"Sid! The host! How could you just leave him like that!" cried the aggrieved mecha as it was unceremoniously hauled away.
"We didn't abandon him," Sid replied flatly. "If we had stayed, it would've been disastrous. So don't even think about going back, because if you do, you might really lose your position to another manager."
Gasp.
The whirring of D-29's internal fans intensified, his distress readings spiking dramatically. "No! How could I, the most loyal of systems, be separated from the host?!"
Sid's sigh was audible through the comms. "D-29. Think about this. Out of everything you've watched, what happens when someone interrupts the main character and their partner during the critical moment of reproduction?"
"!!!"
"..."
"Go on... tell me. I know you know what happens to them."
"They... they are reassigned," whispered D-29, processing the implications with trembling servos.
"Or?" Sid prompted patiently.
"They die…"
"Or worse?"
"T-they're fired!"
