[She's fortunate enough to be presented with an easy opportunity, in the form of a struggling celebrity – one of the rampaging robots stepped on the hood of her car, and in her attempt to extricate herself and get to safety Vanessa has been injured by shrapnel. Frustrated and for once rather frightened, without any means to summon assistance, she's limping along the sidewalk, trying to stay out of the way of the fighting.]

[definitely a convenient chance for someone invested in maintaining a certain reputation – helping her out of the battle zone should be low-risk, and indeed, Vanessa Goldpaw is enough a well-known figure that the fact that Irene did help anyone at all would definitely get around...]