Nuts and bolts at the coffee shop (Private w/ Flash)

The manager's eyes were drawn to him for a second, but he was really much too afraid of the woman to deal with him right now, "Umm... I don't know a lot about this bean water. But isn't it supposed to be bitter and stuff? Isn't that why people add milk and sugar to it? If you were having a bad day shouldn't you have gotten something sweet instead? I can't really taste so I don't really know ^^ll But like, sugar or something sweet makes people happier than coffee or something bitter right? People drink coffee to stay awake don't they? o.o "

"O.o I see. But isn't it then more the fault of the milk and the sugar you added than the bitterness of the coffee right? It's not that the coffee was bad or the things you added to it maybe... isn't it more likely that the how much of each part lead to a problem than just one aspect. o.o Then again, I guess if the milk was off the whole thing could get bad really easily ^^ll" Flash wasn't totally sure of the science of coffee, but he didn't quite understand why the woman was so mad. "That or like... I hear that tea can be much sweeter than coffee, despite not having any ears, wouldn't you have less of a problem if you drank sweet teas? Maybe it would be a good time to switch? If not you could calculate the ideal mix of coffee, cream and sweeter with practice right o.o Doesn't that make a whole lot more sense than hoping other people know exactly what you want with the factors and brands?"

Less than ten seconds after putting everything up on his face it was cleared and replaced by, "Oh, oh my, I'm so sorry >///< I forgot to introduce myself. My name is Flash Driver, I am a student at Syne Academy. It is very nice to meet you Miss?" He bowed slightly as he did so, though kept his screen visible to the woman.

"o.o but if you do know what you like, why do you come to a place like this? Like, the odds on the servings and ingredients being exactly the same is incredibly low so doesn't it just make sense to make your own coffee? I don't understand taste though so it might be different than all that? I'm not really sure o.o " Flash responded, not noticing the amazing speed the woman was able to read.

Listening to her introduction, and somewhat regret at her loudness, the droid responded, "It's very nice to meet you Mel ^^ It's absolutely fine bud, emotions are powerful. People do things they don't mean to when they take over, hugs get too tight when you're excited and people get scared and do things they don't mean to ^^ I guess the same can be said for anger and stuff, not that I've every felt it. Emotions are weird but important." He gave her a thumbs up, just to reaffirm the okay-ness, but the manager looked to still be a little bit on edge.

The droid did note the woman mentioning having a bad day and being the droid he was, "I've been an agony aunt kind of thing for a lot of people. If you have anything you want to talk to someone about you can just say bud ^^"

"Oh, just anger bud ^^ I suffered some pretty extreme magnet damage at one point, wiped a lot of my memory and altered my personality fundamentally. Anger's just not a part of me anymore ^^ Splits between sadness and fear instead, occasionally bursts off to other emotions as a result of the stimuli." Flash explained, "It kind of made me a little bit silly ^^ll but it's better to be that case when you look like me, I think. Can't be too serious or people get scared."

"If you're sure you're fine I won't press it Mel ^^ But if you cof-feel like talking I'm fine with doing it. I'm going to be up 24 hours seven days a week, it's not like it's taking up an important part of my time after all ^^ There's nothing to worry about bud." Flash promised, "As for your coffee problem, practice does make perfect ^^ In the end if you just keep at it you'll achieve victor-tea. You'll be great at making it I'm sure."

" -w-ll Well, I like to have pun with them. People tend to think I'm going to Pun-ch them when we first meet, I'm not as much of a Pun-k as people think and if I make these jokes it tends to remove any feelings of fear. It's just my imposing size that makes em scared ^^ That and maybe the lack of obvious eyes." Flash responded, "I think I was actually planned to be a serious military bot but I'm glad I turned out as I am now ^^ Even if it's as a result of damage."

"Can I just get some boiling water please ^^ I think that would have the same effect for me as coffee would."

"Oh, it's no bother ^^ O.o I didn't even notice you were a robot, you must be like my partner Sno's type ^^ She's great, I like her a lot >///< Anyway, it's simple. I look older or less advanced because I'm made to be easy to fix and relatively cheap to build or rebuild. If a person wanted to make a large number of robots at an effective cost, like for an army to defend a city from grimm, it'd be more effective to make a lot of my design than a lot of your design type." He began to explain;

"I'm built to deal out physical damage and take physical damage, so I'm made from thick armour plates created from a cost effective alloy that's mostly iron. I have some dust resistance in order to better deal with situations like fires or floods and my strength can be used to aid civilians, I can lift cars ^W^ My internals are also, I'm willing to bet, much larger but less complex than yours ^^ I don't even have sensors in place to feel any more pain than I do in someone placing a hand on me for a regular touch, that frees a lot of space. This way I'm easy to fix or upgrade, not to mention the diversity of parts that can be applied to my system, while you'd take much more major work to upgrade or fix and probably a specific set without more intensive works." Flash conveyed before cleaning his screen.

Almost as if to overstate his point Flash, upon receiving what was a boiling cup of water, he immediately poured it down the grill at the front of his face without even flinching at the one hundred degree temperature.

He continued immediately, "I H2Know it may seem weird but I major in Tech at Syne, I could build myself over tons of times, I can continuously improve on my own design; I've uploaded a backup self to a "Flash Drive" even as I am that simple to store, I've fixed myself up and I'm able to fix up the other droids with more advanced systems than me... but finding the parts is hard a for them and does scare me when it comes to fixing up Sno if I had to ^^ll Whereas for me, I can scrap a used car at the junk yard and come out with great stuff ^^ I can run almost anything... or anywhere. Really really basic feet, they're quite the feet-ure."

He wiped his screen once more before coming to a combination of her first and last statements, "A soldier doesn't need a face or voice or or regular proportions or hair... as much as I really would like hair >.< it can be rough I guess, most androids look a lot more human than me... But long as I have friends to talk to and help I'm fine with it ^^ But... when people see those movies about the robots taking over, it's not really your types they see as evil. It's the ones with the exposed metal all over them, big machines without eyes. Your type are more often put in sympathetic roles. I like reading comics, but I can't really read some because they do use killer robots so often... I look a lot more like them than anything the average person will come across in their life."

There was a momentary pause, emotions welling up in the droid, "It's because of their media and how they've been raised that they fear me ^^ll it's not super their fault, they didn't expect me to exist when they came up with that stuff... but it does suck. Like... when did you last see a love story with a giant robot or a comedy with one. There are a few but they're rare... I guess it just makes me feel luckier to have Sno ^w^ and my other friends of course."

" It's even a bit odd that I'm meant to be a soldier, yet even have emotions... I don't know why I do to be honest, but I like em ^^ Maybe it's just because I was the first model in the line... before I went missing with my memory damaged XD Someone might still be looking for me."

"Oh I really do >w< Sno's great, I really really like her. I've not seen her too much recently but she's awesome, she's so tiny and cute and-

"o.oll Uhh, I mean other people seem to be drinking it fine right? It's really quite strange that you're having a little bit of trouble with this drink, have you had a check up recently? Got those mouth sensors checked out? I hear they can be quite sensitive in newer models, just as the human ones are really picky when it comes to flavors."

"If you just wanted to know how it tasted then you'd probably be better asking someone else to taste it o.o But I guess I can run some kind of check? I've not got a whole lot of chemicals registered in my data-banks but I'll be able to tell if there's a foreign agent compared to the coffee I had." Flash informed her, gently taking the cup from her grasp.

Pouring half the remaining volume into his grill the droid paused momentarily, his body taking in the chemical structure and analyzing it's makeup. Eventually he nodded, "I can confirm the presence of a foreign agent in here o.o Something additional has been added to the coffee that I cannot identify, it might just be some kind of topping or something... I'm not sure what you've ordered, but it is a compound I've never experienced before so maybe not. Is the machine okay? o.o It's serving everyone else fine it looks like."

"What?! Poison o.o That's very serious. Do you think it's fast acting and stuff or could it be in people and they don't know it? It seems like it was taste-able but perhaps having an android's taste buds is why it was. Then again, people take coffee out of this establishment... but you'd think the police would have come around by now if it was fast right? And some people would have fallen just outside the door on their first couple sips o.o" Flash made some logical points, though was frankly rather terrified for all the Fleshy ones inside the establishment. "I cof-feel like if people had been being poisoned for long someone would have turned up already o.o Poison would have been left in their cups which the police would examine, right... unless they all drank it all? Maybe you're the first and we can stop all this... but why would they poison you? You're good and nice, you just had a bad day ^^ But we probably don't have much tea-m to stop this before it's too late right?"

"Yeah, it's probably for the best to call them o.o After all, I don't know anything about fingerprints or investigation or anything. Just know android anatomy and stuff, don't know the telltale signs of a Fleshy one being around. Like, I know they have finger prints and stuff but I don't know how they work." He informed them, staring at his own fingertips which were painted and without any of the traditional shapes. He was intending on listening to the conversation with the police, making sure all the details got across when he heard Melany shouting.

Getting the runner in his sight once more he found they were in the middle of climbing a ladder. Flash couldn't continue first, turning his head back to Mel he stated; "You need to go up first, I don't know if it will take my weight. If you get up there first we'll at least still be able to see them."

"Ah, weighting for them shouldn't be too hard -w- He's squirmy but he's not very strong, you might want ti take the cup out his hand before he tries to break it or something. My feet are simple, I don't need shoes and I'm pretty top heavy." Flash switched up his position, going from holding the man's legs to pinning him on his back in one of the programmed judo holds... but really he was just pressing down with his massive weight to prevent him from moving. "By leaning forward I can use the weight from my upper body for momentum and drive forward quite quickly ^^ That and just really long legs, I am pretty tall after all. Being a machine of my build I also don't have stamina as much as I do charge, so I can run at a persistent speed for some time."