There was a power station nearby. "Need a charge." he said. I just rolled my eyes and said "Fine. I guess I'll do it. Where do I plug you in? It's not that far to drag you to the station." He smiled in relief and said "Left ass cheek." I almost dropped him right then and there. Figures. I dragged him by the arms and pulled underwear off him. I took the cord from the rack and plugged it in his ass for him. I looked at the big puddle on the ground. "You can take human shape now." I said. It sluggishly congealed together to get a humanoid form. It was still all gray and very androgynous. It barely looked humans. This was seriously behind all the other AEP units I had seen before in the game. I had something in mind. I pulled out my phone and showed it a picture. It was of a cleanly dressed anime girl in a cool uniform. It transformed much slower than the others. When it finally did as asked, there were some differences between it and the target. First of all, it was male presenting. Their eyes were a dull gray and their hair was a pale pink. I asked it to change itself into the proper colors. It tried to do so.
It wiggled a bit. Something was clearly wrong now. Nothing about the faded colors had changed, even after a minute had passed. "Error. Nanite camouflage functionality damaged." it said. I told it to become a female. It just said "Error. Gynomorph coding missing." I narrowed my eyes at it. That clearly was not good. So, its transformations were totally fucked. Damn. "Run a diagnostic on yourself and report it to me." It nodded before staring off into space for 5 minutes. All of us were transfixed by the faulty cyborg. There was severe damage done to its transformation ability. Its AEP organ was only functioning at 55%. It's chest port was formed properly, but the connectivity was messed up. It was just like when we first brought 02 to the PBJ Clan building. I asked what its AEP organ even did. It allowed it to shoot radioactive projectiles from its palms. The PEP unit was furious. "Look what you fuck heads made me do to my clan's offspring! It's a damn deviant now!" he yelled at us from the floor. I took out my rifle and said "Yeah. It's very retarded. It's better to just put it out its misery and just start over."
Putting some rounds directly in its head from such a close range did the trick. Not even the PEP unit questioned me here. I looked at all the humans and said "It's time to keep going. He'll be here when the new Radiation Clan is formed." We then went to the elevator in the hallway. There was a PEP lab and a generator room. We went down to the bottom level. We got out and there was a tunnel with a faint blue glow at the end. I pointed it out. "That is were we need to be." I said. They nodded and we walked over. 2 broken X-frames were in front of the entrance. There were corpses of the mechanics that we did not see above ground. We stepped over them and went down the tunnel. We walked for 5 minutes before we got there. The blue glow bathed us as we saw the massive alien computer. "This is the Radiation transmission hub if you couldn't tell. One out of 13 on this continent." I smirked as my hands gestured towards it majestically. The head researcher squealed. "What do we do now!?" he asked. I shrugged. "I am not a cyborg and my clan is not attached to a hub. I really don't know."
