Once that was made clear, they had to accept it. However, that did not mean that they had to like it. Being heavy handed was rare for me. Mason was almost certainly going to be shunned like Sunny and Lucy were. I decided to give him a tour of the clan building as it was not clear that he would be there very often. I showed him all of the X-frames. All the PEP units were there and glaring at him. While normally they were pride to show them off, they were guarding them jealously. I them introduced him to all of the PEP unit there. Finian and Erin were not here. They had jobs as police officers to attend to. None of them had a positive opinion of him. I showed him all of the labs. I made sure that he had some cyphers and weapons. He got the freezing shot gun and the sniper rifle that shot toxic bullets. He also wanted the fire sword and shield. With his boosted level, he should be a good fighter if he applied himself to those disciplines. I would prefer he focused on his skills as a reprogrammer. That was why I recruited him in the first place. After that, I was able to take him to the Red Grind.
It was nice seeing the private room being converted into a computer lab. It had much better equipment that what he had in his garage. "I hope I have to tell you this, but the PEP units in our clan are off limits. Do not tamper with them." I said. He groaned and I glared at him. He flinched and said "Alright! I won't touch them!" "You don't have to go that far. Just don't try to hack them." Brett teased as he slapped him on the back. The vulgar looking young man just smiled nervously. The 2 androids were on the table in the center of the lab. They were knocked out because they did not suffer fatal damage. They were just turned off at the moment. Mason sat on the chair on one end of the room. He began to do his work. It only took half an hour before he stretched his arms. "Whew! That was pretty good. I was in the zone." I asked "What were you able to do?" He smirked and said "I was able to go and take control of the self-destruct sequences, motor functions and the internal weapons. Unfortunately, they do not have any genitals." Of course he would check. "They have internal weapons?"
Personally, I was not expecting that. Both of them had a canon in their arms that allowed for slugs to be loaded in their shoulders and fired out their palms. Obviously, the androids could still hold all standard weapons with their hands. This ensured that they were never really unarmed. I asked if you could get any data from them. He just blinked and said "I don't know. I've just been trying to take control of functions. Data retrieval is a different school of work in the reprogrammer community." Paul leaned forward to read the computer screen over his shoulder. He asked "Do you think you could learn from somewhere?" "Yeah. You think there's a library in this town. You can get info online, but the agents will be swarming you the second you go to actually get the gear. Books are fine since there is nothing that will trigger any flags if you don't actually check them out at the counter." We had to tell him about the library. If he fucked up somehow, it would make us look bad. "Damn. They never told me where their base in Neo-Rutten was and I've fucked several of them." he said. "Don't peek." I said.
Quickly, he nodded. "I know how scary they can be when you piss them off. I won't mess with them if I can help it." "Why can't you help it? Too horny?" Brett teased him mockingly. Mason rubbed the back of his head nervously. I guess that was part of the reason. "C'mon man. It's not like you can tell them apart at a glance. It was just that everyone gathered at the cafe for info. Sometimes I got human women back to my place." That was something to be aware of. "Since you have such a good place here, I can use the programs I've added to control them remotely. I just need to put the commands into a remote." He slid his chair to the opposite wall. There was a large metal box. Mason tapped on a keypad and a pair of remotes popped out. "I'm going to reboot them. Stay clear." he warned as he pressed a button on the remotes. A short, simultaneous beep could be heard from both of them. Both of their eyes opened before they blinked thrice. They looked around before sitting up. They pulled the wires attached to the back of their necks. Both were angry. "You're under arrest." the blond said.
