Original Stories Fan Fiction ❯ To Rule Hell ❯ Chapter Six ( Chapter 6 )
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By: destiny dreamer 
Miscellaneous: Original Stories Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Hentai / Sci-fi / Action / Adventure | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 12.05.2010 | Pages: 2 | Words: 4.0K | Visits: 171 | Status: Completed
Miscellaneous: Original Stories Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Hentai / Sci-fi / Action / Adventure | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 12.05.2010 | Pages: 2 | Words: 4.0K | Visits: 171 | Status: Completed
Levy grabbed her and pulled her back inside, drawing his sword and thrusting it at Danny's neck. "You can get it out of us?"
"I'd rather die than help because if I help you I'm dead anyway."
"Well we have to do something! I can't get to Heaven with a tracking...liquid in me! Or without that ring!"
"You should have thought about that before you opened your mouth and decided to be high and mighty." She pulled her arm from him. "Stay away from me."
"Aura! What more do you want from me? I killed him, but his body is in so many pieces no one will ever find him. You're safe and free. I'm not!"
"I don't care!"
"Damn it! Aura. Fine then. I will go to Regulators. I will tell them who I am and I will tell them who has been harboring me."
"I DON'T CARE!"
"Fine!" He growled and pushed past her. Screw it. He didn't need her help. He didn't care if all of Heaven knew he was coming. He would destroy them all.
Aura spent the rest of the week, getting out of the forest. She had to sneak past many Regulators, but she finally made it out and started off. She had no idea where to go or what she would do, but she couldn't stay in the forest. If Danny didn't rat her out, the Regulators would find the dead Regulator, pieces or not. She went quietly whereas he couldn't risk it. He sliced and diced anyone that got in his way, carving a bloody path through the land. With any luck the angels would come to get him and he could be taken to Heaven as a prisoner. He could get out and then do his job. Aura found an abandoned building to hide out in for the night. She was cold and tired and she couldn't stop crying. Why did she bother helping people? Why couldn't she just let things happen?
Gunfire ripped through the night air. It was freezing out but his blood was pumping warm. He knew that because of the blaster holes which had ripped through him as well as more primitive weapons which were still lodged in his flesh. These Regulators were tough bastards. Slicing through another, he kicked him back to block their way as he stole away into an abandoned building, praying they wouldn't find him there.
Aura looked at the doorway of her room. "You!?"
"Oh for fuck's sake...."
"Get out!"
"Can't. Thanks to you taking the ring I've had ever fucking Regulator on me for the past few days."
"Great..."
"Just...let me sleep here. I'll be gone in the morning."
"Fine..."
"Thanks." She laid back down and closed her eyes. "You...hungry?"
She looked over at him. Slowly, she nodded. He nodded and reached into a satchel, pulling out a sandwich he tossed it to her. She caught it and started eating. It was the first meal she had all week.
"I'll make you a deal," he said softly. "The other half of that sandwich is yours if you'll dig some of these bullets out of my back."
She shoved the rest of it in her mouth and pulled out a kit from her bag. Moving to him she started working on him. He winced as he pulled off his jacket and shirt revealing all the wounds and cuts on his back alone. He pulled out the other half of the sandwich and handed it to her. A promise was a promise. She worked on him first, taking all the bullets out then bandaging up his wounds.
He winced every time she dug something out, but didn't say a word otherwise. Once his back was taken care of he ran his fingers over his chest, digging out bullets which peppered his flesh. "Where are you headed?"
"Don't know," she said as she moved to his chest and started taking the bullets out and bandaging him.
"I see. Any plans whatsoever?"
"Stay alive."
"Good goal. I'm trying to attract the angels. I would have rather disappeared, but since I don't have an identity I can't do anything but fight and keep moving." She only nodded then ran a wed pack over his forehead. He relaxed slightly and sighed. "That feels good."
"Yeah," she smiled.
"I'm starting to remember more...about who I am."
"Oh? That's good."
He nodded. "I don't think I was always a bad person. It comes in flashes, images, and sensations."
She moved the wet pack down his shoulders. He shuddered and moved forward, letting her have more access to his frame. The pact moved down his chest, avoiding his wounds to keep him cool. He relaxed against the cool wall of the building, his eyes closing as she caressed his flesh. When the pack lost it's cool, she threw it in a corner.
"Thanks. I needed that."
"I could tell."
"Anything you need? How are you doing on supplies and all that?"
"I'm not too bad off..."
"Alright. I just raided one of their camps so I'mstocked up for a while."
"I try not to steal. I only take what is left behind."
"Well, I don't really know if it counts as stealing when you take it from the dead."
She shrugged. Moving back to her corner she made her bag as a pillow and laid down. Where as she use a bag for her pillow, he pulled out a sleeping bag he had taken and pushed it beneath his head. Aura curled up and closed her eyes for sleep.
The sounds of Regulators moving kept him awake most of the night. He wasn't certain if they could track him or if only the angels could. Either way, he didn't get any sleep that night. In the morning, Aura woke first. She picked up her beg and crept out, slipping into the sun and taking off.
"Halt! Who goes there?" Guns pointed at her body as two Regulators did their sweep of the area.
She didn't want to fight. She didn't like killing. And she didn't like getting shot. Slowly her hand moved down her thigh here her tool was strapped.
"Scan her," the girl nodded. The man pulled out the device and swept it over her.
"I don't have anything on her. No stats, no nothing," he muttered.
Aura pulled out her tool. It beeped and turned into a bow.
"Whoa! What the fuck?" Their guns were trained on her, and their fingers on the trigger. "Make one false move and you're dead."
"That's the problem...I won't be the one dying. I don't want anyone to get hurt. Just let me pass," she said even as she drew back on the bow and an energy arrow appeared.
"We can't do that. Not until we have verification of who are. We're going to have to detain you. Lower your weapon at once!"
"Not happening."
"Leave her be," he yawned as he woke up, stretching his arms and walking toward them.
"It's him!" They immediately turned and unloaded into him, his body shuddering under the impact as he fell back.
Aura fired the arrow and nailed one of them in the throat. His head flew off. She arched again and fired, the arrow landing in the girl's chest and half over her chest flew off before she hit the ground. Aura's tool beeped and she strapped it back to her thigh before going to Levy.
"You killed them for me...how sweet," he said, coughing up blood as he sat up.
"No I killed them because they would have killed me next." She pulled out her medical kit and scanned him then put the chip in. A shot came out and she stuck him before giving him a mouth guard. Four uses left.
He was honestly surprised. She sat down there beside him as he arched his back and went through the healing stages. Within two hours he was as good as new. Stretching and yawning, he grabbed his sword and used it to stand up. "You shouldn't have wasted that on me...but thanks." She stood and gathered her things. Maybe she could hit up an old hospital and find another kit. Reaching into his bag, he tossed her a thing of chips. "Can you use those?"
She looked them over. "Depends on what they are for and where you got them."
"Hell if I know. Like I said, they were in the Regulator camp in a locked box with a red cross on it."
Her eyes widened as she read the inscriptions. "Oh my God! Health chips! I've never seen so many!"
"So...they're good?"
"Maybe I can program them for my health pack so they don't have to be used for a health station." She sat down and pulled out her health pack. Taking out her tool she set to work.
"Right...well...uh good luck with that. Personally if I was you I'd be moving rather than staying still. The Regulators will be here soon."
She ignored him and continued. After a few minutes she smiled and closed the pact. The number on the pack skyrocketed. He started walking, but stopped when he saw the Regulators come. Whistling for her, he motioned for her to be quiet and nodded to a small canyon which would let them travel undetected. She gathered her things quickly and rushed to him.
He grabbed her hand and pulled her with him down the canyon. "Get on my back. We need to run." She jumped on his back and hugged him close. As soon as she was on him he started running quickly through the canyon. It wasn't long before the Regulators caught wind of what they were doing and began shooting down at them. "Shit. Shit. Shit!" He jumped and dashed, side by side to avoid all of the fire. Aura screamed but was able to pull out her tool. It beeped before changing into a gun so she could fire. "Unclasp my sword!" he yelled, unable to reach back and grab it because of how she was laying on him.
She reached down and did as he asked. Once his sword was undone, he reached back and grabbed it, pulling it out he twirled around and slid into the canyon wall, cracking it under the force of his swing. Dashing into the resulting rubble, he continued swinging until he'd cracked through on the other side of the canyon. He didn't know how he managed to do that, it was impossible, but somehow he'd managed to do it. Of course he didn't expect that the other side of the canyon to be so steep that as soon as they broke free they started falling. Aura clung to him while screaming. They fell for what seemed like forever before crashing through the roof an abandoned and long since forgotten scientific base. After falling through the first two floors, they soon rested on the third floor, bodies covered in dust and rocks. Aura was knocked out cold from the hit. Unlike Levy, she wasn't made of rock.
He groaned as he shifted and looked around, his head was killing him and his body ached, but other than a few scratches and bumps he was fine. "Yo.... Aura. Get up." He shook her, but she didn't move. He frowned and shook her more. "Aura. come on."
She shifted lightly, blood dripped from her nose and mouth.
"Damn it, Aura. I'm only good at killing things and breaking things. I'm no good at putting them back together." He reached over and into her bag, trying to find that little device she used to always cure him. Once he found it, he began pressing buttons before jabbing it into her.
Everything was silent for a long time. Slowly the wounds on her body started healing and bones started cracking back into place. Two hours later, her eyes slowly opened. "About time. I was beginning to think that it didn't work."
She shifted and pushed her hair from her face. "You...saved me?"
"Probably not. I just pushed this needle into you."
"Thank you..."
He looked over at her, surprised to see that she truly meant what she was saying. "Yeah, yeah. Don't thank me yet," he sighed. "I think we're trapped." She looked up at the hole they fell through. "I'm good, but not even I can jump that high, and from what I can tell whatever city this place was built into is now buried under rock and sand."
"I have no idea where we were..."
"Some kind of place with lots of old blinking lights and tech stuff."
"I wouldn't know."
He fiddled with one of the old devices, tossing it away in boredom. "At any rate, if push comes to shove I can try smashing a way out for us, but there's always the chance we'll fall more or the Regulators will come in and pick us up. We need to think of a way to get them to stop chasing us.... And by us I don't mean us together. I mean us as in...you and I...well you know what I mean!"
"Um...ok?"
He sighed and shook his head. "I mean, that right now whether we like it or not we're forced to work together."
She was ignoring him now. Once her eyes set on the tech, she was silent. Walking out of the room, she started down the halls reading signs.
He frowned and followed after her. "Where are you going?"
"They won't find us here," she smiled.
"How can you be certain?"
She held up her tool and scanned something. The only thing that came up was scrambled and eventually the screen went dead. "Years and years ago it was said that there was a building on Pandora that built secret tech. To keep those from find out it's secrets, anything that came in contact with the build was scrambled. Regulators and Angels are all about tech. They use it for anything and without it they don't know how to function. If their tech won't work here, they won't come near it. No one smart would." She pushed into a room and smiled. Wiping some dust from a machine she let her eyes scan it. "The only way tech would work here is if it's in a secure room. Like this one. This machine sends waves to only this room, allowing new tech to be developed in this room. Most likely this was a testing room."
He grinned as he heard that. "Well then, it seems as if we just found the best hiding spot in all of Pandora."
"Yes, it does."
"Anything in here that's useful?"
"I'm sure there is plenty." She turned to him. "How you you like to upgrade that sword of yours?"
He stared down at his sword. "You could upgrade it?"
"Yes, I can." He thought about it for a moment. Slowly he undid his sword and handed it to her. She took it and set it on the table. "For now, let's have a look around. Maybe we can find some food and beds."
He nodded and the two of them began to explore the enormous complex. "This is really like a small city."
"Its existence was suppose to be a myth. So it's quite amazing we found it. Supposition it was abandoned when project Heaven was in motion."
"So it's highly doubtful that there's any food in this place. I lost my bag of supplies during the fall." His stomach growled, but after a little while of searching they managed to find a room that had two beds in it.
"At least we have somewhere to sleep..."
"Yeah. I call this bed," he said landing on it and bouncing slightly. "It feels weird. It's all soft and comfortable. Not at all like your bed."
"Oh, I'm sorry."
"You don't understand humor, do you?"
"That...was suppose to be funny?"
He shrugged. "I thought it was suppose to be."
She moved to the other bed and sat down. He stared at the blinking lights by the bed. There were strange symbols on them that glowed. One showed a square with something that looked like a number seven sticking out of it. The next showed two oval shapes and a square in the middle. The third one showed something that looked like an upside down triangle with a globe on top. Slowly he pressed the middle button.
"What do you wish to eat?"
He jumped back and got defensive. "The wall is talking to me!"
"What!??" She hadn't even seen anything like that before.
"I don't know! I pressed a button and then the wall started talking!"
"Well talk back!"
He took a breath and stepped toward it. It had asked him what he wanted to eat. "A sandwich..."
A small hole in the wall opened up and light beamed down from somewhere. Out of nothing a sandwich materialized.
"No way!"
He reached into it and pressed the sandwich. "It's real...but...how could the wall turn light into food?"
"Don't look at me..."
"You’re the tech person! Is it safe to eat?"
"I don't know!"
He frowned. If he wasn't so hungry he wouldn't trust food from a wall. However, given the circumstances he took a bite. "It tastes good."
"I want one!"
"Well press the middle button and ask the wall for one."
She hurried to it and pressed the button then asked for something. Moments later she was eating on her bed.
"I wonder what the other buttons do?" Once he finished his sandwich he reached over and pressed the first button."What would you like to drink?""Umm...""Umm is not a recognized beverage. I can synthesize over three hundred different flavors from water, tea, coffee, soda, and slushies.""Soda? What's a soda?"Suddenly a can appeared in the hole. Reaching for it, he frowned and tried to figure out how he was suppose to get it open. With a growl of frustration he rammed a finger into the top of it, breaking open a hole. Smiling to himself, he took a sip, his eyes growing wide. "Holy shit! Aura, try this!"
She sipped on it and her eyes widened. "It's bubbly!"
"I know!"
"This place is amazing!"
"I've got to admit, this place is kind of cool...even if it does have creepy talking walls." He looked at the strange box next to his bed and began pulling out papers. One of them had the words 'Synthesizer' on the front. "Aura, can you read?"
"Music," she said. Reading a bit she pushed a button.
"What does the book say?"
"An electronic instrument that utilizes multiple sound generators to create complex waveforms that can be combined into countless sonic variations through various waveform synthesis techniques."
"O...kay." He had no idea what that even meant.
"Pretty much..."
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"I'd rather die than help because if I help you I'm dead anyway."
"Well we have to do something! I can't get to Heaven with a tracking...liquid in me! Or without that ring!"
"You should have thought about that before you opened your mouth and decided to be high and mighty." She pulled her arm from him. "Stay away from me."
"Aura! What more do you want from me? I killed him, but his body is in so many pieces no one will ever find him. You're safe and free. I'm not!"
"I don't care!"
"Damn it! Aura. Fine then. I will go to Regulators. I will tell them who I am and I will tell them who has been harboring me."
"I DON'T CARE!"
"Fine!" He growled and pushed past her. Screw it. He didn't need her help. He didn't care if all of Heaven knew he was coming. He would destroy them all.
Aura spent the rest of the week, getting out of the forest. She had to sneak past many Regulators, but she finally made it out and started off. She had no idea where to go or what she would do, but she couldn't stay in the forest. If Danny didn't rat her out, the Regulators would find the dead Regulator, pieces or not. She went quietly whereas he couldn't risk it. He sliced and diced anyone that got in his way, carving a bloody path through the land. With any luck the angels would come to get him and he could be taken to Heaven as a prisoner. He could get out and then do his job. Aura found an abandoned building to hide out in for the night. She was cold and tired and she couldn't stop crying. Why did she bother helping people? Why couldn't she just let things happen?
Gunfire ripped through the night air. It was freezing out but his blood was pumping warm. He knew that because of the blaster holes which had ripped through him as well as more primitive weapons which were still lodged in his flesh. These Regulators were tough bastards. Slicing through another, he kicked him back to block their way as he stole away into an abandoned building, praying they wouldn't find him there.
Aura looked at the doorway of her room. "You!?"
"Oh for fuck's sake...."
"Get out!"
"Can't. Thanks to you taking the ring I've had ever fucking Regulator on me for the past few days."
"Great..."
"Just...let me sleep here. I'll be gone in the morning."
"Fine..."
"Thanks." She laid back down and closed her eyes. "You...hungry?"
She looked over at him. Slowly, she nodded. He nodded and reached into a satchel, pulling out a sandwich he tossed it to her. She caught it and started eating. It was the first meal she had all week.
"I'll make you a deal," he said softly. "The other half of that sandwich is yours if you'll dig some of these bullets out of my back."
She shoved the rest of it in her mouth and pulled out a kit from her bag. Moving to him she started working on him. He winced as he pulled off his jacket and shirt revealing all the wounds and cuts on his back alone. He pulled out the other half of the sandwich and handed it to her. A promise was a promise. She worked on him first, taking all the bullets out then bandaging up his wounds.
He winced every time she dug something out, but didn't say a word otherwise. Once his back was taken care of he ran his fingers over his chest, digging out bullets which peppered his flesh. "Where are you headed?"
"Don't know," she said as she moved to his chest and started taking the bullets out and bandaging him.
"I see. Any plans whatsoever?"
"Stay alive."
"Good goal. I'm trying to attract the angels. I would have rather disappeared, but since I don't have an identity I can't do anything but fight and keep moving." She only nodded then ran a wed pack over his forehead. He relaxed slightly and sighed. "That feels good."
"Yeah," she smiled.
"I'm starting to remember more...about who I am."
"Oh? That's good."
He nodded. "I don't think I was always a bad person. It comes in flashes, images, and sensations."
She moved the wet pack down his shoulders. He shuddered and moved forward, letting her have more access to his frame. The pact moved down his chest, avoiding his wounds to keep him cool. He relaxed against the cool wall of the building, his eyes closing as she caressed his flesh. When the pack lost it's cool, she threw it in a corner.
"Thanks. I needed that."
"I could tell."
"Anything you need? How are you doing on supplies and all that?"
"I'm not too bad off..."
"Alright. I just raided one of their camps so I'mstocked up for a while."
"I try not to steal. I only take what is left behind."
"Well, I don't really know if it counts as stealing when you take it from the dead."
She shrugged. Moving back to her corner she made her bag as a pillow and laid down. Where as she use a bag for her pillow, he pulled out a sleeping bag he had taken and pushed it beneath his head. Aura curled up and closed her eyes for sleep.
The sounds of Regulators moving kept him awake most of the night. He wasn't certain if they could track him or if only the angels could. Either way, he didn't get any sleep that night. In the morning, Aura woke first. She picked up her beg and crept out, slipping into the sun and taking off.
"Halt! Who goes there?" Guns pointed at her body as two Regulators did their sweep of the area.
She didn't want to fight. She didn't like killing. And she didn't like getting shot. Slowly her hand moved down her thigh here her tool was strapped.
"Scan her," the girl nodded. The man pulled out the device and swept it over her.
"I don't have anything on her. No stats, no nothing," he muttered.
Aura pulled out her tool. It beeped and turned into a bow.
"Whoa! What the fuck?" Their guns were trained on her, and their fingers on the trigger. "Make one false move and you're dead."
"That's the problem...I won't be the one dying. I don't want anyone to get hurt. Just let me pass," she said even as she drew back on the bow and an energy arrow appeared.
"We can't do that. Not until we have verification of who are. We're going to have to detain you. Lower your weapon at once!"
"Not happening."
"Leave her be," he yawned as he woke up, stretching his arms and walking toward them.
"It's him!" They immediately turned and unloaded into him, his body shuddering under the impact as he fell back.
Aura fired the arrow and nailed one of them in the throat. His head flew off. She arched again and fired, the arrow landing in the girl's chest and half over her chest flew off before she hit the ground. Aura's tool beeped and she strapped it back to her thigh before going to Levy.
"You killed them for me...how sweet," he said, coughing up blood as he sat up.
"No I killed them because they would have killed me next." She pulled out her medical kit and scanned him then put the chip in. A shot came out and she stuck him before giving him a mouth guard. Four uses left.
He was honestly surprised. She sat down there beside him as he arched his back and went through the healing stages. Within two hours he was as good as new. Stretching and yawning, he grabbed his sword and used it to stand up. "You shouldn't have wasted that on me...but thanks." She stood and gathered her things. Maybe she could hit up an old hospital and find another kit. Reaching into his bag, he tossed her a thing of chips. "Can you use those?"
She looked them over. "Depends on what they are for and where you got them."
"Hell if I know. Like I said, they were in the Regulator camp in a locked box with a red cross on it."
Her eyes widened as she read the inscriptions. "Oh my God! Health chips! I've never seen so many!"
"So...they're good?"
"Maybe I can program them for my health pack so they don't have to be used for a health station." She sat down and pulled out her health pack. Taking out her tool she set to work.
"Right...well...uh good luck with that. Personally if I was you I'd be moving rather than staying still. The Regulators will be here soon."
She ignored him and continued. After a few minutes she smiled and closed the pact. The number on the pack skyrocketed. He started walking, but stopped when he saw the Regulators come. Whistling for her, he motioned for her to be quiet and nodded to a small canyon which would let them travel undetected. She gathered her things quickly and rushed to him.
He grabbed her hand and pulled her with him down the canyon. "Get on my back. We need to run." She jumped on his back and hugged him close. As soon as she was on him he started running quickly through the canyon. It wasn't long before the Regulators caught wind of what they were doing and began shooting down at them. "Shit. Shit. Shit!" He jumped and dashed, side by side to avoid all of the fire. Aura screamed but was able to pull out her tool. It beeped before changing into a gun so she could fire. "Unclasp my sword!" he yelled, unable to reach back and grab it because of how she was laying on him.
She reached down and did as he asked. Once his sword was undone, he reached back and grabbed it, pulling it out he twirled around and slid into the canyon wall, cracking it under the force of his swing. Dashing into the resulting rubble, he continued swinging until he'd cracked through on the other side of the canyon. He didn't know how he managed to do that, it was impossible, but somehow he'd managed to do it. Of course he didn't expect that the other side of the canyon to be so steep that as soon as they broke free they started falling. Aura clung to him while screaming. They fell for what seemed like forever before crashing through the roof an abandoned and long since forgotten scientific base. After falling through the first two floors, they soon rested on the third floor, bodies covered in dust and rocks. Aura was knocked out cold from the hit. Unlike Levy, she wasn't made of rock.
He groaned as he shifted and looked around, his head was killing him and his body ached, but other than a few scratches and bumps he was fine. "Yo.... Aura. Get up." He shook her, but she didn't move. He frowned and shook her more. "Aura. come on."
She shifted lightly, blood dripped from her nose and mouth.
"Damn it, Aura. I'm only good at killing things and breaking things. I'm no good at putting them back together." He reached over and into her bag, trying to find that little device she used to always cure him. Once he found it, he began pressing buttons before jabbing it into her.
Everything was silent for a long time. Slowly the wounds on her body started healing and bones started cracking back into place. Two hours later, her eyes slowly opened. "About time. I was beginning to think that it didn't work."
She shifted and pushed her hair from her face. "You...saved me?"
"Probably not. I just pushed this needle into you."
"Thank you..."
He looked over at her, surprised to see that she truly meant what she was saying. "Yeah, yeah. Don't thank me yet," he sighed. "I think we're trapped." She looked up at the hole they fell through. "I'm good, but not even I can jump that high, and from what I can tell whatever city this place was built into is now buried under rock and sand."
"I have no idea where we were..."
"Some kind of place with lots of old blinking lights and tech stuff."
"I wouldn't know."
He fiddled with one of the old devices, tossing it away in boredom. "At any rate, if push comes to shove I can try smashing a way out for us, but there's always the chance we'll fall more or the Regulators will come in and pick us up. We need to think of a way to get them to stop chasing us.... And by us I don't mean us together. I mean us as in...you and I...well you know what I mean!"
"Um...ok?"
He sighed and shook his head. "I mean, that right now whether we like it or not we're forced to work together."
She was ignoring him now. Once her eyes set on the tech, she was silent. Walking out of the room, she started down the halls reading signs.
He frowned and followed after her. "Where are you going?"
"They won't find us here," she smiled.
"How can you be certain?"
She held up her tool and scanned something. The only thing that came up was scrambled and eventually the screen went dead. "Years and years ago it was said that there was a building on Pandora that built secret tech. To keep those from find out it's secrets, anything that came in contact with the build was scrambled. Regulators and Angels are all about tech. They use it for anything and without it they don't know how to function. If their tech won't work here, they won't come near it. No one smart would." She pushed into a room and smiled. Wiping some dust from a machine she let her eyes scan it. "The only way tech would work here is if it's in a secure room. Like this one. This machine sends waves to only this room, allowing new tech to be developed in this room. Most likely this was a testing room."
He grinned as he heard that. "Well then, it seems as if we just found the best hiding spot in all of Pandora."
"Yes, it does."
"Anything in here that's useful?"
"I'm sure there is plenty." She turned to him. "How you you like to upgrade that sword of yours?"
He stared down at his sword. "You could upgrade it?"
"Yes, I can." He thought about it for a moment. Slowly he undid his sword and handed it to her. She took it and set it on the table. "For now, let's have a look around. Maybe we can find some food and beds."
He nodded and the two of them began to explore the enormous complex. "This is really like a small city."
"Its existence was suppose to be a myth. So it's quite amazing we found it. Supposition it was abandoned when project Heaven was in motion."
"So it's highly doubtful that there's any food in this place. I lost my bag of supplies during the fall." His stomach growled, but after a little while of searching they managed to find a room that had two beds in it.
"At least we have somewhere to sleep..."
"Yeah. I call this bed," he said landing on it and bouncing slightly. "It feels weird. It's all soft and comfortable. Not at all like your bed."
"Oh, I'm sorry."
"You don't understand humor, do you?"
"That...was suppose to be funny?"
He shrugged. "I thought it was suppose to be."
She moved to the other bed and sat down. He stared at the blinking lights by the bed. There were strange symbols on them that glowed. One showed a square with something that looked like a number seven sticking out of it. The next showed two oval shapes and a square in the middle. The third one showed something that looked like an upside down triangle with a globe on top. Slowly he pressed the middle button.
"What do you wish to eat?"
He jumped back and got defensive. "The wall is talking to me!"
"What!??" She hadn't even seen anything like that before.
"I don't know! I pressed a button and then the wall started talking!"
"Well talk back!"
He took a breath and stepped toward it. It had asked him what he wanted to eat. "A sandwich..."
A small hole in the wall opened up and light beamed down from somewhere. Out of nothing a sandwich materialized.
"No way!"
He reached into it and pressed the sandwich. "It's real...but...how could the wall turn light into food?"
"Don't look at me..."
"You’re the tech person! Is it safe to eat?"
"I don't know!"
He frowned. If he wasn't so hungry he wouldn't trust food from a wall. However, given the circumstances he took a bite. "It tastes good."
"I want one!"
"Well press the middle button and ask the wall for one."
She hurried to it and pressed the button then asked for something. Moments later she was eating on her bed.
"I wonder what the other buttons do?" Once he finished his sandwich he reached over and pressed the first button."What would you like to drink?""Umm...""Umm is not a recognized beverage. I can synthesize over three hundred different flavors from water, tea, coffee, soda, and slushies.""Soda? What's a soda?"Suddenly a can appeared in the hole. Reaching for it, he frowned and tried to figure out how he was suppose to get it open. With a growl of frustration he rammed a finger into the top of it, breaking open a hole. Smiling to himself, he took a sip, his eyes growing wide. "Holy shit! Aura, try this!"
She sipped on it and her eyes widened. "It's bubbly!"
"I know!"
"This place is amazing!"
"I've got to admit, this place is kind of cool...even if it does have creepy talking walls." He looked at the strange box next to his bed and began pulling out papers. One of them had the words 'Synthesizer' on the front. "Aura, can you read?"
"Music," she said. Reading a bit she pushed a button.
"What does the book say?"
"An electronic instrument that utilizes multiple sound generators to create complex waveforms that can be combined into countless sonic variations through various waveform synthesis techniques."
"O...kay." He had no idea what that even meant.
"Pretty much..."
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