<div class="floatleft">(http://i1212.photobucket.com/albums/cc446/ffxivghost/74814A.jpg) </div><hr/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>  Name:</strong> Tony Stark<br/>  <strong>Title:</strong> Genius, Man With The Plan<br/>  <strong>Affiliation:</strong>  Humanity<br/>  <strong>Location:</strong>   Rurouni Safehouse<br/>  <strong>Tags:</strong> Diamondback, Blade<br/></span></span><hr/>As he sits there, Tony glances at a small monitor on the table. It’s a readout of the security status of his safehouse, and it shows him that Blade has arrived. He’s glad of that. He was afraid that he wouldn’t make it. Tony’s going to need all the help he can get in this.<br/><br/>“How? I wish I could say. The attacks were precise, strong and fast. None of us saw this coming. None of us..”  he says softly, his hands folding on his chest now. He listens to Rachel’s report about the troops… and something occurs to him. He sits up suddenly in his chair, and he reaches out to the globe. His hand brushes passed it, making it circle until the island of Japan is shown. He snaps his fingers, and then draws his hands apart. The image of Japan and it’s surrounding lands are enlarged, the rest of the globe fading from view. Jarvis’ voice is heard then.<br/><br/>++This image was made using satellite imagery as well as War Machine’s sensor recordings.++   Tony just nods a little, his finger moving along the outside of the island that is now Tokyo.    “The attacks… the fact he’s cut off Tokyo… he’s not just after real estate and prisoners. There’s no holding camps. He’s after the tech. All of these buildings”   he motions vaguely to the map of Tokyo     “They’re some of the most advanced research facilities in world. He means to use them for his army..”<br/><br/><br/>Tony shakes his head a little, still thinking about what Rachel said.   “I think he’s assimilating people somehow. Putting them under control. Can’t be through telepathy… we’d all be effected. Can’t be atmospheric, he’d have us too. Person to person assimilation.”    At this point he seems to be talking to himself.    “There’s no unusual frequencies from any of those we fought. Just those suits they had… but it’s not the suits either. They’re just to augment them. So….”   His brows furrow as he comes up with a few plans, and he turns then slowly. He starts to walk slowly away from the table, and the image of Tokyo shrinks down once more, the rest of the globe becoming more prominent.<br/><br/>“Jarvis, show us the leader.”<br/><br/><br/>The image of the globe dissipates, and it’s replaced by what looks like a see through television screen. Upon that screen, an image of New York comes up. They would see the Stark Tower, and many beings flying around it and attacking it. They would then see Iron Man emerge from the building and begins to fight some of them. That only lasts a few moments, and suddenly a glowing beam of energy explodes from the ground, engulfing Iron Man. Iron Man explodes, bits of smoldering armor falling from the sky. The image freezes there, and the source of the beam is magnified. It’s a blurry image, but it’s obvious it’s a very large man. Grey and blue in color, the source of that beam of energy. Tony turns slowly, motioning to the image.    “That’s him, the one behind this all. How do I know that? Glad you asked.”<br/><br/><br/>Now he takes a few steps towards the image as he speaks    “To pull this off… well he’s got to be<em>almost</em>as smart as me. So he would know Iron Man is going to be one of his biggest adversaries, and therefore one of his main targets during the initial attack. And this isn’t something you leave to cronies… you go out and you make a statement. You show the world that you’ve killed Iron Man. Yeah, he’s the leader of all this.”<br/><br/>“I’d like to send you two on some errands.”   He says as he looks between Diamondback and Blade.  “Welcome to the safehouse, by the way Blade. Sorry I didn’t have more of a party for ya.”   He reaches into his pocket and pulls out a thin PDA, going through it’s screens one by one as he continues.   “Elevator goes down, leads to some bunks. You can get a shower or something if you want, Blade. And then… I need you to go back towards the city.”   His eyes now fall on Blade as he speaks.   “I think this army is being controlled by a chemical, or some other agent. So, I need you to get me a blood sample. And…”    he walks to one of his smaller workbenches, pulling out from one of it’s drawers what looks like a grey gun. It’s plain of any decoration or anything, having only a small light on one end. He tosses it to Blade as he speaks.    “Here. Hold the barrel to skin, pull the trigger. Count to 4, green light there should light up. You got your sample. Bring it back, I’ll do the rest. And try not to destroy it, huh?”<br/><br/>Then he looks towards Diamondback as he speaks.  “I know this is a lot for us all to take in, but we need to keep working. I need you to help me set up a global comms network. Most satellites are being controlled by this guy, so I need to steal some of my own.”   He holds the PDA out to her as he continues.    “This is a map to warehouse number 13 for Tenma Industries. One of the companies ran by Stark International. It’s got an experimental communication array that I need you to activate. And discretely. The data pad there will give you instructions on powering it up. I can use it to enable communications for the world at large. This is important… we’re all running around blind until we get people talking to one another.”<br/><br/>Now he walks towards the table, and the image of a satellite is then show on the display. Tony speaks softly as he stops in front of the table.   “I can send a message out, most of the world will hear it. But they won’t be able to communicate with each other yet. So… that’s what I’m gonna do while you guys are out. And then I’m gonna run my own errand.”<br/>