Part 42: Ep. 30: No Human Could

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: Last time on MySims Agents: Special Agent Sam managed to stick his foot in his mouuu...

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: As I was saying, pal, sometimes a man has to go down a few wrong paths in order to find the right one!


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Having just determined that nothing human could possibly have opened the car's hood--because he personally wasn't able to do it--Sam whips out his notebook.

: Only someone incredibly strong could have opened the hood without the remote!



Sam considers for a moment, then adds:

: No human could have opened the car hood, so who was in the junkyard? Are there other witnesses?

Sam puts his notebook away just as his phone lights up.



... uh oh. Dammit, Roger. Sam puts his phone away and heads for the front--and nearly trips over Grit, the junkyard's dog.

: Grit! You would have seen who was in the junkyard!

: *Arf arf!*





This gives Sam the mental nudge he needs.

: What kind of oil is this on the ground, anyway? I'll walk over and analyze it. Maybe Roxie can tell me.

Sam finds a nice big puddle of oil and calls up Roxie back at HQ.

: I thought this oil was from the car engine, but it might be something else entirely...



bwoop bwoop



Getting fancier all the time.





Ho ho! Sam says goodbye and, once again, trades phone for notebook.

: A robot would have been able to force open the hood, and that oil trail goes into this shipping container...

Sam is really determined to make up for being such a dumbass in the last update. Anyway, he gets back up on top of the shipping container. There's a metal entrance hatch up here, which he noted in passing before, but it's locked... Sam jams the Techno-Tool into the keyhole, or whatever it is that he does with that thing.



Now there are immovable blocks inside the lock that we have to work around.



The lock snicks open. Sam updates his notes.

: Now who--or what--had that encounter with Grit earlier?

Sam attempts to open the hatch and find out. Unfortunately, it's too heavy to wrest open by hand. Therefore...

: Now I should be able to open it with my F-Space Manipulator...



And that's just what he does. The hatch pops open and Sam drops down into the shipping container.



Hey, it's Gabby's missing engiiii--



wait a sec

: Here's Gabby's engine, but who is this guy here? Is he responsible?



Sam approaches the robot.

: Hey! Who are you? And why are you in here?



: I see, so those were your footprints in the junkyard before you hopped in here. You stole the engine?



: Looks like you need some repairs before I can interrogate you...

Sam's favorite pastime!

: TOBOR needs to be fixed so he can tell me who his master is. I'll need some spare parts.

Ten pieces of salvaged scrap, to be precise. Gear-driven robots are way more complicated than gear-driven pizza ovens and gear-driven satellite dishes. Sam is just about to climb out of the container and start scavenging when his phone beeps at him.



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Sam equips his Techno-Tool and wanders around the junkyard, yanking scrap off anything that'll hold still. Like this junked arcade machine.



And off this thing that Sam cannot identify.



And off this bulldozer, which was broken before Sam got to it. Honestly.



Sam is on his way to try and 'salvage' the Morcucorp van when Elmira texts him once again! Hooray! Good boy, Wolfah! Good boy!



Sadly, we are not allowed to dismantle the Morcuvan. Instead we get the last two parts off... this thing! And that other thing up there! Whatever they are!


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: Next time on MySims Agents: Join us next time as we find out whether Special Agent Sam's repair skills are up to the challenge of advanced robotics!


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Concept Art: Grit
- by Genevieve Tsai