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His factory was working near-perfectly, as long as nobody messed with the teknicians, with the steam blowing away from Pearl's base as requested. Items were moving through the watershoots as gears turned, and everything was being processed to their designated chests. The reason why it was only working near-perfectly instead of being completely perfect was the blinking light that, no matter how hard Tango tried, couldn't be fixed and the fact that the teknicians weren't exactly the best workers. They tried their best, but the steam being produced by all the moving components messed with their internal wiring and made them malfunction for less than half a second, which then completely offset the specific instructions Tango had set for them. If it were only one, he would have fixed them and called it a day, but it was practically all of them.
The city that sat close to the base of the extinct volcano probably didn't help either. Impulse had been careful where he put any and all of the underground tunnels and wiring that led to the neon skyscrapers and bunkers, but Tango's pretty sure one ran an inch too close to his factory if the occasional incorrect flicker of the machines had anything to say about it. It also didn't help that whenever the man visited him within or close to the factory, which wasn't very often but enough for it to have become noticeable, the tattoos (were they tattoos? they were the same colour as the cyberware on the side of his head) that crept up his arms would pulse and cause the more higher tech parts of the factory to stall. One time, something had reacted especially badly, and Pearl had to help them get the system running again after an entire shutdown.
That was another thing, when his sister had found out about it all, she had become protective—too protective if you asked him—over Tango and his work. The thought of everything being shut down again just because his friend visited him wasn't the best, but kicking Impulse out, even if it was just till everything was sorted, felt like going a little too far.
But, in all honesty, he wasn't about to tell Pearl that, so he let Impulse guide him around the towering city instead.