Mobile - The Raft - Isolation Room (January 2018)

[Hollywood Heidi]

Isolation Room inside The Raft

One of the isolation rooms inside the Raft, a prison located on the ocean and created for the sole purpose of detaining and incarcerating enhanced individuals. It has the ability to float on the water or become completely submerged.

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Exterior and other interior Raft areas

[DarkSideCookie]

*** Tony and Gamora enter from the cells ***


Tony remained unusually silent for the whole while the guard was leading them towards a room where they would be able to talk in private. In private, Tony repeated inwardly yet emphatically when it seemed like the guard was going to wait inside. With a slight nod, although reluctantly, the man left them alone and positioned himself outside of the door instead.

"Guess this will be by the hour, not by the night," Tony joked in his usual dry way, yet when he noticed Gamora wasn't showing the slightest hint of amusement - probably no sense of humor -, he added more seriously: "Okay, let's get this over with." With one deep sigh, as if this was already his first step into hell, he leaned back in his seat across from her, raising one of his hands to his mouth while the elbow leaned on the back of his other.

[Ariel]

Silence filled the halls as the guards walked them away from civilians and other officers to a more secluded part of the place they had been brought to. Gamora didn't bother to look back at Tony, as she felt a surge of guilt for singling him out. He seemed to take control and lead the other Avengers. She had analyzed his qualities and skills within the little time they knew each other. He seemed the most trusting out of the others to take what she would have to confess and do something productive with it. Gamora didn't want to cost anyone their life, but at this point trying to escape this place was next to impossible. And they had made it this far after all, she owed it to Peter not to die. She didn't want to break that promise if she didn't have to.

Escorted into a polished, quiet room the guard retreated to assume his post at the doorway. Gamora turned her distressed gaze to Tony, who was now standing right before her.

"Guess this will be by the hour, not by the night," 

Tony appeared to have said something that made him look amused, yet Gamora wasn't sure what his words even meant. Was he trying to tell a joke? She stared at him blankly until more words came out of his mouth.

"Okay, let's get this over with."

Gamora exhaled, allowing her tense shoulders to fall down her back. Anxiety ate away at her stomach, yet she did not want to waste Tony's precious time. "Thanos doesn't know that I know where the Soul Stone is. He had sent my siblings and I out many times to retrieve the stones for him. We were hardly ever successful. That was, until I found the map to Vormir," Gamora confessed, looking Tony directly onward as she explained herself, "I burned the map so that he could never find it and succeed, but I remember the coordinates. I don't regret doing what I did, but undermining my father was a terrible mistake that could cost us our lives when he comes looking for me." Gamora was fearful, especially now she had allowed another to know what she knew. She wanted to say 'if he comes looking for me' more than anything. But with his determination, she knew it was now a matter of 'when.'

[DarkSideCookie]

Yah, no sense of humor, Tony analyzed again, watching Gamora in silence as she made a face as if someone had just scarfed down the very last donut on earth right in front of her. This really must be bad news. For a moment, Tony wondered if he could still duck out but guessed it was too late, especially when she was taking another deep breath to do as she was told: getting this over with. Knowing that this was not the right time, he tried to banish the sudden thought of donuts - the servants, well, guards, probably wouldn't be willing to get him some anyway. Uh, what a shame, though. Back at the time when Pepper had been his assistant, there always were a lot of donuts. And hamburgers as well. And now there even was no Pepper. Okay, Tony, concentrate. This is important.

"... until I found the map to Vormir,""I burned the map so that he could never find it and succeed, but I remember the coordinates. I don't regret doing what I did, but undermining my father was a terrible mistake that could cost us our lives when he comes looking for me."

Tony looked up in anticipation, waiting for her to go on with any information about where the map was leading to, but then he guessed that he must have missed the beginning of the conversation. Well, being a genius, he was able to talk his way out of this moment of abstraction. With confidence in his voice, Tony made a conclusion by using only the little details he got. "So, all we gotta do is finding it first then. This... ..." He made a face as if to silently ask her to help him out with the difficult alien name of an object he, in truth, wasn't able to pronounce just because he hadn't heard it in the first place.

[Ariel]

"So, all we gotta do is finding it first then. This... ..."

"..Vormir. Yes. I don't know how to acquire the stone once we're there, but at this point I understand we're running out of both time and options. Tony," Gamora finished Tony's sentence as he appeared to be having a hard time remembering the unearthly name. She took note of the confidence that was visible in his voice, as if the task could be simple. Though, Gamora knew that this situation could turn into a big, dangerous game of cat and mouse. She wished it would be as easy as simply finding Vormir and retrieving the stone. Yet something tugged at her insides heavily, and she feared of the unknown outcome, "I want to warn you that my father could have eyes and ears in the corner of every planet by now. Any move we make in that direction, Thanos is going to find out. He is not to be underestimated." Gamora forewarned, for she knew that they were wading in dangerous waters and she could only hope Tony could brace himself for what they were about to deal with.

[DarkSideCookie]

"..Vormir. Yes. I don't know how to acquire the stone once we're there, but at this point I understand we're running out of both time and options. Tony,"

The stone? Oh, okay. So they were talking about acquiring some kind of stone before this Thanos figure could. One of these infinity stones they had been talking about before, Tony guessed. Yeah, that makes more sense now.

"I want to warn you that my father could have eyes and ears in the corner of every planet by now. Any move we make in that direction, Thanos is going to find out. He is not to be underestimated."

"And I take it there's no way to just calm daddy down?" Tony eventually asked after a short pause of silence, actually only to say anything at all. This seemed to be even too big for the Avengers. Other planets? Damn, they had only managed to take care of a handful of terrorists and maniacs coming down here, and now they had to head there themselves? But this probably was no question of being ready or not. Right now, however, they had another problem coming first, maybe one smaller than a giant from outer space, about to eliminate half of the whole universe, yet still a problem. "Well, okay, guess we gotta share at least a little bit of this story with these people," Tony gestured around before continuing, "otherwise this Thanos will have a save head start for sure."

[Ariel]

"And I take it there's no way to just calm daddy down?"

Gamora's eyes were filled with dread as she slowly shook her head. She had never felt so helpless in her whole life. Though, she had come too far to surrender herself to Thanos now. Besides, she loved Peter but knew that if she were to comply with what her father wanted, that her love would just come after him harder. Out of all the beings in the galaxy, she knew she couldn't risk losing Peter, but she knew that surrender was not the answer. She needed to humble herself and ask for help, something she wasn't particularly good at doing.

"Well, okay, guess we gotta share at least a little bit of this story with these people," "otherwise this Thanos will have a save head start for sure."

"Tony, the reason why I came to you is not only because I trust you to do the right thing with the information given. But also because I've been observing you. I cannot explain it, but you have a way with people that I simply do not. Your people," Gamora tried her best to find her words while she made her case. He was a leader, and an intelligent human at that, "I can help with what is needed, but if there's anyone that can persuade these officials with a plan that will work - it's you." 

[DarkSideCookie]

"Tony, the reason why I came to you is not only because I trust you to do the right thing with the information given. But also because I've been observing you. I cannot explain it, but you have a way with people that I simply do not. Your people,"

At first, he made a face as if he was nothing but feeling flattered in a very Tony way, but then he reminded himself of their dilemma, forcing himself to focus on the more relevant information in her words.

"I can help with what is needed, but if there's anyone that can persuade these officials with a plan that will work - it's you."

There was still this smug on his face as Gamora kept on praising him in some way - or maybe it was what a Stark usually was hearing in any statement, so that, when it was truly meant that way, a Stark would, under no circumstances, not react to that. However, the woman sitting across from him seemed to be not well-provided with a sense of humor, so he actually refrained from any comment to that for once. "Okay, leave that part to me," Tony promised with a slight nod of his head before he added more casually: "Shall we head back to the others? They got free house long enough, I say." Except for maybe Bruce, although that guy seemed to be a little stressed out lately, he really was seeing himself and Gamora as the most constructive-minded persons around.

[Ariel]

"Okay, leave that part to me," "Shall we head back to the others? They got free house long enough, I say."

Gamora nodded in agreement, wasting no time. Her hand balling into a tight fist, she banged the door of the isolation room loudly a couple of times to signal to the guards outside that their meeting was complete. Gamora trusted Tony to handle the situation accordingly, though she only wished that she had more faith in what was about to unfold. More importantly, she wished she had more faith in herself to know that it was the right choice. The door swung open, and Gamora and Tony met the guards with the restraints once more as they were escorted out of the room.

*** Gamora and Tony exit ***