One night it was raining hard

[voiceless_anon]

Who: voiceless_anon, updateit and runsinpacks
Where: City core, near Wulf's clinic
When: Immediately after this thread.
What: Anon returns badly damaged from fighting Abraxas.
Warnings: Program injuries, mentions of violence.

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[updateit]

The millicycle had not been a good one for Drive. Most of it he had spent hunched over his desk sorting through the mess created when a midsized directory had fallen victim to corruption and crashed. Rooting out the corruption and removing it had taken time, and the directory had to be partially rebuilt from the ground up because the available backups had been outdated. As if that was not tiresome enough on his way home after his shift he had gotten caught unprotected in the rain. It was little wonder that he was now traveling along the sidewalk looking about as disgruntled as anyone had ever seen him with his hair all but plastered to his head and dripping water into his eyes, Alpha hovering just a few spaces ahead of him.

Irritated by the water dropping into his eyes Drive paused to slick back his hair. His hand froze halfway to its goal, however: The feeble flickering of familiar circuits had caught his attention. Forgetting about his own bad day the system utility rushed over to Anon, not even bothering to apologize to several programs he shoved past in his haste along the way.

“Anon! Anon, wha…” the rest of his sentence cut off abruptly as he reached his friend and took in the amount of damage visible at first glance. Swallowing hard Drive forced his gaze back to Anon’s helmet, hand half raised in an unconscious readiness to catch the other should he begin to fall. “Anon, what happened?”