Rust in Peace [Open]

[zouichi]

Zouichi, for once, wasn't in the City on patrol. Instead, he was making a systematic search of the city's streets, looking for telltale stray robot parts that might lead him to what he was looking for. Unfortunately, during SHODAN's attack, not all of the crew (except him! okay not really) had been terribly judicious about the property damage they were inflicting on the nearby buildings.

So there was rubble everywhere. Oops.

But it had been in the middle of a robot attack, right? Sometimes you needed to break a few eggs to make an omelet, right? RIGHT.

[This is the log for searching for robot parts and a SUPER SECRET ENGINEERING PROJECT okay it's not that secret but IT SORT OF IS. Feel free to have someone try and peek in on the Engineering thread and have Lash furtively cover her test paper.]

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Re: SEARCHING FOR FRAGMENTS

[iselldrugstothecommunity]

Howard's hurt, partially because he just doesn't feel like he should feel bad about it and partially because he'd been hoping, irrationally, that Zouichi would back him up anyway, because to Howard that's what friends are supposed to do. He would back Zou if Zou did something distasteful or wrong. He knows he shouldn't have expected it of Zou, because Zouichi has these weird things like 'standards' and 'morals', but it still stings.

"Between Rory and Carson I'd had it up to here with being harassed." He starts to load the Terminators back into the box. "I guess I'll have to dig through this place for more of those things later. You need anything else I might have?"

Re: SEARCHING FOR FRAGMENTS

[zouichi]

Sorry, Howard. Standards is standards. Zouichi wouldn't expect Howard to support him if he did do something wrong, of course -- although he did, despite himself, sometimes expect Howard to be more moral than he actually is. He forgot sometimes that Howard operated on a different set of rules.

"No, I don't think so, unless you have a giant mother brain lying around here." Which would amount to some additional questioning right there.

Re: SEARCHING FOR FRAGMENTS

[iselldrugstothecommunity]

He's trying, Zou! He's 20% less douchey than he was when he arrived on the ship!

"Right on. I'll keep an eye out for things for you when I'm looking." He mock-salutes Zou. "Good luck with rooting through the trash!"

Re: SEARCHING FOR FRAGMENTS

[zouichi]

How douchey were you, Howard?

"Same to you. Try not to blow anything up."

Re: SEARCHING FOR FRAGMENTS

[iselldrugstothecommunity]

Very.

Howard waves to Zouichi as he goes and locks the door behind him.