MACHINE ID: V1
LOCATION: APPROACHING STORE
OBJECTIVE: OBTAIN LIST ITEMS

FRIENDLY IFF SIGNATURE DETECTED
IFF ID: V2

LIST ITEMS MARKED

HUMANITY IS DRIVEN
DEALS ARE GOOD
STORES ARE FULL

It was a reckless idea, surely. No matter how many of the workers that had pitched in when the idea was proposed— it was incredibly unsanctioned.

And yet?

They still went ahead with it, for the idea of the two prototype robots doing Black Friday shopping was either found convenient or funny enough to happen.

Of course, they had orders to not kill anyone, as specified by another worker nearby.

Following that, they were loaded with their objectives and parameters, booted up and now ready to go.

[//UPDATE THE SHARED LIST AS ITEMS ARE GRABBED
{// OK. YOU HEARD THEM. DON'T KILL ANYONE
[// I WIL TRY MY BEST

The doors eventually did open after some final checks on the machines, crowd dispersing into the store with minimal push and shove.

You were apart of that crowd, and managed to make it in relatively quick— not necessarily knowing what you wanted to get, just deciding to take advantage of the good deals.

Right. You needed to stock up on some produce and then some, so grabbing a small basket, you headed over to where all the perishables were.

Back at the entrance, two robots of a similar built sprinted in.

V2 in a relatively calm manner swerved to the left, off to whatever isle there was in the endless place that was the store.

V1.. not so much, considering it'd almost immediately jumped onto a cashier till and up onto the shelves, hopping onto each one to get to the first item as fast as possible.

Competitive as ever.

It'd found itself surrounded by seemingly crops, or rather in front of a lumpy mass of green.

It would be great if V1 could see what it was looking at, graphic visuals being too crappy to recognize anything further.

A couple minutes passed of grabbing random foods, deciding it wasn't a cucumber, rinse and repeat, before V1 decided it.. probably, needed help.

And so it spotted you.