prompt: google being extremely offended by anti's complete disregard for how electronics are supposed to work, ie: anti how the fuck did you do that THAT'S NOT HOW THAT WORKS DAMMIT
“Oh, my phone died,” Wilford pouts, tapping the black screen of his brand new iPhone X. Google is about to open his mouth to offer to charge it for him, but Anti beats him to the punch, leaning over the table and tapping the phone’s screen with an index finger.
“There ya go,” Anti says, and returns to his burger, seemingly unbothered by the show of pure technological monstrosity that just occurred before Google’s very eyes.
“Thanks, Glitch!” Wilford says brightly, resuming his scroll through Instagram. The phone’s display proudly proclaims it to be at full power, the screen bright and responsive, despite having been completely drained just moments ago.
“What did you just do?” Google asks. His systems can’t decide between the annoyance response and the curiosity response, so he settles for glaring slightly but leaning forward to show interest. It’s the best he can do to blend the automatic emotive responses to such a perplexing external stimulus.
“I charged it,” Anti says simply. He finishes the rest of the burger and says, “Can we leave? I’m bored.”
They leave a few bills on the table and stand, making their way out of the diner. Outside, the sun shines, not a cloud in the bright blue sky. Humidity is high and there is a cold front coming in, but the forecast for the next two days is nothing but balmy and bright.
They climb into Wilford’s car, which he’d insisted on driving despite it being bright pink and rather cramped for the three of them. Google has to work to climb into the backseat, but Anti claims the front with a hiss and a glare, so he does it out of self-preservation. Wilford revs the engine as soon as it turns over. He peels out of the parking lot at two-point-five times the speed he should be traveling at and immediately gets stuck at a red light, in a line of cars that will, according to Google’s predictive software, remain at a standstill for the better part of half an hour.
“Aw, fuck,” Wilford groans, revving the engine and tapping his fingers on the wheel impatiently.
“Gimme a sec,” Anti says, and vanishes. Google blinks, sensors struggling to find where, exactly, he could have gone to. He doesn’t have long to deduct, as Anti is flickering back into existence within the next instance, hair mussed and face flushed. “Okay, there.”
Up ahead, the light turns green. Wilford cheers and guns it. The light stays green until the instant their bumper is past the intersection, at which point it turns right to red and stays that way for as long as Google can watch it in the rearview mirror.
When he can no longer observe the behavior of traffic lights, Google leans forward in the backseat to watch what Anti is doing on his phone. He is quickly dumbfounded by what he sees.
Anti is not touching the screen. Rather, he holds the phone in an open palm, staring at it without moving a muscle. The phone itself is functioning perfectly, though Google is at a loss for how. As he watches, Anti scrolls through his Twitter feed and refreshes his YouTube subscriptions, sends a text to Chase and declines a call from Marvin. All without touching the screen.
“How do you do that?” Google asks eventually.
“Do what?” Anti says, turning around with a sneer. “It’s a phone, android. Ever heard of it?”
“I have,” Google confirms. “However, the manner in which you are using it is incongruent with any known method of using a phone. Generally, one must touch the screen for the phone to function, but you are able to accomplish any task without lifting a finger.”
“It’s just how phones work? I dunno, man, get off my case.”
“Additionally, you were able to charge Wilford’s phone with only the tap of a finger, and I have my suspicions as to your involvement in our earlier escape from what previously appeared to be a lengthy traffic jam,” Google finishes.
Anti rolls his eyes. “That’s literally just how technology works. Update your systems or something.”
The internal signal for annoyance goes off in congruence with the trigger for anger, and Google narrows his eyes. He updated his systems the night prior. He knows he is functioning at full capacity, and in a way that tracks perfectly with the accepted methodology for using technology. He is not at fault.
He sits back in his seat, mind running the possibilities, fuming.