Warning alarms jerked me out of bed and got an alarmed MROW from Kyper.
“What the hell now?” I asked Kyper irritatedly. He hissed and ducked under my bed. “Great. The cat doesn't even want to know.”
I got dressed quickly and grabbed my tablet. I ran down the hall quickly to find people running in and out of the lab. Some were carrying equipment and others were discussing the problem with their buddy.
“What happened?” I asked impatiently.
“Apple sauce and modulators,” said one of the lab coats watching the door amused.
“So I need Melvin…?” I asked.
“Marvin, and probably. Someone said that he tried to install one in the transporter, and the apple objected, violently,” the other lab coat said. I went in the lab.
“Marvin?” I called over the noise. I heard a huff and walked over to him.
“There was not supposed to be an Earth-shattering boom. It was supposed to work,” came his overly cultured tones sounding very ‘woe is me.’
“Sounds more like it gave an Earth-shattering squish and you had problems. Maybe let's not modify the transporter until we're sure the modulator thingie is working?”
“It did work!” he hissed, “I was sabotaged!”
“You have proof?” I asked.
“No,” he whined morosely, “But all of my notes and research said it would work as intended as soon as it was installed.”
“So we never actually tested this?” I asked, getting irritated.
“Not… Technically no,” he hedged.
“Marvin. Clean up your mess and uninstall the modulator,” I said and turned away.
“What if I don't?”
“I'll send -you- through the transporter,” I said angrily and stalked back to my apartment.
Once I got inside I sat down with my tablet at the small table and documented the incident. I filed it under Marvin. Kyper wandered into the room and gave a quiet mew to let me know that it was both still late and his bowl was, unforgivably, empty.
“My apologies,” I said and got up to rectify the sad situation immediately.
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