Daniel Fowler

Badger working for the power company. Has low trust in his co-workers.
Fowler accompanies Anthony Bolton when investigating brownouts and fails to take a bet that they were caused by a homeless guy or childish prank. Bolton throws a rock at a nonsentient rat, and Fowler teases him by saying, "Didn't your mum tell you not to throw things at your sister?"
At one point on the rail, Bolton notices a suspicious cable, while Fowler notices a suspicious door. The tunnel behind the door is so spooky that Fowler doesn't have any snarky retorts about Bolton's mum when he comments on how tight and deep the door and tunnel are. Bolton teases Fowler about the tunnel spooking him and asks if he's scared of ghosts. Fowler responds that he's scared of the spooky crackheads with shivs, the spooky ancient tunnel supports, and the spooky cold war spooks who probably aren't happy about their secret bunker being discovered. Fowler also suggests that the way to tell if it's government spooks is to file a report, and they'll know if they are told they didn't file a report, they saw nothing, and they are never to speak of it again.
At that point, Fowler suggests going back, while Bolton wants a quick butcher's. Fowler points out that they are not in a horror film as indicated by the lack of teenage American girls about to get their tits out, so they don't have to act like "fucking idiots." Before they can leave, however, the suspicious cable whips through the heavy door they came through, and the door slams shut. Bolton struggles to get the door back open, but Fowler seems to suspect it's futile and prefers waiting (in vain) for Rick to notice them missing and come looking for them. Bolton asks what if Rick is the one doing this to fuck with them, and Fowler retorts all the better not to play his game. Meanwhile, Bolton decides to find another way out... then changes his mind and decides to stay with Fowler to make sure he's alright. Fowler appreciates Bolton's proactiveness but feels sometimes the best thing to do is stay put.
At that moment, a small rock falls and ricochets off Fowler's hard hat. The rock is quickly followed by larger rocks, and Bolton and Fowler run deeper into the tunnel to escape the cave-in. They barely survive long enough to annoy each other, and as they see their escape is blocked, Fowler comments that it feels like a rubbish GM is forcing them to check out the tunnel. Bolton becomes increasingly panicked as they proceed, while Fowler keeps his head to avoid making stupid decisions or missing something important.
Fowler finds some crystal formations and asks Bolton if he knows what they are since Bolton's mum is into crystals. Bolton retorts that she's a hippy, not a geologist, and would probably tell him to shove one up his bum to cure piles. They finally reach a room with a mainframe and lots of data, and a clue to who put it there. Fowler realises the way they came in must have been an escape tunnel, therefore there is a front door. Bolton then notices that someone was there recently (or, recently compared to when Thatcher was in power) and was looting the place for copper.
The two then find an active terminal. A prompt greets them as Mr. Bolton and Mr. Hobbs. Bolton is freaked out that they know his name, Fowler is annoyed he got confused for "Useless Dan." The prompt considers this, correctly addresses Fowler, and requests to know the location of "Useless" Daniel Hobbs. Bolton is panicked that they can hear them, and Fowler refuses to cooperate. The prompt responds that it is easy to surmise what happened, only clarification is requested, and toleration of their presence is linked to their cooperation. Fowler swears about Hobbs skiving off, and the prompt thanks him for his cooperation.
Once the terminal is powered down, Fowler realises he told the entity behind the prompt what they wanted to know, that though they expected "Useless Dan" to show up, not do any work, and say he found nothing, they didn't expect him to be so useless as to not show up, or did not factor in that he was the boss's son. Bolton then questions why GCHQ would steal power off of the Tube, but Fowler doesn't want to find out. Bolton then spots an atom stitcher, which Fowler suspects is a mouse but doesn't want to be the guy who says "It was probably a mouse!" Bolton insists it was definitely not a mouse, as he has seen enough vermin to be able to tell.
Fowler then finds live power transformers and wants to mess with them to get someone's attention. Bolton thinks it's a bad idea, especially since their gear isn't sufficient protection from whatever might happen. Fowler struggles to turn off the power, however, and asks Bolton if he has some WD-40. Bolton is offended by the implication that he doesn't. When Fowler still cannot turn off the power, suggesting it might be welded, Bolton insists that it's a sign to leave it alone. He then backs away when Fowler considers removing the front panel. He finally agrees to leave it alone when he sees the insides filled with atom stitchers, and one moves. They start crawling out of the panel, and Fowler and Bolton run for it. They soon realise they are surrounded, as the atom stitchers are everywhere. Fowler muses that maybe they aren't dangerous, just as one leaps up and attacks Bolton's face guard, nearly piercing his eye before Bolton throws it off and runs away in a panic. Fowler fears that Bolton has been gobbled up by the atom stitchers, then is even more afraid of them doing the same to him and plows through a marked EXIT door.
Behind the door is a very powerful computer. A voice from the computer apologises for the mistakes that put Fowler in this situation and wants to personally let him know that reparations are being made. Unfortunately, they are too late to help him avoid a needlessly traumatic death.
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