"No problem, I guess," N-XS said. "But I still don't understand..."

"What's that?"

"Styx told me I sabotaged the pod."

"Oh, that. Well, you had my help," he smiled crookedly. He saw the look of disbelief on N-XS's face and laughed. "Yeah, we were in a hurry to jam that programming into you and had no idea how you might react. You and I cut some lines to prevent you from taking the pod out instead of fixing the core. Kind of preventive measures."

"But my leg's hydraulics?"

"Yeah, about that. You're kinda careless with tools. You're lucky you didn't shear your leg off. We had no time to patch you up."