8033/Sentinels: You found WHAT

Sentinels: You found WHAT
Date of Scene:	24 June 2019
Location:	Empty Room, Avengers Mansion
Synopsis:	Tony reprimands Jessica for not following his orders, and learns about Sebastion's status.
Cast of Characters:	Iron Man, Spider-Woman (Drew)
Tinyplot:	Sentinels

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Iron Man has posed:
The response from Stark actually doesn't take tons of hours, unalike his usual response time. Then again, Avengers for the most part have the fast track to talk to Tony. Particularly when they mention things like that they have information about the current big problem they're battling.

"Mr. Stark will see you now, in meeting room one," JARVIS supplies to Jessica, regardless of where she is in the mansion (although if she were in the restroom, he'd wait, of course). "I would recommend going now," politely suggests the AI.

Tony is in the meeting room, ahead of her, actually; he'd been going over something else on a video call, and now is relaxed in the chair at the head of the meeting table, chin resting in one palm, that is propped on the armrest of the comfortable chair. He's thinking, or daydreaming, or both, with some of his tech glasses on, looking through some data.

Spider-Woman (Drew) has posed:
Jessica stops in the doorway for only a moment. She knocks lightly to announce her arrival. "Tony? Thanks for meeting with me so quickly." She is still wearing the hoodie, ball cap, jeans and sneakers. "I have some information and data that needs to be utilized." She enters, then, closing the door behind her and pulls a thumb drive from her pocket. "I was contacted by Sebastion for a meeting, and I know where he is, now. /This/ has data on his current systems and his physical damage." She places the thumb drive on the table in front of Tony.

Iron Man has posed:
"Hey, Jess," Tony says as she knocks. She immediately starts to talk, which makes one brow go up on the inventor, but he doesn't interrupt her, just lets her explain. That she came in talking derails some of what he might have said: and based on his expression, that may have been for the best.

So, instead of that, he looks at the data drive, and leans forward to pick it up off the table. That she didn't try to hand it to him already gives her some points!

"What did you meet about, and did you already look at whatever is on this?" Tony asks, tapping the thumb drive with an index finger. He stretches out a little, and then gets to his feet. "Tell me on the way to the lab. If it has something nasty on it, I want to be nastier," he explains, leading the way out of the meeting room.

Spider-Woman (Drew) has posed:
Jessica shakes her head. "I didn't know what could possibly be on it, Tony. I knew I wasn't going to be able to decipher anything on the data, anyway, and I knew better than to stick it in just any computer," she replies, as she trails and then catches up to Tony. "He's damaged. He was trying to control the sentinels and steer them away from civilians, but he took fire and lost control. He said he is shutting down..."

She takes a deep breath and sighs, but then continues. "He said he wanted to tell others how to control them, he is too weak to do it now. He asked for parts...he is missing a few. He...needed a safe house. Captain Quaid of the NYPD came with me, and he set up the safe house. Sebastion said he wouldn't survive if Trask found him now..." She looks up at Tony apologetically. "He told me he wouldn't meet me if I brought any of the 'prison wardens' along..."

Iron Man has posed:
"Yep, I think we have a message from the NYPD about a Sentinel lead," Tony comments. He doesn't wait for JARVIS to confirm, though. He pauses as she lays out the prison warden comment. He considers her words.

"So I shouldn't expect you to fight on his side against other Avengers a second time?" Tony asks, with a flippant tone, but some hardness in his dark eyes, if she does look over his way, even if he's not looking directly at her. It's apparent even with his tech glasses on.

Tony holds the rest of it until they're in the elevator, just the two of them. "I wasn't a big fan of my orders being disregarded. Not a cool move," Tony says simply, with a huff of a breath. "I'm not Cap, I don't do disappointed looks that somehow inspire. I just fire people, that's more my thing," Tony explains. "I'm expecting a great reason why I shouldn't, now. You've got a decent start here, though." Tony waggles the thumb drive.

Spider-Woman (Drew) has posed:
Jessica doesn't shrink beneath Tony's darkened gaze. She meets it, but not defiantly. "Since Sebastion gained awareness of his situation, he has done nothing whatsoever but try to help us. In ways we could not possibly achieve ourselves. He has done so without asking payment. Without asking for it to be justified." Jessica frets at her lip for only a moment, before adding, "When I vowed to uphold justice and protect the innocent to become an Avenger, I did not take that vow lightly. I believed, and believe now, that Sebastion was an innocent when I tried to protect him. But now...now something has changed....He is still trying to help me. To help us. And if there is anything in him that can help save the world from death robots, I don't want to see it destroyed. I am sorry I disobeyed orders. I felt that I was protecting the innocent."

Iron Man has posed:
"Being an Avenger doesn't mean mindlessly obeying whatever we say," Tony answers. "We don't always have ALL of the information. But it does mean trusting that we do know what we're doing, a lot of the time. If you see something on the ground, you speak up to me. I didn't intend to kill him with what I was doing to him, the idea was to get him into a cycle where we could examine and /treat/ him if possible. I moved to protect my team, after we saw what we did, Jess. From what Vision saw in there." Tony steps out of the elevator into the lab floor, leading the way towards one of the science labs, and waving it open with a hand.

"I'm not even saying he's evil, or something like that, but he's extremely broken. At this point, we're protecting him from himself, too, by acting. But if you know I'm staring at the brain of an AI, and I make a 'subdue' call, I need you to trust my expertise, that I'm not just doing it 'just because'." Tony pulls one of his test system consoles forwards, does a few settings, and plugs in the device. He puts his glasses on his forehead, and begins to rapidly examine what's on it.

Spider-Woman (Drew) has posed:
Jessica nods. "I understand. I didn't know what it was meant to do. I had seen what that ray does to AI. I had no information on what you were doing. It came out of nowhere." Jessica shakes her head. "I apologize. And I will communicate with you more going forward. If I'm not fired."

There's a beat. "Oh wait there is one more thing," Jess adds, as she turns her gaze back on Tony. "Sebastion said he had sections of 'our Ai's emergency uploads'...He was hoping to use them as bargaining chips, I believe, for parts."

Iron Man has posed:
"All right, we've got a lot of schematics and part numbers," Tony comments, flipping through the data on the drive. "Doesn't look corrupted, and clean, at least." He passes through some of it, slowing, and his eyes narrow. "There's some things in here for some truly nasty pulse weapons, like we saw him use from his hands. Some parts for something I'd need to backwards engineer to decide what they're for. Mmmm. Here's some propulsion," Tony guesses. She brought a list of mechanical parts to the right guy, for intuitive leaps on what could be made from them!

"Right. My initial reaction is he took body damage. His weapon systems might be entirely dead. Suggests defenseless, except I don't see anything in here for eye lasers, so he's got those, I'd bet. He could probably build a secondary place to store his memory or bootup from the bits scattered through this, and get around his corruption. If he's clever. I'll assume he's clever." Tony pulls the drive out.

He considers her words about missing pieces of Vision. He rubs his jaw with a hand. "Yeah, he's bargaining with Vision's life. I'm not a fan. Hank'll know if that's bullshit, and should be the next stop."

"...All right. Your punishment is that you have to use Hank Pym," Tony says, with a slight smirk. "Every step of anything you do with Sebastion. He's your new buddy. If he agrees with me to shut Sebastion off, you help him, a hundred percent. In fact, you recruit others, like Thor or Hulk, to /also/ help do it. Do that, and you're not fired."

Spider-Woman (Drew) has posed:
"Yeah Sir." Jessica's response is a definite hop-to, to do anything that Tony asks. "And Tony. If you talk to NYPD, you might ask about any bodies found with missing...pieces. I don't know where he is getting them, but he suggested that he had already found the human parts he needed. He could be salvaging them from sentinel battles, for all I know. But I think it bears looking into."

Iron Man has posed:
"Awesome, yes, that's what I wanted to ask about, how did you know," Tony says, with a choked laugh. Ugh. "Yeah, I'll pass it along, that we might have a cyborg scavenger. Or rather, JARVIS will."

"Of course, sir," JARVIS agrees smoothly.

"All right, I've got more to do. Go wake Pym up," Tony suggests, as if the idea of that pleased him. "Preferably with a loud noise." He turns back to his computers, but also waves her out, with a slight little smile. He's frustrated by her actions, but Tony has always been big on redemption.