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Days as Dirk Day 15

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Days as Dirk

Day 15

Okay, so let’s just start by me telling you that it wounds don’t heal in just a matter of hours. With that being said you may now know why I have skipped to the 15th day. Dirk is now going to start his first day working at that robotics factory. Enjoy!!

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Your name is Dirk Strider and for the past few days you have been here at the Lalonde house. While Roxy was gone most of the time you spent a lot of time with her younger sister Rose. She was surprisingly smart for her age, and you enjoyed talking to her about her interests. She kept conversation very well and has even been a kind of outlet for you to get over everything going on with what happened. Though she is oddly curious about behaviors, and she isn’t the best at pronouncing the bigger words she knew of she was still pretty fucking amazing.  

You remember the countless tea parties you two had while Roxy was gone and out of the house. You also remember her asking you to tell her secrets, especially about your eyes. You always told her she would know when she was older. Whenever you played with rose you couldn’t help but feel like you should have been doing this with Dave more often before everything happened. It sucks to admit that you have a better relationship with you best friends little sister than you did with your own little sibling. You’re starting to feel like shit now that you’re thinking about how you never gave the little guy a chance; you just kind of ignored him all the time.

You’re now determined to make it all up to him somehow and the first step is getting to your new job on time. You had already called the owner of the business Horuss Zahhak. You think of horses when you think of his first name and horses are awesome, so you’re sure he can’t be that bad of a guy. You pull into the large factory buildings’ parking lot, and step out of your car. Wow there was a lot of smoke coming out of the chimneys. It makes you wonder if it was even safe to go inside, but you ignore your thoughts as you step into the building. At the desk was a beautiful girl with long black hair.

“Hi, my name is Dirk strider. I’m here to see Horuss.”  She looks you up and down suspiciously.

“Hello mister Strider, you can call me Aradia. Mr. Zahhak has been expecting you. Please take the elevator to your left to the 5th floor. While in the elevator please take the time to put on one of the gas masks inside of the elevator. Secure and tighten the straps to prevent any foul outside air from entering the secure facial mask. By stepping into the elevator, you are agreeing that our company is not responsible for any accidents that may or may not happen to you in the upper or the lower levels of the facility. Thank you and have a nice day Mr. Strider.” You just kind of stood there staring at her. That was creepy, but you really need this job. If it pays half as well as that old bat said it does, and then these risks are worth it.

You do as the creepy lady says and enter the elevator, inside were some plain black gas masks. You take your shades off. Then grab a gas mask and put it over your face making sure it’s on properly, there is no way you’re going to die in this building today. You feel nervous as the elevator starts going down instead of up. You think you pressed the wrong button but no, you pressed the right one. You guess that down is the only way to go.

When you get to the 5th lower level the atmosphere has changed drastically, the light in the elevator goes red, and when the doors open nothing but smoke is seen until your eyes adjust. You step out of the elevator and you start to see sparks, from men welding metal together. Soon your eyes completely adjust and it’s basically an assembly crew. The temperature is 20 times hotter than it was in the lobby. You think about how much cooler it should be because you are under ground, and then think of how hot it would be if this floor was above ground. You look around, trying not to get in anyone’s way. You stop someone and ask them where to find Horuss and they point you to a door that had a yellow flashing light on it.

You walk over to the door stepping over large extension cords. You open the door and you find yourself in a white room with vents on the ground and ceiling. You’re guessing it’s to get rid of the bad air let in by anyone who steps in here. Right now you are in a hall way, on the other side is another door, your guessing that is his office or something. You walk past the vents, taking off your gas mask and fixing your hair before sliding on your amazing shades. When you open the door you see nothing but stairs to the left of you, so with nowhere else to go you follow them. Walking up each step makes the room at the top of the steps look brighter and brighter. When you reach the room that is at the top of the stairs you see two men standing in front of a large screen displayed on the right wall. The screen has what seemed to be a chart, maybe it was their workers efficiency or their sales some business shit like that.

“Um, I’m looking for Horuss Zahhak. I’m Dirk Strider.” When you speak, the two look over at you curiously. One of them was wearing rectangle shades, while the other was wearing goggles.

“Oh mister strider my brother and I were expecting you.” Horuss walks over to you and shakes your hand. They were both tall; one of them looked to be a lot stronger than the other though. They were both dark skinned, and both looked to be intelligent. “Come over here.” You did as he said, and walked with him over to a glass wall that looked over the assembly area you had just seen. “This is where you will be working. You will be welding, shaping, and spraying these sheets of thick metal with various chemicals to make it strong enough to last for years, and these metal parts will become the vessels for our new developing robotic technology. This is our lowest level of working; this is the starting point for all of our robots. It only makes sense for you to start here as well. It’s the most dangerous part of the process for obvious reasons, but it is the only job I can offer you.”

You look down at all of the different stations, the caution tape lines everywhere. It has become obvious that this job has no health insurance benefits, and any accidents that may happen here are left ignored by the company. You wish you had other, safer options but right now this is what you’ve got. You watch the men and women below working for a bit longer before giving your response to Horuss. “Okay, I’m in.” you really hope you won’t regret this decision.

“Good! Equis quickly call up English to get this young man started.” You raise a brow to the name, as if you have heard it before but you quickly shake the thought. Equis nods and calls his name from the intercom. “Now quick get your mask on because right when he gets here it’s on to work, time is technology you know!”  You are 100% certain that isn’t how the saying goes but whatever. You put your gas mask on after removing your shades. You’re glad that the gas mask is tinted.

Not soon after you have secured the gas mask you see the English guy that they had called up. He had dark black hair, and was wearing a green scull looking gas mask. It looked pretty damn awesome.

“You asked for me sir?” this English guy had a pretty thick old English accent that was almost… Australian? You guess that’s how he got his name.

“Please Show Dirk here the ropes, he is our newest repla- worker.” You can’t help but to get a bit pissed at his slip of tongue.

“Ah, hello Dirk my name is Jake English. It’s Mighty nice to meet you.” he held his hand out for you to shake it. It takes you a moment to register what he wants you to do but after a moment of extremely awkward silence you shake his hand and nod. You can’t help but to find his name super familiar but you just can’t remember where you have heard it.

“….. Uh oh, sorry …. Um hi.” Wow way to go dumbass, you really know how to make a good first impression. Jake shakes your hand cautiously

“Well… Anyway, let’s get going so I can show you all of those ropes...” he said trying to be as enthusiastic as possible. You can tell it’s going to be a very long shitty day. You follow him down to the work area and you walk to the far end of the assembly line. “So this is step one.” He starts off by walking over to a pile of thick metal, grabbing it and taking it over to what looks to be a row of body shaped molds. “ ok once you have your metal, you start the molding process its hard at first but I suggest starting with the torso, then arm, thigh, forearm, calf, head, feet, and finally hands. But it is best to get each piece completely finished then assemble.” He sets the metal, onto a chest piece mold. He continues by grabbing a blow torch and heating up the metal starting in the middle. “So you should start in the middle and work your way out when heating, it’s just easier that way. Once the metal is red, grab your hammer and start hitting the metal into place with the mold.” You watch him shape and mold the metal. You can’t help but to think how amazing his arms are, just look at that strength and form. Its feels weird to admit it but he is a good looking guy, you know you haven’t seen his face but damn. You didn’t realize how bad you were zoning out until Jake was trying to get your attention back.

“Oh sorry, no I got what you were saying.” You said with no actual clue what he had really said.

“Okay, well follow me to the metal cutter.” He leads you over to the large machine against the right wall near the molding stations. “You enter in the piece you have molded.” He selected the chest, and the machine rotates a weal of molds until the chest piece is found. “When the light is green you open up the safety glass, and set you molded metal onto the mold, close and lock the glass. Hit the blue button and stand behind the caution tape.” We move behind the tape and the machine starts to cut out the chest piece from the extra metal using a type of laser saw thing. “The laser emits high radiation levels and it is only safe to be near the cutter once the light goes green again. Too much radiation can kill you, so make sure you’re always behind the line.” You nod at the dark haired guy next to you.

Once the light went green he walked over, opened up the glass and used one of the heat gloves next to the machine to pick up the metal, and puts it into a big bucket of water that was next to the machine. After he is sure that it has cooled down he takes the metal out of the water and then over to the acid bath. “Okay this is where things get tricky; you need to do this step as many times as it takes for the metal to look almost silver.” You nod and he starts the process by hanging the metal by some chains that looked as if this wasn’t their first dip, he uses a remote to control the small scale crane that held the metal to move it over to the different acid baths. “The first one is the strongest; it’s to get rid of the initial layers of impurities.” He lowers the chest piece completely into the acid. “You leave it in for only 60 seconds no more and no less.” After a minuet he takes the metal out and over slightly to the second acid bath. “His one is a lot less harsh and makes the meal shine a bit more. This one you keep in for 30 seconds. “After the thirty seconds, you put it in this last bath witch strips the acids off of the metal so it is safe to handle with human hands you let it stay in there for 90 seconds.” When the time is up he brings the metal back, and takes it back to the first step of this whole process. “Basically you keep doing all of those steps until you’re ready to weld two pieces together.”

“Okay, I think I got the hang of this now.”

“Jolly good! Would you like to take this moment to go to the break and grab ourselves some crisps?”

“You mean chips?”

“Hah well yes”

“Okay, sure .” Jake leads you out of the foggy assembly room to the elevator and once the elevator vents filter out all of the dirty chemical air the light at the top of the door goes from red to green. Jake quickly takes off his gas mask and you do the same, keeping your eyes closed until your shades are safely on your face.  It looks like Jake also has glasses that he is now sliding on his nose. Jakes face was very manly, a defined jaw line that had just a mall amount of facial hair growing along it. He looked to be right about your age. He had slightly bucked teeth and his hair seemed to be messy from the gas mask.

“Are you okay dirk, your face is a bit red.” You cough at his comment.

“Ahem! Yeah I’m fine it’s just really hot down there.” Okay you saved it for now.

“yeah that’s true!” when the elevator reached the lobby floor you set your gas mask back where you had got it from, and walked with Jake a crossed the room passed Aradia who you noticed Jake winked at, but she just glared at him. Walked into a large cafeteria looking room and there were lots of vending machines, even some coffee makers, and 2 microwaves.

“Wow this place looks nice.”

“Yeah it is, there used to be 3 microwaves but Aradia smashed one, just went completely crazy one day. She didn’t get fired because she is kind of Equis’ girlfriend though.”

“Oh wow, she sounds crazy.”

“Yeah she can be straight up nuts”

Your conversation with Jake went on the entire half hour, you two exchanged cell phone numbers and chum handles for pester chum. You and he really hit it off, and it was cool having a friend that you worked with.

After your lunch break you went on to do everything Jake had taught you and finished about half of a robot. When a loud whistle blew everyone started to walk out of the facility. When you asked Jake what it meant he let you know that was the end of the day signal. Everyone gets to go home.  

It is now 3pm, and your shift is over. You’re so exhausted; you never thought that this job would be as physically demanding as it is. You get into your car and start the drive back to the Lalondes house.

The first thing you did when you got home was fall onto the couch face down. You mussels were aching, you just wanted to go to sleep but a certain little blonde girl has been waiting for you to get home and have a tea party with her. When she taps your shoulder and asks you if you want to play now, it was so cute there was no way you could deny her. You force yourself off of the couch, to start making their tea. The things you do for cute little kids.
dirks first day of work!!! its a dangerous job but its the only one he has to take. please comment, fav and follow for more updates!+fav Dirk Icon 
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