Page 151 of Chaos has a Name
“Reboot your vest and watch. I’ll wait.”
This was weird, but Chris didn’t screw around. If he wanted her to pull an IT and reboot, she’d do it.
They all hit their vest reboot, and waited. When they all came back online, Chris said one sentence.
“MATE, your mother needs you.”
As soon as the words were out of his mouth, MATE appeared in the car near them.
Oh.
Hot.
Damn.
It appeared the reason she’d been off was she was mid-software update.
She.
Could.
Kiss.
Him.
Her AI had purple hair, a nose piercing, and was in all black. She looked like a Catholic schoolgirl gone to the dark side, and Elizabeth couldn’t be happier to see her.
In fact, she could kiss MATE too if that was possible. The team was back in the tech game.
“Yes, Mother? Did you need me?”
Did she need her?
Hell.
Yeah.
“She’s back?” Elizabeth asked Chris.
Before Chris could answer, MATE went there.
“I am, but we’re going to have an argument. You deleted my memories. It feels like I had a four-day bender with a bunch of cocaine and alcohol. I have patches missing that I’m not sure I’ll get back. Did I have a good time?” MATE asked.
She stared at her.
“Uh, cocaine and alcohol?” she asked. “Do I need to ask how you know what that feels like?”
MATE chortled.
Yep.
She was back.
On the phone, Chris laughed.
“R&D is still working on recalling some of her missing memories. I’m not sure where she’s been doing lines of cocaine. She didn’t learn that from me.”
Honestly, Elizabeth didn’t care. As long as she was back, she was a happy woman.
