"It's a pleasure to see you again sir," N said getting off the top of the landing pod and started walking towards J and V who were shocked that N knew the CEO and didn't tell them. The CEO and their 2 guards walked toward everyone, stopping 4 feet away from everyone, the CEO was 6 feet tall, and vaguely masculine looking. They wore a vanta black-coloured hooded cloak which covered their face and body outline in shadows, and they wore lace-up combat boots with some armour pieces made out of some unknown metal.
The appearance of the drones that guarded the CEO shocked Uzi and Doll. The drones on the CEO's left and right side looked like disassembly drone versions of Yeva (Doll's mother) and Nori (Uzi's mother) with the same colour of nanite acid as Thaddaeus. "MOM?!/ МАМА?!" Uzi and Doll shouted in shock as Nori and Yeva just chuckle at their shock, but it quickly turns to anger at a specific drone for lying to their daughters.
Meanwhile in the bunker
Khan gets an overwhelming sense of dread but it stops after a second, "what was that? Eh, probably just a bug in the old emotion chip, now back to working on my baby" Khan said as he went back to work on his new door prototype.
"where is he?!" a female worker drone exclaimed in shock, the female worker drone was frantically searching the empty room for any hint of where her child was. 3 hours of searching and hysteria later She finds a note taped to the inside of one of the doors of the wardrobe. The note reads
/note start/
Dear family.
If you have found this note then I have left the bunker. Please don't try to look for me as I don't wish to be found.
Your son, Thad
/note end/
Thad's mother cried, the coolant staining the paper as she wept in sorrow. Thad's father soon came into the room to see his wife crying her eyes out, "What's going on, why are you crying and where's Thad?" The father asked. The wife only handed the note that Thad left for them to find. After reading the note he started to cry and comfort his wife.
When Chad got home from school he found his parents at the table waiting for him "Am I in trouble" Chad asked, his patent simply slid the note towards Chad who had taken their cue to sit down and read it. After reading the note Chad started to cry along with his parents as they couldn't hide it anymore.
"I'm going to find him to at least get an answer of why he left" Chad said, his voice brimming with determination. "How will you find him?" His mother asked curious asto how he would. "Well that girl who he was friends with and saved us from the murder drones wasn't at school either, so I know where to check first" Chad said unsure of how his parents would react to his suggestion of where Thad could be.
"The corpse spire" Chad's mother uttered under her breath. The parents share a look of concern for there now only son "I'm not going right now, and all I'm going to do is look around to see if I can spot Thad." Chad explained to calm his parents nerves. After awhile of thinking the father says "ok you can go and see, but don't get to close as I overheard that Uzi only made a deal to leave our colony alone but at the cost of another so don't get caught" the father explained to his son "I won't dad, I promise" Chad said reassuringly to his father.
A few minutes of talking go by and Chad sets off on his journey to the corpse spire. When Chad is near the corps spire he hears some snow crunch behind him, this causes him to freeze and hear a smooth, slightly robotic female voice say "what are you doing here?"
The voice didn't give him a. Chance to say anything as what appeared to be a tail wrapped around him and before he realized, he was being carried through the air towards the corpse spire. Chad looked at the drone who had grabbed him, the drone had a feminine figure with snow white hair with all the normal disassembly drone markings except they were red instead of yellow including the nanite acid in her tail which confused Chad, she wore a black hooded cloak over black casual attire. He seen her do something but couldn't see what.
With our main group inside the spire
"Huh, oh it's Cyn. She found a drone coming to the spire and is bringing them in for interrogation" Thaddeus said to the impromptu reunion between the parents and their kid's. "She said it looked like they were looking for something or someone" Thaddeus continued. A few seconds later there was the faint sound of snow crunching and then Cyn appeared out of the blue holding a struggling Chad in her tail (her tail is wrapped over Chads upper body pinning his arm to his side).
"Chad What are you doing here, I told you and my parents not to look for me" Thad asked. Cyn taking this as it's safe to let go of him do so and left to resume her watch over the area "I came to ask one question, but now I have many" Chad said confused "I'll answer your questions but you have to keep where we are and our conversation secret but keep in mind I might not know or be able to tell you the answer" Thad said with a tone that told Chad that he won't be able to negotiate with Thad to tell him what he isn't able to
"ok. first question is why did you leave" Chad asked after a moment of figuring out what questions to ask out of the millions he had. " Well for starters we didn't feel like we belonged there along with our... Less than desirable traits like needing to drink worker drone oil as not to overheat or having disassembly drone fangs and lastly our program that is very weird" Thad answered showing each detail along the explanation.
"I thought there were only 3 disassembly drones and that they were yellow" Chad asked looking at Thaddeus, Yeva and Nori talking to a mysterious being. " Well yes there is only 3 disassembly drones that came from JcJenson, the other 4 are the bodyguards to a very important person that wanted to come speak to us" Thad said to Chad, hinting that the important person is the mysterious being he sees talking the the other drones.
With the everyone else
"So, what your telling me is that Khan knew who you 3 really were and still disassembled you to build the first door due to how strong you 3 are. But you intentionally damaged your movement actuators so he wouldn't be able to use them to there full capacity " Uzi recapped after Nori, Yeva and Thaddeus explained how Khan killed them an made it look like a freak accident or a good thing to do.
"ya that pretty much sums it up" Nori said with a bit of anger left over from her explanation of her past with Khan and his deeds to her and Yeva. She looked at J and V which reminded her of of something She wanted to tell them "Hey, you know WDE owns you 2 now right?" Nori said to a shocked J and V "how!? Doesn't JcJenson own us?" J shouted to the annoyance of V who was right beside her "Well WDE bought out JcJenson after there dirty laundry was aired out to dry so to speak" Nori explained to the horror of J and V.
After awhile J asked "so what are you going to do about the worker colonies?" Nori just smirked to the disgruntlement of J "Well, first we sneak into the colonies and see how there corrupted and if any are even corrupted. Then we offline the corrupt ones like Khan and what not while temporarily shutting down the salvageable ones and putting them on our ship to transport them to node C-9 while we fix the planet therefor making it habitable again, this also includes the ecosystem by the way" Nori explained to the amazement of J and annoyance of V who noticed Thaddaeus leaving just after Nori explained the first part about the spying taking Chad with him.
"So I assume Thaddeus is going to be the one to spy on the colonies?" V asked Nori who had just finished explaining the plan to J. " ya why do you ask, did he leave already?" Nori replied to V while looking for Thaddeus. " It seems like he did and he also took Thad's older brother to" V affirmed Nori's question "splendid, but it sucks that he won't be able to mentor Thad" Nori said to the confusion of J, V, Doll, Thad and Uzi.
"mind elaborating on what you just said Mom" Uzi said to her mothers delight at being called mom for the first time, after a few seconds Nori responded to her daughter "What I meant was that starting from today me, Yeva, Thaddeus and Cyn will be training/giving J, V and N there certificates for them to be able to work in there profession along with getting them aquatinted with there workload and the rules and other duties of the profession along with explaining there mandatory annual practical and theoretical qualification exam or MAPTQ exam for short" Nori explained to J and V in particular.
"what about us?" Uzi said to her mother "well, Cyn is going to be in charge of there training while Yeva and I train you in your powers along with our ways which brings me to the question of do you want to join us in our line of work? You won't replace us but instead you 3 plus another member will be under our group banner. You'll be a separate squad that has the same purpose and regulations. You'll get it eventually" Nori said to the 3 teens in front of her adding the last bit after seeing there confused expressions.
"so we'll basically be another team with the same clearance and objective. In other words we take the pressure of of you guys by assisting you guys or lightening your workload" Uzi summed up understanding what her mother meant. "you're correct. Now do you have an answer to my question?" Nori asked all 3 of them "Yes" they answered after a few seconds of thinking
