Chapter 11

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"Self-driving cars, smart homes, robot labor

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"Self-driving cars, smart homes, robot labor. I'm telling you hen, the future is here and it is terrifying." chim looks at Hen beside him but she's too focused on the road or lost in her thoughts. "I'm so- I'm sorry him, I'm- I'm just a little distracted." she snaps out of the trance she's in and begins to talk again. "Look, I know and I'm sorry but I can't do this without you. I need my partner back."

"I'm here I'm with you." she hesitates to say. "Good, let's go put down this robot revolution."

"Hey not all automation is bad." she turns on the sirens and drives quickly to the scene.

"Robot number three just went like crazy." the warehouse worker explains to Bobby. "What kinda robot are we talking about? They talk while moving right behind them. "Uh, transport. The company has a whole army of them and they're used for moving heavy boxes and shelved items around the warehouse."

"And it attacked someone?" Buck is consumed by confusion. "Yeah, my co-worker Jerome, uh I heard it just beelined for him like a suicide bomber and crashed into the end of the Isle then took down a whole row of shelves. "I miss brick and mortar," Eddie says.

"Any idea what caused the robot to malfunction?" the worker seems distraught but is overwhelmed at the same time. "Uh, normally, their movements are really precise, it's just that, uh, number three was gunning for Jerome."

"Okay, you guys can clear away, well take over from here. Step back, Please." the man was being crushed by metal bars, barely blinking, and was completely still. "Hi Jerome, are you having any trouble breathing?" hen calmly asks the man, while chimney searches for the root of the problem. "No." the man whines.

"Obvious crush injuries, don't know the condition of his extremities under there." before hen could start talking again the man cuts him off. "All I wanted was to take a leak, it's a basic human need." Buck starts to analyze the area around the victim and finds out something disturbing. "Uh, did- did you pee on this before it crashed?"

"Why would you don't that?" Eddie has a disturbed look on his face and looks at me and I shake my head. "Our supervisor won't let us go to the bathroom, it ruins our pick time." the poorly injured man says. "Yeah, according to our supervisor Shane-"

"Where is Shane?" Bobby cuts her off and she points at the man standing far away from the scene. "Don't go anywhere Shane, OSHA's gonna have a field day with you."

"Cap, hearts racing, blood pressures a little low, and not a lot of blood. I'm gonna start a line." Chim says while inserting an IV into Jerome. "It could be something severed underarm but currently compressed, ready for either extremity."

"Okay, buck, you're with me. Eddie take the side on his arm. Artemis be prepared in case he starts to bleed out." Hen hands me the gauze and I position myself ready to go once he gets out. "You got it cap."

"We need to lift the shelving unit at the same time. So they can work on him simultaneously. On three, one, two, three." They managed to pull the man out of the unit and I put both of my hands on the man's leg to control the bleeding.

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