9637/Prove It

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Prove It
Date of Scene: 18 October 2019
Location: Danger Room - X-Men Base
Synopsis: Doug and Kitty use the Danger Room to make a video to replace a Friends of Humanity posted one, with Samuel Bean and Megan helping out.
Cast of Characters: Shadowcat, Cypher, Samuel Morgan, Pixie
Tinyplot: Sentinels


Shadowcat has posed:
With events of late, Kitty has had to let some things slide. One of them slid for two weeks, but she finally gets around to it. A message was sent to Doug, arranging some time for him to meet Kitty in the Danger Room. She doesn't have the room set up to be private or anything, so anyone can wander in.

When they do, they'll find Kitty in the control room. She's got a video upon the monitors there. It's from MeTube, and from a channel associated with the Friends of Humanity. Kitty hits play and watches it. (+bbread 15/442)

Video: Two young women, college age, mockingly demand to their camera, "Prove to us this 'human' isn't a mutant! This is all staged. Sentinels know mutant trash when they see it! Good riddance, trying to hide among us, genetic cancer." (( Friends of Humanity website link. Come see PROOF! * ))

Cypher has posed:
Doug arrives, still dressed in his suit and tie, shirt slung over his shoulder. He stops, and studies the video, and then says, "Classy." He says. "The Junior Fascists of America are really branching out."

Then he says, "So you want to do a little deep faking with hard light holograms?" He strokes his chin, and then swings into the chair. For a moment he rubs his temples, and looks tired, and then he cracks open a red bull. "All right... time to make some magic. The first thing we need to do is extrapolate that video into a 3-D image--" He accesses it off of the Danger Room consoles, and runs the program that starts to build a 3d model of the room below.

Samuel Morgan has posed:
    It's no longer a rarity to see Bean in the Danger Room. Properly supervised, of course, but he's putting in some extra time since the attack on the Mansion. There were things that could have been done better, and after discussing them with Sam, Bean set out to actually develop new tactics for the team. But today, it seems, is not a day for training. Without ceremony, the young mutant enters the Danger Room still dressed in his usual outfit, thanks the staffer for escorting him, and then walks to the exact center of the floor.

    There he closes his eyes, breathes in deeply, and sits down, folding his legs under him. His hands come to rest, inverted, on his knees, thumb touching the tip of his middle finger in the classic meditation pose.

Shadowcat has posed:
Kitty Pryde grins over at Doug. "I figured it would be like the old days. I'll work on the girl's reactions. You work up a Sentinel breaking through the wall behind them and apprehending them for being mutants?" she says. "I've already got the basic video uploaded, just need to do our own section of it. Plus we need to hack their MeTube account and change their two-factor authentication so they can't regain control of it or take the modified video down once we upload it," she says.

Kitty laces her fingers together and then inverts them to stretch them. "Just like the old days," she says, grinning. Kitty spots Samuel going into the room below and says over the intercom. "We're working on something. You're welcome to watch, but there'll be some stuff going in there," Kitty says to Samuel.

Cypher has posed:
"Do you want to do that or do you want me to?" Doug says, "I mean, that's not difficult at all." He looks down at Samuel, and then says, "That kid... I really like him, but man, the new batch is so *intense*. I don't know what to make of any of them. They make me feel old."

The workup of the bedroom is completed in short order. Then Doug calls a sentinel out of the Danger Room's memory banks, and positions it outside of the walls of the hovering room. He takes a moment to rough up some of the Sentinel's details, adding a little wear and tear to the mutant-hunting machine.

Samuel Morgan has posed:
    One eye opens when the intercom activates. He was too far away from any of the equipment, so Bean didn't even know anyone was in the control room... part of the reason he was here, really. But he recognises the voice, and so he can't help but smile. "Apologies, I should have checked if the room was occupied. I can come back later, if it's more convenient?"

    It's then that he can see the program being created, standing up and dusting himself off, walking over to the projections without any hurry. "I recognise this scene. Can I be of assistance?"

Shadowcat has posed:
Kitty glances down below again at Samuel while she works. "Yeah, he is a great kid. Like him a lot too. He's had a really rough life. Up there with Laura in that category," Kitty says softly. "But he's come through it. I have more trust of someone who has faced that kind of situation and chosen another way, than I do someone who hasn't ever been tested," she says. Kitty hits the intercom again. "Sure, you can provide creative input, come on up," Kitty says.

Something in the back of Kitty's head niggles at her. What about Emma? Kitty ruthlessly squashes that little voice. For awhile.

"Whoever gets through with the video part first can do the hack," Kitty says. She leans back in her chair. "Hrm, startled and frightened when the Sentinel breaks through. A little squeal. But then do we want them to feel relieved or uplifted it's a Sentinel, only to have that turn to horror as they find out what's like to have it come after them? Or... do we want that fear and horror starting with the wall break and just keep going throughout?"

Cypher has posed:
"Hmmm. I'd say that the Sentinel would move fast enough that they wouldn't really be able to get past the shock and surprise stage. I think that it'd knock the computer over after a few seconds, so there's no need to go into a ton of detail about it tearing up the room..."

He sighs, and puts his hands on the console, before he looks tired again. "At least we had a few years of normalcy before life went upside down and haywire. And now look at us, you've been through the war, and I'm--" He says, "...I just need to keep working."

Samuel Morgan has posed:
    "On my way." Because Bean surrounded entirely by delicate holographic controls and computer equipment. That can't possibly backfire! This time he actually trots, having been given instruction, and comes in through the hatch in fairly short order. He looks around, smiling, it being his first time in the control room. "Not bad at all." After that, he just finds himself a seat out of the way, watching the proceedings with intense concentration.

Shadowcat has posed:
Kitty nods to Doug. "Ok, but we don't need too much destruction. I mean that burst of surprise when he breaks through, but then let's make it personal. He's there for the girls, announcing their normal mutant surrender message. And when they protest they aren't mutants, he can use the prove it line back on them," she says, grinning.

Kitty reaches over to pat Doug's shoulder. "We had a huge win. FoH Master Mold destroyed, and Sebastion too. This isn't the last of them, but hopefully no more will get made from here on out. It's something to feel good about, pal," she says with an encouraging smile for Doug.

As Bean arrives, Kitty waves to him, though intent at work. "So, Samuel... some of this is alien technology. The core of it is, though we have our own computers providing directions. So probably best not to interface with it, ok? Certainly not until we had time to do some tests with you."

Cypher has posed:
"I'm not going to begrudge the X-Men their win, Kitty, but I put my dreams of superheroing away in mothballs." Doug says. "But just the same, it's nice to be able to breathe again, a little bit." Then he says, "Well, I'm thinking it'll do a Contra-Style move where it pulls open the wall with both hands."

"The thing that always mystified me is that the Danger Room is capable of producing realistic responses based on accumulated data. I found some of the old programs Rahne created after I--" He adds, "It was a WEIRD experience having a conversation with myself, and finding out how MUCH of me it had successfully recreated."

Samuel Morgan has posed:
    Alien technology? Oh wow... and then he's asked not to interface with it? Ah. Bean nods, dutifully, and will simply focus his attention on the work being done, listening in on the preparations. It's not like he has a choice about the whole interfacing thing. Sensing, anyway. He can sense it, it can sense him. It's like asking the moon not to rise...

    One thing gets a mental prod though, although Bean doesn't announce it, and it's most assuredly alien, but not the technology Kitty was talking about. So he'll restrict his contributions to the work at hand after getting the results. "You want to pay attention to the debris of the wall. Breaching charges tend to create a larger hole than anticipated, because the structure of a wall is never fully homogenous. It'll crack from the edges of the breach, not the center, favoring faults nearer the load bearing sections of the top, not the sides."

Shadowcat has posed:
A few different squeals of terror play as Kitty adjust their tonal qualities trying to get one that evinces the perfect amount of fright. "Yes, I know what you mean," Kitty says to Doug as he talks about the Danger Room's interpretation capabilities. "I have that environmental training program I made, of what Logan put me through in Japan. The amazing part to me was how much I didn't put into it, yet the Danger Room filled in what it thought Logan would do in that situation. A lot of it was spot on. Not everything, but a surprising amount," Kitty says.

She looks to smile over to Samuel as he makes the contribution. "So have you had this kind of training facility to work with before? And I'm really hoping you say no. I wouldn't like to think Hydra had anything at all like this," she tells Samuel.

Cypher has posed:
    "I sometimes wonder," Doug says, "...What the threshold is. At what point does the accumulated data in the danger room reach critical mass, and artificial intelligence becomes *actual* intelligence with real awareness?" He adds in the details Samuel notes, to the Danger Room's physics generators--

Then he pauses, and rolls up the sleeve over his techno-organic arm. The techno-organic material on his forearm makes spiky goosebumps. "Bean, that *tickles*."

Samuel Morgan has posed:
    "No miss Pryde." Bean confirms, smiling as he leans back and crosses his arms across his chest. "We just had a lot of training real estate that got blown up every so often. Easiest way to get used to going through a wall after blowing a hole in it is to have a lot of walls you don't mind having a hole blown into."

    He notices the techno-goosebumps and stops, instantly. "My apologies. I was checking something, no malice intended, I assure you."

Pixie has posed:
Megan Gwynn peeks in the danger room, curious to see if it's free for some flight training. "Hellooo? Anybody in here?" she blinks as she sees the place is indeed occupied and hovers in the door, wondering if it's a bad time..

Shadowcat has posed:
Kitty hrms. "I've already had enough encounters with sentient AI to last a lifetime. I honestly don't know which was worse, either. I mean... Sebastion is the easy choice. But I'm not sure Megatron wasn't worse." She types away on the keyboard. On the monitor above her are the two girls from the Friend of Humanity video response to the attack on the mutant children that hurt regular human Winifred Burkle.

Kitty leans over to look down at the Danger Room and punches a command in, loading up the simulation of the room the video was filmed in. "Ok, I'll sync some camera movement to the break through the wall, but not too much. I don't want to overdo it and have it feel like an old episode of Star Trek," she says with a faint laugh.

Kitty glances over to Samuel, and then to Doug's arm. "Saying hello, were you?" she asks. "So Doug, you figure out how to use that thing much yet? I mean, besides for holding a hamburger."

Kitty spots Megan and waves a hand towards her. "Hey, come on in. We'll just be a little bit longer," Kitty says. Then she tells Doug, "Ok, think the girls are ready to go. I'll start hacking their MeTube account." Start hacking. They no doubt have been inside of key parts of MeTube, scrubbing videos of the X-men, more times than the MeTube sysadmins have.

Cypher has posed:
"Well, a Cybertronian is what I'd call Actual Intelligence." Doug says. "But--"

He quirks his mouth and says, "No, it's like -- I know the capability is there, I used to be able to do it when Warlock and I were fused -- but for some reason, it's frozen. I should be able to transform it into almost anything." He flexes his fingers.

Then he continues to work up the sentinel, and says, "I'm doing a test-run now."

"Hello Megan, we're just engaging in an unsanctioned use of the Danger Room to troll members of the Friends of Humanity."

Samuel Morgan has posed:
    Bean watches, intently, looking at the angles that most viewers wouldn't, but which would tell him more about what angle something came in at, what force it was using, and how much air was displaced as it broke through. Those are details movies practically always get wrong, and are telltale signs of CGI or tampering. Who knew being trained by an evil terrorist organisation would have given him the grounding to be a special effects consultant?

    "If you would ever like me to assist you with that, Mister Ramsey, please do just ask. I think your arm and me are on speaking terms."

Pixie has posed:
Megan Gwynn oohs and peeks over at the controls, stepping further in. "Woow, a sentinel? That's cool, I fought one once.." she states rather proudly. "Oh yeah, was that related to that human woman who defended those mutants against sentinels?"

Shadowcat has posed:
The Danger Room has all the physics of such things down pretty much pat. It mostly comes down to creativity at this point, and having samples, images or videos, to feed into the Danger Room which can handle most of the creation of the models and the physics involved.

"And... oh my god, you do not want to know what their password was," Kitty says, sighing and shaking her head after having passed the hash password through a decrypter that would make the NSA crap their collective pants.

Kitty points at Megan. "Give that girl a kewpie doll," she says with a smile. "Yep. We're uploading the... full and uncensored version of their video where they claim the woman that helped the kids was a mutant, and if she's human then prove it." Kitty looks to Doug. "Is it ready for a test play?"

Cypher has posed:
"Probably don't, but now I want to guess. Daddysgeneticallypuregirls? Something else?"

He flexes his fingers, and then says, "I'll figure it out one of these days. It's a lot like having some kind of mental block--"

He pushes a button on the console, and test-runs the program. Viewed from the outside, the Sentinel tears open the wall of a floating room, and grabs one of the girls, pulling her out of the house. "HALT. MUTANT."

"We're *human*!"

"Proof: required. Protests: disregarded."

Samuel Morgan has posed:
    "Okay, now I'm impressed." Bean intones, looking at the test run. "That was far more realistic than I thought the simulation would get on the first try." No errant bits of debris, no magically exploding walls, no chunks of masonry mysteriously falling in perfect chunks from the breach... "I'd say aside from more dust on the floor where the Sentinel busts through, you're pretty much there."

    As for the password? "My money's on 'HumansRule' or something equally inane. Unless it's just 'password' which would make sense."

    He also motions to a seat next to him for Megan. "Come watch the masters at work."

Pixie has posed:
Megan Gwynn arches a brow, "See, I don't get it. I thought Sentinels knew the difference between humans and mutants. Or are they damaged or something? I mean, it kinda defeats the purpose, doesn't it?" she's no techno whiz though, so she remains mostly quietly and n the jargon.

Shadowcat has posed:
Kitty shakes her head sadly. "No, it was MutantsRLame," Kitty says, making a soft gagging noise. She has the position corresponding to the camera record a video of what plays out in the Danger Room then.

Kitty glances to Megan and says, "The Sentinels hurt a regular human, and the Friends of Humanity respond was, she's probably a mutant, prove she isn't. So I thought we might show them getting a dose of their own medicine, having to prove the same, and see just how well that works."

Kitty queues up the video then. "Ok, how does this look..."


Friends of Humanity Me-Tube channel has a new video clip up, marked "Longer and Uncut":

Two young women, college age, mockingly demand to their camera, "Prove to us this 'human' isn't a mutant! This is all staged. Sentinels know mutant trash when they see it! Good riddance, trying to hide among us, genetic cancer."

Behind the two women, purple objects which turn out to be the fingers of a thirty feet tall Sentinel push through the wall and peel it open. The young women squeal in terror as a mechanical voice booms out: "HALT MUTANTS. SURRENDER IMMEDIATELY."

Telescoping metallic limbs reach in, grabbing each girl around the waist and pulling them outside. "Wait! Stop! We're humans, not mutants!" one girl cries out.

"PROOF REQUIRED," the loud voice responds.

"How are we supposed to prove it, we just are!" one girl screams.

"PROTESTS DISREGARDED.."

Cypher has posed:
"You always were a better writer than I was." Doug says, tapping techno-organic fingers against the console. He sits back, and then holds up both hands. "Well--"

He glances to Samuel and Pixie, "What do you two think, hm? You think we could snag best short film at the Oscars?" He seems pretty pleased with himself.

Samuel Morgan has posed:
    "I believe the correct response is 'still better than Michael Bay'." Deadpan. Either Bean is utterly serious, or he's getting more up to speed with popular culture. The footage gets a critical look, a very critical look, to make sure all the angles are covered. He's seen enough holes blown in walls to know what they look like. He's seen these large Sentinels up close, enough to get a very good feel of how they move. The only wildcard would be the reaction to the sudden abduction... Possibly.

    At long last he nods. "It's scary you can do that in here, but that's as realistic as it's going to get, short of actually getting a Sentinel to do this."

    Then, to Megan. "All machines are fallible. Especially ones designed to attack a certain target on sight." Because reducing collateral damage is usually not a top priority of the programmer.

Pixie has posed:
Megan Gwynn visibly flinches as she listens and watches. "Woah, that's totally messed up and doesn't help their cause. They're gonna self destruct if they keep that up." she grins at Doug and nods, "Looks awesome to me!" she bites her lip, nodding to Bean. "I mean, how are they even allowed to do that if they're attacking humans now?"

Shadowcat has posed:
Kitty makes a tiny tweak or two in the performance of the girls, and looks over at the others for approval. She hovers her mouse over a button. "And... uploading. And... video is live. And all credentials pointed away where they won't be able to reset the account. Good luck taking that down," she says to the monitor.

Kitty reaches over to exchange high-fives with any who don't keep her hanging. "Alright. Now I have a sick boyfriend to get home to. Unless Triage already saw to him, in which case he's just, boyfriend to get home to," she says. Kitty grins and archives the work they did and then hops up. "We need do this more, Doug," she says, leaning down to give him a tight hug from behind, and a smooch on the top of the head.

Cypher has posed:
Doug rolls his eyes upward, and smiles, but mostly he looks tired. "Well, between my work and my classes and all of the other things I have to do, I should have some free time around my 40th birthday, so I'll pencil you in." He gives a faint smile. "This was fun, give Pete my best."