"No Place like Home" - Reboot.exe - S1 Chapter 7.

## No Place Like Home

Jenn

"No Place like Home" is the seventh chapter of season 1 of Reboot.exe. It was released on 29 January 2021 and is narrated by Dave.

## Synopsis

Upon entering the Ningyou building, Seb reaches out to the other Eve, and asks about getting a tour of the facility to get a better understanding of the drones in the facility before he makes a final decision on which one to purchase. She leads the party to the female-presenting wing of the facility - that is highly reminiscent of a luxury automobile showroom.

In this wing - several dissembled parts of the Eve drone are displayed behind glass panes on the wall - showing various stages of assembly. Seb asks about the available models in the room. The drone then begins showing off Different unites. The Ida unit - a chaperone for nightlife and security reasons. The Leah unit - a technical specialist. The Ivy unit, The Ann unit which is a business and sales unit. An Ava unit - a diner hostess, and then to the Eve unit. Seb asks for something more suitable for a kitchen or a teacher. The Eve unit says that this is beyond her currant knowledge.

Eve then asks the other Eve unit about data packs - to which she is promptly ignored, and only is listened to Pr0, who makes the same request. The Eve unit then walks off to grab someone who is more capable of helping them. A lady named Shahin Kaede, (name meaning Hawk or Falcon in Arabic) the business development manager for the Melbourne branchy of the Ningyou corporation introduces herself. She looks at Eve and notices something off about her immediately. She then leads on that other data packs are not available as just a service - but would instead have to require ripping apart an entire drone to access this pack.

She then brings the crew to the male presenting wing of the building. After some discussion, Shahin asks Seb why he is in possession of this Eve, stating that she is not under his name. Seb lies saying that she is on loan from a family friend. Shahin reveals that the Pool family own Eve, and that a skeleton key would be required to do any upgrades, or updates to Eve. They then excuse themselves to take another lap around the building per Eve's request. They find themselves down an alleyway that has doors leading to the loading dock. Pr0 quickly hacks and disables the cameras and sees that he can hack into this garage door and scrounge for parts when the time is appropriate.

They then go out to the taxi and put in the Pool's address. Upon arriving to the Pool's address, Eve stops Seb and Pr0 before entering to ask them to not think differently of them. Eve informs them that her owners have passed away. Seb and Pr0 ask why that would make them think differently of her. She avoids the question, and instead asks again that they do not think differently of her.

Eve leads them to an elevator, and they arrive at the seventh level of this apartment building. There is a door that seems vacant. There is an odd smell that is wafting out through the door. As Eve unlocks the door, the smell of death and advanced decay is strong enough to make one gag. Eve refuses to step into the apartment and instead lets Seb and Pr0 go in and gather what they can. Seb opens a bedroom with two bodies in the advanced stages of decay lying on a double bed, with several medical implements hung up next to them. They are not decayed to the point of no longer smelling - suggesting that they had died somewhat recently. After looking around the room, Seb finds a plastic sealed cache of all of Eve's warranty information.

Pr0 opens a door to discover that there is a corpse of a disfigured baby lying in a crib. It is obvious this child suffered its entire life due to its disfigurements - but was also very well loved. Several medical instruments are placed around the crib, and it was obvious this child was placed back into its spot with attention - with being tucked in with a blanket, and several soft toys around its head. The baby did not die of natural causes, but instead killed out of mercy by strangulation. Pr0 grabs a small teddy from the crib to keep, and hand to Eve when they are finished. They reconvene, Pr0 reassures Eve that she did the right thing, and they leave again, back to Ningyou.

Pr0 suggests a stake out to see the morning routine. Seb agrees, and they watch the building until Shahin locks it up for the night. They decide to wrap themselves up with bandages they gathered to avoid being recognized. The break into the unit - and find a few units across various tables. They find a diner unit that they agree they want the chip out of. Not knowing how to fully dismantle the head properly, they just take the head off completely to decipher the pieces later. They then walk to another dismantled male unit that upon being tampered with, wakes up and begins pleading to know what his function. Pr0 ignores its pleads completely, and instead reaches his hand into the head of this seemingly, but not proven, sentient drone and tears out various wires and components to get it to be quiet.

After successfully exiting the building, they all another taxi to take them to one of the largest and most modern looking buildings in the city. They enter where Seb is greeted by name. They then enter the elevator, which takes them to a penthouse that has a large glass wall over looking the city. A voice from behind an arm chair speaks up, "Sebastian, I was wondering when you'd get home." To then, Seb greets his father.

- YHTris

## TL;DR

* Seb asks the Eve unit in the Ningyou building to give them a tour of the other drones in the building - specifically inquiring about different avaliable data packs. The Eve fetches Shahin Kaede, the business development manager for the Melbourne branchy of the Ningyou corporation for further information
* Shahin questions why Seb is in possession of this Eve unit, and reveals her current owners, The Pool family. She also says that data packs are not available for single purchase, and instead would need to by physically ripped out of the drone's head. In order to do any updates or upgrades on Eve, they would need her skeleton key.
* After scoping out a hallway, and disabling a few cameras in front of a loading dock, they catch a taxi to take them to the Pool's house, where Eve reveals that they are in fact dead.
* Stepping into the Pool's house, death and decay are obvious from both of the Pool's, and their severely disformed and previously suffering child. They find what they are looking for, comfort Eve quickly, then return back to Ningyou.
* They infiltrate the building, and come across a few drones on the table. They take the head of one with a waitress data pack, and then tear the wiring out of a drone that wakes up, upon being disturbed to avoid any possibility of being caught.
* They then call a taxi to take them to Seb's parent's penthouse that over looks the city. \*Steven, feel free to change or add whatever you want : )