From Reality to Robots to Superheroes
Prologue
Summary: AU. Kitty Pryde is just another young, bored computer programmer working in an office that belongs in "Dilbert" when she takes up Bolivar Trask on his offer to program one of his new top secret weapons. Maybe Lancitty, but I'm not making any promises.
Disclaimer: Yeah, well, if I owned the X-Men, I probably would've sold them by now and be laughing all the way to the bank.
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Kitty Pryde sat down in her miniscule cubicle and went to check her email. One would think that after graduating with honors from University of Chicago two years ago, she would've progressed beyond a lowly computer programmer in a department roughly the size of China, but this wasn't the best of job markets, and the millions of résumés she had sent to the inboxes of managers and headhunters alike appeared to have all landed in the trash can.
Which is why she was surprised to find on this day a message waiting for her from Human Defense Systems. She'd emailed them several months ago and they had finally decided to reply. She double clicked on the message and a new screen popped up.
It was a job offer. A rather lucrative job offer, no less, doing programming for the "special projects" department of HDS. She read the contract, and then quickly closed the window so her supervisor wouldn't see what she was doing and returned to her job.
As she looked over the office software she was working on, he mind wandered back to the email. It didn't specify what kind of work she would be doing, but she knew that HDS was a government contracted company in charge of the security systems for the Pentagon, among other things. The founder, Bolivar Trask, had started initially in S.H.I.E.L.D. developing information and surveillance technology, but recently struck out on his own. Whatever she was going to do, it must have been important, because she would have a raise and company reimbursement for her metro ride from Hell's Kitchen into the New York suburbs.
Whatever it was, it had to be more interesting than fixing bugs in office software.
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Just a short chapter, I know. This is more of a prologue than anything else.
I'd also like to put out at this time a request for help from someone who knows a lot about computers, computer programming, etc, as this will deal with a number of those subjects. It's not exactly a heavy workload, since I'm a really slow writer, but if you enjoy explaining how computer security systems work, or programming for idiots, this idiot would appreciate help. And as an extra bonus, you get to learn what happens before everyone else does. Anyone interested is welcome to drop me a line at MusicNerd1685@netscape.net.
Until next time,
hnh
Prologue
Summary: AU. Kitty Pryde is just another young, bored computer programmer working in an office that belongs in "Dilbert" when she takes up Bolivar Trask on his offer to program one of his new top secret weapons. Maybe Lancitty, but I'm not making any promises.
Disclaimer: Yeah, well, if I owned the X-Men, I probably would've sold them by now and be laughing all the way to the bank.
......................................
Kitty Pryde sat down in her miniscule cubicle and went to check her email. One would think that after graduating with honors from University of Chicago two years ago, she would've progressed beyond a lowly computer programmer in a department roughly the size of China, but this wasn't the best of job markets, and the millions of résumés she had sent to the inboxes of managers and headhunters alike appeared to have all landed in the trash can.
Which is why she was surprised to find on this day a message waiting for her from Human Defense Systems. She'd emailed them several months ago and they had finally decided to reply. She double clicked on the message and a new screen popped up.
It was a job offer. A rather lucrative job offer, no less, doing programming for the "special projects" department of HDS. She read the contract, and then quickly closed the window so her supervisor wouldn't see what she was doing and returned to her job.
As she looked over the office software she was working on, he mind wandered back to the email. It didn't specify what kind of work she would be doing, but she knew that HDS was a government contracted company in charge of the security systems for the Pentagon, among other things. The founder, Bolivar Trask, had started initially in S.H.I.E.L.D. developing information and surveillance technology, but recently struck out on his own. Whatever she was going to do, it must have been important, because she would have a raise and company reimbursement for her metro ride from Hell's Kitchen into the New York suburbs.
Whatever it was, it had to be more interesting than fixing bugs in office software.
.......................................
Just a short chapter, I know. This is more of a prologue than anything else.
I'd also like to put out at this time a request for help from someone who knows a lot about computers, computer programming, etc, as this will deal with a number of those subjects. It's not exactly a heavy workload, since I'm a really slow writer, but if you enjoy explaining how computer security systems work, or programming for idiots, this idiot would appreciate help. And as an extra bonus, you get to learn what happens before everyone else does. Anyone interested is welcome to drop me a line at MusicNerd1685@netscape.net.
Until next time,
hnh