SHORT CIRCUIT, connor dbh (discontinued)

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Liv and Connor walked down the stairs to a glass door. Liv scanned her key card to get inside, and walked to desk in the room. She scanned her hand and typed in her password.

The glass wall in front of them was removed, and the evidence container 01 opened. Three andriods bodies were displayed on a wall, with a compartment between the bodies for other evidence. The wall lit up, giving a bright light over it.

"Wait, who's the blonde andriod? We didn't find him," Liv asked about Daniel, the andriod from Connor's first mission.

"He's not important right now. He won't know where Jericho is," Connor explained.

"The andriod that shot me, he has to know. He was working with their leader, if any of them know, it's him." Liv examined the andriod, "He looks pretty damaged."

Connor scanned the andriod to see what parts he would need, "Biocomponet #3983v is the only essential part damaged, I can reactivate him if I can find one."

He walked over to the other andriods. After searching the two for functional parts, he found the one he needed. Daniel had this part, and Connor ripped it from the side of his face. With the part in his hand, Connor walked back to the deviant Liv was standing next to. He put the spare part in him, causing the deviant's cloudy eyes to open.

"It's dark... Where- Where am I?" he asked.

"I'm a deviant, like you. I need your help. I want to go to Jericho," Connor said.

"I don't... recognize your voice. You're not one of us! I'll never tell you where Jericho is! Now leave me alone!"

"Shit," Liv whispered. Connor walked to the compartment of evidence they collected. He picked up a tablet with the deviant leader's speech on it. He played the video, and began to mouth the same words Markus said.

"Convincing enough?" Connor asked Liv, in Markus's voice. She nodded in disbelief. He went back to the deviant for answers.

"Who's there? Who are you?"

"Everything is alright, don't worry," Connor said in Markus's gentle, calming voice.

"Markus? Is that you? I tried to reach you, but the deviant hunters stopped me."

"You stopped them from finding me; you saved me! You saved Jericho! You'll be alright now, I came to take you home. Give me the location to Jericho, we've got to leave now."

"The location of Jericho? Yes, yes, of course."

Connor reached his arm out to the deviant, who gave him the information he needed.

"Markus? Is that... you, Markus? Don't leave me, Markus!"

Connor shut him off. He straightened his tie.

"Did you get it?"

"Yes. The trail to Jericho starts at Ferndale station. I'm going there now."

"C'mon, you can't go looking like that. We've got to get you clothes, and make ourselves a little more deviant-looking." Liv said, she began to run out of the room with Connor with her. As they reached the top of the stairs, they saw Gavin, who was still unconscious on the floor.

"What are we going to do about him?" Connor asked.

"Someone will find him sooner or later, or he'll wake up. I'm sure it'll be fine." Liv opened the door, and the two left the station.

They got into Liv's car, an she decided to manually drive this time. She stepped on the gas, definitely going above the speed limit. The short trip was even faster because of this. Hank had given her a key to his house a long time ago, mainly so she could check on him if he hadn't shown up at work. However, now she was using it to roam through his closet and borrow clothes for Connor.

She threw a jacket, a hoodie, some jeans, and a beanie hat over to him. Liv left the room, "Meet me at my apartment, Connor."

She got in her car and drove to her apartment a few blocks away.  Liv ran up the stairs of the building to her apartment. She got inside and rummaged through her own clothes. An old hoodie and black pants
of hers were perfect, somewhat stained and ragged to look like she had been a deviant running away to Jericho. She hoped that they wouldn't look out of place. Her hair was pulled back, and she put her hood up.

Connor had quickly got dressed and ran to Liv's apartment building. She met him outside the building, both dressed to go undercover in Jericho.

"Let's go," she said.

"I'm going alone."

"Con, I'm coming with you!"

"You could get hurt, Liv. I'm going by myself. If the deviants find out you're human, they would kill you. It's better if you stay here."

"You can get hurt too, Connor. I'm going with you, none of them will know. We'll get Markus, and then we'll be gone. The two of us can find him faster than you can yourself."

"Fine, but we need to get to Ferndale Station, now," Connor agreed, knowing that there was no way of convincing her.

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"This just looks like a regular train station to me," Liv commented.

"Because it is. The key is the graffiti that has this symbol," Connor pointed to the wall, with a large picture on it. The man in the graffiti had a square symbol on his back.

Liv followed Connor out of the station as they searched for graffiti after graffiti. They had to climb over fences, and jump up to the top of buildings, until they reached a large freighter with the word 'Jericho' written on it.

"There it is."