Mark I - ||video||

[the_mechanic]

[There's a close-up view of a well-manicured goatee, though there's a bit of blood around the lips, and as he adjusts the camera, it's plain to see that the clearly-attractive man has definitely been in a fight recently. Put mildly. And also that he's wearing some kind of metal armor suit thing, with the face-mask open.

He opens his mouth to speak, then closes it again. Twice. This is not a man accustomed to being at a loss for words.]

Please tell me there's someone in this sparkly-rainbow-nightmare than can get a full sentence out, with minimal KUPO, that can tell me what the hell is going on?

...please?

[The camera pans out just enough to show the komory bat perched on the top of the man's head, chittering away happily. Tony swipes at him half-heartedly, as if they've been through this a few times already, and the bat makes no motion to vacate his vantage point.

Tony looks pleadingly into the camera, and with a deep sigh, cuts the feed.]

Comments

[unrecovered]

Yeah. [No.] If you don't believe me, look it up.

I had no idea you were into taxidermy. [Asshole.] And no. Ever heard of reverse engineering?

[defrostedpride]

I have, obviously. I didn't realize you had. [Or that you could reverse-engineer your way out of a paper bag. ...So mechanical engineering isn't Even's field either. So what.]

But you haven't published on this, which makes it fair game.

[unrecovered]

[He cocks his head. Really?] I've spent the last decade in power armor. You really think I don't know how it works?

It'd be wasted on you and you know it.