This was a really weird idea that just came to me. This has like a lot of little bitty ideas that is mixed together to make one. This will be a Huddy! Yay! Disclaimer: I do not own anything from House M.D. or anything else. I own the plot. I also used a bit of the Terminator bit to base Nadia on, but she's not a terminator. I do not own anything from that either. I hope you enjoy!
Summary: When an evil man from the future comes to the past to stop a family's line, the many times great grandson of House comes to help them. But with Mr. Maxwell tinkering with the past, Codroy and his family's invention of Nadia has to piece back time as close as they can, including putting Codroy's many times great grandparents together!
Chapter One
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The constant sound of machine guns firing was the only thing Nadia could hear as she cocked her own gun. Her enhanced gaze glanced at the heavy metal doors, which quickly disappeared as she peered through them with x-ray vision. Codroy House typed feverishly on a digital keyboard as he hacked the system. She tore her gaze from the doors and stepped out from the corner, shooting the laser pistol at her unsolicited visitors. They ducked for cover quickly, a laser missing a man's helmeted head by a hair's breath. She sauntered forward, her high-heeled boots clicking on the floor as she approached them. She opened the cartridge and slipped another laser cube in there. The visitors jumped up and shot their primitive guns full of metal bullets.
She looked up angrily at the men as she was being shot at. Her metal endoskeleton was beginning to show as she raised up her laser pistol and shot back with extreme precision. They fell back and hit the ground, red liquid oozing out of their warm bodies. She gazed around the room, seeking for any other potential threats before turning around and walking back to the doors, putting her pistol between her body and pants. She threw open the doors, breaking one right off the hinges as she entered. She watched Codroy look over his shoulder for just a moment with an apprehensive expression before turning back to the screen.
"You spooked me there for a millisecond, Nadia." Codroy said over his shoulder. He ran a hand through his dark brown hair as he waited for something to upload from the system.
Nadia nodded to herself, gazing around the stylish office. The walls were made out of glass from the ceiling to the floor. Each floor tile had its own sensitive light force that shined when one stepped on it. The ceiling was a purplish metal which had the constellations etched into it. Despite of being made of metal and having a CPU as a brain, she did look comparatively human. She was programmed to blend in with the homo-sapiens species that crawled across the planet, as Barron House, Codroy's grandfather, had put it. She had shoulder-length brown hair with azure eyes always seem a little bit too bright. Her skin, the thin layer that had attached to her metal endoskeleton, was the color of peaches and cream. They had made her look like a young woman, exactly the way people fantasized perfect female specimens to be. Nadia also was built to look like she belonged to the House generations. Codroy had his mother's gray eyes instead and slightly paler skin from being in a lab for so long. He was tall, taller then her, and lean and was about the same age as she portrayed, twenty something. The only differentiation between the two, other then gender, was that he was human and she was robotic.
The screen upon the wall blinked bright red with no access as Codroy furiously typed in something else. Nadia pressed her fingers against the cool metal of her laser pistol. "Time is sparse." She reminded him. Her central processing unit was on overtime, borrowing the building's security cameras for her eyes as she scanned the area, looking for possible threats. It wouldn't be long until the police force get here. There were several things she was capable of, some of robotic functions and others of humanoid. She could hack into simpler computers and systems, like the security system, and process them to do what she wanted. Her central processing unit, although capable of many robotic things and abilities, was not the thing that made her run. She was made from a special made neurotic functioner of some sort, the chip that made Barron House both a scientific genius and a wanted man. She learned from seeing and doing, like humans, and could function like a human if need be. If worse came to worse, she could obliterate her files and everything that made her her to keep everything safe.
The screen suddenly flashed to green and Codroy was instantaneously led into the system again, doing his hacker jobs. She was learning slowly how to become more powerful to hack into a complex machine. So far, human mind scrambling and human healing wasn't that hard, which Codroy was satisfied with. Knowing that it should not take much longer, Nadia leaned against the mirror wall, reviewing the mission once again. Breaking into Maxwell Corporations was easier to do then both Codroy and Nadia wanted to acknowledge. Rigger Maxwell had recently disappeared only a few days ago with most of his militia. Where they had gone was an anonymity to the police force and his employees. Barron House and Rig Maxwell were very close friends through the years, each giving guidance on each other's work. Barron's talent was good on technological things, Rig was better at biological things. Many years ago under unknown circumstances, Rig and Barron had ended up in an argument and went their separate ways. Each took something from the other and meshed it into their own ideas. Barron ended up creating Nadia, a superhuman computer specimen with advanced technology. Rig created these creatures called Klaxon, which had both animalistic and technical abilities. They could appear to look like humans but the Klaxon could never really understand them or portray them quite well.
Rig Maxwell, unfortunately, was a better business man then Barron. Soon Rig Maxwell became the owner of Maxwell Corporations and Klaxon were being made to help in the police forces and more. He spoke out against Barron and called him a charlatan, accusing him of copying a base idea. Barron was charged and sentenced to life in prison for plagiarism and Maxwell and the Klaxon were patented. The search for Nadia was unproductive and ended up being stopped by lack of evidence. Barron, who had spent twenty years already in jail, was let out and nothing more was allowed to be said on that case. Maxwell Corporations lost some productivity and Rig promised Barron face-to-face that he would find away to destroy Nadia.
"You think it would be in his schedule?" Codroy asked, breaking Nadia's reverie as he glanced over at her.
"It's feasible." Nadia answered her eyes on the screen attentively. Codroy sighed heavily and drew his gaze back to the screen as well, clicking on his schedule. There were many things that popped up at once, like the health inspector's visitation and to check the power units each and every night before he left. Codroy picked his way to the day he left and examined the entire week before, searching for an insinuation. Codroy's eyes widened and Nadia, feeling the shocked emotion raging through his body, walked to him and glanced at the screen.
"He had an appointment with Time Inc. yesterday during his lunch break. And he's written a smaller note off to the side. 'To go back to the very beginning.'" Codroy said flamboyantly, looking over at Nadia's vacant expression. "What's he going back to? The fight? The meeting of my grandpa and him? The sentence?" Codroy let out a long breath. "This is kalliscopic!" Codroy began to shut everything down, unplugging his hacking system and making it portable sized so it could fit in his pocket. "Looks like we have got to go to Time Inc. then, right?"
"Affirmative." Nadia agreed, whipping out her gun. Codroy smirked and raised his shield while placing a laser cube into his own laser pistol.
The hover car seemed to go slower then usual as Codroy and Nadia drove to Time Inc. The building was colossal in proportion to the other buildings surrounding it, like little flies swarming around a decomposing corpse. The exact time and date, down to the last miliminisecond, was displayed at the very top in bright blue letters. Inside the building, Nadia could see the patrolling guard and Klaxon the areas with shock pistols, regular artillery, and stunners. The topmost office was lit up dimly, so the owner was still in. Codroy parked the stolen hover car outside of the gates, and pressed the conceal button before getting out. The dark blue paint of the hover car slowly disappeared as it blended in to the street, a feat only done by Barron's tinkering. Nadia walked swiftly over to the gate's entrance, Codroy following a bit behind her. The guard leaned out, eyeing Nadia and Codroy. A Klaxon moved to the guard's side.
Klaxons were quite peculiar looking specimens, once one got around the whole viciously ugly the creatures were. They were about six foot tall in creature form, their saggy, slimy skin a periwinkle blue. Knobby arms and legs protruded out of their body in weird angles. Their claws were solid black and could pierce through marble effortlessly. On their triangular faces was a metal helmet that jutted out and down their face like fangs, which was where all the technical abilities were kept. Black, beady eyes stared lifelessly out of the saggy, slimy face as it processed Nadia and Codroy. There was a quick blur as Nadia whipped out her laser pistol and shot the Klaxon in the helmet, frying its hardware. The guard soon followed suit in another second as Codroy whipped out his own.
Laser pistols were convenient for a quick and quiet attack. The laser could be seen if one needed to see before targeting or invisible when one got better at shooting. Laser pistols unfortunately were illegal to have, which was ironic since they were quite simple to make if one had a nuclear laboratory, like Barron did. Nadia pulled the circuit out of the gate's control system and it slid open without a glitch. Codroy jogged ahead as Nadia dragged the flaccid bodies into the small control building before following him. He crouched beside the hedges near the building, peeking glances inside the dark building.
"The area is clear." Nadia told him, walking towards him. Codroy looked up at Nadia for a moment then scrambled to his feet, dusting off his suit. She kicked open the doors and sauntered inside towards the stairs.
"Great thinking! The stairs will be empty and we can take them all the way to the top without taking down the entire building." Codroy hissed behind her, watching her open the door effortlessly. There were many advantages to having a cybertron organism around to do things that normal humans couldn't do without a little help. He started up the stairs as she looked up towards the top, no doubt scanning the area for threats. She looked down, which meant that there was none, and he continued up as she followed. By the fourteenth floor, Codroy was out of breath, gasping heavily as he struggled up the next step. His thighs, calves, and feet were aching. Each floor seemed to have about a hundred or so steps and Time Inc. had about twenty something floors.
"Is this what exhaustion is?" Nadia asked inquisitively, tilting her head to the side as her blue eyes watched him curiously.
Codroy wiped the sweat off his brow and sat down on the steps, and nodded, his chest rising up and down vigorously. "Yeah." He wheezed out, closing his eyes and laying his head on the cold metal floor. "I just need a breather. I thought I was ready for this physically."
Nadia blinked for a minute and then looked back up. "Time is sparse." She repeated frowning slightly.
"Go on then. I'll come when I can get back...I'm so stupid. Nadia, pumped me up some enerstimulant." He quickly said, lifting his head up. Nadia reached into her black leather jacket to pull out a syringe filled with a bright green fluid. She stuck it violently into his thigh, making him wince slightly as it pumped into him. After a minute, Codroy stood up effortlessly and jogged up a few more steps. "They made a right choice to legalize enerstimulant. Sadly, you can only have so much enerstimulant in you, but that's okay. I'm grateful."
Nadia watched him wordlessly before following after him up the stairs to the twenty-third floor. Codroy pointed his gun at the door as Nadia glanced through the door's metal frame. "Two Klaxon ahead three point four feet away and guard at five feet away." She calculated, getting out her own gun. She kicked the door easily, the force snapping it off its hinges before firing two perfect shots into the Klaxon's helmets. Codroy snagged the guard in the knee, making him collapse to the ground. Nadia finished the guard with a shot to the chest before sprinting down the hall, taking out two security cameras hovering near the doors.
Codroy ran ahead and threw open the golden doors with the insignia embellished into the doors. The owner of Time Inc., Mr. Brooks, whipped his head around and made some sort of strangled noise in his throat as Codroy pointed his gun to him. The Time machine sat near the window of the room. It was the size of three oversized modern refrigerators with a bunch of blinking lights and levers. "Don't move!" Codroy yelled, flicking on his laser so it rested on his chest.
"What do you want? If you want money, you can have all you want!" Mr. Brooks cried out fearfully, holding his hands up in the air impulsively.
"We don't want your money! All we want to know is where Mr. Maxwell went to two nights ago. Where did you send him?" Codroy asked angrily. Nadia walked towards the Time machine, viewing before reaching the electronic waves coming from Mr. Brooks' computers and researching the data about the machine.
"Mr. Maxwell wanted to go to the year 2125. He wanted to see if he could fix something with the Klaxon's data. I told him he could get the information and then bring it back here so he could fix it in this time. Why do you need to know?" He blurted out quickly, eyeing Nadia now. He turned back frantically to Codroy at once. He had recognized who Nadia was. Her information had been sent all across the globe when Maxwell had funded a man-hunt for Nadia. "You can't kill him in the past! That would cause a universal paradox!"
"What do you mean by wanted to go?" Codroy asked, narrowing his eyes slightly as he refused to answer Mr. Brooks' exclamation.
"Well, he hit the lever on the way in and instead of going to 2125, he went to 2008." Mr. Brooks answered shamefacedly. "His time ends in two weeks, since his digital time bringer must have gotten damaged. The machine will pull him back in two weeks time." He added.
"Set the time, now, and give us one of those bringer backers...whatever it was you said." Codroy ordered.
Mr. Brooks slowly went over to his desk, where Nadia was standing, and cautiously opened up a large drawer, flipped through the files, and then pulled out a very basic looking watch. "Here. You press that button and you can come back." He explained, handing it to Nadia. Nadia stared at him darkly and he turned to give it to Codroy. Codroy snatched the watch and followed him to the Time machine. He set the levers to 2008 and stepped back. "Whatever you do, please, I beg of you, be responsible." He pleaded. "Time is a very precarious thing. I don't think you..." Mr. Brooks suddenly went white and fell to the floor. Nadia pulled out another syringe and pocketed it.
"Good thinking." Codroy told her, slipping his gun into his holster. Nadia placed hers again between her body and pants, its hilt sticking out. She followed Codroy into the Time machine and closed the door. "Quick scan, Nadia. Is there a probability that Rig could've found one of my family members?" He asked worriedly.
Nadia pursed her lips as she scanned her internal memory. "There is two blood relatives of yours in 2008, you're many times great grandfather and grandmother. He in all probability meant to time-travel to the area that Barron and Rig had their argument. So around in this general area would be plausible. Taken from the imprecise maps of the twentieth century and our maps, I would say that he time-traveled to New York in the Manhattan area. Your many times great-grandfather and grandmother live in the New Jersey area. Would you like to transport to that specific area?"
Codroy grimaced at first but then smiled. "You're learning, Nadia. And, yes, I want to travel to where they are. We must protect them." Codroy said.
"Affirmative." Nadia said, pushing a button then doing something to a digital screen before engaging the largest lever down into the gear.
"Nadia!" Codroy called out loudly as the machine began to rumble and shake vociferously. Nadia gazed over at him serenely. "No terminating in 2008, alright? We have to be incognito." He reminded her. Nadia nodded and faced the inside of the machine's wall as the feeling of weightlessness took a hold of the machine. Of course, Nadia did not feel the shift of gravity and reality, but Codroy did. He paled before fainting beside Nadia. She caught him before he hit the floor and watched as the numbers rolled backwards towards their destination.
