THIS WEEK ON AVENGERS ASSEMBLED

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LOCAL & WORLD NEWS

• A handful of Stuttgart locals have come forward to support Steve's version of events. The news media spent hours, at least, feeding back in on this -- drawing up video from the UN speech, Steve's speech, then pointing out Loki's absence at the meeting of world leaders.
• So maybe Loki's a bad guy, after all. Multiple networks put out offers for interviews. Daily Show?
• A managerial restructuring of most companies is not interesting enough to make the news, but with the company in question being Stark Industries and the Avengers still being a thing, it's enough to cause nervous flutters on the financial networks. SI is down 7 points. They are still head-hunting.
• Bruce's lab is back up to spec with a tunnel to Central Park. A big tunnel. Just in case.
• The magic detection protocols were down for a few days, but swiftly restored. (See: Loki.)
• JARVIS is still down as Stark digs through his systems. He's estimated to be back online Monday, barring disaster. (See: Fucking Loki again.)

 

WSC

• Natasha and Clint have turned up what they think to be a member of the WSC: Lady Cecilia Wallace of England.
  • She was the first woman to serve as Chief Scientific Adviser of the Ministry of Defense, and she sits on the Defense Council of the UK.
  • Stark confirmed that HYDRA soldiers were using weaponry similar to UK soldiers.

 

LOKI

• Loki vanished during a conversation with Amora. A power surge took out monitoring equipment and some electronics, which Stark repaired and replaced.
  • He then used Steve's shield to control Stark long enough to take down the magic detection protocols and dig through Stark's work researching magic.

 

SVALBARD

• HYDRA has turned its portion of Svalbard into a tightly defended fortress. They are based in a castle built into a mountain with weapons manufacturing facilities inside the mountain.
  • Mind-controled polar bears carry cameras to act as part of the surveillance net. Yes, really.
  • There is also CCTV, motion detection, etc., etc., etc..
  • A team of Avengers (+SHIELD, +Asgardian) put on some HYDRA costumes and hit Svalbard as recon.
    • Loki and Schmidt are fighting. Stark intends to capitalize on that.
    • Schmidt killed Wei Jr. which pissed Loki off.
    • Stark believes that Schmidt is powering the production of Tesseract-tech weapons using himself somehow.
    • There are a lot of Tesseract-tech weapons: bullets, missiles.
    • Also pigeons.

 

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TO: Avengers, Asgardians, SHIELD
FROM: Stark
SUBJECT: Svalbard

Thanks to the loan of uniforms from SHIELD, Brand, Vision, Pietro, Vance and I were able to get inside the HYDRA facility.

Schmidt killed some guy which pissed Loki off so he shot some of Schmidt's guys and generally it looks like there is trouble in paradise. I intend to drop a word in Schmidt's ear to try to widen that divide. Unless anyone else is dying to chat with him.

Brand mentioned the kid was Wei Jr.

Pietro got a look at some machinery which won't make any sense to most of you and barely made sense to me. I wondered how they were making new weapons without the Tesseract. It looks like Schmidt is powering the machinery himself somehow. Given the circumstances of his disappearance and the readings I've gotten off of him, it just barely makes sense.

Vision got shot. I'll talk to Pym about bandaids. He should recover.

Pietro and I stole some of Schmidt's space bullets.

Sif pulled our asses out of the fire when the whole shooting thing happened. Did I mention it happened in the dark? With the sprinklers going off? After there was an earthquake or something? It was fantastic.