X is for Xerox
Blade had known that the base had outdated equipment well before he had taken on the role of being Chief…he just hadn't realized just how badly outdated they were until he was in charge of everything. The copier in front of him was truly a dinosaur and while he had been talked through how to use it, actually using it proved to be a challenge he hadn't anticipated.
The current mess started when Blade needed to make a copy of a map for one of his files. He placed the map on the reader and pressed the big green copy button…and nothing happened. He pushed it again…and still, nothing happened. He flicked the power on the machine off, then on, and then pushed the big green button. The lights on the copy machine flashed once, then it beeped, and for a brief moment Blade thought it might finally print the map…then the whole contraption shuttered, and the helicopter found himself engulfed in a cloud of fine black powder.
It took all of Blade's self-control not to drop the whole slagging thing off the cliff at the end of the runway, but he knew they didn't have enough money in the budget to replace it, and slag it, he needed a copier to do his job. Blade did allow himself to let out a long and very descriptive stream of swear words to blow off some of his anger. Once he was no longer seeing red and the helicopter finally admitted defeat. He backed away from the Xerox machine slowly in an attempt to make sure that he didn't break anything further.
"Maru!" Blade shouted out his hangar door. A few minutes later a concerned-looking mechanic peeked his head into the cavernous space. When he did Blade simply motioned a tire towards the clearly broken machine in the corner. "Fix it."
Maru took one look at the mess that have overtaken Blade's hangar/office and burst out laughing. Once the mechanic finally stopped wheezing, he patted the helicopter on the side. "Don't worry. I will get it fixed."
Term – Xerox – A trademarked name for a copy machine, that became both a verb and a noun. Kind of like the boomer version of the word Google.