>This brought disbelief in Symon. Chris had always been a great follower of the internal meso system. "This coming from the person who tried to get all of us to get that system even when we refused and succeed." Symon said with flare in his throat. "I couldn't stand it after a while. It made me feel inferior to be carrying metal inside all and myself to be fused with chrome. It made me feel unorthodox. I switched to the external meso system with a new armor format." Chris pulls two large golden handguns from his belt. "These just feel better." "Ah well that's cause you chose the operation format. You should have kept it strictly meso. If you had done that you wouldn't have had that problem." "Yeah I now anyway I reversed the process so it's gone now." MIKE: Did this story ever make sense? >Andrea, slowly moving away from the two looking in more crates finds a room in which Rachel is meditating. Andrea enters to find Rachel in the middle a pure white room in the lotus position. MIKE:... >"Out," says Rachel. "But I-" "OUT!" yells Rachel. Andrea runs out of the room. CROW(Andrea, crying): Why are we voyeurs so misunderstood? >"That's something I'd never thought I'd ever see. Someone going into Rachel's room other than her," said Chris playfully. "SHUT UP CHRIS!!" Screamed Rachel as the door slams with integrity. TOM: Well, we can tell that door isn't located in Washington. >Chris and Symon start laughing and move to a room with a large screen with Andrea who has a smug and distrait look on her face. CROW: Dire Straits? >"So what's the next hit?" asks Symon still laughing. "This one is a treat cause we all get to go. It's an exploration mission on the planet Mobius in the Andromedia System. By our exploration probe's it looks like there's a large city with advanced CPU MIKE: Cows Popluate Uruguay? >systems. There's also small area's where there's some CPU activity, not as advanced but worth a look. Seeing as how there's no gate to bring us there we'll be taking the Mesoship." TOM: So head down to the Mesocave and fire up the Mesomobile! >"Wee. Road trip!" yelled Dural who entered the room. "X team has the small area and X-2 has the City. Andrea needs the experience. We leave tomorrow morning, once all the vehicles are upgraded and gassed up. Until then, the grounds are open." "Great I'm heading for the hot tube." CROW: o/~Toobular Boobular Joy!o/~ >"Damn it," screamed Pam, "I wanted the tub!" "The tub is yours Pam," yelled Chris. "What? Hey-" "Symon, I don't know if you've noticed but you have a new edition to your group. You have training." "Oh yeah, wonderful. Training duty." "Um, I think we can skip training for a little while. I don't really need it. I'm a deadly marksmen and-" TOM: There's more than one of them? >"And we want to make sure you're up date with all your weapons. TOM(Yoda): Away put your weapon! >I'm gonna check on Zoe. She's sick again. I'll join you two in a hour." "Alright. Come on; let's go to the holodeck. MIKE: OK, so now it's a Next Generation crossover... >"How you been?" "Not much better. I think your spider brought something with it." "Do you think you'll be okay for the trip to Mobius?" "No, but I'll still go. Anyway I should be fine in the morning." "Good." Chris and Zoe are sitting on a long couch, Zoe lying down and Chris running his fingers through her long black hair. "Don't you think that it's odd that we're going to Mobius?" asked Zoe. "No. Why?" "Oh come on Chris. Mobius, the home world of Sonic the Hedgehog? It sound a little far fetched to me," CROW: NOOOO!!!! >said Zoe laughing. "You don't actually believe that it's that planet Mobius do you? Come on we all know that that Sonic the Hedgehog is completely fictional." "I just said it was odd," she said laughingly, "that all." Chris kissed her forehead. "You have no idea how much I love you." Zoe smiled. "I'm gonna go check on Andrea and Symon." I'll be back. "Don't be long," said Zoe with commanding tones. MIKE:... >Seven auto-guns, 4 mini-ships, and BOTS: o/~...a partridge in a pear tree!o/~ >an armored hover tanker surrounded Andrea. "ENTER THE CORE!!" A thick gray liquid covered her from her black vinyl boots a gray liquid TOM: Let me guess... is it the brain matter of someone who tried to figure this story out? >ran up her leather pants, over her tight T-shirt, CROW: All right! It's finally getting GOOD! >over her jet-black hair. A sharp light went off from her waist and she was covered in powerful armor. "OBJECTIVE A COMPLETE. MOVE ON TO NEXT OBJECTIVE," a loud voice said. The armored hover tanker and the mini-ships started their attack. Using her back jet-thrusters, she darted towards the first 2 mini-ships. She felt for her belt and grabbed a metal stub. She pressed a large button on the stub and a long laser emerged from it. With a jump she bolted into the sky and cut both of the ships in half with one swipe. CROW: I hope one of them was the Titanic! >She then reconnected the stub to her belt. With a twist of her arm, a large weapons shield rose on her arm. Heavy fire from the hover tanker was blocked by the shield and redirected towards the mini-ships thus destroying them. She then bolted for the tanker as the auto-guns fired at rapid speed. She launched herself on to the bottom and pulled small saucer out from a pouch on her side. She placed the saucer onto the hull of the tanker and, using her thrusters, flung herself from the armored core. The tanker exploded in mighty blast. She then proceeded towards the edge of the field auto-guns following her every move. In a quick second she pulled a moonsault flip, TOM: What's that? Assaulting the moon? >meso guns pumping out energy ball after energy ball, CROW: Dragon Ball Z! >knocking every gun out except one. From a sky platform Symon stood watching. On a small laptop computer he pressed a few keys. "OBJECTIVE B, C, AND D COMPLETE. NEW OBJECTIVE ACKNOWAGED," MIKE: That's it. Break out the grammar flames! >repeated the voice. A huge armored tank arose from the center of the field. All guns firing at Andrea. She continued to run until a shot hit and she was knocked backwards. In desperation she activated her Meso field to absorb the oncoming shots. "FIELD MALFUNCTION IN 15 SECONDS," TOM: They schedule malfunctions?! Talk about your anal-retentive control freaks! >said the voice. Looking around she saw the only thing that could save her from the metal beast. But with the armored tank shooting the force field, she'd have no chance when she disarmed it. Then, she got an idea. With all her force she kicked the field. The kick started the force field rolling. With all her might she rolled with it. Just as she reached the end of the platform, the force field gave way and she tumbled over the edge. All was quiet TOM:...on the western front. >for a second. Then she arose from the other side of the field and took aim with a large, powerful energy weapon. She fired and scored a direct hit. The armored tank was destroyed. "OBJECTIVE E COMPLETE. TRAINING COMPLETE." The field disappeared and Andrea was left standing. She pressed 3 buttons on her arm and the armor disappeared revealing her original clothes. Symon descended from a hover platform clapping. "Very good Andrea, very good. By what I just saw, you just passed in my book." "Thank you," puffed Andrea. They exited the room. CROW: I bet Symon wanted that to be the end of a sex scene, but his mommy won't let him write stuff like that. >"I saw it all," said Chris, "Very Good Andrea." Chris looked at his watch. It read 11:30pm. CROW(whiny): Is it 11:30 yet?! >"Well we better get some sleep if we want to be ready tomorrow." "Yeah okay. I'm tired from that last mission so I'm gonna retire. I'll see y'all later," replied Symon. "So you can pick a room wherever. You'll go through a Wizard setup and that'll get you set." MIKE: So now she'll become obsessed with comic books and say "ass" a lot. >"Okay." "See you in the morning. Night." "Good night," replied Andrea. Chris walked back to Zoe's room while the holographic wizard setup brought Andrea to her room. CROW: And added a sarcastic word balloon about fanboys. >"How was it?" asked Zoe. "She's good. She needs to learn how to shoot better but she's good." "Where is she now?" "She's setting up a room for herself." "Using the wizard? She's gonna be up for a while then." CROW(leering): Must be a _Mighty_ wizard then... >"If she's up to long Crystal will help her. She can't stand Wizard's noise." MIKE: Crow, I see where you're headed with this... >"This think is starting to piss me off," mumbled Andrea. (assorted snickering) TOM: A stunning insight into our author's mind, ladies and gentlemen...