[text]

[looksfine]

[It was rare for the young (not so) Artificial Intelligence to make a non-aural broadcast. The first clue that something wasn't quite right.]

[The second clue, on the other hand, was a bit less subtle:]

((Translation: "I strongly suspect there is an error in my translation matrixes. Have any other individuals had issues with communicating as of recent?" Yeah no kidding, Aya.))

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audio;

[lasergrenades]

[Squint. What is that even? Pepper is entirely confused, and with all the weird things going on lately...]

Uh. Aya? Are you okay?

audio/text

[looksfine]

[At first, there was silence on the other end. Perhaps a touch of residual aural feedback, but nothing to indicate anyting wrong.]

[Then:]



[[Translation: "I am unharmed. Why do you ask?]]

[A message, still written out, appeared on the screen. In precisely the same green glow as the original.]

audio --> video;

[lasergrenades]

[Well, this isn't going anywhere fast.]

Yeah, okay, I have no idea what you're saying. Uh.

[There has to be some way to even do basic communication. One for yes, two for no? Pepper switches to video.]

Do you know Morse Code? Or maybe turn on your video or something so I can see where you are and try to figure out why your messages look like gobbledegook.

--> video

[looksfine]

[At first, there was no response other than:]

. . .

((Translation: "...sigh."))

[From there, however, a flicker of the screen. Aya appeared. Looking quite like her self. At a glance, it would appear that nothing was wrong. However, when she opened her mouth...the language that she spoke was very clearly not English:]

01001001 01110100 00100000 01110011 01110100 01100001 01110010 01110100 01100101 01100100 00100000 01110100 01101000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01101101 01101111 01110010 01101110 01101001 01101110 01100111 00101110

[...unless one were able to translate each and every spoke number of binary code into English, of course, at which time they would decipher: "It started this morning".]

[As for a location, the background indicated she was currently present at Stark Industries. Unsurprisingly.]

video;

[lasergrenades]

[It's good to see that Aya is in one piece (although Pepper has yet to learn that she can, in fact, be in several pieces), and the background is recognizable enough. The new language, on the other hand... there's something familiar enough about it. A pattern. Hm. Computer code of some sort? If nothing else the suit's computer can do basic pattern recognition, and it might turn something up.]

Uh. One second. Er. Like, a minute.

[She puts on the armor and replays the video while the computer does an analysis. If it can handle Chinese, it can handle binary. And in short enough order, Pepper has a translation.]

So, you're speaking in binary. That's, uh. Weird. This is totally Tony's territory, let me see if I can find him...

video;

[looksfine]

[Oh, thank goodness! Once it became apparent that Pepper seemed to understand what she was saying--perhaps she should have gone with a spoken message from the start, Aya gave a small nod:]

01001000 01100101 00100000 01101000 01100001 01110011 00100000 01100010 01100101 01100101 01101110 00100000 01100001 01100010 01101100 01100101 00100000 01110100 01101111 00100000 01100001 01101001 01100100 00100000 01101101 01100101 00100000 01110111 01101001 01110100 01101000 00100000 01110010 01100101 01100111 01100001 01110010 01100100 01110011 00100000 01110100 01101111 00100000 01110011 01111001 01110011 01110100 01100101 01101101 00100000 01100101 01110010 01110010 01101111 01110010 01110011 00100000 01100010 01100101 01100110 01101111 01110010 01100101 00101100 00100000 01111001 01100101 01110011 00101110.