"Transplanted" - Reboot.Exe - S2 Chapter 11

## Transplanted

Jenn

"Transplanted" is the eleventh episode of the second season in Reboot.exe. It was released on 10 September 2022 and is narrated by Dave.

## Episode Synopsis

Eve, knowing that she is far outside of her abilities to save this woman, thinks of the singular person that would be able to save this woman. Joseph. She lets Pr0 know this as he and Possum are on the way back to the jazz club to hopefully place a tracker on Joseph.

Pr0 and Possum make their way into the bar that is higher class than what they're used to back in their slums. There is a stage where the band is getting ready for the night. After a short while, the large robot one man band begins playing one of several brass instruments and starts the music for the night. Pr0 spot Joseph and another person sitting in a booth. In order to give Possum a reason to go over there, Pr0 orders them a few drinks and gives it to Possum to drop off at their table. In the mean time, Pr0 attempts to get a cybernetic grapple on Big Wind, in case they're in need of another distraction. As Pr0 watches Joseph's table from a distance, he can tell that the person who was sitting with Joseph knows Possum very well and invites him to sit at their table. Pr0 begins clamping down on Big Wind and is successfully able to break parts of him, bit by bit, causing obvious flashes and sparks. Annoyance in the club grows as their entertainment is struggling. As the distraction seems to be working on everyone but Joseph, Pr0 coerces a patron at the bar for some cash, if they're willing to tell Possum that someone's waiting for him outside.

As this succeeds, Pr0 makes a final spectacle of Big Wind, causing the robot to burst into flames. Possum is successfully able to get away and get out of the bar. As they walk out, Pr0 pleadingly asks him if he was able to get it planted. Possum sheepishly admits that he was able to get it on him but it's in a bad position. It's in his outer coat pocket.

Around 10-15 minutes later, Eve spots Possum and Pr0 returning down the alley. Eve explains the prognosis is terminal in their current situation. Eve suggests that they wake her up in order to try and expunge anymore information from her. Eve shoots her with the last bit of adrenaline she has on her and within moments, she's alert and responding. Eve asks who did the surgery and where it was done. She responds that "Joe" did it for her and that her boyfriend, Teddy, was able to organize it through The Hipsters. There is no clinic that she went to.

Possum takes the initiative to call Teddy and explains the situation to his presumed friend in an incredibly grim and very insensitive way, which causes obvious panic and grief on the other end but also gets them on the way to the alley. He also gets the doctor to come back.

Within a few minutes, the doctor, Teddy and a few other Hipsters are on their way back to the alley. They all rush back to the apartment to stay out of site. After a while of discovering that they have lost all visual site on Joseph, Eve makes the suggestion that she goes out to "get some groceries" so she can walk by and get some visual information. They get her dressed up in some of Possum's dirty clothes in an attempt to disguise.

As Eve crosses the attempted resuscitation, Joseph immediately spots her and calls her over to ask for her assistance. She tries to get out of it by stating that her owner will be expecting her back soon, but Joseph insists as it Ningyou policy that all medical drones must assist when asked if the patient is critical. Eve complies and follows him back into the alley.

Joseph begins explaining the case to Eve. He notices that her inner scalpel hasn't been properly sanitized and is still showing signs of a fresh cut, asks her if she was here before. Eve initially refuses, but after pressuring from Joseph with obvious proof that she was, she agrees and said she lied in order to keep patient confidentiality. Joseph accept this, but then delegates her as his official assistant for the night and that there is no need for any more secrets for the night. As he proves himself to be a legit medical professional, he shows Eve his certificates and qualifications, which she immediately sends back to Pr0 and Seb.

Joseph begins asking Eve what she previously did to the patient. Eve describes that she did all she could while trying to diagnose but was unable to continue further as she knew she would not be able to save her life, especially while in an alleyway. She states that it was originally a kidney transplant, but also states that this was something she had never before seen. Joseph, repulsed, tells the two gangers to get her loaded up and ready for transport for surgery. He requests Eve to follow.

As Eve is getting transported alongside Teddy's girlfriend, Pr0 calls Incongruent to update him on the situation and ask for backup to be ready. Incongruent puts Pr0 on hold and calls Eve. Incongruent basically asks her if she's safe and if the doctor has been treating her like a normal drone. Eve responds that he has been. Incongruent then suggests that she does as asked and then leaves as soon as possible. He then hangs up on her and returns the call with Pr0. Incongruent berates Pr0 for overreacting and for putting themselves into positions where the bombers are not able to help. He then urges him to stop trying to start fights he can't finish, because it'll be his friends taking the fall for him as "cockroaches have a really bad habit of surviving."

Pr0 turns to Seb who breaks his thousand yard stare by announcing that he does have the nuclear option out of this and that will be his mother coming in and exploding everything he asks of her, but this also means that there is no way that Seb will be allowed outside of the city until he is fully healed, if even then. They keep the idea in the back pocket and hope it doesn't have to come to this.

Back with Eve, a large white van pulls up ready to transport everyone. Joseph makes it clear that he will return Eve right back here when they are done with the deal. After a five minute drive, they arrive at the back entrance of a double wide truck that has been modified into a mobile surgery station. There are refrigerators, operating tables, several corpses lying on cold tables and incredibly unsettling tubes with things floating inside. As they get further into the truck they enter through another set of doors and begin suiting up for surgery.

The surgery continues for around three hours and Eve has been behaving as a perfect drone assistant. She also notices that there are cybernetic stabilizers in his hand that compensate for any and all wobble that may come from them. During the surgery, Eve begins asking questions trying to get as much information on what is happening as possible. Joseph admits that even he hasn't seen this before, but he decides that "the organ is rejecting the host." And goes on to explain that it was a bespoke organ that "belonged to a dear friend of mine," referring to Seb. Eve asks for the lady's prognosis now, and while he states that there is certainly a possibility that she will still die, if they're able to set up dialysis and get her on a list for organ transplant, she certainly faces much better chances. Joseph does grow concerned about the other patients who received bespoke organs as there have been two lungs, three kidneys, two livers and a pancreas. Eve asks him what was intent with this. Joseph, enjoying being able to talk to another medical professional, explains that this seemed like the lesser of two evils. "One life lived in suffering, that can create infinite lives for others. ... alas, it seems they're not build that way." He then thanks Eve for her wonderful work and then asks for her owner's information saying that he would like to purchase her for his own. Eve deliberates for a while before eventually handing over the address of her deceased owners, the Pool's.

As Eve finishes cleaning up, she stands by the entrance to the van waiting to be dropped back off where she was picked up. As Joseph talks about needing a new kidney for her, he excuses himself for a moment to go back and grab something to give her. Eve takes the opportunity to move the tracker from Joseph's coat pocket that's hanging up and moves it under a desk.

A gang member Eve is unfamiliar with pulls up in a van and will be the one to drop her off. She gets in the passenger seat. Before they roll off, Joseph knocks on the window and hands her a cold foam container that feels cold and states "Tell Sebastian I won't be needing that anymore. Thank you for your help." Eve peeks in the container and it was the freshly removed kidney.

As promised, Eve is returned where she was "borrowed" from. Possum asks how she's doing and what she has. She lies, saying it was Chinese Takeout and that its hers and he can't have any. Possum is unfazed by her unwillingness to share and instead requests for his end of the bargain to be paid off now and that he gets returned to Shadow, or Chessex. He said that he's facing death staying here, so tonight is the best opportunity to start heading back.

On the way back to the apartment, Eve places the foam container in the dumpster in an effort to preserve whats left of Seb's feelings. To everyone's dismay, Possum returns to the apartment with it in his arms, saying that he's so excited to have a new storage container. After some bags get packed for the trip back, Possum pours out the container into the sink and is surprised by its contents. In his pursuit of being the funniest one in the room, tells Pr0 to think fast. Pr0 in fact, does not and instead ends up with a cold bespoke kindey slap directly to the face. Possum simply thinks its raw duck, or chicken when Pr0 certainly wishes it was.

As they begin making their way out of the apartment, Possum slips on an incredibly enticing yellow puffer jacket. Eve instantly tries to bargain for it, but Possum insists its a conversation for another time. Taking advantage of Seb's incredibly fragile and disconnected mental state, Pr0 offers him the ultimate form of disrespect by putting him in a backpack to keep him hidden.

They make their way back through the way Pr0 came and Pr0 is forced to pay a substantial price for having more people cross, but are eventually able to pay a ferry to take them all across safely out of the Northern slums, leaving Seb's wheelchair in The Reclaimed Land for another rescue mission for another day.

-YHTris

## TL;DR

* Eve, knowing that she is far outside of her abilities to save this woman, thinks of the singular person that would be able to save this woman. Joseph. She lets Pr0 know this as he and Possum are on the way back to the jazz club to hopefully place a tracker on Joseph.
* Pr0 and Possum make their way into the bar. After a short while, the large robot one man band begins playing one of several brass instruments and starts the music for the night. Pr0 spots Joseph and another person sitting in a booth. Pr0 orders them a few drinks and gives it to Possum to drop off at their table.
* Pr0 begins clamping down on Big Wind and is successfully able to break parts of him, bit by bit, causing obvious flashes and sparks.
* As this succeeds, Pr0 makes a final spectacle of Big Wind, causing the robot to burst into flames. Possum is successfully able to get away and get out of the bar. Possum admits that he was able to get it on him but it's in a bad position.
* Eve shoots the slummer lady with the last bit of adrenaline she has on her and within moments, she's alert and responding. Eve asks who did the surgery and where it was done. She responds that "Joe" did it for her and that her boyfriend, Teddy, was able to organize it through The Hipsters. There is no clinic that she went to.
* Within a few minutes, the doctor, Teddy and a few other Hipsters are on their way back to the alley.
* As Eve crosses the attempted resuscitation, Joseph immediately spots her and calls her over to ask for her assistance.
* Joseph begins explaining the case to Eve. He notices that her inner scalpel hasn't been properly sanitized and is still showing signs of a fresh cut, asks her if she was here before. Eve agreed and said she lied in order to keep patient confidentiality. Joseph accepts this, but then delegates her as his official assistant for the night.
* Joseph, repulsed at the state of the woman, tells the two gangers to get her loaded up and ready for transport for surgery. He requests Eve to follow.
* Pr0 turns to Seb who breaks his thousand yard stare by announcing that he does have the nuclear option out of this and that will be his mother coming in and exploding everything he asks of her.
* A large white van pulls up ready to transport everyone. After a five-minute drive, they arrive at the back entrance of a double wide truck that has been modified into a mobile surgery station.
* The surgery continues for around three hours and Eve has been behaving as a perfect drone assistant. During the surgery, Eve begins asking questions. Joseph admits that even he hasn't seen this before, but he decides that "the organ is rejecting the host." And goes on to explain that it was a bespoke organ that "belonged to a dear friend of mine," referring to Seb.
* Joseph does grow concerned about the other patients who received bespoke organs as there have been two lungs, three kidneys, two livers and a pancreas.
* Eve asks him what intent with this was. Joseph explains that this seemed like the lesser of two evils. "One life lived in suffering, that can create infinite lives for others. ... alas, it seems they're not built that way."
* Joseph then thanks Eve for her wonderful work and then asks for her owner's information saying that he would like to purchase her for his own. Eve deliberates for a while before eventually handing over the address of her deceased owners, the Pool's.
* As Joseph talks about needing a new kidney for her, he excuses himself for a moment to go back and grab something to give her. Eve takes the opportunity to move the tracker from Joseph's coat pocket that's hanging up and moves it under a desk.
* Joseph knocks on the window and hands her a cold foam container that feels cold and states "Tell Sebastian I won't be needing that anymore. Thank you for your help." Eve peeks in the container and it was the freshly removed kidney.
* As promised, Eve is returned where she was "borrowed" from. Possum asks how she's doing and requests for his end of the bargain to be paid off now and that he gets returned to Shadow, or Chessex. He said that he's facing death staying here, so tonight is the best opportunity to start heading back.
* Possum returns to the apartment with it in his arms, saying that he's so excited to have a new storage container. After some bags get packed for the trip back, Possum pours out the container into the sink and is surprised by its contents.
* In his pursuit of being the funniest one in the room, tells Pr0 to think fast. Pr0 in fact, does not and instead ends up with a cold bespoke kidney slap directly to the face. Possum simply thinks it’s raw duck, or chicken when Pr0 certainly wishes it was.
* They make their way back through the way Pr0 came and Pr0 is forced to pay a substantial price for having more people cross, but are eventually able to pay a ferry to take them all across safely out of the Northern slums, leaving Seb's wheelchair in The Reclaimed Land for another rescue mission for another day.

-YHT