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"Remember the main complaint he had against you back in Canada," I gave a leading hint.
"Um," the guy was clearly struggling to pick out the central point from all that arguing, "that he has to leave his things behind?" he made an attempt anyway.
In response, I simply snapped my fingers. An illusion of a snow-dusted Logan with a very disgruntled mug and extended claws appeared in the center of the room.
"My car has never been so safe from attacks," the phantom announced, exuding gigatons of brutal skepticism while looking at Scott, and immediately vanished.
"Ahem!" Cyclops cleared his throat, looking away from the professor and me.
"Admit it, it was to be expected," I smiled with a dose of sympathy. "But thanks for reminding me. That's exactly the second topic I wanted to discuss, and I think you won't be out of place in this conversation. Charles?" I looked at the telepath, silently asking permission to continue.
"I'm listening," realizing that the unexpected intrusion was temporarily settled, the mutant preferred to finish the first matter before moving on to the rest.
"You have a terrible security system," I stated bluntly. Since I had taken up residence here, I wasn't going to allow that assault from the second movie under any circumstances. Naturally, before raising this issue, I had looked around thoroughly, but the conclusion was dismal.
"It's enough to lure you personally away from the school, and one competent special forces squad would be enough to clear this place out at night. They might lose a few people," I nodded at Cyclops, "but even a trained professional can't do much if caught off guard," I swept my gaze over the mutants.
"Given recent events, I'd advise attending to this matter, because you never know. Radicals aren't just found among mutants."
"I… agree!" barely digesting my speech, Cyclops immediately chimed in. "I've been saying for a long time that we need to strengthen perimeter defense! After Mystique walked in here and almost put you in a coma by sabotaging Cerebro, you have to agree!"
"Ah," the bald man in the wheelchair ran his palms over his face in suffering. Apparently, the argument was indeed far from the first…
"If you decide to install retractable turrets, I can write an artificial intelligence to control them," I offered graciously.
"Just don't connect it to the network; your human internet is something terrible. Children shouldn't be shown such things, psychological trauma could lead to a maniacal desire to destroy your species."
"What children?" Scott was surprised.
"A newborn artificial intelligence is just like a child. It needs parental involvement, care, and explanation of what is good and what is bad. Ideally, it should be kept isolated for a couple of years, allowing contact only with a few sapients until the personality is fully settled, but in your school that isn't necessary."
"Loki," Xavier called me softly, "let's talk about creating artificial intelligence another time. Better tell us what holes in the perimeter you see…"
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Another three weeks had passed since Wolverine left us.
I was still agonizing over the fact that I had landed in a fairy tale but missed out on the fairy-tale beauties, however, fried potatoes, cocoa, and American chocolate chip cookies were slowly reconciling me with reality.
By the way, white American bread (you know, the square kind that's slightly sweet) is also actually a pretty decent thing.
At first, I shied away from it, recalling the domestic "sliced loaf" with longing and nostalgia, but then, it wasn't bad, I got a taste for it, the main thing was to pair it with the right sausage!
Such a fateful expansion of my horizons remained unnoticed by anyone, however. But Cyclops and I managed to wear the Professor down, and now initiative was screwing the initiators, much to the envy and gossip of all the students.
Alas, they didn't let me install plasma turrets, armored shutters on doors and windows, or even a couple of robots.
Not that I was dying to… but sometimes the urge hit me.
I wanted the canonical steel citadel with buzzsaws, lasers, and an entire training hall with tangible holograms of Earth's scariest monsters for beating up unfortunate students.
For some reason, when I expressed such ideas, the people who canonically (in the cartoons, but who cares?) invented this stuff looked at me strangely, proving to me once again that the Marvel Cinematic Universe sucks.
No, I had like-minded people. Mostly among the students… Only among the students… Not to say they knew the ins and outs of my ideas, I prudently didn't tell them about throwing circular saws and sparring with the Hulk (so as not to spoil the surprise, naturally!), but they supported me, yes. In my lessons, mostly, but they supported me…
And yes, now once a week I gave a lesson on ancient history with visual aids in the form of illusions of people, objects, and dwellings of that time.
Strangely enough, it was fun.
Although I didn't even lean particularly hard on the reasons that prompted the past Loki to dislike Vikings and other Nordic Germanic peoples.
However, back to the security system. Reworking it for qualitatively better intrusion detection wasn't difficult, even Earth technologies allowed tracking a Mystique infiltration or a perimeter breach by some special forces at night; it just needed a little creative approach and a pinch of magic.
A trained professional can bypass any sensor, but how will he bypass it if he doesn't know of its existence? And it was the same with the rest.
I didn't abandon work on the "X-Gene Stimulator 2.0" either, simultaneously studying the data provided by Xavier, having already discovered the very interesting surname "Stryker" in the archive.
Another surname no less interesting to me, "Stark," was also present, slowly showing the first signs of preparing for his own funeral.
In the sense that in the movie, as soon as Tony realized he was dying, he started making moves toward a beautiful exit, the main one being the opening of the "Stark Expo" innovation festival.
It was announced on the news literally the day after the UN summit closed, and it immediately became the hottest news, causing all the recent screaming about mutants and the Registration Act to be lost all at once. By the way, the abruptly "changed" position of Senator Kelly came attached.
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