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Corner of the Abandoned Warehouse District, Thursday morning

Why even have an abandoned warehouse district if not to attract monologuing, costumed bad guys?

Example number 457, for instance: Crossbones! His face was hidden! His costume was badass! His jeans were inexplicably low cut and there was just no explaining the Janet Jackson concert tee over the entire thing but it wouldn't come off and so he was dealing. He'd made a valuable alliance based on shared loathing with...okay, beggars maybe couldn't be choosers but Flying Head in a Box Dude seemed to really hate Stark, so that could only be a good thing!

Crossbones climbed to the top of a handy warehouse, shot his gun into the air--as you do-- and yelled: "CAPTAIN AMERICA. WHERE ARE YOU HIDING, YOU ASSHOLE? DON'T LEAVE ME HANGING, PAL. WHEN I GET BORED, I FIND THINGS TO BREAK. PEOPLE TOO."

And then he waited.

[OOC: For Tony and his nemesisisisissis.]

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Well, that was certainly a way to get attention.

"It doesn't take this long normally," MODOC insisted to the low tier goon he'd hired. Maybe because he was usually surrounded by guys in yellow beekeeper outfits.

AIM had its uses, after all.

"Yeah, Rogers likes to be dramatic about things," Crossbones said. "Maybe we should blow something up and get their attention."

"Yessss," MODOC said, thinking back on his interactions with Captain America. Though those were usually with the other Avengers with him. Such a annoying group, constantly thwarting his plans! "Blow things up, minion."

Harsh. Crossbones was really more of a secondary contractor here.

"I'm no minion," Crossbones said. "I make the plans."

This was going to be some kind of a short-lived partnership.

"Let's chill it on the property destruction, shall we?" Tony said, flying in in a very dramatic fashion.

And there was Captain America, taking the stairs!

Steve was in a new version of his usual costume--dark blue, stripped down, no Avengers tab on the shoulder (which still caused a pang every time he looked)--and a shiny cowl that Tony had insisted on when JARVIS had told them who'd arrived.

"Wow," he said to Tony, ignoring Crossbones for a moment. "You weren't kidding about the floating brain."

But why hadn't he mentioned the croptop?

MODOC made a noise that was something like a Waluigi 'WAH'. But it wasn't. Because that was probably trademarked.

Nintendo, you bastard.

"I've come to destroy you, Iron Man! Captain America is merely an annoyance on my way to defeating my arch-nemesis!!"

"Hear that, Rogers?" Crossbones taunted. "You're a mere annoyance!"

"I'm sorry, my arch-nemesis?" Tony said, landing next to Steve. "You barely make the top ten of my enemies."

OH, BURN.

"If anything, my arch-nemesis would be... Doom or something."

As if Doom would deign to acknowledge him when Reed was around.

"And I defeated you," or watched you explode in a deeply traumatizing way, one of those, "a few weeks ago," Steve added. "Why are you here?"

MODOC whirled up into the air in impotent rage. "Destroy them, minion! DESTROY THEM!"

Yes, he was talking to you, Crossbones.

Yeaaaaaah, Crossbones totally missed that cue.

"Oh, what, me? Nah, dude, we're going together or not at all."

Which meant that MODOC was angrily sending out a psychic attack to all three of them over this impudence! How dare Crossbones not follow his very reasonable demands to fight in his stead.

Steve tried to shake off the headache over Crossbones screams and curses as he grabbed his own head.

"You son of a bitch!" Crossbones yelled, turning his weapon towards MODOC.

So that alliance was over.

"Steve!" Tony said, taking a pot shot at MODOC with one of the repulsors until the psychic blasts had to stop in favor of a force field being erected to keep his creepy self safe.

"I'm good," Steve called back. "How do you beat this guy? Crossbones is easy."

"Oh, he's really more of an annoyance than anything," Tony said, really letting that disdain set MODOC off so he dropped the psychic shield with a shriek of rage. And then Tony charged up the unibeam loudly before hitting him square in the face and sending him careening off into the distance.