2887/The best of intentions

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The best of intentions
Date of Scene: 12 August 2020
Location: Triskelion - Interview Room 4C
Synopsis: Bobbi gives Nadia 'the talk' about looking like the hero she is, and also not blabbing about state secrets and the red room.
Cast of Characters: Bobbi Morse, Nadia Pym-van Dyne




Bobbi Morse has posed:
Nadia gets to visit the Triskelion! woo! except she knows it's not to get a gold star on her chest or anything like that. The visitor pass certainly keeps her away from all the interesting areas too. Boring people in suits doing boring paperwork behind desks can be seen through cloudy windows on the way in to Interview Room 4C.

The room is pleasantly white, with a desk and chairs. There's a visible camera in one corner of the room, which is probably a fake. One of these walls is probably a modern two way mirror, may be. There's probably lots of bugs in here too. That's what interview rooms are like right?, the Red Room taught Nadia that.

Bobbi is not waiting in there. The man in the SHIELD uniform that escorted Nadia in stands in the corner of the room and waits at attention.

Nadia Pym-van Dyne has posed:
Nadia follows behind the boring man in the suit looking at the boring people through the boring windows, the Triskelion was not supposed to be boring! This isn't how she imagined it at all. Is SHIELD really this boring? At least the Red Room had Science! and that Dazzler CD.

"I don't suppose you guys have pizza or cupcakes or something?" She asks the guard as she flops into one of the chairs. She isn't completely sure why she's here but she has a few ideas, surprising SHIELD agents at a classified mothballed US Military reseach facility being at the top of the list.

Today she's dressed pretty simply, her red and pink bomber jacket, black T-shirt with a sparking Tesla coil on it, pleated red and black plaid skirt, and a pair of stompy boots that lace to the tops of her shins.

Bobbi Morse has posed:
After making Nadia wait sufficiently long with the agent who doesn't even respond to her question about pizza and cup cakes, the door opens. Bobbi walks in, wearing suit pants and jacket, white shirt. Her hair is tied back in a bun. This is 'office' Bobbi, rather than 'field' Bobbi that Nadia has seen the most of.

The man in the corner stiffens just a little more and she tells him, "You're relieved, thank you Agent." He nods and exits the room. Bobbi takes a seat across from Nadia and lifts an eyebrow. She looks over the young lady and ponders what she's seen of her in the field so far.

A mastery of the pym particles, a hodgepodge flight suit now replaced with a new sleeker one. Excellent science skills and a genuine care for the people in her new life. Her complete lack of social understanding, which is not too surprising really.

Bobbi steeples her fingers as she studies Nadia silently, not saying a word. It's practically the May treatment at the moment. After a moment she takes out her table and puts it on the table, opens it up, but leaves it locked.

Nadia Pym-van Dyne has posed:
Nadia looks up when Bobbi enters. She watches the stiff leave before looking back to Bobbi, "Does SHIELD have special training in the art of being boring? That guy was the worst, or maybe the best depending on if that's what you're going for I guess. Becuase if it is he should be made Director of the Boring division. This room could use some pictures, too or really some anything. Heh heh," It's a slightly nervous quiet laugh. She's not scared or anything, this girl escaped the Red Room, fought Brainiac, read the riot act to a Hulk, and hugged Janet and lived. But she's not sure why she's here and Bobby is being weird and that leaves her normally exuberant sunshine self a little unsure of things.

Bobbi Morse has posed:
Bobbi furrows her brow a little as she listens to the nervous little ramble by Nadia. "I got a phone call from the attorney general today about you." She leans forward, elbows on the desk as she peers at Nadia. "I should not be getting phone calls from the attorney general about you, today, or any day Nadia."

She leans back and taps a finger on her tablet and it unlocks. She lifts it up and her eyes scan over what's written on it quickly. "Now why do you think the attorney general might suddenly be interested in your immigration case?" Bobbi is somewhat pleased she may have convinced Nadia that SHIELD is actually boring and she doesn't want to work here. It's not true, but it might help steer Nadia away from a path that'll get her in trouble with SHIELD's legal department.

Nadia Pym-van Dyne has posed:
Nadia blinks sitting up in her chair, "First question, what's an attourney general? Is that like a lawyer but more militant with like an army of attourney soldiers?" She asks completely seriously since apparently like the course on foreign popular culture for infiltration, the one on the political structure of the US was upper level material for more indoctrinated Red Room students that she never reached.

"I am not sure why the Lawyer General is interested in my immigration case Dr. Morse, but that doesn't sound good." She seriously seems to be clueless about it.

Bobbi Morse has posed:
Bobbi nods her head, "That's a very apt description. The attourney general is the head lawyer for the government and has final say over legal directions.. including immigrations." She frowns a touch and says, "The attourney general is wondering why we're inviting a Russian spy to live in this country who can appear and disappear using, and I quote, 'Stolen American Technology'."

She lifts an eyebrow. "For some reason, he has been made aware that you trespassed on avengers property, snuck on to an alien assault ship which was attempting to abduct New York City, openly discussed states secrets, and finally appeared mid-mission trying to talk down the Hulk."

She makes a swiping gestures with her tablet. It's safe to say she was reading a communique about it. She is not at all pleased that so many actions by Nadia have made it on to the table of someone who isn't SHIELD, or an Avenger, or a Titan. There's nothing worse than civilians getting a tiny taste of the world of spies.

Nadia Pym-van Dyne has posed:
Nadia makes a face, "Is this guy an idiot? I mean that's ridiculous, it's not American technology it's my father's technology. And I didn't steal it I reverse enegineered from some that was stolen, from Pym Technologies, but everything I use I made myself." She is clearly not impressed by this so-called 'attourney general'.

When Bobbi continues describing the list of incidents that his attourney general has someone found out about the face she was making deepens into a frown, "Not just an idiot, a creepy stalker too. So who told him? I thought SHIELD was all super secret and covert and only answered to the World Security Council? And the Avengers wouldn't say anything or the Titans." She doesn't seem happy about this at all as she attempts to turn over in her head who could have been saying these things and why.

"And that's a gross mischaracterization of events, it leaves out the part where my Dad is an Avenger and I was there to see him, that I was stopping Brainiac's ship from taking New York, that I helped restore Bushwick, I'm not sure what these State Secrets are, I mean I guess I've talked about Russian State secrets, why should Brigadier Attourney care about that, I thought you guys liked getting Russian State secrets like you did from Natasha? And appearing mid-mission? I followed by own quantum tracking beacon after Dr. Banner came to me and seemed like he really needed help so I went after him to help my friend. I didn't even expect any of you to be there, it just turned out that way!" She doesn't like how any of this is being framed at all. "How does an idiot like this become the Lawyer General?"

Bobbi Morse has posed:
Bobbi listens to Nadia's rebuttal with curiosity. She holds her own views on things and eventually lets out a sigh. "Nadia, stop worrying about how he found out what you've been doing and instead worry about how it looks to outsiders. You almost gave Natasha a heart attack when you appeared out of no where. We're lucky Banner didn't flip out at that very moment with your sudden appearance."

Bobbi continues, "You //could// have appeared when we landed and introduced yourself. Instead, I find out after the fact that you snuck in with Jessica. That puts her in hot water for not immediately telling me you were there too. I know you're still trying to figure out how things work, but you can't take the whole world on by yourself."

"And Brainiac ship? those were world security council sanctioned operations. The others that turned up without being invited? some of those are on terrorist watch lists. You don't want to be on a terrorist watch list do you Nadia? You can certainly tell SHIELD about Russian state secrets, but you can't tell anyone you like. Some of those secrets can destabalise governments."

"You talk about the Red Room - Russia denies its existence, if you prove it exists then other countries may take action against Russia over it, in which case Russia responds in kind. The world is always sitting on a knifes edge Nadia. Nothing about what we do is easy."

She frowns at Nadia, "If you want to be a hero you're going to do need to do it under the umbrella of one of the sanctioned groups, like the Avengers and the Titans and the Justice League and all those sundry .. 'hero' types. But if you want to be taken seriously you need to learn the art of discretion."

Bobbi lets out a sigh of exasperation, "Believe me Nadia, I want people to take you seriously, you have a brilliant mind but how am I supposed to sing your praises when alls someone like the attourney general sees is a sixteen year old Russian Spy infiltrating delicate world council operations. He wants to know why he should let 'someone like you' in to America. Yes, he's an idiot but he's an idiot with power."

The talk. Today Bobbi Morse officially became old.

Nadia Pym-van Dyne has posed:
Nadia's eyes actually start studying the floor when Bobby mentions the fact that she could have introduced herself when she ran headlong into that SHIELD operation, "If I said I was trying to avoid a lecture, that'd be really ironic wouldn't it? heh heh." She glances up towards Bobbi. "I wasn't going to show myself at all but for an amazing brilliant super scientist Dr. Banner was just being so stupid and Jen was almost going to go along with what he wanted, if I didn't do that he would have killed himself Bobbi." In her earnestness her usual insistence on using proper titles for scientists she idolizes falls by the wayside.

"And that's so unfair, what was I supposed to do, oh look an invading space ship that I've been told is an extinction level threat, guess I better sit on my thumbs. It's not what we can do that's important, it's what we /do/ do. I helped people that day and now I'm a Titan, it's highly unlikely they would have been able to recover that array without me, which we used to restore Bushwick!" The injustice of it all! At least that's how a teenager sees it, here she is trying her best to do the right thing and adults just have to make it complicated with all of their /rules/.

"Okay, I will grant you that destabilizing governments and causing multi-national conflicts is probably a bad idea." Openly conceding at least one of the points. "I will try to be more subtle about the Red Room in the future, Soviet Assassin Daycare perhaps? or the world's most violent ballet teachers..." She seems to be genuinely trying at least.

The advice following Bobby's frown elicits an almost excited reaction like she actually believes she may have done something right, at least in the eyes of adults, for once. "Oh wait, I guess I didn't tell you, though I thought SHIELD just like knew things, or wait I did a minute ago, anyway yeah I am a Titan now and I help the Avengers sometimes too, so that's another problem taken care of and off the list!"

She leans back in the chair when Bobbi sighs, "I'm trying Bobbi, I really am."

Bobbi Morse has posed:
Bobbi frowns again, "Nadia you have to understand that the world you live in now is made up of people and almost everyone outside of the world you're investing yourself in is an idiot. You're a young woman now and you don't get the benefit of another five years like most teenage girls get. You're an adventure scientist lass now."

There, she threw the kid a bone. "We don't know everything, we wouldn't need spies if we knew everything, but I know that you are being evaluated for membership by the Titans, you are not a full member." She stabs a finger at her locked tablet, "Don't give them a reason they have to distance themselves from you. It's good you can hang around with that Donna Troy, Supergirl, and that cyberman.. Stone something?"

"You need to put those big brains of yours in to understand how people work. Now the attourney general has a bee in his bonnet, I want to see you doing some community outreach as a Titan, get some positive press in the newspaper so it'd be bad for his political career to make a move against you. See? that's how the system works."

Some actual advice from the super spy. Yep, she manipulates people for a living. 'optics' is the amateurs spy game but it could do wonders for the Waspette in the coming weeks. "And I will make sure he understands that you are working with authorities and will be an asset for the United States of America."

She lifts a finger, "Don't under-estimate how difficult it would be to convince Hank that he has to move to Canada because the USA won't let you live here."

Nadia Pym-van Dyne has posed:
Nadia doesn't seem too thrilled at this revelation that the world is full of idiots and that she is apparently supposed to humor them. She purses her lips as she chews on that even if being called a Lady Scientist Adventurer or something close enough by Bobbi does bring the edges of her smile back.

When Bobbi brings up her Titans status Nadia kind of shrugs, "Pizza is the same, missions are the same, the Titans aren't like SHIELD they don't have strict rules for everything. We're just there to help each other out and help as many people as we can in the process."

She sits and ponders the concept of 'optics' "That seems really shallow though, why should I be doing things just for appearances when I can use that time doing something like making the breakthroughs that helped Bushwick or figuring out how to help Lorna restore the people of Genosha." Yep, she's on a first name basis with Magneto's daughter now. "It doesn't make sense, I mean sure I want to help all kinds of people but there's just so many bigger things that need doing and recognition doesn't feel that important so long as they get done? Maybe Janet can call this Boss Legal General and talk to him, she's good at that whole optics and branding thing. I mean I guess I can try, I don't know. Yeah if you can talk to him that'd be great. This guy seems like a headache, as if things aren't already hard enough."

Bobbi Morse has posed:
Bobbi actually smirks and says, "Nadia. Things only get harder from here. You'll forever be juggling dozens of things at once and I expect you to ace it all. I know you can. Just be glad you don't have secret identities to maintain at the same time." Yep, plural. She puts her tablet away. "Now, you keep asking for pizza, let's go to the cafeteria. You're still my favourite wasp Nadia."

Nadia Pym-van Dyne has posed:
Nadia sighs like she is the most put upon teenager ever to teenage. To be fair she does have many more difficulties than the average teenager, though there's some of that great power stuff mixed in with the responsibilities. When Bobbi mentions pizza though, her entire demeanor suddenly brightens. "Yay! Pizza is the best! Bobbi did you know it has customizable toppings?!" Because apparently Nadia learned this for the first time recently.

Being a teenager is hard, but it's likely at least some of what was said today will stick. At the very least it seems like she will stop openly blabbing about state secrets to anyone who wants to hear.

Nadia smiles brightly as she half skips behind Bobbi towards the cafeteria, "And you're still my favorite Lady Scientist Adventurer Dr. Morse!"