Her shift was finally coming to an end when a rather annoying beep sounded from her wristwatch. A low buzz started in the back of her skull. She knew what that sound meant. It meant she wouldn’t be sleeping anytime soon. All lovely thoughts of crawling back onto her mattress at the end of a long miserable day as a human advertisement were effectively crushed by that tiny little beep coming from her wrist. With a heavy sigh<a class="link link--external" data-proxy-href="/proxy.php?link=https%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2Fvthn2U4.jpg&amp;hash=4952375388f9f0044da596ec1aa3ac1f" href="https://i.imgur.com/vthn2U4.jpg" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" target="_blank">Kassia Ochoa</a>, sign twirler extraordinaire, tossed the stupidly bright sign her current employers decided to advertise with, in the air one last time. The sign spun like a neon pinwheel before falling back into her well-practiced hands. Adjusting her grip on the sign to one hand, the brunette finally glanced at her watch.<br/><br/>Just as she thought, Melius was on the move again. Their resident hacker had managed to create a program that alerted them to suspicious activity of potential new android recruits and uploaded it to individual devices for resistance members to access using a secure connection separate from that of Melius’. The most recent alert being a man who had gone on “vacation/business retreat” a few weeks ago. The resistance unfortunately did not catch him before he left for some supposed tropical resort. They knew better of course, Melius had more than likely managed to create themselves another mindless drone. It was frustrating knowing it was happening and not being able to stop it once they got their targets in their grasp. The resistance had yet to be able to fully infiltrate a Melius building, and unfortunately the ones where they did manage to get a spy inside were not ones that hosted the equipment that made their evil doppelgangers. Kassia suspected most of the facilities were outside of the cities…or possibly under it. But again, no evidence.<br/><br/>What she did know was that according to the information displayed on her watch the man, Thomas Moore, had returned from his trip and returned home. Barely an hour later he was now making his way towards one of Melius’ many office buildings, and he was not alone. Intel said he was married, so he was more than likely taking his wife there. Which meant she was likely the next target. One of the corporation’s favorite tactics for recruitment was to have transitioned people take their human family members to be assimilated one at a time. From there they shifted to close friends, then work colleagues etc.<br/><br/>Of course, the resistance has managed to stop a large chunk of these recruitment plans by injecting suspect android’s family members with the nanites. Kassia still wasn’t sure how it all worked, technology wasn’t her strong suit, but it worked for the most part. At least when they managed to get in contact with said family members. In this case it looks like no one was able to get in touch with Moore’s wife as she isn’t currently listed in the database they use to keep track of all of the humans they managed to inject to protect them from assimilation. Which meant Mrs. Moore was in immediate danger at the moment, as Melius seems to not be wasting any time this time around.<br/><br/>With that thought in mind, Kassia promptly ignored the headache forming in her head. She could find some pain killers and get sleep later. For now, she needed to get to Mrs. Moore as fast as possible. Looking at the time, she had about 19 minutes left for her shift, and her boss despised letting anyone leave early. Shifting her gaze to the bright sign in her hand that read “CAFFIENE INSIDE!! Night Owl Specials 9pm-2pm” with a giant arrow pointing towards the building. She thought about her options for a moment before shrugging and muttering to herself. “<i>Gonna get fired anyway, might as well take it.</i>” After typing a quick message to her fellow resistance members letting them know she was on her way to intercept Moore, she quickly took off running, the sign tucked securely under her arm. She forgot her taser at home, a large sign was better than nothing if she managed to catch up to the potential android and his victim. Hopefully.