<strong>Ada (NYC)</strong><br/><br/>As soon as Ada had released the two guys they hurried off as fast as they could. She had till noon the coming day, and a sweaty student-housing room for herself. The simple 'common room' was messy but with the gear on the towel on the floor being a section of the room that looked reasonably clean compared to everything else. Three nearby doors lead to two bedrooms, each with a computer hooked up at ready and a number of DVDs, ranging from porn to a few good and a few bad movies, and a number of games. The last room being a small bathroom, the whole place looked like a decent-to-live cell-apartment for the students without more money at hand.<br/><br/>As Ada then went to work with the small computer, she came up with a few phrases. "Energy Low, Neural Connection Not Detected, Fusion Reaction halted, security lockdown in progress, integrity at 40%, self-repair initialized but pending Neural Connection remaining at slow pace." All in all, the orb was beginning to get a bit hot to the touch near the two other items, the small computer device projecting hologram text above its screen a few times, but still in a flat '2D' image nonetheless. The rod in turn was quiet, though its pressure plate in the handle seemed to click a couple of times during the work with the small control device.<br/><br/><hr/><hr/><strong>Myriad (LA)</strong><br/><br/>The press conference over, Marie had been gathering her strength, also a bit worn out by it towards the end but smiling to Val as she walked up to her, holding out a glass with a drink in it, sipping on another. "I think we made a good impression. Even that incident was turned to a victory by your quick wit. She came off looking like a loon and troublemaker while you could see the others applaud you for how you handled it. That is going to be good publicity, and media loves those that throw them a bone with a good bit of meat left on it. Throwing her to the wolves like that and giving them an even more juicy story as well as now having everyone's attention on the professional metahuman, you'll have to learn to avoid people you dont want to deal with, I imagine I may have to allocate some budget to protecting you from your fans soon enough."<br/><br/>Smiling as she sipped on her drink she chuckled. "Our third partner also announced that there were 2 criminal charges brought against you, and dismissed even more quickly. Apparently some people tried to act against you claiming you have been travelling using the same ID for multiple persons but at the end, you are multiple people at once, so you did nothing illegal, even if the situation is unique." She chuckled. "And in the good news, I also got a few job offers, we can review them later."<br/><br/><hr/><hr/><strong>Paradox (NYC)</strong><br/><br/>As the Guard headed off and J7 moved to find a better spot to get a connection from he soon came alongside an old 'Cafe Java' store, and less than ten minutes after that he had the information of the just-opened and public Myriad Inc website, though it did not issue any location information for their star, for the sake of privacy and security.<br/><br/>For the piece of machinery he had brought with him in the form of his suit though, getting the information wasn't beyond his abilities. It could have been frustrating how rigid the coding could be in the 2012, but nonetheless in a short while J7 held information of where the NYC side 'family' of Val had been relocated after the announcement.