It's kind of like home.

[avengeriniron]

Tony didn't spend an overly large amount of time at the Avenger's mansion these days. Not if he could help it. This was a special occasion, though. Today, he was going to introduce the kid to their new teacher. He suspected that many of them knew of her already, but proper introductions were only polite. Besides, he wanted to make sure They all knew to give her the proper respect. Anyone who gave her issues would answer to him and his primary methods of discipline were pay cuts and firing... nobody wanted that.

He waited with Kitty in the main living room at the mansion and waited for the kids to gather.

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[comic_awareness]

Bruce was one of the first to arrive. He gave both a polite nod. "Sir. Ma'am."

[american_dream]

Sarah was right after Bruce. "Hi, Uncle Tony, Ms. Pryde-Wisdom." She took a seat next to Bruce.

[mocking_you]

Susan came in from the gym, still her workout clothes. She smiled to Tony and gave Kitty a nod before taking a seat.

[enduring_pryde]

Kitty watched as the kids filed in. They all looked like good kids, good well-adjusted kids. The nerves she was feeling earlier still had not subsided, but she kept her face neutral. Cheerful even. "Hello." She nodded at the kids, smiling back.

[lil_hulk]

Jay strolled into the living room wearing a pair of beat up jeans and a long sleeved t-shirt that said 'My Heroes Have Always Killed Cowboys' below a graphic of a war party. His starting to get long hair was pulled back. Mostly because it stopped the furry creature stitting on his shoulder from grabbing it for a swing.

"Runnin' late," he said by way of explanation. "What's goin' on?"

He might have got the message to show up but not the reasons way. He glanced over the random X-Person in the living room.

[avengeriniron]

The speech he had in mind for this moment was completely derailed when Jay wandered in. Tony blinked and stared at the... thing... on his shoulder. This was either a sign he needed to be here at the mansion more or a sign that Kitty taking this job was right on time.

"Jay..." He shook his head. "Never mind."

He turned to gesture to Kitty. "Some of you may recognize Mrs. Pryde-Wisdom from The Avengers' friendly, if somewhat competitive and adversarial, interactions with the X-Men. She's graciously agreed to join the staff here as another instructor and advisor."

[comic_awareness]

...Bruce wondered if it was too late to move in with Sara and pretend to be a mutant.

"Good to have you with us, ma'am."

[wateronthebrain]

"Okay then...." She wasn't sure what that meant. Of course Erin here is the new kid. She's getting used to the possibility of being 'outed' as a mutant at her school.

[agent_timeout]

Sammy appeared in a seat. Not only was this interesting to her personally, but Dad would probably want a report.

[american_dream]

"Glad to you with us, Mrs. Pryde-Wisdom." Sarah said with a smile.

[vincent_amora]

Vincent, partially disheveled in a lab-coat, staggered into the room, having pulled an all-nighter in the Mansion's lab. He's managed to mostly stop drinking, but he's been burning the candle at both ends otherwise.

"Good..." He glances at the clock "..morning? Yes, morning. Good morning Mrs Pryde-Wisdom." Vincent recognizes her face from his studies of the Avengers database. He blinks at the gathering. "What's going on?"

[mocking_you]

"Welcome to the crazy," Susan said to Kitty, a slight smirk on her face.

[enduring_pryde]

She smiled at Tony's apropos description. Quite, quite adversarial. "Or SHIELD? I've been working with them for the last few years. And please feel free to call me Kitty." She glanced at the young man, Vincent, who joined them. "Good morning. Just an interroga...er, I mean a meeting and introduction. You haven't missed anything." She clasped her hands in front of her. "Yeah, me and crazy know each other very well."

[avengeriniron]

A couple of days after the meeting with Kitty at the Avenger's Mansion, a broken up call came over the Avenger's comm devices.

"Avengers, gear up and get to Pelham Bay Park double time. Minutes ago, a ship of some kind crashed and creatures started pouring out. They're attacking civilians and there are too many of them for me to-"

The transmission cuts off abruptly and static fills the channel. When the Avengers arrive on the scene, they'll find Dire Wraiths by the dozens and the withered husks of human bodies strewn around the ship's wreckage. Iron Man is nowhere in sight.

[comic_awareness]

Bruce got himself airborne as soon as they exited the Quinjet. He let loose a concentrated photonic blast into their ranks.

"We do not allow any of them guys to escape. No matter what, we hold the line. Don't let them touch you if you can help it, and do not be afraid to hit hard. These things are monsters, nothing more."

"Runecaster, I need a containment spell. Some kind of barrier around the crash site. Jay, Warbird, Nicky, we're going right into the heart of them. Everyone else, pick up anything we miss."

[lil_hulk]

Jay jumped out of the Quinjet as soon as he possibly could. He pointed both hands at the disgusting-looking aliens. "Who wants some?"

It was mostly covering the span of time for the others to move before Jay was charging on big Hulky feet.

[avengingwarbird]

Roxie checked to make sure that shiny black helmet - with it's bright red plume - was situated perfectly on her head before she became airborne. A faint red glow surrounded her, and her black mace glinted in the light. It was clear that she was tapping into the Greek part of her heritage.

"This should be fun."

[asgardian_angel]

Nicky was so, so thankful that Bruce wasn't calling him by that dreaded Asgardian Angel name.

His bright red cape fluttered behind him he deported off of the Quinjet.

"So, peaceful negotiations with these ungentlemen are a no go, I take it?" Nicky asked. "I understand." And he did. He just wished that the bad guys weren't always trying to wreak havoc.

[wateronthebrain]

Erin is coming in fast. For her anyways.

"Cap," she calls over her communicator. "Think a water sheath around me would keep them from....touching?"

She is more than glad to act as support and is already trying to grab and throw one of the Dire Wraiths with her water tentacle.

[vincent_amora]

Vincent bites back an argument. He wants to throw himself into the fight on the front lines. He wants to make someone else hurt for right now.

But he just nods. "Yes, Captain." He flies into position over the approximate center of the ongoing disaster and begins to cast. Blue light explodes out from one hand, creeping through the air as it forms a dome around the area, boring into the ground when it reaches it, completing a sphere. It's not something he'll be able to maintain forever, but it's very thorough.

[the4thblackknight]

Marcus was armored already when he stepped out of the Jet, but he had to take a moment to summon Aether then. Some folks felt that a flying horse was too much inside a transport and, oddly enough, the horse agreed.

Once he was mounted up, Marcus took to the air and circled the perimeter of the containment field to go after any stragglers that Jay and the others knocked loose.

[ngm_villains]

Dire Wraiths were rampaging all over the park, chasing down innocent civilians and screeching about needing more. Their barbed tongues lashing the air for a taste of sweet, sweet memory. A pack scattered at Bruce's photonic blast. Several others away from the scattering cluster turned as one and charged toward the assembled Avengers.

A couple Dire Wraiths run into Vincent's barrier. They bounce off and shake their heads at the sudden stop. They quickly confer with each other and started their own spell to suck out the energy of the magical barrier.

[comic_awareness]

Bruce shouted a brief affirmative to Erin, before diving into the fray, slamming a solar-charged punch into the closest Dire Wraith.

He got on the comm system back to the Mansion. "Jarvis? Ms. Pryde-Wisdom? Anyone picking up any signs of Iron Man?"

[lil_hulk]

Jay went bounding into the Dire Wraiths willy nilly. He was not an elegant fighter when he was a giant muscle bound brick, but he certainly was a joyous one as he grinned and punched pink, squishy things in the face.

"There be safety in numbers, and I am two or three at least," he called out to his teammates. Just so someone covered his back so one of this tentacle things did not try bouncing off a butt cheek or something.

[wateronthebrain]

Erin keeps the water sheath up and tries to grab one of Dire Wraiths to throw them away from any innocent by standers. Right now she's not close enough to 'team up' with anyone and is thinking more along the lines of just general crowd control.