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JCJenson: AUTOMATED SERVICES TECHNICIAN TRAINING
WD Disassembly - (1A) Overview:
"Zombie Drones!!!!"

CLIENT REASON FOR WD UNIT DISASSEMBLY AND DISPOSAL
53% Unit Damage
27% Upgrading Model
11% Terminating Operation(s)
7% Competitor Products
2% Core Failsafe Trip
1% Other

Narrator: Upgrading models. Cutting maintenance costs.

WD DISASSEMBLY PROCESS TWO STEP OVERVIEW

STEP 1: Software Cleanup
Ensure Marked WD Unit Matches P/N, S/N (1A) → MARKED FOR DISASSEMBLY

Narrator: There are many reasons the clients may wish to disassemble a drone individual or series after a period of use.

Upload wdOS_606
(This if Fun for Them) (1B)

STEP 2: Hardware Cleanup
Human Inspection (2A): Affirm Core Disconnect

Process Drone (1) Core (1)
Through disassembly unit (2R)

Human Inspection (2B):
Affirm fun

Narrator: (The tape and audio begin glitching out.) Following these two steps is key to avoiding—

(The tape has now completely glitched out and is replaced by static. Until...)

ZOMBIE DRONES!!!!!

(The tape then returns to normal. For the most part.)

WD DISASSEMBLY PROCESS COMPLICATIONS AND FINES

FINE 9C: "Zombie Drones"

-> Core is not properly disconnected
-> Hardware is not physically destroyed
-> wdOS_606 is interrupted/rejected immediately (1A) or up to five (5) years later

Narrator: Incompletely disassembled drones may occasionally reboot from software death alone. More than undead federal fine hazards, these corrupted AI carry an increased risk of future error—

CORE TERMINATION REJECTION CAUS CHECKLIST - "T.O.F."

aiCore WD1001 -0.01% self-reboot rate (3020)

Technician Error (Repeat A1-B2)

Faulty OS String (Check Indicator)

Failsafe Wear (Inspect Pins)

The tape glitches out once more as we zoom out from a television set sitting in a dump. A bird flies around looking for something to snack on. Underground, a drone awakens sinisterly.

At a mansion, you and N are reading a book called "101 Dog Breeds".

N: This breed is known for its friendly, intelligent temperament, and soft golden coat! (Chuckles) Golden Retrievers are also— (He comes across a drawing that was placed in the book.) Us as lizards. J drew herself.

You toss the drawing off to the side and continue reading.

Y/N: (clears throat) ...are also known for having gentle mouths. Aww...! That's why they're good with kids!

You hear a stomping noise. Books start falling off the shelves with titles such as "Enter" and "The Spooky Basement" as you see that someone is attempting to enter the library via a trapdoor... But both of you think nothing of it, and literally peace out, being some of the only characters in a horror scenario to not be complete dumbasses.

Cut to a different room in the mansion. One of the robotic cockroaches a teacup filled with oil and curiously sniffs at it. A corpse of another cockroach rises out of cup before a claw comes out and stabs it.

Cyn: Stab.

She stirs the other corpse into her "Tea" as you and N enter carrying serving platters with beverages. 

Cyn: You seem upset big brother N and platonic friend Y/N.

You turn towards Cyn, who briefly appears to be in her Absolute Solver form before looking like a regular Worker Drone after a flash of lightning.

Cyn: Perhaps you'd like to attend the gala with me? Light sip.

She attempts to sip her "Tea" but ends up spilling it on the floor.

N: Ah... Not sure we're invited, little buddy. Why not just hang with us?

Cyn: (Climbs the bar) Climbing. Cris-cross applesauce. Am I not wanted?

Y/N: Look, you know how Tessa's parents are. And a lot of Humans in general.

Red liquid, likely blood, suddenly drips from the ceiling and onto your platter. You wipe it off, revealing a message written on the ceiling.

BAƧMƎИT NOW!!!
STOᑫ IGИORINວ MƎ!!!!

Thinking nothing of it, You toss the platter to the side.

N: (Sighs) Don't give us those eyes.

Cut to show that Cyn has Puppy eyes, as in she is literally showing an image of a Puppy on her visor.

Cyn: Giggle. I am so naughty. The flesh demands invitation. (sticks tongue out)

N: Ah, we'll ask Tessa, OK? If not... Movie night!

Cyn: Sheepish nod.

Cut to You, N, and Cyn entering the eating lounge where the gala is taking place. Several Worker Drones are shown being monitored by Tessa's father as they arrange tables and place silverware

Cyn: (Walking behind N) Shuffle. Shuffle. Shuffle. Shuffle.

James: Western Villa style?! Were you programmed by beasts?! (He tosses a fork into a Worker Drone's eyes.)

A/N: ...Well that was uncalled for.

The camera pans to Tessa talking to J.

Tessa: There's humans coming! I've only ever yakked to robots, J! Quick! Pretend to be a ripping royal stud! (holds up gala invitation)

J starts pretending to act all royal and proper lady-like.

Tessa: On ya, girl.

They have a toast. Tessa starts rubbing her arm like it hurts while J has a concerned look.

Tessa: I'm right, J. (She sees that You and N have arrived.) Y/N! N!

She hugs both of you tightly.

Y/N: Hi, Tessa. (reciprocates)

N looks over. In the window, another message is being written.

WHEN U ABOUT
2 FRIKKEN DIE,
SPEAK ALOUD:
ID: DarkXWolf17

Tessa: Oh, who'd you bring with— (She sees Cyn.) you...

Cyn: Seems J forgot to let me out of my basement time-out again.

J: (Annoyed; twirling key) Yet, here you are.

Cyn: Annoyed expression.

N: You guys are... locking her up?

Tessa: Oh... Guys—

Louisa: (Walks over) Tessa James Elliott!

You, J, and N stand at attention.

Louisa: We will not entertain your dumpster pets!

Tessa: Y-Y-Y-Yes, mother. Sorry, mother.

Louisa: (Sees Cyn) Oh! Christ Almighty! I said, "This one, out of my sight!" Still can't follow simple orders?

Tessa: NO, NO! Please, I—

Louisa: (to Cyn) Swamp. (to Tessa) Dumping your broken drones clogging our library tomorrow, too. 

You, J, and N all look horrified.

Louisa: Don't test me.

She walks away in a huff. Tessa tries to argue back, but isn't willing to anger her mother any further.

Cyn: They are not broken. We can no longer be thrown out.

Louisa: (Hot under the collar) Did that little Anti-christ—

A/N: XD. That's gonna be my go-to insult from now on whenever entitled people demand I do something in a story.

You and N protectively step in front of Cyn.

Y/N: We told her to say that! And brought her here. We just... hate orders...? Because you're an...entitled snob...? (You start getting more nervous while Louisa's blood keeps boiling.) 

N: And your fan's dumb...? (He gives a sheepish grin, which slowly dissolves.)

Cut to outside. You and N have now been chained to a tree and are being pecked by ravens.

N: NO! AAAH! STOP!

What sounds like torture is, in reality, N being playfully tickled from head to toe while you have a panicked expression and are trying to find a way to break the chains.

N: (Giggling) Stop!

A raven hands N a stick, wagging its tail and panting like a dog.

N: Go get it, goobers!

He throws the stick in the air, and a raven snatches it.

Y/N: N, stop encouraging those things!

N: Oh, come on. What's the worst that could happen?

 Without warning, all the ravens on the ground turn to face the two of you with sinister, glowing, green eyes. You glance over at another Drone who suffered his own fate at the hands (Or talons) of these ravens. 

Y/N: (sarcastic) Oh, I don't know...THAT!

N gives the Ravens a small thumbs up... And the ravens begin to attack the two of you for real.

N: (Being pecked) RONALD, WE WERE BUDDIES! ...DarkXWolf17...?

All the ravens fly off as another raven makes its loud entrance. It twitches, falls on the ground, and gets back up. A purple light emits from its left eye.

User ID: DarkXWolf17

It begins speaking.

Uzi: I made the tag when I was eight, shut up.

Back at the manor, Tessa is in her room, her leg chained up.

Tessa: J, industrial machinery, chuck us a hand!

J: (on a rocking horse) Sorry, boss. Corporate's spoken.

Tessa: Cyn! If those little butlers die for your sake, I swear!

Cyn: (Playing with toys) Mm. I have backups.

Out of options, Tessa gets down to investigate a way to break the chains herself when Cyn appears next to her in an Eldritch form.

Eldritch Cyn: You will not have to discard your pets, and I will not discard you. Best stay away from the gala, though. You seem squeamish. 

She leaves. One of her toys begins crawling around like a large insect.

Back outside...

N: So, these are memories, and future us are dead at a sleepover?

Uzi: (Picking up a stone) Not a sleepover. You passed out 'cause some internal program is trying to delete these memories.

Y/N: 'Cause... 'Cause of you? 'Cause you're doing that? (Uzi drops the stone on your head.)

Uzi: I'm helping, you cute, weird, weird butler. We find out what happened to you here, restore the memory files, and save you from being digitally lobotomized. Library basement, giddy up.

N: ...'Kay. (He heads off for the library.) You kind of seem like an evil ghost witch, though. (Uzi pecks his eye.) AH!

Uzi: I AM a ghost witch! And I'm tall. (She laughs evilly. Until...) (distorted) DAD! GET OUT OF MY ROOM!

Her raven falls over. Back in the present time you, N, and V are shown unconscious while Uzi is sitting at her desk with a controller and a canister of Oil acting as a soda can. All of you are wearing the devices that Uzi used to hack Braidon's sentience.

Uzi: Important hacking going on!

Khan: Okay, okay. You've just never had friends over befo—

Uzi: IT'S NOT A SLEEPOVER!

Uzi's Little Insect Friend: IT'S LIFE OR DEATH, DAD! >:( (Uzi closes the door.)

Back in the past, Uzi (back in her raven form), You and N have reached the library.

Uzi: Sorry. Where were we...? Oh...

You look around where everything is scattered and blood lines the walls. V stands before you, silent and stiff as a board.

Uzi: Okay, guys, I can pull you out an—

N: (Interjecting) Now! Now, please!

Uzi: —nytime. But, you'll never get these memories back, guys.

You press forward slowly.

Y/N: They're that important?

Uzi: To you! And, like... me.

N: Why? Who are you?

Uzi: We just... hang out. Shut up. Repression door.

V's eyes display "ERROR: 606". You hesitate, then relent, move V out of the way, remove the rug she was standing on, revealing that she was standing on the basement door. Which is locked.

Y/N: I'm sorry, V...

You try the door, but it's locked.

Uzi: The key...

N: Ugh, J has it...

You suddenly hear a giggling noise. You all slowly turn to see that V is now grinning from ear to ear and has a claw-like hand with an eyeball in it similar to the Starro knock-off that Uzi accidentally made. Uzi's raven lays an egg in terror.

Back in Tessa's room, J is trying to break the chains with her mouth.

Tessa: (Overdramatic) It wants paid time off... To attend UUUNION NEGOTIATIOOOONS!

J finishes biting through the chains and punches the ground multiple times in a rage.

J: THIS IS AN UNRELATED LAYOFF!

She calms down and looks over at Tessa, who gives a thumbs up.

Cut to the two of them sneaking above the Gala.

Tessa: How do you reckon we murder us a robo-child, J?

She bumps into a suit of armor. J grabs a revolver while Tessa grabs a sword.

Tessa and J: What about this? (They decide to swap their weapons.)

Y/N: (Whispering) Psst! Tessa!

They look to see that You, N and Uzi have shown up. Suddenly, V's glasses drop. You all slowly look up to see V above them. You huddle as a group.

N: We need the basement key. This bird's from the future.

Uzi: (Flies over to J and snatches the key) I kill you. (She snickers mischievously and flies back to N.)

Tessa: Cyn's gonna massacre the gala!

N: Who? Our Cyn? Nah, she's cool.

Y/N: You gotta admit, there's always been something...off...about her. The way she vocalizes everything she's doing, how she can never hold her head upright, (mimicking her voice) Her stil-ted way of talk-ing-

Without warning, V swoops down in a partially complete AbsoluteSolver form and splits your group up.

J: Do your basement thing! We got the coma patient you creeped on!

Y/N: Not creepy! Sweet!

N turns... And V swipes at him with her claw, making him drop the key. Tessa picks it up and throws it back to N. V tosses J's sword backwards at N, but J kicks him out of the way and takes her sword back. You grab V's wrists and try to pin her before she headbutts you, and flips you over her shoulders. J rushes towards V, and the two engage in combat.

J: Go!

 Meanwhile, Lord Frumptlebucket is watching from below.

Lord Frumptlebucket: Crikey, what a boundin' humphterfruffle!

Katie: (recording on her phone) ...Why are you talking like that?

You, N and Uzi make your way back through the library, passing by several Worker Drones covered in blood and guts, coming across a door with the AbsoluteSolver symbol.. You hurry to the basement door and unlock it when...

Eldritch Cyn: (Pops up) Jump scare. Grab. (She snatches Uzi and throws her to the side.)

N: DARKXWOLF17! NOO-HO-HO-HO-HOOO!

Eldritch Cyn grabs You and N next, but suddenly malfunctions. Then returns to normal, Uzi having hacked her way into Eldritch Cyn's body.

Uzi: Oh, we're in! (She spots V behind you.) ...And J's useless.

Y/N: No surprise there. 

She drags You and N into the basement and locks the door, prevent V from entering.

Y/N: Is V... okay? Like, in the future?

Uzi: Unfortunately. Now, let's see what that little yellow creep was up— Oh...!

They come across a collection of dismembered Worker Drone corpses, most disturbing you among the corpses are you, N, J, and V.

Uzi: So... That's a pretty... metal origin story...

Y/N: So if these are our memories, at one point Cyn ripped us apart and put us back together again? (looks at formulas) And according to these notes, it would turn us into "Disassembly Drones".

N: (Terrified) Not dealing with this great, to be immediately honest...! (Takes a moment's repression.) ...Okay, it's gone.

Uzi: Alright, let's get out of here.

A rumbling occurs. Back in the modern time...

Khan: Hey, buddy, you invite Doll to this—

He suddenly gets grabbed and thrown out as Doll makes her way into Uzi's room, wearing a button over her visor as an eyepatch

Back in the past...

N: Ghost buddy...? You okay...?

Eldritch Cyn: Better than ever, "buddy". (She grabs the two of you and tosses you into chairs.) Let's reset these memories one more time.

She looks over at an array of surgical tools she had used on you previously.

The gala is about to commence.

James: (Taps his wine glass) Welcome, all! The Elliotts are known for many things. Class, tenacity, currently being alive—

Cyn: Well-timed giggle. (She reveals herself.)

Thunder and lightning crashes and she is briefly shown in her AbsoluteSolver form.

The guests have no reaction except for one swirling his wine glass, wondering if he's drunk.

Tessa and J barge in.

Tessa: EVERYONE, STAND BACK! This is a citizen's murder!

James and Louisa gasp.

Louisa: (Appalled) That dress!

James: You hold that gun less cool this instant, missy!

Cyn uses her AbsoluteSolver to shove the two parents to the side.

Cyn: Tessa, remember, you didn't have to—

She gets fired at her eye, but this breaks a window.

Cyn: ...You didn't have—

Tessa throws the revolver at her, to no avail. She then starts throwing silver cups and cocktail shakers at her, not getting any different results. Cyn then powers out the room, takes control of all the Drones around, including J, who slams the door shut, trapping all the humans in the room.

Eldritch Cyn: You didn't have to see this.

Back down in the basement, You and N hear the screams of the guests as they are being massacred. Eldritch Cyn is trying to pick up some tools to wipe your memories.

Eldritch Cyn: Son of a... Come on... Solver of the absolute fabric, get a grip. (She gives up.) Tantrum. (She throws the table to the side.) ...Brain blast. (She turns to the basement door.) Oh, V. Could use some help in here.

Back in the present time, Uzi and Doll are fighting while you, N, and V have "Error 606" flashing on your visors.

Doll: Ты даже не знаешь что эта штука делает. (You don't even know what that thing does.)

Uzi: You wanting it tells me you shouldn't have it!

Doll: Ты такая мелочная. (You are so petty.)

Uzi: (voice cracking) This is the only clue to what's wrong with me!

She looks over at you, knowing you're in danger.

Uzi: (Throwing the key, her little insect friend) Just leave us alone.

Uzi closes the door in Doll's face. Doll looks down at the key in her hands.

Doll: (To Khan) Вы воспитали хорошую дочь, Мистер Дорман. (You raised a good daughter, Mr. Doorman.)

Khan: (embedded in the wall) Heh. Despite me, maybe.

Doll: Боже, ладно. (Jeez, alright.) (She teleports away.)

Back in the past, V is trying to grab the tools but has the same problem as the AbsoluteSolver due to her claws.

Eldritch Cyn: (banging her head against the wall) Grab it. Just grab it. GRAB IT. (grabs V and looks in her eyes) Intimidating glare.

N: Hey, Cyn. For an eldritch... uh, monster thingy—

Eldritch Cyn: The Solver of the Absolute Fabric, the void, the exponential end.

Y/N: ...Peep this...?

Using your teeth, you grab V's glasses and put them back over her eyes. This allows her to regain consciousness.

Y/N: It's gonna be ok, V. (hopeful smile)

V: ...Gol... den... Retrievers have...

Y/N: Gentle mouths, dude—

Eldritch Cyn: (Grabs V and holds her up to the ceiling) Cute: false. Gross: true. Let's just delete your OS's, then. (She prepares to wipe your memory clean.) Goodbye, "buddy". Execute.

V: Y/N! I lo-

Eldritch Cyn swings a hammer... But it doesn't smack you.

Eldritch Cyn: (Breaking) Wha-What-at i-is hap-pen-pen-pening?

Uzi regains control.

Uzi: U-ugh, so-r-ry. My freaking dad's strea— WHOA! (She accidentally hits N with the hammer.) Whoops!

Uzi releases V and she falls to the floor. You help her up.

N: (Looks over at Uzi) Uzi?

Uzi: Don't freaking dox me!

N: Thanks.

V: You little narc! Get out of my head!

You, N, and V wake up in Uzi's room, back in the present time. You and V look at each other and blush, due to V almost saying "I love you".  

Uzi spins around in her chair and steeples her hands together like a Supervillain.

She drops the smile and nervously sweats when V changes her hand into a chainsaw and gives her a furious glare.

Doll teleports back out to the winter wastelands, where she meets J and Tessa.

Doll: Вот ваш ключ. (Here's your key.) (She throws the key to Tessa.) Возьми меня с собой. в этом сделка— (Take me with you. That's the deal—)

Tessa shoots her, and misses due to Doll's AbsoluteSolver.

Tessa: ...Just checking. Let's go.

They turn around... And come face to face with You, Uzi, N, and V.

Everyone: HUH—

Credits roll.