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M-Bot and Doomslug were left behind on Starsight when Spensa performed a hyperjump which took her to Detritus, in order to stop the invasion. He was stolen by the Superiority, and destroyed, with his CPU broken and his ship taken a part. They had feared AI and tried to destroy him. However, he had gone against his programming bit by bit, reprogramming himself in tiny installments of half a line at a time. This gave him the ability to copy himself, and he managed to copy himself into a nearby cleaning drone before the Superiority’s people managed to destroy him completely. M-Bot showed Spensa the news report about her, where Winzik framed her as an aggressor, before they ran. They were chased by Superiority soldiers, coming across a [[nowhere]] portal. Spensa took M-Bot, as well as [[Doomslug]], into the nowhere with her.{{book ref|sky2|45}}
=== The Nowhere ===
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|Spensa! I feel very uncomfortable with this!
|M-Bot to Spensa after entering the nowhere{{book ref|sky3|prologue}}
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After emerging onto a fragment in the Belt of the nowhere, M-Bot was very angry at Spensa for leaving him behind on Starsight, and flew off into the jungle, sobbing.{{book ref|sky3|1}} M-Bot later returned to find Spensa captured and tied up by pirates, and he apologized and set her free. One of the pirates advances on them with a rifle, but M-Bot and Spensa are saved by the timely arrival [[Chet]], who appeared to be a cytonic that Spensa had been chatting with. After Chet’s [[grig]] distracted the pirates, he led Spensa and M-Bot into the jungle, running away from the pirates.{{book ref|sky3|4}} M-Bot talked about how he was feeling real fear, and Spensa introduced him to Chet. Chet thought M-Bot an abomination, and M-Bot tried out insults, calling Chet a noodle-brain. He asked Spensa to rate his insult from 1-10 afterwards. The grig chased after them, suddenly possessed by a delver. When they ran out of places to go, M-Bot went to a nearby fragment on Spensa’s orders and attached his light-line to it, after which they jumped off the fragment and onto him, allowing him to pull them up to the next fragment using his light-line.{{book ref|sky3|6}} Chet talked about himself, and afterward M-Bot worked on the math, using the time Chet said he’d arrived in the nowhere. Spensa and M-Bot realized that Chet must be M-Bot’s pilot, since the timing lined up perfectly.{{book ref|sky3|7}} Chet showed them his uniform patch with the name SPEARS on it, the name of M-Bot’s old pilot. Spensa however, was more doubtful than M-Bot.
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|Ah! You say things like that, and I want to hit you again! Would you stand still so I can smack you with a grabber arm? That sounds fun.
|M-Bot after to Spensa after smacking her{{book ref|sky3|11}}
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As they traveled across the fragments, so that Spensa and Chet could traverse the [[Path of Elders]], M-Bot changed in unexpected ways, at one point whacking Spensa on the head when he grew frustrated.{{book ref|sky3|11}} They made for the base of the [[Broadsider Faction]], in order to steal a starfighter, and M-Bot talked with Spensa about his feelings, saying he was sad that his pilot called him an abomination. He told her that he is still angry about his abandonment on Starsight. They arrived at the Broadsider base, and M-Bot scouted out the base for Spensa, reporting that there were no heat signatures besides three pirates working in the hangar.{{book ref|sky3|15}} M-Bot went into the base with Spensa, and they were both captured after Spensa went into a plane with a [[resonant]] in it, which hadn’t given off a heat signature. M-Bot acted like a regular cleaning drone instead of an AI, but was still kept away from Spensa, who was made to work for the pirates.{{book ref|sky3|18}}
Spensa got permission for M-Bot to help her clean different things for the pirates, and eventually got M-Bot in position to upload himself into one of the pirate starfighters. He took control of it just in time, saving Spensa as she was attacked by [[Peg]].{{book ref|sky3|21}}
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|Hey, I think I’m doing pretty well. Didn’t you crash into the mess hall on your first day?
|M-Bot after flying for the first time{{book ref|sky3|21}}
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M-Bot tried flying as they escaped, but didn’t do very well. Spensa returned to the Broadsiders after terms were made, and Spensa was allowed to upload M-Bot to the Broadsiders’ best ship.{{book ref|sky3|23}} When Chet and Spensa went to the next portal in the Path of Elders, he gave them background information to help them understand what they saw. He also helped during an enemy raid, highlighting different enemies for Spensa to target during the fight.{{book ref|sky3|26}} When going to fight in an arena for Spensa to become the pirate champion, M-Bot detected Peg calling her son [[Gremm]], but wasn’t able to intercept the call due to his ship’s limitations.{{book ref|sky3|27}} After Spensa’s victory, the delvers sent a fragment to try to collide with the Broadsider base, and M-Bot made calculations so that the pirates could use their light-lances to redirect the incoming fragment.{{book ref|sky3|31}}
== Trivia ==
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