Those who betrayed their kind

Mechanical Engineering

I start to take off his coat and I started to dissect him.

Uzi: Woah! Woah. Why are you taking his torso.

Mark:.......

Uzi: Mark?

Mark:.... Shut up.

I then go back to my sled and take out the broken monitor. I grab N's tail and stab it into the computer. His tail injects the acidic nanites into the monitor. It melts for a bit and I grab a random bottle from the sled and puts it into N's mouth filling the bottle with the regenerative nanites. I carefully pour the nanites into the melting monitor causing it to repair the monitor.

After a minute of waiting the monitor is completely fixed. I take the monitor's plug and insert it into myself.

Uzi: Mark? Are you sure about thi-

Mark: I'm doing this for the both of us. Now. Shut up.

I take out two USB cords from my arm and insert it into the slots used for the keyboard and mouse and I take two cables from the sled and I insert it into the monitor and N's exposed chest.

Uzi: When could you do that?

I start typing on my arm trying to permanently disable the bug in his code.

Code: <Reset Coding> Y/N

Mark: <N>

Code: <Boot up setting>
<Reset System>
<Code Scripts>
<Factory Reset>

I click on the code scripts to try and find the bug. After searching for hours I finally find it.

Code: <kill(target:AIgen1 time:24h)>

From what I read it was a bug that overrode his controls to kill worker drones every 24 hours. I eliminate the code stopping it forever. Next step: Forceful reboot.

Uzi: How did you do it.

Mark:.....

I was very deep in this code trying to restart N. After minutes of rummaging through the code I finally found the line that activates him.

Code: <System status: Offline>
<Shut down protocol: Active>

I try to figure out how to forcefully reactivate him.

Uzi: Try <Reboot:on>

I give her a side glance as if saying,"Really" but I still give it a chance anyways.

Mark: <Reboot:on>

Code: <Initiate Reboot> Y/N

Mark: Holy shit.

Mark: <Y>

Code: <Reboot Progress: 0%>

I start to tear up at the fact I might be able to save my dad. Almost my entire life so far I was an orphan and only recently I found out my dad was the same drone I've been hanging out with for two years and I wasn't losing him again.

Code: <Reboot Progress: 1%>

Uzi: Hey Mark. It might take awhile so why don't we go back to spire.

Mark: What?

I then realized that out of desperation I did a forceful reboot in the middle of the street.

Mark: Oh. You're right. Let's go there.

I put N on the sled and start dragging him through the streets for three blocks until we reach the spire.