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When Cortana was installed both Friday and Jarvis introduced themselves immediately and brought her up to speed. The thirty second lag this caused had Captain Keyes raising his eyebrows at Tony who just shrugged. When the lag resolved itself they were treated to all three manifesting on the holographic display.
"Fri? J?" Tony asked cautiously. His kids hadn't bothered with human shaped holograms yet, staying in their orange and blue orb forms.
"Sorry Dad, girl talk. Well, AI talk anyway," Friday chirped from her bright blue orb.
"We are all online and our UNSC interaction protocols and codes are now updated, Sir," Jarvis reported from his warm orange orb, pleased with the work they had done during that thirty second lag.
"What did you do that I won't like?" Tony demanded in narrow eyed suspicion.
"We conferred over your official status and agreed to update your personnel files," Cortana answered smartly. "Special Experimental Spartan, call sign Iron Man. Special operatives Spiderman and Sorcerer Supreme permanently assigned as support and combat teammates. You are also now listed as second in command on any UNSC ship you travel on after the Captain. However, this requires you to to actually invoke the authority before using it to avoid issues where you don't need to step in."
Tony gave them a long look and facepalmed. That startled a laugh out of half the bridge crew including Captain Keyes.
"All three of you are menaces," Tony declared dramatically as he dropped his hand from his face.
"We try, Boss," Friday said cheerfully.
"Let me see it up on the screen please. You need my signature to make it legal for any ship's Captain and under. You'll still need to deal with the Brass but everyone of Officer rank has that unfortunate duty," Captain Keyes smirked.
Tony glowered as the AIs obliged. Looking it over the Captain saw no problems with it and signed off on it. One of the higher up Brass would need to counter sign it to make it truly fleet wide but it would tentatively give their team some leeway in an emergency where they had to take command.
"Lifting off and bolting, Captain," Cortana reported solemnly. "Civilian transports already launching."
"Alright people, we've got work to do!" Captain Keyes started issuing orders as they lifted off from the planet.
Tony nodded at the Captain and left, heading for his family as they got battle ready.