"In the short term, not great, in the medium term, okayish?"

"Okay. My suit can hold up on the charge it's got for another three weeks on power saver protocols."

"If you need power before you can get something long-term reliable integrated, Emily's power is magnetism, not ferrokinesis."

"Okay, yes, that would help a lot, with the suit and everything else too."

"Okay. How d'you want to do that, I know that too many volts will burn out a circuit..."

Lorica rattles off specs for the suit's charging apparatus - "but I can build or modify a transformer, do you have those cords with blocks in the middle of them, one of those, I can screw with it and work with most anything on the far end."

"I think so...there are probably some in the Blackbird if you can describe them well enough for Emily to identify."

"Transformers are things that take power input and adjust it for the tolerances of something that isn't built to take that kind of juice straight."

"Honestly I think your first description was probably more useful. What it's made of, what it looks like instead of what it does."

"Uh, okay - I don't have a projector in the suit or Rete would show you one, only the little hover bots have those... got any paper?"

"Not as such but I bet Emily can come up with a piece of metal about the same texture as a chalkboard and something anodized or oxidized to use as chalk."

"Sure, that works."

"We've gotten pretty good at creative uses of magnetism over the last few years."

"It seems like a really good power!"

"It is. Was. Is."

Nod. "It doesn't work on Sentinels for some reason?"

"It does sometimes, but they have this--ability to adapt to mutant powers."

"That really sounds like Tinker bullshit, normal tech shouldn't be able to do things like that, but I guess I don't know how mutant powers work in the first place to know how hard they'd be to counter."

"Did you see that--little dried-up bit of biological material in the center?"

"Yeah, but I was black-boxing it, I have a M- Parahuman powers almost always work exclusively on one of living or nonliving things, I do nonliving."

"It's a culture of tissue from a mutant with really adaptive powers, I don't know how exactly they interface it with the Sentinels but they do."

"Mm. Do you know where Sentinels are built, is it one factory somewhere or a distribution? Tempted to bomb it to shit."

"It used to be one factory but now there are more."

"Like five or like seven thousand, that affects how tempted I am to bomb them to shit."

"Probably more like seven thousand," says Emily, who has made as many of the thing as she can with the available spare metal. "We run into them all the time. And we used to raid them, when there were more of us, to shut them down and in case the mutant they got the tissue from was still alive. 

"She was our aunt."