re_alignment | [audio]

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brave police: j-decker | kagerou

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[Behold! A new voice on the network. And... it sounds decidedly uncertain. Maybe a little shaky.]

[Hey, when you get electrocuted by thousands of volts out of nowhere before waking up somewhere you've never seen, you're bound to sound a little off. Not to mention completely overwhelmed.]

[And quite honestly, he doesn't know what to say right now. Asking the empty air for help? In a place he's never even heard of? Surrounded by sights and sounds and robots utterly foreign? That seems... odd. But what choice does he have?]

Someone... please. [He hesitates.] I don't understand what's happened.

I --

[And here is where the first bit of real panic seems to show through. Sure, he got the explanation, but--] I don't remember coming here. Or ever hearing of such a place.

Please answer me.

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... I'll look there, then.

I don't know. [He hesitates.] I... am a prototype design. There were improvements made to the one based on me. But I don't know if it's something possible for myself.

I could take a look at your systems, if you'd like, and see if it might be a feasible course of action.

Are you an engineer?

I'm a scientist.

[ROBOTS CAN BE SCIENTISTS? WHAT.]

Does that mean you have experience in engineering...?

I have some, yes.

I didn't know it was possible for a robot to be something like that.

I've been many things over the course of my life. I take it you were created for a singular purpose?

I'm a prototype.

[He says this like it should explain everything.]

That... was my purpose.

[ Oh :c Oh honey. ]

Have you never aspired to be anything else?

[this is a sad, sad story]

No.

I wanted -- I accepted it. It was worthwhile, at first. There was... something important to live for, no matter what I was.

[ Perceptor has to fight the urge to apologize, worried it might be seen as offensive. That just sounds so very sad. ]

I see. Does your programming permit alterations to be made to your body?

[ Since. The more he hears, the more primitive Kagerou is starting to sound. Poor basic baby. ]

[Percy, you don't know the half of it.]

As... far as I know. It isn't something I've ever experienced before.

[Honestly, the entire world isn't something he's experienced before.]

Would you like to find out?

If I want to live... do I have a choice?

[And oh, he really does want to live.]

I suppose not.

Then I will have to find out. Won't I?

Would you like me to assist you, or would you prefer I direct you to the medics?

I don't know these "medics".

[He knows Perceptor now though -- sort of. Which means he's going for Option Percy.]

Then I'll help you. Where are you currently?

The same place I came back online...

[No, he has no idea where that is, exactly.]

Can you send me your coordinates?

[HOW DOES HE COORDINATES ON THIS THING...]

[There's a lot of embarrassing trial-and-error before he gets it to send some coordinates.]

Mm, I'll be there in a few minutes.

... Another is on their way, too.

If he makes it before you do... I won't leave until you arrive.