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[propulsion]

"You have reached the life model decoy of Tony Stark."

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[acreage]

That's the last thing on my mind right now.

[ as if it'd even be possible with the apparent level of tech here, as if he hasn't had it up to here with people trying to appropriate alien technology they don't understand.

he hesitates, but it's not like this is a secret, even here. ]

I have some experience with alien technology. I want to know if what you saw is the same thing.

[propulsion]

[ Hackles lower. A little. ]

Probably not, [ he says. ] You ever hear about Asgard?

[ Industrialised deep space exploration strikes Tony as bearing more implications than contact with a utopian society of space vikings with good hair, but you never know. ]

[acreage]

In ancient myths, sure.

[ he WISHES they'd met a utopian society of space vikings with good hair. ]

[propulsion]

Yeah.

[ Ugh. ]

Wormhole was powered by something called the Tesseract. It's a probably near infinite powersource with the capability of manipulating space. We didn't build it, just the stabilising framework to turn it on.

Now it's Odin's favourite paperweight or whatever on another planet.

[acreage]

[ odin...asgard...deeply tempting to think tony's fucking with him.

then again, if someone had told him about thedas before a month or so ago, he'd be pretty sure they were fucking with him too. ugh. ]

You're right, [ he says after a beat, more level, ] that doesn't sound much like that we encountered. [ thank god for small mercies. ] Which is a good thing, believe me.

[propulsion]

Tell me about it.

[ Pause, then; ]

That was a—that was an invite, not just a rhetorical device. And it's only fair.

[acreage]

[ well. it is only fair. he exhales, considers where to start. ]

It's probably going to sound fucking crazy, [ admitted, ] even to you. Try imagining something that hijacks and repurposes organic life, that's constantly learning and evolving, and behaves differently just about every time you see it. That's capable of rewriting the laws of physics. If you can do that, you'll start to get an idea of what I've seen.

[ emphasis on start. ]

If that tech had hit Earth, [ and it nearly did in his system, ] even in a small amount, there would've been no survivors.