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WHO: SKRULLOCK HOLMES, TONY STARK, EDWARD NYGMA, NORMAN OSBORN, DR. JOHN ZOIDBERG and YOU!
WHERE: The Quarantine Room.
WHEN: February 22nd (evening) to February 24th (afternoon).
WARNINGS: None necessarily? Bickering doesn't merit a warning.
SUMMARY: Skrulls in the dungeon. Well, one anyway.
FORMAT: I'll introduce the setting in paragraph, but you choose what format you prefer.

The area for the quarantined is spacious and clean. Although technically under police custody, the room is established in a large auditorium of City Hall. There are five walled 'dividers' that offer the quarantined the semblance of privacy. Never mind that every inch of the room is taped on camera -- cameras that Mitchell Hundred can control with a word. Never mind that there are armed guards on the other wise of each exit. Never mind that the communicators of the quarantined have been disabled from encryption capabilities.

They were allowed a bed. Access to any bathroom was to be monitored. Meals would be provided. They were handcuffed but not leglocked. If any of the number disagreed with their situation, heavier imprisonment was negotiable.

The quarantined were to be questioned by those in authority, or those who were experts on Skrull detection. Or those who thought they were.

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[ He lifts an eyebrow, looking Jen over. ] I'm not going to sue their pants off, although being trapped in here is a little bit annoying. [ Tips his head in the direction of the other inmates. ] I mean, really.

You're being unjustly imprisoned, but you know.

[ doesn't really move her gaze. she just shrugs her shoulders ]

I'm sure they'll get boring after the first few hours.

Jennifer, they're holding me for questioning. Now, if they try anything, then I'll call you. [ He lifted a finger in a slight smirk. ] Hopefully, they won't ask me to cut anything off. I never want to do that again.

[ she just flat out scowls and glowers at him ]

How is this suppose to solve anything though? We're not going to find Skrulls like this! We found one. We got lucky.

You're right, we did. At least we found one. [ He lowers his voice. ]

And I get to watch him. Everything he does, and I can listen to him, and maybe he'll be stupid enough to let something go.

What's going to stop him from breaking out of here?

[ she gestures in Skrullock's general direction. ]

Cameras and guards? If he wanted, he could shapeshift into something so tiny that we wouldn't even see him.

You're joking. With me in here? He'd better hope he doesn't. I'm still wearing shoes, you know.

[ He looks up at the cameras ]

I don't think that's going to happen, Jen. He has nowhere to go. Think about it, the best he can do is save his own skin. He's failed, he can't become Sherlock again, and he would have to kill someone to replicate them, and there's a high chance of someone finding the body, or of them being ported back in.

Yeah, I guess.

[ a moment's pause ]

This is still dumb.

[ He lifted an eyebrow. ]

At least we found one.

We don't how many more there could possibly be. Finding one really isn't reason to start patting ourselves on the back.

[ His amusement melts away. ]

Do you know how many I found? [ His smile is strained now, before he drops it into a full grimace. ] Jennifer, I didn't find any Skrulls, no matter how many times I looked at the data, I couldn't find any before I was brought here. Did I ever find Skrulls? [ It was rhetorical, and he didn't wait. ] I'd say this is a step in the right direction.

Look, Tony. I can't be happy that we found one. That this is being done this way. That you're locked in here. I just -- [ she hesitates and then turns away so her backs against the divide thing ]

I didn't want to do this again. Not like this.

[ He raised both his hands so one could hold his beard, rubbing the scratchy hair in thought. ]

What we want to do, and what we actually have to do are often two very different things, I'm afraid. I'm not saying this is right, but at least we have one victory under our belt. It's something, at least.

[ she just stares up at one of the cameras ]

It's not enough to make up for anything else.

[ He looks at her. ]

You know how far I'll go, Jennifer. I'd go further than this, if it meant we would be able to get our hands on them.

If you say things like that, Tony, you'd probably be okay with torturing people to get the Skrulls too, wouldn't you?

[ it sounds like she really doesn't want an answer though ]

[ he swallowed, and looked at her with concern. ]

If I did, I would have already done it! I'm not going to torture people, Jen! Who do you think I am?

Sometimes, I don't really know! The extent that you'll go to accomplish things, I -- [ and then she just cuts herself off ]

[ He lifts an eyebrow. His mouth turns down in a frown, and he shakes his head. ]

I would never go that far.

[ she finally looks back at him, and she looks a little hurt ]

How am I supposed to believe that?

[ He starts, and then stops. ]

Sometimes, you have to go on faith. You know me, Jen.

[ she hesitates ]

Yeah, I -- I guess. [ but she clearly doesn't believe it ]

[ He frowns, almost sad. ] You don't sound convinced. [ And then, he wipes it off his face. ]

No matter, of course. I didn't expect everyone to believe me at my word.

[ she pauses, averting her gaze ]

I'm sorry, Tony.

[ He only shrugs, folding his hands behind his head, awkwardly twisting them to get them both back there. ]

Don't worry about it, Jennifer. [ Some days, he missed SHIELD. ]

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