5- Servos and Screwdrivers
Lampy and Radio dove into the bag once Robbie returned. He tightened Viper's wheel.
"All right, it's all set." A group of workmen carried Viper off the shelf.
Robbie walked off.
Lampy peeked out of the bag to find another workman. A figure of a pale woman clutching a cello sat in front of the work table.
"What's that?" Lampy whispered. "Looks human."
"Let me have a look," Radio said. "That's no human. It's too pale to be one."
The workman slowly removed the figure's face, revealing a robotic endoskeleton.
Lampy cringed. "What even is that thing?"
The workman inspected the wiring. "Hmm, nothing's wrong with any mechanism." He replaced the robot's face. "Why not run it through testing?"
A while later, the robot's hands began moving. It silently moved the cello bow across the strings.
"Hey, why isn't it making noise?" One of the workmen asked.
"It syncs up to the audio," another said. "It can't actually play the cello."
The workmen carried the robot away.
"Humanoid robots?" Ongaku-san asked. "Hmm, you may have seen an animatronic."
"Anima-what?" Lampy asked.
"Animatronic," the stereo replied. "They're typically used by the entertainment industry, like theme parks." Plugsy dragged a paper over.
"Master works at a warehouse for an Amusement Park."
"He tightened a roller coaster's axle," Lampy said.
"I guess he's only doing maintenance on less delicate matters. Robotics is a tricky subject." Ongaku-san said.