Year: 8167
Venue: Everyday News office building
3 months after the defeat of Commander Glitch
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"Beep beep, ow-"
A hand slammed on the clock.
"Shut up, I am awake."
Albur Filix, originally just an ordinary man who worries for his money, his job, and hates his life. In an infection 3 months ago, he managed to defeat a returned enemy who ruled his planet 6000 years ago with a team of good friends. Now, he is a legend in the world, recognized by every citizen. He found a new place to work, it is also a news company but is way better than 'New News'. He returned to his ordinary life, but with a few improvements.
Albur leaned on his chair, tired, he just finished a news report, and there is 10 more minutes before clock out. He had nice new co workers, the news report team is quite a big group, consisting 4 humans and 3 CIs, which unlike his old office, which consist only 2 humans and a CI secretary.
"How are you around here Albur, familiar with the surroundings now?" asked one of his co workers.
"Of course I'm fine, its been 3 months. Plus, I am having a good time here, no stingy boss, no broken and out of budget equipment, and most importantly, no restrict to watches! I can listen to music while working! "
"And no overtimes, pretty good right?" asked another co worker.
"I love it here, its way better than that 'New News' I worked for previously."
"Heh, we all owe you, you literally saved our lives from floating particles."
"This is already what I would ask for already, this place is nice."
"Oh, by the way, we got you something."
Albur raised his eyebrow, the co worker sprinted to a room, he pushed out something, which is covered by a piece of cloth.
"We heard that you miss your old cameraman, so, we got you.....This masterpiece!"
The co worker took off the cloth, revealing a CI robot, with the looks of Wilton.
Albur looked at that robot, and couldn't say a word.
"Uh..."
"And, it can also speak like him!"
The co worker gently knocked the robot's head. The robot activated, and turned around, facing Albur.
"Hi, I am Wilton."
"Uh.....o.....k? Thanks?"
"Glad you like it." that co worker laughed.
A while later, a uniformed man walked into the room. He is the boss of the company, he is holding a stack of envelopes, behind him is a CI secretary.
"Alright everyone, I need your attention."
Everyone stared at the boss.
"I have some good news for y'all. Our channel's views have raised another 35%."
Everyone in the room was shocked.
"According to the audience feedbacks, most of them are here just to see Albur, but later they found that our news are pretty good, so our audience count raised for sure."
Everyone in the room gave an applause.
"Congratulations, Everyday News. Here, a little bonus for you all."
The boss gave each person an envelope, inside each one was a 200 dollars check.
"And for the legend who not only helped us raise our viewer count and saved us all, its a 400 dollar check for you. Thank you for your contribution."
Albur smiled as he kept the envelope in his bag
"Alright, its clock out time, you could all go now, see you all tomorrow."
Albur walked out of the building, in joy. He started walking back home, normally he would hop onto his car and drive home, but his car was sent to repair, today is the day he could pick the car up. Albur walked on the street, using his watch to locate where is the car garage.
On the way, he passed by a bus stop. It is in front of a RNP branch. There are 3 women standing at the bus stop chatting with each other, one of them looks awfully familiar to Albur. The outdated adventure suit that differs from the other 2 women, the shattered pilot glasses, and the familiar telescopic bag.
Albur looked closely, it is his housemate and one of his teammates during the glitch infection, Mysty Robin. Mysty noticed Albur is behind her,
"Oh, hey Albur, what are you doing here?"
"Oh, I'm, on the way to pick up my car. Today is the day it is fixed."
"Man, it took so long to fix. Why not just use R.E.C.O.V.E.R. or ask Covie to fix it?"
"System error, not physical damage."
"Oh, I see."
"Wait, Mysty, this is Albur?" one of the women that was talking to Mysty earlier asked.
"Oh, uh, yeah." replied Mysty.
"Who are they?" asked Albur.
"The blonde miss is Ms. Emy and the other is Manda. They are my helpers of my channel." said Mysty.
"Not exactly, we are just part time workers, we had a real job as innovation manager of RNP." said Manda.
"Though you helped me, can't that be considered pal?"
"Not pal, friends."
"Wow, he is the one that killed Commander Glitch?" asked Emy.
"Eh, I won't say I killed him myself, I would've died if it wasn't Mysty." said Albur.
"I didn't help that much, you and Johns.....John, contributed more."
"Mmmmm, k. By the way what are you doing here? I thought its already clock out time."
"Oh, yeah, uh, Mysty? Me and Emy had some stuff we got to work on, we'll see you tomorrow." said Manda, picking up her bag.
"Oh, ok, cool, see you two tomorrow. "
"Bye."
Manda and Emy left the bus stop.
"So, you wanna come? I am going to pick up my car, or you wanna take the bus home?"
"Sure, let's go."
Mysty took her box of stuff and followed Albur.
"You have a lot of weird gadgets and stuff with you."
"The assist me in my Mystery unravel videos, you know like, ghost hunting, secret temple maze. Yada yada weird stuff. "
"Does getting the Earth Savior title help you with your channel?"
"A lot in fact. Just few days after the infection, my channel's view count have increased to a ridiculous point."
"Wow, congrats."
"Thanks. By the way, you look awfully happy today, what's wrong?"
"Oh, yeah, um, my boss gave me some bonuses, they said the day I joined their company their news channel's view count increased as well. "
"No wonder you look so happy today."
"Yeah, and don't forget the fact today is Johnson's release day, his prison life is over."
"What? Really?"
"Yeah, weird right, 3 months have past already, time is sure flying."
"We should celebrate tonight, gotta welcome him back."
"Covie must be very happy to hear this, wait, speaking of this, where is she?"
"She's in my bag, sleeping, she helped me a lot in my video."
"Oh."
"Oh by the way, you got your license now?"
Albur smirked, he dipped into his bag and took out a card.
"Albur Filix, rifle license, acquired." Albur showed Mysty his rifle license.
"Wow, congrats, you can now keep that rifle."
"I would give it back to Johnson, who knows police said we have to get a license even though when we are just holding it. But hey, can't complain, I have a high tech rifle."
"I also gotten my pistol license last week."
"Then we could both keep these."
"But to be honest, I don't want to remember any of those traumatic experiences during the infection. "
"Who would wanna."
"We'll just leave those 2 weapons at home, why will we use them."
"We won't."
The 2 continued to walk, but then, Mysty's bag started vibrating.
"Uh, Mysty? Your bag is moving...." murmured Albur.
Mysty looked at her bag, she slowly opened the zip of it, then, a drone flew out from the bag. A round drone with a propeller on her head with 2 arms and a screen, it is Covie, the R.E.C.O.V.E.R. drone. Covie stretched her arms, and yawned.
"Hey Mysty."
"Oh, Covie, did we.....woke you up."
"No, I woke up myself, wait, what do you mean we?"
Mysty pointed at Albur, Covie turned to him.
"Oh, hi Albur."
"Evening, man, you look like you just went to work."
"RNP had no more stuff to do..... so I helped Mysty record her 'cave mystery' video and casually test out the new products."
"New products?"
"But none of them match the requirements to be on the market. Man, without master, everything is not going well in RNP."
"Ok, by the way, Covie, do you know what day is today?"
Covie's screen showed a raise eyebrow face.
"Uh.....I don't know, your birthday?"
"No, my birthday had past already."
"Um, I don't know."
"Today is the day your master will get released out of prison."
Covie's eyes immediately brightened.
"Really? Its today? He get out of prison?"
"No jokes, after I got my car we'll go to the prison and meet him."
Covie flew around in extreme joy.
"Yay! I missed him so much! C'mon, let's go get your car!"
Covie flew to the front of them. Albur sighed and shook his head.
"Like a child."
"She is a child."
"C'mon, hurry up!"
The 3 walked for a couple more minutes, and finally, they reached the garage. Albur took the bill that showed he paid for the car repair and walked into the garage. A tired technician is sitting on a chair.
"Hello? Dude?"
The technician snapped out of day dreaming. He adjusted his hat and looked at Albur.
"Uh, yes?"
"I'm here to pick up my car." Albur said as he handed over the bill. The technician looked at the bill.
"Oh, your car is that CI 4 people electric car?"
"Yep."
"Ok, let me see....." the technician looked in the fixed cars parking lot.
Albur stood at the side, Mysty is looking at the overjoyed and nearly freaked out drone flying around in the sky. But then, suddenly, they heard the technician's scream. The 3 realized something is off, they sprinted to the parking lot, and they couldn't believe what they saw.
The technician is lying on the ground, and a dozen of broken CI cars are slowly moving towards him, they twitch and have glitch effects on them, like what a Glitch Zombified thing would do.
"AWWW SNAP, I thought glitches were all killed?"
Covie scooped the technician up and took him to a safe place. Albur and Mysty tried to use the wrench and crowbar in the garage to destroy the cars, but they are tough to break. The 2 stood in a back-to-back stance. The cars surrounded them.
But then, a heavy footstep is heard behind them. The corrupted CI cars turned towards the sound, the 2 also looked at the direction. A cloaked person stepped into the garage, the person raised his head.
"In trouble?"
A CI car rushed towards the cloaked person, he simply jumped and kicked the head of the car. The other cars charged towards him, he dodged and hopped around. He then revealed a claw under his cloak, a four fingered claw with a core in the palm and blue lights. He slashed a couple of CI cars into pieces, and fired energy bullets at the remaining cars.
"Wait, that robot claw....."
The cars recovered from the damage and charged again. The stranger smirked, and took out a minigun. He grabbed onto the handle and fired it, the cars were slowly destroyed. One of the cars grabbed onto his cloak and pulled it, but the stranger vanished. The car was confused, then, the stranger appeared next to it. He shoved the minigun on it and fired, the car at last exploded. The figure is indeed who Albur is expecting, a square screen head with an alarm on it, a bow tie and neck tie, a human hand with microchips all over it, a robot claw and holds a minigun. It is, Johnson Hamliton, or John Hamilton.