Thread: I Was a Dream [TriniMad & Sprouts]

She laughed. She genuinely enjoyed his pun, the freshness of it almost startling her with how strangely pleasant it was to hear such a foreign thing in this tradition-steeped homeland of hers. So far, Ultron had been breaking every expectation she had of him. Granted, all the news really spoke of the super-intelligent A.I. was his destructive capabilities, and that was all anyone cared about him. So when he came at her with admittedly cheesy, but fitting, puns, Yue was suddenly struck with the recognition that only if people had realized just how clever and interesting it was to just converse with him, perhaps things could have different. Instead, he went on a rampage to purge humanity, though she figured she couldn't really blame him some days, she even wished she could do the same to start over. The only difference was that he actually once had the capabilities to do so without any of the moral boundaries holding him back. Lost in thought, she absently responded to his latest musing with a quiet hum of her own, It's my specialty. Normally, I would be in a laboratory, working on putting together parts for automated security systems for the new privatized security sector of- Talking was distracting. With her gaze flickering to the glowing slash of his mouth, a finger accidentally tugged on an apparently wrong cord as the entire body slumped over and the last of the light faded away into nothing. For a moment, she just stared at her own handiwork before a deep sigh escaped her with a hand going to rub her forehead. And this was exactly why she rather would work alone, not trying to keep an AI company while working on him. Withdrawing her hands from the mess she had made of the neat bundles of cords that once laid in his head for a moment, she just took a step back to reconsider her plan now. Even if powering him down was accidental, she might as well use this to her advantage to concentrate completely on restoring his vision. After all, there was a slight glow of pride at being the first to put together Ultron, or at least one of his minions' bodies. The first engineer to be able to pick through his parts, see what AI ingenuity had created in the absence of humans. So with that fervor giving her inspiration, Yue dived back right into working on him. She didn't lift her head until the sun was starting to dip low in the horizon, sweat gathering on her forehead, and exhaustion was starting to make her legs feel numb. She couldn't stop until she had finished, or at least, more or less jury-rigged various parts together to try and ensure somewhat of a working connection to restore his sight. The next biggest problem was trying to return all of his wires back in the same place that, she did as well of a job as trying to straighten out a bunch of cooked noodles, but at least it was all back inside of his head. All she needed to do now was replug that fateful cord back in. It was almost like deja vu except this time, there was only excitement and even a bit of missing having his company around for the short time he was awake. Yue had to admit that she was that lonely that even an AI was the best company she could have currently. With that wry thought floating around in her mind, she just went for it in screwing the plug back in before stepping back to let the lights flicker back on in the still broken body. This time, there was a slight smile on her oil and grease smeared face in welcoming a familiar friend back to consciousness...