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Post by Calamari-San on Apr 12, 2009 1:36:55 GMT -5
"Oh, I'm sorry," Tabitha replied, equally mournfully. She had a feeling she shouldn't press further, but she couldn't resist. "Did.... Did something happen to her?" she asked.
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Post by Xazz on Apr 12, 2009 1:41:37 GMT -5
"She's dead," he growled so angrily and venomously that it was clear he was close to the edge. He felt the darkness creep in at the edges of his mind. He groped around his table blindly for a moment before he found his pills and swallowed two. The effects were quick, like an injection to the vein, and not like normal pills. He calmed down dramatically, but there were no outward signs of change. He turned away from Tabitha, "Don't you have a job to finish," he snarled and tuned her out grabbing his tool to finish the repairs to the arm.
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Post by Calamari-San on Apr 12, 2009 1:49:36 GMT -5
Tabitha opened her mouth to say something, but felt better not to. Instead, she turned back into the office and began cleaning again.
With the furniture back in place, the room was positively spotless. All of the papers were organized in neat stacks on the desk. Very large, neat stacks. Tabitha sighed as she sat down. It was going to be a long job going through them.
Longer than she had thought. His numbers were neat at first, but all at once they reached a point where they became jumbled, and sometimes not there at all. She found herself leafing through the stacks to find orders and receipts. Her mind already filled with numbers, she didn't keep track of the time. She was almost done when she decided to take a short break and rest her eyes. All of that math was making her eyes hurt, and she must have been there for hours already.
It took maybe five seconds for her to fall asleep at the desk, pen still in hand and her face stuck to the accounting book in front of her.
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Post by Xazz on Apr 12, 2009 2:03:18 GMT -5
"There you go boy, spick and span, try it," Nik said somehow gently to the small robot who was sitting on his desk the single white eye staring at him. All at once the eye bounced away on its 360 field of vision, its head unmoving and it twisted its two extra arms out from its back and whirled them about.
"Perfect!" DEATH said a note of triumph in his mechanical voice. "Thank you Nik," he said, "Mommy would be happy to know I am in good working order," he said. Nik abruptly turned DEATH off, frowning. He folded the arms back into place and put the small child-like machine on the shelf with his brothers, WAR, PESTILENCE, and FAMINE.
"I'm sure she would be DJ, I'm sure," Nik said and cracked his back. He looked at the time, it was late, almost ten. "Where did blondie get off too? She still in there?" he asked himself and went to his office, low and behold there was Tabitha sleeping at his desk surrounded by files, forms and receipts.
He turned hearing Brick come up next to him, he heard the chain dragging. "Eh?" he asked the dog. The dog whined and looked up at his master. "What? I need to be nice to her now? I didn't kill her, I think that's rather nice of me," he said hotly folding his arms over his chest. Brick scratched the ground and gave Nik a hard stare. Nik stared back for several seconds. "Fine!" he said and stalked forward. He nudged the blonde, she didn't move, he poked her, she was out. He looked at Brick, he scratched the floor again. "Oh, you come over here and do it then!" Nik snapped. He looked at Tabitha, sighed and picked her up off the table. She was amazingly light. "You owe me for this," he told Brick, who bounded ahead.
Nik set Tabitha on the wreck room couch, from when he had men to help him and they wanted a room to relax and take their lunch/smoke breaks. "Happy?" he asked Brick who was at the doorway, the giant dog wagged his tail. "Oh shut up, I am not going soft," he snapped. He pulled a jacket from the back of one of the chairs and draped it over Tabitha. "There, that's it. No more Mr. Nice Fern. Creeps me out," he announced and left Tabitha to sleep. He unclipped Brick from the wall and checked to make sure his doors were locked before going upstairs to where his own home was. Up there his felines greeted him with delighted meows. He just undressed to his boxers and fell into his bed and fell asleep.
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Post by Calamari-San on Apr 12, 2009 2:28:13 GMT -5
Tabitha awoke to the smell of old cigarette smoke and motor grease. Not fully awake, she made an odd groaning noise as she tried to remember where she was and what she had been doing. She shot up suddenly as everything came back to her.
"Ohmygosh! The books-..... How in the world did I get on this couch?" She looked around, confused, only then realizing that she was in an entirely different room. it was hard to tell, really. All of the lights were out, though some smoggy, early morning sunlight filtered in through the windows. Tabitha frowned. They didn't look as if they'd been cleaned in years.
Still a little confused and sleepy, Tabitha wandered back into the workshop, careful not to bump into anything, which turned out to be difficult. Parts were everywhere. She found herself wandering around the shop, looking at all of the various machines and zoomers in various states of assembly. It was positively dazzling to her.
"Oh!" she caught sight of the four child-sized robots, perched on a shelf above her. "Oh, my, how wonderful," she breathed, staring up at them. She smiled. They were very clever things, even she knew that, though she knew next to nothing about robotics or machines. "Ah, you must be what he was working on," she said when she caught sight of DEATH and his familiar looking arm. She considered him thoughtfully.
"I wonder how you turn on...." she muttered to herself. She hesitated for a moment, afraid about what Nik might say if he found out she had been fooling around in his workshop. But her curiosity helped her get over it. Careful not to knock any of the robots over, she began searching DEATH for some sort of power switch.
"Ah ha..." she said triumphantly after a minute. She flicked it on, grinning like a little girl on her birthday.
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Post by Xazz on Apr 12, 2009 2:36:19 GMT -5
DJ whirled into life. The white blot on his visor grew into life and he quickly looked around, doing rapid 360s then trained his white eye on Tabitha. "Hello," he trilled in a child-like voice and stood up. He jumped down from the shelf, leaving his brothers behind. "My name is DEATH; Destructive Extra Armed Tactical Handy-man," he chirped. "Who are you?" he cocked his elongated head to the side.
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Post by Calamari-San on Apr 12, 2009 2:39:23 GMT -5
"My name is Tabitha!" Tabitha trilled, completely enthralled. "It's lovely to meet you, DEATH," she said smiling.
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Post by Xazz on Apr 12, 2009 2:40:13 GMT -5
"Tabitha? That name is not in my recognized list of people. Are you a friend of Nik's?" he asked.
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Post by Calamari-San on Apr 12, 2009 2:42:55 GMT -5
"Well... I don't know if I'm his friend..." Tabitha admitted. "But he helped me find my way to Bowen Avenue yesterday when I was lost, and then I cleaned up his office for him today. And then I started doing work on his books, because they were really disorganized, but they took a long time, and I guess I fell asleep because I woke up and then I was on that couch in the other room, and then I came in here and turned you on." She smiled at him, hoping she wasn't in any sort of trouble.
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Post by Xazz on Apr 12, 2009 2:45:33 GMT -5
"Oh, well thank you. Nik didn't let me run diagnostics on my new arm before he turned me off!" DJ said happily and unfolded the two extra arms from his back. He immediately went through the motions and Tabitha could hear the fans in his head whirling. The last thing he did was walk around briefly on his second set of hands then seemed to calm down.
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Post by Calamari-San on Apr 12, 2009 2:47:03 GMT -5
"Does it all work? Nik seems like a brilliant mechanic," Tabitha said admiringly.
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Post by Xazz on Apr 12, 2009 2:55:31 GMT -5
"The elbow joint is a little stiff, I will make Nik look at it when he wakes up," then DJ looked up at his brothers. "I don't want to play by myself," he announced and jumped back onto the shelf where the other Riders were. He deftly turn his three brothers on.
Fame sputtered online first unfolding from his ball sleep mode and jumped off the table landing in a one-handed hand stand before jumping onto his feet. "Still got it," he said cockily. He was quickly barreled into the ground by Red who'd fallen off the shelf in sudden joy for being on. Red hated to be off, he was to much of a free spirit. Pesky came last and cautiously dropped himself off the shelf.
"Pony Riders!" DJ announced and dropped in front of his brothers. "This is Tabitha, Nik's friend," he informed them. "Introduce yourselves," he ordered.
Tabitha had the feeling of three new sets of bionic eyes focusing on her. "I am WAR; Wacky Achievement Robot," said the bulky soft robot with the red paint job, but a bright green head and a bar across his face that shown blue.
"I am FAMINE; Fabulous Art Maker In None Eco-organic," Fame said cheerfully and climbed on top of Red, who was taller, his face was a plain black visor.
"PESTILENCE; Programed Energy Statistic Tally Internally Listing Extra Non Conceptual Essentials," said Pesky in a nervous jittery manner his face resembled a gas mask, the plates of glass in the mask glowed green.
"Our mother said we were the Pony Riders of the Apocalypse," DJ announced to Tabitha and on cue Fame's visor lit up with the image of four men on horses.
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Post by Calamari-San on Apr 12, 2009 3:02:20 GMT -5
"Ohmygosh!" Tabitha cried, positively delighted. "That is spectacular! You all are!" She giggled happily. "I've never really met any sort of robot before, this is really exciting," she admitted. "And you're all so clever, too!" She beamed at them.
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Post by Xazz on Apr 12, 2009 3:06:29 GMT -5
"Um, thank you," DJ said awkwardly and if it was possible he would have blushed.
"DEATH, Nik won't be happy if we're all up. He didn't turn us on, you did," Fame said.
"Tabitha turned me on, and she is Nik's friend. I doubt he will be mad. From her story I think Brick made Nik bring her in here," DJ explained to his brother.
"Well that explains a lot," Fame nodded still on Red's shoulders. "Nik always does what Brick tells him to do."
"Even though we can't understand a think that organic says!" Red said in a far to cheerful manner.
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Post by Calamari-San on Apr 12, 2009 3:12:41 GMT -5
"Brick? You mean the crocadog?" Tabitha asked. "I thought he didn't like me."
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