Coming from him, that was an amazing line. I picked him up and gently slung him across my back as I took him over to the police station. I did not want any more pieces of the android to get further damage. "This is the second time you've been caught conspiring with the PEP units." he said firmly. I did not respond to that. It did not take me long to get there. I gently dropped him off in front of the entrance and said "Good luck on your repairs. You're the best in my books." "You won't get away from this. It is a crime and I will arrest you for it." he vowed. I just left him there. From there, it was just time to go back to the music studio. By the time I made it back, all of the PEP units in the clan were waiting in the lounge. Paul asked if I heard the news. I shrugged my shoulders. I was told about the library being compromised. I pretended to be surprised. "How does a little girl get passed the librarians, but I fucking can't go down there!? I'm a big fucking clan engineer!" I snapped. It was something that had to be said. It was ridiculous. "Alright. We have to lay low." I warned. They were all concerned.
I just need to get some help from a contact. I looked at Paul and asked him to come with me. He nodded and we left the building. As we made our way to the street, he turned to me. "Who the hell are you looking for!? We don't have time for you to look for a boyfriend." he asked. "I need to find Hunter Diploti. He was a reprogrammer that was able to break in a PEP unit in the 5000s." I told him. He nodded. "We recruit him and up his level. Then catch one of the androids and let Mason flip them to our side." Paul said "It sounds like it might work. You know where he is?" I replied "He was being taken by government agents last I saw him." Paul groaned and said "Fine. I need to look something up." He pulled out a phone and tapped on it. A moment later, he showed me the dark screen. I saw that he was in prison on death row. It was a super maximum-security prison up in the north. It was outside Kelvin City in the no man's land. "Brett is really going to want in on this shit." I agreed. We got him and got going in the van. We were packing lots of heat for this. It took a day to make it over there.
Once we got there, we asked to see Hunter. It was not time for visitors to visit. We had to wait hours. Just as we were getting annoyed, they let us speak to him. They led us all down to the visitation area. We were on one side of the plexiglass, and he was brought forward. Once in the room, his handcuffs were taken off. Once he sat down on the stool, he reached for the phone. I did the same on our side. "You have some nerve coming here!" he snapped. "I need to know one thing. If you answer me, we can work something out." I said. He looked at me with a posture that did not really scream trust to me. "Just tell me what happened." I said. He sighed out loud and told us. He made it back from his cousin just in time for the agents to surround the house. They caught him and searched in his house. Having the 2 parts of an X-frame was both a useful tool for the side of humanity and a damning pile of evidence against Hunter as an individual. It was not like his fucking and conversing with the PEP units was legal. A lawful citizen would report them to their proper authorities. PEPs were spies.
