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Maintenance Cycle Complete
One by one wires and tubes detach from ASHLIE with the occasional pressurized hiss and her chassis begins to fold back into it's standard configuration, hiding access ports and internal nodes behind armor plates and servos. Finally her eyes light up and the final cable detaches from the base of her skull.
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All Systems Online
She steps forward and walks towards the door leading out of the room that serves as her maintenance bay and workshop, heading out of the room and into the stainless steel hallway of the X-Men's high-tech facility nicknamed the Point. She stops for a moment as if to listen. There's a faint hum stemming from the generators powering the facility. To Ashlie it's the closest thing to a heartbeat she can conceptualize. No other sound fills the empty halls, something that has been happening more often lately now that Professor Quinn is spending less time filling the point with the sound of her working in her own workshop. She spends 21.3 seconds considering how to put those things together to create the sensation of jealousy. She fails and begins to walk down the hallway.
She stops in front of the circular vault door marking the entrance to Cerebra. The side of her still residing within the computer gives the system a quick scan, though proper maintenance will have to wait until Professor McManus can find the time to. She makes a note to remind the headmistress. Pausing for a moment she ponders the strange system but it doesn't respond to her beyond the most peripheral protocols. It never does. She doesn't entirely understand why. As she turns around and walks away from the door a process set to scan for life-forms finishes it's sweep and gives the all-clear. Small panels in the walls slide away to reveal a narrow line going down the corridor at roughly chest-height. Light flashes as the pulse cleans the corridors, washing over ASHLIE as she walks, stripping away some of the remaining dirt and organic material that accumulates on her throughout the day.