A/N: So... Movie One began with outright corruption and something not touched on again. That something? The ED-209 test... which would get any normal corporation sued six (or more) ways from Sunday. Only... they never mentioned it again. (And I got plot-bunny attacked by a "things we don't write" discussion. I don't write giant robots shooting people on account of a "glitch.")
Tangled
Somewhere in Detroit, Michigan, a little girl watches. Watches as a casket is lowered into the ground, silently wondering all the while how her daddy went to work like any normal day and ended up dead. Standing beside her mother, who has said nothing for a week about anything, the questions will go unasked. The time will never be right to ask them. She knows this, even if she doesn't understand it yet.
Somewhere in Detroit, Michigan, a little girl watches as people start to leave, and her mother grabs her hand. "Let's go." She blinks up at her, surprised by how hollow her mother's voice is. After a week of silence, she is not comforted to hear her mother speak, and begins to cry. Nothing is right, and everything has been turned upside down, and now it's real. Real in a way it hadn't been before.
Somewhere in Detroit, Michigan, beside a grave in a cemetary, a young mother attempts to comfort her young daughter as she cries.
The gravestone stands silent, witness to this new reality that the wife and daughter of a now-deceased junior executive named Kenny have found themselves in. There will be much to do, and much to overcome in the coming days.