Fury left soon after explaining the initiative to me. The roster for the Avengers was the same as before with the exception of myself. Honestly it was surreal to me that I was on the list of Avengers and being considered for becoming one. If you had told me in my last life that I'd be in Marvel and potentially becoming a super hero I would have called you a loony and just walked away in a frustrated huff; frustrated because I really liked Marvel and hated normal Earth.
I digress, things were looking up for me now that Fury was off my back. By no means was he finished analysing me but that was fine, I was keeping my eyes on him as well. Or at least I would when my abilities were experimented with... Which, funnily enough, was right now since Tony was staring at me like a fat kid in a candy store.
"We're going to go experiment right this moment. No arguments Elsa!" He started jogging towards the elevators and glanced over his shoulder at me when I didn't rush after him. I was finishing my drink. Who would do something as uncouth as abandoning good Whiskey?
"Quickly... Stop slowing my mojo..." I scoffed at the Austin Powers reference and placed my cup down on the bar. The elevator dinged at that exact moment and he stood there holding the elevator for me as I walked over and in.
"I'm not slowing your mojo. If anything you're the one ruining mine. I mean my family is called Frost and you expect me to run around like some hothead?" It was his turn to scoff now, his expression showing smug condescension.
"Uh-huh, as if you aren't a hothead... Aren't you the one who went out on a date with a mutant who was chasing you down as a threat?" I sniffed disdainfully as he hit one of the buttons for the RND levels.
We both remained silent in the lull of our bantering, his hands darting along his Stark Phone. Reaching out with my ability to manipulate, control, read and understand technology I found that he was texting Pepper. They were supposedly going to meet up this Friday for the inaugural opening of Stark Towers and the disconnection of the building from the power grid of New York.
As I was communicating mentally with the tech I ran into another presence inside the tech. It was a surreal experience. Imagine that the inner workings of computers and chips were made up of 1's and 0's that formed base shapes and ideas. The browser on Tony's phone was a book on a pedestal whilst the messenger app was a rectangular panel of hundreds of thousands of binary codes amalgamated into letters. I was in this space, comfortable, content and quite interested... Reading his messages and the other information that sprinkled his phone. Then suddenly, out of no where, another person made of bright orange light and glowing with the intensity of a nuclear reaction walked into the same space. Naturally I shit myself and receded back into myself.
I blinked as the elevator opened up and a British Voice echoed through the floor beyond.
"Welcome Mr. Frost" It was Jarvis. Then it clicked... I'd just been looking through Tony Stark's phone and met Jarvis inside the CPU core.
I chuckled nervously. "Hello?"
Tony waved off my reaction as he considered this my first meeting with Jarvis properly. It was a lucky thing too, seeing as how I almost got caught by the artificial intelligence. Jarvis didn't bring it up at all and alerts weren't going off or anything, so I was probably very lucky.
"This is candy land. We have all the tech and doodads that you could ever need or want here. You're lucky you came today since most of this stuff wasn't here yesterday." He walked further into the clinical white hallway, bulletproof windows and doors lining the walkway.
We entered a confined room after a short period of walking. Inside the room were various microscopes, scanners and robotic aids. In the middle of the room stood a holographic display that was currently showing a completed Iron Man suite, specifically his first ever suit.
"Jarvis, create a new file. Name it Drecarios Frost with the subheading 'Elsa'." I rolled my eyes as Jarvis complied to his creator's orders.
"Under the Elsa subheading I want you to create four headings. Xenoglossy, Psychometry, Technopathy and TBMM; Touch Based Matter Manipulation."
"Understood sir. Shall I index the dictionary meanings of each of these words or concepts?" Tony nodded thoughtfully whilst staring at me, his right hand reaching up to his thin goatee and stroking it in mild contemplation.
"I also want you to generate possible combinations between these abilities and how we could possibly test for their viability." Jarvis hummed away in the background as the hologram was swiftly replaced with the image of those new files filling with information and diagrams.
There were hundreds of different combinations splaying out before us and Tony was blinking in surprise and utter glee. He was especially happy after noting that it could be possible for me to program the matter that I am manipulating.
"Jarvis, could you read the most basic combinations to us and their potential applications?"
"Certainly Sir."
He paused for a moment and the holograms shifted into a rather strong list of combinations.
"The first ability that has vast potential related to Technopathy and Xenoglossy; T and X for simplicity. This possibility is related on the automatic translation ability of Xenoglossy and the capacity of Technopathy to convert spoken language or other written language into completely new computing languages that would replace binary or trinary." Tony hummed and looked at me.
"Looks like you were right about that Elsa." I shrugged.
"Yes, but it is a fairly simple assumption to make with a description of the two powers." He conceded my point by nodding and turning back to Jarvis's little power point display.
"The second is a combination of T and Psychometry; or P. With these abilities combined you could scour technological databases that have been scrubbed and read the information directly from the past impressions or history of the database itself. Potentially you could even locate who created that data and what they used it for, this would require further experimentation and exploration."
"Damn Elsa, that's going to spook Fury if he ever find out you can do that. He loves erasing data he doesn't want people to see." I laughed a bit and listened on.
"The third combination combines T and Matter Manipulation; M. This theoretical application would posit that you could create small nanites using your Matter Manipulation and then interface with them using your Technopathy to achieve whatever goals you wish." I frowned at that idea and rolled the words over in my mind.
"Wouldn't I need to understand the internal structure and design of the nanite to get it to function properly and do as I wish?"
Jarvis paused for a few moments, computed my words and then responded. "Yes, this would be the case. It is not an impossibility however and in future could be something that you have access to." I smiled at the admission before the British AI continued.
"The Fourth option is a combination of X and P. You would essentially use Psychometry to parse the understanding that your Xenoglossy gives you and use that parsed text as a lie detector of sorts. Essentially you would be capable of detecting a lie or truth on written text and no doubt, if used with Technopathy, inside data sets." Tony was silent as the list continued. He was probably really jealous right now considering the fact that I could directly interface with technology.
"The fifth option is less of a combination and more of a potential theory. The idea was created after scraping the internet for theories and concepts related to these powers. One such theory is that objects have true names and that you could potentially use Xenoglossy to discover that true name and then channel it through Mater Manipulation to alter the structure of whatever you are working on to an item's base materials and atoms."
"So that is pure speculation..."
"Yes."
I shook my head. "Scrap that theory, whilst it sounds truly powerful and mind bending I am sure that science doesn't work that way." Magic didn't work that way either as far as I knew and from the comics only entities of extreme power had anything resembling a 'true name'.
Tony gave the okay to scrap that one and we continued on.
"The sixth and final combination is between P and M. This ability would give you the capability to repair anything back to its original pristine state. It would function by detecting the past state of the object, building or machine and then using matter manipulation to re-arrange the molecular lattice to its former state."
"Repairo, says Elsa... Hah! That's some Harry Potter shit." Tony was enjoying the idea of me just repairing an entire skyscraper with mind powers. For some reason it gave him the metaphorical tickles.
"I'm guessing that isn't all of the potential of my abilities?"
Jarvis took a few moments and then summoned several lists of abilities that could potentially be applicable, if a bit specific. The index also noted some possibilities as pure theory-craft and utter speculation.
"Could you list them for us to read through?"
"Yes I can Sir." Jarvis complied to Tony's question and order, the list springing up before our eyes.
Ternary (Three-Power) Integrations-
T + P + M | Rebuild, reboot, and reanimate destroyed technology from fragments and restore the last known operational configuration of any mechanical system.
T + X + P | Translate between biological neural patterns and digital logic systems. Copy emotional patterns, memories and readings into technological interfaces as raw data.
X + P + M | (Assuming Magic Is Real) Touch ancient artefacts and reconstruct their cultural meaning or mythic power through direct Translation/Manipulation.
T + X + M | Verbally program matter lattices to follow orders and words. Program technologies to instantly be capable of understanding languages, programming and binary/trinary code that is unfamiliar; create a pseudo artificial intelligence.
Quaternary (All Four Powers) High Complexity-
T + X + P + M | Comprehend, reconstruct, and communicate with any sentient or inanimate system. Translate memory, matter, and machine into a shared communicative field that could effectively commune with the surrounding universe. Theoretical Ability: enter into a state where all existence is readable and writable.
Specialized Subfunctions-
T/X, Auto-coding Linguistic Matrix:Converts spoken syntax into executable AI logic in real time.
P/M, Residual Matter Recovery:
Recovers obliterated evidence or lost items by reassembling residual atomic memories.
P/X, Semantic Emotional Reconstruction:
Converts the feeling left on an object into spoken or written form.
M/T, Quantum Circuit Sculpting:
Constructs circuitry directly into the material itself, nullifying the need for circuit boards.
etc...
The list continued on and on, showing minute uses for each of his abilities and their combinations. The speculations with relation to the usage of all four powers at the same time was a bit cookie but it certainly gave me perspective on how they could be used.
"Damn, I have to get you to work on my suits at some point... See what you can really do if given enough information, time and money."
Breathing in deeply I considered the idea of making my own armour or something similar. It would be cool to have something different to Tony but have it be equally badass or even better. If it was superior I could rub it in his face.
'I wonder if I should take a look at some of Reed's patents?' I exited that line of thought fairly quickly as I considered my options.
"Let's go see the limits of my matter manipulation before we make plans based off of it or my other abilities. This has given me ideas but that's all these are, concepts and possibilities. I have to practice before I can truly figure out what is possible."
He walked away abruptly and then came back with some titanium plates.
"No better way to start than converting one thing to another!" I exhaled and touched the metal. It was going to be a long day...
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