thelegion | System Crash

[After Brainy and Babbage disappear, cameras start broadcasting from where they were taken to. The entire encounter is shown to the team and the rest of the UP. When Earth is taken through the portal, Legion World lurches, and at the end of it all, when the traps are tripped, it lurches again. Lights all over the ship go out, fires starts, systems fail. Only lockdown procedures that Brainy himself put in place, to protect Legion World’s most vital systems if he were ever compromised by telepathy or other influences, keep the viruses from self-destructing the ship or turning off life support -- but they’re certainly trying to.]

[The network goes back up again fairly quickly, however, but it’s using a much older, inferior form of networking. Something a little more distance-based and analog, a little less hackable.]

[They’ll be able to communicate again, but there’s a lot of interference. Sometimes the video goes out during video calls and sometimes audio cracks up. Text seems to be the only form of communication that’s guaranteed to go through every time.]

[ooc: People can react and start planning things on this post. This is also where information about the Spectre's attack will get dropped.]

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I can take a look. Your armor's counterintrustion protocols would probably at least have thrown up a flag, unless "Babbage" was feeling petty enough to really take her time with it.

[Brainiac 8 does seem like she might be that petty.]

She seems pretty fucking petty.

[He nearly spits the words. He's mad, but it's not at Cortana, and he needs to rein it in.]

Thanks.

[In an actual fight? Cortana is damn near impossible to piss off. This is what she was created to do, and despite (or maybe because of) the stakes, she's calm, even happy. Wash will have to try harder than an ambient bad mood to upset her.]

Just a sec.

[In a literal second she's in and out of Wash's armor, verifying that no one's tampered with it since the last time she tampered with it.]

You're clean.

Thanks.

If there's anything I can do, let me know. Otherwise, I'm on triage.

[He'd have to lose himself in Epsilon's and Alpha's memories completely in order to even have a chance of keeping up with the digital side of this disaster, and it's not worth it when Cortana is on board. First aid and literally putting out fires are both things he knows he can do, at least until something more specific to his skill set comes along.]

Sure. We seem to still be in the "run in circles screaming" portion of the crisis, so you might have time for a snack before we figure out what we're doing.

[Cortana's demeanor belies the fact that she is flat out behind the scenes, entire digital pitched battles happening while she waits for Wash to get a sentence out.]

...This is phenomenally bad, in case it wasn't obvious.

Nah, that's Grif's job.

[He's already heading for the nearest outer symptom of the digital disaster, made a little more difficult by the lack of clear and easy communication, but that's not about to stop him.]

Yeah, I figured. It's not every day one of your COs gets teleported to the ass end of hell and-

[Easy sarcasm is a good coping mechanism, but it can only stand up to so much. Wash has seen some horrors, but what happened to Brainy is...horrifyingly new, and it breaks that sarcastic shield.]

God I hope that's fixable.

[Cortana finds technozombie plagues much less horrifying than organic ones. Eww, the Flood.]

I've been going over data from that scan Dox did anytime I get a spare few nanoseconds.

[She approves of Brainy's priorities.]

Right now? Solid maybe. I want more eyes on it once we've had a chance to regroup.

[The zombie apocalypse in any form is not something Wash thought he would witness in his lifetime. To see it start with a trusted friend is...rough, to say the least. But for now...]

Those are better odds than I expected.

It looks like it's retaining a...cached copy, for lack of a better term, of the original organism, potentially for self-repair purposes. It might be possible to load from backup, so to speak.

[Good news!]

Of course, that means we're probably up against regenerating technozombies.

[Everything is terrible forever.]

Great.

[Shitty situations getting worse? Yeah, that's pretty well in line with his experiences.]

Would an EMP do anything?

Maybe, but I'd go in assuming they're hardened.

[A human-detectable pause as Cortana runs numbers.]

That does give me an idea, though. Bet you she's enough of a control freak that she's directly linked into that nanovirus. Imagine the feedback headache we could give her.

We're up against Brainiacs, so that's a good assumption.

[He's not sure if that was a thinking-pause or a for-his-benefit pause, but he'll take it.]

She wants to remake the goddamn multiverse in her image. Of course she's that much of a control freak. How do we go about using that against her?

Still working on the technical details, but we'd only get one shot before she adapted the network to fix the vulnerability, so I'd say use it as a distraction to give someone or someones an opening at a critical moment.

I like the new twist. Keeping it fresh.

[ Guess who can keep a conversational tone while booking it across Legion World. ]

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