Temp Fix

[Liara]

“If only we had spoons.” Selene laughed. “I was really looking forward to trying the strawberry ice cream.”

[Khan Noonian Singh]

"Well my communicator is pretty much only good for a spoon anyway." Noonian chuckled and opened up one of the tubs marked 'strawberry'.

-- Meanwhile

"Geez... that's some blast." Clint mused as he looked at the damage at what was once one of his favorite spots in the city. "Cece, First thing's first, is this other Khan around?"

"I don't sense him, I only sense the one that is with Selene. They are bonding over ice cream." Cece said with a small smile. "But they are running out of air, they're in the freezer... which is... buried behind half the building."

"That's going to take some time isn't it?" Clint gave her a look.

"I have an idea..." Cece winked at him and ran off.

About five minutes later a construction crew was following her back.

"That was fast." Clint chuckled as he saw how many were following her and the equipment.

"I promised them double overtime and a Presidential merit award." Cece whispered. "Let's go save our people." she pulled off her leather jacket and got to work.

-- Across town

Khan was walking up to the AlphaTek Tower, it was a gleaming monument to capitalism and excess. Especially once he saw some of the footage on the large monitors, of his counterpart and his wife, he knew that ending his counterpart's legacy would be the best thing he could do. Unsheathing a sidearm from his jacket, he fired at and killed the four security guards in the lobby, the front desk secretary and a security supervisor that heard the phaser fire and attempted to return fire. Office workers scattered and visitors hid.

"My name is Khan Singh... and today... is the day of reckoning!" He shouted

[Liara]

"I could eat this all the time." Selene said laughing as they scooped ice cream with the communicator. They were getting delirious from the lack of oxygen laughing at random things then suddenly Selene cocked her head. "Do you hear that?"

[Cece Ryder]

"Sounds like machinery. They can't have any of this..." Noonian chuckled as he took another spoonful.

"And here I thought you were going to teach her to share?" Cece's voice said as she poked her head through a hole in the ceiling. "Hey... cover that up." she got back and the hole opened up and a line shot down.

"Hey... looks like we need to find a new ice cream place." Clint said as he slid down the line and looked around. "Think AlphaTek can fund a rebuild?"

"We could fund an entire factory... damn you Cross." Noonian muttered as he took another scoop of ice cream and closed the lid. "I'm going to get fat. This was too damn good. Natalia and I were trying to go Keto."

"You're a genetic superman... you'll manage." Cece deadpanned.

[Liara]

“Don’t let em have it.” Selene said groggily. “Not sharing.”

[Cece Ryder]

Cece shook her head. "I'm already liking this Selene." she said and dropped down gracefully. "Are either of you badly injured?"

"A little burnt on my back, but nothing a dermal regenerator won't fix. Talia's always looking for excuses to get my shirt off." Noonian teased.

"Clearly a bit oxygen deprived." Clint commented and picked up a tub of rocky road. "What?" he said when he saw Cece's look. "I had a taste for ice cream, still do... they're going to have to toss all this anyway."

"No, not the ice cream, although seriously save me some... no, it's the other Khan, he's at AlphaTek Tower, he's already killed a half dozen people." Cece said as she listened to the earpiece. "He's going to kill more people... day of reckoning. He's nuts."

"Then we better go." Noonian said and put his hand on Cece's shoulder.

"Alright... Control, we found them, beam us all to the office across from AlphaTek Tower, should be empty." Clint ordered and the entire party was beamed out of the Ice Cream shop.

--

Olivia was measuring the new executive offices, when the sound of a transporter could be heard and she saw Clint, Selene, Noonian and Cece and three tubs of ice cream beam in.

"What's going on?" Olivia pulled her headphones down.

"Liv? Place was supposed to be vacant." Clint glanced around. "You prepping to hit AlphaTek here too?"

"Hit what?" Olivia looked at him confused. "Aimee and I own this place now, new home of..."

"Yeah yeah... hey there's another bad version of Noonian there and he's killed people in the tower. All over the news." Clint said as he pointed to the large screen outside the window.

"Holy shit... I wasn't paying attention, was measuring... alright, so... I don't have much here, but that doesn't mean anything." Olivia replied and tapped a few controls on her bracelet and an entire mobile tactical unit was beamed into the lobby of their new building. "I'll run control from here and take care of Noonian's back... holy crap you look like bacon."

"Firebombed." Noonian replied. "Selene... I'll back you up once I'm patched up. You've got this luv... I believe in you."

[Liara]

“Sure we can’t go eat more ice cream.” Selene said with a grin but her eyes told a different story. She didn’t want to face her father again but she reached out and took Noonian’s hand. “I won’t let him hurt your family.”

[Khan Noonian Singh]

"Your family too." Noonian said as he gave her hand a squeeze. "Still... let Clint or I make the final kill. I'd like to not have you see that when you see me. And I do entirely plan to be around. Clearly you have a lot of daddy daughter time to make up for. And time with your sisters."

"Other than Nadia." Cece rolled her eyes. "She's entirely done with us. I think she had friends who were killed by Dominus and Jackson during the Capitol Incident. Once she dug into who we lost, she kind of... parted company. Thinks we're asking for all the trouble we've had."

"Well... we're trying to end their threat." Noonian said as he winced as Olivia applied a salve to his back and worked the dermal regenerator.

"I trust you all have ideas to keep the death toll smaller than it is." Olivia said and glanced at the monitor. "Oh shit... you people better hurry up, he's figured out where the building's power core is, the main AliceCore reactor that powers half the city."

[Liara]

“You didn’t happen to bring a suit with you did you?” Selene asked Clint gesturing to her ruined purple dress.

[Charles Ryder]

"Better." Clint replied as he opened up a pouch on his vest. "SKIN armor." he handed her a small box and a pair of widow bite gauntlets. "I don't think we need leather, we need armor to face Khan."