"Agent Colorado, Agent Colorado please respond...Alistair please"
My head was ringing, and my vision blurred into one pure color of white. The coldness of the ground reassured me that I hadnt lost my vision but I was merely lying down face first into the snowy ground. If anything I'm certainly smooth I muse to nobody in particular. The creaking and groaning of metal draws me back to reality, the Mother of Intervention or rather whats left of it. It used to be my home, my sanctuary, the one place where I felt I mattered, where I had true friends. Now it lay in the middle of god knows where a broken heap of scrap. The details of the events that led to this moment escape me, either I'm developing short term memory loss or I'm concussed. I dont like either of those options in the slightest. I slowly roll onto my side and test myself as I ease myself to stand, careful not to further injure myself, safety first and all that.
"Psi you still intact?" No response
"Come on Psi I know you're there!" I can feel myself grow more frantic, she's fine I tell myself. She's fine. I tear my helmet from my head and feel the icy wind hit my face, the wind strong enough to burn and the chill instantly attacking my exposed face. I reach my hand to the back of my neck. A full sense of relief spreads through my body and the tenseness I didnt know I had fades away. "Dont ever do that to me, you hear me Psi. Scared the hell out of me"
Moments later a miniature hologram of a teen girl appears besides me emitting a faint purple glow. "H-hello Agents Colorado. It is a...relief to see you unharmed" The hurt all but too obvious in her voice.
"Psi are you alright, what happened?"
"Agent Texas and Agent York assaulted the ship, you are lucky to have survived. Your vitals...I thought I lost you. I didnt want to be alone, you promised me I wouldnt be alone and I kept telling myself you would wake up but I..."
"You were ready to delete yourself, to wipe yourself so you wouldnt be alone!" I could feel the anger and frustration rising in me, ready to hurl all of it at Psi. I didnt want to believe that she would do such a thing, I couldnt believe she would even dream of doing it.
"Colorado I-I'm sorry please dont be mad at me! Please, please I dont want to lose you..." Of all the A.I. Even Theta, Psi was always the most fragile. Her hologram flickering as she tries to hold herself together, to push the bad thoughts away like we talked about and put her trust in me. I would assume trust would be hard for anyone in her metaphoric virtual shoes.
"Look its fine, I'm sorry I yelled. I'm not gonna leave you, I promised you remember? Now come on we'd better put as much distance as we can between here as possible"
"Y-Yeah! Your vitals are showing multiple minor injuries, a sprained ankle and broken ribs. I'll try to keep the stim pack running for as long as we can, but you'd better put your helmet on, I cant save you from hypothermia" she giggles and returns back to her unit. As long as she depends on me, I'll keep acting the hero. Who knows, maybe one day all this shit luck will finally grace me with a break, some cosmic reward or something
"Hey Psi, does this place remind you of Hoth?"
"Hoth? My data banks show no reference to Hoth"
"Well then when we get back to civilization we're educating you deal?"
"Deal. So Colorado?"
"Whats up?"
"Are you ever going to leave me?"
"Never, I promise"