"I hear that about Jones. Knows just how to handle things and could have Fin Fang Foom eating from his palm with a few words and the right dragon chow."
She looked very apologetic. "I'm sorry, it's a very nice clunker gun. It made the guard feel better about taking a weapon from me and making me 'harmless'." She put in air quotes of the last bit, the four guards probably felt very silly when they woke up from passing out on duty. She was sure Brand would forgive some of their indiscretions if they brought her back something that went boom and slagged concrete.
She gave an ugly snort and held up her hands defensively. "Hell no, there's just one of me! Just imagine how much Quill would cry with a pack of narcing Assiahs on this ship?" she asked, laughing. "I'm 'Beta' because I was the second prototype of the program. Alpha and Gamma are not... really... in the world-saving biz, so we'll never have to meet either. My SHIELD nanny decided I needed a first name."