9150/GIRL Expo: Aftermath

GIRL Expo: Aftermath
Date of Scene:	18 December 2021
Location:	Pym Technologies
Synopsis:	Pieces are picked up, stock is taken, information gathered. It's time for a meeting about A.I.M.
Cast of Characters:	Nadia Pym-van Dyne, Natasha Romanoff, Keli Quintela, Vivian Vision, Kaida Connolly

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Nadia Pym-van Dyne has posed:
The Expo certainly ended with a bang. Outside of the Pym Technologies main exhibit hall are the sparking smoldering headless ruins of the A.I.M. leader's giant robot. The roof of the building is covered in literal lava, from an actual mini-volcano, and rapidly losing integrity. Meanwhile the flaming wreckage of a pair of yellow war zeppelins burns and smolders in the nearby Delaware river.

By this point authorities have begun to arrive and mass arrests of the A.I.M. soldiers left behind, sacrificed for whatever Monica Rappaccini's true objective was, have begun.

It is amidst this scene of destruction, that we find our heroines, battered, bruised, but mostly successful in repelling the attack. Mostly.

Inside the Expo Hall, Nadia is still staring after the hole in the roof that Seeker dragged Brilliance and Finesse away through, before her eyes track towards the Zeta Beam display that is now missing one of its Zeta Beam emitters. That can't be good. Security had been pretty close to air tight, they just hadn't quite expected a full on army with tanks and a giant robot...

Natasha Romanoff has posed:
With a grunt, Natasha Romanoff shoves the hatch of her stolen tank open, the vehicle rendered lopsided by the abuse laid on one of its treds. It's fine, Natasha wasn't planning on keeping it.

"Sitrep." Natasha demands into her comlink as she drops from the tank's roof, and onto the ground, casting her eyes about to take in the situation as she heads back to the expo hall. "Nadia?" she calls out once she's inside the building. "Nadia, are you-" Natasha falls silent when she spots Nadia, and simply approaches her quietly. "... Are you hurt?" She asks before she concerns herself with anything else.

Keli Quintela has posed:
    Keli is still in her green robot construct, holding up the roof with more solid green light. Well, rapidly, it's becoming holding up /lava/ with solid green light, as the roof melts. She frowns and thinks about it for a moment, and adjusts the edges of her construct upward to keep the lava from dripping out.

    "Uhhh... little help here?" she calls out. She's still got a few of the A.I.M. soldiers corralled in a glowing green pen off to one side, too. Fashion jail, she called it. And they deserve the moniker, their outfits are /ugly/.

Vivian Vision has posed:
Of all the projects on display Vivs food research was always intended to be open to the world. So when A.I.M. began their attack she enacted a contingency plans. Phasing through the Expo to provide support at the main GIRL building to prevent any of the sensative information there getting seized.

While still maintaining a remote connection to carry out electronic warfare and helping to remotely direct civilians to safety.

The synthezoid teenager begins compiling a full report of captured A.I.M. troops, injuries, estimates on structural damage and insurance claims. Along with various other important data points to upload. Most of which is for The Black Widows attention. Although there's also a bunch of emails sent to Janet and her legal team too.

Kaida Connolly has posed:
An ear pops up through a hole in some rubble and then a nose and a head follow. Kaida's head pops free and she stares around briefly before she squeezes her body out and groans as she does. She reaches carefully back through the hole and pries free her sword and shield before letting out a breath and stretching out for a moment.

"Gah, that's rough." She whines as she then looks down at her leg and frowns at the gash in it. She shakes her head and then starts limping over toward where the others are and sighs, "Stupid A.I.M. jerks." She looks to what Keli is working on and then shakes her head. The mouse can do a lot but holding back lava is not in her wheel house, especially with a busted wheel.

Nadia Pym-van Dyne has posed:
"Nadia! Nadia, are you okay?" A surprised Nadia still processing what A.I.M. made off with and what their true goal might have been is suddenly hugged by a very concerned Janet.

"Janet! I'm fine, really!" Nadia returns the hug, one that she didn't actually initiate, how rare.

"Okay. You did great kiddo." Janet strokes the hair on the side of Nadia's head for a moment pushing it away from her face. "I'm going to go and deal with the authorities and make sure the right people get hauled away to some very dark holes for questioning." And with that, Janet vanishes into the crowds, pushing her way through to wherever the arriving DEO commander might be. Because with their track record, Pym Tech always draws the DEO.

Janet makes her exit just in time for Natasha's arrival and this time it is Nadia's turn to initiate the hugging, which she does. "I'm fine Nat, just some bruises and maybe a sprain." She is limping slightly when she doesn't actively eat the pain and force herself not to. "One of those girls was ...a really skilled fighter. I couldn't even touch her. It was almost like she instantly adapted to whatever I tried to do." She pauses. "They were trying to get into the Tereshkova, but when that failed their plan B was making off with one of the Zeta Beam emitters." She frowns. The tech is Rannian, it's not like it will be easily understood, it bothers her that she can't figure out their play here.

Meanwhile fire crews, some with jetpacks, because it is Pym Technologies, have moved into position and begun working on the roof lava, which is rapidly cooling and hardening into place. It's a very temporary stopgap solution until actual structural repairs can be made, but it seems like it will hold for now. "Hang in there Keli! You're doing amazing! Help should be in position any minute now!" Nadia calls back.

Natasha Romanoff has posed:
Natasha gives no outward sign of discomfort as she falls victim to the hugsassin, merely giving her shoulder a bit of a squeeze until she can pry herself away. She listens with a slight frown, and eyes the Tereshkova. "... I should have stayed here." She laments flatly. She shakes her head and says "I've been around guys like Thor too long. Got used to brawls."
"I'm sorry, Nadia." She says, un-emotionally, but sincerely. It's hard not to feel like she should have beenn able to avoid all of this, as head of security; but if small armies are going to bum-rush you, there's not a ton you can do about it, barring forewarning and a pre-emptive counterstrike. "We'll get it back." Of course, the unknown motive for the theft is concerning - especially considering the organization involved - and so is the person Nadia described, but... Nadia certainly doesn't need Natasha to tell her that.

Keli Quintela has posed:
    "Teen Lantern!" Keli calls. She got a whole lecture in a single glare from Tim Drake about secret identities when they met the other day, and she took it to heart. She's even got her mask on! And her voice is slightly modulated by the robot construct. Slightly.

    "But thanks! I'll just... hold this up here!" The A.I.M. people in fashion jail might be starting to get tired. At least compliant. Which... is helpful, right?

Vivian Vision has posed:
With the situation moving more into clean up Vivian begins to head back to the Expo. Portions of her mind can assist with the emergency services without impacting her normal operations.

She makes a quick stop on the way to retrieve a disaster relief kit. Filled with blankets and bottled water for the crowds outside. Which she distributes as she goes.

By the time she's close enough to phase back into the Expo she's already handed out most of the relief supplies. Keeping a small amount for anyone still inside.

"Does anyone need medical attention or help with anything?"

Kaida Connolly has posed:
It's fairly easy to be overlooked when you are the size of a mouse. It's just not that hard at all for people to miss you. Kaida limps, either way, toward where Nadia and Natasha are. She looks up as she approaches, eyeing the lava that Keli is holding on to before her gaze returns to Nadia and she sits on a rock near her and Natasha.

"That sucked." She states to no one in particular as she was caught in a blast and was knocked out early. Well, knocked out isn't the right word. She was buried. Knocked out of the fight might be more appropriate. She puts her shield to one side of her and her sword to the other as she looks over the gash on her tiny leg and shakes her head slowly.

"Is everyone alive at least?" She asks and looks up, doing her best to project despite the pain.

Nadia Pym-van Dyne has posed:
Nadia finishes hugging Natasha, "Don't apologize. We've been through worse." She smiles. "We'll have to have a strategy meeting later to go over what we've been able to gather.." She is telling Nat when she spies Kaida, "Oh no! Kaida! Are you okay?! We need need a medic over here!" Or would that be a Vet? She doesn't know so just sticks with medic.

Nadia glances in Keli's direction at the correction, "Yes... Teen Lantern... of course. That's definitely what I said." She might not be the best with secret identities, owing to not actually have one or really any identity at all until recently. The lava is soon under control and DEO agents have moved in to take custody of Keli's fashion jail.

"Viv!" Nadia's synthezoid great niece gets a hug too. "You're okay!" She lets out a sigh at the pronouncement of suckage. "Everyone seems to be alive. They had a plan and an army, we're.. just going to have to be more prepared in the future. Learning experience right?" Always a silver lining? "Anyway, search the scene and find any clues you can. We'll reconvene in GIRL HQ later for a meeting to figure out what we're going to /do/ about this."

Natasha Romanoff has posed:
Natasha steps aside as Nadia goes to her friends, merely nodding once and confirming "Injuries seem to be minimal. We got lucky."

Keli Quintela has posed:
    With the lava safely contained and the fashion jail inmates about to be dragged off for trial and, presumably, fashion maximum security prison, Keli lets her constructs go, including the robot. Then she floats on over toward Nadia, because the floating is /cool/.

    "Everyone's okay? Oh, that's good. I was worried. Are Madigan's rats okay? I saw she let them go and I don't know, maybe they're fine, they're super-rats, right? Ayyy, who even were those guys?"

    Oh, right. That's what meetings are for. She grins sheepishly.

Vivian Vision has posed:
"I am perfectly fine," Vivian assures her Great Aunt. "I was mostly engaging them electronically. Jamming communications, blocking targeting systems and other such things. None of which really pose any personal risk." She scans the rest of the room. "That being said I doubt most of the A.I.M. weapons could have really injured me either."

Her head tilts to one side.

"Hopefully she took the precaution of tagging her test subjects. I am certainly not going to be searching the sewer system for giant mutant rats." She scowls. "That sounds as if it would be awful..."

Kaida Connolly has posed:
A smiles is given to Nadia and she nods as someone comes over to try their best to fuss over someone who is six inches tall. She is in many ways closer to human than mouse but it for the purposes of making sure a leg wound is clean, anyone with first aid training will do. She winces as they do clean it and she looks over at Nadia to nod.

"I'll be there, I hope." She looks at her leg.