[center][h1][color=Firebrick]Q-T Brackman[/color][/h1][/center]

[color=Firebrick]”Finally!”[/color] came a muffled happy cry from the box in Almira’s new room, before it sprung open and the ape sized bot practically leapt out of it, and proceeded to stretch her mechanical limbs after that cramped confinement. It didn’t actually have any helpful results like it would on a stiff human, but it still made her feel better. 

While she did this she listened to the captain’s explanation of their polite confinement, and once it was done joked [color=Firebrick]”From a small box to a slightly bigger one huh?”[/color] 

She immediately regretted said joke when the captain began scheming about having her sneak out under the guise of a stealth program.

[color=Firebrick]”What no i don’t have anything like tha-”[/color] she began to protest, and then gave a : | face when it turned out the captain was carrying that kind of thing around. Not that it was against the rules or anything, but with the captain having stripped down to as light a garb as modesty would allow the moment she was able to, you did have to wonder what she herself would be using it for.

“Go for it Q-T, you can go have an adventure while we keep the captain company” Neilsy encouraged her to go, the way she had copied the captain in lightening her garb not helping Q-T’s assessment of the situation. Or how flustered this was getting her. 

[color=Firebrick]”I mean… won’t they think it's weird that the door opens and then closes for no reason?”[/color] the bot asked a question which Riley answered by just pointing over to the window to suggest it as an alternate option, which was a final betrayal in the bot’s eyes, at least until the woman spelled out her logic. 

“You’ll just get frustrated being in a ‘slightly bigger box’ trust me. I know we will. Just send us back a feed and we’ll get to live vicariously through you” Riley suggested which got the bot going : O as she got the plan.

A couple of moments later, and the human astronauts had set up a futuristic projector showing Q-T’s field of view and, after a bit of amusement at the infinite loop created when the bot looked at it, the now invisible bot slid open the window and clambered up onto the roof of the building all ape like.

Once up, she had a look to and fro, and then set off, doing a six limned run towards the edge of the roof, and then leaping across the street to the next row of buildings. Little maneuvering thrusters flaring, hidden by the stealth field, slowed her fall at the end of the leap, letting her land near silently on the opposite roof

“Really, the first thing you do when out is do parkour?” Riley asked through their network link, “because I am 100% with you there. Go stretch those legs girl”

[color=Firebrick]”Don’t need to tell me to do that. Now. hmmmm where to go…. Ah I know”[/color] the bot mused, before coming to a decision and racing off across the rooftops, the stealth field working overtime to muffle her disturbances as she moved swiftly to the tallest building in town, and immediately began clambering up and up and up it, till she reached the very peak.

From there, she did a slow, panoramic scan of the entire city, subroutines buzzing away to make a map of it as she and the trio of voyeurs just drank in the sights and sounds of the city from on high.

[color=Firebrick]”Soooo, where to next, captain?”[/color]