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Hiro Hamada ([personal profile] bigdamnhiro) wrote in [community profile] tushanshu_logs2015-05-04 06:35 pm

What could possibly go wrong amirite

Characters: Hiro Hamada, Stork, & Tony Stark
Date: May the 4th be with you
Location: Starting out in Central at the Hotel; moving to Metal Sector after that
Situation: Black Market shopping; situations of dubious legality; nerds getting in trouble, probably
Warnings/Rating: None at the present, will edit if needed.

Hiro loves his brother, really. And is concerned for him. He just doesn't know what to do with him right now. He feels guilty for lying, he misses his aunt even though he won't say it out loud, and it's all a lot of pressure and it's weird right now and he needs to get away and not deal with it for a little while.

So he's gonna go bother Stork instead.

He pokes his head in the Hotel's garage and, true to form, the Merb (but what is a Merb) is there hunched over some project or the other, apparently not having noticed him yet. Hiro really doesn't think about this; he skips into the garage unannounced, just about tripping over himself in the process, and pops up next to Stork's workbench with a grin on his face.

"Hey, hey, check this out."

Why is Hiro wearing gloves?

He claps his hands together, eliciting a sharp buzz, a shower of sparks and five points of bright blue light at the interior of the knuckles where they meet.

That's why.
merb: (✈ abandon ship we're going down)

[personal profile] merb 2015-05-05 02:23 am (UTC)(link)
There are a number of ways to subtly introduce yourself to a conversation that hasn't started yet, but that approach isn't the recommended one for Merbs. As is fairly well evidenced by the way Stork pops off his seat like a released coil spring with a half-yelp, half-screech, jumping an actual ten feet into the air -- high enough that he actually bangs his head off the ceiling of the garage's work area while clinging to the ceiling rafter.

"Don't do that!!"
merb: (✈ cyclonians are coming in for landing)

[personal profile] merb 2015-05-07 12:07 am (UTC)(link)
"I'm a Merb," Stork repeats, for what seems like the umpteenth time since arriving in Keeliai. When he ascertains there's no danger, he unwinds his fingers and drops lightly down to the floor again, the height hardly an afterthought.

"You shouldn't sneak up on people like that. And I've played basketball." He lived with teenagers, after all, and they occasionally wanted something a little more involved than Berry Blitz while staying shipside. "I don't know what NBA stands for, though."

He perked up, looking at Hiro's gloves. "Those are new."
merb: (✈ the mission looks to be a success)

[personal profile] merb 2015-05-13 06:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Stork gives a shudder and shakes his head. "No, there are way too many germs in any kind of professional organization like that. Besides, I don't like that kind of attention." A second quiver as he remembered having to go on stage at Terra Neon, and then he was quick to shunt that terrible recollection to the back of his brain once more.

Hiro's gloves were a welcome distraction though, and the pilot's ears perked right up as he examined them. "I like these," he said. "What kind of battery are you using for the charge? What type of current are they carrying. You could make it so they have short range as well as contact, too."
merb: (✈ this could come in very useful)

[personal profile] merb 2015-05-18 11:47 pm (UTC)(link)
"No supervillany," Stork said, whapping Hiro off the top of the head with the handle of a set of pliers. "There are enough crazy people here as it is. Do you have any idea how many types of mind-worms could be infecting the kedan, with the way they shapeshift? I swear, if I have to deal with one more teenage megalomaniac..."

The rest of the grouse dissolved into grumblings, but he went digging in his toolbox and pulled out a frequency scanner. It was used for crystals, but he tinkered with it for a couple of minutes and then passed it to Hiro.

"Here, try this for measuring the amperage," he said. "And don't worry, I can make my own defenses. I have the Condor rigged for safety."
merb: (✈ occasionally just need to hang out)

[personal profile] merb 2015-05-22 04:40 am (UTC)(link)
Stork seems surprised by the impatience, stopping what he was doing and lowering his pliers. "I said I'd go with you," he answered. The lure of materials not easily found anywhere else in the city was too much for a mechanic like the merb to ignore, plus the last part that Hiro had said. He wasn't about to let the kid go by himself; Hiro wasn't that much older than the Sky Scouts were.

"You didn't say it was now."
merb: (✈ noticed something important)

[personal profile] merb 2015-05-26 04:59 am (UTC)(link)
Hiro, don't make that face. Adults can't resist that face. that's totally the plan

"Okay, okay. Let me get my bag..." One Stork has his messenger bag, he nods. "Lead the way... I guess."
highprofilerichkid: (look at this cutie)

[personal profile] highprofilerichkid 2015-06-05 09:01 am (UTC)(link)
Tony is headed to the garage to see if he can scrounge up a couple odds and ends he doesn't have in his own stash of engineering miscellanea. He's absorbed in his notes, chewing a pencil and staring down at his schematics as he walks - which is why he walks straight into a certain excitable young teen heading the other way.

"Whoa!" Tony fumbles for his notebook, just managing to snag it and the pencil before they both go tumbling to the floor. "Sorry, totally didn't see you. Hey, Stork. Where are you guys headed?"

The question is automatic, purely conversational in a and-where-are-you-off-to-in-such-a-hurry kind of way, but now that he's said it, he is actually curious where the two other engineers are going.
merb: (✈ how long has that been in there)

[personal profile] merb 2015-06-11 06:51 am (UTC)(link)
"Uh," Stork says, doing an impressively awkward freeze on the spot, while he shoots Hiro a look.

"That's... we're... um."
highprofilerichkid: (smiling dweeb)

[personal profile] highprofilerichkid 2015-06-16 12:55 am (UTC)(link)
"Wow, and I though I was a bad liar," Tony jokes. Hiro's attempted coverup might have convinced him, but Stork's deer-in-headlights freeze couldn't have looked more guilty if he'd been wearing a burglar costume and had pantyhose pulled over his head. "I'm working on some modifications to the suit's sonic disruptors. What are you really up to?"

He's not going to be distracted that easily, Hiro.
merb: (✈ just too cool to be landbound)

[personal profile] merb 2015-06-18 10:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Ironically, Stork actually can lie with the best of them, but he's terrible on the spot with people he's less familiar with.

"We're going to the market," he echoed Hiro with an emphatic nod, before looking interested and safely getting off topic. "Wait, sonic disruptors?"
highprofilerichkid: (look at this cutie)

[personal profile] highprofilerichkid 2015-06-27 03:58 am (UTC)(link)
"It's one of the weapons on my suit. It's, you know - sonic. It causes disorientation without hurting people." And has other niche uses, such as shattering laser-focusing crystals so he doesn't get sliced into iron spaghetti. "I'm recalibrating them so I can generate a wider range of frequencies and intensities." He rushes through the explanation, because he's a lot more interested in what Hiro just mumbled under his breath.

"The— hold on, are you going to the black market?"

Tony had been deeply suspicious of Keeliai's black market at first: at home, there'd been a brisk black market trade in stolen Stark tech, which had not exactly endeared him to the institution. But he'd eventually come to terms with the fact that Keeliai's black market was a necessary evil, and often a useful one. Especially because it was the best place to find foreigner stuff. If something got stolen from a foreigner, or something randomly appeared from another universe and was found by a kedan, the black market was where it was likely to end up.

Which is why, instead of trying to talk them out of it, Tony just asks "...Can I come?"
merb: (✈ occasionally just need to hang out)

omg I lost this

[personal profile] merb 2015-07-12 02:54 am (UTC)(link)
Stork immediately suspects that, if they were to refuse, Tony would do the same thing Hiro would do: go and try to find this place on his own. Safety in numbers, and all that.

Well, mostly safety in a well-placed booby trap, but he'd settled for numbers in lieu of those.

"I... guess so?" he hedged, glancing at Hiro.
highprofilerichkid: (nyeeheheheeheheeehee)

[personal profile] highprofilerichkid 2015-07-21 08:22 am (UTC)(link)
Much in the way that a plan never survives first contact with the enemy, subtlety rarely survives first contact with Tony.

Tony grins. "Cool." And, to Hiro specifically: "I'll show you the whole suit, if you want."

Hiro's other conditions are also acceptable: Tony has no reason to blab about the illicit field trip. (Though, if Cass corners him unexpectedly, all bets are off.)