Prompt Ficlets and an announcement

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So, here are a few ficlets I did for oddwildflowersand crimsonquills
Self Promotion: Check out my meme and leave me a prompt!
Author: runenklinge
Title: Villains for oddwildflowers
Disclaimer: Marvel Property
Prompt: Um, how about Sentient Armour and/or Tony and/or Cap? (am I being greedy? :D), in a universe where the good are evil, and evil good. Optional prompt: 'It doesn't work that way.' 

Tony was a supervillain; swift, deadly and without any mercy. He was cruel, vicious, a true tyrant. He had truly earned his "Man with a heart of steel"-reputation by the vilest crimes ever performed.

But then, they had found Steven in the ice. Steven, or better known as Commander America, had been a scourge of Europe during the last World War. He had been presumed dead after missing for years and the world had been glad to be rid of that monster.

Tony had decided to revive him, to make him his servant and use him. But his own arrogance and self-confidence had blinded him from the truth: Steven was more ruthlessly, more cruel, more evil than him. His tool had surpassed him and taken over his empire.
Steven had only left him alive to gloat. He had destroyed the armor on international television, claiming the Stark Empire as his own now.
Tony was a captive and spent his time plotting his revenge. There had to be some way out!

Steven´s gloating-visits were never that long; he couldn´t spare too much time and had to stay alarmed. But recently, he lingered longer and longer.
Of course Tony had immediately recognized the reason: lust.
Why not? Tony was incredibly handsome, intelligent and so evil - no wonder Steven was attracted to him.
An evil smile curled around Steven´s lips the next time when he entered Tony´s prison - a skyscraper which security measures were only second to the one of Steven´s headquarter.
There was a chance of 3.2% that Tony might find a way to escape his captivity during or after a nocturnal encounter of this sort.

"It doesn´t work that way!" Tony protested as Steven tied him to the bed.
0.15% - Tony was no escape artist.
The sex was rough but surprisingly Tony found it highly enjoyable. He was writhing with ecstasy.
Steven dropped a bruising kiss to his lips when he left Tony´s room. Tony was too breathless to respond.
Also he was still tied to the headboard.
"Doesn´t matter," Tony thought, "he´ll be back. I just need to be prepared."

His chances did slightly improve the next times, but the right opportunity never arose. Somehow he always stopped thinking at one point and just existed in the moment. But Steven also lost his focus and that would be his downfall.

And then Tony won. He pointed Steven´s own gun at his chest. "I realize that you may have the reflexes of a panther, but at this range this bullet will kill you before you have a chance to dodge it. It seems like I´m in command again."

"So it would seem," Steven admitted through gritted teeth.

"As much as I hate to admit it, you did a fine job ruling my empire," Tony said, "and I have been thinking: I could kill you now, but that would be no fun for me. I could execute you in public, I could imprison you, but what a waste...I was thinking of more...practical things to do with you."
He grinned.
Steven grinned back.
Both thought that the other was a fool, too trusting and that he would regret not having finished this when he had the chance.
"Muahaha" both thought.

Author: runenklinge
Title: New World for crimsonquills
Disclaimer: Marvel Property
Prompt:  Steve and Tony, in a universe where advanced technology (like the armor, computers, etc.) has permanently stopped working for some reason. Doesn't have to be apocalyptic, but it can be if your muses lean that way. :-)

An army of Skrulls had come to conquer Earth, the Kree had come to fight the Skrulls, then decided to conquer Earth as well and then basically everyone fought everyone. The Avengers had barely managed to defeat them with the help of the Fantastic Four, the Inhumans and possibly every superhero (and some villains) they could find. In the end Wanda had warped reality. The big advantage of the aliens was their advanced technology and Wanda made that disappear. No spaceships, no laser guns, no strange morphing-devices....

But Wanda had exhausted herself and had fallen into a not-quite-coma; Dr Strange explained it as a dream from which she had to draw new strength and would not awaken before it was time.

That meant that all advanced technology had ceased working.
It had taken Steve three hours with a crowbar and wrench to pry Tony out of the armor. Tony was - needless to say - shocked (and frightened about a claustrophobic encounter with his armor). Tony had listened to Dr Strange´s explanation as to why technology wasn´t working anymore with a blank expression and then fainted. Reed Richards followed suit.

Now it was two years later and they had adjusted. SHIELD had started to employ more superheroes, Nick Fury retired because "it´s no damn fun without techno-gimmicks anymore" and decided to become a beekeeper. Steve was convinced that Fury´s bees were a highly trained army of insectoid fighters but decided to keep quiet. Fury gave the phrase "to bug" a completely new meaning.
Tony had upgraded his cars at first; one after the other until there was this barrier and technology stopped working. Tony spent a lot of time in his armory, looking at his armors. It broke Steve´s heart to see Tony like this, but there was nothign he could do. Steve was helpless and could only watch as Tony suffered.
But on one day Tony had made a decision: he confronted Dr Strange and told him that he wanted training. Tony´s "I hate magic" attitude had seemed to have vanished.
Strange was puzzled, but then agreed.
The progress had been slow, but steady and soon Tony figured out how to use magic.
He had looked so ricidulously proud as he had come to show Steve his newest spell.
Covered in soot, hair like he played with a outlet (again) and burned clothing. Steve had never realized until then just how much he had missed this look on Tony.
He was grinning like an idiot when Tony conjured up a fireball and accidentally set a tree on fire.
Maybe Tony had finally accepted his new role in this world, maybe magic was his new technology - yeah, and maybe hell had frozen over.

And an announcement:
schmevil´s really busy and won´t be able to post at least until tuesday.
Don´t be confused about the posting order in the end fellow cap_ironmanmembers; I want to compile an Alphabet Post and of course the file.