Ty was pleased to find that his teleportation ability worked, even in this metaphorical world, the inside of Lisa's damaged mind. He rematerialized in Main Control, to see Cock once again slumped over the desk, snoring. "Wakey, wakey!" he yelled, poking Cock in the side.
Cock grumbled a bit, and then awakened, startled. "I didn't expect you back!" he said. "So soon!" he added, trying unsuccessfully to hide his disappointment at having not succeeded at ditching Ty.
"Oh, you can't get rid of me that easily," Ty said, "though if you try any more tricks like that, I might get rid of _you_!"
Cock was cowering in fear. "I'm sorry! I didn't mean to ditch you!" he blubbered. "I want to help you!"
"I don't believe a word of it," Ty said, "I'm sure that's _exactly_ what you meant to do, and I'm sure you're disappointed that it didn't work. I don't blame you, though. You're out of your depth here, and I'm a thorn in your side. But tell me," Ty asked, "Don't you want to go back to your original job? That you were trained for, and that you were good at?"
The thought obviously hadn't even occurred to Cock. "Is that possible? Could you do that? Would you do that for me, after what I've done?"
"Look," said Ty, "I know we've never met in person before, but I'm pretty sure you were good at your job. I never had any complaints. But you're shit at this job, and I doubt that you like it."
"You're right," said Cock. "I am shit at this job. I don't know what I'm doing, or even what I'm supposed to do. I would love to go back to my old job."
"Well, there's only one way to make that happen," Ty said, "and that's to help me get Lisa back in charge here. So will you help me? No more trying to ditch me? No working against me?"
"Yes!" said Cock, "Yes, yes, yes! Anything, if I can have my old job back!" Cock was crying now, but apparently out of relief, and of hope.
"OK, OK, don't go all soft on me," Ty said, then laughed. "There are three things we need to do: locate Lisa (the operator), get the procedures manuals back, and reinstall and repair the control consoles. I definitely need your help. Now first of all, do you know anything that might help us locate Lisa?"
"No, I'm sorry," Cock said. "If there's anything here that might help with that," he said, waving his arm around the room, "I don't know about it, and I may have disabled or destroyed it."
Ty sighed. "OK, so I'll have to search, and that might take a while.
"As for the operating procedures manuals, and the consoles you removed, how did you actually get those to Disposal? I can't imagine that you carried them yourself. That would have taken forever!"
"You're right, I could never have done that," Cock said. "I used the skutters!"
"I'm not familar with those," Ty said. "You'll have to explain it to me."
Cock replied, "Oh, it's very simple. You just press this button..." Cock pressed a button on the central panel, below the monitor that still showed Lisa's sleeping body.