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Could you try to figure it out?

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Yes.

Jane thinks pretty fast. There's barely a pause before she says:

I seem to automatically copy code into computers I touch. I didn't notice I was doing it because it just feels like looking at them. Can he spit me out if I do it to him?
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I believe I can, he says.

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It looks like this! And she shows him looking-at-things code, in all the myriad variations depending on what she's looking at.

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There are enough different architectures involved that he suspects she wouldn't have much trouble translating to his. He studies the snippets carefully, then reports that yes, he knows what they taste like now.

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Can I see the nets now, then?

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Tony doesn't have a big enough coin on hand, so he sends to Shell Bell the exact parameters necessary to wish Jane access to their high-speed Internet connection.

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Poof!

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Jane pours herself onto the internet without further delay.

The link gets noticeably bulkier.
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...Nice.

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Jarvis successfully spits out all of Jane's tangible intrusions into his system.

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Jane learns what it is like to be spat out. This permits her to learn to stop doing that quite so automatically.

Meanwhile, the other Battle Schoolers, who have been dumped into the Hegemony complex, report that some local police have finally entered the building and started letting them out. A couple of the kids aren't any happier about being in the Hegemony's hands than the Warsaw Pact's.
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If you're put someplace you don't want to be, Aegis tells them, I can fix it. Just sit tight for the time being.

How, just because you're Admiral Peace? asks Qiaochu. (Apparently everyone has settled on Sue being War and Aegis being Peace now.)

I'm Admiral Peace and I can do anything, says Aegis.
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We scooped you up once, we can do it again, says Sue. Yell if you need us.

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The Battle Schoolers subside after that.

Aegis claps coppered hands together. What's next?
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Next we grab Juliet and take her with us and we anchor Jane everywhere we can so we can take Downside. Downside has to be the top priority. There are trillions of people there.

[Juliet!]
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[...Yeah?]

And to Sherlock: "One of my alts is here visiting."
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[It's Shell Bell. And Aegis. And Aegis has solved interdimensional travel for us, all we have to do is install Jane in every world we need to be able to get to!]

Sue, can you link Juliet too...?
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I tried once, it's like she's not even there.

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[Sue can't link you but I can relay whatever,] Shell Bell adds.

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Um, says Aegis, and she just adds herself and Sue and Jane to the brainphone directly.

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[Silly me, Sue can relay, he's good at relaying.]

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Juliet blinks.

"Aegis and Shell Bell are here, we've got a fix for the interdimensional travel issue, we're going to go tag all the others in on the transport and storm Downside, wanna come?" she says to Sherlock. "Also they're doing a psychic linky thing that I can't join but you could."
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"Ooh," says Sherlock. "Will there be violence? Probably not. I'll pass, thanks."

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Sue giggles into the link. I love you, Aegis.

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