Copy-Paste

Copy-Paste
4th quarter, 2018
Anchorage, AK, United States
Zeke slows to a stop besides Illisapie in the gym. "Did someone go a bit overboard with the copy and paste functions?"
"Sorry, what?"
"I swear I just ran by the same guy three times."
"You sure he wasn't lapping you?"
"Different hallways."
"Hallucinating?"
"I don't want to think about why my subconscious is spitting up Chinese guys."
"Yea, let's not." Illisapie pulls on her hoodie. "Hangar time?"
"Na na na na. Na na. Na na." He strikes a pose. "Let's do this."
"Let's go skate a Jae-ger out to the coldest ice," sings
Illisapie as they hit Chrome's bay, "let's go skate a Jae-ger and send her fly—holy shit!"
Three identical men turn as one towards them.
"Someone had way too much fun with the edit tools."
The left-most triplet grins.
"Jin, Hu, Cheung," points the right-most triplet.
Zeke asks, "Does that mean 'cut', 'copy', and 'paste'?"
The left and middle triplets burst out laughing.
Chief Green pauses and asks, "Why's Typhoon here, exactly?"
The middle triplet explains, "Chrome's new upgrade copied eighty percent of Typhoon's locomoting code."
Jin adds, "It's our moral duty as Rangers to ensure that any and all applications of our technology are, if not successful, at least not a colossal and deadly failure."
"So, basically, you want a turn on the ice," says Zeke.
"Pretty much," replies Hu.
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