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[clarklike]

[Krypto and Shelby both growl as Clark opens the door, and Clark kneels to greet both dogs. When Krypto comes over, though, Clark's tone shifts from concern to surprise. There's a moment where he's checking out the room, and then he grabs both a piece of metal from the floor and the journal from his pocket.]Hey. My dog had a scrap with the people

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[encryptedlock]

Oh, kickass. Can you tell where the pieces come from? Leg, chestplate, heaven forbid power supply?

[clarklike]

[momentarily holding it up to his own arm and whatnot to check, lol.]

Looks like a forearm, but it's missing the hand.

[encryptedlock]

Awesome. What color? Any guesses on the material?

[He'd suspected it was the armor squad, but confirmation would be nice.]

[clarklike]

Red and silver, with pink streaks spray-painted over-top. Whatever it is, it's dense and not unlike Tony's suit. I can't scan it properly.

[encryptedlock]

Pink? Spraypaint? You don't spraypaint this kind of armor! Christ. Maybe they really do have the maturity of a twelve-year-old.

Right, so, obviously we'll want him to run analysis, but if it doesn't match his I have some other samples to test against.

[clarklike]

Looks like it so far.

What I'm wondering is how they took one of Tony's suits and fit it to a woman.

[encryptedlock]

[Just a sigh for the poor mistreated armor.]

Hate to break it to you, but men and women are actually shaped pretty damn similarly. Either she doesn't have the same musculature in her upper body as Stark and there's adequate room anyway, or they used nice, old-fashioned metalworking techniques to reshape the chestplate. Like a hammer.

[clarklike]

I'm not exactly an expert, but it definitely is made smaller. Sloppily, but it must have been in working order.

[encryptedlock]

[He chuckles.]

All right, all right. Just don't tell lovely 6'9" Kat who could benchpress a dozen guys that things are made any differently for women in our society.

[clarklike]

[amused]

Well, you can mistake Kat for a man in that suit. I'm bigger than Tony is, even when he's in his suit, and this piece is even smaller.

[encryptedlock]

You can, maybe. I'm used to chicks in armor.

Gotcha. So that's not the only tech they have, then - they must at least have the setup for modifying it.

[clarklike]

Again: not exactly an expert.

They must have technology if they have the crystals to power it. Otherwise, why bother?

[encryptedlock]

I know they have technology, I'm just talking about what kind. If they can modify this, they can probably duplicate it.

[clarklike]

If they have the supplies. They don't exactly have a castle to wish it up in, and I doubt they have huge mines and metal refineries and forges for that.

[encryptedlock]

...Not to mention from all accounts, they stupidly didn't steal anything while they were here.

[clarklike]

They may have asked for stuff, but that's right. Why come in here, make a huge mess, and not actually take anything?

It's even hypocritical -- they talk about wanting to get away from this place, and for us to stay on our own territory, but then they come here.