Stark was furiously working his screen while dressed to the nines in his standard multirole Iron Man suit. The other Avengers in a prepared but not overly tense state given the length of time it had been, mostly gathered around a cribbage set on a table. "Bingo. Managed to track their trail, it took awhile thanks to Jarvis being out of commission but thanks to some satellites and recordings on the internet, it looks like the thief ran to... Ohio?" His tone took on a very confused note at the last word as his head tilted.
Thor was on his feet, readying his hammer for glorious action and freedom from his impending loss of the cribbage. "Let us be off then, what lurks in this dread "Ohio" where the villain absconded to?" Pictures of potential dread breasts and villainous curs that called the ominously named land home flashing through his head.
"Well in Ohio there's..." Rogers started with finger raising before stopping and thinking, turning to the
newer United States citizens. "What's in Ohio these days?"
"There's uhm, well.." "Well, I mean there's.." Natasha and Clint started together, starting and considering before faltering, confused and unable to name anything.
"There's nothing there." Volunteered Bruce with his own confused expression as to why some thief would hide out in
Ohio of all places. "There's basically little towns with nothing else. Right? I've been out of the country for awhile,
is there something else there?"
"There's my
damn suit and the CRADLE in Ohio, that's what's there. Let's get to it team!" Stark snapped, angry about yet more theft of his property and Jarvis being down for now. Whoever stole
his stuff and seemingly wrecked his most faithful companion was going to learn a valuable lesson in
not messing with his stuff!
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Oooh tough choice.
[] Germany, Mecca of Automatization
Pros very obvious, high tech, easy pickings for super advanced robot, easy making an army, easy access to internet. Cons, easier ways for SHIELD and their own government to track us with a large population and lots of handheld phones these days. We'd need to move quick to grab power in ways not entirely stealthy probably. Not my favorite.
[] Hong Kong, Slum of the World
Advanced tech still, lots of people, but far less organized and far less capable of keeping track of everything in it. We could more easily slip into the shadows.. but has issue of people already in those shadows who might not be positive to a new, AI player in them. Like the Ten Rings.
[] Ruanda, a Nation abandoned
Poor tech, poor people, probably nobody up to facing against a AI in a supersuit and easy to recruit minions if we can get some cash. Word might spread about us but it'd take a while to get anywhere that the Avengers could hear it.
Nothing.
Not really sure I have a direction I wanna go, they could all.. *looks at Ohio*
most of them could be interesting places to be.