Summary: AP-99 thinks over the attack on his freighter and the events the happened after.
Notes: See the beginning of "NOS-4-A2" if you don't remember who AP-99 is.
After his first freighter was destroyed, AP-99 was more wary about interstellar trips with mysterious cargos. The explosion was a mar on his perfectly good record. He had always been on time for deliveries and logging in to flight control, his cargo was kept in great condition with little jostling during the trip, and he never had any criticism from people calling into the "How's My Driving" department.
But nooo... Just after he logged in, on time as usual, Mr. Warp Darkmatter just HAD to attack. AP-99 was impressed that the pride of Star Command, Buzz Lightyear, came to rescue him, but his rookie team obviously had been at fault for Darkmatter managing to blow up his freighter. That robot ranger hardly managed to save him! They nearly blew to atoms! His black box even melted in the explosion so they couldn't tell what exactly he had been carrying in the first place.
Sure, Team Lightyear "salvaged the cargo", but only ONE box. AP-99 had hundreds of others he was supposed to deliver! And he couldn't log in what he had lost, meaning his company had to do a lot of work to figure out who they had to reimburse for the loss of packages, not to mention someone had to pay to replace the freighter in the first place.
He was out of commission for a month. His company had to do maintenance to see exactly how Darkmatter was able to get on board with so many hornets without him knowing. He was nearly convinced that they would just sell him for scrap and replace him with a new model Auto Pilot!
Finally, he was given a small upgrade, installed into a new freighter, and given a new job delivering something less likely to be stolen: Peevian Slug Guano.