DISCLAIMER: I own nothing and no one from The Zeta Project. I am just a poor college student who also happens to be a rabid Zeta fan and this just happens to be a fanfiction that my mind came up with that I feel like sharing with other fans. I make absolutely NO money from this. It is merely for fun and hopefully the enjoyment of other fans. Please don't sue and fans please enjoy.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Um, before people start reading this chapter, I just want to state that fans who have not seen the whole 2 seasons of Zeta may get a little confused. This chapter implies within it that Nosis has happened – those who haven't seen that episode I'm not going to elaborate because it is one of the most important episodes in Zeta so I don't want to give any spoilers. Suffice it to say, Bennett overheard/saw something important to do with Zee. Also, the Nosis incident happens in the second to the last one in the second season. I guess because of this, "Hopelessly in Love With You" could be considered a continuation of the TV series… HINT: Those fans who do not want to wait to get the DVD's of Zeta can find most all of the episodes on the internet at Veoh or youtube. I personally stumbled onto Zeta on the internet and became a obsessed fan about five years ago which was about 2 years after Zeta aired and 6 years before it would ever come out on DVD (AKA I had to find all the episode online). Anyway, now that that's cleared up, please enjoy.
READ THIS!!!: Ok people I really need some reviews to figure out if I should do more with this or not. I'm also working on another fanfic right now that is getting much better traffic then this one so if no one tells me something this fanfic will probably not be updated for quite a while.
Chapter 2: Help!
Bennett frowned at the glowing screen in front of him. They had been late again. Not by much – maybe only a few minute – but they still had missed Zeta. The crash site was still smoldering when the NSA van had arrived. Upon seeing it, Bennett had actually felt a little sorry for Zeta and more then a little for Rowan, but as West so aptly put it: where the rouge robot and his accomplice went, stuff tended to blow up.
Bennett sat back in his chair with a sign as his mind wandered. If the synthoid's intentions really were good then there was no reason he deserved the toubles that were constantly thrown his way. Ever since that incident at the Nosis – not that he had told anyone about it– Bennett couldn't help but second guess himself when it came to Zeta and it was really starting to fray his nerves.
Dammit. Got to focus, Bennett thought trying to shake the misgivings out of his head. Time for fantasiful musing later. Right now he had orders to capture Zeta and that was just what he was going to do. The only problem was they had to find the rogue synthoid first.
Currently the NSA van was scouring the valley forest down the road from the crash for any signs of the fugitives. So far there was none. The good news was there were no nearby cities or even small towns that the IU could go to – matter a fact the nearest city was about sixty-four miles away – so there really was no where for Zeta to run to. The bad news was West was driving – AKA: mass destruction and enough noise to wake the dead. Luckily, West was limited by the fact that this was a search and not a chase, meaning he could only go ten mile per hour. Of course that did not stop him from side sweeping the occasional tree.
Can't wait until headquarters gets the report on this, Bennett grumbled silently. With my luck they'll just say West needs more practice and order him even more time behind the wheel.
Bennett sighed again and went back to looking at the screen in front of him. No, nothing interesting going to happen toda–
The thought scattered from Bennett's mind as he was almost thrown from his seat. Recovering, he yell, "West! What the hell did you hit this time?"
West was frantically shaking his hands in front of him, trying to look as innocent as possible (which he was actually pretty good at. Must have been all the practice) "Nothing sir, I swear. There nothing there! Look for yourself."
Bennett stalked over to look outside the front window. For once the kid was right. The window showed absolute nothing that should have hindered their progress. Then what–
Suddenly, the haul shuttered almost throwing Bennett to the floor for a second time that day. He managed to stay upright by clinging to the railing behind him. He looked around at his subordinates. They all looked as confused as he was and maybe a little scared. Bennett thought he would ask the obvious question anyway. "Anyone have a clue what's going on?" They all pretty much shook their heads in unison. So they were being attacked by some unseen force. Great.
The haul shuttered again, but this time – from where Bennett stood – he could tell the impact was defiantly coming from the side door.
"Okay. It looks like something wants in. Rush, bring the outside cameras on screen. Let's see what we are dealing with."
Rush was efficient as always. In no time flat the view was up, but what they showed was utterly impossible.
The holographic form of Zeta was outside the door. Zeta was outside the NSA van's doors. THEIR door.
It took a moment for the scene to soak in. What the heck was Zeta doing here? But once Bennett got over his shock, details began to get clearer.
The vid-feed showed that the fugitive IU was shouting – Bennett couldn't hear the words form inside the hover van because of the sound proofing (it was an office after all) – an beating at the hover vans door. That much was obvious at first glance. Next Bennett noticed that Zeta seemed to be holding something in his arms. This was making it very hard for him beat on the door, but Bennett couldn't figure out why. Zeta should have been able to carry loads of stupendous proportion in one arm. Why was he being so gentle?
Then something else caught Bennett's eye as he was puzzling out his thoughts. He leaned towards the screen trying to get a better view. What was that red stuff? Wait. Was that…?
Bennett's blood ran cold. "Open that door!"
"But sir," Rush exclaimed as she rushed down from the bridge. "We have a dangerous fugitive out there. We're not fully armed!"
"I don't care" Bennett yelled reaching the door. "Open it now!"
Rush muttered something under her breath before going back to the controls. Bennett was too distracted to take notice. Please let me be wrong, he silently chanted. Please, please please.
The door slid open with a gentle hiss.
Bennett's eyes widened in horror. He was not wrong.
"Oh my god." The whisper came from behind the senior agent. West had snuck up to take a peek, gun in hand, but the weapon clattered to the floor as the young agent saw what was there to greet them.
Zeta was standing there, mere feet from the NSA agents. If Bennett had just reach out, he could have had the rogue robot right then and there, but the though never even crossed the senior agent's mind.
Rosalie Rowan was draped in Zetas arms, unconscious. The teenager face was fearfully pale. Blood had soaked her clothing and continued to leak from her side. The red fluid streaked Zeta's arms, had splashed across chest and was dripping down one of his legs. The synthoid holographic eyes looked beseechingly up at the agents in front of him and in a broken voice he whispered, "Please. Help her."
TBC…
Hope you liked! And yes it's another cliffhanger (hehe I'm so evil).Please review and I will get the next chapter up as soon as I can.
Mikeb86: You made me sooo happy with all your reviewing, favorite authoring, favorite storying, etc. You are the first review I have had for this story, so thank you so much. Truthfully I had kinda given up because this story was hardly getting any hits and no review, but now you have changed that. So guess what Mikeb86, this update is for you.
(Funny: At first when I saw that I had an 'Author Alert' I was like OMG did I do something wrong? What did I DO!?! (I am a really new writer so I don't really know a lot of stuff about ) But then when my brain finally computed that author alert was something good not bad I was like YAY!! Thank you so much and please, PLEASE review again. It is what I live for!)
P.S. Chapter title: "Help!" sung by The Beetles
