[IC] Pre-intro

[stupidcupid]

[ you're being watched ]

Comments

[accountable]

But I should get to filling you in. It wouldn't help if you didn't know what you were looking at.

[stupidcupid]

I'm all ears.

[accountable]

Everything you've heard is true. The Director is crazy. She brings people here because of a long-disproved agenda and people are put through various ... I don't want to call them tortures, but some are unpleasant. Like what I went through. That's one of them. Furthermore, this place is in danger. Something's on its way to attack. Something that devours entire worlds, and once it eats up the link—you can figure out what comes next.

It isn't good, and it's been going on long enough that there's so much firepower here that even the Avengers seem like a futile addition.

[stupidcupid]

Damn.

So what we really need is a plan.

[accountable]

And we can't come up with an acceptable plan until we have a database. What we've been accustomed to working with ... it's not here. None of it. No guesses. No analysts. It's just us.

[stupidcupid]

We could do worse with just "us".

Coulson and Loki, though. What's up with that?

[accountable]

Which Loki?

[stupidcupid]

Uhm, hello, there's only--Oh my god, are there two of them?

[accountable]

As far as I know, yeah. I haven't personally encountered the other. I'm assuming you mean ours.

What did he say, Clint?

[stupidcupid]

The usual garbage. Blah blah I'm so cool, see me for the wonder I am, be prepared, I forgot the rest of the song.

[accountable]

He hasn't done much of anything. And he won't.

[stupidcupid]

Does he still have the . . . pointy stick?

[accountable]

I haven't seen it. So you're right. He's just a bag of wind.

[stupidcupid]

Yay, I'm right. Let's celebrate. It doesn't happen that often.

[accountable]

I think this is one where you'll be right all the time.

[stupidcupid]

Now you're creeping me out.

[accountable]

Or I'm just very unimpressed.

[stupidcupid]

Yeah, that sounds about right. Nice to have you back, Tasha.

[accountable]

I wasn't gone that long.

[stupidcupid]

Well, someone has to say it.

[accountable]

Loki tried to use your absence against me.

[stupidcupid]

Not very bright, is he?

[accountable]

It's like he's never heard of solo missions.

[stupidcupid]

What a chump.

[accountable]

As for what you were actually getting at: I'm glad you're here.