6136/Sentinels: Getting a Head
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| Sentinels: Getting a Head | |
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| Date of Scene: | 07 January 2019 |
| Location: | Unknown |
| Synopsis: | Summary needed |
| Cast of Characters: | Iron Man, Hulk, Scarlet Witch |
| Tinyplot: | Sentinels |
- Iron Man has posed:
The #Black Sleep put something of a hold on a lot of other projects: and for good reason. If the world never awakened from its coma, there wouldn't be anyone left to care about the robotic presence in the world.
Priorities.
But now, attention can shift back towards other threats, or curiosities. It depends on point of view. For the moment, the robots are, to Stark, a curiosity more than anything else. He's appropriated parts of one that was destroyed in Mexico, and it lays dormant in one of the Avenger labs.
And now, like Christmas Morning delayed, he and Banner have a chance to crack it open. "Okay, though, first. Want to place some bets about what ulterior motives it may have?" Tony asks Banner playfully, from across the robot's unopened partial-chest cavity.
- Hulk has posed:
Bruce Banner was currently wiping his glasses with a wiping cloth he had found somewhere. He was looking down, painstaking trying to get that smudge off the left lens. Standing at the oposite side of the table where the robot was located, Banner pauses. At the sound of Stark's voice, Banner looks up, and says, "Hmmm."
A pause. "Tony, I can appreciate what you are saying, but I suspect they had no ulterior motives except to respond to their programming. That is where the nuances of this topic are to be examined. I suspect we get to the bottom of that, and we will discover the motivations of who built him." Banner points towards the robot with the glasses still in his right hand.
- Scarlet Witch has posed:
Wanda really has no motive or agenda for being here. Other than she'd been to medical next door and heard noise in the lab and was curious. It had been a chaotic bit of time of late, what with the holidays, the Black Sleep, Pietro showing back up.. okay, Pietro had showed back up and Wanda wasn't totally sure how she felt about that. She loved him, sure, but he was also someone she had a fraught past with. It had been a lot of up and down emotions for her and she was looking for a distraction.
As it happened, Bruce and Tony qualified for that. As did that robot thing they were hovering over.
She peeks in. "It is okay if I watch?"
- Iron Man has posed:
Tony gives Banner a raspberry sound. "Fine, fine. If it has an AI with decision making and learning programing, then his motives. If not, then the ones he was programmed to follow more specifically, leading to his creator's style, and so forth," Tony says, gesturing in a bored manner with his hand. "Based on the sensors he was running, which I HAVE had time to analyze, it really is oriented on finding mutations. So we can already start there. Why would you need to identify who is a mutant from other people? I can think of reasons. Hi, Wanda; grab a chair if you like."
Tony gestures to one of his large screens, opening it and panning his hand across it. "So I guess I did cheat a little, with my head start. But I did save the chest and head for you." Generous. "The head's in the other room."
- Hulk has posed:
Distracted by the new arrival, Bruce looks over his shoulder as Wanda arrives, and says, "Hmm? Oh. Hello Wanda. Yes. I suppose. Nothing too exciting I don't think." Banner puts his glasses on, and smiles at Wanda. "Nice to see you again. Hope you are doing okay. I heard your brother was around as well." Banner smiles again, and then returns his attention to the matter at hand.
"I don't know. Do you think it has an advanced AI? Right. Exactly." Banner looks closer at the robot and says, "That is very specific. Mutations would require significant biomolecular, biomechanical and genetic algorithms to be able to even begin looking at someone's "mutations"." Banner looks back at Tony. "I can think of what, maybe five people in the world that can even begin to consider that kind of function for a robot?" Bruce watches as Tony opens the screens. "Thanks." A touch of sarcasm. "Headstart indeed."
- Scarlet Witch has posed:
Wanda looks utterly amused as Tony gives Bruce a raspberry, her lips bowing over a smile, though she doesnt say anything. There aren't so much 'chairs' as stools in the lab, but she's easy and quietly pulls up one of those to perch on close enough to watch what's going on, but not so close as to be in the way.
"They do look for mutatations?" she asks, that grins fading away into a frown. "I can only think of the bad reasons why that might be. Maybe it is a little bit of the paranoid." Because let's be honest, she hadn't had the best of upringings on that front, given her own uniqueness, and Pietro's, and how they were not only used, but abused, and the fear they had struck in others merely by being who they were. "There are not so many good reasons to try and isolate those of us who are unique, are there? But how do you create a scan that is so sophisticated?"
She's not up on Sentinel tech.
"Pietro?" She's distracted, but answers Bruce. "He has returned. We did not talk much about where he was, but I think he is wanting to join with us for real. That can be a thing, yes? He seems to have taken up a new leaf. Much like Papa." Nooooot that Wanda truly trusted either, but she was hopeful, so she acted upon that hope.
- Iron Man has posed:
Tony grins and prods the chest in several places, causing it to slide open and allow access to the mechanisms in the chest. "That is one really really enormous gun," Tony observes of the cannon in the chest cavity. He then glances to the side at a screen.
"Sooooo, don't be alarmed, but now that I opened this, we're getting activity from the head. Babysit this part, will you? Don't let it make a new skylight?" Tony says, tossing the tool he used to open it towards Banner, and trots out of the room. He flashes Wanda a mouthed 'everything is fine' as he passes her, and disappears into the hallway towards the lab that contains the head.
- Hulk has posed:
"True Wanda. There can be only bad reasons, as far as I can see. Well, for those of us who are not as altrustic as, say Xavier's School." Bruce hrms, and taps his chin thoughtfully. "Glad to hear it. Pietro would make an excellent asset to the team.
Looking back at the robot, Banner adds, "This "Sentinel" tech is pretty sophisticated, even if the shell is not as so advanced as the inner workings and programming." Banner looks at the armor and considers. "I'd say it is advanced, but no where near as advanced as, say, Tony's earlier MKs." Banner looks at Tony. "Although you'd be better placed to comment on that."
Banner nods, and says, "Hmm. You said the head was in the other room? Okay!" Watching as Tony heads in that direction, Banner shakes his head, and watches the body for any signs of exploding or anything for that matter.
- Scarlet Witch has posed:
Wanda watches Tony scoot off to do Tony things (presumably get the head, or make the head make the rest of the thing stop doing what it's doing right now), and remains on her perch, frown firmly in place.
"I wish I could think of the good reasons, but nobody wishes to find us mutants to make a better world for us. Papa, even he.. no. I will not say these things. But I am worried to hear it is not only scanning us, but able to. We are not able to do such things with such ease. It is a bit frightening to know that there are those who can."
And that they might not have happy reasons to be doing so. It's got her a bit on edge.
"Pietro does seem changed, yes." Wanda agrees. Again, she isn'st sure she /trusts/ that change, much as she still suspects Magneto will turn the other cheek at any time in the near future, and not in the good way, but she is also a kind and trusting soul for the most part, who loves them both dearly. "I do think he would work well with us. Maybe when Tony is not so busy talking to his head in the other room we can discuss it. Do you need my help?" A nod with a chin towards the now opened Sentinel.
- Hulk has posed:
"Yeah, I can see that Wanda. It is a dangerous world, and technology like this can be abused, even in good hands. It is certainly a big concern, that is for sure." Banner taps the chest of the robot, and frowns. "I'm a little worried that Tony is in the other room getting himself into trouble." Banner's eyes go from Wanda to the robot, to the direction Tony wandered off towards.
"No, I don't think so, Wanda. Thank you for the offer. And I am sure Pietro will be a fine teammate, especially with you around to temper his...anger." If someone knew about anger, it was Bruce. "I'm, um, going to check on Tony. Can you excuse me?" Banner starts towards where Tony had disappeared to.
- Scarlet Witch has posed:
Wanda nods, giving a distracted sort of smile, and allows Bruce to excuse himself. "Of course," she murmurs - both to the tempering of Pietro, and his value to the team, and to Bruce taking his leave.