MTMTE. SHIELD HQ. Hacker

[dens_extra_pups]

Natasha: *eyeing the heavily armoured building across the street* Mira, I helped with that security system. There's no way to get through it.

Mira: I got twenty bucks that says otherwise.

Natasha: You know you're going to lose, and *beep* Fury off even worse than your quitting already has.

Mira: Oh, I'm not gonna lose. Fury'll still be *beeped* off, 'cause that's just how she is, but I'm not gonna lose.

Natasha: You know I have it wired to detect cybernetics, right? And to look at the ceilings. And you won't fit through the vents.

Mira: *amusedly* You really wanna lose that twenty bucks, don't you? *will reach into her pants pocket*

Natasha: *slight, amused and bemused snort* Let me guess, you've fried your brain on that sick game you were playing the other day.

Mira: *snort* Naw. *quick flick of movement, and then she's putting on what looks like some sort of bluetooth mic and eyepiece.

Natasha: *interested frown*

Mira: *smirking muchly as she pulls her little homemade drone out of another pocket, then she's clicking softly to something small and pink that fits in her hand*

Belinda: *soft peep*

Natasha: *eyes widen slightly with surprise, and then narrow as she tries to see what that is*

Mira: *more gentle clicks as she puts what looks like a tiny backpack and goggles on the pink critter*

Belinda: *more peep. Knows this game!*

Natasha: *opens her mouth to ask a question, but then shuts it again and resumes the interested frown with one brow slightly raised*

Belinda: *much eager peep as she hangs onto her ride. Loves fly time!*

Natasha: *both brows up as she sees the little animal put into the pocket in the middle of the flying drone* *now her frown has some concern in it*

Belinda: *much excite, sitting so pretty!*

Mira: *skillfully piloting the drone* *to Natasha* Here's hoping Lardo doesn't show up, 'cause Belinda'll wanna dive bomb him.

Natasha: *mouth once more opens silently as her eyes flick from Mira to the drone, and then briefly down to the street before snapping back to the drone*

Belinda: *peeping is soon lost to the wind as she's flown to where she can climb into the building*

Mira: *talking quietly to the fuzzy now, using her voice to encourage and guide her pet* Go, go, go, right...

Natasha: *mouth and eyes are now both open wide as she stares at Mira*

Mira: *focusing muchly* Whoa, stop. Left. Go, go...

Natasha: *startles as Mira pokes a cheap tablet at her, then hesitantly tips it up and looks at the screen*

tablet: *shows a feed from inside the vents. It's labeled "Belinda" in the upper left corner*

Natasha: *gasps as she realizes she's looking at the viewpoint of the tiny animal, and that the little creature has just squeezed in with the wiring* She'll get shocked. That... that's not safe.

Mira: She's fine. She crawls through my wiring whenever she's not out getting fed or riding in her helicopter.

Natasha: You don't carry that much electricity. *is plainly distressed as she continues to watch*

Mira: Her first home carried a lot more than HQ does. *will pull up the picture Fireflight sent her awhile back on her phone and offer that to Natasha* The kid next ta it turns inta a jet.

Natasha: *staaare, and then a quick glance back to the tablet and a grimace* Cockroach.

Mira: *snerk* Belinda'll get it.

Natasha: *winces as the bug is grabbed and vanishes briefly before reappearing without head and legs* ...She put it on her belly?

Mira: She's got a pocket there on her harness.

Natasha: *watching as dust bunnies are pushed aside and the inside of the wire conduits takes on the aspect of a whole world* Oh...

Mira: *attention back to guiding Belinda, a smirk tugging at the corner of her mouth* Tempted ta get footage'a Fury's reaction.

Natasha: *eyes glued to the screen as she shakes her head* She'd shoot it.

Mira: I meant ta me beatin' her security system.

Natasha: ... She might shoot you. *pause* Or me.

Mira: *wordlessly offers Natasha what looks like a fancy wristwatch* Green button'll get ya someplace safe.

Natasha: *glances at it. Thinks about it. Takes it*

Mira: You c'n get a better one the first time ya go. It'll run ya six bucks.

Natasha: I'll remember that... is she wiping the lenses of her goggles?

Mira: Prolly.

Natasha: *expression says plainly that she's wondering just what that little pink thing IS* ...How do you even know where to go to turn off the security?

Mira: I know how you think. *smirrrrrrrk* 'N I've been in there before.

Natasha: *jaw drops again as she side-glances* You do not.

Mira: *names off several sections of the wiring as Belinda passes them, and tells what they control*

Natasha: That doesn't prove that you know how I think. I didn't do the wiring.

Mira: You just did the security set up.

Natasha: Right.

Mira: *absent hum as she guides Belinda through to a seemingly randomly chosen area*

Natasha: *a lifetime of training and conditioning doesn't keep her from holding her breath for a nearly silent instant as she recognizes the location*

Belinda: *carefully wriggling out of the wiring and back into the vent*

Natasha: There went another roach.

Mira: She'll prolly get it.

Natasha: ...Nope, she's going the other way.

Mira: *soft snerk* She's havin' too much fun followin' orders.

Natasha: 0_o

Mira: Yeah, I know. I gotta weird-*aft* pet.

Natasha: *softly, still glued to the screen* Birds of a feather... *another little breath hitch as Belinda reaches the grid leading to the security control room*

Mira: *softly* Stop. Gear out.

Belinda: *stops and squirms around a bit until she can reach the backpack, then it's getting removed. Once the pack's off her back, she'll pull out what looks like a miniature handheld game console and a USB cable*

Natasha: ...Is that a miniature oldschool Gameboy with her name on it?

Mira: Arduboy. I chipped in for their kickstarter.

Belinda: *sniffing the air and waiting for instructions. Has plugged her Arduboy into one end of the cable, and is now holding the opposite end close to her chest*

Mira: *will guide Belinda to the right USB port*

Natasha: *again that barely discernible breath hitch as the little pet reaches the right port*

Belinda: *soon has the cord plugged in, then she's scooting back to her Arduboy and starting up her game*

Mira: *smuuuuuug*

Natasha: *frowns* She's playing some kind of pong maze?

Mira: *smirk* That, and she's hacking in.

Natasha: *jaw drops again* Without instruction?

Mira: She knows how the game works.

Natasha: *sits and watches for nearly half an hour, marvelling that no alarms have been triggered and that the system doesn't seem to know that it's being hacked*

Mira: *quite amused at how well Belinda's doing*

Natasha: *softly* The pong's gone.

Mira: *smirk* Keep watchin'.

Belinda: *pushes a button on her game, and the scary face that's currently on the screen vanishes. It's replaced with a smiley face moments later*

Mira: She's in, 'n the security's off.

Natasha: *mouth open. Looks over at the building, then to Mira* No way.

Mira: Want me ta prove it?

Natasha: *studies the building* ...No. Now what? *attention back to the screen*

Mira: Now, we go get Belinda, 'n turn the security system back on.

((written with random_xtras))