Ahvan, if y'd forgive ma rudeness, ah'm jest glad y'all gat a sensa'umor.
A somewhat simlar surprise happened to me on my CPL H conversion training - on a Bell 47.
We entered an auto, suddenly the controls stiffened right up and we were no hydraulics too. Ooh! Bugger! "Hey. you switched the hydraulics off?" I cried to the beefer. "Nah, not me" he replied. And after a suitable pause, continued, "Just get on with it".
Bell, in their lack of wisdom - because back in the early days these things simply hadn't been thought through - had put the hydraulic pump on the engine and not on the gearbox so if the engne quit, as piston engines sometimes do at idle in a practice auto you lost the hydraulics too. As you did in a real engine failure. Welcome to the real world buddy, and as the beefer said, "Just get on with it".
Lesson learned. Unexpected real auto, hyd off. DCO.