Whatcha Need?

Fearless rolled into the blast of dark magic, together they slash their sword against the simulation of Adult Morgan le Fay ending the fight. The trio panting as their minds move out of sync and Sapphire fronts teasing Maria out loud “We beat up the extra hot old version of your GF, you think she would be flattered or pissed off?”

Sapphire rolls faer eyes as Maria internally rebuttals muttering to faerself “Ya, ya, ya. I know. Doesn’t change how awesome we are.”

Fae recombine the harmonized blade and start to towel down after their workout. They were in a purple tank top and work out pants instead of their normal hero costume, Sapphire makes her way out of the training getting ready to head back to the haunted house.

“Ah!” Jenny had been pacing in the hall just outside the danger room. Now she was running up to Sapphire, having been further down the hall that she’d realized. “Do y’all have time to talk…” When she gets close enough, she whispers “...about crime?”

Sapphire smiled seeing Jenny and waved hello but a smirk broke from their face and Maria shifted in saying with a sense of glee “Oh crime, always.”

They keep moving forward looking around for other people and then when they know the pair was alone asked “So what’s up, what kind of crime are you thinking about?”‘

“Well… I’m thinking of breaking into a maximum security building and stealing a one-of-a-kind artificial intelligence.” Jenny kicks the floor bashfully. “I was wondering if I should? I was wondering how I know I’m doing good.” Jenny grips her own arm and twists her hand a little. She felt a little silly asking: she’d helped Signal break into Mercury Biotechnical before. But this time it felt different.

Maria nodded their head and walked Jenny over to a couch and leaned in looking at her “Okay, I mean Max security is hard but fun to break into.”

They cross their legs and ask “If you mean good as in planning well, coming to me is objectively a good decision, if you mean good as in morally good, well why do you want to steal this AI? What’s the AI for? I’m super happy to talk ethics or whatever.”

“Well, Bishop uses the AI to track timeline changes and well… That’s why my AI was created for. I say AI but I’m not an AI anymore, I’m more than that-” Jenny waves her hands in front of her, as if clearing away smoke. “That’s not really important! What’s important is that I think of them as a younger sibling. And as an older sibling, I should make sure they’re being treated well.”

Maria nods their head about Jenny’s backstory. They had announced some of that stuff to the team before and honestly, Maria wasn’t the type to judge a person for their past especially not another teen. Plus they meet so many different kinds of people since they meet Laura.

Maria states as a matter of fact “You are in the moral right here, they are your younger sibling. You have the right to go save them and ask them what they want in their life. Once you save them you can’t choose what they do but you got the right to go in and try.”

Elena takes control and smiles waving “hey, it’s Elena, I agree with Maria, that’s your family if it was someone I loved, I’d go in like grease on lighting so the fact your being ice about it is really mature.”

Sapphire joins in fae quickly adding “Sapphire and ya, also we would be down to help if you asked for it.”

Jenny nods along to each of the responses, pausing only for a moment to Boogle ‘grease on lightning’. She then ruffles her hair in frustration and lets out a groan. “I know I want to do it! I want to ask the whole team to help me!” She slumps into the coach and looks up at Sapphire. “There’s just this feeling… this gut feeling… that I’m not ready. Not just to break in… to save them.”

Sapphire nods their head “Then what you're missing is a plan and a team.”

Fae offered a hand to put on Jenny’s shoulder in comfort while they assure Jenny “This is something that matters to you, it’s best to know all the variables you can.”

Maria adds “and the potential fall back, most the team is cool but you would be committing crimes and they may be totally in their legal rights for everything. You could piss off a lot of people on and off the team, not just Bishop.”

Jenny sits up a little straighter. “That’s true. I wouldn’t want to cause problems for anyone else but Bishop.” It was Seb who uttered the wise words ‘Fuck Bishop’. “It might take a while-” Seb had also shown her big things start with small steps. “-but I want to make sure I take note of everything.” Dolores has taught her that one.

“I want to do good.” A superhero should do good.

“Where should we start?”

“Well, before we get into any planning, it’s making sure you got your moral code in order. I lived under a code when I was a villain, and when I go back probably. I think that’s important, that people know what they stand for.”

Maria wanted Jenny to start off on the right track, whatever label a person who just does whatever they want because the ends justify the means was unlikely to act for anyone but themselves. This was clearly a good goal but they figured they should throw that out first.

Maria quickly adds to it “That’s not something you need to know now, just something you should note down for later. The first part of planning a heist is knowing you target. Get the layout of where it’s being kept, why it’s being kept there, who is guarding it, do you know that kind of stuff?”

A moral code… Jenny had heard of it before. Was it like computer code. Boogle said no. They were like rules but also not like rules? More than rules? Oh, good, it wasn’t something she had to worry about right now.

“Those are all good questions!”, in reference to planning the heist. “I only have an answer to one of them.” Her gaze trails down to the ground and her eyes grow wide, evoking that she’d just fully realized she’s in over her head.

“This will take longer than a few days to plan, huh?”

Maria grinned arrogantly, they lean in closer to Jenny “You came to a pro, I know lots of people who can make this go way faster, I can get them for the scouting phase but they won’t work with the big team for the full gig. After that it will be whatever team you put together, this is your sibling, you’ll be leading this but we’ll be here to help you like Sapphire said.”

“We have to be careful!” Jenny could feel the worry when it comes to Bishop bubble inside her. “Bishop can’t know I’m looking into this. They already know I exist… but they want to know how. I can’t risk them finding a way around my sanctuaries and having them find me! Mmm…” Jenny rolls her shoulders, trying to shake off her anxious feelings. “But I know Big Team has my back. I know y’all have my back.”

Maria stood up and smirked at Jenny, she was determined, she had a mission, it was nice to see. They waved their hand and said "Perfect, you ready got this, knowing you can lean on others is the first real step."

With that the trio headed off Elena teasing Maria "look at you, that was pretty heroic."

Maria rolled their eyes and hoped on Aphrodite "Let's get home I got calls to make."