"I can be careful with my aim."

"What's the best case I should aim for?"

"Knocking down the relevant parts of the grid will mostly disable their communications, especially with Doom himself. It should also cause enough confusion that things like missing terminals and bots should take longer to be reported. The bots themselves have their own power sources, though if I escalate to acting openly instead of pretending to be a natural phenomenon, I can disable most of those."

"Okay, but how long do they need to not notice us?"

"We should be able to get in and out within a few hours. Less, if we're lucky."

"How many bots are we talking about?"

"No one's ever gotten a good count. Me and Loki tried to get a broad estimate last night - the region has hundreds, maybe low thousands, but it's, well, a region, and Doom uses them for a lot of maintaining order and work stuff. Sentry bots - maybe half a dozen to a dozen anywhere near our route, those are a bit better hidden though so that's somewhat guess work. If it comes to an open fight - I think we're really unlikely to have to deal with more than.. One or two dozen? That're actually meant for fighting, even if we get really unlucky, and Doom's bots tend to be high volume, low durability so Wiccan and Speed can probably break them pretty easily. That's assuming we teleport out pretty quickly rather than sit around and wait for them to call reinforcements, though, which I'd suggest we do."

"Yeah, I'm wondering how many I have to hack. I'm thinking I'll find a bug to trigger, that won't look as much like enemy action and I don't think this guy's actually a Tinker, there are shallow bugs all over the place."

"I know anything about interfacing my powers with technology - I might be able to help that spread."

"How d'you work when you're doing that?"

"You mean how does my power work like that?"

"What will happen if you use it, what am I coding around?"

"Probably the most useful thing here is if I have something containing whatever code - like a flash drive or something - and I make their systems behave like I just plugged it directly into them, without me actually having to get close to them. I'd need to know more about computers to do more complicated stuff than that."

"Ooh, cool, okay, I can work with remote delivery."

"Good. How much prep time do you need? And do you need anything other than 'an example bot and a terminal'?"

"Have my example bot, and with remote delivery I don't require a terminal. I'm on it. I've got a gaze tracking setup in my helmet."

"On it enough Magneto should go ahead and start causing them grid problems?"

"Give me five and then yeah."

"We'll work on getting him away from us, then," she says, already turning to Phosphor and Wiccan to start working on locating a good place to drop him.

"Virus ready to go," Lorica reports shortly.

"Be right back, then," Wiccan says, tapping Magneto and vanishing with him.

"How quickly does it act?" Loki asks Lorica.

"I can send it out in a sleeper state and then trigger it if this guy is as bad a programmer as I think."

"Should I get it into a terminal to start, then? Sounds easier on me, that way."

"Sounds good."