You ever going to give that little guy a name Grady Hopkins asked temporarily occupying the chair that Ava Rhodes usually sat in Marco hadn’t considered that He’d gotten so used to calling it micro-bot that a name didn’t seem necessary A name Marco said Do you think he needs one Grady shrugged I don’t know Maybe You don’t think micro-bot is good enough No man that’s terrible Grady said It’s like calling a new puppy Dog Well it’s not like he’ll come if I call his name or anything Marco joked Maybe I’ll just call him Mike You know short for micro-bot 10
Yeah I get it Grady said nodding Mike Sure that works Marco noticed Grady fumble with something at Ava’s workstation a bit but he didn’t pay too close attention He really wanted to get back to his work He had one more bug to fix to get the micro-bot’s or Mike’s treads to work All right Grady said standing up Back to it then Did you need help with something Marco asked Grady was new to the Codeheads the name they’d given their coding group No no he said quickly I’m good Just wanted to see how Mike was doing Marco nodded as Grady went back to his seat near Travis Jacobson A moment later Ava 11
came through the computer room doors and sat down next to Marco Two seconds later she shrieked Ava Mrs Donovan asked from her desk in the back corner What’s the matter There’s a Ava began and then peered between her monitor and the CPU rubber spider on my desk Marco smiled knowing instantly who the culprit was So did Ava Mrs Donovan asked that they keep the noise level down because there were coders at work Nice Ava said pulling it from the gap beneath her monitor Good one Hopkins Seriously Grady said unable to feign innocence you jumped like thirty feet in the air 12
