[Audio: The Hot Zone] Monday evening, week 18

[pepperspray]

This is Pepper Potts.

I'm going to keep details thin in an open broadcast like this, but I've gotten information from a contact that suggests a potential location for the start of this current disease outbreak.

It will require travel over water, so air transport or the ability to transport yourself or others will be required to accomplish this in a timely fashion. There's also a risk of active disease agents still being present, so some sort of containment gear might be good.

My talents are very much not medical research ones, so don't ask me for details, but this might, I hope, help people who do have those talents figure out just what's going on here.

Comments

[thefuzzyguy]

Um... Transport is kind of a specialty of mine... And I guess I should stop talking about that. And I was sick, but I'm much better now.

[Oh, Kurt, you little liar. He does look a little like death warmed over, even with the help of the inducer, but he's not coughing his lungs out anymore.]

[Encrypted Video:]

[pepperspray]

[Pepper's answer comes in the form of some twiddled settings that apply encryption to the video feed that matches his. Her expression creases with judicious concern.]

Normally, I'd say absolutely not, with the way you're looking.

[And the fact that he's, y'know, a teenager. But beggers and choosers, and she's certainly seen him around the hospital.]

But we're a little short on options, and I've, um, arranged some transportation there. Do you know Wing?

Re: [Encrypted Video:]

[thefuzzyguy]

[A teenager who's entirely too accustomed to this sort of thing.]

Oh, ja, giant robot, hard guy to miss. I like Wing.

[Encrypted Video:]

[pepperspray]

He's volunteered to act as transport. We have more than a few people interested, and I don't know what his, um, carrying capacity is, but I'm definitely glad he can help.

Do you have any experience with science or medicine at all? Internships, volunteering, clubs, that sort of thing?

[Encrypted Video:]

[thefuzzyguy]

Well, I've done field first aid. Und I got a B and a B+ in Chemistry. I haven't started physics yet and I was still home schooled when I did biology...

[Being a super hero is a hard extracurricular to put on a resume.]

[Encrypted Video:]

[pepperspray]

I've put some encryption on this video link. Could you tell me a little more about that specialty in transportation that you mentioned?

[Pepper, although feeling a little wiggle room on the subject of teenagers, is still intent on making sure she has this one's capabilities mapped out.]

[Encrypted Video:]

[thefuzzyguy]

Um...

[Might as well sum it all up. If he's going to be helpful, he shouldn't be concealing things.]

My teleportation range is two miles maximum. I have to know where I'm going, though remembering works as well as seeing it if it's in my range. I can take one person comfortably, though it's a little tiring, two if it's an emergency. That takes it out of me. I can also do objects up to about person-sized.

[Hopefully stuff like passing through other dimensions doesn't need to be discussed, because he doesn't like that subject.]

[Encrypted Video:]

[pepperspray]

That's... wow.

[Congratulations, Kurt, you've briefly left Pepper Potts without anything to say. She does recover after a long moment of peering at him across the link, head tilted critically.]

I'm glad I've had a couple months of living here to adjust to even more of the impossible in my daily life than I'm used to. That could be very helpful if there was a need for an emergency extraction, although I hope you'd also be careful and not put yourself at unnecessary risk.

[Encrypted Video:]

[thefuzzyguy]

[After a moment of all business, Kurt's back to sick, goofy teenager.]

Emergency extraction is kind of my thing, ja. Und emergency infiltration. And... Well, it's probably why I've been on a lot of extra missions. Not just student stuff, not that student stuff doesn't get pretty scary back home.

[Giant robots, mutants with the power to wipe out the world, Hydra, human thugs with mining guns... But he's trying to impress the woman, and if he tried to bring out the list, she might think he was making stuff up.]

[Encrypted Video:]

[pepperspray]

Kids... I hate that so many of you seem to have come from worlds where that sort of thing is necessary.

[There's a flash of bitterness in Pepper's tone, but it's a brief thing -- there and gone again beneath poised attentiveness.]

Keep in touch with Wing, and with Tony Stark and whoever volunteers fromt he hospital. And good luck.

[Encrypted Video:]

[thefuzzyguy]

Mostly just the mutant kids. But, uh, yes ma'am.

[He attempts an awkward salute.]