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J was in the pod she and her squad landed on to this planet, sitting in her chair looking at the screen frustrated with one of her team mates lack luster result of their weakly quota, N to be more exact. He had been a good Disassembly Drone but he didn't do his job as good as he could have, mainly to the fact that he was seemingly spending more time either trying to woo his crush the final member of their squad V, or he was simply exploring the city looking for Human nick-nack's.
J would usually care what he did as long as he had a descend kill count, which was the only thing keeping her team from being on the top of the leader board. She kept thinking of solutions to N low kill count, she did tried to openly show him her anger over his bed work ethic, by either beating him or threaten to have him scraped, the last one being an empty thread as she didn't have the authority to do that but either way so far nothing worked.
''There has to be some way to make him focus on his job more?'' She thought to herself as she went through the pod's computer hoping to find something to help her.
''No. Nope. Hhmm Nah! Useless. Crap. Tessa got a new pin, irrelevant. No. No. Not that either.'' She thought as she looked kept looking not finding anything useful so far, ''Come on there has to be something! Huh? Corrupted code leads Worker Drones rebel bla bla. Hhhmmm Code ay, that could work!'' a sinister smirk formed on J's face as she found what she was looking for. Now all she needed was N to cooperate which wouldn't be a problem since he loved doing anything and he would never say no to her.
''So J you sure this is gonna help me be less of a burden?'' N asked siting down leaning agents the wall with wires connecting him to the pod's computer.
''Of course buddy, just sit there, relax and let me handle this.'' J responded making her preparations to access N's code.
''All right J I trust you!'' N said with a smile before shutting himself down so that J could do what she needed to.
For some strange reason that stunt her for a second almost like what she was about to do was wrong, she didn't understand why but it didn't matter she this was for the best. She looked at N's code which was starting to show up on the screen. ''All right I may have not been made for this but how hard could it be?'' She thought before starting.
She looked for a specific line of code that determent his likes, interest, behavior and over personality. It took a while but she found it, compared to the rest of the code it wasn't that much but it was the most important. She picked the ones that were getting most in the way of his work.
[SELECT PERSONALITY TRADE: ARTISTIC]
[Y/N] . . . [Y]
[SELECT PERSONALITY TRADE: ANIMAL LOVER]
[Y/N] . . . [Y]
[SELECT PERSONALITY TRADE: FRIENDLY]
[Y/N] . . . [Y]
[SELECT PERSONALITY TRADE: COLLECTOR]
[Y/N] . . . [Y]
[SELECT PERSONALITY TRADE: KIND HEARTED]
[Y/N] . . . [Y]
[SELECT PERSONALITY TRADE: EMPATHEDIC]
[Y/N] . . . [Y]
[SELECT PERSONALITY TRADE: AFFECTIONED]
[Y/N] . . . [Y]
[DELETE SELECTED FILES?]
[Y/N] . . .
J stood there her finger hovering over the Y button, but she couldn't press it for some reason, something in her told her that this wasn't right. Even though it didn't make sense to her, all of that code was useless, the only thing it did was practically handicapping N, deleting it would make him a better Disassembly Drone, give her a far more useful team mate. So why couldn't she just press the button?
She groaned in frustration as she finally did pressed one button.
[N]
[KEEP FILES SELECTED?]
[Y/N] . . . [Y]
She got off of her chair and walked over to a drawer and retrieved a small object. Making her way back to her seat, she plugged the object into the computer.
[MOVE SELECTED FILES TO EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE?]
[Y/N] . . . [Y]
J removed the the object from the computer and but it back into her drawer, ''There practically deleted, without actually being gone for good. Only safely stashed away for the moment.'' She thought before doing one more thing to N's code to finish things off.
[RELATIONSHIPS]
[SELECT RELATIONSHIP]
[JCJENSON IN SPAAAAACEE!!!!]
[TEAM MATE J]
[TEAM MATE V]
[TECHNICIAN TESSA]
[RELATIONSHIP SELECTED V]
[Y/N] . . . [Y]
[RELATIONSHIP STATUS: CRUSH]
[RELATIONSHIP STATUS: ]
[RELATIONSHIP STATUS: CO-WORKER]
[CONFIRM RELATIONSHIP STATUS CHANGE?]
[Y/N] . . . [Y]
''There, now your no longer getting hurt over and over again because she can't remember who you are. Plus no more wasting time trying to talk to her and then sulking because she can't remember who you are!'' J said congratulating her self, while closing the connection, ''Honestly don't know why you even had all those, seemed to me like somebody purposefully tried to make you bad at your job, I need to mention that in my next report. Somebody intentionally making messing with JcJenson products can't be allowed to be part of the company!''.
When she finished cutting the connection, she looked over to N who's visor started to display a loading bar showing him turning him self back online, everything seemed to go fine until at the half way mark his visor displayed a short error message and with a quick glitch went back to restarting the loading process.
J's expression changed from a proud smile to a worrisome frown, she thought for a second if she may have messed something up. Before she could do anything N's loading bar had fully filled up, he quickly got up.
J was a bit startled by that but ultimately relived that he seemed to be functioning as correctly, ''All right N how you felling?" She asked before removing the wire connecting his head to the pod's computer.
''Serial Designation N fully operational and ready for duty!'' N simply answered with no expression on his face or in his tone.
J didn't response simply standing and facing him for a few seconds her attention being on his eyes, something seemed off about them she thought. They looked like they always looked, they just felled different, like there was no soul in them.
J quickly shrugged that thought off, they were drones they had no soul to begin with, so it made no sense for them to be missing it. ''Ok lets go see how true that is by hunting some Worker Drones.'' She said wanting to see how he would preform with the new changes made to him.
It wouldn't take long for them to find a couple of Workers and she could immediately see improvements on him, not only had he spotted them much quicker then she has but he also disposed of them in a way she had never seen before. She thought her method was calculated but it didn't even compere at all to how N was moving, every single move was a calculated precision strike. Not a single unnecessary move, not a single second or centimeter wasted, every strike made to kill instantly and waste as little oil as possible.
Within seconds a group of 7 Worker were eliminated, the scene almost looked like a choreographed dance of death. What had been most impressive about it all was that the group wasn't huddled together or in a somewhat strait line, they had been all spread apart and yet they all died where they were standing not a single one could move from where they had been when N went in for the kill. Hell J could have sworn that the last Worker didn't even realize that his comrades were dead much less that anything was happening before N got to him.
''Targets neutralized!'' N said after retracking his blades back into his arms and turning to face J who was still flying in the air.
J after landing just stood there admiring N's work with wide open eye's, she hoped that he would improve, she did not expect for him to become a whole new type of beast. The way he took care of this group wasn't just next level, this was multiple levels above and beyond what she was hoping for. ''How much did all those programs hold him back?'' She thought before approaching N and clapping her hands.
''Bravo N, this exceeds all expectations!'' She said as she went to his side and gave him a pat on the back, ''You well and truly earned yourself a reward but first let's get these bodies back to the spire.''.
N simply nodded before helping J collect the bodies and bring them back to the spire for storage as oil reserves. J was had a wide smile the entire time they were going back and why shouldn't she, after all she had transformed N from a barely capable Disassembly Drone to potentially the best there is. She did however notice that N on the way back had an expressionless face the entire time and found it a little strange but didn't dwell on in to much.
After they deposited the Workers bodies, J thought of a what suitable reward one they could both enjoy, after all his progress was thanks to her, meaning that she too deserved one. Soon she had thought of something, turning towards N she said ''The old construction side, it's been a while since we flew there and with your performance improving this much we can allow our self some free time.''.
Despite being Drones and considered property, they were technically listed as employees and therefore had the right for time off work, and as J and N found them self spending a lot of their free time together, since V didn't make for good company so they didn't really had a choice if they didn't want to be alone or watch V making balloon animals with the Worker corpses. While J had been apprehensive at the beginning she quickly warmed up to spending her free time with N.
There were a lot of thing they liked doing and one of them was flying through an unfinished construction side, either trying to make it through the unfinished building without crashing or racing through it. It had also been good flying practice as they could always keep improving.
''I do not see the befit in that, shouldn't we spend our time to fulfill our task?'' N said his visor still expression less.
''What, you get better at your job and now all of a sudden you wanna act all workaholic like?'' J chuckled a bit to her self ''Come on buddy let's go!'', she took off with N following her.
''Here we are.'' J turned around to face N ''Let's get up to the top!'', N said nothing only following her.
''All right, let's race through the building to the bottom. Make sure not to crass numb skull!'' J said in a joking manner, N not reacting at all to it.
''Ready, set, GO!'' J raced down with a head start, flying between pillars and through door frames. It didn't take N long to catch up to her however and eventually take the lead.
Both maneuvering from one floor to the next, J felt the adrenalin in her core and excitement. N didn't just improve in killing the Workers but also in when it came to flying, not that he didn't beat her from time to time before but right now he was really giving her a run for her money.
She saw him disappear, diving down a hole meant for an elevator, she was in hot pursuit knowing that the next floor would be perfect to overtake him and retake the lead. As soon as she dove down however she saw him hovering still in the air, almost crashing into him.
''HEY IDIOT, the hell your doing I almost crashed into you!!!'' She said angrily before noticing that his visor was displaying an X.
''Two Worker spotted, in the building three blocks away on the right, corner window fifth floor!'' N responded.
J turned around to look and confirm for her self, it was hard to notice but she saw the two Worker exactly where he had said they are. J had been impressed, the fact that he noticed them there given that they were speeding down the building and dodging various obstacles was astonishing.
''Huh impressive stud, my oil tank is half empty. How bout you?'' J said wondering how he saw them.
''My fuel levels are equally bellow the half way point.'' N replied.
''Yeah you really need to stop talking like that, anyways let's get our self's a snack.'' J starting to get a bit annoyed at the way he's been talking ever since he rebooted.
The both of them made their way to they pray flying high to not be noticed by them. By the time they reached where they have spotted the two Workers they had moved away from the window further into the room but not to far.
Both N and J broke through the window not feeling the need for the stealth approach, the Workers had barely had time to turn around before they were in the hands of the Disassembly duo. J gorged herself on her Drone, enjoying the way that they desperately tried to free them self. N on the other hand had quickly killed his Drone and drank the oil from the neck like a vampire would drink blood from it's victim.
''Well that was a nice treat, wanna go finish our race?'' J said with a smile on her face and oil smeared across her lips.
''There are only 2 more hours left before sun rise, we should hunt for more Workers. Also there is a lot of oil on your lips, it advise to clean it before it dries.'' N replied spreading his wings ready to hunt.
J watched him leave before looking at her reflection on one of the windows they hadn't broken, liking the oil off of her lips she felt a little hurt that he'd rather hunt then continue with one of their favorite past time activities.
Felling a little bummed out from not getting to finish her race J flew back to the corps spire, where she encountered V.
''Hey J, I just saw what's his name kill three Workers in a way I have never seen before.'' V said as he saw J approach.
''Three more, that's 11 so far and it's N by the way.'' J responded as she landed beside V.
''11, Woah he's on a roll tonight!'' V said in amazement, ''He even got more then me, I only got 9 and you?''.
''One.'' J said a bit embarrassed at the fact she only got one, to be fair she wasn't even really hunting any.
''Pfff, One really? What did you two switch roles or something?'' V said chuckling to her self.
''For your information I was busy helping N get better and it clearly worked out.'' J responded, irritated by V's chuckling.
''Sure thing, speaking of the devil here he comes!'' V said as she noticed N approaching them with a couple Worker corpses in tow.
When he dropped the corpses J noticed that it were 5 not 3. ''Five, didn't you say he killed three?'' J turned to V questioning her, mainly because she should have helped him carry this many.
''I did!'' V responded her self surprised to see two more corpses.
''I detected and terminated two more on my way back!'' N clarified their confusion, ''That makes a total of 13 terminations. I would have had the time for more if not for the flight exercise by the construction side.''.
''You two went to the construction side without me! Rude.'' V stated, while she did prefer to spend her free time either practicing making balloon animal with the Worker corpses or annoying J. She would also join them from time to time when it came to flying by the construction side.
N didn't pay her any attention instead checking his inner clock. ''Not enough time to continue hunting with an acceptable successes change of finding more Workers, entering resting mode.'' He flew up to his usual spot in the spire with his visor displaying [SLEEP MODE].
''Huh, that was weird he acted like a robot don't you think?'' V said her visor showing an raised eyebrow.
''We are robots!'' J replied with a deadpan expression.
''Uh no were not idiot! We are autonomous Drones, difference being were sentient robot aren't.'' V said with a grin on her face. ''Anyways Imma go to sleep too. Night princess!'' She then too flew up to her usual spot and went into sleep mode.
J for her part stood there for a while, thinking about what V had said and both the way had been acting and speaking. She then shuck her head ''No that's ridiculous, what does V even know about any of this.'' thinking to her self and reassuring to herself, but V words still stuck with her.
Tomorrow was a new night, she would have to sleep it off and besides she had a sure fire way to see if V was right about N, her and N's favorite past time activity. The old music player that N found in of the building while looking for workers, who ever the human was that N got thing from must have really had a taste for the ancient classics, because not only did they have a custom made music player shaped to look like an MP3 player from the 2000's but the music was equally old, some of the song even older then that and some newer but still old all together.
They would usually find a roof top to lay on top of and share the earbuds just listening to the music and looking into the stars, she would always imagine that she was there laying with Tessa in N's place, while N would defiantly imagine V in her place, she had no doubt about that.
There was no way in her mind that he would continue this robo-like act when listening to these, and so she went into the pod to sleep confident that she would prove V wrong tomorrow.
The day had been quiet on Copper-9 as the Disassembly Drones slept, until the sun began to set and a new night began. J woke up from an uneasy sleep with no dreams, she didn't know why she could get any real rest, it felt like a bad omen but she decided not to really dwell on it, it wouldn't to her any good to think about something like that. She good up and took the MP3 player putting it in her pocked.
J left the pod and looked at both of her team mates still resting, she made her way to one of the exits of the spire. She saw that the sun was still visible but low enough that she could maneuver through the building till the sun fully disappeared on the horizon, as she spread out her wings and readied her self to take flight, a sound could be heard.
She turned her head to catch N fly over her and out of the spire, she was surprised he was up this early, usually he would sleep for an hour more while V was sleeping at least for two more hours.
She didn't like them wasting time sleeping in so long despite the advantage of sleeping hanging of the ceiling of the spire gave them, as N and V could immediately take off by just spreading their wings as they released their tails hold of the ceiling. It was time saving and efficient, J even considered sleeping like them for a while but decided agents it. She preferred to sleep in the pod on a bed, it was far more comfortable and it helped her feel more human.
It was also undoubtedly the reason she would always wake up first, at least she thought so.
She took off, making sure to stay in the shadow of the buildings for the time, she didn't expect to run into a Worker as usually they would never be out this early. The Worker's nor knowing that the Disassembly Drones couldn't be out in the sun and thinking they would safer in the dark would go out of their hiding spots during the night, not knowing that doing that they were serving them self up to the Disassembly Drones on a silver plater.
J didn't waste much time and quickly took care of the Worker, checking her reserves she decided that this Worker would do as a snack instead of bringing him back to the spire. After gorging her self J felt a bit disappointed given how she killed him before checking her own oil reserves meaning that she didn't get to enjoy the struggle of the Worker desperately trying to get away from her as their life got slowly drained.
A couple hours have past and J returned to the spire with three dead Workers. When she got into the spire she saw N, ''Perfect timing.'' she thought and approached him.
''Hey N how many you got?'' She asked him genuinely curious as to how many he could have gotten.
''12 Workers terminated!'' N quickly replied.
J whistled impressed with his kill count, ''Good job, got 9 my self. I think we earned our self a break.'' she went up to him and gave him a pat on his shoulders ''Come I already know what to do!''.
The both of them fly off to a roof top, moment off truth. J turned to face N and with a big smile on her face took the MP3 player out of her pocket ''It's music time!!!'', she expected him to be equally excited as she was but instead N just stood there emotion less.
J was not starting to get a bit worried, this wasn't at all how he usually reacted. She shook her head and thought ''No he just has to start listening to the music and it's gonna be alright!'' .
''Come on lay on the ground and put the earbud to your audio sensor.'' J said as she handed him the left earbud while she put on the right one and laid down next to him.
She set the MP3 to play a random song on shuffle and symbolically closed the eyes on her visor, the first song to play was one of the song where they both couldn't help each other but to move their heads to the beat of the song.
J enjoyed her self allowing her self a quick moment to forget why she was even doing this, it was quickly over as she locked to N. He wasn't moving nor seemingly enjoying the song at all, his visor showing his eyes looking into the was emptiness of the universe above them lighted up the stars.
J was not only worried but also panicking, taking the MP3 player in a last ditch effort to make sure that the situation wasn't as bad as it seemed. She put on N's favorite song knowing that he would definitely react to that one.
But nothing was happening.
He still laid there.
No change in expression.
No change in emotion.
. . . Just like a robot.
J got up to her knees, ''Fuck, no. no, No! How I only got rid of some of the personality code?'' J began to question ''Huh my arm!?'', a slight pause as she noticed her hand shaking.
She took a hold of it with her other to stop the shaking for her whole body to start shaking, ''why the hell am I shaking? This isn't a big problem I can fix it!'' she reasoned to her self ''I just have to get up and fix him! It's all gonna be better!'' , ''So get up! Damning why can't I move?''.
J's shaking turned into a trembling as she could get her self to move to preoccupied in her thoughts It wasn't until N began to speak that J's body stooped to tremble and allowed her to move again.
''Is everything ok, you seem to be showing symptoms of overheating?'' N spoke with both a neutral expression and tone.
J got up quickly grabbing the MP3 player and putting it back in her pocket before taking a hold of N's arm and dragging him behind her ''We are going back to the spire, I need to fix you!''.
''All my systems are operational, I don't require any maintenance!'' N replied as they both took flight, J still holding on to him.
''Oh yes you do!'' J said in return.
''Here but this wire into your head and then shut yourself off!'' J said as she went to get the USB she used to store the code she removed from him, she didn't even bother closing the drawer after she took the USB, rushing to the computer that was starting to display N's code like it did yesterday.
''Come on, come on hurry up!'' J said out loud to her self impenitent while going through the code to reach the part that she was messing with, ''There!!! Wha- wait what?'' J was surprised to see that not only the lines of code she removed was gone but all of the personality code that made N who he was, was missing.
''That doesn't make any sense why would. Oh, oh no no no!'' J began to question why the rest was now missing as well until she remembered that N failed to turn back on correctly the first time around yesterday.
''Shit why would it, why didn't I make a copy of it all damnit!'' J began to yell at the screen, ''Wait no, maybe?'' J plugged the USB into the computer hoping that the code she did safe would be enough or perhaps just maybe through some miracle bring back the missing ones.
[MOVE SELECTED FILES TO SERIAL DESIGNATION N?]
[Y/N] . . . [Y]
''Now let's see if it worked.'' J said deciding not to mess with the changing his relationship status with V just yet.
N started to turn back and his visor showing the loading bar again, just like yesterday a crash half way through. J cursed quietly to her self waiting for him to turn back on only to shut him back off and try again.
[MOVE SELECTED FILES TO SERIAL DESIGNATION N?]
[Y/N] . . . [Y]
''Good but this time.'' J went into the relationship file to see if this is gonna work.
[RELATIONSHIPS]
[SELECT RELATIONSHIP]
[JCJENSON IN SPAAAAACEE!!!!]
[TEAM MATE J]
[TEAM MATE V]
[TECHNICIAN TESSA]
[RELATIONSHIP SELECTED V]
[Y/N] . . . [Y]
[RELATIONSHIP STATUS: CO-WORKER]
[RELATIONSHIP STATUS: ]
[RELATIONSHIP STATUS: CRUSH]
[CONFIRM RELATIONSHIP STATUS CHANGE?]
[Y/N] . . . [Y]
''Ok now work.'' J was really hoped it would work this time.
N started to turn back on only for the same to happen once he got to the half way point.
J sat down her chair in defeat, she felt horrible how couldn't she she just damaged JcJenson property sure she made him better at killing Worker Drones but she turned into a robot and their were supposed to be Autonomous Drones, if the company wanted a robot they would have made him one, she went agents the company how couldn't she fell tribble. At least that's what she thought, but inside of her a strange feeling was telling her she felt bad for a different reason.
N finished turning back up in the meantime ''Serial Designation N fully operational and ready for duty!''. J looked back up to her team made who she effectively lobotomized, he was just standing there looking at her with his soulless eyes, no emotion on his face, simply waiting for instructions.
''Go out and hunt for workers.'' J said as looked back down, she couldn't look at him, him being a reminder how what she did. Her failure.
She would have to report this to the company and then she would properly be disassembled herself for messing with and breaking company property, she new that and would resist it. She didn't need to write the report right now however, she would take some time to reflect on her actions, on what she did wrong.
She went outside to take in some of the freezing cold air, as she walked she could notice something in her pocket. It was the MP3 player she put hastily put there earlier, she didn't noticed before as she was preoccupied with N and trying to fix him, but now she could notice how uncomfortable it was sitting her pocket.
J thought for a second and decided that she would listen to some music before writing the repost, she decided to go up to the closest roof, look at the stars and listen to the music that would bring so much joy to her and N. Music he wouldn't be able to enjoy now thanks to her.
She got up to the roof top laid down in the snow facing towards where Earth would be according to her inner compass and weary basic, bare bones star map. She put both earbuds to her Audio sensors, it felt weird having them both and not sharing the other with N. She then turned the music on random shuffle.
There was nothing more to do, she just laid there listening to the music, except she wasn't really listening. It was of a background noise to her as she just couldn't shrug of the weird felling of guilt, which didn't make sense to her because she knew what she was guilty about, it was about damaging company property and yet something in her told her that it wasn't that. She just wanted to shrug the felling of but then she stopped and thought for a moment.
She's been having weird felling ever since she first hocked N up to the pod's computer and just shrugged it off and how great that's been working out. J tried her best to think about it, her guilt, her feeling but try as she may she just can't figure out what it was about, what it wanted to tell her if anything. A new song started to play but J didn't pay it any attention to focused on her thoughts, until it reached to a certain part of the songs lyrics.
Where did I go wrong?
I lost a friend,
Somewhere along in the bitterness,
And I would have stayed up with you all night,
Had I known how to save a life!
That's when J finally realized what has been wrong the entire time, J didn't feel guilt because she damaged company property, she didn't feel horrible because she messed with a team mates code. No N was more than just a team mate or company property, he was her friend and she had screwed with his mind, her friends mind.
Digital tears started to form on J's visor as she realized that all the times they hung out together, their talks, the times they did mindless thing to pass the time, all of that wasn't just because she didn't have anybody else to be with, or because she didn't wanna be by herself. She liked spending time with N, she liked have dumb talks with her friend, race down a construction side, play cards, listen to music, doing art together.
And she essentially killed him, not physically but mentally.
It was then that she truly began to regret her action, wished that she could undo what she did, bring him back. But there was nothing she could do it was to late. It was then a new song was starting to play and this time she didn't need to wait for the lyrics to relieve the message, strange as it may have sounded, J felt that the universe was telling her that It wasn't to late.
She got up with a new determination in her core ''Your right, It's never to late!'' J said to no one in particular, she flew back down to the pod. Almost slapping her self for not thinking of it any sooner, Tessa. If anybody could bring him back it was she.
Tessa had clone body's ready in case any of then got seriously destroyed, and with that came a full back up of their minds, memories, feelings, everything. Sure those would get periodically updated every two to three days but she also had backup's going back a year at least.
She got into the pod and turned the computer on, instantly beginning a call with Tessa. A few seconds passed before she answered the call.
''Hey J what's up you need an-. Whoa girls you look rough!'' Tessa remarked when she saw J.
''That's not important look I. . I messed up, really bad!'' J quickly replied, ''It's about N!''.
''What's wrong with N!? J what did you do?'' One could not see it through the dark tinted space mask, but you could feel the anger in her tone.
''ImessedwithhiscodethinkingthatIcouldhelphimfocusmoreonhisjobbyremovingsomeofhispersonalitycodeofcourseIsavedthemonaUSBbutsomethingwentwrongandnowhe'sarobotbecauseIbasicallylobotomizedhimpleaseTessafixhim!!!'' J spit out so quickly it was impossible to understand.
''Woah there J, I need you to run that all back by me, but slower and with space in between the words this time ok!'' Tessa said having no clue what just came out of J's mouth.
''Ok so I messed with his code, because I thought that I could help him focus more on his job by removing some of his personality code and of course I saved them on a USB. But something went wrong, an error happened when he was rebooting and now he's a robot because the rest of the personality code got deleted because of the error. So I basically lobotomized him and please Tessa fix him!!!'' J said this time much slower and easier to understand.
''Ok I see! Well you just need to hock him up to the computer while we are connected through the call and I'll be able to fix him.'' Tessa said a bit surprised at J and somewhat angry with her actions.
''Great I'll go get him right now!'' J said with a smile on her face as she rushed out of the pod and instantly took flight.
Tessa was now really surprise at J's eagerness to go help N.
It didn't take J long to find N as he was on his way back with a Worker corps, she garbed him as soon as she saw him and dragged him through the sky back to the pod. Back at the pod V had just came back to the spire hearing a commotion she turned to see J speeding towards the spire with N in tow.
''Well seems his lucky stream run out.'' V said thinking that J was going to punish him for something only to see her go right past her and drag him into the pod, ''Or maybe not!'' she corrected her self with a smug smile ''Not subtle at all girl.''.
''All right N this will only take a while, just shut down again and everything will be good buddy.'' J said hopefully while connecting him to the computer.
Tessa began working as soon as the code showed up on the computer, taking the necessary code from her save files and reuploading onto N. It didn't take long, Tessa was bout to turn back back on before J stopped her.
''Tessa wait not yet! I just remembered that I also messed with his relationship code.'' J said worried that there was gonna be another mishap.
''Oh really and exactly pray tell?'' Tessa asked while crossing her finger to lean her head on them and looking at J.
''I just changed his relationship status with V from crush to co-worker.'' J replied a little embarrassed at what Tessa must be thinking.
''Good thing you told me, who knows what would have happened if I didn't change that back.'' Said Tessa with a chuckle as she fixed that as well before then finally cutting the connection and letting N turn him self back on.
J watched the loading bar with fear and anticipation, hopping everything would work this time. The bar reached the half way point and in J's mind the universe seemingly stood still. It progressed further without any problems until it was full.
N slowly got back up again ''Damn my head hurt!''.
''Welcome back N how.'' Tessa began before stopping her self after seeing J rush forward to hug N, a fully unexpected sight.
''I'm sorry N for messing with you code!'' J said while embracing N in a bear hug.
N being surprised by this just like Tessa took while to respond ''Aww It's ok J you did just try to help me, not your fault you don't know anything about coding!''.
''But I literary lobotomized you how.'' J started before being interrupted by N.
''I don't wanna hear it J, you made an honest mistake, you realized it and are sorry for it and you tried to fix it to the best of your abilities. Tessa fixed be back up so all good that end well. Got it?'' N said in a stern yet caring tone, not wanting J to fell too bad about herself.
''Yeah.'' J replied with a smile on her face while releasing N from her bear hug.
''Well seeing how N has forgiven you and you better have learned your lesson, I'll let you go off easy with no punishment. But don't ever do something like this ever ok J!'' Tessa said with a cheerful tone that somehow also managed to be scary.
''Yes ma'am!'' J said getting the message.
''Ok then do keep in mind ya'll can call me not just when something goes wrong, I would love to talk to you guy's more often anyways byeee.'' Tessa finished before hanging up the call.
''So J wanna go listen to some music?'' N asked as he turned to J.
''Sure thing buddy!'' J said glad that N was back to normal.
The both of them were on a roof top looking at the stars while listening to their music, just like before except this time J wasn't imagining that she was there with Tessa. She was there with her friend.