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  1. Avenger Assembled
    "Oh, we've had a lot of these crazy robot-animals show up," said Pablo with a smile. "Nothing you should be worried about, being from Freedom and all, but it was pretty wild! My cousin Charlie, she saw a rattlesnake that was like, glowing silver metal, outside of town! The sheriff came and took it away, though, so I think it's some kind of big government coverup or something. Maybe aliens!" The guy behind the counter called something to Pablo in Spanish about "Hey are you telling customers about aliens again?" "No way!" Pablo called back in English, "It's totally legit! I heard there was one even living in our town!" There was a general sigh at this from the rest of the staff, and at least one made the classical temple-twirl signal of "crazy". "Anyway, if _I_ saw one, I wouldn't tell just anybody." He winked, a suggestive sparkle in his eye. "They'd have to be some very special people. And tip really well, ha-ha! The livestreaming girl was very, uh, pretty," he said, looking at the three women around the table. "Looked pretty touristy, just running up and down the streets with her phone out. We get a lot of tourists around here, you know!" Pablo took this opportunity to place their orders, but the place wasn't very big, he was within easy reach if needed. For her part, Eira was frowning, staring at something neither of the other two could see. "I found the streamer. I do not know her, somebody named Zuumer420. With two Us." Her lip curled in disgust, then her eyes widened as she whispered, "Her English is...idiomatic, and very _stupid_, but she says she is here because of the robots too."
  2. Avenger Assembled
    All right, you two crazy kids - let's have a Notice check for both of you, and a Drive check for you, Veronica.
  3. Avenger Assembled
    Eira cocked her head, watching in what looked like picture-in-picture as VERA placed a call to Kay's personal signature on Rurland's network. "The connection is slow," she commented out loud, frowning. Eventually (after the space of a few seconds) the signal pinged - and on-screen there appeared a familiar face, albeit with the faint blur around the edges that told Dee she was looking at an internal projection rater than a live feed. Kay was sitting in front of a easel in a drafty studio, beret perched on her head, wearing the sensible old clothes and smock of a painter at work. She looked up and gave them both a tight smile. "Angelic, Synapse. It's good to see you. Are we being watched?"
  4. Avenger Assembled
    Eira looked at Pan, eyes unfocused and a little suspicious, but then seemed to brighten. "<Pan, give me some credit,>" she said, switching immediately to Swedish as she smiled. "<It would not be the same trick. I have some sodium polyacrylate in my bag in the changing room...>" She looked down, dangling her feet in the pool, and said, "<But it _would_ mean no one could use the pool until it was cleaned - so perhaps we should finish with it first.>" She slipped off the side into the water, giving Pan an ingenous smile. "<How long can you hold your breath?>" she asked him, hanging onto the side with one hand.
  5. Avenger Assembled
    I can't say that people will do that but they might try to do it! You just gotta expect it. =D
  6. Avenger Assembled
    Ashley was silent for a moment as she looked at the Calliope Summers before her, then she said "I'm going to say a name. I want to see how you react. Mr. Trondheim." It was a name that Ashley knew and that Callie Summers knew, and it was a name she _never_ would have told a male sidekick. Or an author. Fifth grade, tennis whites. A male teacher who didn't understand why a twelve-year-old girl would urgently need to be excused. Who told her mother that afternoon that _she_ was the problem.
  7. Avenger Assembled
    Okay, but you have to be comfortable with us beating up the alternate version of your favorite PC.
  8. Avenger Assembled
    Eira made a little gesture in the air, calling up the details of the autopsy from the unsealed records in Synapse's computer. (It was faster than having her explain them, anyway.) Her simulated image flipped through the pages, then she said, "...this seems unlikely. But that is in Britain, and I am here in America." She tossed the papers aside, where the folder vanished into the electronic ether behind her. "We should call her," she said. "I have her frequency, and I would know if it was her."
  9. Avenger Assembled
    On the outside of the caves, Watchdog took this opportunity to declare "God-f*cking-dammit" before she turned to Macedon. "So, you've got the long-range comm unit," she said, waving at the older man as the refugees around them took in their new world. "We've got a _hell_ of a lot of temporal refugees who we can't just leave wandering the Arizona desert now that they've traveled seventy-five years into the motherf*cking future!" Her voice went up there just a little at the end. "Ashley, it'll be fine," said Judy, putting a hand on her sister's shoulder, her light dying down to reveal a bruised but smiling face. "We did it. We went back there and we made a difference. And you're hurt more than anybody except Legatus," she added, "come on, let me help you. Ah can help anybody who needs it!" she added, raising her voice so everyone could hear, "Ah have a medical kit and Ah can do first aid, set bones, anything y'all need!" She was pale, and a little wobbly herself, but wasn't bleeding or limping visibly the way her battered sister was.
  10. Avenger Assembled
    "Yes, I know who he is. I do not think there is a machine intelligence that does not know about him. Kay was terrified of him," said Eira softly, turning her 'head' to study the image of Headcase with a look of open loathing on her face. "Not back then, but when I knew her." She raised a hand to the corner of the 'screen' (all while her robot body stood still and slack in Dee's living room) and pulled down a still image like a wipe, hiding Headcase behind what appeared to be an image of the two girls together some years earlier, both of them prim and proper with their extended families and obviously posing for the cameras. "She was terrified because of what he did, and because of how he fooled everyone she knew - and her. was the funny little man who had told her parents he could save her life, and then she learned he was a monster who had...used her body and her mind as his own." Eira's face colored in what looked like second-hand anger. "It is why she needed that therapist, so that she could believe that her thoughts were her own, that _she_ was her own, and not just the creation of the man who had made her body. He is still in prison, yes? This has been checked?"
  11. Avenger Assembled
    Once she'd destroyed enough of the drones that they didn't seem to be a problem anymore, Angelic sat on the head of one of the largest statues thereabouts like an overgrown metal pigeon and began looking around. An observer would have seen her methodically looking over the statue where she sat, the nearby statues, and then the broad avenues beneath, peering with an intense, unfocused gaze as if she was measuring every square inch of the scenery. Once she was done, she reached into a compartment inside herself and removed a metal thermos - which she cracked open, stuck a straw in, and held the straw to her mouth as she looked around with wide, white blank eyes.
  12. Avenger Assembled
    When Paradigm had left, Angelic shot a look at her group, perched on a nearby decorative obelisk like a metal gargoyle. She was definitely odd enough even in this place to get a few looks from passersby (as was the non-humanoid Dio), but for the most part they seemed to blend right in with the milling crowd of Lor, Loiroid, and other species from a thousand different worlds. "Just try not to do anything you will regret," she said, hopping down to join them and folding her wings down at her side. "And don't tell them where you're from," she added in a throaty whisper, "Terrans usually get a crowd." She led them to a stand where a white-haired, muscular fellow with distinct blue skin was selling what looked like large, fist-sized beans of various bright, primary colors. He seemed to light up at the sight of her, and the two of them carried on a dialogue that went something like this: "Ah, little Citizen! How you've grown! Are you back for more bean? Who are your charming...organic friends?" "I'm not little! And yes, these are my friends." She made introductions as Kar-ag went around, bowing respectfully with his hands folded before him. Up close, what had looked like elaborate tattoos were actually jewels embedded in his skin. She translated for their benefit and held up one of the beans. "It is good. It is...sweet, like a dessert. And you can pay him in stories." "Oh, they had better be quite the story," said Kar-ag archly, switching to English with a smooth grace. "For so many hungry young customers."
  13. Avenger Assembled
    Eira closed her eyes and suddenly appeared on one of Dee's screens. The girl on the screen looked very different than the pierced punk with the dye job standing by the Blu-Ray Player - her blonde hair was piled elaborately around her and on top of her head and her floor-length green dress was poofy and elaborate, looking like something out of the 18th century to Synapse's eyes. "...I told her I was being sent to school in the States against my will, and that it was probably going to be a terrible place." She waved at the 'image' behind her, and it dissolved into Kay's face, the overall effect like watching a weather person in front of a green screen. The projected Eira turned and looked at the face regretfully, then looked back at Dee. "I thought she was the only one of my friends who was actually listening to me, but she grew so angry, and frightened. She said if it could happen to me, it could happen to any of us, and that we should make a stand for synthetic rights. I told her...well, we had an argument, and she broke the connection. I have not spoken to her since."
  14. Avenger Assembled
    They wound up at the Mexican restaurant across the street, a spot where Eira allowed that she could at least get decent cell reception. The atmosphere was authentic enough, with a soccer match playing on the wall-mounted television and Spanish-language advertisements for calling cards and money transfers on the glass inside the door, even if it lacked the telenovelas that were even now playing on the other side of the border. Eira sat down with her back to the window and took the menu in at a glance, and ordered the black bean soup (without the creama) with pepper and avocado molletes, after a quick check to make sure it wasn't chicken stock going into the soup. The front-of-the-house staff were Hispanic, dressed in the black dress shirt and jeans that were universal among food service workers, and friendly enough to the three visitors. "Man, everything interesting is happening today!" said Pablo, their cheerful, goateed waiter. "Three people from Freedom, that girl with the dreads livestreaming herself...hey, maybe I'll see another robot! Have you heard about that?" he asked them.
  15. Avenger Assembled
    Eira put her sword away with only moderate annoyance, the prospect of being tied to Pan being interesting enough that she was willing to explore this possibility. "I will catch you in the air for the next one," she told him, smirking as they squared off together and waited for the signal. "I am much stronger than you," she added. "You had better be careful letting me grab onto you like this." She leaned in very close as the music started, and said, "I might break something."
  16. Avenger Assembled
    Eira stared at the screen, eyes unfocusing for a moment, before she said, "There are multiple scenarios by which Talos could do such a thing - direct interface with the satellite systems, ground-covering holographic technology, though each would have their own advantages and disadvantages." She walked over to the DVD player and extended her arm; her dataspike struck like a snake, finding a dataport on the outside of the Blue-Ray player and snapping home. She made a small, firm noise as the connection was made; and her lips parted in a smile as she looked at Dee, making connections with the outer layer of the house's systems. "But I meant from Kay," she admitted. As she talked, her own images of Kay flashed on a few of the screens in the building; glimpses of Zoom conversations, flashes of code, the odd still image of the two robot girls together. "I talked to her when I came to Claremont," she admitted. "She was...angry. I had to tell her she did not need to come and save me."
  17. Avenger Assembled
    "I'm going to switch to - Galstandard," said Eira in a soft whisper as she sat next to Pan at the edge of the pool. "This place is a good test, don't you think?" she asked Pan, looking around at their friends and all the adult heroes. "The ones who would actually be hurt have left or are leading. We can blame anything that happens on youthful high spirits, yes?"
  18. Avenger Assembled
    "Okay, what the f*ck," declared Ashley, punctuating the moment with a hard step inside. She wasn't familiar at all to Calliope, a short, well-built Eurasian woman with bright pink hair and carrying a large pistol. "...clone?" she demanded of Alex. "Time-traveler?" She looked at Calliope and repressed a shudder. That face wasn't supposed to smile like that.
  19. Avenger Assembled
    "Lady Farrington," said Eira with a thin smile. She unfocused her eyes, finding connections to the active systems of the house. "Your systems are high volume. And you have good taste in music.", she allowed. From around her neck, she took out a pair of dark, rimless glasses on a chain and put them on her face. "A dark bunker doesn't sound so bad. But this is sufficient," she allowed, seemingly high praise. She walked up to an access port and said, "I prefer to avoid sensitive information on wireless connections. May I make a hard connection?" As she spoke, she took off her jacket, a coil of silver cord seeming to emerge from underneath her left arm as she did so. As she did, she looked at the monitor displays of AIs and cyborgs from across Europe, and asked, her tone considerably softer, "Have you heard anything?"
  20. Avenger Assembled
    April 2020 Eira Katastroff and Kay Tregennis were friends. Oh they had their differences. Eira's parents had doted on their only daughter all their lives. Kay's parents had all but lost sight of their youngest child until the bus crash that had left her in a locked-in condition. Eira's parents were wealthy, the sort of northern European old money that could have stepped off the set of Downton Abby: The Later Years, Kay's parents were dairy farmers living close to the edge of poverty on the coast of Cornwall. Eira liked metal music and Kay liked chav-hop, Eira loved science and Kay wasn't really interested in anything except her art. Eira was of average height and liked to dye her hair and experiment with her physique, Kay was short and liked her red curls. But they did have one thing in common that had brought them both together - they were both young European women who had made the transition from organic to synthetic bodies about the same time; raised together, discussed together among the circles of super-scientists familiar with their respective cases. There weren't so many people like that that you could ignore one, and they'd had enough experiences and people and places in common that she (along with Synapse) were probably the people in Freedom City who really knew Kay well. If anyone had. She was legally of age; there'd been nobody to stop her from walking out of school, buying tickets to the Ukraine, and then simply walking across the border to Rurland. Eira had gotten Lady Farrington's message about reaching out to Kay - and so at the appointed time, had arrived at her front door. She was dressed 'down' today, in a jean jacket and Amon Amarth black T-shirt, a small belt of gear hanging around her waist as she knocked.
  21. Avenger Assembled
    "They are beasts of the purest shadow stuff," said Tarva with a tone of soft wonder in her voice. "Nightmare and silence given canine form. Aren't you!?" She buried her face in one of the dog's bellies, making it woof and wriggle. "My babies!" "Yes, yes, and I get to see you every time I come here." Eira sat back on her bare feet and looked at Pan, a half-smile on her face. "...Pan," she said, "do you want to try something?"
  22. Avenger Assembled
    In the sky above, Eira flew through a glowing metal eye and kicked its mechanical heart through the face of another. She was covered in some sort of mechanical oil, drip drip drip in a dark blue that clung to her face and eyes. Holding aloft a part of the one she'd bisected earlier, she shouted "Är det din kung?!" in a booming mechanical voice that had dropped into a deep reverb.
  23. Avenger Assembled
    Later Ashley's motorcycle rumbled up the front pathway of the Mansion, her light cutting through the evening fog. Summons from the Raven always got her back up - what emergency was so serious that it required her to leave Judy at Claremont to come out here? (Especially when it was a summons from _both_ Ravens.) She looked at the house, cursed again, and walked right up to the front door. There was a time when she'd have entered through the old, old entrance underneath - but that was a long, long time ago. "Hello?" The door was unlocked, which was ominous, so she entered with her gun in her hand just to be on the safe side. It never hurt to be careful around here.
  24. Avenger Assembled
    "You are a real hero," said Eira dryly Kam's way. "Don't let them frighten you," she told Miurne. Her eyes unfocused for a long, perceptible moment, then she smirked before whispering, "I did not like it when I first came here - but there are worse places than this." She blinked, looked at Miurne and added with a distinct smirk, "Remember - Crīst ƿæs on rōde, no?" And with that, she turned and headed out of the library herself.
  25. Avenger Assembled
    Eira scowled and stared at Erik and Talya as they worked, her eyes unfocusing. Sorry, kiddo, said VINCE's voice in her head, I'm under strict orders from the President of the Double-E Fan Club to keep the system on lockdown when you're here..heh-heh, especially that stuff! Too bad, that would have been a good gag. Eira sent him a rude GIF but nothing that would burn any bridges, then focused her eyes on Erik and Talya. "When do we do the sword dancing?" She pulled her walking stick apart and blue-white lightning crackled between the brass tip of the wooden sheath and the cunningly concealed rapier within. "You know, like with...the time?" She couldn't very well describe what the time had been around people who didn't know who Erik and Talya were.
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