"You could," Maeve agreed. She grinned. "Or try it on your own and compare findings with him. That might end up being more interesting than just asking."

Tony snorted. "I see what you're doing there, you're trying to trick me into keeping the thing. I'm not. It's not mine and I'm not keeping it."

"I'm not trying to trick you into anything," Maeve said. "And it's as good as yours. It won't leave you, I'm sure about that. It doesn't have a trainer, and it decided it likes you." She raised an eyebrow. "Again, ask Bruce about Togekiss sometime."

"Well it can't come into the lab, I don't even want to know what kind of trouble it'll get into," Tony said, walking over to Maeve. "Here. You hold it for a while." He plopped Togepi in her lap before going back to the kitchen to pour himself a cup of coffee to take back down to the lab.

Maeve blinked in surprise when Togepi was dropped into her lap, and she instinctively put her good arm around it to keep it from falling.

"You're just going to leave it here and go back downstairs?"

"I need to finish working, and I'd rather not find out what a squished Togepi looks like when it gets too curious," Tony said with a shrug. "Bruce would never forgive me if I let it get hurt in the lab."

Not to mention he'd never forgive himself, but that was beside the point.

Maeve had to admit he had a point.

"So if I offered to look after it in the lab?" she asked. "Because I still want to see how that translator comes out."

Tony heaved a put-upon sigh. "Alright," he agreed. "Just keep it out from underfoot, and don't let it get into anything."

Maeve nodded.

"Come on, you," she said to the Togepi as she got up. She tucked it into the elbow that was still being supported by the sling, so she had her good hand free. "Let's go watch Tony work."

Julie snorted at them as she watched them leave, shaking her head. Well, that was one less pokemon she had to worry about.

Tony headed down to the lab so he could fiddle again, letting Ninetails lay across his feet.

Maeve followed Tony, carrying Togepi, and Gardevoir followed Maeve. Maeve was glad she did; Gardevoir was good at babysitting when she needed to be.

Tony settled in to work again for a while, mostly muttering to himself. Because of course he had to mutter for things to turn out right.

Now that Togepi was near Tony, it was content to sit in Maeve's lap and look around. It didn't feel the need to explore quite yet.

"Alright, time to try again." Tony looked at Maeve. "You want to volunteer one of yours for testing duty or shall I wake Ninetails?"

"Don't wake Ninetales," Maeve said, waving a hand. "Gardevoir's already here."

"Alright." Tony handed over the pad to Maeve, since she'd be able to check how accurate the translation was. "So, Gardevoir, you ever going to go talk to Coulson's Gallade or just blush at him?" He grinned.

Gardevoir blushed at the question and trilled a bit, one hand going to hide her face a little. Maeve had already mentally interpreted it, but glanced at the tablet to see if it was accurate. She grinned.

"It's good," she said, handing it back to Tony. She hadn't erased the words on the tablet yet.

Perhaps eventually.

Tony snorted. "So far, so good," he muttered, handing it back. "Talk about something, do more accuracy checks." And while she did that, he'd make sure the code was stable and able to be easily added to other tablets.

It took Maeve a few moments to figure out what to talk about to test the program, but she eventually managed.

"So far, so good, Tony," she said after a little while.

"Good. Jarvis, copy that program onto three more tablets." Tony grinned. "And then I'll give them to a few other people to test."

Maeve grinned a bit.

"I knew you would figure it out," she said.

Tony scoffed. "Well of course I would, I am a genius after all." He was grinning though as he leaned back in his chair.

"I didn't doubt it," Maeve said, still grinning. She moved a bit closer and set Togepi in his lap. The little one had fallen asleep during the quiet talking.

Tony snorted but didn't try to move Togepi. He was slowly warming to the idea of keeping the little one. Slowly.

Maeve smiled a bit when she saw that, but didn't comment. Togepi just snuggled closer to Tony and kept sleeping.