Phosphor and Loki seem to be doing something complicated to actually indirectly track people of concern.

Jian and Hulkling curl up to sleep pretty much right away.

And Wiccan approaches the bot.

"Hey!" she says, softly.

"Hello," says the robot. It has a different voice from a Doombot, sort of like Lorica's but androgynous and with a more carefully standard-television-American accent.

"So, uh, first - is there something you like to be called, how much of a person - are you or do you want to be considered as..."

"I'm called Rete. I'm not a person."

"Alright." She hums. "Are there a lot of AIs in your world?"

"Not very many. Most Tinkers have specialties that don't lend themselves to AI."

"Huh. I know one person-AI, Jarvis, and as far as I know his creator's only power is being rich and smart."

"I'm not aware of any unpowered person able to write AI in Earth Bet."

"Huh. I guess I don't really know a lot about programming or anything to guess what the difference is..."

"Without interacting with Jarvis I can't speculate."

"Well, hopefully once this's all sorted we can introduce you guys."

"Perhaps."

She hums. "Kind of awkwardly, though, Jarvis's creator's an Avenger..." She shrugs.

"Lorica has no historical dispute with the Avengers. Are they likely to distrust her by association?"

"Probably not as a group, but they're a really big group, so some individuals might be suspicious. Still, Loki's brother's sometimes an Avenger, and his boyfriend's one of the like founding members and is friends with Iron Man, Jarvis's creator."

"Sometimes?" asks Rete.

"He's part time, and not always even on this planet."

"What planet is he usually on?"

"Uh, I think before seventeen years ago that was Asgard, but Asgard's not really. Inhabitable. Anymore. I dunno now. Loki might?"

"What happened to Asgard?"

"...I don't know all the details. It burned, though, is what was - reported. No one was reported as surviving except Thor, though I guess Loki did, too."

"Who are the members of the Avengers?"

"Uh, not sure I can remember all them and who's current and who isn't, since the roster changes a lot - Captain America, Iron Man, Spider-Man, Luke Cage, Wolverine, Mockingbird, Captain Marvel, Doctor Strange, Power Woman, Echo, Spider-Woman... They've also got a lot of new recruits the American government doesn't super like? Who I think used to be less well-liked heroes or even villains. Thor's not currently a member. The Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver used to be pretty major members."