Andy, Kara- 'Can ya dig it?'

Who: Andy, Kara
Where: ATM machine
When: 1:30 AM
"Please enter your, Name, And, Password. Sir!" The Automated Teller
muttered at the Janitor in a polite and heavily disjointed American
accent.
"Andy, I don't think this is such a good idea..." Kara said. Her view
wasn't getting any easier when he typed. In fact it was like being
tied up and hung off the back of MiG 21 in mid-dogfight.
For the most part the Janitor attempted to ignore her. It took
concentration enough to type at just the right speed and force so his
fingers didn't go too far through the hologramatic keyboard.
"Sir, you have been standing. At this teller for. THIRTY. NINE.
SECONDS. Are you experiencing. DIFF-iculties?" The machine's voice
wasn't getting any better as the Masterkey swept aside its programming.
Kara dragged her fingertips through her hair in frustration. "Andy!
Are you listening to me?! There's a smegging camera looking right at
us!!"
"That's right and all it'll see is thirty minutes of a little old lady
wailing on the ATM complaining that TV's these days have crappy shows
on them. Clam down, okay?" The janitor gave a firm rebuttal as he
returned his concentration. With a frustrated groan, the hologram
buried her head into her hands.
Soon only an opera of crickets could he heard.
"...I... I've never seen you on blue dwarf before... a hologram,
right?" Andy wasn't often in the company of beautiful women. Well...
at least one that wasn't a sociopath or a mercenary. Yeah, he admitted
it; Andy just wanted a girl girl, or at least one that wouldn't be
able to drink him under the table.
Then again- the only cute girls he ever met was a hacker or part of
the JMC. Such is life.
Kara pulled her face up. Even if she still couldn't see his face.
"Yes... I was shut down two years ago I think. I'm not sure why
though. Who where you on the Blue Dwarf? An SC spook? It'd explain why
all these people are after you and why you're hacking into an ATM
machine for access to a library. "
Andy coughed uneasily. "Uhhh... yeah, let's just go with that.
Basically I don't want to be seen; by anyone." The janitor knitted his
eyebrows while he encountered some thick ICE. "What about you?" He
asked, attempting to change the subject into many people's favourite-
themselves.
"Me...?" Kara echoed, dumfounded. "Well..." She trailed off once more.
"What's wrong Kara?" Andy pushed, determined to keep her mind from
drifting back to him. "...To be honest... no one's really ever asked
about me... before. I can tell you a few things. I like karaoke; I
love space craft and pretty much anything to do with space. I was one
of the best pilots in the academy-" 'Okay that just means she's not a
door mat'. The janitor thought to himself. "-Erm... I can get a bit
wild when I drink-" Andy's mind tweaked. 'Well, no one's perfect'.
"-and I normally carry around a holo-pistol so that occasions like
this won't happen." 'Aaaaaand she's outta there'. Andy mentally
groaned as he put Kara into the 'Friends only' pile.
"I'm an only child... uhhh... my mother devoiced my dad and he
practically raised me by myself. It was hard on him, especially during
my more...'womanly' years. He was a SC pilot and...Well, I idolised
him. I did the 'astro-nav and passed with flying colours. But...
ah..." Kara trailed off.
Andy wasn't put off so easily. "But...?" "... I did the physical; an
asteroid came into the test field. You do the math." "What...? Oh...
ooooh!! Yeah, ouch.... .... guess you feel like you failed him... huh?"
"Yeah... I did to be honest. He died when I was 20.... hehe, it's
funny, he never wanted me to even be a pilot in the first place. He
said it was 'too dangerous' and 'no place for a young lady to be'. I'd
say he was talking out of his arse... but well... whose the hologram, eh?"
Andy nodded in understanding before letting out a little chuckle.
"It's times like these that I'm glad I'm an orphan." 'Oh crap.' The
janitor groaned. Before she could even get a word out he rushed at the
final bit of ICE on the library connection.
"There! I've found it. Let's see... restricted access, restricted...
gotcha. Let's see now... eternity code." Andy kept up the running
commentary as he whizzed through the now defenceless archives.
"Here it is. I'm downloading the file to my wrist. You got space in
there for a room-mate?" The janitor quipped mindlessly.
"Ha-ha. What's it say on it?" The hologram asked and she indeed did
move aside for the incoming data.
"Uhhh... the eternity code, named after a similar contrivance from a
children's novel, is a theoretical sequence of numbers performed by an
complex number of divisions, subtractions and all other kinds of
number-crunching that's supposedly broken by a single cipher. The code
itself is unbreakable, all the computers in the world could combine
their CPUs and it still couldn't be deciphered."
Andy pulled his wrist up to his face so Kara could see eye-to-eye.
"I can tell you right now, that no code like that exists. However,
there was one that was named after it. A company was working one
something that was also named such, and just as mythically created."
Kara could tell when she was being strung along. She crocked her
eyebrow. "And what code would that be?"
"A code that did not resist everything, no, it was a code that could
learn." Andy began, face hardening. "This is a code that could evolve
beyond what it was and into something more. A physical
impossibility... while our...your AI could mature and change
personality wise it could never do something like this. This is more
than sentence... this is Darwinism on steroids."
"Then... what about digging up the past?" Kara forwarded carefully.
Andy's face froze, his jaw set, as though a sudden realisation just
him. Like the knowledge that Tom Cruise was gay. "I know who's talking
to me. C'mon, I've got some inner demons to go face."
<To be Tagged, or to be continued.>
OOC: Sorry Emerald, I decided to go ahead and post it. I made the
changes that I could and if I missed something then I'm sorry!