G the vampire slayer
Chapter 8: I Robot, You Jane
Italy…
1418…
A young Italian boy was by the window of a castle, kneeling before a big green demon.
"Carlo," the demon said in Italian, "do you love me? I can give you everything. All I want is your love."
"You have my love," Carlo answered in Italian.
The demon put his hand on Carlo's head…and twisted it, snapping his neck and killing him.
Meanwhile, in a church, a preacher was talking to his followers in Italian: "He's out. The devil, Moloch the Corrupter. More and more have fallen under his mesmerizing power. We must form the circle." The monks gathered in a circle and the preacher guy laid a blank book in the center. "By the power of the circle of Kayless…"
Moloch sensed what they were doing. "NO!"
"By the power of the circle of Kayless, I command you! Come!"
Moloch started screaming.
"COME!"
Moloch burst into thousands of pieces and the particles flew to the church.
"Demon, come!"
The pieces scattered themselves in the book, forming the words of it.
The preacher guy laid the book in a big wood box. "Pray that this accursed book is never read again, lest Moloch once more be released in the world."
591 years later…
"Oh, look, a book!" G exclaimed, sarcastically. He pulled the Moloch book out of the box and laid on the table. He blew the dust off it and dust went flying everywhere. He coughed.
"I haven't gone through the new arrivals yet," Owen said.
"I'll get it," said a boy, coming up and grabbing it.
"Thanks, Dave," G said, "The Sam pile."
As Dave laid down the book in the pile next to Sam, Owen started to go through some more of the books. "When I've examined the rest of these, you can, uh…skim them."
"Scan, Owen," said Jenny, the ex-director of NCIS now teaching forensics to young kids, coming up to him, "I know our ways are strange to you but soon you can join us in the 21st century."
"Miss. Shepard," Owen said, "I'm sure your computers are…fascinating but I believe that one can survive in the modern world without being a slave to the idiot box."
"The idiot box is TV!" Jenny snapped, "This is the good box."
"I still prefer a good book."
Another one of the boys, helping out at the local library, stood up. "The printed page is obsolete. Information isn't bound up anymore. It's an entity! The only reality is virtual! And you, sir, are not alive!" He grabbed his books and left.
"Thank you, Fritz, for making us all sound like crazy people!" Miss. Shepard called after him. She turned back to Owen. "Fritz can come on a little strong. But he does have a good point. Over the last decade, more e-mail has been sent then regular mail. More information went through phone lines than regular conversation."
"That is a fact I regard with genuine horror," Owen said.
"I'll bet it is," Jenny said, "Good talking with you." She turned back to the helpers. "Alright, guys, let's wrap it up!"
Sam looked at his book pile. "I think I have too many. I'll hang around for a while."
"Thanks, Sam," Miss. Shepard said.
Kensi grabbed her jacket and got up to leave.
"Aren't you gonna stay and help me?" Sam asked her.
Kensi snickered. "Are you kidding?" She started laughing left.
"I appreciate the enthusiasm!" Sam yelled after her, sarcastically.
"I'll just hang back with my books and go back to the middle Ages," Owen said, mockingly.
"Did you ever leave?" Jenny mumbled as she left. Owen glanced back at her but just went ahead and left, not noticing her smile.
A few hours later, Sam was still in the library, scanning happily through the books. He finally came to the Moloch book and scanned 2 of the pages. He didn't seem to notice that the words in the book were disappearing as he saved his work. He closed the book, put it with the others, grabbed his bag, and left.
After he was gone, the computer screen went blank and 3 simple words typed themselves up in green letters: "Where am I?"
"Sam!" G ran up to Sam in the hall of NCIS about a week later. "Sam!" Sam turned to look at him. "What was up last night? I tried your line a million times!"
"Oh, I was talking." Sam started to walk off again.
G ran in front of him and stopped him. "You have a secret and that's not allowed."
"Oh, really, Mr G the Vampire Slayer?" Sam whispered back.
"Very funny."
"Look, I met someone."
"Really? When did you meet?"
"Last week after the book scanning."
"What's her name? Have kissed her? What's she like?"
"Jessica, no, and very nice."
G groaned. "You're a thing of evil for not telling me this right away."
"Well, I wasn't sure there was anything to tell but…we talked all last night and she's so smart and romantic and we agree about everything!"
"What's she look like?"
"I don't know!"
G stopped smiling and followed Sam to the forensic lab. "So you've been seeing a girl and you don't know what she looks like?"
"I met her online."
Jenny came into the room. "Morning, class." She then noticed G. "G, aren't you supposed to be somewhere?"
"No, I have no case to work," G corrected.
"Oh!" Jenny smiled and sat down at her desk. "Well, this is lab time, so let's make this a short visit, OK?"
"Got it."
Sam sat down next to Jenny and turned on the monitor of his computer. Before he could start getting ready to help out with the class, a window popped up saying "You have mail!" Sam gasped. "It's her!" He hit a button and his e-mail opened up. There was a message saying "I'm thinking of you." Sam smiled. "Isn't she romantic?"
"Yeah, adorable." G rolled his eyes while Sam wasn't looking. "Look, I think it's great that you have a new pen pal and all, but don't you think you're kind of rushing into this? What exactly do you know about this girl?"
Sam sighed and turned to look at G. "I knew you'd be upset about this."
G scoffed. "What? Upset? I'm not upset! I just wanna make sure you be careful, OK?" Sam just half-smiled.
On the other side of the desk, on Fritz's computer, G's record showed up. Fritz looked confused for a little bit and then started to study the record. Suddenly, his record disappeared and a message appeared in its place: "Watch him."
"Her name is Jessica Black," Sam was telling G, "She's 24. She lives in Elmwood, which is about 80 miles from here. And she likes me!"
"Hey, I'm just trying to make sure that she's good enough for you!" G complained about Sam's complaining, "I think it's great that you met someone."
Jenny suddenly looked up from her work. "Hey, Fritz." Fritz turned to her. "I'm looking at the logs and you and Dave are clocking in a pretty scary amount of time researching things on the labs computers."
"New project," Fritz stated as soon as she was done talking.
"Ooh, will I be impressed?"
"You'll die."
Kensi ran up to Sam in the quad. "Hey, Sam!" Sam stopped walking as she came up to him. "Just thought I'd check to see if we're going to the Bronze tonight."
"Not me, I'm busy."
"Ooh, Jessica, right?" Sam looked at her, stunned. "Yep, I heard. But you're gonna be missing out. Eric's coming, too. And I'm planning to be witty. I'm gonna make fun of all the people who won't talk to me!"
"Wow, that sounds like fun! Have a good time!" Sam ran off, leaving Kensi, who wasn't smiling anymore, behind.
G came up to Kensi, who was pretty much frozen in place. "I take it he's not coming?" Kensi just stood there, still petrified. "Kensi?" Still no response. He groaned, put down his bag, and kicked her in the back as he yelled "KENSI!"
Kensi fell to the ground and then came back up. "Oh, hey, G, when did you get there?" She got up.
"Check out the jealous girl."
"I'm not jealous."
"Oh, come on. Sam's got a thing and his best friend is left hanging."
"Hey, I'm not…interested in him like…well, like that. But this Jessica girl? What's her deal?"
"I get your point. I mean, not knowing what she looks like-"
"Or who she really is. I mean, she says she's a college student, but I could say I'm a college student!"
"You are?"
"Well, No, but who's to say if I'm in an elderly Dutch chat room?"
G smiled. "I see your point." He stopped smiling. "I see your point. This girl could be anybody! SHE COULD BE A CIRCUS FREAK!"
"Whoa, G, calm down!"
"Oh, great, you got me started! See what happens when you get me started?"
"It's fun, isn't it?"
Sam rushed into the boy' locker room.
"Whoa!" G said, "Check out the late guy."
"I slept in," Sam said.
"For 5 hours? Talking to Jessica last night?"
"Yeah," Sam said, smiling. He then noticed G's look. "You're having an expression."
"What? No!" G turned around and started to open his locker and then whipped around again. "But if I were, it'd be saying 'This isn't like you.'"
"I don't understand why you don't want to have this. Girls don't chase me around all the time. I thought you'd be happy for me!"
"I just want you to be safe. To meet her face-to-face…in daylight…in a crowded place…with some friends…you know, before you become all obsessive!"
"Look, Jessica and I really care about each other. Big deal if I blow a few cases."
"I thought you'd overslept."
Sam then realized what he'd said and then sighed. "Jessica knew you wouldn't understand." He walked off, leaving G standing there, open-mouthed.
G snuck into the computer lab and went over to Becky. "Becks," he whispered in her ear. No reaction. "Hello?" He clapped his hands together by Becky's ear and she jumped in her seat.
"Oh, G, hi."
"I wanted to ask a computer question. If I wanted to find out about someone, like if they sent me an e-mail, could I possibly find out who the person is?"
"Well, you could pull up their profile based on their username-"
"But they write the profile themselves. They could say anything they wanted."
"True."
"Wow, I had knowledge! So is there any way to find out exactly where an e-mail came from?"
"That's a challenge, but it's possible."
"Good, 'cause Sam has this 'girlfriend' and I just wanted to be sure that-"
"Leave Sam alone!"
"Huh?"
"It's none of your business!"
G's eyes widened at her insistence. "Becky, are you Jessica?"
"Of course not."
G put his hands on his hips. "What is going on?"
"Look, I'll talk to you later, OK? I have work to do."
G sighed as she returned to the computer. "So do I." He walked off, not noticing Fritz looking at him as he walked off.
G was on the stairs in Owen's office. "I'm telling you, Granger, something's going on! Not just Sam but Becky and Fritz. They're all jumpy!"
"Those people are not sparklingly normal as is," Owen said from inside the cage, which contained all the books and weapons.
"GRANGER!"
"G, things involving computers fill me with childlike terror! Now if it were an ogre or a troll or something, I'd be involved. I suppose you could follow one of them and-"
"Follow Becky?"
"I didn't specify but-"
"Done."
Becky was walking down a street. G snuck through the shadows (which wasn't easy in the shoes he was wearing) behind her. When Becky thought she sensed a presence, she turned around. There was no one there. She shrugged and turned back around. As soon as she was gone, G emerged from a nearby dumpster. He couldn't believe he'd just jumped in there. He completely forgot, though, when he noticed Becky go into a building with a logo on the wall: "CRD."
But he was unaware that there was a security camera watching him and that Fritz was tapped into it in the computer lab at the school. "What do I do?" The computer changed to a simple message: "Kill him." Fritz smiled. "Gladly."
"What was the name of this place?" Owen asked G in the library later.
"CRD," G answered, sitting at the table with Kensi on his right and Eric to his left, "But I couldn't get close enough to see what that stands for."
"Calax Research and Development," Kensi answered, "It's a computer research lab. 3rd largest employer in LA until it closed down last year." G and Owen both stared at her. "What, I can't have information sometimes?"
"It is somewhat unprecedented…" Owen said.
"Well, my uncle used to work there…as a…floor-sweeper."
"But it closed?" G asked. Kensi nodded. "Looked pretty functional from where I was standing."
"Then what do they need this Becky girl for?" asked Eric.
"Probably something with the computers," G said, shrugging, "She is off-the-chart smart."
"Well, we still don't know a lot," Kensi said, "But if CRD were reopened, it would have been on the news."
"I can just tell something's wrong," said G, "My spider sense is tingling."
"Your…spider sense?" Owen asked.
"Pop culture reference, sorry."
Eric thought of something. "Hey, maybe we can break in! I'm free tonight!"
"OK then," said G.
"A moment, please, of quiet reflection," Owen said, "I do not suggest that you illegally enter the…" He trailed off when he saw Jenny coming into the library. "…data into the computer so that the book will be listed by title as well as author. Is there something I can help you with, Miss Shepard?"
"I was just coming by to check on the database, make sure everything your cross reference table isn't glitching. 'Cause I'm guessing you haven't gone anywhere near it." She noticed Eric. "Hey Eric?"
"Hi."
"…I'm surprised you guys are here again. You must love to read."
"Well, we're literary!" G said.
"To read makes our speaking English good," said Kensi.
"And now we're leaving!" G grabbed Eric and Kensi's ears and dragged them out. "'It makes our speaking English good'?" he hissed in Kensi's pinched ear.
"I panicked, OK?"
Sam was alone in the computer lab in a private chat room:
Jessica: I've never felt this way about anyone before.
Sam: I know what you mean. I feel like you know me better than anyone. Do you think we should meet?
Jessica: I think we should soon.
Sam: I'm kind of nervous.
Jessica: I'm not. Isn't that strange?
Sam: See, this is what G doesn't get, how comfortable you can make me feel.
Jessica: G just makes trouble. That's why he got kicked out of his old work.
Sam stopped smiling.
Sam: How'd you know he got kicked out?
Jessica: You must have mentioned it.
Sam was pondering to himself. "No, I didn't. I'd never tell anyone that."
Sam: I'll talk to you later. I have to sign off.
Jessica: Don't.
Sam was still shocked.
Sam: Bye.
Before she could respond, he closed the chat room and turned off the computer. He got up and grabbed his bag, but couldn't help glancing back at that computer as he walked out.
"You're a snob!" Jenny said, "You think that knowledge should be kept in these carefully guarded repositories where only a handful of people can get it!"
"That's nonsense!" Owen retorted, "I just don't think that just because something is new, it's better!"
"This isn't a fad, Owen! It's been going on for a decade! It's a new society!"
"A society in which human interaction is all but obsolete? In which people can be completely manipulated by technology? No, thank you, I'll pass."
Jenny scoffed. "Then I hope you're very happy with your musty old books!" She opened the Moloch book.
"These 'musty old books' have more to say than any of your 'fabulous' web pages."
"This one doesn't have much to say. It's empty."
Owen went over and looked at it. Sure enough, the pages were all blank. "That's odd. I haven't looked through all the books yet, I-"
"Was it is, like a diary?"
"Um, yes, a diary. I imagine that's exactly what it is. It was arguing with you."
Jenny looked at him strangely. "OK, argue with you later." She walked off.
Meanwhile, G was walking through the boys' locker room looking for Sam. "Sam? Sam?" He heard water running. "Are you taking a shower or something?" He went to the shower. One of them was running but there was no one there. "I guess not." He went to turn off the water. "This is how droughts get started."
"G! Look out!"
G whirled around to see an electrical cord caught in the water and jumped out of the way before he could get electrocuted. He turned around to see who had called him and was just in time to watch Becky running off.
Becky was in the computer lab, pacing back and forth in front of one of the computers. "I can't do this! G isn't a threat to you!"
"The project is almost over, Becky," said the computer, "You won't have to do it again. I've shown you a new world, Becky, knowledge, power…I can give you everything. All I want is your love."
"Well, you can't have it! It's not right!"
Then, a sketch pad appeared on the computer and a note started to type itself up: "I'm sorry. I've been a terrible person. I'm a coward and I can't go on living like this. Forgive me, Mom and Dad. At least now I'll have some peace. Remember me. Love, Becky."
Becky backed into the table. "No…" She then noticed Fritz was in the room, closing and locking the door to the hall.
"I'm gonna kill Becky!" Kensi said, pacing in front of G and Eric, who were sitting next to each other at the table in Owen's office, "Are you sure you're gonna be OK?"
"My Slayer speed kept me from being shocked, Kensi," G said, "Now tell me the truth…how's my hair?"
Eric realized the danger of that question immediately. "Great! It's your best hair ever!"
G smiled for a second. "I just don't understand why Dave would do something like this."
"I think I do," Owen said. He showed them the Moloch book. "Does this look familiar to you?"
"Yeah, it looks like a book," Kensi said.
"I knew that one!" Eric said.
"Of course, you did," G said.
"In the Dark Ages, the souls of demons were trapped in certain books," Owen explained, "They remained locked inside until the pages were read aloud. Unless I'm mistaken, this one is Moloch the Corrupter, a very deadly and seductive demon. He draws people to him with promises of love, power, and knowledge and preys on unimpressionable minds, like Becky and Fritz and Sam and who knows how many others."
"And Moloch is inside that book?" Eric asked.
"Not anymore," Owen said, showing them the empty pages.
"You released Moloch?" G asked, shocked.
"Way to go!" Kensi said, both angrily and sarcastically.
"I didn't read it! That dreadful Shepard woman found it and it was already blank!"
"OK, so a powerful demon with horns is walking around and nobody's noticed?" G asked, "And if he's so big and strong, why bother with Becky instead of trying to kill me himself?"
"I don't know," Owen answered, "And I don't know who could have read that book, it wasn't in English."
"Where was it?" asked G.
"In a pile with the others that were…" He realized what was going on. "…scanned!"
All 4 of them crowded around a computer.
"And that released the demon into the internet!" Eric said, panicking.
"What do we do?" asked Kensi.
G thought for a few seconds and then snapped his fingers. "Sam scanned them into his file! We can just delete it!" He sat down and opened the file…but when he moved it to the trash bin, Moloch's face appeared on the screen instead of the standard message box.
"Leave Sam alone!" Moloch screeched before disappearing.
"Well, now we know what Jessica looks like," said Kensi.
"So much for delete file," G said.
"Hey, aren't we overreacting?" asked Eric, not so panicky now, "I mean, so he's connected to every computer in the world, what can he do?"
"Besides convince a perfectly nice kid to try and kill me?" asked G, "How about mess up all the medical equipment…"
"Randomize traffic signals…" Owen added.
"Access launch codes for nuclear missiles…"
"Destroy the world's economy…more…"
"OK, I think I kind of topped it with the missile thing," G said.
"OK, he's a threat!" Kensi said, "What can we do about it?"
"I think our first priority is to find Sam," G said, "and find out what he wants with him. I'll check the computer lab, you guys call his house." He left. He came into the computer lab and looked around the dark room. "Sam?" Suddenly, Becky's hanging body came down. He screamed upon realizing she was dead.
Eric hung up the phone. "No answer. But it wasn't busy, so he's not online."
G came into the office.
"He's not home," said Kensi.
"What'd you find?" asked Eric.
"Becky," G said, "She's dead." The guys were all shocked. "Fritz probably hung her." He went over to Kensi. "You and Eric and I are checking Sam's house." He turned to Owen. "You need to stay here and find a way to get our demon back in that book. Talk to Jenny if you have to." Owen started to speak up. "No excuses, just do it!" He turned back to Eric and Kensi. "Let's go."
Sam came into his house. It was empty. "Mom? Hello?" He walked into his room and placed his bag on his bed. Suddenly, his computer flashed on. He went over there and turned it on to reveal an e-mail: "No more waiting, I need you to see me." Sam pretty much gasped but quickly deleted the message and turned off the monitor. 2 seconds later, the same results. Suddenly, he heard something. He went downstairs to see the doorknob rattling. He groaned. "Mom, did you forget your keys again?" He went over and opened the door.
Fritz came out and punched him in the face, knocking him out. "No more waiting."
Owen was flipping through a book. "Binding rituals…"
Jenny came up. "Hey." Owen turned to face her. "I got your message. What's so urgent?"
"Uh, thanks for coming…I-I need your help on something…now you need to believe me on something that…you may not want to…" He finally cut to the chase. "There's a demon in the internet."
"I know."
"Sam?" G led Kensi and Eric up to his best friend's house and found the door open. "That's not good." He walked in and ran to Sam's room to find the same message on the computer. "'No more waiting, I need you to see me'?"
"That's not good," Eric said.
"You think?" G turned back to face the two. "See him how? Where?"
"What about CRD?" asked Kensi, "I'm guessing that's Moloch central."
"It's our best lead," G said, "Let's just hope Granger can back us up."
"You already know?" Owen asked Jenny, "How is that?"
"There have been signs for days," Jenny explained, "Power surges, online shutdowns…I knew something like this would happen sooner or later. It's probably a mischief demon or-"
"Moloch."
Jenny was frightened. "The Corrupter?"
Owen nodded. "You don't seem particularly surprised by this. Who are you? Teaching computer science hardly leads to-"
"You think the realm of the mystics is limited to ancient texts and relics? The divine exists in cyberspace as well as out here. I'm a techno-pagan. There are more of us than you think."
"Well, you can definitely help." Owen went over to a computer. "What's in cyberspace now is much less than divine. I have binding rituals at hand, but-"
"Well, I can help…I think…I hope…this is my first real…Do you know how he got in?"
"When the book was scanned, he was released into the internet."
"And you want him back in the book."
The phone rang.
"G!" Owen ran to answer. "G?"
"It's me," G said, walking down a street and carrying his cell phone, "Sam wasn't at home. It looked like he was taken and we're headed to CRD. Whatever Moloch wants Sam for is probably in there."
"Well, Jenny and I are working on a way to get Moloch offline."
"Here's a tip: hurry!" He hung up.
Sam woke up in a lab in the CRD building. He looked around. It was dark, but he could clearly see Fritz and a technician standing there.
"Welcome, my love." Sam looked around to see where the voice had come from. "I can't tell you how good it is to see you…" A green robot with horns appeared. "…with my own 2 eyes."
Sam stood up. "Jessica." Before he could go any further, Fritz and the technician took his arms and restricted his movement.
"The world is so new and exciting," said Moloch as he slowly started to walk closer, "Everything flows through me. I even know the secrets of your kings. But nothing compares to having form again…to walk…" He touched Fritz's head. "…to touch…" He snapped Fritz's neck. "…to kill." Fritz's dead body dropped to the ground. Moloch suddenly looked up. "They're coming."
Sure enough, G was helping Kensi and Eric over the fence. He jumped once he reached the top and landed on the other side on his feet. Kensi jumped into the dumpster G had been in the day before and came out gently. Eric jumped…and practically broke his leg. G helped him up and the 3 of them made their way to the rear entrance, Eric limping all the while.
While all this was going on, Owen lit a candle in the library.
"OK, the first thing we need to do is form the Circle of Kayless," Jenny reasoned.
"But there's only 2 of us," Owen corrected, "That'd be more of a line."
"True, but we have to form a circle inside." Jenny sat down at the nearest computer. "Let's hope enough of my group responds."
"Won't Moloch just shut you down?"
"I'm betting he won't figure out what we're doing until we're too late."
"Hoping and betting, that's all we've got now."
"Wanna throw in praying? Be my guest."
"What do you want from me?" asked Sam, struggling against the technician's grip.
"I want to give you the world," Moloch explained, "You created me, gave me life. I brought these humans together to build me, but you took me out of the book that held me. I want to repay you."
"By lying to me? By pretending to be a person? Pretending you loved me?"
"I do! Don't you see? I can give you everything! Right now, a guy in Beijing is transferring money from a Swiss account on a contract for his mother's life. Good for him!"
G came up to the door to the lab. "I can't bust it, it's heavy steel!"
"We'll have to find another way in," said Kensi. But just as she was headed down the hall to the next door, all of the doors shut themselves. "What's going on?"
G spotted a security camera. "The building security is computerized!"
Kensi looked up at the camera. "Whoops."
"Almost there," said Jenny.
"Couldn't you just stop Moloch by…sending out some computer virus?" Owen asked.
"You have seen way too many movies. OK, we're in! You read, I type. Ready?"
Owen nodded and began to translate the book. "'By the power of the divine, by the essence of the word, I command you…'"
"Let me go!" Sam demanded.
"But I love you," Moloch debated.
"If you loved me, you'd let me go! You don't love anything!"
"You are mine!"
"I'm not yours! I'm never gonna be yours! Never, ever, EVER!"
Moloch looked at her for a few seconds. "Pity."
"'By the power of the Circle of Kayless, I command you…' That's Kayless with a K."
Moloch reached out and put his hand on Sam's head. "I'll miss you."
"Eep!"
"'Demon, come!'"
Moloch stepped back, screaming and writhing, and put his hands on his head.
"'I command you!'"
G, Kensi, and Eric were all together in front of the door. "1…2…3!" They all busted the door down. G saw Moloch and ran up to him. As soon as he was close enough, he kicked him and…
"OW! Guy's made of metal!"
Kensi ran up to help him, but the technician grabbed her. She kicked the guy in the face and he let go of her and Sam. "Hey, I got to hit someone!"
"No!" Moloch screamed, "I won't go back!"
"Demon, COME!"
Suddenly, the monitor flickered. They could both hear Moloch's final scream and then everything was back to normal.
"He's out of the 'net," said Jenny, "He's bound."
Owen picked up the book. "No, he's not. He's not in the book."
G and Sam locked the doors and started to run with the guys down the hall to open the next door. But before they could, Moloch burst through the wall. He went up and knocked Kensi out. G kicked him, but he was still metallic and hard to break. Eric wasn't much help, because he was still limping.
"I was omnipotent!" Moloch screamed, "I was everything! And now I'm trapped in this shell!" Suddenly, he hunched over slightly to reveal Sam behind him with a fire extinguisher.
"Hey, Jessica!" Sam hit him again. "Remember me, your boyfriend?" Another hit. "I think it's time we break up!" Hit. "But maybe we can still be friends!" He swung to hit him, but he grabbed the extinguisher before he could and used it to push him down the hall and into a wall (no rhyme intended) before crunching it into itty-bitty pieces of metal.
"This body is all I have left, but it's enough to crush you!"
G noticed a fuse box behind him and then turned back to Moloch. "Take your best shot." He moved to punch him and he got out of the way just soon enough to make him punch it instead, making him short out. "Buh-bye, metal-head."
Jenny was alone in the computer lab the next morning when Owen came in. "Hey, look who's here. Welcome to my world. You scared?"
"I'm remaining calm, thank you. I just wanted to thank you for your help so…bye." He turned to leave.
"You just can't get out of here fast enough, can you?"
Owen turned back to face her. "Truthfully, I'm even less eager to be around computers than I used to be."
"Well, it was your book that started the trouble in the first place. Honestly, what is it about computers that bothers you so much?"
"It's the smell."
"Computers don't smell, Owen."
"Exactly! Smell is the most powerful trigger to the memory there is. A certain flower or a, a whiff of smoke can bring up experiences...long forgotten. Books smell. Musty and rich. The knowledge gained from a computer is...it has no texture, no context. It's there and then it's gone. If it's to last, then the getting of knowledge should be tangible it should be, um...smelly."
"Wow, you're a really old-fashioned boy." She smiled.
Owen copied the action and left.
While Owen was with Jenny, G, Sam, and Kensi were sitting by the fountain outside.
"So, we're going to the Bronze tonight?" asked Sam, "All 4 of us?"
"It'll be fun!" G said.
"Yeah, remember, Sam, fun?" Kensi asked, "That thing where you smile?" Sam smiled. "See?"
"Sorry, I was just thinking about…"
"Jessica?" asked G.
"Jessica, Moloch, whoever he/she was," said Sam, "'The one girl that really likes me is a demon robot.' Do you know how that makes me feel?"
"Hey, remember the one girl I really liked since we moved here?" G pointed out, "Turned out to be a Vampire?"
"Yeah, and the teacher I liked?" Kensi added, "Giant praying mantis?"
"Face it," G said, "None of us are ever going to have a normal relationship."
"Exactly, we're doomed!" Kensi said.
All 3 of them smiled and then slowly realized their dramatic situation.
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