The lights grew brighter as Robin flew closer to the room. Caffrin grabbed a pair of wire-cutters from a nearby shelf as they swooped in to find a small wooden marionette puppet resembling Becky lying on the ground, twitching and mumbling. Paige and Tony were laughing maniacally as Tony picked up the wooden puppet.
"If you can't be happy with your life as a puppeteer," Tony's eyes started glowing as he held Becky closer to his face, "Perhaps you'll enjoy having someone else pull at your strings!"

A large monitor stared down at the three from the wall in front of them, with Motherboard's disturbingly familiar face, only now, her eyes were a much darker shade of red. The monitor itself wasn't as big as it was in their last encounter with Motherboard, but to Caffrin and the other objects, it seemed a lot bigger.
"Good work, you two," Motherboard's shrill voice rang out, "She deserved to go anyway; we don't need her anymore."

"MOTHERBOARD!" Caffrin cried out as Robin perched himself onto a desk, "We meet again, after all this time, we thought you were destroyed for good!"
The monitor chuckled. "Foolish mortal; you only powered me down. A minor setback, yes, but that's never stopped me before...!"
Tony set Becky down on a table next to a small lamp. "It seems your resistance is becoming quite a problem, friends..."

The clock grinned as Robin's feathers turned grey and molted off of his body. Manny's skin faded from bright-lemon yellow to a bruised yellow-green color; he was becoming over-ripened and now starting to rot. Harry's strings of red yarn began falling apart and looking more and more raggedy. Caffrin's green threads started glowing faintly, but then began to fade away as her body ached, and the pain kept getting worse...

"You see, friends? There's no stopping us. And if you're going to waste our time...well..." Tony grinned, "I suppose your time is up."
Caffrin groaned, trying to keep herself steady. She remembered the needle she has tucked into her thread and pulled it out, aiming for Tony.

'I have one shot at this...' Caffrin thought, concentrating on her target. With a flick of her wrist, she threw the needle, lodging itself into Tony's left eye. He screamed in pain and fell over while the others were restored and no longer decaying. Caffrin grabbed the wire-cutters hopped back onto Robin. "Fly me over to those wires - quick!"
The bird nodded and swooped past Paige and headed for the table under Motherboard, wires tangled against one another with a set of buttons and switches - the biggest one read "POWER". Caffrin started to cut off the wires, causing Motherboard to grow weaker...and angrier.

"STOP THAT!" she screamed, "STOP IT NOW!"
Paige reached for her pencil to throw at them, but the wooden puppet smacked it away.
"I can't let you stop them," Becky stood herself up. "You're not the artist I wanted you to be - and I want you to be human again."

After Caffrin cut off the last wire that was connected to her, Motherboard screamed one last time as her eyes stopped glowing, fading into a dark grey. Her monitor started to glitch, and Robin perched onto the big power switch.
"Wait - one more thing...," Becky called out to them.

"...Thank you."

Caffrin smiled and helped Robin lower the switch, shutting Motherboard off completely. This time, for good.
Motherboard's screen started cracking, a bright yellow light shined threw them. Caffrin's threads started to glow brighter and her form started to change.

As the light consumed the room, she felt herself becoming human once again.