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[metabee]

Who: Metabee and You
Where: Trailblazer Dorms, CONDOR HQ, Some Park
When: About a week after the cyborg invasion
What: Metabee's back in society after getting his programming cleaned up.
Warnings: Grumpy teen robots

Waking up alone in the one of the towers was not really the ideal way to come back online. With the AI out of commission, and no longer screwing up his core processing, his internal readouts were going crazy with error reports. He managed to get himself out of the tower and called up the Medabot Corp first thing, feeling pretty rundown. It didn't take them long to track him down and get him back to the labs, and even moving quick on the repairs it was still nearly a week by the time they were willing to let him out.
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CONOR HQ

As soon as Metabee has passed all the tests AGAIN, he'd been sent over to CONOR HQ for a debrief. Which was as bring as painful as it sounded, since he had to recount how he got abducted after attempting to met with Dr. Dynamo, putting his teammate at risk in the process, and proceed to assist the AI in it's questionable goals. They'd been at it for hours, asking a hundred questions, many of which he couldn't answer. It felt like forever before they finally approved him to return to the Trailblazers.

He was currently sulking on on of the hall benches near the exit, waiting for a ride to drive him back to the dorms.

TRAILBLAZER DORMS

Coming back to the dorms was simultaneously a relief and a little weird. Metabee hadn't exactly treated the others the nicest he could have when he was being controlled by the AI, and he knew them all well enough to know they were probably sitting on grudges. Or 'I told you so's, considering how many of them had accurately suspected he was making a lousy decision.

When he quietly pushed the main door open, no one else was around, but then most people didn't hang out by the front door anyway. He made his way down the hallway, hesitating a brief moment before calling out.

"Yo, guys, I'm back and not brainwashed."

SOME PARK

Even having just come back form being brainwashed, when public opinion was very much again AIs right now, there was only so much sitting around Metabee could handle. He'd waited till it was a little less busy outside to head down to the park nearest the dorms, climb one of the larger trees in the area, and parked out on his favorite branch to people watch. He wasn't exactly out of sight, but it was pretty clear he wasn't exactly open to interaction right now. Even on that short walk he'd gotten some pretty nasty glares from people, being an AI wasn't exactly the most popular thing right now.

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Re: condor

[metabee]

Metabee glanced up at Nilin, feet swinging since his legs didn't touch the ground. He didn't think he'd seen her around before, but then there were so many CONDOR agents at the HQ he honestly wasn't surprised.

"Yeah, just for a ride back to the Trailblazer Dorms. I'm guessing you're not the person who's supposed to take me over there?

[rememberyousoon]

"Oh, no," she said. Nilin shuffled her feet awkwardly and looked around in case the person responsible for Metabee showed up at that moment. They didn't, so she stuck around.

"So, you're a Trailblazer then? Must be exciting."

She can be bad at this conversation thing sometimes.

[metabee]

He hangs out with Katniss and Jon all the time, your conversation skills are fine as far as he's concerned, Nilin.

"Yeah, it's pretty cool I guess. Though everyone's probably going to be a pain after what happened with that stupid AI thing."

[rememberyousoon]

Nilin relaxed a little bit and sat down on the bench across from Metabee. It wasn't like she had anywhere to go.

"Why would they be a pain?" Her tone was a little less awkward and genuinely curious.

[metabee]

"Weeelll, half of them got kidnapped by the AI and I may have wound up getting reprogrammed by that thing so I didn't help them out and possibly made things more difficult for them. You know, stuff like that." He spurted out kind of quickly. Was he embarrassed about being one of the only hero robots to get brainwashed? Of course not, why one earth would he be embarrassed about that.

[rememberyousoon]

"Oh," Nilin said. "That's rough."

Yeah, good one Nilin.

"But they can't blame you for that. It was pretty powerful AI."

[metabee]

"See! Yeah! But the others probably won't see it that way since I kind of took a big risk even though they told me not to."

[rememberyousoon]

"And what was that?" Nilin asked. Her voice was soft, but not patronizing. She felt like she was talking to a kid, and she had never been very good at talking to kids the way other people talk to kids.

[metabee]

"I tried to meet with Dr. Dynamo before the cyborg attack, since he wasn't giving anyone his position who wasn't a human made robot." Seemed super obvious in hindsight that it was a bad idea.

"Did you wind up involved in that, I heard those cyborg things were everywhere."

[rememberyousoon]

"A little," she said. "Didn't do much help, I'm afraid. Tried to keep the monsters off the streets, but there were a lot of them."

[metabee]

"Wow, really? I mean, I imagine, from what I heard." he still looked pretty impressed, though. He glanced down the hall to see if is ride had showed up yet, and with no one coming he decided to change the subject. He was kind of done talking about how much he'd screwed up.

"So what do you do at CONDOR anyway?"

[rememberyousoon]

Nilin shrugged. "Punch things, mostly," she said with an awkward smile. It wasn't necessarily a misrepresentation of the work she did, but she figured this robot didn't need to know about her real specialty.

[metabee]

"Oh, one of the field agents, right? That's cool."

He was going to keep talking when another agent came by, waving Metabee towards the garage.

"Well, looks like my ride's here. C'ya around." He leapt off the bench, giving Nilin a farewell salute as he walked backwards towards the door.