I got up when Sandy messaged me so I took it in my office. "They would love the idea and anything you need just ask. That came from the mayor himself". I smiled "that's excellent, thank you Sandy for handling this. Tell the mayor I will be in touch, how have things been since we left?" She smiled "I've discovered a side effect of the beds, almost nobody in town is smoking anymore to the point of they are talking about pulling them from the shelves".

"That's a side effect I can get behind" I laughed and ended the call.

"Vickey, do you have all your prep work done?" She appears smiling "yes captain, a small operation like this will take 3 units and 10 drones. Each drone can grab a ton of garbage at once and the units can process 5 tons every min. It outputs raw materials or feedstock for plastics production and bio feedstock for the replicators".

"Profitable garbage, this should be interesting". She nodded at me "where is Becky right now?" She smiled "she is in the twins area". I made my way there and found her talking to people around the tree. I just wanted to touch base with her and did just that. I realized really quickly she knew what she was doing when she broke it down for me. "We will run it like an interview and a commercial. You can introduce it and we can do an interview of sorts afterwards". I started to laugh and she got a strange look "you make it sound like an infomercial". She joined in with me laughing.

We parted ways and I went home where I found Lisa and Cora talking about kids. Lisa was informing her about the 12 kids and Cora was getting excited. They both smiled and looked at me like prey and I squirmed in my seat a little. Luckily the kits entered and saved me wanting hugs and I gladly obliged.

It was weird the kits would talk as one most of the time even waiting together for an answer. They were loving their mission and they are still finding it fun and that's important to me. "I am so proud of you, I want you to know that". I held my arms open and they came for the hug. "I can hug my whole Air Force in one shot". That got giggles.

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We spent the rest of the day going over the details for tomorrow and a call to the mayor then called it a night.

We got up the next morning raring to go. The kits were off to fly and the three of us had breakfast. I went to the flight deck and saw the equipment getting picked up and taken away. I took the RV down with my avatar onboard.

I hovered and saw most of the town came out for this. I landed and people greeted me, they even had the brass band from the school. We watched as the units were put in place. 3 shipping container size boxes settled into the working area, 2 made up the hopper and the 3rd was the processor. Large wires connected everything together.

The mayor came to me "I don't know what to say but thank you". I shook his hand "no need to thank me, consider this even for stealing one of your nurses". I looked at Sandy and she smiled proudly "you mean the best nurse don't you". I laughed with her "yes she is the best nurse". She nodded smugly.

As we were talking the drones set up the units and built the ramp for the trucks to dump. Then I saw blue balls of garbage floating from the dump to the hopper resulting in cheering when each was dumped. "We set up the processor to produce plastic feedstock for the town to sell".

We filmed for about an hour with me walking around pointing out the different parts and processes. Finally showing the output showing what is for sale. We then got in front of the machine for the interview. I went over it can handle any waste and recover any materials they want. It can handle E-waste and recover the gold and rare earth metals. I was impressed as usual with Becky's questions, she flowed from one topic to another. She continued the interview and we were done.

We went to the townsfolk and they were having a BBQ and I had to laugh "having a BBQ at the dump has to be a new one" they all joined in on the laughter.

I was watching the dump disappear when Sandy came over "I wonder if they could find my car keys I lost last year?" I giggled. "With Vickey running things she prob could"

We enjoyed the next few hours with the people watching the dump slowly disappearing. One corner hit the clay layer already. I looked at Vickey "what's the ETA based on what's done so far". She smiled "it should be 17 hours" that drew shock and smiles to all that heard. As the festivities came to a close I said my goodbyes and went to the RV. Vickey took over and I disconnected, getting licks and kisses. I spent the remainder of my evening with my family.