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The Park, Friday Morning

Since he presumably hadn't seen Ben since sometime last week, Tony felt the need to embarrass himself by inviting the guy along for his morning run.

How did so many people do this so easily? It was cruel.

Luckily for him, they stopped halfway through the park in order for Tony drink something. And to catch his breath before he passed out from whining too much while running. He needed that oxygen for precious muscle functions!

[[For the Jedi, but open as a park is!]]

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Ben was being nice and not telling Tony this was his second run of the day. The guy was feeling out of shape enough as it was.

"If you bend over a bit, it might help," Ben offered. Helpfully.

BECAUSE BEN WAS A WEIRDO. AN IN SHAPE WEIRDO.

"I'm good!" Tony insisted, possibly bending forward just a tiny bit.

"Sure you are," Ben said reassuringly.

It should be noted Ben wasn't really even breathing hard. The bastard.

"You and Mr. Rogers," Tony whined. "Is this some weird blond thing?"

"What, being able to run a hundred feet without getting winded?" Ben snickered. "Ender can do it too."

Tony just groaned in response. "You're all weird."

WHO FIGHTS CRIME WITHOUT A SUPER SUIT OR POWERS ANYWAY?

"Maybe we just get chased more often," Ben said with a grin.

"...true." That would change soon enough. Now that he was breathing normally again, Tony was going to give more than a passing thought to that strange turtle by the bushes staring at them. "This place has the weirdest animals."

Ben looked at the turtle...thing. "Is that what happens when the ducks get really adventurous with turtles?" he asked in an undertone. "Because ew."

Tony made a face. "That wasn't something I needed to think about."

The turtle-duck-thing flapped it's wings, slowly making it's way over to them in a way that was probably easily avoidable.

"It's kind of cute," offered the boy whose only pet had been a giant bug that tried to kill him.

Oh, Ben.

"Is it normal for here?" A beat. "I mean, as normal as those blue deer."

Which weren't normal at all.

"I've never seen one before," Ben said. "Maybe it's lost?"

Tony gave that some thought as it slowly made it's way closer. "We could take it to the pet shop or something maybe?" That would so work.

"That sounds like a good idea," Ben said. It was a duck/turtle! How scary could it be, really? Neither of those animals even had teeth!

Just to be on the safe side, Tony picked up a nice stick to give it a prod with. Because he wasn't carrying his suit around with him, you know.

"Think it's like the squirrels maybe?" Tony asked, giving it a prod. As soon as the stick touched it, Tony jerked back as if electrocuted and promptly disappeared from sight.

Ben's eyes went about as big as they could go. "Tony? TONY?"

He glared at the duckturtle. "Where'd he go?"

If this turned into another labyrinth thing, Ben was going to have himself a wee breakdown.

After Tony found himself inexplicably in the lobby of the dorms, he did the smart thing and dialed Ben's number. Instead of running back to the park.

"Skywalker," Ben replied, sounding a little freaked out as he backed slowly away from the duckturtle.

"So, I'm in the dorms." Tony tried poking a chair with the stick just to make sure. "I thought this kind of thing only happened at that bar in town."

"And there you end up in the pond, I hear," Ben said. "That is really, really weird. I guess the turtleduck really wants to stay where it is?"

"...so, it's a magical, teleporting turtle-duck."

How he longed for the days his life made sense.

"Does it only take people to the dorms? That seems kind of useless to people who live in town. Or does it know where we all live?"

Yes, Ben it's a flying, stalking magical teleporting turtleduck.

It also watched you sleep, Ben. In the most romantic manner possible.

"Well, we wouldn't know unless we tried to get someone from town to poke the turtle-duck," Tony replied reasonably.

"Ooooh," Ben said, even though that probably shouldn't have been a suggestion. "Are you taking this as an excuse not to jog any more?"

"...no." Totally was. "This is for science, Ben."

"...does that mean I have to touch it and see if I end up in the dorms too?" Ben asked.

"Well, that would be ideal, yes." A beat. "Unless you can get someone else to touch it."

Touch the turtle-duck! Touch it!

"I don't see anyone else around," Ben complained. "Fine. Come here, little turtle-duck..."

This was going so badly.

"Maybe it doesn't work if it's not looking at you," Tony added helpfully. "Try sneaking up on it!"

"And what, jump on it?" Ben asked, snickering.

"Well, if that works..." FOR SCIENCE.

"This is one of the stupidest things I've ever done," Ben muttered, "and that's saying a lot."

He ran a little way, then jumped up and landed on top of the turtle-duck, whose wings fell off.

"Sithspi-" Ben managed as he fell off the thing, then the turtle-duck touched him and he was next to Tony in the dorm lobby.

"Well, that didn't really work."

"Whoa." Tony poked him with the stick. Just to make sure. "But it proved you'd come here!"

"Ow," Ben said, poking him back with his finger. "Let's go back and see if we find any other weird stuff!"

Self-preservation: not a Skywalker trait.

"Can we stop by the lab first?" Tony asked brightly. Oh god, where was Ender to save them from their own stupidity?

"Sure!" Ben said happily.

And wasn't Tony just so lucky that Bobby's own morning run ~~was strangely much less handwavey than usual~~ happened to coincide with his today?

"Hey," he jogged over, having spotted him and Ben. "Didn't think you were the... running type." Ben, yes. Tony? Not so much.

Although to be fair, Bobby didn't really seem like the 'running type' at first glance either.

[SOOOOO MUCH SP.]

"Blame Mr. Rogers," Tony whined, waving his hand in a way that could have passed as a shadow puppet animal.

Not the one with the sweater vests. The one with the bitchin' shield.

Ben gave Bobby a quick wave. "Hey!"

Bobby was not going to laugh at Tony's misfortune. Really. "I'm suddenly glad I'm not his TA if this is what it involves," he remarked.

It was Home Ec! Home Ec!

"No, I asked him for help training." A beat. "And I'm pretty sure Ben isn't human."

Yeah, that was a suspicious look he was giving you, Ben. Deal with it.

"I'm Jedi," Ben said, examining his fingernails and looking a little smug. "Besides, I've been running since I was 10."

Jacen had weird ideas of fun even before he'd turned Sith.

"And you probably enjoy it," Bobby shook his head at Ben.

"He does," Tony replied grumpily. "I swear, everyone here is some kind of weird fitness robot."

At least they weren't Ultron?

Ben reached out to poke him. "I'm not a robot. Tell Bobby about the turtle-ducks!"

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