nextgen_holiday:

The air was warm and the sun was bright making it a perfect day for a cookout to celebrate Labor Day. Classes would start on the 8th (for those going to college they started a week ago) and it was the last chance to kick back and cut loose before hitting the books.

At the Avengers' Mansion in NYC Jarvis and some helpers he managed to rope into helping with the preparations were busy getting the food ready. Tables had been placed out around the pool and the large grill fired up to get nice and hot. Burgers, hot dogs, sausage, ribs, corn on the cob, pasta salad, salad and fruit salad were just some of the food available to eat. Soda, water, fruit juice and other beverages were on ice.

To help get to know each other the Thunderbolts received an invitation to attend.

It was a day of rest and relaxations for those who put their lives on the line for others.

redheadspy:

Natasha called each of the kids, the Avengers, Rhodey and Pepper to let them all know Tony woke up for a brief period and was coherent enough to have a short conversation.

anyastark:

Anya had spent the past week in S.H.I.E.L.D. medical sitting outside the isolation ward where her parents were. Mom was improving and the doctors said they were going to take her off the medication keeping her unconscious in the next day or so. Her healing factor, as slight as it was, was doing its job and she was significantly healed.

Dad was a completely different story. He was stable, but wasn't really making any progress. Anya spent every waking moment searching her father's private computers for information on the nanites inside of him. Unfortunately there were teraflops worth of data to go through and she wasn't any closer to finding the information she needed. It was essential to either upgrade the nanites inside of him and if she couldn't do that, she had to disable them so newer generation nanites could be introduced into his system. If both were active at the same time they could see the other as foreign invaders and destroy each other.

A week of searching and she wasn't any closer to helping her father. She slept when she absolutely couldn't stay awake any longer and she showered when her siblings forced her to take a break. Constant contact with Pepper and Uncle Rhodey was kept and they kept her abreast of what was going on with the company. They had managed to put out the fires and kept things running smoothly for the past week. Today was a board meeting to formally select an acting CEO until her father made a recovery. If he...Anya stopped herself from thinking that. Dad would get better and would be back to running the company again.

When Pepper called her this morning, Anya returned home, showered, put on a suit and headed into the company. Right now she was in Pepper's office and the two women were waiting for Rhodey to show before going into the board meeting. Anya stared at her laptop screen and kept searching through computer files.

nextgen_media:

New York, New York An explosion rocked the usual festive atmosphere of Coney Island today as a car bomb exploded. Caught in the blast was billionaire Tony Stark and his wife Natasha Romanova. The couple had been out and enjoying the afternoon at Coney Island, rumor has it that the location was the site of their first date many years ago, when Mr. Stark’s car exploded. Police and ambulance responded and New York’s famous couple were rushed to an undisclosed hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Stark suffered severe injuries and both are listed in critical condition. Investigation into the cause of the explosion is under underway. CONT ON PAGE 2.

New York, New York Could a new wave of anti-mutant sentiment be spreading through the city and country? An explosion rocked a homeless shelter in Tribeca today. The shelter was engulfed in flames and fire crews arrived on scene. Six people were caught in the blast and are believed to have been volunteers and staff. The cause of the explosion is under investigation, but authorities believe that it may be related to anti-mutant sentiment. The shelter was a popular one with the city’s homeless mutant population. Similar occurrences happened at shelters that are popular with the mutant population in cities such as Miami, Chicago, New Orleans, Atlanta, and San Francisco. CONT ON PAGE 3

New York, New York It seems like New York’s pranksters are at it again. This time the dastardly culprit showed up at an event of Rooftop Films and started throwing crème pies at the attendees. The culprit was dressed in a black outfit, wore a mask and a wide-brimmed hat when he pulled off this caper. During his lobbing of delicious desserts, he culprit was reciting poetry. The exact poem was unidentified along with the identity of the prankster. He disappeared into thin air when he was done. Police would like to talk to anyone who has any information to the identity or whereabouts of this person.