"Woah! Guys get in here its starting!" Grizz yells from his room. Seconds later Panda and Ice Bear rush in to see a thick beige box looking object with a few lights blinking on it on the floor with a smaller one flashing many lights on and off and a similarly colored monitor sitting on Grizz's desk with an image of colorful fruit slowing revealing itself on the screen. "Wow, the colors are so bright" Says Panda, his eyes glued to the screen as it finishes starting and reveals a picture of a vast landscape and a few icons placed off to the left. "What all can it do?" Panda touches the screen pointing at the icons "Well" Says Grizz swatting his hand off the screen "You can do all sorts of thing like play games, write letters to our buds, and even surf the internet!" "Ice Bear want's to hang ten" Ice bear says while putting his hands out simulating the experience "Not that kind of surfing, more like exploring the internet" Grizz replies "There's all kinds of things on there for anything you could ever want!" He starts up the internet browser as the smaller box screeches and yelps to life startling Panda causing him to jump back behind Grizz's chair. "Ice Bear thinks it's broken" Ice Bear says looking at Grizz "Well it hasn't shut off yet so I'm sure its fine you guys." Grizz says looking back to the screen with a login screen on it "Oh cool what should our username be guys, it has to be something cool!" He says starting to type in a name before the others get a word in "DJ G'Rizzy? You're not even a DJ" Panda says shooting a glance at Grizz "Yeah but they don't know that, besides who cares lets check out whats on here" Grizz says as he stares at a blank screen that says 'Welcome DJ G'Rizzy' in the top right "Ice Bears waits in agony" Ice Bears says staring intently at the screen "So we just go up here and type something..." Grizz says typing something into the address bar then clicking enter "Page not found?! This thing's broken forget it just throw it out!" He says picking up the monitor and dragging it and the boxes by their cables out the door. "Hey wait at least let me try it!" Panda yelps to Grizz dragging on his foot "Fine but you gotta carry it" Grizz retorts going back to his room and shutting the door. "Ice Bear will help"
Ice Bear says lifting the two boxes and the monitor in one effortless motion as Panda picks up the keyboard and mouse, following Ice Bear to his room. "Ice Bear must run some errands" he says setting down the computer parts onto Panda's desk and leaves the rooms "Alright well let's see what's on here" Panda says clicking the power back on and hearing the screeching noise again "Maybe it's supposed to do that" He says curiously at the box. Upon starting up the browser again he's greeted by a voice "You've got mail" Panda recoils at this but then clicks the small box that says 'Read new mail' he reads it "If you're having trouble finding things to do try these? Hmm..." He scrolls through various links until one catches his eye "Message Board?! Try this fun new forum for young people today! Oh boy let's go!" He says as he clicks the link, the box screeching once again as a page slowly loads onto the screen with topics filling the screen from 'Meet new people' to 'Try new hobbies' excitedly he clicks the first one and is flooded with even more posts indicating which corner of the world they're from, he clicks San Fransisco and looks through the different posts trying to find one that wasn't already in a conversation. Getting to the bottom of the list he finds a button 'Start new chat' he clicks it quickly and is greeted by a blank screen with a small entry bar at the bottom and a small line of text across the top 'Waiting for a partner' "Alright let's get this rolling!" He says out loud looking at the screen intently waiting on a response...
The clock's hour hand spins around the center once and Panda is now sitting at the computer with a card game on the screen. "I knew it was too good to be true..." He says dejected closing out of the game in preparation to turn the computer off, seeing the chat screen still on "Wait a minute!" He says seeing several responses from one person
'Hey, it's cool to see other people in the North Bay area, this place is pretty cool!'
'Hello...?'
'Well maybe something broke, if you can still see this come to the Farmer's Market by the bay, maybe we'll see each other, I'll be manning a small bakery booth Dana's Delights, come check it out'
He nearly hops out of his chair "You've got to be kidding me, how did I miss this! Aww..." He looks down towards the floor "But wait that's tomorrow!" He looks to the clock reading 11:00 PM "I've got to get to bed!" He says as Ice Bear walks by the door "Hey Ice, do you want this?" He says pointing to the computer "It'll just worry me" Ice bears walks in scooping everything up in his paws and carrying it off without a word.
Ice bears walks to the fridge, propping the door and lumping everything inside, squishing himself in the door and shutting it. He looks through the same email and clicks on 'Image Search' the site loads slowly, finally loaded he types a few words and hits enter, finds one picture he likes and clicks full screen, the picture loads slowly line by line as Ice Bear folds his arms across his chest and waits patiently. Slowly Ice caps and a winter ravaged barren land loads onto the screen with a lone igloo sitting outside it. Ice Bear cracks a small smile and whispers to himself "Ice Bear Ne zabyli" He leans back against the inside wall and drifts off into sleep.