Avengers assemble!

"Alright," said Maria Hill, looking around the Stark HQ meeting room. "Ladies and... ladies, we have a situation."

Her eyes passed from one woman to the next. Captain Marvel. The Scarlet Witch. The Black Widow. The Wasp. Nebula. Even Pepper Potts, fiddling with one of Tony's old trinkets in the corner. Some of the most formidable and dangerous women in the world. Together, they should be able to handle anything.

Almost anything.

"Pepper," she said. "You want to take it from here?"

Pepper sighed.

"This is just like him," she said. "I don't know what I expected. He used to play pranks like this all the time, with nanobots and things..."

"This is more than just a prank, Pepper."

"Right. Well, the good news is, the effect doesn't seem to have impacted everyone equally. For most women, it won't be permanent."

"By the effect, you mean..."

"We gave Tony the power of a god. He could reshape the universe any way he wished. Of course he was going to use it to undress beautiful women. By our estimates, at least fifteen million people across the world suddenly found themselves completely naked."

"Including us," said Nebula, shooting a furious glance at Pepper. She had no clothes on, and she didn't look happy about it. Pepper shrugged. She was equally naked, and she wasn't loving it either.

"Including us," she said. "The effect was concentrated in America, especially New York City, though we've gotten reports from across the globe. It seemed to focus on women in public places, where it would be especially awkward to find yourself suddenly stripped. There are theatres in London where almost every female in the building was denuded and malls in Tokyo where only one or two shoppers were undressed. Most of them found they could put clothes back on after an hour or two."

"So how come we can't?"

"Well, we're not alone. At least a million beautiful women around the globe seem to be trapped in a state of permanent nudity. Of course they still have to go out and do all the things they'd do in the course of their ordinary life, completely nude. You can imagine how they feel about that."

"Wait, why can't they just stay at home or something?"

"Tony seems to have rewritten the rules of the universe so that's not a possibility. They don't seem to get cold or hurt their feet or anything like that, but they also don't seem to ever get used to their nudity. It's still as embarrassing to go to work naked as it was on the first day, no matter how often they do it. We're still trying to figure out the details."

"We're also seeing a massive uptick in embarrassing accidents," Maria put in. "Skirts blowing up, pants falling down, bikinis coming undone, the whole thing. It's like Tony redesigned the whole world to make it revolve around girls losing their clothes."

"He's history's greatest monster!"

"He must be destroyed!"

"Wait, how long has SHIELD tracked embarrassing accidents?"

"That's not important right now," said Pepper. "The point is, the ranks of the permanude includes everybody Tony personally knew. The closer you came to him, the more likely you are to be stuck this way. I'm told the Dora Milaje of Wakanda, the king's personal bodyguard, are all walking around naked now, which is awkward when they have to escort him to the UN. And that's just the tip of the iceberg."

"So what do we do about it?" snapped Nebula, one arm folded across her breasts, the other pressed between her blue thighs. The only other people in the room were as naked as she was, but that didn't seem to make her any less comfortable. "I won't go around this way forever, just because the whim of some... man! I demand a solution! Surely, there must be some way to undo it!"

"Well, normally, I'd say no." Pepper set Tony's trinket down on the table and pressed a couple of buttons on it. "The power of the Infinity Gauntlet can't be undone by any normal means. But there's one slim ray of hope. Tony's not a villain, not at heart. He wouldn't leave us like this if we didn't have a fighting chance."

"What's that?"

"It's a message. Tony's last."

She stepped back as beams of light shot from the trinket. The Scarlet Witch jumped, and the Wasp gasped, as a giant hologram of Tony Stark's head filled the room, winking and grinning at all the assembled heroines. "Hi, girls," it said. "Looking good. Nice tits, Nebula. No, you can't kill me, I'm just a..."

A chair flew across the room, from Nebula's hands right through Tony's forehead. "A hologram," it continued. "So I bet you're wondering why you're all stuck naked and embarrassed, huh?"

"I will destroy everything you ever stood for, you..."

"Yes, Tony," said Pepper evenly, stepping in front of Nebula. "We are wondering that, in fact. Would you like to explain?"

"Wait," said the Scarlet Witch. "Can he see us?"

"Sure I can see you, doll. I may just be an AI copy of Tony Stark's baser instincts, but I can still tell you're looking fine."

"Eeek! Turn it off!"

"Anyway, I thought I deserved a little reward for, you know, saving the entire world. Just made everything a little bit more like I always thought it should be. Can't begrudge me that."

"We definitely can."

"But I'm a sweetheart. I left you a way out. All you have to do is find the five mystical garments I've scattered across the universe. Bra, panties, top, skirt and shoes. All mystical. Shouldn't be so hard."

"Are you serious? Five mystical garments?"

"Be a fun little adventure for you. Fun little naked adventure."

"But... but where do we even start?"

"Oh, don't worry. I'll give you all the hints you need. Once you've passed my first test."

"First... test?"

"You just have to complete a few challenges. Shouldn't be so hard. Nebula, you're going first."

"I will do no such thing, Stark," said Nebula. "I will hunt you to the ends of the earth, and there I will obliterate you utterly."

"Put your hands on your head, twirl around and read the words I'm projecting."

"There is no possible universe in which that could ever happen."

"So you're staying naked forever, huh? Interesting choice."

Nebula gritted her teeth. "I hate you, Stark. I think I hate you more than anyone has ever hated anything."

"I know. That's what makes this so fun."

"I will have vengeance for this!"

"You can't. I'm dead."

With an expression of intense frustration, cheeks burning a purpler shade of blue, Nebula put her hands on her head and executed a slow twirl, exposing every inch of her beautiful bare body to the Stark hologram. "Tony Stark is the greatest genius of all time," she spat, reading off the holographic script projected in midair, "and I love being naked for him. I'm a naughty little space slut and I want Tony Stark to spank my perky blue bottom. Is that enough, you void-blasted pervert?"

"It's a start. Uploading to Youtube now..."

"Wait, what?"

"Did I not mention this room is wired, and you're all on camera? Smile, ladies! Now, what else can I have you do..."