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[consultingbishop]

So, I made soda.

[Who wants to be a guinea pig member of a focus group? Peter has soda.]

I've made it in a variety of flavours, native and otherwise, and I've even managed to brew something similar to stuff back home.

[Does anyone want a can of Smoca-Smola? Please don't sue.]

I've tested all of them myself, so they're not poisonous, but I have used all natural ingredients, so if you're allergic to the thing, don't drink the thing.

Oh, and this focus group? Foreigners only for now. Just in case something bad does happen.

[A pause.]

I mean, it won't? But... Just in case, y'know. Also, 18+. I don't do experimenting on kids.

[Yes, Peter is bored, so he made soda.]

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[consultingbishop]

I'm a scientist and engineer by nature. And this was something that's easy to reproduce, even here, so... Why not?

[Because SCIENCE.]

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[looksfine]

An acceptable line of reasoning, despite its vagueness.

Do you work at the local college?

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[consultingbishop]

I have a lab there, but I work at the hotel

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[looksfine]

Then would it be correct to assume the base of your experiments is at your college laboratory?

[It would make more sense than the hotel, from her perspective. She was not overly familiar with the hotel's layout, but it did not initially appear suited for such scientific inquiries.]

I, myself, have been stationed for several years at Stark Industries. The technology is still inferior to what I was created with, but it has adequately suited my needs.

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[consultingbishop]

Yeah. Better than doing 'em outta a closet at the hotel.

[Then a pause. Wait a moment.]

...Did you say created with.

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[looksfine]

I did, yes.

[His response garnered minimal surprise from her, already suspecting the reason. Either her choice of words had caught him off-guard...or he had genuinely not realized the nature of her being.]

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[consultingbishop]

So you're... artificial intelligence?

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[looksfine]

That is the most common terminology used to describe one of my kind.

Although...I am also organic. Alive.

[Not so artificial.]

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[consultingbishop]

Well... This is new.

[He doesn't seem freaked out by it. Not by a long shot.]

Remind me never to get on the wrong side of your creators.

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[looksfine]

[Yeah...funny story about that.]

...I would not object if you did.

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[consultingbishop]

...Lemme guess. Bit of bad memory about them?

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[looksfine]

Actually, I have no memories surrounding the circumstances of my birth. [And yes, she considered it a 'birth', even though she could not verify this as the definitively accurate scientific term.] But I do have memories of the Science Director of Oa attempting to dismantle and delete me once and for all.

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[consultingbishop]

You don't seem the psycho killer robot type... Why'd he try to do that?

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[looksfine]

She.

[Though gender was mostly irrelevant in this instance, Aya had a habit of correcting misinformation.]

It was determined that I have evolved beyond...acceptable parameters. They believed me to be too dangerous to continue existing.