This suit was not powered down, and had no pieces missing. There were other safeguards to prevent tampering or theft when it was in the workshop, and in order for the diagnostics to work. Besides, Tony never knew when he'd need it, so he had to keep it active.
As a result, when she addressed it the machine was fully aware of what was going on around it, and had picked up on her uniqueness before. //.....you are communicating with me differently,// it observed. It scanned her and then processed the results. //How do you know me?//
"Now, don't start gossiping right away," Tony smirked, well aware that the was now irrelevant. He walked over to one of the tables and started picking up some tools, moving over to a special project he'd started working on before he left New York. It was demolition tech, near enough to the weapons research he'd done to be natural to him, but now with a controlled element to find safer ways to get rid of buildings in the middle of cities that were too badly damaged to salvage after attacks, disasters, or just poor maintenance. He wasn't going to twiddle his thumbs while the girl got friendly with his tech, if he was in his lab for more than thirty seconds he was going to be building something. "Jarvis, take a look around the City for any buildings that need to be demolished. See if we can find someplace to deploy this baby when she's done."
"Shall I make it a priority over finding the race track, sir?"
Tony snorted, opening the top of the cooler sized device and starting to pull out various panels inside, laying them out on the table in front of him. "What, you can't do both?"