Panu was not a child who bragged. So as the days ticked by after his mission with Kirsi, he waited, and did not brag. He did not say anything at all as most of Lori Faust's cure researchers abandoned her company en masse. He did not preen when they found their way to the doorstep of Jaager Worldwide, and began interviewing for positions that had suddenly opened up in HR's records. He only woke up early each morning and looked up recipes for lunches and made sure that Jaager had something to take to work with him (he was getting very good at making sandwiches). He did not say anything at all about the absolute success and triumph he'd had over Faust.

Neither did Jaager.

As the days went by and the researchers who'd left were hired (except for the one who had fled the state, he was only a mid-level researcher so Panu did not care), Jaager did not say anything at all. He played his fruit ninja game at breakfast and he still did not order Panu to do anything and sometimes he literally did not say anything at all.

Clearly the Faust project had been too small. Panu needed to try harder. So as Jaager left for work that day, the blond boy called up his new Scandinavian acquaintance with a new job offer. They worked all day to set it up. It was not hard work, but getting close to all the robots took a lot of bus riding and people kept telling Panu it was dangerous for children to ride without an adult. But Kirsi was more dangerous than an adult, so with her he was safe.

Jaager was late coming home because he was a jerk. But it was okay, later was better. Now that the sun was set, the man could fly as Jörmungandr without too much trouble.

But Kirsi was being paid by the hour, so probably he would need to hit many more ATMs to pay her. It was okay. It was not like it was his money.

Finally finally finally the door knob started to turn. The Fin wasted no time in hurrying over. Jaager was very late but that was okay, that just meant that things were already in perfect place and the man would not have to wait. Jaager was not really a waiting person.

"You are come with me," the boy said, grabbing his adopted father's hand with a stubborness that was very forward for him. "I have present. Is good present so stop being passive-aggressive and come."

They were going to the Sanctuary. This was where he the present had been set up. All day, as META bots had come into his range, he had added a new order to their programmed agendas: at 9:30, converge on Sanctuary. Arrest the Order. He had not needed to give them pictures, the police were not stupid, Isabel and Aura and Giant's Bane and all the others who liked to do big public things were already pre-programmed as priority targets. He only needed to tell them where to go.

On the way, he introduced Kirsi to his father. "Jörmungandr, this is Renegade. Renegade, this is Jörmungandr. He is Loki's second in command in Ragnarok. Field commander."

From outside the Sanctuary, the scene would look like this. 9:28: very normal night. 9:29: very normal night, maybe some extra traffic noises, nothing visible from windows. 9:30 ROBOT ARMY.

(Actually there were only five, three knights and an ugly dog and a pretty dog. The robots were still in early deployment and he had not found where the main storage was.)

It was very very good present, Panu hoped. Enough to make a dragon stop sulking.

Kirsi wasn't a hundred percent sure what Panu was trying to do.

He'd dragged her all over the city to find these new META bots, and she was glad that she had dodged a bullet (not the best idiom to use, but the idea was the same) by not getting tagged by that bot at the park. Because otherwise, this little expedition of theirs would've been difficult. She wasn't entirely sure what Panu was trying to accomplish, or why he'd hired her to accompany him. She supposed he could be reprogramming them to do something - what, though, she didn't know, because it wasn't her place to ask.

She just really hoped that the pay was worth it.

---

Panu was trying oh so very hard to get back in Ambrose's favor, but the man wasn't budging that easily. The incident in Finland had dropped his confidence levels in the tiny technopath greatly, because if he couldn't even be trusted to research the defense, how could he be trusted to do anything else? Contrary to what Panu seemed to believe, Ambrose had noticed the Faust situation. And he approved of the Faust situation. It just wasn't enough to even make Ambrose talk to him again. No, if Panu wanted to become Ambrose's golden boy again, he'd have to do something big.

Ambrose had been held up on his way back from work thanks to a bit of a complication - some idiot had recruited someone with no interest in joining Ragnarok, and every interest in sabotaging it. Said someone had tried to get into the base to sabotage something, but thankfully, Cail had been there and had rather easily dispatched of him. Ambrose had had to stay behind for the interrogation part of things, but thankfully, they'd wrapped up soon. Information was gathered, the body was disposed of, and that was that. The infiltrator had posed no real serious threat, seeing as he'd been a Bird Hunter spy, and the Bird Hunters were laughable.

So when he got home, he was already in a particularly good mood. He supposed that said something about himself as a person, but he didn't particularly care. And that was the only reason he humored Panu as the boy dragged him outside, insisting that they were going somewhere. He hadn't brought any work home that night, either, so he surprisingly good-naturedly ducked behind a tree to shift back to his natural state. He didn't even noticed the girl until he ducked out, in his full dragon form, and realized that there was not one, but two white-haired children. They looked almost like siblings, so he was very suspicious at first, until Panu explained who she was as he clambered onto Ambrose's back.

---

Kirsi had been out of sight when the man Panu referred to as his father had entered, before being promptly dragged off, but she had left the house in time to hear the somewhat disturbing noises coming from behind the tree before a dragon stepped out. Panu introduced him as Jörmungandr - he'd mentioned that name multiple times before, but it was rather unnerving to see the veritable monster that towered above her.

"Renegade," it said critically, staring down at her. There was a brief moment during which Kirsi tried very hard to tamp down her fear, but that was just scaring her a bit more, until he finally said, "Are you just going to stand there?" Immediately, Kirsi clambered onto the dragon's back, right behind Panu.

---

Finally, they were taking off, though Ambrose had no idea where he was going. His good mood had been slightly ruined by the sight of the interloper, but no matter - maybe Panu was actually going to do something impressive now.

"So where are we going?" he asked, as they flew towards the city. He probably should've asked that earlier.

Aura was enjoying a relatively uneventful day in the foyer. Their had been a hand full of new resident sign ups but nothing dangerous and nothing Aura found two interesting. She briefly wondered if she had some how become jaded having lived in Sanctuary for so long. She prolbely saw more mutants then most she reasoned trying to keep her mind occupied. With a sigh she moved the skunk from her lap and stood up looking around.

It was then Aura decided maybe some sun light would be good for her. So she got up and walked to the door. The famillier door felt like an old friend in her hand. It was a beacon to her as few other things had been in her life. She had seen them almost every day except for the time the x-men stole them or something llike that. she had been pretty new at the time.

Aura stood in the yard looking up at the sky and smiled. It was a boring day but perhapse that meant the foolish humans were not being their naturally idiotic selfs. Or amybe she had just failed to find their plot yet, either way their was not much she could do unless she actually found something.

"We are going to destroy the Order now," Panu said, in the same way someone would say we are going to buy milk or we are going to the 9:45 movie. It was a thing that they were doing, and there was no doubt about it. "I have given META bots location of Sanctuary. It is look to police like they are just following their programming. Order is already high priority target, so it is normal to try to arrest. Tonight they are either arrested or they are destroying robots and blaming police for attack. Also higher ups in police are blaming police for attack if it goes wrong, because probably they are trying to find who ordered it. Either way is funny for us."

Funny seemed the best word choice, when trying to un-grumpify a dragon. Already Jaager was in a good enough mood that he was giving them a ride. It was just like riding in a car with all the windows down except they were so high up his camera could only see lights on the ground as little white blurs, and no ground at all, and if Jaager rolled over New York's Scandinavian population would decrease by two.

Maybe that was why Kirsi had hesitated before getting on: she had been considering how to survive the fall. She was a very skilled mercenary, so she probably had a very good plan before she ever slid onto the dragon's back.

Panu would just fall and die. There was no other option, so he did not worry about it.

---

Down at the Sanctuary, the attack would begin at 9:30PM exactly. The first robot in would be the pretty dog--a speed scout. It would try to race through the building, to relay the location of priority targets and other Sanctuary residents back to the other robots.

"We are going to destroy the Order now," Panu said, and Ambrose had raised this child well, because he said it like they were going out to play laser tag or something. "I have given META bots location of Sanctuary. It is look to police like they are just following their programming. Order is already high priority target, so it is normal to try to arrest. Tonight they are either arrested or they are destroying robots and blaming police for attack. Also higher ups in police are blaming police for attack if it goes wrong, because probably they are trying to find who ordered it. Either way is funny for us."

Panu must've realized Ambrose's distaste for the Order. His meeting with Aura a while ago had been irritating, to say the least, because what was it with stereotypical evil people and their superiority complexes? And really, throw his building onto the moon - what sort of childish threat was that?

He'd tried to warn her. She'd claimed that she took his threats seriously, but if she was so confident that she could throw his building onto the moon, he doubted she'd actually meant that. Her words didn't make sense in context. But now, thanks to Panu, it seemed as if she was going to get what she deserved.

"Panu," Ambrose said happily, "I do believe you're on your way to redemption."

They arrived at the city at 9:24, on the dot, and they could spot the Sanctuary and their admittedly absurd gold doors at 9:27. Ambrose landed out of sight to move on foot, slinking through alleys before he reached one that they could see the Sanctuary from, and easily scaled up the building. He was relatively sure the children could hang on - he had back spines, after all, and even if Panu wasn't too strong, the mercenary girl looked as if she was. When he reached the top, at 9:29, he perched on the edge of the roof, looking down. The sun was pretty much down, but there was still enough natural light for him to see a figure in the yard that looked like the rude woman who'd spoken to him before. If she looked up, she'd be able to see the monstrous figure silhouetted by the setting sun, but if she turned around instead, she'd catch sight of the little metal dog that sprinted through the open door and into the building.

---

The flight was fine, actually. Kirsi had belatedly remembered about fifteen seconds into it that her powers extended to "surviving long falls," and so she'd be perfectly okay if Jaager decided that he didn't particularly like either of them and rolled over. Panu, maybe not so much. But Jaager's response to Panu's ingenious plan didn't seem too negative, so she was sure that they were going to be fine.

Jaager's entrance into the city was remarkably subtle for a creature of his size. Kirsi had kept herself from falling as they scaled the building rather easily, but she wasn't sure if Panu would be in the same situation. As she was sitting behind him, she wrapped an arm around him to stabilize him and keep him in place, which thankfully worked. Jaager had stopped briefly to allow his two passengers to clamber off before moving to the rooftop's edge. Kirsi stayed behind with Panu, unsure of how to behave around Panu's keeper.

"Where do we come in?" Kirsi whispered to Panu, having just caught sight of a glint of metal as the bot darted into the Sanctuary. "Or are we only here to watch and gloat?"

The Meta program was well under way and not a day went by when Aura did not hear something about the programming bugs in them. However she was also minding what amounted to a population who, while not entirely criminal did not always like to tell the exact details of their actions. She knew many of the tales were just that but some had to be true.

Aura heard a stick snap and saw the metallic dog sneak by. Having an idea of what it was from the pictures Aura moved after it. Her aura coated her without any of the usual visual touch she employed when people were watching. The robot would not live and their was no one to see it.

Her right arm formed a near foot long blade that she slashed at the dog in the foyer. Lisa had already taken note of it and began a warning to the residents. She needed to get ahead of the dog somhow she knew and watched it's path as she did. "Hey tin can!" she said taking a second swing at the metallic mutt.