[i][Earlier][/i]

[color=#afc7b5]‘...’[/color] Metallia stared at the email she had received. She was sitting in front of her computer inside a hidden lab which she had designed underneath the building where she lived her normal life as Angelica Wilder. In the background, multiple injured robots were being repaired by her android. She had recently suffered another loss against heroes of the world. Meanwhile, the contents of this email… 

… Oh, okay. She wasn’t any longer her own commander. Should she fail to comply, the consequences would be… unacceptable. It would appear that she had been taken command of. Not the most comfortable of thoughts, but eh. It did fine. It wasn’t as if she was making much progress on her own, anyway.

[color=#afc7b5]‘Tia. Continue work on the robots while I’m out.’[/color] Metallia stood up and walked to her chair, which was currently in its charging station.

[color=#d1711d]‘Yes.’[/color] Tia acknowledged in a robotic fashion with a feminine voice, continuing to weld together pieces of metal and circuitry while Metallia got seated and flew out of a hatch and into the world using her magnetism. She went only by herself, this time. Her robots were in no condition to get there in time, after all. Now, she just had a long journey to make, and a conversation to join...

[i][Then she made that trip, and exposition was now out of the way][/i]