"You've known me less than five minutes," Emma pointed out as she settled into her chair. "Besides, when you're working in monochrome, it can sustain a lot more detail."
Interesting that he'd fallen so easily into a human form, and a female one at that...but really, what did gender even mean to alien robots? That was a question for another time, though. Now, it was more important to make sure he wasn't going to destroy any more buildings. Next time the person caught in the downrange might not be as hard to kill as Emma was.
"So." She steepled her fingers in a gesture common to masterminds everywhere. "I'm Emma Frost. You're Shockwave. As you've already surmised, I'm a powerful telepath and this is a mental construct designed to give you some psychological distance. Our physical bodies are unharmed and enough of my awareness is focused on the outside world that if anything happens we can be back to our normal perceptions in an instant."
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Interesting that he'd fallen so easily into a human form, and a female one at that...but really, what did gender even mean to alien robots? That was a question for another time, though. Now, it was more important to make sure he wasn't going to destroy any more buildings. Next time the person caught in the downrange might not be as hard to kill as Emma was.
"So." She steepled her fingers in a gesture common to masterminds everywhere. "I'm Emma Frost. You're Shockwave. As you've already surmised, I'm a powerful telepath and this is a mental construct designed to give you some psychological distance. Our physical bodies are unharmed and enough of my awareness is focused on the outside world that if anything happens we can be back to our normal perceptions in an instant."