Soft Reboot (Murder Drones Soft Reboot. Part 1)

Lighthouse - Sweet Interlude

With a almost soundless motion the door into their main classroom opened, half the students looking up from their work or other distracting objects to see a frankly tired Thad leaning one hand on the doorframe and catching his breath. Other hand used to shoot a finger gun at the orange eyed teacher and thoroughly annoy them with the action, the teachers daughter, Lizzy chose this moment to roll her eyes at the jock. Returning to trying to work on her schoolwork for once as the class task was one that would unknowingly to Thad since he had missed that proclamation make or break a student's chance to go to this year's prom. Of course being more then ten minutes late to that particular class of history and looking like he had just ran into the Grim Freezer didn't help his case of getting into the teachers apparent good graces. That fact itself only taken from the evident law that Lizzy had several good graces and all but a handful of them were reserved for her own reflection or ex boyfriend.

Thad slipped back into the class, took  the papers on the teachers table when the older drone huffed and motioned for him to do so, then went to his seat and sat on it since that's what one does with the labelled and numbered seats. The jock instantly leaning over to his left once the teacher wasnt paying attention and asking in a half whisper what he was to do. Half whisper being the tone of which the class had currently after a very exciting day of tastelessly average educational activities and lunch breaks, which had run them surprisingly into the ground energy wise. Thad had ran through half the colony just to still be late because of being pulled up and lectured by Wrenflower, which was something of an annoyance to Thad. Thera seemed to be relatively fine, of course Thad knew that internal worries plagued his sister. Lizzy was for once doing her work for the prom at the slowly coming end of term and to not loose her spot as host to student council leader Penny or any of the ex graduates like Kelsey. Sam was nodding off like usual, Trevor doing his work with a half eaten pen and Jackal making an tower out of folded paper cubes. Again as usual.

Then Thad noticed the right back corner, because every student eventually laid eyes on it and paid all sorts of attention to the mythical place of all renowned refuge. Away from the teacher's gaze and the second exit at the left back corner of the room sat Emily and Zane, the average seating arrangement had blessed the pair with those contested seats at its start. The green eyed jock admiring the luck that one of the newcomers had managed to score such exalted thrones, despite Jackal's rare complaints. Or maybe because of them, Thad did once in a blue moon engage in the classroom social mess that was surrounding Lizzy's cousin but he wasn't anywhere tried of the trade enough to understand what particular conflict was between the newer pair. He was sure it was something at least, Zane usually left Jackal alone and Jackal usually tried to antagonise the other with little to no success. 

For now Thad's attention was put to his papers and everything Uzi had said and done, mainly the almost execution but there were in fact other thoughts using his processor power. Such as events from last night, and the night five days ago when he was told just as soon as he was to go to bed that their oft late home father had ended up in the hospital. The drone equivalent to a human one, so there were a few differences. Mainly the blood drip feed machines of which Thad hadn't remembered the name of were now used for oil and the very nice to know fact that reattachment of limbs was a far more feasible goal then it was for humans. That last fact being something he hoped would work, just had to wait till the end of today to find out if they could or not fix Mackevilon's arm. The other option was rather, unwanted to think about so Thad lightly clenched his teeth and set to work reading the source material given. A report on an ancient film of their choice. 

Meanwhile up in the oh so coveted back corner, Emily and Zane were talking between themselves as they scratched at the start of their assignments. The ceiling's air conditioner making them a tad cooler then they'd normally be even with the window next to them being blocked with meters of thick packed ice on the other side, apparently it had been some sort of swimming pool for the upper levels of the colony before the whole core collapse ruined that.