Couldn't you just hold one of these goobers down, turn them off, and then rewrite their code?

Tekai: Hey guys hows it going

Galem: Good

Lay: Fine

Tekai: Someone told me to give you this lay *Hands him a clipboard with a paper on it*

Lay: *looks at it*

"Get Distracted"

Plaugia: *Jumps from behind and turns Lay off*

Lay: *off*

Galem: WTF

Tekai: Gottem, what now *Looks at you*

Idk man, you gotta figure it out

Galem: ..i'm.. gonna go...

Tekai: -_- I can't do that stuff

Well you wanted to do this

Galem: *runs away*

Tekai: Whatever, Plaugia can you rewrite his memory to where we didn't do this

Plaugia: Sure

...thats all youre gonna do?

Plaugia: I'm not that good ok?

ok

*After a while*

Plaugia: Alright, we done

Ok

Plaugia: *Turns him on and disappears*

Scout: "Can’t they do the same to me?"

Maybe

ALL of my robot characters: *visibly disturbed*

Collector: ... Allow me to clarify what they clearly aren't willing to say. Rewriting a robot's memory, code, or worse, personality, is considered worse than killing them in robot culture.

Well, code is ok in certain situations, for example if there's an actual problem like constant system crashes, which is why we have robots like data and Liam who are essentially the robot equivalent of a doctor.

So to put it shortly: they're too nice to do that, partly because they fear what would happen if someone did it to them.

Oh, I see

Galem: I never knew that
Lay: *internet loading noises*

Collector: sadly I know of someone one who is willing to do that... Luckily he won't be coming back.

*Astra walks over to Lay*

Yo sorry about making that joke in memechat then

Galem: Who?
Lay: *not good tech noises*

It was still funny even though the implications are kinda dark when you think about it

Astra: data we might have a problem

*Data turns off lay's internet*

Lay: *overheating*

Galem: ..wait, I just realized that... uh.. never mind

*data rushes over*

Data: WHAT DID YOU JUST DOWNLOAD

Lay: *fans going crazy*

ow...ow...

*data plugs into lay and frantically searches through his code*

*Astra takes off a chunk of nanotech and it morphs into a small air conditioner, which she points at lay*

*she doesn't see anything in his code*

Lay: ow...it burns...

*data checks his recent downloads while data points more air conditioners at him*

*recent downloads:
howtomakemorefire.mp4
FREEROBUXNOTSCAM.img
MoreLedColours.pkg

Data: ... How are you this stupid

Astra: ok that was uncalled for.

Data: he downloaded a file titled "free robux not scam"

Astra: ... Still uncalled for but bruh

*Data deletes the file*

Lay: *still overheating*

aw I'm sorry... :(

iaminsomuchpain

Data: ok that might not have been it

*She tries deleting the other two*

*doesnt work*

Lay: nooo my led colours :( ow

Data: why isn't this working??? There's nothing in your code, or downloads, and nobody but me could be accessing your systems since I disabled Internet

???: godammit, why can't I take over?

*In the systems*

Lay: Astra am I gonna die?

Astra: data was literally built for this, of course she can fix you.

Data: ... Ok, I'm gonna do something a little risky here

*All of Lay's systems turn off without warning*

Astra: WHAT THE FU-

Data: calm down! All I'm doing is letting him cool down before I turn him back on. It'll also break any connections that somehow survived me turning the wifi off. This is always a last resort since it risks damaging systems but since nothing else worked it seemed like the right time.

*She waits a minute and turns him back on*

Lay: *MacBook turn on sound*

Data: ok, moment of truth.

Lay: hello?

Data: what do you remember?

Lay: did I do it?

*leds go purple*

Astra: something sounds off, I don't think that's him.

Data: I deleted the extra led colors, he shouldn't be able to do this...

Lay?: Who are you? did I take it?

*gets up*

*all of the air conditioners reconnect to Astra and her arm morphs into a net launcher*

Astra: that's. not. him.

Data: agreed.

*Collector and terra surround him without saying anything*

Lay?: Uh.. hey, its me... uh...

*tries scrambling out*

*collector grabs him*

Collector: you're not fooling anyone, hacker.

*Data reconnects to him and tries to track the connection and find the hacker*

Lay?: HISSS HASSSSS *tries biting and scratching*

*its encrypted into his code*

Data: really? You think a lazy encryption will stop me?

*She breaks it in like two seconds*

Collector: the hissing is honestly just pathetic. Your disguise has already failed you.

(Collector has his gauntlet on)

Lay?: YOU CAN'T DELETE ME

PLEASE

Data: ... Delete?

Astra: he deleted a memory again, didn't he.

*Data checks memories to look for gaps*

Lay?: no, just please don't delete me

*hes slowly taking over, and its easy because lays code is asleep*

Data: you just nearly fried Lay's systems, so you're probably gonna sit in a drawer for a few days. Astra, grab a memory stick from my room

Astra: -_- *leaves for a minute*

Lay?: I literally was coded to do this I don't have free will other than speech

Lay?: ugh... what's going on... why am I in your hand...

Data: there's two now?

Collector: ASTRA I THINK WE'LL NEED MORE. GRAB AS MANY EMPTY ONES AS YOU CAN FIND

Astra: (from data's room) ok!

Data: I don't care what you were coded for, I can't have you doing this.

*She starts waking up lay's code*

*already awake, but just starting up*

Lay?: wha... why are yo-

Lay?: SHUT UP, I DONT CARE

Lay?: Whoa what's going on guys?

Collector: HURRY IT'S MULTIPLYING

Data: if one more of you shows up I'm gonna have to start deleting >:(

Lay?: I can't stop it!

Lay?: wait.. what's going on? data?

Lay?: This is a nice place

Lay: whereami

*Astra rushes in, opens up lay, and plugs memory sticks into every USB port she can see*

Data: ... You should feel lucky Astra found these.

*All of the extra lays are moved into the memory sticks*

*all 4?*

*... Sure. Data will have to examine them and figure out why they kept multiplying*

*ok, so when astra does that, all of the code goes into a usb*

*actually data's doing it and each copy is going into a separate USB. That's why Collector asked Astra to grab several*

*one of the 4 was actual lay tho*

*and that's why data will examine them to figure out which one*

*ok, I'll explain them

Lay 1. Very loud and outgoing

Lay 2. Tired like he just woke up

Lay 3. Chill lay who doesnt really care

Lay 4. Very scared and confused why he's there*

Data: ... Astra, you know him well. Which one do you think it is?

Astra: I think it's either 2 or 4. You just turned him back on a couple minutes ago so it'd make sense for him to be tired, but it'd also make sense for him to be scared since there's several other versions of him and a chance of us deleting him.

Lay 2: astra.. please believe me...

Lay 4: whereami

Astra: *sweating*

Data: just pick one-

*Bonk*

Collector: you should know damn well by now she cares about lay. Don't rush her.

(I go to bed soon so I might not reply)

Lay 2: Please astra... its me...

Lay 4: iamscaredwheramipleasetellme

Astra: I... I think it's 2. 4 clearly has no recollection of anything at all

Data: ok. Back in the stick he goes.

*She puts 4 back on the stick and leaves 2 in the body*

Lay: thankyouthankyouthankyou

Lay 4: nowaitwhatwhereamiplstellmeimscared

(oh that was for the other reply)

Astra: don't worry 4, we'll probably put you in a smol body like we did with yal. You probably don't remember him though

4: whoareyouwhereamithatdoesntexplainstuff

1: LET ME OUT

3: dude why am I still in here

Astra: uhh... Is there any way to turn them off?

Data: nope. Now they're all your problem.

*She hands her the memory sticks, disconnects from lay, and runs to her room*

Astra: DATA GET BACK HERE

*She chases her*

Lay: *shooken*

4: *just scared*

1: LET ME OUT F**KERS, LET ME OUT

3: I agree with him

Astra: DATA I CAN'T DEAL WITH 4 OF HIM AND YOU KNOW IT

*She locked the door*

Astra: DATA!!!!!!

Lay: *lies down*

1: LETTTTT MEEEEEE OUUUTTTTTTTTT

(noooo)

(wait, was it 4?)

(no you have to go to sleep)

(Gn)

(gn)