It's The Eye of the Camera ((New Mutants))

[sonoflongshot]

Aiden notified the gals that Val was coming to help out with getting the base rid of Mojo-sent cameras. Then he drove off to New York to go pick up Valeria. He made sure to ask her what she wanted to eat. The least he could do for her help was cook her a good meal. He had feeling he would be more useful in the kitchen than in tracking down the cameras.

When he pulled into the garage, he had a blonde super-genius with him.

"Tah dah," he announced to no one in particular.

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[valeria_richards]

She turned her gaze when she heard Caroline and she smiled warmly at the 'newer' New Mutant. "Hello! How are you doing? The drive wasn't so hard so it shouldn't be a huge problem. Few days at most."

Then she turned to the other girls, another round of hugs given. It felt odd... it felt good. "I've missed you guys too! It's been... weird. I've been living with Franklin for the last few months."

[jukeboxartist]

"Well enough, thanks," Caroline says cordially.

[sonoflongshot]

There was the scrabble of dog feet and the soft whirr of rotating treads as Zip and Cedric showed up at the door to the garage. Aiden leaned over to snatch up the black dog before he pounced on Valeria. He wasn't going to stop the robot zooming toward Val for a hug.

"I'm saving Val from puppy slobber. She's on her own on the Zip squeezes." Rather than let Cedric feel totally stymied, Aiden held the Scottie out to sniff, lick, and wiggle in Caroline's general direction.

[crawler_kid]

"Cedric, you calm down," Angel instructed the dog.

[summersspawn]

Sara dodged the rapidly moving small robot, and the even more rapidly moving puppy tail.

"Oh no, anything but the puppy slobber!"

[valeria_richards]

There's is a surprised sound when she sees Zip. And she feels... guilty. Zip's joy is endearing and... Oh my god, she didn't recall programming him about hugging people and...

She knelt to give the robot a tight hug, awkward as it was, and kissed the the top of the robot's head, blinking back tears. "Puppies and robots and cameras, oh my!"

Then a frown graced her features, "But it sounds like I should start doing a computer scanner in here."

[jukeboxartist]

Cedric will get lots of scritches to occupy him for the time being. And it was a good thing Caroline dind't have paint on her hands. "Sounds like a good plan. Gotta admit, I'm awful nervous."

[sonoflongshot]

Cedric did not calm down as ordered, and Aiden did not particularly blame him. The small dog was getting ATTENTION and was lapping it up. Somewhat literally.

The Mojoworlder leaned sideways a bit to watch what his dog was doing. Then he looked from Cedric to Caroline.

"Just remember, that doesn't count as washing your hands before supper. Or so I've been told. Loudly," Aiden shared the nugget of advice as sagely as possible. Though he doubted Caroline would have figured it worked as washing.

He glanced at Val and Zip and grinned. "You have five assistants and one mascot to help out. Tell us what to do."

[crawler_kid]

Angel nodded her agreement. "Whatever you need us to do, we can do," she said. "And... thanks, Val, for comin' back.

[summersspawn]

"Especially if it involves strangling Mojo."

[valeria_richards]

"As much as I would love to strangle Mojo, it's hard to do on this plane. We'll have to consider the matter at hand in the future."

She paused to consider. "Right now, I'd save things on my computer if I were you. That'd be helpful in case if the EMP swipe goes wrong. If you guys haven't moved it, I know there's a shield we can use for our equipment. That's probably secondary."

[jukeboxartist]

Caroline smiled at Aiden. "Yeah. Don't worry; pretty good on washing hands. She nods emphatically to Sara and then, at Val's suggestion, gets out hte flash drive with her grad school documentation on it.

[sonoflongshot]

Aiden tucked Cedric under his arm. "I should go grab some of the tracks I laid down. Recreating them won't be fun or easy."

The dog got too wiggly under his arm, and the Mojoworlder set the dog down.

[crawler_kid]

"And Ah'm gonna need to grab my laptop. Got just about all mah school stuff on their."

[summersspawn]

"My laptop and phone are hardened against, um... accidents." And had been since that little incident when she was using her father's phone shortly after her powers first manifested. "But I'll move them out anyways."

[valeria_richards]

Valeria gave a familiair whistle to ask Zip to come along and join her outside. It would be much safer for him outside the bubble than inside the bubble. And she had to take a long unused zetta-drive from her old lab to make sure a program she hadn't interacted with in a long time was safe outside with her. If this EMP sweep didn't work, she was pretty sure nothing she had would.

About 20 minutes later she was ready, computer set up and back up programs for the house safely secured. Now she just had to wait for the others to join her when they were ready.

[jukeboxartist]

Caroline scurried where indicated. She hoped this would do the trick.

[crawler_kid]

Her important items secured, Angel scooped up Cedric and joined Val and the others.

[sonoflongshot]

Aiden gathered up all his recordings and sensitive electronic gear. He puffed out a breath and headed back to where Valeria was working.

"Reportin' for duty, Cap'n Val." He would not salute, however. He was a ninja, not a pirate.

[summersspawn]

Sara waited with the others, holding a backpack stuffed with all her assorted electronic gear.

[valeria_richards]

Valeria sat with her feet tucked under herself as she began to type on her computer, thumb gliding over the thumbpad.

She pauses, looking at the laptop and then the home before her. The blonde of the former home of Casa De Blonde scooted back just a little more and nodded. "Everything is off, the wiring I have might get knocked off line but I don't think we should really worry about that. It's just the wires that run the wave. If this doesn't work I might have to stick around longer."

[jukeboxartist]

"When will we know if it's worked?" Caroline asked.

[sonoflongshot]

"This is not where I say I hope it doesn't work, right?" He kind of wanted Valeria around longer. Though everyone might like it if the cameras were gone. Aiden gave a sheepish smile and shrugged. He was as ready as he could be at the moment.

[crawler_kid]

Angel held on tight to Cedric. "Ah just wanna feel safe in mah own house again."

[summersspawn]

Sara drew a sheet of paper out of her backpack, crumpled it into a ball, and threw it at the back of Aiden's head.

"Nooooo, it's not."

She'd like Val to stay a while too, but she'd prefer to have her staying in their nice, surveillance-free home.