[ The Ingress that spits Pepper out sits on top of a hill; not a very tall one, but unfortunately rather steep and rocky. She barely has time to properly comprehend what's happening to her when she looses her already precarious footing and tumbles down the hillside on a startled cry. She rolls down several feet, stones and little shrubs scraping and pummeling at her before coming to a stop at the foot of the hill, curling in on herself and groaning in pain. She's not sure how long she just lays there, trying to draw air knocked out of her on impact back into her lungs.
Gingerly, she eventually straightens her aching limbs, opening her eyes to take a look around... but everything is blurry, her vision swimming. Did she hit her head? She touches her stinging temple with shaky fingers, the tips coming back bloody. Fantastic. She squints as she takes another look at her surroundings, but her eyesight doesn't sharpen in the least. Everything further than few feet away is out of focus, blurry shapes on an equally blurry canvas.
Are those shapes in the distance people? After a moment of hesitation, she takes the risk. ]
Hey...! [ It comes out barely as a croak. Coughing, she pushes herself up on her hands and calls out louder this time. ] Hello!
2. introductions aren’t awkward
[ Pepper has no words for this. She's still half-convinced she's dreaming, standing around almost numbly in her rumpled and torn business attire, previously neat ponytail ruffled and a smear of blood drying at her temple. Most of these people seem to know what they're doing, going this way and that; assisting others, gathering supplies. Alien planet? Spaceship crash? Seriously? On top of it all, her eyes aren't working like they should for some reason, already tiring from all the useless squinting she's doing in effort to see properly. Breathing a shuddering sigh, she brings both hands up to her face to rub at her closed eyes. ]
Pepper Potts | MCU
1. dealer's choice
[ The Ingress that spits Pepper out sits on top of a hill; not a very tall one, but unfortunately rather steep and rocky. She barely has time to properly comprehend what's happening to her when she looses her already precarious footing and tumbles down the hillside on a startled cry. She rolls down several feet, stones and little shrubs scraping and pummeling at her before coming to a stop at the foot of the hill, curling in on herself and groaning in pain. She's not sure how long she just lays there, trying to draw air knocked out of her on impact back into her lungs.
Gingerly, she eventually straightens her aching limbs, opening her eyes to take a look around... but everything is blurry, her vision swimming. Did she hit her head? She touches her stinging temple with shaky fingers, the tips coming back bloody. Fantastic. She squints as she takes another look at her surroundings, but her eyesight doesn't sharpen in the least. Everything further than few feet away is out of focus, blurry shapes on an equally blurry canvas.
Are those shapes in the distance people? After a moment of hesitation, she takes the risk. ]
Hey...! [ It comes out barely as a croak. Coughing, she pushes herself up on her hands and calls out louder this time. ] Hello!
2. introductions aren’t awkward
[ Pepper has no words for this. She's still half-convinced she's dreaming, standing around almost numbly in her rumpled and torn business attire, previously neat ponytail ruffled and a smear of blood drying at her temple. Most of these people seem to know what they're doing, going this way and that; assisting others, gathering supplies. Alien planet? Spaceship crash? Seriously? On top of it all, her eyes aren't working like they should for some reason, already tiring from all the useless squinting she's doing in effort to see properly. Breathing a shuddering sigh, she brings both hands up to her face to rub at her closed eyes. ]
This is not how I pictured this day would go.