Star Trek
Rise of the Machines
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A P T E R 3 Helana drove her SUV down the road. She was confused at what those huge sky-crafts were the other day and was determined on getting answers the only way she knew how, standard investigation. She stopped her SUV at a House in the countryside, got out and rang the doorbell. "Hi, I'm Detective Helana Rosouski. I recieved reports of unusual aircraft activity in this region the other day. You hadn't seen anything had you?" She showed her badge. "No," a housewife happened to answer the door, "but my husband said he saw something in the sky on his way home from work that day. He'd been going on and on about it, I just can't take it anymore. Is it something serious?" "Nothing to worry about. I believe he was one of the few people to call the station yesterday. Thank you. And if you do see anything unusual, please call me and leave me a message, would you?" Helana handed her a card. "Yeah, no problem." The housewife took it. Helana drove down to the next House. Her thoughts trailed, thinking it must've been nice for these people to live way out here outside the city. Their backyards extended for kilometers on end. Helana stepped out. "Hi, I'm Detective Helana Rosouski. I recieved reports of unusual aircraft activity in this region the other day. I was wondering if you've seen anything?" She showed her badge again. "No," Terry's mother answered the door, stirring a bowl of dough. "I've been way too busy these days anyway." "Do you have a husband or anyone else in the house I could talk to?" "Sure," she turn around and yelled into the House, "hey Terr! ...Can you come to the door for a second?" Terry walked over from the tv room. "Detective Rosouski is looking for anyone who'd seen anything unsual in the sky the other day." She left to get back to the kitchen. "No..." Terry was left at the door with Helana. "Nothing at all?" Something compelled Terry not to reveal the truth. Maybe he wanted to figure out the mystery of what it was himself before anyone. Maybe he was still in shock of seeing a woman die and a machine speak. "No." Helana could sense the tension in Terry's soul. His eyes communicated a confusion. "Okay then," she replied after an awkward pause. "Give me a call if you know anything..." Helana left her card went back to her SUV. Terry stayed at the door, watching as she drove off to the next house. There were so many bunches of small Forests in the area, he wondered if a police search party would even find it. His thoughts kept cycling right into Physics Class at School. The Teacher went on and on, at the front of the class talking about thermo dynamics. Easy. Terry had it down. He could've given the class his own speech. Albiet the class was completely bored out of thier minds. Little did he know, the remnants of these troubles were about to be over. Somewhere, across the City, sat the ruptured Timeship. One of many normally unused vessels in the future. It was completely inoperational and the other Android was destroyed beyond repair. The remaining Android looked him over, assessing the situation. "I will use your components to replace my damaged ones." He spoke, as if the other Android was still alive, and starting dismantling it. His neural net was slightly damaged. But what he could process for sure, was that there was another Android and Human out there intent on annihilating him. |
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