Ha! Boy got super skrulled.
And conveniently dodges the initial relationship issue he was worried about them suffering from. Hopefully this doesn't end up with Hank pulling on the yellow-and-black long-johns and going full Yellowjacket.
Oh, boy. He is deep in the depressive state. Prime condition to trigger the mental break that produced Yellowjacket (Seriously, at one point, he refused to believe he was 'that milksop' hank Pym.)
Bracing himself for bad news, I see...
...Only to be derailed by this fresh angle.
And Hank can get into the righteous face-punching sometimes, too. Especially after the breakdown.
Or possibly a confused, silent freakout.
'Stressed' is definitely his natural state a lot of the time.
Derailed his train of thought entirely, yup.
Pretty sure AMH!OL even said he wasn't interested in her that way. But when Hank's jumped that far to a conclusion, it's hard to walk it back.
Something more effective than 'dump in a condensed pile out on the East River.'
Brother you don't even know the full extent of what he did for you. Just shut up and enjoy the result.
'Don't go after another bro's girl' is a big part, yes. Even if the bro thinks you are.
It's a guy thing, Jan, don't worry about it. It'll just make you go 'ugh, men' and shake your head...
Oh, now you've got her curious. Hank's gonna have a hard time explaining it, I bet.
Not intentionally, no. But Hank does love to unknowingly sabotage everything somehow.
I'm sure Rocket was very interested in his Ring.
Which is bad enough if it was just a solar system. But in the proper DC History, it was an entire 1/3,600th of the known universe. And even if the planets have recovered in the thousand... Millions? Of years since, they still did it.
Yeah, time to get the heck out of Dodge before the make-up canoodling begins.
Quite a lot, given how little care some of his take of themselves.
...Ah. Kind of buggered that angle up, then.
The Ansuz rune, I suspect. Or Fehu. Either is fitting for its use. Especially the latter, which represents 'Wealth'. Also 'Cattle', but that would also represent wealth...
Concerned with revealing it in their presence, I see... They'd probably feel obliged to confiscate it for safety.
...Especially if they know he was using it to make house calls to Hela Lokidottir.
The teleport's on hold, right? I doubt he wants to get yoinked away to Niffleheim just yet.
Oh, heck. Did things go downhill after the cleanup?
...Really downhill. Suspiciously so, given Aaron was on his best behaviour.
Not an uncommon gesture between them, given his protection from her power.
...On the other hand, I suppose there are powers that can bypass his defences, especially when they're so light in a tender moment...
Buggeration, whatever that was must have been super-effective. Then again, he's merely in excellent shape for a human, not Cap's peak Human level.
Ah, there's the Secret Invasion angle.
With any luck, that is the signal for Hela to open the way for him. And when he doesn't come through, she'll be poking her raven-haired head through to check...
Thank you, corrected.
I feel as though it's just catching us up to what he's done so far before he's captured and replaced.
Maybe some kind of magical contract trying to prevent Edward from speaking about the matter.
I suspect that'll have to be curtailed once things start to get back to normal, if only in America. Especially the whole 'thought police' angle that will inevitably get touted when the press learn of it. Americans tend to be jumpy that way.
If nothing else, he's probably already working on telepathic baffles that can project not a blank spot but a perfectly innocent pattern to fool telepaths. After all, being unable to scan someone would be as suspicious as actively hostile thoughts.
Wealth has its privileges, after all. And you can probably make good estimates of their culpability based on their reactions.
Seeing 'the Cadbury's guy' just walk in is probably a shock, yes. Even if she isn't aware of the highest ranks of the organisational chart, she'd recognise your face.
I mean, you do have the 'death' angle covered. And Apotheosis is only a matter of time.
And I'm sure he hears it quite often if he has that much of a running joke about it.
OL's not really the kind of 'god' to need or want much in the way of worship, anyway. I suspect any cult under him would be expected to put themselves towards the betterment of those they have proprietary feelings towards.
Really, this part is a formality. The second OL knows he's available, he can be by the guy's side instantly...
...But it doesn't make the waiting any less awkward, especially if people are a bit panicked by your arrival.
Ah, that's a bit of a blind spot, then. Let's hope he isn't doing anything under the table OL might have to arrest him for. Good staff are hard to find, after all.
And it's not to hard to encourage that self-interest towards the betterment of the company as a whole without messing with desire networks.
Quite the snarl of legalities and liabilities, then.
So far so good, then. No concerned urge to hide something OL almost certainly doesn't already know about.
Yes, this chat might be best in private.
Heh, retreating into regular behaviour as a defence mechanism. And the desk is probably tough enough to serve as cover if things go bad.
Even at this stage, it's mostly going to be construction scaffolds and cranes, I suspect.
Not a user, then, I would hope. Evidently they aren't particularly well-known yet.
Something discovered off-screen, was it?
A local manager, I take it? Because the only 'Edward' I can think of with any relation would be Eddie Nygma...Probably not the Riddler, then.
Also, at home? Geez, I'm picturing 'bathtub gin' level of crude.And in most cases, an angry person tends to be a dangerous person, as seen in many police bodycam videos.
Yes, I can already picture him worrying about civil lawsuits, never mind criminal prosecutions.
Well, won't be a short trip, then.
'Big Boss', heh. Sadly, I doubt OL could rock the Tactical Espionage Action look nearly as well as him..
Sounds like 'Edward' already had concerns about them.
Hopefully he isn't trying to flee. He'd have to know it wouldn't do anything to help his position.
Well, that's concerning!
If it's anything like the similar patches from Doctor Who, then there's a good chance that there's also things like 'forget' patches floating around (was used for things like forgetting family members who died existed in the show).
i though this was emotion inducer
Thank you, corrected.
New Edward.
...
The Doctor Who mood drugs were capable of far more than just changing emotions.
Basically, it's following the general narrative throughline of Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes, which is an amazing show that you really should watch, with Wolverine and the X-Men, nominally in the same universe but never officially crossed over (bar Wolverine appearing in one epsiode of EMH as one of the Substitute Avengers) being fully integrated here.
So next April?
Uh... is it...? This isn't a case of apophenia, right?
No. He's stating to within one decimal place the hit rate of his attempts at off the cuff humour.