Chat room adventures

Several hours later

"What's your name?" Alice asks as she gets a piece of potatoe out of her stew.

"I don't have one," he responds.

"Then I should make one up for you shouldn't I?"

He shrugged, "if you wish."

"Um.. how about..." she thinks really hard, "how about Adrain?"

"Adrain..." he thought about this, "I like it. Got that from a book didn't you?"

Alice colured and looked down, "yeah."

"Don't be ashamed, reading is an eccelent thing, I used to read a lot when I was young."

"How long ago was that?"

"A very long time ago, honey."

"Why do you keep calling me that?"

"Adam, what're we gonna do?" Bella asks after they got the android to the place it had to go.

"I have no freaking idea!" Adam snapped back.

"Adam, breathe! In...out!" she demonstrated for him and watched him follow suit.

"Sorry, I'm a little irate right now. Too many things at once."

They crried the Heavy Android into the YWs main Office. Adam force Bella to make an Invisible spell on them so no one would see the Android.

They entered the YWS Main office and revealed themselves.

"Ahh!" squeaked the receptionist.

"We need a secure Channel to Nate and a repair person." Adam said The girl sorta stared at them. "Now!"

"You look like my daughter," he responded, "well you look like what she used to look like."

"Really? Did she like to read?"

"A lot, in fact that's how she died, its this program I have that lets you inhabit the character's body through the story and jump out at any time, and her character died before she jumpped out."

"Do you still have this macheine?"

"Of course."

"May I try it out?"

"Absoloutly not, did you hear what I just told you? She died in there!"

"But in the story I want to go in the character doesn't die, well she does but she is brought back by Isis."

"Still no."

The girls scampered to a terminal and activated the communication. Bella stood with the broken android as the repair technicians looked it over.

"This better be good," said Nate.

"We might have a slight situation," Adam said, "On of my Crew has crashed an Androids Mother Board." Nates eyes got huge.

"Where is the Android?"

"I brought it to the YWS office."

"Good. I'll send a few of our Techs there to fix it. Hopefully we can get him back on the streets before the Peradina network finds him missing. How fast can you get out of there."

"A day. The Highwind is undergoing repairs."

"Fine. Stay low profile. Try and remain on theship as much as possible."

"Roger." The screen clcked off and Adam went back to Bella. "Come on, we need to return to the Highwind."

Twenty minutes later

"Are you sure you want to try this?"

"Positive."

"I'm going to pull you out in an hour."

"Sounds good." Alice laid down on a table and closed her eyes. She wondered if it would go straight back to the beginning or the part where they're in the ice. She heard a lot of beeping and Adrian pulled her away. "What happened?" She asked. He pushed her out of the room and closed the door. There was a loud bang and the door blew into her. Adrain came running out and coughing, he paniced when he saw her lying unconcious.

He picked her up and ran towards the airship hanger, the house was going to blow up, as well as the rest of the block. After he had her safely settled in a bed on his ship he took off. "She's much safer with her friends, at least there there are more people looking after her."

Rick is sitting around in the highwind. "Wow I'm tired", Rick says. Rick gets up and decides to go to bed. But when Rick walks past, he sees some blood on the floor. "Hmm what's this?" Rick asks himself. Rick decides to leave it here so Adam can look at it when he gets back. Rick goes to his room and takes a nap.

When Adam and Bella return to the Highwind, they are confronted by Sciptio.
"Why aren't we searching for Alice?" Scipio demands.
"Because we have other problems. If they realise their android is gone..."
"Bigger problems? Bigger than saving your friend?" Scipio asks in amazement.
"Calm down Scip," Heather pleads, "I'm sure they have their reasons and I'm sure Alice is fine."
"But we need to find her!" Scipio complains. "I don't like this planet. I'm getting bad readings everywhere. There are hardly any living creatures here right?"
"Right. The androids live here," Adam agrees.
"Then why does my sensor say there's a whole group of living creatures to the West?"
"I'm sure it's just the YWS headquarters," Bella explains, "And we're going to find Alice now."
"But we just came from the headquarters. That's North of here," Adam murmers, sounding rather worried.

Alice wakes up and wonders yet again where the hell she is, she wanders onto the bridge. "Adrian?" She asked, seeing his shadowed figure, "what the hell happened?"

"The macheine blew up, knocked you out."

"Oh my god are you okay?" she rushed over to him, checking for bruises and bleeding spots. He smiled and took her hands away.

Holding both of hers in his he sat her down in the co-piolot chair. "You sound just like my daughter did, she was always so worried about me, just like her mother did. You two would've been good friends."

"You always sound so sad when you talk about your daughter."

"I haven't seen her in four years, when she died."

"Was she happy with her life?"

"Not really, but the only thing stopping her from sucide was me."

"The same with me and my friends, but you shouldn't dwell on the sorrow of her passing, live strong for her so she won't have to worry about you anymore."

He moved his hand to her cheek, "you are so much like her its scary. But despite that you're much safer with your friends."

"Why is that?"

"If you're as much like her as I believe you are you get yourself into A LOT of trouble."

"I do."

"Then there are more people to watch over you there, and they're something I probably never could be."

"And what's that?"

"Your family."

"We cant even leave yet, If we leave before the repairs finish we'll never be able to get far enough," Adam explains to Scipio.

"You are a moron," Scipio said to Adam, "You'ree going to let your friend die if you dont get off you Arse and go!"

Adam swing Scipio around and helpd him against the wall, "You think you care more for than we do? Do you think we wont do everything we can to find her!? If you think I'm going to sit here and wait you, my friend, are the moron." He let Scipio go, "The Highwind cant go, but one of the Shuttles can."

Adam walked on to the bridge. He hacked into Peradina's deep space sensors. the best in the galaxy and started scanning for Alice's signal. The chip in the back of her neck gave off a signal all the time as did everyone elses chip.

"Holy Hell," Adam said looking at the screen, "How did she get so far away?"

Adrian hands Alice a book.

"What's this?" She asks.

"The last book my daughter read, the book that killed her." Alice starts to push it back at him. "No," he says and puts it in her lap, "I can't look at it and think happy thoughts, and since I have the only machine in the galaxy that can do what happened to her-"

"And the fact that it just blew up," Alice added.

"Yes and that, I feel no fear in letting you have it."

"You'll wish you still had it," she protested.

"No I won't."

"Adam, you're a genius; a very strong genius. Holy bob, she's way out there?! When do we leave and how many people can go?" Bella asks, looking over his shoulder. Scipio stood back, glaring at them angrily.

"We should leave immediatly. I don't want to take everyone though, just a few of us. The rest need to stay here and watch the ship," Adam asnwered, making a mental list before speaking. "Scipio, stop glowering and I might let you come. We'll have to take Rick, of course."

"He might kill someone if you don't take him. I'm coming, right?"

"Of course; you might killl someone if I don't bring you too."

"Bella, Rick, Nutty, Scipio, and Heather." Take the beta shuttle and go get alice. I already loaded the information into it's navigation."

"What about you?" asks Bella.

"I'm staying here. I have to make sure and keep us outta trouble. I think me and MAtt will have a little chat with Jay."

"Kill him for me," Rick ordered angrily.

"They can't just kill him Rick!" Bell argued.

"Oh...yaeh."

"Adam, cut off his thumbs and toes!" Bella decided, leading the others onto the shuttle and sitting in the captains seat. *SWOOSH* They were off.

"Are you sure you won't want this back? So far its a really good book," Alice comments as she turns the page.

"I've read it before, and once I've read a book, I cannot read it again without being bored to death."

"I love re-reading books, especially my favorite parts."

"You're making it harder and harder for me to let you go everytime you speak."

"Why?"

"Because you remind me of my daughter."

"You must have loved her a great deal."

"More than life itself, theres a picture of her under the seat."

Alice fiddles under the seat and finds it, when she looks at it her jaw drops, "this is a picture of me."

"No its a picture of my daughter. If you look at the date..."

"It says it was taken more than fifty years ago, you said it was only four."

"Hm... ever since she died I've lost all concept of time."

"I think you're lying."

"I think I am too."