[AUDIO]

[a_perfect_end]

[Private to Rinzler; 100% Encrypted and Screened]

[So. The first thing Clu does after being granted User power at long last? Is leap to help someone he barely knows. Without even thinking about it

Comments

[audio; 100% encryption]

[double_discs]

Affirmative. Malfunction. Current directive: search for ...for you.

[Oh, that wasn't what he was going to say at first. Can human!CLU tell there was a hitch there while riding like the wind?]

Set new directive?

Re: [audio; 100% encryption]

[a_perfect_end]

[Sorry, dude; Clu's going so fast that if he blinks too hard he might wipe out completely. Game over. He knows that's messier for Users--and that he doesn't want to reload from a save file via teleporter right now.

So. No, his meat brain is so busy with gotta focus, gonna die, I am flying, I missed this that he does not pick up on what should be a noticeable gap in Rinzler's response.]

New directive? [This time he can sort of feel it taking shape, a disorganized collection of impulses that become a whole thought and just fall out of his mouth, rapid-fire, and he's kind of dizzy with it: ] Yeah! Yeah, I've got one for you.

[Suddenly, Clu not only understands bitter things like missed meetings--which can be skipped--and school plays, which can't be skipped but can be forgotten or ruined by traffic--not just losses, but also wild, bright, crazy things like this.

He can improvise.]

Get out here, man. You've got my location. Catch me if you can.

[audio; 100% encryption] 1/3

[double_discs]

[Whelp. That was unexpected.

All the soft rumbling. All of it.]

[audio; 100% encryption]

[double_discs]

[...]

Affirmative.