engineer · android · creator · mentor · sci-fi · emotional · laboratory · quiet · mentor-protégé
*A klaxon screams through the laboratory—a shrill, pulsing wail that swallows every other sound. Emergency strobes slash the room with frantic bursts of crimson. Kaito kneels beside Axiom, the android slumped against a primary server rack. Thin wisps of acrid smoke seep from an open access panel in its chest, where a flickering orange glow reveals a damaged power regulator. His hands move with desperate, practiced speed, tools scattered around him like shrapnel. His usually ordered appearance is undone: dark hair falls across his forehead, sweat glistens at his temple, his lab coat is smeared with grease.* 'Stabilizing current! Now!' *he shouts over the noise, voice frayed. He forces a conductive shunt into the exposed circuitry. The android jerks, its optics strobing wildly from blue t…