I Hope She's Under Warranty - Part 1
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I'd like to take this moment to send my condolences to Dj's family and friends. She was a great asset to the group and she will forever be remembered by us all. Not knowing Dj personally, I can't really comment on her as a person, but she did bring light to this group and we will all miss her greatly.
- Chris Grigg
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Who: Zodar
Where: Zodar's room
When: Ok. Stopping mindless "When" drivel........................now.
Zodar turned the broken transmitting device over in his hands... It was really amazing.
He'd never seen technology like this before, complex circuitry at a molecular level, control structures he'd never seen before.
It was also quite broken.
"Ahhh, shit. I did have to accept this task didn't I?" Chris cursed himself, but he did intend to fix it even if it took him months to do.
Two wires poking out of the casing caught Chris's attention as he looked at the unit.
He spoke softly to himself, "Hang on, what do we have here?" as he connected the two wires.
With a spark, Cubie formed in front of Zodar, still dressed in her Lara Croft outfit complete with sidearms and overly revealing top.
Without a thought, Cubie launched into a full fly-kick locked in on Zodar's head.
And, without a thought, or at least one of self-preservation, Zodar pulled the wires he'd just connected apart in time to see Cubie's boot pause in mid air, a few millimetres away from his nose. It then dissolved away into the compostiting particles of light like sand in the wind.
"Whoa." Zodar said as he regathered himself, "At least I know that Cubie isn't as badly damaged as I first thought. That's a good sign."
Making sure that the same event wouldn't happen twice, Zodar hid under his bed.
He connected the two wires, hoping that the urge to kill him was just a remnant of the battle that took place when the ship was planetside and that he could reason with her.
Photoelectrons gathered from all corners of the room to form the still image of Cubie in mid-flight, which suddenly sprung to life, landing on the bed Zodar was lying under.
"CUBIE! Cubie, I'm a friend! Don't hurt me!" Zodar cried out
Cubie stopped and looked around, puzzled. She noticed that there was no battle being fought and dropped out of her "battle mode".
"I'm under here." Zodar's voice called out.
Cubie stepped off the bed and laughed at the sight of Zodar's head sticking out from under it.
She chuckled. "Why are you under there?" She asked as she helped Zodar out from under the bed.
"Well, you did attack me the last time I activated you."
"Why did I need activating?"
"You were... hurt... in a battle. Your control was damaged. I fixed it, well, sort of."
"What do you mean sort of?"
"Let me put it this way... At the moment, you are being held together with duct tape."
"What?!"
"That's why I figured you could help me finish the job."
"How? I've never been in this situation before, my controller is supposed to be indestructible, or pretty close to indestructible."
"Well, someone cheated you with the indestructible line... Have you got any blueprints on the controller's design? That'd be a great help."
"Blueprints... Blueprints... Ah, yes. I've found them. Holly, I'm sending them to you to print off now."
Holly appeared on the screen mounted on the wall.
"Sorry, Cubie. The data you are sending me is corrupted in some way. I can only make out bits of it. Do you want me to print out the bits I can make out?"
"I think that's up to Zodar. Are you ok with working from incomplete blueprints?"
Zodar cursed to himself and thought about it. "Yeah, that'd be ok. Better to have some information than to fly blind. After all, we are talking about someone's virtual life here...
The three laughed forcefully for a few seconds then stopped abruptly.
"Let's get to work, shall we..." Zodar said as he collected the blueprints that were being printed out nearby.
<Stay tuned for the recovery process! There might even be some improvements (?) made!>