pregnant. He was pretty sure that crime fighting was against doctor's orders. He couldn't imagine that was healthy for the fetus. But then again, the Scarlet Witch was magical - she probably didn't have to play by ordinary rules. He admired her that way, since most of her feats reminded him of his aunties. They dabbled in dark magic and it matched what he had seen in the news from Scarlet Witch's years as a terrorist.

The She-Hulk scared him. He was afraid of the Hulk, he didn't like Lance, and knowing that there was a third person who could go green and smash things was not at all comforting - especially since the She-Hulk was already in her green smashing form. She at least seemed to be kind and gentle, something he couldn't say for Lance who seemed to switch between angry and (now that Runa was around) horny for his emotional moods. "So, uh, you're pregnant... That's, uh, cool. Do you need help with baby names?" Neil asked Wanda awkwardly, not really knowing what to say. He was hoping no one would tell Thor he had been the one to destroy Klara's eye.

"The mage indicated that Loki was near a harbor. Are there any nearby?" Runa asked, not having been in New York before really. She had visited Midgard a few times but she never remembered where anything was.

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Ed felt weird as they entered Stark Tower. He didn't feel like an X-Men yet and here he was just walking into Avenger's territory. He also wasn't certain if he had stepped on Runa's toes too much by doing the tracking spell. It wasn't that he thought he was better than her, he honestly hadn't even expected to get anything more than she had. At this point, though he was glad he had gotten some food and a bit of rest while everyone had been taken care of before flying over to the Tower.

Ed was a little disappointed in himself when Klara told Thor, her father, that she had lost her eye. He wondered if his healing skill could have brought it back. Ed doubted it though. His sister probably could have though. At least considering how pleased Klara seemed to be she wasn't upset that he hadn't as much as offered to try to fix it. Mostly he was glad he had been helpful in the fight. He had saved people, and protected them, and even taken out some of their enemies. For a lifetime of training and never having been in the field much he was thankful he hadn't botched it.

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Antoinette stood with everyone, setting the first aid kit aside after Ed had given them a bit of an idea where Loki was for the moment. She followed everyone into the Blackbird and sat next to Carolina, asking her questions about the jungle and what she encountered as they flew to Stark Tower. It was nice to have a couple hours of rest and even though Antoinette didn’t sleep, she felt more rested.
Once inside Stark Tower, Antoinette recognized a few of them and then they met Lance’s Aunt. Antoinette wondered then if he had been spending more time with her then and learning what it was to be a hulk. Antoinette readjusted her attention to Klara hugging her father and Guin and Tony exchanging witticisms. Antoinette smiled, missing her father terribly in this moment but she knew he was safe and that was what mattered to her.
Carolina congratulated Wanda and a few others commented on her being pregnant. Antoinette turned her attention to Wanda and smiled. She thought Wanda was incredibly brave to be housing a child while being a part of the Avengers. No doubt, her child would be just as fierce in her fighting. Standing with Carolina, Antoinette waited to hear a game plan.

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Iris had contemplated getting changed before they left for Stark Tower, but she eventually decided she wore beaten-and-battered chic pretty well. After getting the stylish addition of a few bandages over her bleeding wounds, she boarded the Blackbird with the rest of the X-Men. Iris spent the ride, for lack of a better term, being Iris. Making comments that could only be seen as annoying or amusing, staring out the front window and making up stories about what was going on in the passing skyscrapers, all the usual things one would expect. Once they landed, she followed the others inside, before stopping as they were met with a goliath of a woman Iris first assumed to be some sort of bouncer. But when Lance introduced her to them, Iris' confused frown gave way to a beaming grin.

"The pleasure is all ours, Miss Aunt Jen," she replied, running her fingers back through her hair as the woman began to lead them into another room. As she did, Iris quickened her pace until she was next to Lance, before lazily draping her arm over his shoulders.

"Dude, your aunt is built like a fucking redwood tree! What gym does she go to?!" she whispered, before they spilled out into a room dappled with familiar faces. Her eyes immediately landed on the Scarlet Witch, specifically her pregnant stomach, a sight that made her eyes go wide. "I knew it! I friggin knew it! Vision does have a dick!" she hissed in excitement, a little louder than she'd intended on saying it.

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Guina do I sense a hint of jealousy for not being invited to join the Avengers? Pietro couldn't help but ask her, though it was hard for him to not sound at least somewhat amused. To him it was somewhat funny for him to hear Guin being potentially jealous of anything. Of course he at least wasn't going to say that sort of thing out loud or whatever, but it was still funny to think about.

"Wow Penguin, continuing with the hurt there, I am not a drama queen," he protested, with a bit of a laugh.

Lance gave Iris a weird look at her comment, "...Why do you think that's important? Seriously, she ended up nearly dead because of a gunshot and needed a blood transfusion," he responded to her, not really giving anymore of an explanation than that. Though to him he did wonder how she seemed to have relative ease controlling her hulk form while both he and his dad had trouble. Then again he wouldn't know what was going through his dad's head at the moment, since he was sort of MIA at the moment still.

"Your group here certainly seems like an interesting lot Lance," She-Hulk commented, looking at the group. She was leaning up against the wall, and didn't seem like the typical person to just punch something randomly unless you did something to seriously piss her off.

"Yeah, well that's one way to put it..." he muttered in response under his breath.

"No, we don't," Wanda said a bit bluntly to Neil with his question about baby names.

Pietro shot a glare towards Iris regarding her comment about Vision, before turning to look at his sister again. "So, how is the toaster anyway?" he asked her with a bit of a smirk, knowing perfectly well that his sister didn't tend to like it when he referred to her husband as a toaster instead of by his name.

"He is not a toaster Pietro how many times do I have to tell you that?" she responded rolling her eyes at her brother. "He's doing alright, not sure what he's doing at the moment."

"Who knows what toasters do when they're bored." Pietro added with a bit of a smirk, knowing perfectly well that he was annoying his sister with the comments.

"The main harbor in the city here would be that area, actually been working on tracking him a bit, and well, taking into account he always looks for an audience since he cares soooo much about what people think of him, he's going to go some place big. Think I've got an idea of where he might be. Based on just you saying that he might be somewhere near the harbor, or perhaps in the harbor itself." Tony responded in regards to what Runa said about where they had tracked Loki to, or at least partially tracked him to. Of course responding after he finished the theatrics with teasing Guin a bit.

The wheels started turning in Mary's mind as she heard what Tony's thoughts on the subject were and his thoughts on where Loki could be. If he wanted a bit of an audience, a lot of people would just assume he'd go for the tallest building, but then again, he had done something like that before when he first attacked New York in 2012, so maybe he wouldn't want to be predictable? However there was one place that she could think of that technically was in the harbor, and would probably be able to get the crowd that Loki would want based on New York itself being a bit of a tourist trap if you didn't live in the area. "New York Harbor and wanting a crowd? Sounds like he'd want to hang around Liberty Island, you know, where the Statue of Liberty is? Probably would get a lot of attention if he fought people there. Though based on the tourist destination odds are there might still be quite a few civilians there. Definitely would get people to notice." she commented, looking at the others a bit. If they had to go deal with Loki on Liberty Island, they'd need to be at least somewhat careful of the civilians in the area.

"I mean that sounds like the sort of area he'd be in."

"Makes sense in the long run, yeah this'll be fun. Let's just hope he doesn't plan on opening up another giant portal for an alien invasion again or something. But power source wise wouldn't be able to really do it from there, so we do have that going for us."

"If he's there, then we should probably get going before he causes any more problems for us, since let's be honest from what I've heard about him, he literally lives to cause problems, so this'll be so much fun now won't it?"

"Yeah, fun is definitely one way to put it..."

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Carolina looked between Wanda and Neil for a moment when she answered his question. "What kind of names did you guys have anyway if I may ask?" Carolina decided to ask mostly out of curiosity, she couldnt help but smirk slightly when Pietro teased her about Vision and calling him a Toaster but didnt say anything else about it. Carolina gently rested a hand on Neil's shoulder looking at him for a moment, before turning her attention towards Mary figuring out where Loki actually was right now and nodded in agreement.

"That sounds about right he does have a huge ego and attention span it seems." Carolina said jokingly she wanted to get revenge on Loki for trapping her and Elizabeth in his twisted little game. "So whats the game plan for fighting against him anyway?" Carolina asked and knowing that there were civilians on the island itself they needed to be protected obviously as well to.

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Bethany crossed her arms over her chest looking at Iris for a moment and shook her head slightly though it was funny, she had a feeling that Wanda would probably end up hurting Iris or something. She did agree with Mary Liberty Island would be a really good place to try and get an audience. She eyed the other Avengers for a moment Guin and Tony were talking to each other, She-Hulk was leaning against a wall like she was as well to.

"Alright then we know where he is then lets get going." Bethany said, she was more than eager to go against Loki and thought that it would be pretty fun to fight against him as well to. She started to wonder how they were going to get there, were they going to go on the Avengers Quinjet, the Blackbird, or could Scarlet Witch or the Asgardians teleport them there to she could do it as well to.

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Pfft, me, wanting to join the Avengers? I'd sooner fight Wolverine to the death. She hoped that sounded convincing. She quietly made some mental moves to keep Pietro from reading her thoughts too closely, not wanting him to just barge into her mind and start looking around for her supposed secret desire to join the Avengers.

Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight, Pietro responded.

Guin couldn't help but burst out laughing at Iris' exclamation. Was it an intelligent joke? No. Did it amuse Guin and cut through the tension of being in the same room as Wanda? Absolutely. Pietro's jabs at his sister were funny, but they didn't make Guin belly laugh like Iris' joke had. "Babe, are you jealous that your sister spends her time with Vision and not you?" Guin teased lightly. It was also partially revenge for him insinuating that she was jealous the Avengers didn't ask her to join - which she wasn't.

Pietro rolled his eyes. "So nice to me Guina."

She would have continued with the mild revenge teasing, but they had business to attend to - namely Loki. Mary had theorized that he could be hanging around the Statue of Liberty. Given how the last time he pulled this sort of stunt he had used Guin's home of Stark Tower as a base, it made sense to her - and definitely played into the Stark family ego. What was the most iconic thing in New York after Stark Tower? The Statue of Liberty of course! "Statue of Liberty makes sense to me," Guin mused, walking over to one of the million computers. She logged on using Tony's credentials, smirking gleefully, and then hacked in to some security cameras near the Statue of Liberty with ease. Just as Mary predicted, Loki was there.

"Looks like you're right, Mare," she said, throwing up the feed onto one of the holographic projection displays so everyone can see. "Loki really is a basic bitch."

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Neil appreciated having Carolina's hand on his shoulder, as he was completely out of his element in this situation. He felt mortified as he heard Iris scream about the Vision having a penis, his face turning bright red as if he had been the one to say that and not her. Thor thankfully hadn't found out yet that he had been the one to blow up Klara's eye, otherwise Neil was fairly certain he would be dead. He was relieved when the conversation turned to finding Loki and then his exact location, provided by Guin after being hypothesized by Mary. He was too nervous though to really contribute any ideas.

Not to say that he didn't have any ideas - he was putting together a battle plan in his head. If they sent one group ahead as a distraction, the other group could pounce on Loki from behind. Loki might not even know that all of the X-Men had survived his attack, so seeing a smaller strike force probably wouldn't have even tipped him off. Unless, of course, he had some sort of invisible eye monitoring them - that thought sent a chill down his spine. Could the Scarlet Witch just reality warp Loki into a jail cell? Or was she no longer at that sort of power level? The explanations people had given him about the entire House of M mess had been contradictory.

"Loki is of Asgard. He is not a foe meant to be faced by mortals," Runa warned the group sternly. She held out her staff, Gandr, and it transformed into its full length. "It is noble that you all wish to face him, but to do so is to court chaos and tragedy." She then turned her attention towards Thor and Klara. "Us three should venture forth."

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Ed didn't really have much to contribute to the conversation as they all discussed where Loki might be. He had helped how he could. He wanted to offer congratulations to Wanda as well, but since he didn't know her he didn't want to be weird. Ed felt like an outsider in this group right now. They were all greeting each other in the Stark Tower like old friends, which he decidedly was not. Nor did he want to be. That meant human connection and emotion.

When Runa said she and the other Asgardians would deal with Loki, he had an opinion. "No offense Runa, but we want to help. We all just had our day royally fucked over by Loki and need to get a little bit of revenge on this situation. I'm going." He said firmly. This was not how he expected his time with the X-men to go at all.