elevator setup E. [voice]

[uraniumnumnum]

[ After a frantic night of checking absolutely everything - making sure he was all in one piece, all his data collected together and secure, untouched - Ash contacts the network for the first time in months. And he sounds less than happy, to make a considerable understatement. The usually smug and collected voice sounds rattled as it patches

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Voice.

[outbursting]

Stupid question, but are you okay?

Voice.

[uraniumnumnum]

Peachy. Any more stupid questions?

Voice.

[outbursting]

No, that is about it.

Don't take your bad mood out on others, man.

Voice. gotta run to class and then I'll be back!

[uraniumnumnum]

Bad mood? I'm just not fond of wasting my time with human children.

[nothing_human]

There was a power failure affecting the entire city.

[uraniumnumnum]

[ ... wow, someone actually gave him a simple and useful answer. If ASH believed in miracles, this would have to be one. ]

A city-wide power failure? How annoying. Is there a cause?

[nothing_human]

[She's just full of those!]

That is as of yet unknown. The only correlation was an attack on the Core that occurred just before the failure.

Were you injured? Do you require assistance?

[uraniumnumnum]

The attack on the Core... I should have guessed. [ dammit Kadaj. ]

Like hell I do. Why are any of you bothering with these idiotic questions?

voice; private;

[topslug]

[ This time, Yako doesn't respond with a video; she's still a little too shaken up for it. She does, however, sound very tired. ]

The City's power was out for a while. It's been kind of ... stressful.

[ ... And, well, she can't imagine he'll react well to this: ]

Since you don't remember anything about it... I'm guessing the power to wherever you are must have been shut down too. Are you all right?

voice; private;

[uraniumnumnum]

[ unfortunately, he's not the least bit sensitive to her tiredness, especially in his somewhat-fretful state of mind. He only responds to the latter part, sounding testy - the program's thoughts are elsewhere. He'd never been shut down before... ]

Yes. Don't pester me with such a pointless question.

voice; private;

[topslug]

[ You don't sound all right, she almost says, but unlike someone else, Yako has tact (or a rough approximation thereof). Instead: ]

Isn't there a way to find out if you lost any data during the power outage? Like a backup, or something.

voice; private;

[uraniumnumnum]

[ tact? what's that? CAN IT BE USED AS FUEL ]

I've already checked, you nosy little brat. I haven't lost anything.

[ ...probably ]

[voice]

[argentcruelty]

You didn't report in.

[voice]

[uraniumnumnum]

[ now that he understands a bit more, he doesn't sound too pleased to hear from Kadaj. ]

What the hell are you talking about?

[voice]

[argentcruelty]

I told everyone to report. You never did.

[voice]

[uraniumnumnum]

[ oh. Must be talking about something that happened while he was out. ]

And whose fault do you think that is? Hm?

[abhorperfection]

[That voice was familiar, taking Mayuri several minutes to place before he recalled the robot that he had spoken with at the Sero retreat.]

Interesting. I suppose that you're referring to the lack of power to most of the city, even a number of generators seemed to fail for the duration.

[uraniumnumnum]

That's what it looks like. This city really is full of useless garbage.

[abhorperfection]

My, my, you simply have to have someone competent actually build something rather than relying on simpletons like those of the shops here.

[uraniumnumnum]

[ he sounds annoyed. ]

I'm the one building these things, idiot. Those fools cutting the power is the problem.