He had a strange mechanical voice it was whiny and squeaky, yet full of emotion. Julia beckoned him to come in with a gesture, saying " How did you know we were leaving?" Tyler looked at Mr.B with a suprise. " How did you know we were behind the discovery?" Mr.B said " I have old friends in high places Mr. Lam, I used to work for the United States Government, well..." a tiny hand balled into a fist " More like taken apart and forced to be tested upon..." Julia offered him a seat.
He sat down. " My old friend told me of the discovery of a huge submarine in the Atlantic named Nautilus. I used to know the crew personally..they were my...friends." Mr. B lowered his head letting out a mettalic sigh. " I miss my home of Chicago... instead I am forced to hide in the dark corners of this city.." Julia looked at him with sadness in her eyes saying, " Why do you wear that trenchcoat?" He looked up. " If you saw what I am you would be afraid." Tyler grinned at him saying " Mr.B Me and my wife served in the Navy since we left colledge, and we together have seen some scary ass shit underwater." Mr.B sighed at them, and with shaky hands he lifted up his hood.
Julia gasped and Tyler looked at him with shock. He wasnt human, he was a robot... he had two hollow eyes that let out a dim blue light. His mouth was a long tube that curved at the end like a megaphone. His head was scarred by many scars and bullet holes but seemed tough and unbreakable like metal you used on a boiler. " Now you know what I am...I am a robot." Julia said to him with a voice full of wonder. " Who made you?" Mr.B looked at her, saying " Archibold Campion in the year 1893." Mr.B's eyes dimmed with must have been sadness has he looked upon the memories of his long dead creator."
Tyler looked at him with a questionable gaze and said " Than how have you lasted this long?" Mr.B said, " My creator placed a human brain in me that gained knowledge over time. He placed it in a special fluid that synthesised electricy from my solar panels under my hat all, I believe it is called Electrolesis." Julia said to him " Is your name Mr.B or do you have a full name?" Mr.B's eyes lit up in what must have been a smile. " Im so glad you asked, my name is Boilerplate, after the metal that is my body."
Boilerplate told them his life story over his many years in the military, serving in the U.S. army, fighting with Theodore Roosevelt, Pancho Villa, and in World War I. " I dissapeared when German forces captured me and sent me to Berlin. There I was studied by both Kaiser and The Third Reich. The Reich tried to use me in their death camps, their battlefields of Europe, and I nearly was destoryed in the siege of Berlin." Boilerplate sighed. " I ran from the city and when I was only a few miles away when I ran into Allied troops... They took me home.. only to find myself studied for another twenty of my years.."
Boilerplate looked out the window. " The Reich rebuilt me with new technology, new armor, and weapons. I was scared forever by the weapons they tried to make me use. Of course The United States would upgrade me again with new technology. I was supposed to be used for war again but President Kennedy saved me..." He sighed, " They killed him for letting me get away, I hid in the slums of Americas eastern coast and I eventually drifted back to here a couple of years ago."
Julia looked at her watch and said " We need to get to the airport! We are going to miss our flight!" Tyler and Julia picked up their already packed up bags and rushed to the door. Julia said to Boilerplate as he stood up, putting his coat on, " We will try to call if we find anyone. And if you can try and get to Nevada." Boilerplate let out a high pitched squeak. " When The Nazis gave me new technology," Boilerplate suddenly started to hover in the air.
" If only they would try this technology in a automobile." He put himself down on the floor again and walked them out the door. As Tyler and Julia rushed to their car and opened the doors and started the engine, Tyler said to Boilerplate. " Hey, Iron Man." He grabbed Boilerplates hand and shook it. " Hope I can see ya again." Boilerplates eyes lit up, " So do I."
Mattias, James, Ash and Stuart stood in the huge hangar bay of Area 51. But huge was not a powerful enough word. It was carved out of a mountain in the Nevada desert. Stuart had always had that feeling of tinyness where ever he went. Now he just felt plain microscopic. " Is it gonna be here soon?" Mattias said as he looked at the hangar floor. " Yeah of course it is, there gonna have this thing clocked to the exact nano-second of when it will arrive probably." Ash said.
James looked at them, saying " Too bad Beatrix isnt here to see the subs arrival." Suddenly they saw the outline of a huge box appear in the hangar. An alarm began to sound as wind began to stir across the floor. Stuart clenched to Ashes shirt as tight as he could as the fur on his cheeks began to wave in the wind. Suddenly bright, bright light flooded the room, it was as if the sun itself had came into the mountain and was shining unfiltered light.
Suddenly they heard a sonic boom as the sub appeared in the hangar. Ash felt Stuart hanging for dear life on his shoulder and felt for him in the light and clenched him genlty in his hands. When the light ended and they opened their eyes, a huge sub with white paint stood in the hangar, almost crushing a few men too close to the area of appearance.
They rushed to the Nautilus as a small army of men and women clambered onto mobile ladders and raised the stairs to the top of the sub. A man with a miltary uniform and a M16 assault rifle blocked their way, saying " Its not secure yet, let us at least try and find out whats inside." Two men in Bio-hazard suits clambered ontop of the ship and opened up the nearest door. A rush of bitter cold air greeted them as it fogged their visors.
For what seemed like an eternity Sawyer opened his eyes and took in gasps of air. Soon he could hear breathing all around him as people started to thaw. Soon he felt himself shivering. Or maybe it was Mina, nestled against him still shaking with fear and shivering with cold. " W-w-what happened?" Mina said as she somehow refused to let go of Sawyer. Sawyer looked down at her, saying " Mina... I dont know all I remember is feeling real col-" Sawyer suddenly remembered, " The Orb, it crashed on our dinner and started to freeze the ship." Nemo looked at them, saying " We must find the Dr. Jekyll, and Skinner." " Were over here!!!" Two voices shouted at once. Mina finally pulled away from Sawyer and hugged Skinner and Jekyll in a group hug. " Im so glad were all alive, when I saw all that ice. I thought we would surely perish.."
They jerked their heads towards shouting and gunfire from the upper decks of the ship. " What is going on now?!" Nemo shouted as he rushed up the stairs to the upper deck. On the upper deck the two men in Bio-hazard suits got shot at by frightened crew. " Dont shoot!" Another two shots whizzed by their heads. " Were from the United States Army we wont hurt you!!" A volley of shots nearly blew their visors apart as they ducked for cover again. The League rushed up to the upper deck just as five men with M16's rushed into the sub and aimed their guns at the frightened crew. " Do not fire upon my men!!!" Nemos voice thundered with anger at the strange men.
One of the men in the strange suits pulled off his helmet saying, " Sir!!" He held up a badge. " Im a scientist working for the United States army, were not hear to harm anyone!" Nemo translated that to his men in Indian and they lowered their rifles. Sawyer said to the man. " Why are you guys here?" The man looked at him gravely, saying " Sir... you and the rest of the people onboard this ship...are in the year 2007..." Their eyes widened with horror as they all tried to rush up the stairs to the surface of the ship. Mina gasped and went a sickly color. " My god...he was telling the truth." Jekyll let out a weak, " Oh no.." before fainting on deck. Soon they heard yelling from the side of the ship as three people walked onto the deck of the ship. A man with a grey beard said, " Im MI6 Agent James Bond." He held out a hand, Sawyer shook his hand like a zombie as he concentrated on his face.. he remebered something Alan once said before he perished. " Africa...will never let me die.."