How to Date an Android

How to Date an Android, Chapter 16 Part B (revised! & Announcement!)

How to Date an Android, Chapter 16 Part B

Approximately 1 weeks earlier...

The two drone operators were fresh off the boat that they'd just come in on. Both of them pros and at the top of their game skillwise. They'd been called out a few days ago for a job to find a missing helicopter that was over due and had been flagged as being 'overdue for a maintenance' check in the robot garage servicing them. Then it was also flagged for not returning to the garage after they reset the helicopter's OS settings. But the overdue for maintenance light had gone off first.

That was weird too. An odd malfunction. It shouldn't have even have happened, since technically the 'not returned to garage' light should have flagged first. And then the overdue for maintenance should have shown up after that. Not backwards. And for it to only have the warning lights go off when they reset the OS settings for the program running the automated helicopters was also weird.

The last known locations were what they were here to check. The helicopter should be at one of them. And the helicopter was very expensive. So they had expedited sending these two out.

God forbid it had crashed. But they had to consider that last. Even though it was logical it was 'company doctrine' that their vehicles could NOT crash! They had to consider other things.

So the current story was... maybe someone parked it somewhere and turned off its... ability to return home.

A strange set of coincidences though.

"I still don't see what could have happened. They say these are uncrashable so..."

"Maybe its a software bug. You know they make this stuff cheap," the one guy said.

"Yeah... I hope its just that," the other operator sounded more worried.

But first they had to find what was going on.

These 2 search drone operators had found all of it to be strange.

First, they weren't hired by the company that owned and ran all of this though. Instead the main company had a contract with a sub-company B, that held the contract that owned about 8 to 10 automated and driver-less helicopters that operated under a contract to run all the air transportation for their sponsor company. Not air transportation for all employees. Just for the higher ups. The company B that ran this setup was under Company A in a shell company contract and much smaller. It was company B, the helicopter charter company, and their insurance and security program that had activated the search to send out these drone operators to find what was left of the chopper.

But immediate programs were occurring.

First, when they contacted the big main company, Company A, that company seemed to not know or be able to reach anyone in their island branch's office zone. So they couldn't even ask anyone what they'd heard or seen last. On the phone the parent company was all happy and cooperative. But then whenever they'd get transferred to the local branch office there were problems, like going to voice mail only. But it was the island branch people that they needed to talk to solve this. Without them they couldn't interview any staff or follow up on the purpose of the last flights and who was involved. And an issue is yes there were passenger manifests for ships and aircraft, but sometimes the people changed at the last minute; but they weren't supposed to know about that discrepancy. The mainland office seemed entirely separate from this division of their company for some reason.