(Holo)Andy/ Rosette - 'The point of no return'

Who: (Holo)Andy
Where: Holo deck
When: 1410 hours
"…I'M the hologram?" Andy echoed sceptically.
"It's about the size of it." Hilly replied evenly.
"Yeah… well if I was the hologram then I wouldn't be able to do
THIS!!" Immediately, Andy plunged his hand into his own stomach.
The AI stared at the janitor with an ever-growing confused look on her
face. "Wouldn't be able to do what?"
"Well I wouldn't-!" Andy looked down, paused, and then gave a heaving
sigh. She was right. This was a loosing argument.
"I'm sorry but the one over there, passed out on the table is the one
we need to keep alive. I'm just trimming off the few starting seconds
of run time." Hilly explained with a somewhat apologetic look on her face.
"Great, so now what?" Holo-Andy snapped, before turning away from her.
"You're going to have to be deactivated I'm afraid."
"*WHAT*?! It's not as if it's bad enough that I'm not even real but
now I've got to DIE too!?!"
"'s not really dieing. We just make you go to sleep till we need you;
can't have you on while your copy is still alive. Look how it's made
you all worked up already!" Hilly explained with a dignified look on
her face. Andy growled and scratched his head. "Fine! But I there's
something that I want to tell me- er, the real me. Can you at LEAST
give me that?!"
Hilly sighed and gave a neck-less nod. Suddenly a pen and holo-paper
appeared in his hands. "I'll still have to look at it before you give
it to him, okay?" "Fine, fine." Andy grunted as his finger tips went
scribbling away.
'Hello Andy, I see you're back. Turns out I'm the hologram and still
just as lucky as a cow surrounded by carnivorous fish. But still you
better not snitch!!'
Andy dog-eared the note and placed it on the table. He looked up at
female AI with a dark glint in his eyes. "Alright… pull the plug."
Something about the note confused Hilly but she simply threw the
notion away. The guy was a bit muddled about just finding out about a
hologram after all.
Within moments of each other the Holo-Andy disappeared and the real
one awoke.
"Ergh….what happened?" Andy groaned, rubbing the back of his neck.
Hilly smiled as the janitor rose. "Good, the stimulants worked well."
Pulling his legs over to the sides of the bed he practically fell off
onto his feet with a dull fleshly thump. "Did the hologram work? Did
you get the info?" From the way the back of his neck hurt he
definitely didn't want to have another go if it didn't.
"Better than just work, he felt well enough to write you a letter
before he left." Hilly gave a slight nod, gesturing over to the oddly
ethereal piece of paper. From the way the hologram reacted she decided
it was better not to fill him in on the where and how he 'left'.
Andy groggily moved over to look at the note, grunting as he realised
that once again his painkillers were starting to run low.
His brown eyes scowled as the second he looked at it he knew it for
what it was. From what he could see it was actually a coded message,
at least he thought it was- no; it was. The dog ear pretty much said
it all, a calling card message from his old days as Hal. Looks like
his past just won't leave him alone.
Taking the first letter from the first word in every sentence and
combining slapping it onto the last word form each it wrote this message.
'Hack. This. Bitch.'
Andy pulled back from the message and looked up at Hilly with the same
dark glint in his eyes. A calculated sneer formed on his face as his
hand gripped on Masterkey.
<Snip>
"Ok, I can accept that. You need to go and use your hacker abilities
and turn off the lockdown on the 'Dwarf. I'll go and turn off the
tractor beam, or whatever it is they're using to keep us with them...
10 dollarpounds says its something to do with being gay." she said,
ready to ru-.... walk slowly towards the stairs down.
<End snip>
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Who: Holo-Andy, Rosette
Where: Pink Dwarf
When: 1500 hours
Rosette followed Andy through the winding corridors. Her teeth dug
further into her lower lip as she they seemed to take longer and
longer. In fact, they just walked past a sign with 'Tractor beam this
way; old men in robes welcome' in the opposite direction. She looked
up at the holo-graphical Andy with a corner of her lip pert. The look
on his face was concentrated and he moved with great purpose.
"Andy! We're going the wrong way!" She stated; stopping and pointing
her arm in the direction of the sign. A happy little old man with a
laser sword waved back on the holo-screen.
The hologram stopped then turned on its heels. "We're not going to the
tractor beam Rosette. We're going to a Starbug before the shit hits
the fan." He then turned back and kept walking with the twice stowaway
in tow.
"Andy… what did you do?" She asked slowly. "The other… the real Andy
is making his way to the same hanger we are. Let's just say that he
got a bit carried away with the hacking."
Rosette's face scrunched up in a confused expression. "How carried away?"
"You know the AI Hilly? The one this ship uses?"
"…Yes…?"
"She prefers to go by the name 'Queen Drama-llama Czechoslovakia the
fourth divided by zero' nowadays."
Rosette's head snapped to her side as the face of something that could
only be described as a cross between a Viking, a geisha girl and a mop
appeared on screen and began to cackle maniacally.
<Try bouncing THIS serve back!>
OOC: Well, the die is cast- Pink Dwarf has been sabotaged.