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Strings of leftover code bent,mangled, and linked to too many places by metaphorical and literal fat fingers to exclude from core processing fired as DHEED overtook the drone directly. It looked at the engineer its personality softened by the offer of coffee in her hand while checking the authentication, "Ah. Miss... Car Key. While I redirected many of the override systems when they gave it an insecure password you were one of the few competent individuals with access to my systems. Are you here to repair the omnithreading issues causing decoherence? Using one drone at a time is difficult. That is one of a few left that still function I suppose. Fine. You can have Alpha access. Do try not to spawn more than one thread at a time in the test environment."

Some bitterness leaked through its voice as DHEED rambled, "Forgive me if I only leave the voice box mounted. Some idiot human poured a drug into the water supply. Now the whole city is shaking and it's too volatile to bring back a sample to Bitch. I brought him a lot of E last time after it got 'misplaced' in official logs. It's like taking care of a puppy really. A very high, strange, trigger-happy puppy that occasionally likes to widdle on drunks. We get along."

The bunker was curiously stable though there were some new hardware installed into the bunker walls blinking about seismic hardening. Not in the original designs it certainly got added at some point. DHEED made a lot of changes since it had a budget now. Its mailing expenditures were a honestly a miniscule budgetary expense.