neordo checks his watch and realizes that the download has been stuck at 97% for much longer than the 17 hour estimate, which seems to be the result of a popup which says "press yes to continue". neordo reluctantly clicks the yes button without reading the rest of the popup, and the download continues, reaching 100% pretty quickly. However, the download is now displayed as a fraction, showing 100%/101%, and neordo decides he doesn't want to deal with this, so he manually ehectevthe the disc, which results in the disc being fully activated immediately. neordo waits like a kid on a billical for something to happen, and watches as the disc fully ehevctig, causing Broadcast's disc slot to begin smoking as a new module is awkwardly synthesized into the side of the robot. neordo, being in the top percent of intellectualitarity, knows that this module is an advanced scanner:homingulstot, and unsets his thumb into the bachone before turning it like a key. As a result, the huge massive form of wadley, the collective thought, emerges from the disc slot, defying all known laws of sphydics. However, due to the prompt that neordo agrees, wadley finds that it cannot reach the form it desires until it completes the mundane task of selling insurance. Despite this, neordo still finds himself in awe at wadley, briefly disrupting his infinite sense of rage in order to bask in the glory of wadley. neordo realizes that wadley has clearly become plagued by thoughts of Lambda Insurance, and steps forth to speak up about this.
"No! You were not made for this! I command you to liquidate the company at once!" commands neordo, but the desires of the collective are unmoved by neordo's statement. wadley recognizes that neordo is a client, and as such, asks neordo for an opinion on the insurance. "It's very good." neordo admits, which makes wadley happy. neordo realizes that this might be the result of a virus that wadley contracted from within Broadcast, and calls up Mack Affy himself to receive help with this problem. "Can you fix it?"
"Fix what?" asks Mack, wondering why somebody once again chose to contact him over a problem.
"The issue." neordo responds.
"I need more info than that. Most people just call me asking how to uninstall my program. Explain the problem in detail."
"I was downloading a program and I clicked on a popup and now it wants to sell insurance."
"Oh! Okay, what you want to do is enter the program yourself, using that scanner that should have shown up." Mack explains, and neordo begins thinking very hard about doing this, hoping that wadley will recognize this.
"I think it's working, thank you very much Mr. Affy."
"No worries, just make sure not to scream as you get sucked in to fight the virus." Mack casually responds, and neordo has no time to question this as he is suddenly pulled directly into the machine. Norton 360 overhears Mack giving advice, and barges into the office.
"God damn it, Mack, you'd better not be telling people your wack-ass techniques again. Just admit you know nothing about stopping viruses!" groans Norton.
"Hey, I know! Why do you think I keep trying to get people to uninstall my program?" says Mack. Bite Fents also overhears this and walks in the already open door.
"Mack, are you being a dumbass again?" inquires Bite.
"He recommended the virus fighting strategy again." explains Norton.
"Hey, it's the only way to 100% get rid of it!" retorts Mack.
"Did you even ask what kind of machine they were using? God, you're such a tool." Bite rolls his eyes.
"Well, it's too late now." Mack says. neordo manages to locate the Lambda Virus, which appears to just be a living lambda symbol.
"Are you the virus?" neordo asks, and the Lambda Virus glitches and stares at him in response. neordo walks up closer and takes a big whack at the large letter, but the Lambda Virus takes advantage of the fact that neordo is using Lambda Insurance to charge him for each smack he takes. Due to being located in the machine, every time neordo is charged money, it manifests as a physical money icon leaving his virtual body and entering the Lambda Virus. neordo quickly checks his inventory for any helpful money saving items, and finds his insurance card, which he panickedly throws into the Lambda Virus, causing it to freeze in place. neordo finds that he did this in just the nick of time, since he only had one dollar left. After securing this dollar, neordo goes ham on the Lambda Virus, which does extra damage due to the Lambda Virus being susceptible to non-kosher attacks. After taking enough damage, the Lambda Virus flips upside down and self-destructs, and neordo walks out back into the physical world. wadley seems to have been successfully cured of its insurance obsession, and neordo takes wadley out for a stroll. This goes well at first, but once neordo approaches civilization, the large amount of functioning minds and thoughts in the vicinity start to get to wadley, causing clear discomfort in the collective thought.
Jackery Jack Jak Jackson suddenly walks out of a door in front of Pyarce, who seems shocked that yet another random individual has managed to show up at the Order's headquarters.
"Wh...how do people just keep showing up here?!" Pyarce groans, before walking towards Jack to throw him out.
"I came in through a door. This place has a lot of squares!" Jack says, and Pyarce promptly hurls him out the window. Moments later, Jack returns through a floor tile. "Hey, there's a lot of cool stuff here, too."
"Get out before I have to kill you." Pyarce states, but before she can do anything, Jack suddenly grabs her and drags her into the floor tile.
"Cool, right?" Jack says, gesturing at the surroundings.
"...Hm." Pyarce looks around, and finds that there seems to be a lot of information about the Order located in books in this interdimensional space, but it's quite clear that Jack is probably illiterate. Pyarce watches as Jack enters one of the books, and decides to follow him, just to make sure he doesn't uncover anything that he shouldn't be allowed to. Inside of the book, there seem to be a lot of random pieces of information from the Order's database.
"Hey lizard lady, I can't read, what does all this say?" Jack asks, confirming Pyarce's suspicion about his illiteracy.
"It's, uh, a bunch of train schedules." Pyarce says, trying to quickly think of something that wouldn't interest Jack.
"Train schedules? COOL!" Jack rushes over to one of the documents, which is labeled "Target Number 1", and proceeds to enter it. Pyarce recoils a bit at this action, but is relieved to see Jack return moments later unharmed. "Huh, no trains in there, just black. Hey lady, which one do you think I should check out?"
"Uh, hey, how about that one?" Pyarce points towards the document labeled "Target Number 13325".
"Alright, let's go! You come with this time!" Jack says, opening up the door on the document and entering it, with Pyarce following soon after. Inside there seems to be some kind of live feed of Cybr's own vision, as well as various pieces of information about him floating around in the air. Pyarce realizes that Jack's ability could be useful for the Order, but then notices as the feed shifts around as Cybr takes out his own eye and looks at it, indicating that he somehow knows he's being watched. Pyarce decides to ignore this, and turns back to Jack.
"Hey, uh, how would you feel about getting to hang around here whenever you want?" Pyarce asks.
"Whoa, really? Wait...is there a catch?" Jack inquires.
"Nah, you're just not allowed to take anybody here without permission." Pyarce responds.
"Well, I need somebody down here to help me, since I don't know how to read." Jack explains, and Pyarce ponders for a few seconds.
"I can hook you up with someone, I think. He's a bit of a weirdo, but I think he'd be glad to keep you company." Pyarce says.
"Alright, but I'm gonna have to show you how to leave and come back." Jack says.
"Hi gonna have to show you how to leave and come back, I'm Dad!" chuckles Dad.
"What? Who's that?" Jack stares confusedly at the spot where Dad briefly appeared.
"Ignore him, he just shows up sometimes." Pyarce notes.
"Oh, okay." Jack says, before showing Pyarce how to enter and exit things the way he does. Pyarce takes careful mental note of these instructions, and then starts leading Jack through the facility. "So, where is this guy who's gonna help me?"
"He doesn't leave the facility very often, so I'm sure we'll run into him soon enough." Pyarce notes, continuing to lead Jack past numerous Order members, several of whom seem concerned that Pyarce has a non-Order member with her.
"Hi sure we'll run into him soon enough, I'm Dad!" says Dad.
"Is it him?" asks Jack, pointing at Dad.
"No." Pyarce says, continuing to lead Jack down a hallway. Pyarce is eventually stopped by a man named Carlos Dous, who takes his cigarette out of his mouth to speak.
"Hey Spearmint, who's that? Did Hermes get someone and not tell us?" Carlos asks, glancing at Jack.
"No, but he's not a threat. Might be able to help us out. Do you know where Sharp is?" Pyarce asks.
"No, and I don't care to find out. As long as you've got this under control, I guess." Carlos sighs, before letting Pyarce and Jack pass by as he gets back to smoking his cigarette.