[IC] Hooked on a Feeling

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Guinevere Stark

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Pepper got off of the phone and walked back on over to the boys, looking stressed. Guin wasn't her biological daughter, but she was the closest thing Pepper had to one. And as much as she wished Tony would propose already, after nearly seven years of being together, it didn't seem like he was planning on doing it anytime soon. She didn't want to have a kid out of wedlock. So for now, Guin was it for Pepper. "Since neither of you can be responsible, I've notified S.H.I.E.L.D. about the abduction and they're already working on it. Natasha, Steve, and Thor are flying in from New York now. They'll be here as soon as they can to help us find the kids."

"...You're bringing S.H.I.E.L.D. in on this?!" Banner asked, flabbergasted. "Those idiots wouldn't know the difference between a terrorist and a hostage if it smacked them over the head!"

"Oh, grow up Banner!" Pepper snapped, her eyes ablaze. "If you and Tony didn't try to solve every problem by playing superhero, a lot of these situations wouldn't happen in the first place! Phil was a good guy - he gave his life - and yeah, guess what? He worked for S.H.I.E.L.D. They're good people."

Banner looked away. "'Good people' have done a lot of bad things, Pepper..."

Meanwhile, Guin looked at Lance for a moment. She craned her neck around the medical lab set up, trying to see if she could spot anything that could be used to dose Lance with radiation. She spotted something that could do the trick and she shook her head. "Nah, kidnappers don't do that sort of thing, Lando. Trust me, this is the seventh time someone's kidnapped me. It gets super predictable and cliché." Of course, she was lying. She figured that was exactly what Sterns was going to do.

She tried to jump to her feet, but with her hands tied and the sedative still in her system, she couldn't get off the ground. "First step is simple. Don't panic. Second step is to find a way to free our hands."

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Lance Banner

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"I'm with Banner on this one, you can't exactly trust SHIELD to do anything right half the time... Yes, I will give you that there are some good people, but not everyone is you know that! You shouldn't have told them! Though it will be nice to have a few extra
people helping us find them. Any idea how long it'll take those three to get here? We've got to try and find them now!" Tony said, though he still was not thrilled at the idea of SHIELD trying to find the kids. He would rather do that on his own.

Lance nodded, trying to get his hands free, but it was no use, they were tied up pretty tightly. Not to mention he was still somewhat dizzy, but at least he was able to focus finally and he looked right at Guin. He was trying his best not to panic, but he had never been in this sort of situation before, all of this was still pretty new to him. The fact that this guy was interested in him because of his dad made him mad, the fact that he didn't even know about this guy's existence before now made him freak out even more. "So, any ideas?" he asked her before a sound made him pale slightly.

The door to the room opened, and in stepped Philip Sterns, who had changed his outfit slightly and was now in a lab coat, walking towards them. "Hello there you two," he said, giving them an uneasy smile, before he looked directly at Lance.

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Guinevere Stark

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Guin mentally recalled what Black Widow had told her about escaping from being tied up and she shifted her weight backwards, trying to create a gap between herself and the ground that she could slide her hands through. Unfortunately, with her legs tied as well and the quickness of Sterns' entry, she wasn't able to do so. She was in no better a position than she had been a few minutes ago. In fact, it could have easily been considered worse, as their captor was now present and watching. "What, you trying to impersonate Bill Nye or something? Because your bow tie looks stupid as fuck," Guin snapped. No matter what techniques she tried to loosen her bonds or slip through them, nothing worked. They were tightly tied.

She hated feeling this helpless and trapped. She knew that she didn't really have any other options, however, other than to wait to be rescued, let go, or killed.

"Nat is taking the quinjet, so it should be two hours at most," Pepper said, glaring at Tony a bit. "Oh, so you don't want the authorities keeping an eye out for the man who kidnapped your daughter? What if someone else grabs her, Tony, and they know what her mother is? She and Lance could both become lab rats."

"...My son is not a lab rat..." Banner muttered, glaring back at Pepper.

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Lance Banner

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Lance started panicking again, but he couldn't get his hands free. "Perhaps I should take you out of the room Ms. Stark if you keep saying things like that, or at least separate you two a little bit," Sterns said, glaring at Guin, before he grabbed her by the arm and ended up dragging her away from Lance, to the opposite side of the room, setting her in the corner that had almost nothing next to it. "There, that is better, now Mr. Banner, I have been trying to see if I could replicate the exact incident that resulted in the Hulk's creation, and I believe that you might be able to help me," he said as he walked back to Lance who was starting to panic a lot more.

"That's crazy! I don't know what you think I could help you with!" Lance said, managing to steady his voice as Sterns grabbed him by the arm and pulled him towards a medical bed with restraints attached to it. He tried to pull away from him, but he couldn't, and he was still somewhat dizzy from the sedative. Sterns put him on the bed, before he cut the ropes binding his hands. Lance tried to get away from him, but once again Sterns proved faster and he was instantly strapped down to the bed. "Just let us go!" he managed to say, as Sterns started going through a cabinet, looking for something.

"Fine, whatever, I just wished those three could get here faster! We can't just sit around doing nothing for two hours!" Tony said, he was still freaking out. He didn't care who helped really at this point, as long as they could find the kids. The thought kept going through his head of what if? What if he had been standing right next to them? What if he had listened to Guin and immediately taken them out of the park before calling Banner? He blamed himself for this, and he didn't know what to do.

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Guinevere Stark

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Guin tensed up every muscle in her body as Sterns picked her up and dragged her over to a corner. She held back a scathing remark about how he clearly was an amateur when it came to kidnapping people. Sure, she was in an empty corner but in the process of picking her up, she managed to realign her feet ever so slightly in the bonds. Her hands were a lost cause, with the way he was gripping her arm. However, once he was busy working with Lance, Guin managed to slip her shoes off quietly and then wiggle her right foot out of the rope, at which point the left came out easily.

She still wasn't in a position where she could get her hands free, but she scooted backwards slightly, feeling for any uneven indents in the wall. The wall was unfortunately completely smooth, with nothing she could use to hook around the ropes on her hands and try to make them snap. She bit her lip, watching Sterns like a hawk. She'd pretend to still be captive, but the second it looked like he was going to do something that would hurt Lance - rather than just take blood from him or something - she'd charge at him anyways. She was a pretty good kicker anyways.

"Tony, you're a master with computers. These parks have cameras. Hack into some and see if you can get a plate on the vehicle they left in," Pepper told him. "Banner, you were friends with Sterns. See if you have any old contact information for him or can find some updated numbers." Her arms were crossed and she was falling into her role as boss of this odd little family.

Banner just stared at her before nodding. "...I think he tried to add me on Facebook..." Banner muttered.

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Lance Banner

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Lance fought against the restraints, but he was not having any luck. This guy was not going to let him out of here, at all. He hoped that Guin might get the idea to run if she got the chance, but he seriously doubted it. She was way too protective of him for some dumb reason, and now some guy basically wanted to run some tests or experiments on him, he still wasn't too sure about which. Sterns walked over from the cabinet. In his hand were the basic equipment to do blood draws, but he also held a needle and syringe full of a liquid.

"Can't have you fighting me, and those pesky powers of yours could cause even more problems," Sterns said as he injected Lance with another dose of the sedative and inhibitor combo. His head started pounding, and he was feeling even more ill than before, but he was still somewhat conscious.

"...Good point... JARVIS, I need you to get into the camera feed, see what you can find out. Look for license plate, vehicle description and what direction the car was head," Tony said, going over to a computer. He wanted to do something, anything that could help him find where they went, since he still felt pretty guilty about the entire thing, it had been his fault after all.

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Guinevere Stark

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This definitely seemed to be something that was premeditated. Guin kept on tugging at her bonds, rotating her wrists in an attempt to either snap them or cause them to fall off. She was about to start to look for a sharp object nearby to cut them with when she felt the bonds give slightly. Another few tries later and it gave a little more. One more try and she found, with astonishment, she was free. Guin hesitated. She could run at Stern, but he was physically bigger than her and had the upper hand. The door Sterns had come from wasn't too far from where she was and he seemed to be pretty focused on Lance. I'll come back for you, Lance, Guin vowed silently, before she quietly snuck out of the room while Sterns was distracted.

It looked like a refurbished warehouse and Guin glanced around for a moment. Now, she could make a mad dash for the exit but she was certain Sterns had some sort of precautions to prevent people from leaving. Instead, she spotted a vent and quietly made a running leap, just narrowly pulling it open. On her next running leap, she hoisted herself up and went inside the vents, closing it behind her. With any luck, as she started crawling through the vents, she'd find something she could use to signal her father one way or another.

Meanwhile, Banner seemed to have been robbed of his luck by Guin. No matter where he looked, he couldn't find any contact information for Sterns - not even an address. Of course, that wasn't surprising in itself, as Sterns was legally considered dead. It'd be odd if a deadman was on LinkedIn applying for jobs at different research facilities. The background check any investigator returned would be alarming. "...I got nothing..."

"...We could call Guin's mother," Pepper suggested quietly.

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Lance Banner

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Lance was still pretty out of it, not even noticing that Guin had left the room. He was completely out of it, but Sterns did notice Guin. He set down what was in his hands and raced after her, before he started thinking of how to get her out, then he thought of a way to trap her in the vents so she couldn't get out. He went to every exit point for the vents, even the outer ones, sealing them up or blocking them completely, making it so she couldn't get out of them very easily. It was the only solution he could think of, he was more distracted by his objective at hand, and he went back to the lab, where he started drawing blood from Lance's arm.

"No!" Tony snapped, he was not calling her. She had told him to never call her unless it was to mention what happened after the fact, she did not want Guin to know of her existence. "We can do this without her, we don't need her help," he said firmly as he looked at the results of JARVIS's search. "Alright, got the license plate, and model of the van, and JARVIS is able to follow where it went via traffic cameras, they were heading south, but we lost them when they hit the freeway, but I can start seeing if the vehicle pops up on any other cameras..."

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Guinevere Stark

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Guin bit her lip, wishing that her father had taught her more mechanical engineering as opposed to electrical engineering. She knew that vents were designed with a specific weight limit in mind and she was lucky that she was light enough. It also helped that she had spread herself out, trying to distribute her weight evenly, rather than concentrating in any single location. She closed her eyes and tried to speed her mind up, figuring out a rough estimation for the amount of force she'd have to use to kick out a single panel of the ducts. Once she got the number and tried to approximate what she'd have to do to make that happen, Guin began to move through the ducts.

"At least the metal isn't jagged," Guin muttered to herself as she crawled. She knew that there was no incentive for the engineers to ensure that the metal on the inside of the ducts was smooth and safe to touch, as there was for the outside. Once she had judged she'd put plenty of distance between herself and Sterns, Guin bit her lip before she slammed her fist down on the panel in front of her. It gave out easily - but so did the one she was lying on. And rather than still being inside the building, she appeared to have crawled into a section of the ducts that went outside before looping back in.

"Oh fuck..." Guin muttered as she began to quickly fall. She was on the fifth story and she tried to grab a fire escape, managing to slow her fall for a second before her grip slipped and she fell into an open dumpster. Fortunately, it was overflowing with garbage bags and cushioned her fall, but they didn't break it entirely. Someone had tried to throw away an old rocking chair and a piece of the wood became imbedded in her side and Guin screamed slightly. She had landed on her arm at a funny angle and she was pretty certain it was broken as well.

She took a deep breath, trying to get her bearings despite the immense pain she was in. She seemed to be in some sort of warehouse district - which she guessed made sense. She tried to shift to get out of the dumpster, but any movement only disturbed the wood lodged in her and she screamed again. It was the only thing keeping pressure on the wound as well, ironically. But she knew she couldn't stay there. Gritting her teeth and closing her eyes, she shoved her hips upwards and yanked herself off the broken rocking chair bit. She instantly started to bleed heavily all over the garbage and she rolled over, climbing out of the dumpster and falling to the ground on the sidewalk. "We are so screwed..." Guin mumbled, on the edge of consciousness.

"Who is the van registered to?" Pepper asked, back at the Malibu house. For whatever reason, she doubted it was stolen. Sterns didn't strike her as the type to steal a vehicle and leave an obvious trail because of it. If it hadn't been for Tony installing the Babysitter Protocol on P.H.I.L., he would have made a clean getaway with the kids. Maybe, if Sterns had created an alternate identity for himself to register the van under, they could find a building or house registered to him. He had to be taking the kids somewhere.

"...Lance will figure out a way to signal us..." Banner mumbled.

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Lance Banner

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Sterns heard the crashing sounds, and he set down everything in his hands and went to investigate. Lance was glad that the guy was gone, as he tried to get free from his restraints, but he wasn't really able to. He was too weak to be able to fight against it and get himself free, and he was starting to wonder what had happened to Guin, and he really hoped she had gotten out. Then she could go get help, get their parents to come take Sterns out, and at the moment that was his only hope really. A few moments later, Sterns came walking back into the room, having figured that no one could have easily survived that fall, and went back over to Lance, before resuming what he had been doing.

Tony started going through everything he could find about the van. "Damn it!" he yelled out before he punched the table. "I can't find anything else about that dumb van, so we've got no information to go off of to find it!" Now Tony was panicking, a lot, and he was finding it difficult to calm down. This was all his fault, no matter what anyone else said. He was the one who had lost sight of the kids, and now they were in danger because of his carelessness!

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Guinevere Stark

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"Woah, Guin Stark! Man you look really beat up! It's like my cousin Ernesto was saying to his girl Valerie, the strangest things just happen whenever you least expect it! Y'know, this reminds me of something I heard from this crazy old rich white guy, Dr. Pym, who heard it from his super hot daughter Hope, who heard it from this actually mentally insane scientist, who got it from his cleaning lady who used to go to school with this girl's who was cousins with Howard Stark's roommate. Anyways, apparently he told her that Starks have a mad death wish, bro!" Luis exclaimed, having been in the neighborhood for some completely legitimate activity.

He poked at her slightly with his leg, seeing the pool of blood that was forming around her injury. Guin just blinked slightly, having not really understood what he was saying. All she heard was jabber jabber jabber Guin Stark jabber jabber jabber Dr. Pym jabber jabber jabber Howard Stark jabber jabber Starks. Luis pulled out his phone and took a picture of her, sending off a text before he dialed 911. "Yeah, hey, I got an emergency here, she's looking like Loki came and did a number on her something...Do you think Thor would've let him come back to Earth? 'Cause my man Ant-Man, he's looking for an arch nemesis, help to build up his street cred...Oh, it's Guin Stark, corner of 318th and 87th. Yeah, looks pretty bad, lot of blood, probably wanna hurry man."

Guin blinked, seeing the phone in his hand. "Call this number..." she mumbled, before slowly and quietly reciting Tony's cell. She then collapsed unconscious. "Woah, am I gonna get to talk to Iron Man? Just wait till Scottie hears about this!" Luis exclaimed, bending down and putting pressure on Guin's wound before calling Tony. "Hey man, it's like a real honor to hear your voice and everything, it's just like it sounds like on television. I was a huge fan of your appearance on Dancing With the Stars a few years back - and when Maddie Le Fey showed up? Priceless! Like damn man, you got mad game...Anyways, I like found your daughter on the sidewalk in the warehouse district and she's bleeding out and told me to call you, so I guess that means I'm helping the Avengers right?"

"...Calm down, Tony..." Banner said softly, but internally, he was screaming. The Hulk wasn't happy about this situation at all and he wanted to let it be known. The Hulk wanted to take control and tear apart all of California until he found Lance. Pepper just sighed, looking at Tony. She knew he was going to reject her suggestion to call Guin's mother, but the woman could gaze into the past. She'd be perfect for tracking the van.

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Lance Banner

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Tony ignored Banner as he pulled out his phone to answer it, "Hello?" he said into the phone, before his eyes started growing wide at Luis' words. He had found Guin, and she was in pretty bad shape from the sounds of it. "Did you call an ambulance?" were the first words out of his mouth.

"Oh yeah man, of course! I dialed up 911 and I was like man, Guin Stark is here on the sidewalk bleedin' like Loki stabbed her or something! Hey, if you need more Avengers I'm real tight with Ant-Man, he's real small but he's real big in the world of L.A. based heroes!"

"Look, can you tell me which hospital the ambulance is probably going to take her to?" he asked, wondering what the hell this guy was going on about, but he just wanted to make sure that Guin was alright. They needed her help to find out where Lance was.

"Oh man, let's see...My cousin's girlfriend's hairdresser's husband got shot in this area and he died in the hospital. His wife ended up suing the hospital for discrimination or something, man."

"That is not very helpful! And might I ask who the hell is this? And I'm going to ask again, where is the nearest hospital to where you are so I can meet up with her there!"

"Oh man, I'm Luis with Ant-Man Security Solutions! And like I think it would be Valley General? Huge fan, Mr. Stark sir, huge fan!"

"Whatever, I'll be right there!" Tony said as he hung up the phone, looking at Pepper and Banner. "Someone found Guin and called an ambulance, she's in pretty bad shape or something. Got the hospital, let's go," Tony said, before he raced off towards the garage to get into one of the cars.

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The hospital was only seven minutes away from where Sterns had been keeping Guin and Lance, and by the time Tony, Pepper, and Banner had arrived, Guin was already set up in a small private room. S.H.I.E.L.D. had sent a handful of agents to guard it, as the young heiress to Stark Industries kept slipping in and out of consciousness. Luis was chattering away and she had mostly learned to tune him out, with the exception of having him bring her a piece of paper. On it, she had sketched a rough map of her route through the ducts and what she remembered from the lab layout.

"I need to go call Lance's mom..." Banner muttered to Tony, heading out of the hospital room and into the hallway. He had gotten Luis to reenact his 911 call, giving him the address where he found Guin. And he had noticed the sketches Guin made when she was conscious and had slipped them into his pocket. He didn't look it, but he had a special skillset when it came to finding people like this. He had avoided the US government and a dozen other interested parties for years by knowing these techniques.

Banner put on a baseball cap and hoodie, walking out of the hospital and heading towards the intersection Luis had mentioned. It was only a seven minute walk. For perhaps the first time in his life, Banner and the Hulk were completely in sync. He was going to get his son back and kill Sterns.

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Lance Banner

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Tony was worried about Guin, and he kept freaking out. Once more, the what if scenarios of what could happen if he hadn't looked away, if he had stuck by Lance and Guin. Then Lance wouldn't be missing, and Guin wouldn't have gotten as hurt as she did. This was all his fault, and he didn't know what he could do. He sat in a chair in the corner of the room, his head in his hands. "This is all my fault..." he muttered to himself, looking over at Guin for a moment before he closed his eyes again.

Lance had been pretty out of it for the most part, unconscious and dizzy. However, he was finally starting to be able to think straight as he glanced around the lab, managing to focus finally. Sterns wasn't there, but he was still restrained to the bed. He was looking around, trying to find a way to get himself free, but there wasn't anything that he could reach. After a few moments, he tried to use his powers, but he wasn't able to use them still, leaving him to try and create a plan to get out without them.

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Pepper had put a blanket on Tony's shoulders, before she had stepped out into the hallway to speak with the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, taking Luis out with her. He kept going on about his friend Ant-Man who was going to show up any second, and she knew that Tony wasn't exactly in the mood for another fanboy. She didn't blame him. Guin was his only biological family left and she had gotten seriously injured. Her right arm was in a cast and they had had to stitch up a giant hole in her midsection, covering it with heavy duty gauze. "...There's the famous Tony Stark ego, taking all of the credit..." Guin mumbled weakly, her eyes still closed.

Meanwhile, Banner had found the building Luis and Guin had collectively indicated. All of the doors were locked and he glanced up, seeing the ruined bit of exposed ducts that Guin had fallen from. He sighed. "HULK'S TURN!" Hulk shouted, with Banner giving him a mental thumbs up. The two of them were working together, with Banner shifting into the Hulk and not protesting as he took control. The Hulk ripped open an entranceway for himself, letting Puny Banner send him mental prompts. By a pure stroke of luck, he was heading in the right direction. It wouldn't be long before he found the lab.

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"Hey there Penguin..." Tony said softly, glad that she was awake, somewhat anyway. No matter what she said, it wouldn't change the facts, it was over all his fault. He smiled slightly, getting up and pulling his chair right up next to her. "You gave me quite the scare there... How are you feeling?" he asked, trying his best to keep his voice even and steady as he spoke. It wasn't very easy for him, but somehow he managed it.

Lance's head cleared as he heard the commotion that signaled the fact that the Hulk was there. Maybe Guin had managed to get help after all! "Dad!" Lance called out as Sterns entered the room again. His experiment had been successful, and now to deal with getting out of there alive, and since the Hulk cared so much about Lance, he had figured out just how to do it. He was carrying some sort of small contraption, and set it underneath the bed Lance was strapped to, before he turned it on. "What the hell?" Lance muttered as he tried to get free.

"We'll see just how much radiation you can withstand Mr. Banner, and hopefully while your father tries to help you, I can get away," he said simply, before he walked out of the far door, away from the direction the Hulk was. Lance tried to get free, but he wasn't able to. He could hear the machine underneath him, but he wasn't able to move away from it.

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"Like I would miss Pick On Tony Week," Guin said softly, laughing before coughing in pain. The movement of her diaphragm while laughing was aggravating the more serious of her two injuries. She was incredibly worried about Lance and she couldn't remember if she'd told them about his location, but she knew her scratch paper wasn't in her hand anymore and Banner was nowhere to be seen. She figured he must have volunteered to go off with some of the others to go and get Lance. She didn't have any sort of idea of how long it had been since they were kidnapped.

"SON!" the Hulk screamed, tearing open the door to the lab and pushing his way inside. The Hulk let out a roar, spotting Lance on the table and he grabbed him, pulling him up and smashing the machine with his other hand. Hulk, we need to get Lance to safety before we can kill Sterns... Banner's voice whispered in the Hulk's mind. He let out another roar, smashing pieces of equipment and machinery wildly, trying his best to ruin it all and damage the structural integrity of the building before he fled, running with Lance back to the hospital.

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Tony let out a small laugh at Guin's joke. "Yeah, well apparently everyone knew about Pick on Tony week except for me, I would really like being kept in the loop on this sort of thing you know," he said, still chuckling slightly. "So, you took quite the tumble there... How are you feeling? I was really worried about you..." he said softly, looking at her. She had scared him, and he was worried that she'd die or something.

Lance was not feeling very good by the time the Hulk had smashed the machine. That combined with who knew what had happened when he was out cold, and he had no idea how much radiation he had absorbed before the machine had been smashed, but he knew from the sounds of the machine that it had been cranked up in how much it was releasing, so he could have absorbed quite a bit in a short amount of time. "...Dad..." he muttered, feeling like he was going to puke, but he was holding it back.

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Guin coughed again, a bit of blood coming up this time and she nearly passed out. Her eyes closed and her pulse dropped a bit, until she jolted awake and everything seemed to stabilize itself. "...Sore...Just about everywhere...Hurts to breathe..." Guin said honestly. "Trying not to give into the temptation to move my arm to see if that still hurts...But Dad...the main thing is all of the drugs, scared they'll mess with my sobriety..." she then admitted quietly. Sterns had given her a sedative and the hospital had given her some decently effective painkillers. She was worried that just the relief the painkillers gave her would be enough to send her back down the path of abuse.

"SON." The Hulk gave Lance something similar to a smile, bounding across the city and holding him securely in his arms. Banner was freaking out internally, seeing Lance in such poor shape. The Hulk didn't have the medical skills needed to help Lance, but at least he seemed to be intent on getting Lance to a hospital. And after that, they'd track Sterns down and kill him. It didn't matter if Sterns had somehow unlocked the secret behind the Hulk. He was nothing more than a cheap imitation - an irritating fly to swat. The Hulk crashed into the hospital and bounded down the hallway, climbing into the room Tony and Guin were in. "HELP SON!" the Hulk screamed at Tony.

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"Don't worry Penguin, we'll make sure that doesn't happen alright? Everything will be fine, you'll see," Tony said, giving her a smile. Then he heard a loud commotion, and was shocked when the Hulk showed up with Lance in his arms, screaming at him. He took one look at Lance, who was starting to look a little pale, and raced for the door, calling for doctors to come, since Lance needed help. Tony wasn't sure whether he should be happy or pissed off that Banner had gone after Sterns alone. Considering the fact that Banner hadn't been gone for long made him think that he hadn't gone after Sterns, who still posed as a threat to them.

He reached out and got Lance out of the Hulk's arms as several doctors and nurses came in, before he set Lance on a gurney. Lance started coughing, and he seemed to have a fever. He was not feeling the best, and still felt like he was going to be sick, but Lance continued to fight off the nausea as he closed his eyes. Lance had no idea what to do, or what was going on, so he just went with it. Tony turned to look at the Hulk. "Hulk, you need to calm down, alright, so we can help him."