The Comfy Cartel: Corpse gets 'hired'

Introductions

Wow..

This place, is, HUGE!

What the heck!?

Corpse looks around, completely frazzled.

He is inside a massive open area of some kind of ware-house? The walls looked like they were made of some kind of scrap metal, as if they had been put together by hand, not by professionals with qualifications to do so.

Huh. Illegal massive factory-looking building? Okay. Oh well, it looked so cool!

Turning back to Lily who seemed to be distracted with her phone, Corpse saw the door that they came through, alongside many more, all looking the same. Ohh, suppose that makes sense, one door for each of the shops and restaurants out the front. At least now he knew where the exits were, and that there were multiple of them.

His anxiety calmed down a bit, and he looked up at Lily, shuffling on the spot a bit waiting for her to acknowledge him.

It wasn't till an unfamiliar voice sounded behind him, metal clanking along the floor, getting closer and closer, that Lily finally looked up.

"Oh, h-hey Michael," she stuttered. Weird, she seemed so confident, yet this 'Michael' seemed to throw her off.

"Oh, hey Lily, me and robot dog were just about to go find Poki, I finally managed to upgrade those x-ray goggles, and with that new group growing I thought they would help her troops look into it better." Corpse finally turned and saw a young man, standing with an open, confident stance, blissfully unaware of the way he seemed to make Lily feel. Beside him stood a small metal dog, about half Corpse's height, and even though it was not alive or anything, he still found it kinda cute, the realistic wagging it's robot tail and sitting next to his owner, this guy must be super smart if he was able to create something like this!

"Oh yeah, sounds great, good job! Have you seen Yvonne around by any chance? I wanted to introduce her to her new apprentice," She looked expectantly down at Corpse, who immediately blushed a bit, taking a step back to be slightly behind Lily, giving Michael a small wave.

Michael looked down at Corpse, taking off the goggles that had been sat on top of his head. "He's a bit young, don't you think? But who am I to judge, so is Sykkuno and he is in that division now too."

Wait, wasn't Sykkuno that cute guy from the shop? Were they going to be running the shop together? That would be a dream come true to Corpse, that guy seemed so nice, like he understood and respected Corpse, they would get along great.

"The hell? Why is Sykkuno under Yvonne now? I thought he was with Toast!" Lily sounded angry, like she knew she was deliberately not informed of this change in arrangements. Her clear dislike for this shook Corpse a bit, adding to his confusion.

"He opted out, temporarily, said he wanted to get used to seeing the mess before making it, yh' know?" His tone seemed calming, as if he were trying to disperse the negative energy in the room, and it worked to some degree.

"Fine, whatever, I need to talk to her anyways. Good luck with Poki and the goggles." Michael smiled, nodding his head a little in understanding, before walking away, robot dog leaping under his feet excitedly.

By this point, Corpse's confusion was immense, first he was kidnapped rather than adopted, which was now alright with him, he hated that place anyway, and these people didn't seem to have any bad intentions in mind for him, instead offering him a job, but in what? First it was working in that shop, now it was cleaning up a mess? What on earth is going on?

They walked around for a minute, down a hallway, left, down another hallway, right. Until they came to a door, like one you would see in Hollywood for actors, with their names etched on. But this door didn't have a star, the name said Yvonne, and the door handle was stained a metallic red..

Lily knocked twice, and after a long pause the door was slowly opened.

There stood Yvonne, mop and bucket in hand, drenched in blood.

"Hi Lily, is this what you wanted to show me?"