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The Crawl.

"Where are we going?" Steve asked with a little bit of exasperation mixed in his voice. His blonde guide spared him a brown eyed glance and shrugged. Steve had the dawning realization that she had no idea where to go, though something nagged at his gut instinct. "Where did you go earlier?"

Rose's eyebrows shot up in surprise. She had a really pretty, expressive face in a homely kind of way. If she removed the heavy cake of make up, he had the impression she would look quite the lovely woman. Her voice didn't waver even as they were running. "I guess the transmat really did a job on your head" Reeling, the super-soldier blinked. "You're experiencing lapses of memory aren't you? That's easily fixed with a good night's rest, don't worry about it" A pale hand was waved, as if she expected him to forgo his worries. Then she continued. "I was scouting around through the ventilation tunnels, I think I might have found where they're keeping your friends"

Instantly, the captain's face cleared. "Then let us go search for them!"

Rose shook her head, coming to a stop and forcing the running man to stumble. He reeled when he realized that his face was quite close with hers, though she had a nasty scowl on her face. "That won't solve anything! We escape, they will only grow more relentless. We have to find a way to stop this plan of theirs" Thinking about her words, the captain's eyes narrowed.

"If they brought us here so easily the first time…"

"What's stopping them from doing again?" Rose finished his thought with a glint in her eyes that bode misery to these insects. "So we hafta find what is going on and put a wrench in it, yeah?"

Feeling light headed, Steve nodded. Then his inner soldier came up and his posture straightened. He'd trust Rose for now since she's been sound and helpful with her ideas and kept them alive long enough – but the moment he realized his friends were in direr danger, he'd act on his own.

Tony's disguised Iron Man suit never felt so heavy. He hoped his friend would hang on well enough until he and Rose could come to them.

"Where do we go from here?" His voice sounded surer as his confidence grew. Seeing this change, Rose smiled a dimpled smile that would have made him blush embarrassedly in another situation – as it was, he allowed himself a moment to smile back to the blonde.

Looking around at the endless corridor in front of them, Rose's eyes swung upwards. Getting her drift, Steve only nodded resolutely. "To the air vents, help me up!" It took a really large amount of discipline not to stare up at Rose' shapely bum… it didn't help that she was wearing tight leather pants so he forced his eyes to watch where her booted feet leveled on his crossed hands so she could jump up the vent.

Heaving and pushing, the blonde woman disappeared up the ceiling. He heard scruffs noise and then a familiar hand was down. Grabbing that hand, Steve felt remotely impressed by her strength as she pulled him after her with a straining groan. Scooting a pace back, Rose fixed the vent's grill as to not call attention.

"Don't follow me too closely, our weight my collapse the whole thing" She pointed out sensibly. Steve nodded once again in agreement, nose wrinkling at the dusty, grimy ducts in front of them. "Real charming, isn't it? When I put my hands on that man…" His friend mumbled under her breath.

Feeling sorry for whoever man she was talking about, Steve and Rose prowled forward… And so the pair started an epic crawl through an Argorian Ship air vent.

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