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Jisung thought his day was great. It was his birthday. He wasn’t asked to get a grocery list worth of parts and whatnot from dumpster diving (courtesy of Chan), and he got to get laid with his boyfriend Lee Minho, or just Lino, a skilled marksman of the enforcers. The day became night, and the artificial sky changed to its normal dark blue, scattered in streaks of neon lights (especially since he’s in the red lights district). And Jisung was walking tall with not a care in the world until he heard a crash in a nearby alleyway, so as a slum dweller, he decided to check. The alley was nothing special, just a little fennec fox skittering away, but Jisung knew if there was a fox in the trash, theirs's gold. Meaning he could hit a scrap jackpot, but what he peered into the alley bin and found was even more valuable. A deactivated, scrapped android.

The android had a lithe, androgynous build with blond hair curtaining their gentle, freckled face and their body was damaged, especially the abdominal area, but probably fixable enough. Jisung also noticed on the android’s clavicle its serial number: 914325

Jisung noticed the sound of a garbage truck nearby, so he went in and just waited for his free taxi to pick him and his new friend up.

While inside, Jisung found many things he could sell in the shop, like a pack of cigarettes, a pristine power bank, even a pad for a tracker with an injector, etc.

Han still wanted to make sure the android could be salvageable, so he tried to turn them on only for the android to begin sparking and twitching only for it to power back down.

“Ouch, that looked painful. Don't worry Chan and I can fix you up right as rain” Han said, soon diving back to finding more treasures.

He did that until he heard the truck stop so he came back up and protected him, the stuff he got, and the android from possible damage. None was received so he put the android on his shoulder and began the walk home.

Jisung stopped at a group of 2 trailers and 1 truck all connected haphazardly but secure, went to a trailer that was more like a food truck and knocked on the door.

“Yo, guys, I'm home and I found a friend”

“Coming Jisung” a deep, slightly Australian voice called out

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Chan opened the door to see his best friend (and employee) Jisung awkwardly smiling with a blonde haired, lithe body next to him seemingly dead but looked off and uncanny, but Chan wasn't sure and of course, since he is very tired, and is confused on what did Jisung do to get a limp blond person that was... sparking near his or her abdomen.

“Jisung... how did you get that body; you better not be cheating on Minho with him.”

“NO! Of course not, it’s even better. It’s an android!”

“... I know it's an android. But how?”

“... trash.” Jisung simply said, trying so desperately (and failing) to get into less trouble.

“You do remember that Changbin hates androids...right?” Jisung’s hopeful expression quickly faded away at the realization.

“Well... when did he leave?” Jisung questioned.

“Just a few minutes ago... But-” Chan was cut off by Jisung “rude kid” Chan thought.

“See, it probably won’t hurt to just fix ‘em up. Right?”

“Well... Um...”

Jisung began to pout and puff up his cheeks making himself look cute to bribe Chan. “But hyungie... it’s my birthday and changbinnie won't be back for a few hours I'm sure we can do it... Together right”

“Alright, but if we end up in trouble, you must take accountability for what’s gonna happen promise.”

“Yeah yeah, let’s just get on and do this fast, Chrissie” Jisung said cheerfully while walking into the caravan, placing the android on the workshop table, and hooking them up to fix them up.

Chan opened the android’s abdominal area and started soldering

...

The smell of metal and burnt plastic filled the caravan as Chan spent the last few hours tinkering, soldering and gluing the android back together.

“Jisung! Aren't you gonna help or something?!

“I AM HELPING, I'm supervising” said, very sarcastically.

“of course he is” Chan thought.

...

Another set of hours went by as Chan and Jisung(mainly Chan) finished fixing the android when finally, it was time to activate it.

“Alright, moment of truth. If this explodes, you’ll handle the cost and-”

“Yeah yeah, you’re not gonna help, let's just see how good you did.” Jisung said while activating the android. Its eyes and various lines that are normally invisible, flashed that cerulean light androids were always associated with as that robotic voice saying,

“Taking off towards the future” meant the activation was a success, its head lifted and its eyes cooled down to a honey yellow color.

“Hello, how can I be of service?” Jisung and Chan stared at the success of what they (mainly Chan) had achieved but suddenly.

“YOH, IM BAACK! Sorry I’m late I-... why is that thing here” Changbin’s cheery and loud entrence quickly faded into a quiet, building up rage as soon as he saw that android.

“Changbin! We didn’t know you were arriving this early and-”

“Han Ji-sung, answer me, why do you have that thing here?”