When Fate set his mind to something he saw it through. No matter how utterly ridiculous that something was, no matter how likely it was to produce casualties--financial or mechanical, anyway...he usually at least paused to consider if flesh would be a concern. It was just too much of a hassle to return things that he'd painstakingly made sure no one would miss. Or that those who did miss them deserved to miss. But once the wheels were in motion, reprogramming AI shells, shuffling around mining bot maintenance schedules and drills, having fresh food prepared--Fate was not one to waste effort.
It wasn't necessarily difficult to dissolve one of his harebrained schemes (Sass's coined phrase, not his--Fate was fucking BRILLIANT--though for some reason he couldn't help the nagging feeling that this particular one fell into the same category as using a garbage barge to crash through the ornate ceiling of a museum in order to stop a fraudulent painting from costing them millions when it went to auction...), but it was inconvenient to have to undo his own work.
So when he came up with the idea to evade bounty hunters by walking through walls/ceiling/floor/any of the above, the plan was underway before he considered alternatives. Or the consequences of property damage, given that he was going through with this regardless of who own the lease.
He was going to do it anyway, so why go through the extra effort of fact-checking?
The gossip took up his extra energy anyway, what with grumbling over Kreska's name assumptions. "Everyone always goes to the coincidence. Nevermind that probably my mother rolled with it that way on purpose..."
Fate's android was finally on the level with his charges--now all he needed was a reroute of the present audience. Which he'd use Sass's codes to provide, spoofing her typical jack commands to send a handful of meandering bots straight past the bastards hunting his friend. The android snuck as well as an android could, crossing into a unit along the backside of the one the women occupied. Fate set its security protocols up, protecting the second room along with the first even as he set the target area for the mining bots to do their thing.
As the bounty hunters moved back into their former positions around the unit Sascha and Kreska occupied, Fate sighed. "Corporate muggers. So much smarter than the average dog."
But his good humor returned as Kreska's gravelly voice rolled into his workspace. Fate grinned. "You forgive me AND you missed me. This is wonderful!"
>>Don't panic.
>>But I'm bringing in delivery.
And with that abrupt warning, he set the lasers to a low resonance, a quick burn.
Hmm. That should have blasted half the wall in on top of them.
Probably that it hadn't was a good thing for them as it wouldn't have done so with a warning label, but Fate had had PLANS. He adjusted the strength of the drills, condensed them to a smaller area rather than a door-sized entry. What is this thing made of? Quickly, he panned back through the records, dug through a hundred layers of encryption, and went far paler than usual when he realized this was one situation where fact-checking would have quickly turned his plans around. She'd mentioned a snake but he'd guessed that was more affectionate term than literal.
What--no, who--no, what, or both who/what...Fate's brain froze on those options as he calculated who the women's hideyhole belonged to. "Ah. Oh."
"Kreska-girl, you got friends in some disastrously low places." Disastrously for him, quite possibly. He didn't think 'forgiveness' was in a Krotazi's vocabulary.
It's gonna really suck to have to move AGAIN.
A hand-sized circle popped from the wall and landed with an audible splash somewhere on the other side. Cursing indicated that it maybe hadn't fallen loose but rather ejected forcefully from its former place. He twitched his eye to send a firm command to his mechanical minions, and the mining bots floated to the side to make room for a tray.
"Right-o," the android announced through the peephole (in a rather dapper accent if Fate was being...modest), "which one of you lovely ducks ordered the beer soup?"
It wasn't necessarily difficult to dissolve one of his harebrained schemes (Sass's coined phrase, not his--Fate was fucking BRILLIANT--though for some reason he couldn't help the nagging feeling that this particular one fell into the same category as using a garbage barge to crash through the ornate ceiling of a museum in order to stop a fraudulent painting from costing them millions when it went to auction...), but it was inconvenient to have to undo his own work.
So when he came up with the idea to evade bounty hunters by walking through walls/ceiling/floor/any of the above, the plan was underway before he considered alternatives. Or the consequences of property damage, given that he was going through with this regardless of who own the lease.
He was going to do it anyway, so why go through the extra effort of fact-checking?
The gossip took up his extra energy anyway, what with grumbling over Kreska's name assumptions. "Everyone always goes to the coincidence. Nevermind that probably my mother rolled with it that way on purpose..."
Fate's android was finally on the level with his charges--now all he needed was a reroute of the present audience. Which he'd use Sass's codes to provide, spoofing her typical jack commands to send a handful of meandering bots straight past the bastards hunting his friend. The android snuck as well as an android could, crossing into a unit along the backside of the one the women occupied. Fate set its security protocols up, protecting the second room along with the first even as he set the target area for the mining bots to do their thing.
As the bounty hunters moved back into their former positions around the unit Sascha and Kreska occupied, Fate sighed. "Corporate muggers. So much smarter than the average dog."
But his good humor returned as Kreska's gravelly voice rolled into his workspace. Fate grinned. "You forgive me AND you missed me. This is wonderful!"
>>Don't panic.
>>But I'm bringing in delivery.
And with that abrupt warning, he set the lasers to a low resonance, a quick burn.
Hmm. That should have blasted half the wall in on top of them.
Probably that it hadn't was a good thing for them as it wouldn't have done so with a warning label, but Fate had had PLANS. He adjusted the strength of the drills, condensed them to a smaller area rather than a door-sized entry. What is this thing made of? Quickly, he panned back through the records, dug through a hundred layers of encryption, and went far paler than usual when he realized this was one situation where fact-checking would have quickly turned his plans around. She'd mentioned a snake but he'd guessed that was more affectionate term than literal.
What--no, who--no, what, or both who/what...Fate's brain froze on those options as he calculated who the women's hideyhole belonged to. "Ah. Oh."
"Kreska-girl, you got friends in some disastrously low places." Disastrously for him, quite possibly. He didn't think 'forgiveness' was in a Krotazi's vocabulary.
It's gonna really suck to have to move AGAIN.
A hand-sized circle popped from the wall and landed with an audible splash somewhere on the other side. Cursing indicated that it maybe hadn't fallen loose but rather ejected forcefully from its former place. He twitched his eye to send a firm command to his mechanical minions, and the mining bots floated to the side to make room for a tray.
"Right-o," the android announced through the peephole (in a rather dapper accent if Fate was being...modest), "which one of you lovely ducks ordered the beer soup?"
Dreams come in a size too big so we can grow into them.
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