Making Connections (open)

[Echo]

"I need you to find something for me." Michael said as he looked upon The Spot. "With your...talents it shouldn't be too difficult."

As Michael spoke Spot changed into his regular form, merging all of his spots into one spot on his chest. "You flatter me, Mr. Watz." Jonathan said with a grin. "So, what do you need?"
"Radion." Mike replied bluntly. "And I need it as soon as possible."
"Radion? That stuff doesn't exactly grow on trees, you know?" Spot said with somewhat widened eyes.
"I'm aware. But, can you get it?"
Jonathan fell silent. This wouldn't be an easy task, even for him. "Why do you need it?" He might take the mission if Capt. Money-bags had good reason for wanting it.
"Because it's the one thing that can kill the being who murdered Tony Stark." He said coldly his hands balling up into fists. Just thinking about that freak pissed him off.
"So you're goin' after him, I assume? What brought this on?"
Michael said nothing, he just glanced back at Ms. Potts, and then turned back to Jonathan.
"I see." Jonathan said with a bit of sorrow in his tone. "Alright Watz, I'll find what ya need."
"Thank you, Doctor." Mike said with a small nod.

[Pepper]

Pepper overheard Watz talking to Jonathan, and she moved to them. Anyone who looked at her would see the deep grief and pain in her eyes...lit up by that tiny spark of hope, the small light shining, the tiny beam. That hope grew as she listened to Jonathan reply back to Watz. She noticed, with some surprise, the spots on Jonathan's body were all moving, and she nodded slightly. So that hadn't been some optical illusion earlier.

"Dr. Ohnn," she said. There was so much to say. She could chew him out for kidnapping her, snap at him the way he'd snapped at her. But really she could only think of one thing to say. "Thank you."

[x23]

Drax stepped out of the car he didn't even feel Pepper step on him. "Even with the Radion its not going to be easy to kill him. You have to get pass everyone on the planet before you could get to him. And let's not forget he can use his omega beams to kill someone on the other side of the planet with out leaving his throne room." He said coming to stand next to Pepper "And it can travel a cross the universe." He said looking down at Pepper "Needless to say even with the Radion its not going to be an easy battle to win."

[Pepper]

"I'm not dead yet. And neither are you," Pepper pointed out. "You attacked him. And he looked me in the eyes and I threatened him. He might know what it is we're planning. So why hasn't he tried to stop us? He's underestimating us and overestimating his power. We still have the element of surprise. And I'm not going to stop until I look him in the eyes again and take my revenge. Or take...take Tony b-back." Her voice shivered and her throat jumped as she got his name out. Her eyes burned but she didn't show it.

"I know he's a New God. I know...I know how hopeless this probably is. But I'm going to keep trying anyway. He took someone I loved from me and there is a chance - a chance - I can get him back. I can't stand by and do nothing. I can't."

She looked at them, half-determined, half-pleading. She felt like they all were looking down at her. See the silly mortal. And while a few minutes ago she could have cared less what they thought, she was smarter now. And she knew darn well she couldn't do this without them.

"I need better fighting skills," she said, looking at Deathstroke who had been oddly quiet. "I need armour and weapons." To Watz now; she had some plans and ideas she needed to talk to him about. "Specifically a Radion blaster." Now to Jonathan.

"This isn't going to be easy. But the fact remains that we are all still alive. He hasn't deemed us a threat yet."

[Echo]

Michael turned around, and looked at Pepper when she approached Spot. He was utterly unaware of their history, but something like that probably didn't matter right now--all that was important was making a way to take down Darkseid.

When Ms. Potts thanked Jonathan he just grinned faintly, and gave her a nod. It was the very least he could do after what he had done, what with the kidnapping and everything.
As Drax started to speak both Spot & Mike looked to him, and listened. They remained silent right up until Pepper finished speaking.

"He will soon enough." Michael added. "Once Dr. Ohnn brings me some of that Radion I'll get to work on building some weapons."
"It might take a while, but I'll do my best." Spot said, sounding a little down.
"Until then, I have something I'd like to show you, Pepper. Follow me everyone." With that said Mr. Watz started walking toward the entrance to the large building with Spot just behind him.

[Pepper]

"I hope you have a shield in mind too," Pepper said with a small smile on her face. Jonathan was obviously still feeling a little bit guilty and she wouldn't press the issue. It wasn't important right now anyway. Or any more. As dejected as he sounded, Pepper had to move to him and say softly "It's a lot of pressure, Jonathan. But there's no one else who can do it."

Hoping that gave him a boost, she followed Watz, wondering what the young man had up his sleeve.

[terminator]

Deathstroke followed Watz and Pepper as they headed into the building "We're going to need to start your training as soon as possible if you hope to stand a ghost of a chance against Darkseid and his army's." He said keeping pace with Pepper "Darkseid's not stupid he probably has his parademons, elite guard and the Female Furies on stand by waiting for his word to attack us when we get there's very few things that he doesn't know about on his home planet." He said

[Echo]

Jonathan smiled slightly at Ms. Potts when she spoke some words of encouragement to him. It really meant a lot to him to have her say those words to him.

Michael took the group into the building, and pass the front desk where a young man in a nice suit and name tag that read "Nicoli" sat. He greeted Mr. Watz and Dr. Ohnn as they passed him, and then went about his usual tasks. Watz went up a couple flights of stairs, and then walked over to the farthest wall, and placed his hand on the wall on an unseen panel that lit up blue as he pressed the inside of his hand against it. A red light then beamed down upon Mike, scanning his figure and eyes.
"ID confirmed. Welcome President Watz." A seemingly disembodied female voice said to Mike.
"Thank you, Julie." Michael said before the wall opened up, revealing a huge laboratory. "Welcome to my playhouse." He said with a cockeyed grin as he glanced back at the group. He then walked into the room, and stood near the center as he turned to look at everyone. "A few house rules: One, don't touch anything. Two, always remember rule one. Three, no fights in the lab."

[Pepper]

Pepper chuckled at Watz's rules - they reminded her of Tony's when she'd first come down into his workshop. He'd told her not to touch anything or turn down his music - but his music had been playing at that point so she had purposefully done exactly that so she could hear him. They'd had a fun little argument after that that Pepper had won - which had left Tony in a grouchy mood for the rest of the day.

She looked around at the workshop, moving into the room so the others could spread out. What she couldn't help but think at that exact moment was that the room was full of nothing but possibility.

She shot a look to Deathstroke. "Name the place and time," she replied. "We're probably going to have a lot of work to do."