Chapter 21
The car ride was quiet nothing else could be said about it. Call spent the whole time staring at the oil print on the back of the envelope. Sanda didn't say anything about it to her. So they reached the building and headed up the offices in silence. Before they went into Sanda's office White stopped them.
"Hey."
"Hello, White."
"Do you have the papers?"
"Yes, Call's got them right here."
She handed them over to White and said.
"My Objective isn't complete will you please complete it."
"What do you mean?...Oh, when I told you to go get the papers the first time. It's complete now, Call."
"Negative."
"How's it not complete?"
"Objective Update: Proceed to Graham's place to retrieve paperwork, and scan/gather data on robots along the way. Also ensure that Beck gets to see Professor White. Not Complete."
"Where did you get the part about Beck seeing me from?"
"Beck requested it."
"I see."
White rubbed his chin for a minute, before giving Call a small smile.
"I'll get onto that today then."
Call nodded her head.
"Sanda."
"Yes."
"Please don't give me any more information on the city plans today. Don't even gather any, right now I'm a bit behind on them. I'm also arranging a meeting; I guess you could call it, between Trinity and the Mighty Numbers. So they should be busy this afternoon, I hope this doesn't cause you any inconvenience."
"All I was going to do today was to set up a couple more plans for the city's repair. But if you want to wait on that stuff Call and I will go take care of some errands."
"That's fine with me. I better get going though, I'll see you soon."
"Bye."
White waved as he disappeared down the hall.
"All right Call it's errand time."
"Affirmative."
Back down the elevator to the car they went. It was a few minutes of driving before Sanda pulled out in front of a print shop.
"We need some paper for the office. Do you want to stay in the car or come in?"
"It is my job to assist you."
"I'll take that as come in."
The print shop was small, and painted a light gray color. It had white shelves and a white ceiling. Signs were blue and hung from the ceiling. The place was a little too warm; the air conditioner seemed to be struggling to keep up with its demands. Sanda grabbed some copy paper off one of the shelves and then started to look for something else.
Call looked over at the front desk which had a girl sitting at it. She had short strawberry blond hair, and blue eyes. She looked extremely bored, and had bags under her eyes. She looked to be around twenty-five years old. Call went up to her desk to read her name tag, it said Mavis. Mavis took one look at Call before her eyes widened.
"Excuse me, sir!"
Her voice sounded a little urgent. Sanda walked up to the register; along with the new paper he had an ink cartridge.
"Is there a problem?"
"I'm sorry, but all robots like this one-"
She pointed to Call.
"-are supposed to be offline right now. You don't want it to be infected by the virus, it could still be around you know."
"Oh, well don't worry about Call. She's allowed to be online right now; I even installed a few precautions in case the virus did come back."
Their conversation continued as she scanned his items.
"Sorry, about this then. I've been told to remind people with these guys."
"It's fine. Any unauthorized machine should be turned off right now. Not like you Call."
Sanda quickly patted her head.
"What type of robot is she?"
"Call's my assistant."
"You got an assistant one too. Huh."
"Why yes, I take it you have one."
"It's not really mine, it belongs to my boss. It was a really good helper one, although with virus out its offline. That'll be $17.99 please."
Sanda handed her the money.
"That's quite a shame."
Mavis gave him the receipt and some change.
"It really is, the robo used to take care of the prints. Without it, it takes a lot longer to make copies. Now I got to worry about copy making and robot nappers."
"Robot nappers?"
"Haven't ya heard? A bunch of the city's robots were affected by the virus, and went haywire. Luckily, it seems the whole virus problem has been taken care off. However, now that's its over robots left and right are disappearing."
"Peas and carrots."
"I'd keep a close eye on your little girl here. Someone might decide to come snatch her up."
"Thanks for the warning. Have a good day."
"No prob, right back atcha."
Call, and Sanda left the shop. Sanda put the stuff in the back seats, and then got in the front.
"Call, let's go ahead and head home. I think I we should do some research on this robot snatcher."
"Affirmative."
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