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[Here, turtlefolk, have a teenage boy who is still a little bit zonked from landing on his ass in the palace. There is a Chinese dragon on his shirt, if anyone's at all interested in dragons. From what can be seen, his suite looks like it's in mild disarray; he got angry enough to break a couple things once he was alone and did not do such a good job cleaning it up from the camera's view. He looks mildly upset.]

I-- I don't understand why I'm here, I--

They gave me this place, they told me I have to work...I'm not really trapped, am I? I can't be. This doesn't make sense.

[He stops talking half-to himself and focuses his attention on the camera again.]

I guess I have to work under the assumption that this is all real, until proven otherwise. Even if I'm still not entirely sure what's going on.

Anyone care to enlighten me? The...kedan...weren't all that helpful.

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[He laughs a little despite himself. It's weird to laugh anymore. Weirder to laugh at a bad joke of Stark's.] Can't argue there.

["Buddy". Ah. Now he's sad. He laughs anyway.] Yeah. Okay.

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If you call ahead first, I'll spring for a pizza. Turtleworld pizza. If not, don't worry about it. Just don't mind the mess.

...they have pizza here?

If you look at it from an angle and keep an open mind? You bet.

Heh.

All right. Sounds good. Unless the local idea of pizza is something I should be really worried about.

I've eaten like six of them since last week. They're fine.

Well, at least your diet hasn't changed.

Nobody outgrows pizza. Or cheeseburgers.

I'm a little worried about what the local idea of cheeseburgers might look like.

[ Tony's nose wrinkles slightly. ]

Yeah, I'm working on that.

[ In between the long periods of inactivity, thanks to his ever increasing bouts of drunken stupors. ]

Are there even any cows here?

Depends on how flexible your definition of the term cow is.

Maybe not quite flexible enough yet.

Probably want to skip the burgers then. I hear tribble's an acquired taste anyway.

I'm going to regret asking what that is.

[ Smirking, Tony glances to the side, away from the screen. ]

Hey. Dummy. Bring U2 here a second.

[ He's still smirking when he looks back at the console. ]

Don't ask me which is the front and which is the back. I don't think anyone knows.

[ A moment later, a robotic arm enters the camera's view, nearly hitting Tony in the face with a ball of brown fur roughly the size of a large grapefruit. Shooting the robot a dirty look, Tony takes the trilling thing and holds it out to the console so Gene can get a better look. ]

This is a tribble. Want one? I've got like ten of the things.

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[Yeah. He regrets it.]

You named it U2?

[And that's as coherent as he's gonna get about this right now. Just. What.]

Yeah.

[ The tone of his voice says duh. The expression on his face says duh. If the robot could talk, it would probably say duh too. ]

One my robots back home is named You. Get it? U2? Also doubles as the band? It's a whole—Never mind. It's only funny to me.

No, I get it.

[Yep. Definitely Stark. It's just weird to hear that ~~bad~~ sense of humor coming out of a far, far older Stark.]

So you just keep a whole bunch of spare tribbles.

Well, it was either that or let the furry kill them.

[ He shrugs and hands the thing off to the robot, who obediently disappears from view with it. ]

And I was bored. Seemed like the thing to do at the time.

I'm really going to regret asking about that, aren't I?

[He's almost ready to ask if this Stark's hobbies also include building armor. But hmm...better not, just yet.]

What? The furry? Oh. No, I wasn't—

[ He shakes his head. There is a line even he won't cross. Furries are on the other side of that line. ]

She was just asking for help getting rid of them. I showed up, took a boatload, and that was the end of it.

[And the world breathes a collective sigh of relief.]

Oh.

This place is...pretty weird.

It gets weirder. Might not seem like that's possible, but it is.

Just keep an open mind. And don't let it get to you. Because it'll try.

[Don't worry about weirdness, Tony, he has Seen Some Shit. Up to and including this entire conversation.]

Thanks for the advice.

[He...doesn't really know what to say, he's still coming to grips with everything.]

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