Journeys End

OOC- Another JP by your two faveourite SOTM winners, Becca, aka,
Amber, and Tony, aka, 'you there' or 'Keats'
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'You were where?'
'A lake, it was morning, you two were talking'
'Side effect from the nanos?' Jack offerd.
'Perhaps... Amber.. you... i dont know how, but.. you were in my ID..
i dont know how, it might be something to do with your GELF blood. Il
get Keto to look you over when we get back, ok?'
Amber nodded, she was very pale.
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who: Amber,Keats, Jack
Where: Sea of Dirac
When: Outside of the space time continum thingie
'We-ll, the map says its around here, down a few flights of steps'
Keats pointed knowingly towards the room marked "Secret particle
weapon testing area". Jack picked up the sword that took keats two
hands to lift up and swung it effortlessly.
'Well, whats the hold up??'
He thrusted the blade at a felonious girder. There was a ting as the
sword hit the girder. Jack looked at the sword, on closer examination
he noticed that the very tip had broken off. Tears sprung into his
eyes.
"It's just a sword, come on I wanna get out of this place."
Amber grumbled heading for the stairs marrked down.
Keats scratched his head and looked at the girder.
'Funny' he thought 'his sword slices concrete with no trouble'
He turned to Jack, who was sobbing
'There there big guy, wel get Severn to fix it up when we get back'
He patted Jack on his abnormally beefed shoulders and leaded him
onwards. Amber pushed open the double doors to the wepon testing area
and imidiatly closed them again.
"Do not. go in there" she said.
Keats stopped and looked blank. Jack went closer and peered in, and,
much the same as amber, closed them, looking a tad pale. Keats
approached it, but Amber put her arm in the way.
'Awww, come on, everyone else saw, i wanna look to!'
Amber just shrugged and removed her arm,
"your death sentance" She said.
Keats edged the door open silently and poked his nose round the
corner, what he saw could of soured milk. Filling about half the
kilometer square room was a mass of wires, metal, and bleeping
lights, it was almost a solid lump, except, at one end it smoothed
out to a point that led into a tunnel in the earth, a small target
was standing up there. Amber leaned on Keats and looked over his
shoulder. She watched as the target was blasted into oblivion...
litterally. Keats let out a small squeal and ducked back inside the
saftey of the corridor. Amber followed.
'There.. There... ITS SO BIG!' Jack stepped forwards
'I could give it the old slashy slashy?' Keats shook his head.
'This could be the only way to take out that shielded moravec, we
need it in one piece. Jack, sneak in, take a look for any robots.
Make it clandestine, ok?' Jack looked blank.
'Sneaky!' Jack nodded.
"Could that thing 'be' the hub? The very heart of The Gun(TM)" Amber
asked Keats.
Keats shrugged in a way that offended anyone who happend to be
looking.
'I dunno, could be, but, i doubt it, it was to easy to get into'
Jack trotted back inside.
'That was bloody quick!'
'Yeah, theres a couple of them now, we can take em tho, there mainly
unarmed, tho, one or two have some fancy lookin' guns' he spat the
last word out.
'Shall we?' offerd Keats to Amber.
"Might as well. You only die once" She said taking Keats hand.
Keats looked Amber in the eyes and smiled. He patted Jack on the
shoulder who burst into the room screaming, Keats followed him, and
after laying a fist onto a humanoid robot who was unarmed, relised
what it felt like to break every knuckle at once.
'SMEG!' he staggerd back.
The robot looked at him, it hadnt been programmed to fight, so keats
walked up and tripped it over. Amber laughed as the robot waved its
arms and legs in the air, much like a ladybird would do if it was
stuck upside down. She looked at the room in general ad noticed a
large bank of controlls on the right of the room. Keats saw Amber
looking at them. She started to walk over to them curiosly.
'Oh no... Amber Wait!'
He wasnt heard, as a laser volley attempted to disembowel him,
luckily, Jack had inserted his sword into the holders head moments
before and the shots went awray. Amber could distinctly smell singed
hair, she felt behind her and discovered that she now had much
shorter hair than she entered the Sea of Dirac with. Shrugging it off
for the moment, focusing only on keeping upright and her lunch she
continued to walk towards the controll banks. Keats started to run
towards her, however, the flailing robot hed pushed over earlier
exacted revenge and managed to kick Keats in the shins, knocking him
over in a buzz of profanities. Keats pulled out a amsall knife and
inserted it into the robots sensors. The fizzle behind her made Amber
look behind her, the movement of her head confused her inner ear and
she fell flat on her face.
"Owie" She mumbled.
Keats kicked the downed robot in the area that its genitals should be
in. He removed the knife and turned and saw Amber ont he floor,
sprawled about. He ran over and dropped to his knees, sliding the
last few meters.
'Are you ok? Amber? did they hit you?'
"Stuppid smegging nanos."
She grumbled using Keats as a leaning post to get up again, she
rolled her sleeves up and found a gash in her arm ontop of an old
scar from a piloting acident. She paled further.
"No, I fell, but we need to get out of here soon." She finished
swaying slightly.
Keats turned around and saw Jack hacing up some suprised service
robots with glee. The rest were down, fizzing, and in one case, doing
a astrange dance whilst wires crackled around it. Keats was about to
shout something out when an oh to familar sound was heard, and Jack,
who was hacking up Robots, noticed that his faveourite sword had been
turned into several trillion quarks. A Meson cannon had shot straight
through it. Jack snarled, and ran towards a small robot that had
appeared...
"Jack NO!" Amber yelled ducking as a small section of wall behind her
evaporated.
He didnt listen. Keats fumbled in his pocket and removed an archaic
looking hand gun. He carefully fired off a single shot. Jacks foot
was taken from underneath him and he tumbled to the floor as a third
stream of Mesons emulsified the wall behind him.
"The only way to stop this is to stop The Gun(TM) we need to get to
the hub like Jack said." Amber said heading for the machines again.
'Okay, you figure out those controls, try and do something. Il keep
this smegger occupied.'
He darted off, and fired two shots into the robots shield, knowing
full well it would do squat, but it got its attention. Amber glanced
down at the range of controls they swam infront of her eyes for a
second, she shook her hear and her vision came back. Keats skidded
across the floor as the floor he was standing on dissapeard. Keats
could only feel the heat from the exploding particles. He stopped for
a second, aimed, and fire two more rounds. Only two left in the clip,
and he only had one clip spare.. Amber called Keats over.
"This one is the imput device, Jack said something about linking to
the the other Jack, maybe this is it?"
'Uhhh, kinda busy right now...'
He fired off the last in the clip, and slid the next in, he threw it
to Jack.
'Jack, keep him occupied!'
'You shot me! bastard!'
'Youve had worse'
Jack growled at Keats in the way only Jack, and a Rotwieller could.
He ran the hundred meters or so to Amber, and skidded to a halt.
"As i said, plug yourself into you id and tell jack this is where
he's gotta go"
Amber pointed to the small plug in the machine. Keats looked at the
small plug and winced.
'Look, theres only two places that can go, and both are outta the
question!'
He grabbed it and held it for a second. He felt a cool wash of air
over him as Jacks persona interacted through it. Keats fell
unconcious as Jack took over...
"John!"
Amber crouched next to him feeling for a pulse. There was fizzeling
noise, a loud squelchy sound a yelp from Jack and an even louder
fizzle. Amber cringed. Keats' eyes were twitching. Hen stood up and
laughed.
'Ahh freedom. Hmm, well, almost' He sniffed his armpits.
'Eugh! John takes this thing for granted. Ahhh, i know you, yes,
Keats thinks of you alot'
Amber was speechless. Keats' body turned to the controls and sighed.
He placed his hand above the main board, and started typing faster
than doped up accountant.
There were some more loud crunches from Jack. Amber just stared at
Keats.
"Whu? John?"
Keats' body turned to face her.
'Close! Im Jack... well... one of them at least'
He typed a abit more. The room shook as the Meson cannon started to
turn.
'Nope, im not John, im just using his body for a while' Amber was
looking blankly at him
'He said i could anyway...'
A louder version of the hissing air could be heard.
'Bound one! DUCK!'
Jack swivelled and fell into a roll instantly as a small red laser
beam could be seen. The air burnt and a smaller stream of Mesons were
fired. The little robots shields attempted to save it, but it was
like holding cling-film to a bullet. Amber gaped.
"Get on with it she glowered. I want to get out of this place and I
want my John back!" she grumbled.
'Ok ok, just give me a second to poke around..'
Keats fell to the floor as Jacks persona enterd the main network of
The Gun(TM). Moments later. Keats tood up, dribbled slightly and fell
over again as Jack re-enterd him. Keats opend his eyes. It was John
this time.
"John? Is it you? I mean you were Jack....."
She ailed off feeling stupid. Keats looked blankly at Amber, grabbed
a shiney metal thing from his pocket and proceeded to take a long
drink from it. He screwed the lid back on and put it away.
'Yeah.. its me' he shiverd
'Sorry, had to let him take control for a scond then, he had to
interface with The Gun(TM) directly. What'd i miss?'
Amber pointed at what whould be trillions of quarks if she could see
them.
'Awww, i bet you didnt even think to take a picture...' he tailed off
and shook his head.
'Sorry, its a kinda odd feeling, like, someones coverd your brain in
ice... wheres Jack?'
Amber mumbled something about her brain being covered in tiny metal
robots and glared at john.
"He's over there." Amber said pointing out Jack in the carnage
Keats looked at the devastation and grinned.
'So, whos for getting the hell out of here?'
'Thought youd never ask!' Amber sighed.
'Yo, Gun, we want out!' From around them, a voice could be heard.
'Get Bent!' Keats smiled again.
'Yep, hes back to normal...'
****The scenery dissapeard, and all went black****
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OOC- finally, were out of there. This sub-plot is devoted to Hans
Moravec, may he continue to lead the way to a robotical future!