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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.

Comments

[metabee]

"Yeah, that one. Not usually TRIDENT, but a bunch of low level villains think taking an alternian captive is a good idea. You know, the science types. Dr. Destructo, Professor Polaris, you know, those guys." He says, casually counting out some of the similar villain on his fingers.

Who cares what Reaphook thinks, he isn't here.

[pullingamiko]

"God, yeah, losers like that. What is even up with those guys though, like, wouldn't superheroes seem like the worst targets for kidnapping? What with all the powers and connections and crap." She gestures vaguely with one hand, apparently to indicate the sheer scope of the ways kidnapping superheroes is a bad idea.

Supervillains are so weird.

[metabee]

"Yeah! Exactly! But I guess they figure taking a Trailblazer makes some kind of statement. Their mistake once the we show up though. Haha" He took a moment to fondly dwell on Professor Polaris' face when they's burst through his ceiling. Good times.

[pullingamiko]

"Ha, yeah, 'make a statement'. I bet you guys make a pretty big statement when you kick their asses." The assumption apparently being that no single supervillain could pose a threat to the Trailblazers. Bunch of kids or not, they're superheroes.

[metabee]

"You bet!" punching the air above him in an exuberant emphasis.

"So what do you do when you're not interviewing heroes?"

[pullingamiko]

"You mean other work stuff, or just in general?" She shrugs. "'Cuz work is usually regular boring newspaper crap - y'know, building openings, people getting awards, like that."

[metabee]

"Haha, no way. That sounds like a snooze fest. What do you do for fun?"
Metabee started moving around, getting restless from staying in one spot for too long.

[pullingamiko]

Miko was getting kind of fidgety herself, to be honest.

"Oh, plenty! Rock concerts, monster truck rallies, you name it!" It's pretty clear that Miko's definition of "fun" is limited largely to things that could also be categorized as "loud" and "overwhelming" (sometimes also "dangerous"). "Still figuring out the best places to hang out around here, but, y'know, I'm getting there. What about you? You don't exactly seem like the 'all work and no play' type."

[metabee]

"Wow, that sounds totally cool! I've never gotten to go to anything like that before."

He pointed over his shoulder with his thumb. "There's this pretty cool arcade nearby I hang out at sometimes. The owner's pretty chill with a robot showing up, says it's good for business. Otherwise I chill with the other Trailblazers back at base."

[pullingamiko]

"Man, that must be cool. Always wondered was superheroes are like in their off-time." She supposes it may be a somewhat less exciting idea when one is a superhero who hangs out with other superheroes on a regular basis, though.

"I'll need to check out that arcade sometime," she adds. "Never really played many arcade games myself, but hey, may as well start."