Frenemies
Location: Vicky's workshop
Time: Evening of the dance
As soon as the two visitors filed into the room, Vicky found herself with a Cas-glomp wrapping around her shoulders. She had to brace with one arm as she returned the hug with the other.
"I'm okay, I'm okay. Thank god you are! Can't replace bits of you too easily." the younger sister grinned,
"Umm... Mind trying to find out why Mom has gone quiet? I think we need to all have a talk. She's ghosted me so far, maybe you'll have better luck? I'll be with you as soon as we finish with my other repair. Try to, uh... ease her into the fact that I'll need to come in for repairs and likely a software patch?" she asked of Cassie, who nodded and went on the horn.
Turning to Zari, she was relieved the valkyrie shown up. While she texted she was coming, that was plenty of time for her to change her mind.
"Thanks for coming. I'm sorry if I interrupted you doing something, I would have delayed if I thought it was safe for this to wait. Was my message clear enough or do I walk you through what needs doing?" she asked as she finished up with her knee, testing the range of motion. They had to get this right, there was little room for error. Better make sure.
"I may not be a robot, but I'm not stupid, yeah I get what the problem is, however the first step into fixing the problem is going to be diagnosing the full issue. Since the problem can likely stem from a multitude of problems, you just need to know where to start looking. Basically I'm the doctor, your the patient, so how about you let me do what I'm good at, which is repairing technology and scanning for any underlying issues," she was a bit annoyed that Victoria seemed to think she needed someone to hold her hand and walk her through something.
That was beside the point though, as Zari very clearly didn't pull out any sort of tool from her tool belt or anything, and just looked at Victoria. What she was doing was actually somewhat similar to what a telepath did when scanning the mind of someone, in her case though she was scanning the tech that the android was made of, searching for any sort of vulnerabilities.
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"Shh, keep quiet please, and the key word in that sentence is most people, not all. But, I do think I can see where to begin to fix everything, but it likely won't be super pleasant. You basically have so much wrong with you right now, it kind of makes a full diagnostic scan a bit difficult. So in order to repair the damage and to fix the containment that you are concerned about, have to start with the small things first. Basically in order to figure out where to start with the diagnostics, have to plug and patch some of the holes, which then if we're lucky would lead to the containment being restored without anymore issues." she said to Victoria with a bit of a shrug.
"Right. Sorry." Vicky seemed to shrink after getting scolded. Could one blame her though? This was her core they were messing with, was is any wonder she wanted to be sure? Still, better she let it go. If she were human, she would not want to be angering a doctor before operating on her either, even when one disagreed with them. Overhearing Mr. Eyeball beep put a small smile on her face. But, since he got scolded for being noisy right afterwards, she withheld chatting with him until Zari seemed done with the first part.
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"Well, that sounds terrifying. Especially since my self diagnostics did not pick up on most of it." she sounded positively anxious now. She took one of the generators and merged it to her skin, setting it to project a schematic on the wall.
"This is how I have been told I work, sans the actual firewalls around the Ultron layer. Is this even correct and complete from what you've been able to glimpse? It's only just now occurring to me that I might have been purposefully left in the dark or downright mislead about all of this. Oh! And I also removed the code that prevented me from telling people what I am. It seemed like I did a good job, but now I'm not that sure. Let me know if you need me to do something, otherwise... Do what you have to do. I'd rather go offline than turn into the next AI menace. And after the last few hours... I don't trust my admins to pull the killswitch in time, assuming they put some in there.""There are a few options on how to more or less be able to patch the holes. Which if you had somewhat listened to what I had said, you wouldn't be wondering why your diagnostics didn't pick it up. When there are too many holes, the system doesn't work properly and everything is slowed down. So, the two options you've got? Either I manually go over there and sit there, trying to repair the damage, likely going slowly while doing that and manually reprogramming everything. Which likely would not be pleasant for you. Orrr I just try to use my powers to just repair the damage and fix everything. Since lucky you, you ended up roommates with the one person who can heal you so to speak with powers. I can repair damage and all that way, which I had to do with Mr. Eyeball here once when he ended up getting sliced in half on a quest I was doing.""01011001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01101011 01101001 01101110 01100100 00100000 01101111 01100110 00100000 01101101 01100101 01110011 01110011 01100101 01100100 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100001 01110100 00100000 01110101 01110000 00100000 01110100 01101000 01101111 01110101 01100111 01101000 00100000 01110100 01101111 00100000 01100010 01100101 01100111 01101001 01101110 00100000 01110111 01101001 01110100 01101000 00100000 01011010 01100001 01110010 01101001 00101100 00100000 01101001 01110100 00100000 01100110 01100101 01101100 01110100 00100000 01110111 01100101 01101001 01110010 01100100""I said I was sorry!" she complained towards him, before turning her attention back towards Victoria.
"Plus I've gotten better at being able to do that since then. But both options have risks to them. I don't know how your programming and all works on an indepth level, which would likely take a little longer to fully do, which likely would be a bit unpleasant for you, plus risk me screwing that up and not being able to fix it but since I'd be going slow, it would more easily be fixable. On the other hand, the other option as Mr. Eyeball just mentioned, runs the risk of that screwing with the personality matrix, which I didn't mean to do no matter how much he tends to hold that against me. Choice is yours, I don't have a preference either way. One is slower but likely a little safer in general, or the quicker option that runs a risk of screwing something up that way. Though as mentioned to him I then fixed that issue. But you know, this isn't an exact thing, no matter how good at doing this sort of thing I am. Risks are always involved and figured I'd let you know what they are before I do anything and leave the choice up to you on that one."Listening carefully, Vicky nodded, hoping she understood her options. Is she was as screwed up as Zari said after the hack, was she even in a state of mind to make that decision?
"Then take the path of least risk, regardless of my comfort. And... Thanks."Zari shrugged slightly,
"Both have different sets of risks, but going to go with the manual option, just because then it makes things simpler and puts me more at ease, always more fun to mess with things using my hands and not relying on my powers instead," she responded, before she eventually set to work on trying to repair as much of the damage as possible, using her powers as more of an aid than a reliance. It took a while though, Mr. Eyeball was just floating around almost like it was peering over her shoulder as she was working along.
Eventually after a while, Zari turned to look at Victoria now.
"Well, now that I can more easily finish running the diagnostics, which is the good news, the next thing isn't the greatest of news. It's starting to get fairly late. It was late when we started this entire endeavor. I've got you up to about 50 percent functionality, there is a lot more damage than initially appeared. In order to finish repairing everything, I'm going to need to do another session of this. I'm tired, and unlike you, some people do need sleep. You should be fine until later, just try not to do anything that could potentially screw things up even worse and make this more like a week long project than just a two day project. Okay?"Whatever Zari was doing, none of it was as unpleasant as the knowledge that someone, anyone, was changing Vicky's core code, which Vicky now learned she knew even less about than she thought.
"I'll try, but, you know... Usagi." Vicky pouted, the one name serving in her disctionary as an universal explanation to everything awful, evil and uncomfortable.
"I guess I'll see you at my next appointment doc. Provided the admins don't shut me down tomorrow."
Location: Dorm > Framework
Skills: N/A
Equipment: N/A
Victoria has been out of her element the last few days. It werenât the extra training hours and the crunch that bothered her, no - It was the ado about it. Yes, she was a member of a prominent family, but only Hope was really doing any public appearances. For one reason or other, she has managed to shield her from the media and the paparazzi. No amount of watching Hope on TV could have prepared Vicky for the spotlight to be shone on her though. Her bluntness came to the front, and she just knew she put a foot in her mouth more than a few times.
Her pretend sleep was tossed out of the window, as she has spent every moment of free time either tuning her armor or training, spending little time socializing. In a way it was a relapse into her first two years. She wasnât doing it for the contest though. Leah revealed to her an actual threat may be on its way, and she was determined to support her bestie in a time of need. If only her foray into mystic arts was progressing at more than glacial pace!
It most likely reflected on her performance in the training sessions though. The most shots she called nowadays was what she wanted done and sometimes a specific teammate that should do it, leaving it entirely up to them to figure out how to make it happen. At one point she even experimented with âPlan Zâ, that was to say absolutely nothing and let the session flow. Sometimes she even stopped giving any instructions mid-session, to make sure that the team wouldnât fall apart if she was offed. The sample size was however too small yet to make the call on which approach worked best.
And, apparently, her teammates have been busy as well. This was exactly why Vicky was withholding informing the rest of her team of her true self. She did not want to give Ed any ideas. She did want to tell Diana badly, but she figured she needed to let her admins cool down after her last stunt at the monster mash.
This particular evening she was already haunting the gym, so when she heard footfalls heading towards the Framework, she padded over as well, nodding her greeting to Sabine and Leah, before leaning on the wall and waiting for the rest of the goons to file in and Edward to tell them what was going on.
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