Xaviers!

"I'm not happy with its operating time. It's strictly short-term with the current power supply I have. But iterative development, right?"

"Need to put it through some practical tests at some point," she says, her processes obviously spinning through her memories in a diagnostic.

"Do we have a couple of days? We have enemies barking at our gates at the moment."

"I want to help my friends. I want to defend my home. This seems to be the way to do that at the moment."

Natalie nods and moves back, working to clear some space at Ashlie's direction. Finally she returns to the suit, giving it a look-over before she disconnects the parts and starts putting it on. It's not particularly sleek, but it at least has a uniform appearance, even if that appearance is 'metal gray'. All the pieces reconnect and she pulls on the helmet, the system in the suit beginning to boot up and feed her information. Finally, the lights in the helmet go all green and she says, "Well, here goes nothing," as she takes a a few slow steps towards the cleared out area.

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"Will do."

She backs up a bit and then runs forward, arms moving as someone's arms would when they run. She skids to a stop, the hips and knees having to compensate a bit for the slide and almost making her sit on the ground.

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>> "Interesting. You seem to have adjusted to some of it on the fly."

There's a brief injection of code as Ashlie patches some of the algorithms.

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>> "There, that should make it a little easier. Less unwieldy."

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"I think I failed to compensate correctly for the variance of weight in this body from my original body."

She runs again, sliding to a stop better this time. A couple of more tests with both more and less momentum and the algorithm seems to be holding, the movement assist code working as intended.

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"Power consumption seems to be holding steady. Let's try this."

She walks over and squats down to lift one of the heavier crates they had to move out of the way. Servos across the body spin up to provide additional support in response to the effort.

Metal groans for a moment as components and materials settle under the strain, but nothing breaks. Power consumption shoots up but that's to be expected.

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>> "Well within parameters."

She sets the crate down, moving to a lighter one and lifting it, monitoring the power spike.

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"Power consumption seems to be proportional to lifting assist as expected."

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"I've reviewed the footage. I've seen what Void can do. Not looking to engage at that level."
"We could try to take the others in hopes that, separated from them, Void might just get bored and go somewhere else."

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"Making her someone else's problem wouldn't be an ideal solution, of course."