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Toph Beifong     When the newlyweds had arrived from their honeymoon, there had been much rejoicing. Also explanations regarding various stuff, like the meteor modifications to the pool, the raided beer cabinet, the overfilled fridge and not to mention the house guest in the form of a lanky green ranger. Either way, Toph had been visibly happy about her adoptive parents' return. Not to mention the fact that they were home in time for Easter and there was something planned.

    Like an Easter egg hunt!

    The earthbender is ready the next day, clad in casual wear and well prepared to hunt down Easter eggs. How hard can it get, anyway? Unless Tony has hidden them up in trees or something... Either way she's prepared. And she's made Ziggy is joining in on the activities too, considering he's a house guest. In her opinion he has no choice.

    "Okay, if you stick to looking in places I can't see, then we should find them all rather quickly," Toph voices as she drags Ziggy with her outside to the back of the house.
Pepper Potts     ... wait, what about the /beer/?

    ARound the back of the house, the rest of the Potts family was waiting... well. IN various forms. Pepper was wearing an 'IRON MOM' T-shirt that someone had thought would be a hilarious addition to her wardrobe (thanks, Stan), while Carolina was wearing a soft pastel blue dress and bright yellow and pink hat, slightly resembling an Easter egg herself. Stan was wearing a simple gray suit that looked like it'd gotten wrinkled on the way over, while Georgia was wearing a sky blue frock with a light sweater, and little Liza was clad in a bright yellow dress with a bunny on the skirt.

    Of course, as Toph and Ziggy round the back, she perks up immediately and reaches out to the Earthbender. "TOFF! TOFF TOFF TOFF!" she cries out giddily, reaching for her cousin!
Tony Stark For his part, Tony drags himself out of bed with a bit less enthusiasm than Toph, if only because he had a late night after a long day, and then stayed up even later setting up some truly devilish egg hiding spots to befuddle the blind earthbender. I mean it's no challenge if she can just feel where all of the eggs are with her feet, right?

But drag himself out of bed he does, yawning prodigiously as he pads down the stairs in t-shirt and jeans, and nursing a cup of coffee as he pokes his head outside to brave the gaggle of guests. And Ziggy, whose presence he's still not entirely clear on, but since he won the karaoke contest at his last birthday party he's pretty ok with.

"Am I overdressed?" he asks wryly, as he takes in the attire of the Potts clan, Pepper excluded. T-shirts are more his thing, and he likes that one.
Ziggy Grover He wasn't -doing- Easter Eggs hunts. Those things had turned out ever so badly for him, especially when he never could find the eggs -on the day of the hunt- and usually found them -days- later when things... went bad. Especially when raw eggs were involved.

Ziggy Grover, however, was mindful that he -had- to do this stuff, as it was either face Scott's wrath, or suffer a little. Suffering a little was better than having to polish Ranger Red's car over and over and over. Better to let Flynn at least fix it -first-.

"I don't think so, sir," Ziggy responds to Tony, adjusting his leather jacket as he watches the ongoing. "I haven't met the kidling... hi."

Crouching down to greet Liza, Ziggy asks, "Hi, name's Ziggy." Yes, he had awesome hair. Admire it. "Nice to meet you." Holding up empty hands, Ziggy reaches behind Liza's ear, and then flashes a coin. "Here, present." Don't ask where the coin came from.
Pepper Potts     "TOFF TOFF!" Liza begins, wraggling her arms agan at Toph, and then destracted by Ziggy, she pauses. The little kid looks up, her head tilting as she looks to his hair, and then his face, and then she gigges. "Eggy!" she exclaims. "Toff! Eggy!" she accepts the coin, and giggles.

    "Oh? Who's this young man? I recall the hair... don't have much of it myself." Stan states, and he gives a pout, and rubs his balding head as he reaches down and gives Toph a hug. "Hey there, slugger!"
Toph Beifong     While it wasn't long ago that Toph did hang out with Pepper's family, well... /her/ family too, the blind earthbender visibly brightens up when she both 'sees' and hears Lizzie. "Liz!" Ziggy will find himself let go off, and Toph hurries forward to meet her cousin along with Ziggy. For now she will let Ziggy say hi to the 'kidling' and do his magic trick. Though once the two have gotten acquainted, Toph will do a magic trick of her own as she kicks into the ground. This causes the earth underneath the toddler to rise in a somewhat gentle manner, sending her flying up in the air, only to be grabbed by Toph who gives her a big hug, grinning widely. "Gotcha, little badgermole!"

    Likewise she will lean into the hug that Stan offers her... wait, Toph allows people to /hug/ her now? "Glad you could come... so! Let's go find those Easter eggs before the Easter bunny takes them back," she declares, carrying Lizzie with her while the adults do their talking.
Tony Stark "Ziggy and Lizzy," Tony declares, smirking impishly. "The perfect pair." And Liza might even think his magic tricks are really magic, at her age. "You ready to find some eggs, kiddo? Uncle Tony was up all night helping the Easter Bunny hide them." Heh. Uncle Tony. He kind of likes that. He lowers his voice to a conspiratorial stage whisper, loud enough for everyone to hear. "Remember, Toph might need some help finding them, since she's blind. I hope you're up to the job."

He then makes a sweeping gesture to point at Stan. "And no cheating, Stan-the-man. I've got my eyes on you."
Ziggy Grover "Eggy? Uh... Zig-gy!" the young man who was the Ranger Operator Series Green tries to correct, before giving it up, as he stands up. "Yeah, I think I saw you at the wedding. It was a heck of a wedding, at that. You were wearing the... uh... yeah, you know what, I've been trying to forget that moment, no offense."

Leaving the kids to egg-hunt, Ziggy just stands over -there- with the adults this time. Purely observing, that's all. With that beatific smile, cuz he -wasn't- going to get caught up in this, right?
Pepper Potts     "You're not still sore about my star-spangled eyes, are you Tony?" Stan gives a smile over to Stark, and Potts is just giving a sweet little smile, laughing with Georgie, who has given the small child her own brightly colored basket, who jumps up and down a few times and goes "Eggy!", ready to help Toff -- er, Toph hunt down some of those elusive eggs. Stan hands Tony another cup of coffee -- this one from the donut place with that big donut over its roof -- and Carolina Potts-Steinmetz makes her way over to Ziggy, who was standing with the adults -- and gives him his own basket. It's bright springtime green with a happy frog wearing bunny ears on it.

    "You get to hunt for eggs too! Can't let the girls have all the fun, can we?" she gives a sweet smile to him.
Toph Beifong     Tony's whisper to Liz makes Toph smirk somewhat, not saying anything. At least Tony is acting like an uncle now! Possibly because he really is Liz's uncle now considering he and Pepper are married at long last.

    When Ziggy isn't following them, Toph turns slightly and lets out a huff. "Hey, where do you think you're going, Snoozy? Get your butt in gear and help us find the Easter eggs! You're on tree duty!" Why yes, Toph /is/ bossy. At least she is too busy handling Liz than to make Ziggy follow along. With one hand holding onto Liz's smaller hand, and her other hand holding onto her basket she has her hands literally full. "I can see some of the eggs already, Lizzie. Come on!" Well, the ones who are on the ground are easy to find at least!
Tony Stark Tony wanders up behind Ziggy and gives him a definite *poke* in the middle of his back as Carrie hands him the basket. "Well, go on," he invites-slash-challenges with a grin. "You're not gonna let a couple of /girls/ find more goodies than you, are you?"

The back door slides open as if on cue, and Dummy trundles out on his wheeled cart, wearing a pair of bunny ears on his... well, not exactly his head but the highest apex of his arm, and clasping another brightly colored basket in his claw. He chirrups brightly, as if ready to help with the hunt.

"There ya go, you got a partner," Tony gives Ziggy another teasing prod.

As for the eggs, a great many of them are just lying on the ground in plain sight, for Liza's benefit. Some others are better concealed in clumps of flowers or bushes, and a few more have been concealed higher up, in the spreading branches of the shade trees. One is dangling from a string on a branch like a grenade bouquet trap. And a very few have been specially concealed by Tony specifically to foil Toph's senses. There's one buried underground, floating in a tank of water. There's another buried in a mound of loose sand disguised as a large anthill. The most obvious of all is an egg floating in plain sight, hovering about five feet off the ground -- out of Liza's reach but at easy eye level for anyone else -- on a tiny repulsor drone with sound dampeners installed to reduce its audible profile.
Ziggy Grover Holding the basket limply, Ziggy has a skeptical look. "You know, I mean, I'm a -Power Ranger-. Aren't I a little too old for this...?" he says, before looking dourly at Tony. "YOu know, I'm too old for -that- taunt to work and... oh no, come on, you're not teaming me up with ... that's not fair. Are you -actually- asking me to help ... him?"

Sighing a long suffering sigh, Ziggy pursues his lips, before shrugging. "Oh, fine. Come on, uh... what -do- I call you anyway?"
Tony Stark Dummy's name is written right there on his hydraulic arm: DUM-E. "No way, he's here to help you," Tony protests. "Are you saying that MY workshop assistant isn't good enough to help a Power Ranger?"

Dummy seems to straighten up a little bit at such high praise. Because of course Tony programmed him to act like that. Usually. Sometimes there's a bit more ghost-in-the-machine than he can explain. In any case the bot chirps cheerfully and rolls across the lawn, in pretty real risk of actually smashing some eggs under his tires.
Ziggy Grover "Uh, I'm not calling him DUM-E. Isn't it, like, some kind of offensive thing to call someone?" Ziggy protests, before he takes off. "HEY! Wait... if you're going off like that, you're gonna break -something-!"

And off Ziggy went, pursuing the little bot.
Pepper Potts     "Egg egg egg Toff!" the toddler states, toddling off with Toph, happily following her cousin around.
    Georgia looks at Pepper, who purses her lips as she narrows her eyes. "I really hope Toph never reaches that stage." Pep whispers to her sister.
    "Oh, knock it off, you two were insufferable." Carolina gives a smile, and walks behind the girls to refill a glass of water. Both Potts women pause, give their mother a double-take, and then look to one another.

    "You correct her. You married a billionaire."

    "You gave her a grandchild." Pepper mutters back, and both women lift their coffees and work on draining them.

    Stan, meanwhile, takes responcibility for giving some announcements. "Aaaand ladies and gentlemen it is a /beeyootiful/ day in Malibu for some Easter Egg hunting -- and they're off! Taking the lead is Lovely Liza and Tough Toph -- the Bodacious Badgermoles off to seek First Yolk and break some teenagers out of their shells -- coming up in the back is Team EE-Zee, and it looks like the yolk's on them as the two set out and try to upset the girls' lead!"
Toph Beifong     Somehow Toph looks amused when Ziggy gets to team up with Dummy. "Oh, the victory's ours," she states for herself, leading Liz along. "There's one!"

    Sure, she could quickly rush around and gather the eggs herself, but well... this is for Liz. So she points out the eggs for her little cousin so she can gather them. "And there's one in the bushes there too." The ones on the ground will be easy. But for the ones that aren't connected with the earth? She will actually have to rely on Lizzie pointing them out to her.

    Stan sounds like he's having fun just spending time with the family, and Tony? He's being an insufferable ass like always. While she's leading Lizzie around, Toph does call out to Ziggy and Dummy. "Make sure you don't break the eggs with candy in them! And for your information, we all call him Dummy!" With a kick to the ground she makes one of the eggs roll towards Liz. There you go, kid!
Tony Stark "It's his name, how could his /name/ be offensive?" Tony insists, sagely sipping from his coffee mug. Which has 'A Big Cup of I'm the Fucking BOSS' printed on it.

He regards the friendly banter between the Potts sisters with a faintly speculative look, one which will quickly dissolve into an utterly innocent one if Pepper should glance his way. "Point of reason," he puts in though, "the billionaire /begged/ her to marry him and she grudgingly consented. It's really not her fault."
Tony Stark "...although," Tony continues, scratching at a spot on his head as if he's just now considering other factors, "I /am/ a superhero. That's not really fair. I mean who can resist a knight in shining... flying armor? /I/ couldn't." He'll keep on stroking his own ego until someone stops him.
Ziggy Grover "Ngh... Dum, look, let's just go with Dum here, okay?" Ziggy says, trying to whistle and rein Dum in. "Look, tell you what, I'll let -you- find the eggs, but you gotta let me pick them up! Ok? Good, uh. Wave a hand if you agree...! Hey, good going, you found one already! Hey, wait, don't roll over, let me get it!"

Hurrying over, Ziggy nabs an egg, sticking it in the basket. "Good--- wait for me...............!"
Pepper Potts     "Egg! Toff! Egg!" the kid says every time she sees an egg, excited to be helping her counsin. Her poor, blind cousin, not that Liza knows what 'blind' is yet. She happily picks up eggs, rocks, tufts of grass and a handful of sand along with the eggs to put into her basket.

    Carolina returns with a fresh cup of coffee, and watches her grandkids and some kid with a bunch of weird hair and a robot run around looking for eggs, but she keeps it in her stride -- after all, the world is a stranger place.

    "Uh-huh. The superhero thing, let's go with that." Georgia gives a wry smile. "So when is Liza going to get her own super suit?"

    "Never." Pepper replies, aghast.
Toph Beifong     Every time Liz finds an egg Toph beams, and she gives Liz the occasional pat on the back. "Great going! We're going to find them all really fast if we keep this up!" Let the adults talk and stroke Tony's ego... though Toph does throw a comment Tony's way. "IF THERE WAS A MULTIVERSAL LADY VERSION OF YOU THEN YOU SHOULD HAVE MARRIED HER SINCE YOU LOVE YOURSELF SO MUCH!"

    Okay, back to business... wait.

    Toph halts, sensing something down in the ground that /should/ be there. It seems hollow, and it's not a rock. "Come on Liz, I think uncle Tony dug something down over here!" And off they go, and Toph is quick to bend the ground aside so Liz can help her get the water filled tank up from the hole. Hah, nice try!
Tony Stark Tony makes a show of being crestfallen. "But... oh come on Pepper that's just not fair. First you won't let me make Buster a suit, and now you're shutting out the kid too? That's harsh."

He waggles his eyebrows at Georgia, pretending to flirt. "Oh you know you couldn't resist this, either," he teases.

"Dummy!" he calls out insistently across the yard. "His name is Dummy."

Then he stoops to pick up a plastic egg that got forgotten under a nearby shrug and saunters over to hang his coffee-arm over Pepper's shoulder as he wrests the egg open with his free hand. It turns out to be full of malted milk balls colored in pastels. He lifts the egg to his face and plucks one of the candies out with his teeth before offering Potts some. The three weeks away from Union/company bullshit seem to have done him a world of good as far as reducing his tension levels, as well as his awkwardness about showing affection around Pepper's family. Well, that and the fact he got to spend them /with/ Pepper. Being oogie.
Ziggy Grover "I am -not- calling Dum a DUMMY!" Ziggy hollers back, even as he chases DUM-E across the lawn. "Hey, wait, what -are- you searching through...? I don't think it's through... oh please, lord, don't tell me we're going to the pen... DUMMY! GET AWAY FROM THERE! TURN! STARBOARD! PORT! AFT! NOT FORWARD!"
Tony Stark Once Ziggy actually calls him by his /name/, of course, Dummy rolls to a stop and 'looks' back at him by way of an inquisitive looking arm wave and a chirp of inquiry. He's pretty sure he saw some eggs down there. Or were they just meteorite bits?
Pepper Potts     "The baby doesn't need a suit, Tony, and neither does the cat. /Especially/ not the cat." Pepper points out, and Georgia siddles up to Tony playfully. "Oh, you would make it very, very hard Tony, but trust me, Marty has something very, very important that you don't..."

    Marty, atypically quiet, is turning a little red at where the conversation is going.

    There was lots of ooginess on their vacation. Lots and lots of ooginess.
    Liza happily follows Toph around, tottling after her with rocks, eggs, and grass in her basket.
Ziggy Grover "You have -got- to be kidding me," Ziggy mutters, as he cautiously approaches, looking closer. "They can't be crazy enough to hide eggs near -that- pen. I mean, think of the children! Why wouldn't they think of the children?! Dum, somewhere else. Anywhere else."
Toph Beifong     It takes some bending, but Toph gets the water tank open and reaches into it, grinning when she finds an egg inside. "Nice try, Goldie," she says, then places the egg in Liz' hands. "Okay, I can't see many more eggs around here..." Though she wonders why the crud Ziggy and Dummy went down to the chocobo pen? With that she sighs and raises her voice. "You didn't hide any of the eggs in the pen, did you?" Stop being oogie for a moment, Tony. You and Pepper got to be oogie for three weeks on your own! "Dummy led Spaz Lord down there!" Ziggy should know better than to head into the chocobo pen, right? RIGHT? He got to meet Cuddles at her birthday party, so...
Tony Stark "What's he got that I ain't got?" Tony demands loudly, shooting Marty a look that is simultaneously challenging and yet, somehow, self-deprecating. He'll let Georgia get a zinger on him here, but only because he likes Martin.

Dummy wobbles his arm in what might be construed as a shrug, and reverses course, rolling away from the chocobo pen. His sensors pick up something shiny in the grass on the way and he scoops it up triumphantly, but it's just a sparkly rock. Possibly a space rock.

"No eggs in the chocobo pen," Tony confirms. "And hey, at least admit I confused you for a minute there."
Pepper Potts "A sense of humility. It's really quite charming." Gerogie states.

    "Egg!" Liza grins, putting the egg in her basket, and then she glances up, and then glances to Ziggy and Dummy. "Eggy!" she cries out, and takes off with that superspeed known only to Toddlers who are in certain danger -- it's how they inevitably end up in the darkest part of the forest with no way those ridiculously dangerous animals around them could have caught them. "Eggy Eggy Eggy!" Liza calls out, going towards the chocobo pen. "Chikken!"

    "... just what /is/ a chocobo?" Marty asks, turning to Tony.
Toph Beifong     Uh oh! As Toph is heading off, she is used to Liz following her around all the time whenever they're together. So at first she's not too worried when the toddler goes the other way. But when Liz heads off towards the chocobo pen?

    oph's eyes widen in horror, and she rushes after Liz. "LIZZIE! The chicken is angry!" At least one of them is, and she doubts that the war chocobo is used to toddlers! "ZIGGY!" He's closer, so hopefully he can grab her before she gets into the pen! But even so, Toph will kick in to the ground and form a slide that shoots up from the ground, meant to slide Lizzie back towards her.
Ziggy Grover "What did you find, Dum...?" Ziggy asks, coming up as he approaches the... thing. Um. Cautiously looking at it, Ziggy just scoops it up in the basket without even trying to touch it. Because while he was fairly sure it wasn't an egg, it was... something shiny.

His 'name' being called out, it takes Ziggy a while to realize that there was a little girl coming. "Hey, Liz, get back here...!" he calls out, running over to try and scoop her up and get away from the pen.
Tony Stark "Uh," Tony's brow furrows slightly as he sees Liza tearing ass toward danger. "Picture an ostrich. Only bigger. And redder. And you can ride them. Although, mine can be a real b..."

He raises his voice suddenly to shout, "Yo, head off the squirt!" to Toph and Ziggy. Not Dummy though. He expects Dummy to continue being useless. Oh good, Toph is already on the case. He's not too worried.

"Kind of like a horse," he continues his explanation to Marty. "Only, you know, a giant bird. Don't worry, there's no way she can reach the pen before they stop her."
Pepper Potts     "Liza! Elizabeth!" Georgie was already enroute, Marty looking a little unquieted by the notion of a large, angry, meat-eating horse-bird... and then Liza is snatched up by Iggy. She pause,s surprised at being picked up, and then she gives a smile, reaches up and reaches behind Ziggy's ear and attempts to produce a coin... and then pauses when a coin doesn't appear, and tilts her head, trying to search Ziggy's hair for a coin.
Tony Stark Tony didn't say anything about meat-eating. Man, the imaginations of these people. At any rate he relaxes a bit when he sees Liza safely scooped up. "See?" he remarks to Martin. He told him it would be fine. And in any case it'd be hard for her to actually get INTO the pen, as she's not kitty-sized to slip under the fence or big enough to climb over it. "I'll take you riding sometime," he offers, slapping the other man on the back. "Lizzie may need to wait a few years though." Maybe he'll get her a nice pony for her birthday.
Ziggy Grover "Uh.... oh." Reaching for Liza's hand, Ziggy helps her raid his hair, managing to slip another coin into her hand that she can find among the locks. "Oh look, nice job...!" he says, smiling. "Come on, let's get you back..."

With her dropped off, safely, Ziggy takes a moment to hand Tony the basket. "Found something in there I don't want to touch."
Toph Beifong     Whew, he got her! Toph looks relieved, switching her basket to one arm. "Nice grabbing there!" Yeah, they will have to teach Liz that the chocobos can be dangerous. They might not eat meat, but Cuddles is one territorial bitch-bird for sure.

    When Liz reaches up behind Ziggy's ear though...? Toph can't help but snicker. "Only he can do that, Lizzie..." And then she asides to Ziggy as they head off to deliver Liz back to her parents. "You should show her your shadow puppets after we're done finding all the eggs. And that's no egg, that's fool's gold. Lots of it around the beach," she informs him.
Tony Stark Tony glances in the basket to see what his robotic prodigy has acquired. A couple of plastic eggs, a badly cracked hardboiled one, and... a rock. He takes it out and turns it around bemusedly in his fingers. "It's a rock," he informs Ziggy, before tossing it lightly to him. "Probably a chunk of meteorite. They're all over the ground over there. What'd you think it was, shiny chocobo poop?"
Ziggy Grover "Fossilized poop?" Ziggy retorts. "I've seen weirder things, like the dinosaur poop collection Fresno Bob had."
Toph Beifong     "Wait... you know somebody who collects /old poop/?" Toph asks Ziggy, arching an eyebrow.
Tony Stark "You know somebody named /Fresno Bob/?" Tony is more interested in knowing. (You know what they did to Bob, huh?)