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Location: White House, Oval Office
Skills: Superspeed

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Oli grimaced when he was given the order to hide bodies. In a million million permutations of his life, he never would anticipated having to hide a body inside the White House. Getting multiple STEM degrees led him to the assumption that this would be well outside the scope of his anticipated duties in any career path he might choose to follow, but life had a way of surprising people, he guessed. Exhalling as he ran through any memories he might have of White House schematics, nothing much came to mind of anywhere inside to disappear corpses.

Exhaling he got a disgusting, but absolutely viable idea. Goose could, and maybe even would eat bodies if presented, and he knew that the not-a-cat had decided to tag along for the treasonous trip. All he had to do now was execute the plan, and bring the bodies over. Placing a hand on one of the bodies though, he felt the most sickening sense of vertigo, and couldn't go forward with touching the fallen. Ripping his hand away, he pivoted and decided to bring Goose over himself, rather than drag bodies across the White House Lawn. Turning to speed out the window, he felt his leg seize up, and he let out a wince. As lame as it was, he seemed to have pulled a muscle, and couldn't run at the moment. Exhaling a sigh of exhaustion, and said, "In short Bonnie, no. No I cannot." a pathetic twinge in his voice.

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"Did you know I'm getting my own TV show? They're having Tatiana Maslany play me," She-Hulk commented to her captive audience - the Wasp and the Human Torch - as she pulled them alongside her as she swam through the waters. The water was still choppy and rough but things were beginning to calm down. Waves of sound were being carried from the city, the sort of sounds you would expect when an apocalyptic event occurs - sirens upon sirens upon sirens.

The dolphin more or less just pointed at She-Hulk and the others, before shifting shape and suddenly, the dolphin was Princess Anelle - who, despite having just been a dolphin moments ago, did not know how to swim in her normal form... and let out a slight scream as she went underneath the water, beginning to drown.

"Yikes, that's why you got to get your kid in swimming lessons early," Tony commented. "So lifeguard - go guard that life!"

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To people who didn't live and breathe experimental planes, flying Air Force One would have been an amazing privilege. It had once been the fastest plane in the world, with top speeds of 600 miles per hour, so fast that even fighter pilot escorts couldn't keep up with it. It was equipped with anti-missile defenses and signal jammers, was able to refuel midair, and could achieve altitudes of up to 45,000 feet. "Pfft, you'll have to be more specific luv. Air Force One is the designation given to any plane the President's using, fun fact - so the quinjet we nicked from the not-Avengers was also Air Force One. But if you mean the current plane, it's - no offense, Prez - it's painfully out of date. Can't even get to mach 23 speeds! It's more of a flying panic room than anything impressive. Think they're getting a new one soon, but Hammer Tech is building it so... Good luck with that. I'd wear a zillion parachutes."

It was the most snobbish Amelia had been so far. "But it'd be a wicked cool honor to fly for the Prez, even if it's in a hunk of dinosaur bones," she then added cheerfully, smiling widely. It wasn't the plane that excited her, it was the person she'd be flying for. Plus, she knew that Jakobsen was a pilot himself, and she wondered if he had anything he could teach her - or maybe she'd be teaching him so tricks. He was probably rusty, what with all the smiling and waving and sitting at fancy parties he had to do.

Bonnie frowned for a moment at Oliver, about to ask if he could take a break later - when she recognized what was going on. "You pulled a muscle, didn't you?" she asked him. She couldn't really tell from this far away, but she could make an educated guess. Bonnie sighed slightly, before switching over to using her comm. "Could one of you direct Goose to come inside and do cleanup? He should be able to make his way in unattended." She just hoped that the cat would decide to cooperate with them.

Sadly, most of their plans lately seemed to rely on cats doing things on command - historically, not a great expectation to have. Cats could be trained, but in Bonnie's experience, dogs were much more trainable. Cats seemed to interact with a different plane of existence than the rest of the world, like they were some confused Victorian ghosts still trying to walk down the halls of a house that had been remodeled so many times they were drifting through walls in actuality.

"Oh my gosh, we have to go help!" Amelia insisted, hearing about the disaster. Raynor didn't have too many helpful comments to give, as he was still in pretty rough shape, asking for people who weren't there.

"... I know, but I don't think we can," Bonnie said quietly. "The skrull Avengers are still maintaining their covers so... we'll just have to hope that they save as many people as they can..."

Ricky, of course, was breaking out into a sweat - the news of a crashing ship killing thousands wasn't helping. Neither was the fact that Evelyn had decided to stay next to him, watching him like a clock. Or the fact that Alex didn't really have much of a plan. "That's... that's..." Ricky mumbled, before passing out into a dead faint.

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Cassandra turned to look at Amelia and gave a slight shrug, she wasnt an ace pilot like she was or had the extensive knowledge really she did know how to fly though. "Well maybe you can teach me some more flight history later and maybe show me some aerial tricks to." Cassandra said with a slight smile and shrugged they'll most likely be using Air Force One anyway to get to Geneva. "We'll most likely have to use it anyway just to keep up appearances and whatnot for the convention." Cassandra told her, when she heard what Niah had said about what happened off of Uruguay about an alien ship crashing that didnt sound good at all. As much as she wanted to help out those people they had the much large picture to worry about right now. "I have to agree with Bonnie, as much as i'd love to help them we have to focus on our mission right now." She told the others, as much as she hated the decision the Not-Avengers had their cover so they'd have to be the ones to save those people.

Cassandra looked at Oliver for a moment mentioning he may have pulled a muscle made her shake her head and trying to not smile a little bit, before realizing that they could try and help Captain America in some way. "Niah and Sparky, see if you can contact the others and see if they can pick up Steve somewhere, we'll probably still need his help in Geneva." Cass said knowing that Alex could simply pardon him later.

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Evelyn looked over at Ricky as he started to sweat and freak out, and then passing out, she lightly started to poke his cheek to see if he was awake or not. "I think we may have broke your VP there." Evelyn said to Alex, gesturing towards him, for someone being the number two in the US government Ricky seemed to be pretty weak by the looks of it. Seeing that he was pretty much harmless right now Evelyn took a few steps back just to give him some space.

Hearing Niah mentioning what was happening in Uruguay didnt sound good to her, knowing that all of those people were in a lot of trouble due to the massive alien ship crashing. She did have to agree with Cass they had the invasion to worry about, and the human race was at stake which was the bigger problem and she didnt really want to be ruled over by shapeshifting aliens.

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"That could be your retirement job then." Maria said jokingly to Flynn as she watched him pulling out Natasha as well as Reed Richards onto the lifeboat. Maria was about to go and search for the others when she noticed She-Hulk swiming over with Johnny and Hill in tow as well to, when she looked at her dolphin friend. When it shifted back to see that it was actually Princess Anelle herself, and she started to drown. Maria quickly dived under the water and managed to pull her back up to the surface and back over towards the lifeboat managing to get her onto it.

"Are you alright princess?" Maria asked as she pulled herself onto the lifeboat as well to laying on her back to catch her breathe as well looking over at the others. "So whats the plan now?" Maria asked as she started to sit back up again and started to ring her hair out of water while looking over at the city. "Should we go and help those people out?" Maria asked.

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Niah gave a wry smile then looked over at Goose, "Are you hungry? Wanna eat some Skrull corpses? The Oval Office window is broken you can go in that way. I doubt any Secret Service Agent will look at you twice wandering through the White House gardens." She told the cat. She spoke to Goose as if he was human, having long gotten over his appearance, or additional tentacles.

She turned her attention back to the computers and news broadcasts. It wasn't that Niah had forgotten that the Avengers were Skrulls in disguise, it had been that part of her was so used to just trusting them that even with that knowledge she hadn't been worried. She frowned now though. They had had several of the Skrulls that had been disguised as Avengers. Were they not in containment? Had more Skrulls taken their place? How many of the damned aliens were there on Earth? Was this already a lost cause?

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Matt winced as the Vice President fainted. It was a reasonable response. He sort of wished he had thought of doing it first, but it was too late for that. He was much too deep in whatever strange act of saving the world they were wrapped up in.

At the moment no actual Secret Service Agents had shown up and were trying to figure out what was going on. Their training was good enough that the radioing that he and Cass had done had apparently convinced them that everything inside the Oval Office was fine. That gave them a bit of time.

"The good news is it is possible that the 'attempt on the President's life' might give him an excuse to not have to make a statement." Matt said. He didn't know if it would be a good idea to have the real Alex give a statement on something and possibly interact with the Skrull Avengers right now.

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Sparky couldn't help but giggle slightly at the comments with regards to asking for Goose to be told to go inside and eat the Skrulls corpses. The fact that they were just nonchalantly asking Goose to go be the janitor so to speak, the person (or in this case the cat) who would go clean up crime scenes or something that were created. That's kind of what Goose seemed to be for their team, if they needed something to disappear, who did they call to help? They called their team mascot Goose the cat. That honestly sounded utterly ridiculous.

"You know things are weird and you are outside the realm of reality when you have to ask a cat to dispose of dead bodies for you," she commented with a bit of a giggle before she looked back at Goose, who was curled up on a seat and had been sleeping before he stretched out and yawned when he heard people addressing him. "So Goose, sounds like you get to eat some Skrulls for lunch, how does that sound to you Goosey Goose?" she asked the cat, not too sure what she was expecting for a response. The cat stuck his tongue out (well, more of the tentacles) before he jumped out of the van and headed straight into the building through the broken window.

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Truthfully, Alex wasn't too surprised when Ricky passed out entirely. Based on how things were going on, he was more surprised that he hadn't passed out sooner. "In all honesty? Not too surprised at how he reacted... Actually expected him to pass out sooner... Doesn't matter though I suppose," he commented, glancing over at Amelia as she seemingly started spouting off info about Air Force One, and then her wanting to potentially pilot the plane. He laughed at her calling it outdated. "Won't argue with the plane being outdated. Hell the stuff I flew with the Air Force were better than that thing. I'll let you fly it, if I can sit in the co-pilot's seat, they are annoying to the point where they honestly won't let me near a plane cockpit to even see the controls. It's annoying."

He glanced towards the window (or what remained of it anyway) and saw the familiar red tabby cat walking through the window and heading straight over to where the Skrull bodies were. "So Goose, guess you are going to do what they want you too huh? Well, can you also confirm whether or not Ricky here is a Skrull too?" Yup, here is what his life went to, asking a cat, to check to see if his friend had been replaced by an alien. That was definitely a fun sort of conversation then right? Alex before Goose ate the Skrulls, he went over to the one who had switched with him, and got his possessions off of him, just the stuff that he typically carried around, and slipped them into his pockets.

Goose went straight over to the Skrulls, before the tentacles shot out of his mouth and wrapped around the Skrulls, before they disappeared rather easily into his mouth and gone from view entirely. He then went over to Ricky, and sniffed at him for a moment, before he decided to start purring and rub up against the passed out vice president.

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He was glancing around, trying to see if maybe people would need help, in order for him to potentially drag people back out of the water and everything. Flynn partially felt a little bad about Wasp and the Human Torch having to listen to whatever it was that She-Hulk was going on about, which honestly made no sense to him. The dolphin shifted back into apparently the princess Anelle, and apparently despite shifting into a water based animal, couldn't swim, and now he wondered why she didn't wait to shift back until someone was there immediately.

"Shut up Stark," Flynn couldn't help but grumble at Tony's comment, and he was about to go see about swimming over to try and get Anelle into the boat, Maria was ahead of him and jumped in after her. She managed to drag her out of the water and into the boat. Then came the question of what they should do now, as the sounds of sirens were still fairly loud from the city. "I don't think there is much we can do... We are only in a little life boat, and we also aren't sure how to explain what the hell happened... I think it might be best that we leave, or figure out how to leave anyway..."

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Oliver Sullivan

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Location: White House, Oval Office
Skills: N/A

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Oliver stood still for a moment, waiting for the pain in his leg to dissipate, and nodded at Bonnie. "Yeah, you got me. I'm still not used to field work, okay?" He said, a bit of playful annoyance in his voice as he tried to laugh it off. It was humiliating enough that this happened, but he was at least thankful it was after the big confrontation. As the big orange Flerken hopped in, his watched in a kind of amazed horror as the Skrull were pulled inside the maw of Goose. A part of him was deeply terrified of the cat, and the other half wanted to give it all the pets in the world. This was the truest tragedy in the world, for a cat-shaped thing to be so cute, and yet so absolutely monstrous in ways words failed to adequately describe.

Rubbing his leg, he exhaled at the news of the alien ship. A part of him was worried that somehow, the kree might have been summoned, and that Earth was about to become the new battleground for their war. He head to assume it was something else though, and this was just a very bad, no good kind of day. A part of him was worried that he wasn't as phased at the mass death as he would have been a few months ago, but after the raid of his hometown and his mother's cancer, a part of him was still numb to tragedy. He was working on resolving that, but it would be awhile before he could feel again.

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Kwassi Asokho

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Location: Outside Med-Bay
Skills: Photographic Memory : 16,

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Kwassi fought every instinct that was telling him to roll his eyes at The President. Of course he was being more polite, not only were they on a mission, but most importantly they were before the Vice President, with the current President, in the Oval Office surrounded by his men. Why would he try and pick a fight when the odds were so sorely against him? "Glad to hear we can see eye to eye on this situation" The idea was simple but effective. Get Goose and have him eat the bodies. After all, the cat was a walking disposal.

He went to watch as Oli tried to use his powers to gather Goose, but seemingly didn't move. Only to have Bonnie call him out on the pulled muscle, causing Kwassi to have to hide his small chuckle and swallow down a laugh. "It's alright Oli, performance issues can happen to anyone, but don't forget that even with superspeed you should probably stretch a little before attempting a run." His tone was clearly in jest, trying to lighten the mood a little bit.

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Inside the Presidential Suite...

"Is everyone good on the plan?" Black Widow asked. They had made a quick stop after the tragedy in Montevideo to an old safe house she and Barton kept, allowing them all to gear up. The most important addition to their inventory were high tech facial image disguises - essentially masks that allowed them to become someone else. The Avengers (and friends) couldn't just waltz up without being recognized, so they had gone in disguised as catering and cleaning staff.

Currently, their plan was to ambush the President and reveal him as a skrull. Captain America's attack on the White House had been highly publicized. If Cap had been a skrull, he wouldn't have attacked the President. The skrulls would want to replace the President too, as he had the most power in the United States. The only logical explanation was that the President must have been a skrull and Captain America realized it, fleeing to fight another day.

"One slight problem - I think we're going to unionize, Romanoff. I'm not getting paid enough to clean POTUS' toilet," Tony quipped - although he currently looked like Tom Cruise - not exactly subtle.

"What does unionizing mean?" Princess Anelle asked, looking like Mrs White from Clue.

"It's when the workers unite in order to use their power--" Mr. Fantastic started to explain, rattling off the textbook definition, only for Iron Man to let out a loud yawn.

"You were a teacher's pet weren't you, Richards? You've got kiss ass written all over your stretchy cheeks."

Maria Hill sighed, sharing a knowing look with Black Widow. Some days, she didn't see why SHIELD needed something like the Avengers at all. In fact, they were better off without all of these superhero teams. They seemed to attract the most intelligent idiots she ever knew. "Focus, unless you want your grandkids growing up speaking skrull," Hill warned Tony.

"... If the speedster got my kid pregnant, I'm going to kill him. For real this time," Tony grumbled, before killing the lights.

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Amelia was completely and utterly brokenhearted. She didn't know if she'd ever recover from something as horrifying and terrible as this. As someone who was aroace, she never expected to feel so crushed, so shattered - but love went beyond just romance and sex. "I still just don't understand," she mumbled, dejected, "why was everyone so against trying out a barrel roll in Air Force One," she finished. She was dressed in pilot's blues, pulling a suitcase behind her that was filled with cat food. Barton's group was going to be arriving soon with the flerkens - they just needed to get into position here and rendez-vous with them in the President's suite.

Bonnie was carrying Goose in her arms, along with a medical kit. True to form, she was posing as Jakobsen's doctor. It wasn't out of the ordinary for a foreign official to have their own medical staff with them, especially after Jakobsen's 'harrowing' experience with Captain America the previous day. Niah and Sparky had also been disguised as staff to the President - Sparky was another medical personnel, whereas Niah (due to her wheelchair) was posing as Jakobsen's staffer. The rest were all in disguise as Secret Service.

"It would've drawn unnecessary attention to us," Bonnie reminded Amelia, only for Amelia to stick out her lip slightly and pout. Bonnie sighed. She didn't know Amelia very well, but from the time on Air Force One she had gathered that Amelia was a thrill junkie. It made sense with the way Amelia had ran on after Sparky and 'Maria', heading off to Asgard to save someone she barely knew. She was pretty sure if Amelia was shoved off a plane, she'd think it was the best day of her life - maybe she openly wished for something like that to happen.

Raynor was feeling much better - thanks to his Asgardian durability and quick recovery time. He had on black sunglasses, looking a bit like a douche as they were very much indoors as they walked down the hallway. He was also clearly hovering more over Sparky than the President, as if he had been assigned to protect her and not Jakobsen. But then again, who could blame him? They were walking into a den of hostile aliens bent on taking over the world and had to make sure to mess up their strategy just enough to keep some other aliens from feeling paranoid and insecure.

It really wasn't a great time for Sparky to be pregnant and working. If he had his way, she would've been somewhere far away from Midgard, somewhere safe. There were tons of other planets, ones that didn't have nearly as many catastrophes. Midgard was some sort of magnet for bad luck, somehow attracting all of the villains in the galaxy to the tiny blue world. "Anything happens, you run okay?" Raynor murmured to Sparky.

"I've got a bad feeling about this," Ricky muttered, as he tapped his keycard against the card reader and the Presidential Suite's doors unlocked. Ricky opened up the door, seeing darkness as he went inside, fumbling about and looking for a light switch.

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"I'm pretty sure that anything that wasn't strapped in would have been tossed around as well to." Cassandra pointed out agreeing with Bonnie it would draw out to much attention towards them. She was still on alert walking alongside Alex. Even though she knew he could handle himself in a fight pretty well, she was still assigned to protect him. She did enjoy the flight on Air Force One though it reminded her a bit of the times she and the team traveled on the Bus which felt like a really long time ago.

She turned her attention towards Ricky after being cleared by Goose not being a Skrull, using his keycard to open the door she quickly stepped forward into the room. "I'll get the lights." Cass said as she started to fumble around for a little bit to find the light switch, before finding it and turned it on. Turning around to see a number of what looked to be house cleaning staff and caterers, she quickly got into a defensive stance as they all had weapons trained on them though something was off seeing that they hadn't opened fire on them just yet.

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Evelyn spent most of the time during the flight just relaxing a bit picking a random seat on Air Force One looking out the window, still dressed as a Secret Service Agent she brought up the rear for now. Occasionally looking over her shoulder just in case anyone did attack the group. She stood by watching Ricky grabbing for his keycard, he had been awake for awhile now which was a good thing as well to then, watching Cass taking the lead after Ricky opened the door.

Evelyn moved forward slightly she leaned her head slightly to look into the room, just as the light turned on seeing a number of catering and cleaning staff holding weapons and pointed them at the group reaching for her weapon as well. "A little bit weird that the cleaning staff has weapons on them don't you think?" Evelyn said, noting that they hadn't opened fire yet.

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Maria stood next to Princess Anelle as she finished adjusting the suit she was wearing deciding to go for a caterer, putting on the mask and adjusted her hair slightly to a pony tail. She turned to look at Natasha and nodded towards her, knowing what the plan actually was reveal the president as a skrull should be easy enough. "Yep, reveal the president as a skrull, seems pretty easy enough." Maria said looking at the princess she was about to explain what unionizing was when Reed Richards beat her to it and Tony making another joke which made her shake her head slightly.

"I think we should have just left the two in a cell together back on the prison ship." Maria said under her breath as Tony went and killed the lights. Maria had her weapon in hand just in case, when she heard the door opening weapon at the ready, and a few seconds later the lights came back on she instantly recognized Cassandra and some redhead she didn't recognize really. Maria thought for a moment, looking over at the others who all had weapons drawn now as well to. She decided to take a leap of faith, and pulled the mask disguise off to reveal her face. "Hopefully you guys don't shoot and ask questions later." Maria said, hoping to lighten the mood a little bit.

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Niah honestly hadn't been prepared for what happened when the door opened and the lights switched on. She raised an eyebrow but had been far enough back in the group that she didn't have a direct line for a shot. However, she heard Maria talking. Maria and she had been friends before joining phase three. This was her jogging buddy. Not that she was going to be jogging again anytime soon. She frowned.

"Let me through." She said, and wheeled past Matt and Cass into the room. She was putting a lot of trust into those that she knew were on their side with weapons drawn. And a lot more hope that somehow Maria had returned from wherever the Skrulls had taken her. Maybe that crashed ship a week ago had been her. God, please let it be so. She removed her glove, which had a dual purpose now, and held out her hand. Maria copied the movement, this gave her a spring of hope that this was the Maria she knew.

Their hands touched and she braced herself for what was going to happen. Part of her didn't like that it was Maria because of what Maria's power set was, but in honesty, this would be ideal. If it was Maria and not a Skrull she could pick up the Psychometry and compliment the checking of groups. Anyone she trusted Niah could clear and vice versa.

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Matt liked to think he reacted quickly drawing his weapon and pointing it at one of the random 'janitorial staff' that had been sitting in the dark and had weapons. One of them removed something and revealed themselves to look like Maria. He let his weapon drop just a little bit so it wouldn't be a kill shot if he did shoot one of them.

Niah rolled into the room past him and he watched as she reached out an ungloved hand to Maria. Maria seemed to get what Niah wanted to do and held her own ungloved hand out. He realized just as the thought that both of them wore gloves for a reason crossed his mind what Niah was trying to do. She could confirm Maria's status as non-Skrull and give Maria her power so Maria could check the group. She'd have no reason to trust that Goose was a Skrull detector. It was actually a brilliant move.

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She knew that Raynor still likely wasn't very thrilled at the idea of her being with the group. And honestly she didn't very much care, actually at this rate he seemed rather hellbent on getting himself injured enough for both of them. Honestly he kept making her freak out about whether or not he was actively trying to get himself killed or something like that, and she already had lost him before, she didn't really want to lose him again. When he got knocked in the head fairly hard by one of the Skrulls at the White House, she had panicked a bit, and had been fairly annoyed with him after he recovered.

Sparky glanced towards Raynor as he muttered to her about leaving the instant that there was trouble and she rolled her eyes at him. "How many times do I have to tell you that I'm not going anywhere," she said to him, before continuing, "Not to mention, you seem to get hurt a lot more often then I do. Not that you care that that sort of thing freaks me out or whatever, so doesn't matter. I'm staying right here." Yeah, she was getting a little annoyed at points with him trying to get her to just leave a situation alone.

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"Truthfully I feel like going out in a few stunt planes would be fun for the loops, that's just my personal opinion. Though you also said that the official Air Force One plane was not built the best, which I kind of agree with, I don't think it would have survived doing any sort of loops. Plus what Dr. Chase said, it would have made us stand out when we really don't want to." Alex said with a shrug to Amelia who honestly was definitely a bit of an oddball, based on everything he knew about her so far, which honestly wasn't a whole lot, but she wasn't too bad of a person.

He wandered with the others to being right outside of the suite now, and he stood back a little ways to wait for the others to enter the room and more or less. That's kind of how things typically went, with a few others entering the room or whatever to ensure it was secure or something like that. In his mind it was dumb, but whatever, they didn't want to stand out too much. He did notice however, when the cat/alien in Bonnie's arms sniffed at the air randomly, before the cat squirmed out of her arms and bolted into the room. "...Uh what's up with the cat?"

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Flynn wasn't too sure about this plan of theirs. Sure, it made sense for them to take out the president, if he was a Skrull. However there was the slight problem of what if? Just because they hadn't ran into Captain America on the ship they had been on didn't mean he might not have been on a different ship. So for all they know, Cap could have been the Skrull who attacked the not a Skrull president or something like that. Sure it would make sense for the Skrulls to switch with the president, but much like with Cap, they hadn't ran into him or anything elsewhere. Who knew how this sort of thing would work out. "I'm fine with taking out the Skrulls or whatever, but did you guys stop to think that maybe Cap was the Skrull? I mean we didn't run into either the President or Cap on the ship we were on, so either one of them could have been the Skrull in that attack, as both are well known figures... Just saying."

Then the door opened and the lights turned on, and he was a bit surprised as to who he saw at the door. It was their SHIELD team? What were the odds of that happening? Flynn wasn't too sure about everything that was going on, and Maria removed her sort of disguise, however the next thing he knew there was a blur of red fur that shot straight towards him as Goose leapt up onto his shoulders. "What the?" he commented as he pulled off his own disguise thingy, "Seriously?" he asked the cat as Goose opened his mouth and a few of the tentacles flailed a little bit at him, and the cat rubbed up against his head and he grabbed him and was just holding the cat in his arms now. Goose was just happily purring in his arms.

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Oli was taking the time he had right now to stretch, still living down the shame of his performance towards the end of the Captain America encounter. He had googled a bit about how to properly do so, and then read several dozen articles to make sure he was totally up on all the modern tactics to ensure a muscle pull was a statistical impossibility. He was as prepared as any person could possibly be, or at least, as far as the narrow range of pulled muscles was concerned. Cracking his knuckles, he looked around at his fellow agents, ready for the culmination of a half year's worth of paranoia.

Oli's gaze lingered for a moment on Amelia, a team member he still knew very little about. She was a wild card for sure, fun as all hell, but also wanting to perform a barrel roll on Air Force One was just... he didn't have a good word for it. He didn't want to cross her, and he was glad to have her help, but he didn't like things that he couldn't predict, especially going into encounters where the world was at stake. As Ricky opened the door, Oli turned to watch, only to see that the cleaning staff had weapons trained on them. If he was jumpier, he might have gone to try to disarm them all, but instead, he watched one of them reveal themselves to be Maria, and Oli silently made a mental note to get his hands on whatever tech they were using to cloak their face. He still wasn't convinced they were safe, but as Niah rolled forward and grabbed Maria's hand, he smiled. They'd know soon enough if they were skrulls now, and he resolved to thank Niah when this was all done. His fears were further assuaged as their fluffy little skrull detector hopped into Flynn's arms, leading to him relaxing a bit as the tensions cooled.

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Kwassi mostly kept to himself on the flight over. The only person who would tolerate him, seemed to be on his phone and looking intently at something. But the man moved so fast it all looked like a blur to him. Granted, it did spring up the thought to ask Oli later as to how many shoes he has to go through a month. Thinking of how worn out the treading must get from the speed at which he runs and the distance traveled. Or did S.H.E.I.L.D techs create special work shoes for him that could withstand all of that?

Once they landed, he assumed his role again as one of The President's Secret Service agents. He could see Raynor hovering and heard what Sparky had said. Truthfully a part of him wished to tell Raynor to back off, that that kind of stress he's putting on her (as well as the stress of him getting injured and worrying her) could be bad for the baby. But then he figured that news would only further incite Raynors paranoia and make the situation worse, so he kept his mouth firmly shut. When the doors opened to reveal a dark room, Kwassi had a bad feeling in his stomach. His hand slowly made its way towards his ICER, and when the lights turned out and revealed a cleaning crew he drew it immediately at the odd sight. One of the maids removed a mask to show her true face, another did so as well and Kwassi recognized him. His gun turned and trained on Flynn. "Wonderful, it's the damned robot again"

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"You'd be surprised at the damage some people do to the toilet in the suites," Tony quipped, replying directly towards Evelyn's comment about it being weird for cleaning staff to have weapons. "It's me, by the way. The leader of the Avengers. So you all will want to... oh yay, we have a cat. The cat clearly knows who the good guys are."

"The cat is a flerken," Captain Marvel corrected Tony. They had all pretty much unmasked by now, allowing everyone to see who everyone was. "... And I think belongs to Director Fury."

"He also has a unique mechanic the GM gave him of being able to detect skrulls with 100% accuracy," She-Hulk commented. The rest of her group more or less had learned to ignore the odd things that she said by now. In many ways, she reminded them of Wade Wilson aka Deadpool - always talking about these odd GMs (probably some sort of spiritual deity or something?) and whatnot.

"That is Fury's cat," Hill confirmed. "Goose is... special."

"Flerken," Captain Marvel repeated. "Interdimensional stomachs, tons of tentacles. Deadlier than most species in the galaxy, including terrans."

Niah would be able to see the last few weeks of events for Maria, confirming she wasn't a skrull. And thanks to the contact, Maria would be able to pick up Niah's blind sense temporarily, allowing Maria to find things accurately even in total darkness.

"I'm not trying to get hurt!" Raynor grumbled. He really wasn't. It was a bit embarrassing for him. He was an Asgardian - he was supposed to be the toughest of the group but lately, he had only been able to really function as a lie detector. It was basically just a tiny little parlor trick, not something that he particularly prided himself on. Sure, he was the God of Lies but he didn't really think of himself that way - he thought of himself as Raynor, future husband of Sparky. She was his world and his reason for being.

Goose rushed ahead into the room and Raynor looked at Sparky, hesitating for a moment as he didn't know what to say. He settled for tucking a stray strand of hair behind her ear, before heading into the suite with the others. Goose seemed to be completely happy in Flynn's arms - Raynor's eyes darted around, taking in about a full team of Avengers and most of the Fantastic Four.

"... Robot? Did I miss something?" Raynor asked, incredibly confused by what Kwassi had said. Black Widow had wasted no time in disarming Kwassi, doing so effortlessly and pinning him to the ground.

"We're fighting robots?" Amelia asked, also very confused. She hadn't heard anything about this unit fighting robots and she had thought that skrulls were aliens, not machines. "... Oh, did you mix up this bloke with Stark? They do kinda look alike, loads of white people do, honest mistake," she told Kwassi, smiling at him kindly. It was the only explanation that made sense to her. Iron Man was sorta like a robot - just a robot with a man on the inside - and he kinda looked like the dude the cat was all cozy with (was his name... Finn? Milton? Biff?), just a bit older.

"I look nothing like him," Tony protested. "And you all better be done with robots - not that I read any files I downloaded from SHIELD servers as a bed time story for myself... but really, one problem at a time, people."

"...Of course you did, Stark," Hill sighed, pinching her nose. "If we're assuming the cat is right, then I'm guessing everyone in this room is fine... I don't like guessing, so explain to me what is going on."

Bonnie had lost a bit of respect for Kwassi after he called Flynn a robot. It wasn't because she was dating him or anything like that - more of that she didn't know how he had drawn that conclusion. The Flynn they had encountered earlier had been a skrull. There weren't any robots or LMDs involved in this crisis to their knowledge. It seemed like Kwassi was going out of his way to erode her opinion of him, consistently going ever downward.

But she didn't say anything like that. Instead, her mind was going a million miles a minute - thinking through the odds in which there would be a skrull in this room that Goose wouldn't notice... but also just looking at Flynn, the man she had thought was... was dead. "I thought you might have died," she told him, knowing the others could hear.

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Niah pulled her hand away. "It's good to see you again Maria." Her eyes were a bit shinier than normal. She was smiling looking up at her friend. "We've got some catching up to do." She turned and saw that Goose was happily purring in Flynn's arms. That reassured her that he was safe, but they might go through the whole double check with everyone.

She decided to ignore Kwassi's comment. "Alright, we'll have to include you all in the plan. But first if you all don't mind. We've been doing double checks on everyone. Using my Psychometry and Goose to make sure everyone really is who the say they are. Maria, did you pick up a power from me? It'd be perfect if it was Psychometry. So you could reassure yourself our group isn't Skrulls," She paused, parsing some of what she had learned from Maria. "Save for the Princess, who is on our side." She said added firmly.

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Matt's shoulders relaxed a little when Goose jumped into Flynn's arms, he lowered his weapon. He figured Goose wouldn't have been friendly if there had been any Skrulls in the group. Then Niah said that there was a Skrull in the group, but she was on their side. It was weird she had so much knowledge about the other group, but she had used her power. Apparently it had gotten much stronger since it wasn't her complaining about how much kissing people had been doing with each other.

"If that is the case, can we get everyone inside and not standing in the hallway?" Matt asked. He looked down the hall to make sure they were still alone. This was a risky position and he didn't want them talking about their plan to deal with Skrulls where someone could overhear them. He entered the room finding a spot where he could stand without being in the way of people coming in. Thankfully, it was the presidential suite so it wasn't small, but there still was a lot of people gathering now.

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"Yeah i'm pretty sure kids dropping some cherry bombs down into toilets are loads of fun for the cleaning staff to clean." Evelyn said with a slight laugh stepping inside after Niah wheeled herself into the room, letting Niah do her thing to confirm that none of these people were skrulls. Just as Goose bolted into the room as well to jumping into Flynn's arms acting really happy to see him, seeing that the cat seemed to approve of him Evelyn holstered her weapon. Except for Kwassi who was doing the opposite and pointing his weapon at Flynn, only to be tackled to the ground by Black Widow.

"Seems like you all have been through a lot." Evelyn said, knowing that Goose could simply clear the others if they were skrull or not, she looked towards the one that Maria had introduced was the princess, wondering why they had their princess imprisoned for she thought that it was a little bit weird.

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Maria held Niah's hand looking down at her friend, feeling one of her friend's powers going through her, though she didn't pick up what Niah had been doing sadly, she probably ended up picking up one of Niah's others. "It really is good to see you again, and we really do have a hell of a lot to catch up on." Maria said leaning down and giving Niah a hug giving her friend a smile, before letting go. Only to look up as the other members of the team had started to lower their weapons except for Kwassi who she didn't recognize at all aiming a weapon at Flynn. Luckily Natasha didn't waste much time at all disarming Kwassi and pinning him to the ground, she looked over towards Flynn gently touching him and shook her head. "Sadly I don't think I picked it up." Maria said to Niah just as Goose jumped into his arms she decided to reach over and pet Goose happy to see him.

"Wow, really we get kidnapped by the Skrulls, and taken away in a prison ship around Saturn. And one of our replacements who looks a little bit trigger happy. Also last time I checked none of us are robots." Maria said already not liking the new person already as Maria looked over at Princess Anelle and gently rested an arm over her shoulder. "This is Princess Anelle, she was also a prisoner like us on the ship we were in and as much a victim as well." Maria said introducing the team to her while looking over at the princess.

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Cassandra relaxed now as the others in the room started to remove their masks, letting Niah do her thing with Maria to clear whether or not she was a skrull or not, and Goose quickly bolting into the room and into Flynn's arms shortly after that he revealed his face. Cass decided to holster we weapon as well for now. Black Widow wasting no time pinning Kwassi down and disarming him, she shook her head slightly and sighed and wondered why he thought that Flynn was a robot. "Clearly he's been cleared by Goose already to not be a skrull, yet you still aimed your weapon at him. Also we haven't dealt with robots in a long time and don't really intend on dealing with them for awhile." Cass said as Niah cleared Maria, so far her two team members had been cleared to not be skrulls and looked at the others.

"We can debrief you on whats been going on and what we found, and you all can debrief us as well. But just to be on the safe side just give Goose some attention clearly he'll love it as well and he will clear you as a skrull or not. Or let Niah use her ability on you, or tell Raynor you are not a skrull." Cassandra said and looked over towards Princess Anelle as Maria introduced her to the group and nodded towards her, if she was on their side then she can be trusted after everyone else was cleared.

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Sparky rolled her eyes slightly at Raynor in response. "Just because you aren't trying to find ways to get yourself injured and to give me a heart attack or something in the process doesn't mean you clearly are accident prone or something..." she muttered towards him. There were a lot of things going through her brain, since what she had said was the truth. Raynor was over reacting a bit over her, but if he actually cared about her, he'd probably at least try to stop getting injured or whatever himself. Since that hasn't been really helping her out at all.

Hearing the slight commotion coming from the room, Sparky stepped in and looked to see all that was going on. She saw the rather large group that was now in the room, and Kwassi being a bit of an idiot and calling someone a robot. "Ok, I'll bite, how dumb are you to just blatantly call someone a robot? What sort of evidence do you have? And not to mention, can definitely tell you that no one in that room seems like a robot. Or is it just your ego thinking that you are always right and can't possibly be wrong which is why you jump at the chance to prove you are right and then get your ass kicked."

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There was some sort of conversation occurring in the suite, and he wasn't too sure what all really was going on. Everyone was entering the room now, and considering the only other alternative would be standing outside in the hallway where if someone came along would probably find that weird. He went along with everything and stepped inside of the room, just in time now to hear someone say stuff about robots? What the hell was that about? Then again, it wouldn't surprise him if robots were involved, he just hoped that they weren't.

Then there was Kwassi the idiot. It was the best thing to him to watch Kwassi get knocked to the ground and disarmed by Black Widow apparently? Clearly he was missing something as the group inside of the room was definitely larger than he thought, and the group assembled included several Avengers and most of the Fantastic Four. Plus a few SHIELD agents, two of them he'd met more than once (Hill and Flynn) whereas he only met the other one (Maria) once. Actually if he remembered correctly, Agent Flynn was the one with the cat in his arms, and had been with OMEN up until the point where he dismantled the organization.

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"A robot what?" he couldn't help but ask, incredibly confused by the random guy who had decided to point a weapon his direction. Flynn was rather grateful for Black Widow instantly pinning the guy to the ground in a flash. "...So sorry for being blunt, but who the hell is the guy who seemingly wanted to shoot me... Cause I am so confused right now... I expected people to try and kill me or whatever again, but it is a whole one person, the main surprising thing, and he accused me of being... A robot?"

His attention immediately turned towards Bonnie when she entered the room, and he gave her a bit of a smile. Goose was purring still for the most part, but he decided to give the hoomans time away from his adorableness and hopped down. The cat wandered over to Kwassi, and he opened his mouth, hitting Kwassi in the face with one of the tentacles, clearly saying that he was being dumb. Flynn couldn't help but chuckled slightly at the cat, before turning his attention towards Bonnie yet again. "You can't really get rid of me all that easily Bonnie. I'm not going anywhere." that was the truth, as far as he knew it anyway.

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Location: Outside Presidential Suite -> Inside Presidential Suite
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As they they started to launch into introductions and initial tests, a thing connected in Oliver's brain. There was a solid chance that he'd only ever been caught hacking by skrull Tony Stark, in which case, he was totally clean with the real Tony Stark. "Hey, Mr. Stark, I gotta ask, does the name Oliver Sullivan mean anything to you?" Oliver Sullivan asked, going to great lengths to attempt to conceal the fact that he was, in fact, Oliver Sullivan. If any of his friends attempted to betray fact that he'd hacked into several of Stark's systems, he may never forgive them.

And now Kwassi was going off about robots. A part of Oliver groaned internally, he'd been... hypervigilant in the past, and prone to impulsive outbursts, so he could imagine that there was something going on in his brain that made him say that, but it was still a little cringe. Oli made active efforts to fade into the background though, and let people think about that, rather than his very self incriminating question to the third smartest man in the world. But hey, at least he wasn't the one being yelled at for a change, while Kwassi was his friend, he was going to lavish that for a moment.

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Black Widow moved as effortlessly and swiftly as he'd always imagined she might. Knocking his ICER out of his hands with ease before loosening his stance and pinning him to the ground. A part of him was geeking out inside to have been able to see her in action, another part greatly annoyed by the inconvenience and the fact that no one seemed to be the least bit worried about the potential Flynposter. "Seriously? Last time we saw that man his joints unhinged like a mechanical construct and shot dawned missiles at us just before calling the aid of the delightful neighbors from down the lane." He didn't bother attempting to resist against Black Widow, feeling it would not only be futile, but potentially end up with some broken bones.

Kwassi tried his best to match eyes with Flynn only to see Goose walk up to him and slap him with a tentacle. "No offense, just last you I ran into literally tried blowing me up, set the room ablaze, and broke my favorite staff which...shouldn't of even been possible but..." In all honesty so many things happened so quickly in that small space, coupled with the missiles exploding, Kwassi may of gotten a concussion and forgotten a few details. "Also if its all the same to you would you mind getting off me Black Widow? I appreciate your work but I'd like to be standing now."

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Princess Anelle stepped into view, shifting back into her ordinary form. She looked like a petite young girl - almost a Princess Zelda type, with braided black locks. She was wearing some clothing she had salvaged from the wreckage of the ship, traditionally garb for members of the Royal Family to wear. She had on a shiny silver headpiece, similar to the scarlet one Wanda Maximoff wore, a green cape, and a sleeveless purple tunic. Large portions of her skin were exposed. This outfit wasn't necessarily designed for combat and protection, as the skrull princess was supposed to be far away from the fighting. "I am on the side of my people," Anelle corrected softly. "The Empress is the one who sees your planet as a holy promised land. She is our common enemy. She will bring my people nothing but death and ruin."

Bonnie was a bit gobsmacked with what Kwassi had said - had someone been telepathically messing with his mind? "No," she told Kwassi, shaking her head. "Nothing about what the skrull did was at all mechanical. There were no hinges. He had no robotic parts or interfaces. It was purely biological. I don't know what you think you saw, but his abilities were similar to that of one of those kid X-Men... Jubilee." Kwassi was giving her a headache. He needed to be evaluated.

She was feeling incredibly irritated at the entire thing. She knew that some people likely saw her as this sweet and innocent person, but at the moment she had half a mind to jab Kwassi with a hypodermic in order to get him to just stop talking. She cringed slightly at what he said to Black Widow. Yes, she had him pinned to the ground, but Bonnie was just rubbed the wrong way by the way Kwassi responded to it. She pinched her nose in distress. Maybe she needed a break.

"You're new at this," Black Widow said, releasing her pin on Kwassi. It wasn't a question or anything like that - just an observation. She knew that a majority of people in the room had saved the world at least once before - Kwassi seemed inexperienced and confused.

"No shit," Tony commented. "And Sullivan? Unfortunately, yes. It's like having a little stalker," he said, rolling his eyes. "If you broke into any system you shouldn't have while I was gone, fess up now. Or I'll call in a drone strike. JARVIS, arm the bombs, chop chop!"

Unfortunately, JARVIS wasn't there to listen - Tony hadn't been able to grab any spare suits of armor.

Raynor and Goose were then able to clear the rest of them, confirming that no one else in the room (besides Anelle) was a skrull or lying about their identity.

"... So you have the princess of the skrull empire here," Raynor observed, raising an eyebrow. He was technically speaking a prince himself, but he didn't advertise that fact. The princess didn't look like much - she seemed young, naive, and inexperienced... a lot like Kwassi from what Raynor had seen actually. "Too bad she was their prisoner, she'd make a good hostage," Raynor added with a slight sigh. "No offense."

"... None taken," Anelle said uncertainly.

"I'm guessing you all have figured out the elephant in the room - also known as the Kree?" Raynor asked. No one had brought it up yet. He didn't know if the other group also knew that they had to play dumb enough to not freak out a separate space empire. They could go to Asgard for help if the Kree came to conquer Midgard, but it would be a galactic war - a war he didn't want Sparky or their child to be anywhere near. He also didn't want to have to ask Odin for help. Returning to Asgard had been... uncomfortable.

"The Kree?" Captain Marvel asked, her eyes widening a little bit. It then all clicked into place for her. "Oh... Shit. That makes this harder." She huffed a bit, kicking at the ground slightly with her toe - and due to her strength, there was then a small little dent in the floor. "If Earth looks like a threat, the Kree'll come and destroy it."

"Yeah, so we have to pretend to be real shit at our jobs - like mates, we gotta fuck up real bad, make it look like it was just dumb luck," Amelia explained. She wasn't one of the science experts, she didn't know about a million different alien civilizations, but she could understand strategy. The Kree and the Skrull Empires were in a massive war together. If Earth kicked the skrulls' asses too easily, the Kree would get scared and try to stop a new threat before it could form. "But don't worry, we got a kickass plan. We're going to use the cats."

Amelia grinned, a bit confused as to why the Avengers and all seemed really... let down by the reveal of her plan.

"The cats?" Director Hill asked.

"Yeah! We found loads more of the flerkens at some racist ass shelter. They're on their way now, some of them had the most adorable kittens, and we're just going to have them identify all of the skrulls for us at the convention today. We just gotta be sloppy about it and once the skrulls are identified... I guess we just beat them up and hope they don't come back?"

This was where Princess Anelle stepped forward. "All you need to do is defeat the Empress... If my people will follow me after her defeat, I will order them to withdraw and leave Earth in safety, you have my word. Your planet will be a recognized ally of the skrull empire."