#bitemedotmp3 01

Alphys fidgets with the sleeves of her coat for a moment, then does her best to break the ice.

"H-Hey! So you, uh... work here too, huh? How do you know M-M... Mister Tenna?"

She hopes that the teen was just joking about "doing violence here" earlier. She probably wouldn't have a job here otherwise, though it wouldn't be the first time Alphys worked with a "killer robot" on TV...

If she's ever been to a hot spring, then years as a battle-hardened magical girl made her forget about it all. The water was warm & soothing - & hey, she's never been beneath the ocean before !

There's something deeply comforting in it all, like a warm embrace under the ocean waves. Mami had only dipped a toe inside & yet some leftover injuries from past battles healed considerably. Strangely marvellous.

"Is everyone always so mean, here...?" Lilli frowns as she glances to the only other customer in the store. The employees are having a loud screaming match by the register, and it's setting her on edge.

[Uzi Doorman.] Seeing the name on her contacts screen flooded Cyn's processors with the most titillating stew of emotions. Excitement, malice, tension, curiosity, irritation...just a few of the feelings coursing through her system. Her metal fingertips rapped on her phone, her grin threatening to tear the skin stretched across her face. The thought of dropping in on the delightfully bothersome worker drone had her absolutely giddy.

Then the words of that brochure flash back to her. '...ranking up, you can regain what power you have lost...' '...outside of the time you came from...' '...ALL the pets and belly rubs for the Netpups...' She'd only been here for a short while, and had seen Uzi just before arrival...but how long had Uzi been here, on this island outside of time? If she'd gained significantly more power than she had started with, Uzi could just give her the business on sight and be on her way. Even if she'd come back thanks to how the island worked, it'd be kind of a MAJOR BUZZKILL. She'd need to watch, wait for the ideal opportunity to make her approach.

The Spirale University Library. That was the opportunity. Somewhere others would likely be around, somewhere Uzi wouldn't want to wreck too badly...somewhere to just have a nice, friendly chat. And, naturally, Cyn approached this friendly chat the same way she approached all of the ones she'd had: by sneaking up behind Uzi to read the manga she was engrossed in over her shoulder.

" ooOOooh, the monster they shot, was, an ANGEL all. Along! They're de-definitely going...to Hell for that one.

"HEY! There ya are! Wanna see what I drew for you?" Had he been carrying this art all this time? He could have definitely found the robot OR even texted her to let her know!

Anyway,

the kid's digging into his pocket and pulls out an....crumbled and ripped paper. "Sorry, it's been a bit since we last saw each other, BUT I didn't wanna see you until I perfected your side profile."

Yes Man had never considered that the music he's used to hearing might be called 'vintage,' let alone find it in such an... interesting format. His programmed-in knowledge of history tells him these are records, but a whole store full of them seems like quite the rare find– he's surprised any of them have withstood the test of time, especially this well.

What they aren't able to withstand, though, is Yes Man himself. He pulls a Nat King Cole record from its sleeve to get a better look, and his claws promptly crack the record across its radius. He hears a snicker to his left, and glances toward the onlooker. It's another robot, which is always a pleasant surprise, but not one like any Yes Man's ever encountered before. Still, he smiles sheepishly at them.

"What is yours supposed to be again?"

He has no clue what he's looking at, let alone what the shape she's been working at is meant to look like at all, but maybe he just doesn't have an eye for this sort of thing.