[Dib’s mood had improved greatly since the call the other day. He knooows those comms are supposed to be for emergencies but! He wants to talk to Caer! And Sire seems better now that Dib is better! So it’s okay! He’s taken to sending “good morning” and “hi hi hi” and random images of things he’s

[Blurred voices and sights.] [Hollow ache and exhaustion.] [Yet his frame had moved with precision and intent like a puppet on strings. A machine with a master.] [How disgusting.] [He wondered if hate alone could suffocate the roots of the coding which kept him a slave to these humans.] —

[After a successful initial test run of their newest remote-controlled unit, few engineers of MECH remained in the hangar by which the large mecha had been left on standby. Everything had gone according to plan—no, even better. Their latest asset had shown performance which had surpassed their —

𝙸𝚗𝚒𝚝𝚒𝚊𝚕𝚒𝚣𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚍𝚠𝚊𝚛𝚎... 𝚂𝚙𝚊𝚛𝚔 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚗𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗: [𝚍𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚎𝚍] 𝙼𝚎𝚖𝚘𝚛𝚢 𝚝𝚎𝚜𝚝: [𝚘𝚔] 𝚂𝚢𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚖 𝚌𝚑𝚎𝚌𝚔: [𝚘𝚔] 𝙵𝚞𝚎𝚕 𝚌𝚢𝚌𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐: [𝚘𝚗𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎] [𝙷𝚘𝚜𝚝: 𝙼.𝙴.𝙲.𝙷.] [...] [𝚂𝚈𝚂𝚃𝙴𝙼 𝙸𝙽𝙸𝚃𝙸𝙰𝙻𝙸𝚉𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽 𝙲𝙾𝙼𝙿𝙻𝙴𝚃𝙴]