Stark Industries, Saturday

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Jessica had a bag packed and ready for her to take to New Mexico when her portal was ready later this afternoon. In preparation for that, she spent her time at Stark's today working on some new inserts for her gloves. Her right glove had a small EMP bomb. The EMP burst wouldn't have a large radius, but if a giant murder-robot got too close, it would be a nice one-shot Hail Mary to get her out of the most immediate danger. And her left glove had a special lining in the fingers that, when activated, should give her webs an electric charge. The hope for that one was to make her webs into more of an offensive weapon, like when that magic flower turned them into fire.

Jessica didn't get too far with that, though, before getting a message from SHIELD ordering her to report to the Triskelion tonight for an important assignment.

... That kind of ruined the fun of going rogue into enemy territory, but hey, Jessica wasn't going to object. It wasn't like she had enough intel to go into Sentinel territory with a real game plan anyway, although it should be noted that not having a game plan had and would never stop her from taking action.

Since she was going to have SHIELD resources at her disposal and probably wouldn't need this stuff today, she slowed down on her quick build for the shock lining since that one was potentially dangerous to her and definitely needed more testing. Instead, she finalized the EMP device since it was almost done anyway, then sent a quick text out to people saying she was going home tonight for a few days.

The head's up text was tradition. Also, good warning for if she ever didn't make it back....

[OOC: After this, Jess is going into full on canon catchup mode for a couple days and will be several kinds of traumatized when she's back in Fandom. So, if you'd like to deal with a relatively normal Jess, this would be the post for it!]

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[makemyownway.livejournal.com]

Cade (in a loose fitting shirt because the new tattoo still hurt. Kark, gremlin-bit Cade was stupid) wandered into the shop. "I'll stand over here where you can be sure I'm not stealing anything," he promised.

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"It's okay. You can move about freely," Jessica said. "After all, you promised to only steal things during your shift."

[makemyownway.livejournal.com]

"And you trust me on that," Cade said. "That's kind of cute."

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"I'm mostly trusting that you wouldn't want me to get mad at you over something like this," Jessica noted. "Also, I'm working on a zappy glove, and I don't think you want to get hit with electricity."

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"Not really on my to do list today," Cade agreed.

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"Yeah, I didn't think so," Jessica said. "But truth be told, I wouldn't actually use it on you."

[makemyownway.livejournal.com]

Cade smiled. "It's because I'm so karking good looking, right?"

[craftyladyparts.livejournal.com]

"Definitely not that," Jessica said, smiling right back. "It's still early enough in the build that I'm not sure I wouldn't electrocute myself instead of you."

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Cade snorted. "Why are you making electrocution gloves anyway?" he asked. "I mean, 'Saturday' is a good reason, but..."

[notconflicted]

Sia was getting these texts more often than she'd like, really. So leaving Atton in her room for the moment, since she wasn't sure what would be said and also because even when one of them was an animal space was good, and headed down to see Jessica.

"Everything all right?" she asked, which was sort of like a hello.

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"It really isn't," Jessica said. She could let her guard down more around Sia. That was kind of a relief at the moment. "Things are somehow getting worse back home."

[notconflicted]

Uh.

"...How?"

Valid question.

[craftyladyparts.livejournal.com]

"Mutant-hunting robots gained sentience, started killing mutants on a big swep across the country, and settled in the southwest, so the government abandoned those states to the murderbots," Jessica said.

"I'm really starting to wish I lived in a world with normal science."

[notconflicted]

"I've been wishing that since the last time you went home," Sia admitted. "What is it you're going back to do?"

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"Well, my bosses were telling me to hold tight here, so, um, I was going to go to New Mexico on my own to try to help people," Jessica admitted. "But I just got a thing telling me to report in at the base in New York. So I'll find out what they actually want me to do tonight."

[notconflicted]

"Which I'll bet is not 'helping people in New Mexico,' which when dealing with murderbots probably wasn't a great plan," said Sia, just to make sure Jessica knew that.

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"Trust me, if it's not New Mexico, then it's probably back to the stuff with the City, and I don't even know what I can do there," Jessica said. "I mean, I can hit robots. I can get people away from them. That big war stuff with fighters way more advanced than me? I'll take the murderbots."

[hoorayimrich.livejournal.com]

"I don't know if I can afford paid vacations now," Tony joked, wandering on in to find himself some coffee. "Just so you know."

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"Don't worry, I should hopefully be back in just a few days. I'll be back before next Saturday," Jessica said.

Or else she was murdered by a Sentinel or something. But she wasn't a mutant, so she should skate by there.

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She was, however, a mutate. So.

Fingers crossed.

"Good. I'd hate to have to hire someone new."

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Clone of a mutate. Which really put her somewhere between mutate and mutant. Mutante? No, that sounded like a brand of salsa.

"You'd replace me that soon?" Jessica asked. "I'm stunned. Where's the love, Tony?"

[hoorayimrich.livejournal.com]

"There's no love in business," Tony informed her stoically.

Now cry for his amusement!

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She was weeping on the inside. Hopefully Tony was wearing X-ray contacts.

"So sad," Jessica said. "But seriously, if things go well, you'll barely know I was gone."

[hoorayimrich.livejournal.com]

Left them at home!

"Good. JARVIS would miss you."

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Always pack a spare. "Well, he and I are besties. We made each other friendship bracelets and everything."