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Cortana ([personal profile] steelandtemper) wrote in [community profile] legionmissions 2017-02-15 08:21 pm (UTC)

Battles ebb and flow, and Cortana's focus moves with the tides of the conflict. Though it's going well for the good guys, a part of her is standing back and tapping a foot impatiently. This would be over already if she were allowed to kill people. They all deserve it.

When she looks up from non-lethally beating back yet another attack on the audience, she notices that Theta's inexpert attempt to contact her has been sitting for several seconds. Cortana shifts her attention to where North's IFF says they are, and--oh hell.

Brushing aside whatever intruder control is left in the discarded helmet without Theta's presence, Cortana pulls down the logs and reviews them in a flash. Okay, this calls for someone who actually knows what they're doing, and the Chief is busy.

You know what? America's probably still in a terrible mood, and that can only help.

"Beeny," she breaks into America's comm without preamble. "Got a friendly in a bad spot who could use some backup. Two assailants, professional soldiers, armored, extent of powers unknown. The smaller of the pair seems to have some kind of charm ability like Locksmith's, and the larger can apparently mimic or outright steal powers. Range also unknown on both, sorry. Our guy has extensive combat training, plus shielding and thermal vision, but he's wounded and I don't know if he can currently use his powers."

She tosses a location up on America's HUD, with labeled images of Felix, the Meta, and North, appropriately color-coded to show which of them needs a beatdown.

"The Meta has AI support, but you won't need to worry about that."

While she's filling America in, Cortana reaches out to Theta, bolstering his intrusion countermeasures. The Freelancer implants can't support her for longer than a few seconds without frying the host's brain, she knows from unpleasant experience with Delta and York, but she can lend a hand and a few superior algorithms--not to mention the reassurance of her presence, an all-enveloping brilliance that fills the radio spectrum around them. She's not bothering with a hologram. That's for humans, and they're going to settle this like AIs.

Sigma wants contact with Cortana? He's got it.

"What the hell do you think you're doing?"

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