A New Home
It has been a long day and Samantha was really happy to come home at last.
At least what was her new accomondation. To make it her home it surly will take a few weeks.
Everything had gone wrong the last month. She had been to Europe for four weeks, because her boss wanted her to deal with customers in London and this mission took longer than she had expected. This were exactly the thoughts of her lover, too, and so he desided to have an elope with his secretary. Damned men!! Always the same old story! Can't hold their hormones under control.
Ok, Samy had to admit that the relationship have had a lack since the last year, and yes maybe it was only the matter of habit which bond them together, but she still thought that this was NOT the right way to end a lovestory!
And to make a bad day even worse, she was phoned by her friend Lilian, who told her, that whole Mission City had been blown off by a war between alien robots! Samy really thought it a bad joke up to that moment Lily send her an email with her house totally smashed down.
But Lily proofed the worthyness of her friendship and managed to find Samy a new home while she was in London. She just had to manage with the insurance company, but as there were many more people in the city, who were now homeless, it will took a lot more time for her to get the money.
Lily went to her family in Las Vegas and asked Samy to come with her, but after the whole damn days an bad news, the only thing for Samy was to be alone, think about what to do next and heal her inner wounds.
There it was. A small house some miles away from Mission City beside the new road across the dessert. It wasn't big at all and yes it wasn't even new but it looked comfortably and much more charmin' than the Citybuildings with their hundreds of flats within.
„Welcome home Samy" said the note, Lily put on the frontdoor to make her feeling delighted.
She walked around the building to the rear door. There under a loose floor board on the veranda Lily had put the key to Samys new domicil. She walked in. There it was a nice livingroom scantily furnished with a big couch on the left side, „What for?" Samy asked herself, „For being alone here every evening?", and on the right side of a small table there was the television and the stereo. Seemed to be the old ones of Lily. Dear girl...
And there in one corner of the room there was the heart of her new home a fireside! All she ever dreamd of! Samy smiled and for the first time for days she had a cheery feeling inside.
On the right hand was the open kitchen with a bar to eat on. No extra table, but this was going to be changed later. Right infront of the backdoor was another wich lead into the hallway. Leftsided was a small storeroom and the stairs. Rightsided was the bathroom with the toilett and, what made the whole thing wonderfull, a bath.
Upstairs were three more rooms, one was her new bedroom, with a huge bed, a small desk under the window and of course a wardrobe. The other room was her new office, from wich she wanted to work from home and do not have to drive to the office everyday. Samy read the note on her old desk on which Lily told her that she organized wireless Lan for her in her new domicile. The third was empty. Seemed to be a good hobbyroom for books and every other stuff she has been collecting for years now. She just have to bring it here.
Samy got threw her trunks into the bedroom and got back downstairs in the kitchen to find something to eat. And after dinner she wanted nothing more than having a good warm bath.
2. A strange Chat
Hmmm, maby the world wasn't that bad. The hot steam filled the room and making her feel dizzy.
Her left indexfinger drew circles in the air, spinnin' her key around. What was this funny thing Lily had choosed as a key pendant? It seemed to be a metallic fragment of somthing with hyroglyphs on it. It's sides looked kind of melted in enormous heat. Samy would aks Lily the next day where she got this from.
She took her notebook, put it on a small table next to the tub and throw the key next to it. At this one moment, the pendant meke contact with the laptop, it began to glow in a deep shade of blue and so did the computer. Samy separated the contact and all seemed to be normal again.
But what was that?? A window opened on the desktop and she claerly could read in different colours:
- thanks Ratch for giving me my life back
- nothing to talk about Jazz, I just did it because life it not half as funny without you and I wanted to
proof I'm the best medic around!
-A of course and why can't you just admit you missed me?
- Not as half as Ironhide did! So calm down an' try to stay offline for some more hours, you'll need
rest for your systems to get ready again. I'm going to tell Prime you're back in action
- Oh I hope he appreciate me being online again
- I should have done somthing to your self-confidence before reglowin' your spark!
- Yeah but that wouldn't be me than
Than nothing more happened on the desktop and Samy found time to wonder about. Did she really read that somebody was dead alredy and now brought back to life? No, that was absolutely impossible. And what strange names indeed. Ok maby these were only chatnames but in what chatroom on earth she was when she never had opened a webside. So... why not havin' a try!
Is anybody there?
-Yeah but who are you?
I'm Samy, actually Samantha but I'd prefer Samy
-Hi Samy, I'm Jazz
I know this is going to sound a litte strange but can you tell me in which chatroom we actually are?
-Chatroom? What chatroom?
Don't kiddin' on me!
- Seemed kind' a odd to me YOU complain about kiddin'
Are you allright? Heard you were kind of dead
- Yap but the doc patched me up last night again. I don' complain but it had been an awkward situation the last four weeks.
Oh no! You're doin' it again
- What?
Cheatin' me! How could someone be dead and than brought back to life after four weeks? You are talkin' to an intelligent woman and not to some foolish child ok!
-Hey Ratch, somethin' went wrong with your bricolage, there's some strange women annoyin' me with some stupid questions about chatrooms and stop me from sleepin'. Can't ya cut her off?
- What for heavens' sake are you talkin' about?
Hey that's NOT very nice of you two to write about me in this nasty sort of tone mainly if I'm about to read it!
-Ok this is sort of weird. Goin' to ask Prime for some possible solution and, as it is for you young lady, do not disturb Jazz any longer he really need to rest.
Prime, Ratchet speekin' there is a funny disturbance in our comlink. Need your opinion of this!
- Ratchet ol' friend what are you talkin' about, can't figure out any disturbance in the conversation. -There's a woman speekin' with Jazz and me and she really sound annoyed about the matter we can't give her a good explanation how we are talkin' with her.
- Did you have to much work do to so you are a bit confused? First of all, you did it to bring Jazz back to life? Oh that's great job! I'll come to the medical station to have look at him. Be there in half a minute
This is going to be really funny guys. Now you are three idiots to tease me. I'd shut this damn window if I just figured out how do do this.
It seemed that her notebook had it's own life, for it didn't do any order she gave it. Even the Powerbutton won't work propper. So the only remainin' thing for Samy was to watch the desktop and the appearin' words on it.
-Aww slow down Girl, no need for swearin' for it is you who is kidding on us!
How did you managed it to interrupt our comlink?
I told ya once now I told ya twice: I DO NOT KNOW WHAT YOU GUYS MEAN WITH COMLINK
-No need fer screamin' babe, I'm still tryin' ter sleep 'cause I still feel not very comfortable
-Girl how are you givin' these words to us?
I'm tippin' them into my laptop, press enter and then wait for your answer, the normal way you do it in a chatroom, even if you guys want to tell me there is no one.
- The comlink is our way of talkin' to each other without saying it aloud, but there had been no one ever to interfere in this type of communication, so how you managed it?
I still don't know there was this flash of blue light and my notebook suddenly showed your confersation, and so to say I'm a little scared. Who are you guys?
- Let me show you but first let's see who you are!
And in this very moment, Samy realized that the webcam in her Display took a picture of her without any assistance of her. And thanks god, there was still enough foam in the tub to hide her from unwanted views.
- Oh what a nice picture,girl you make my day even better than it has already been.
- Jazz keep calm this is not the right was to talk to a young and interesting lady
I don't think there is any danger for us to reveal ourselves to you so have a look
Whatever Samy had expected, she now was completely overwhelmed. A pair of Electric Blue Eyes watched her from her own notebook. Two blending opticals in a metallic face, framed by a dark blue helmet. The face was in no way frightening but looked so friendly and in some way familiar to her. Then the picture changed and she now saw another huge metallic face with two blue, but less glowing eyes. A face so peacefull, Samy thought it impossible, it didn't belong to a human.
The picture changed again and now she saw a huge robot lying on a stretcher, his eyes glowing blue as the others but they were covered from a visor. „This one must have been the Jazz one" Samy thought. And now the scales fell from her eyes...
You are the alien robots, who fought in Mission City for some cube thing, didn't ya?
- Yeah we did and paid for it with horrible pain like our comrade had to experiance.
You broke my house down! So I have to come here and live in the dessert now.
- You can't be far away from our base, or your laptop didn't have fetched us. Dress you on we'll come and pick you up...