A.N: What's it like for Mary to have a pet? Well, you'll just have to read. Sorry for the late update but whenever i planned to edit the chapter before i posted it, my mom would always come in and get me to do something else. Thank you to my reviewers for waiting and i'm just going to go ahead and let you read.
The Blue Lanterns stayed outside while everyone else went into the Interceptor. We were in the living area where Aya pulled out a med bed for Killowag to put the broken Manhunter on. Once Killowag did so, Razer asked, "How could this have happened?"
Ganthet, who was next to me, came up and said, "The Blue Energy from the Central Battery Must have supercharged its ability to repair itself."
"That could be a good thing," Hal said.
"And in what way is that any good?" I asked.
"We can interrogate it." Hal answered.
"You want to interrogate a machine?" Razer asked. "Good luck conversing with wires and scrap metal." I looked to see Aya had looked down a little. Ouch.
Then she began to tinker with something on the Robot. "Um, Aya? What are you doing?" The Manhunters eyes lit up and it turned its head towards us. My eyes widened and right away put myself between the Manhunter and Ganthet.
But Aya said, "I have placed this Manhunter in remedial warring mode. You may ask him questions." I relaxed a little and moved back to my old spot.
"All right," Hal said, "I'll go first." He walked up casually, and then screamed loudly. "What Is Your Problem?"
"Primary objective is to eradicate every evil in the universe." It responded.
"Try looking in the mirror you trigger happy bucket of bolts." Killowag said.
"Please restate." I laughed a little at that. Manhunters are just so dumb.
"How do you determine what is evil?" Hal asked.
"Evil steps from emotion, for emotion is evil. All evil and those who protect it must be destroyed."
"Nice logic." Hal stated.
"The Manhunters were designed to police the universe." Ganthet explained. "Due to faulty programming, every emotional being was deemed criminal."
"So that means." I said in a sad tone. "They want to end every single living being in all of space."
"Unfortunately, yes." Ganthet said.
"Is there some way to fix them?" asked Hal, "Maybe they can be taught to feel the difference between right and wrong."
"That's impossible." Razer stated. "This thing isn't a living being, it's a robot. It's not able to learn or grow or feel pain." I saw Aya's face turn sad. Oh, no, Razer shut up! "It doesn't have a soul." And there is the clencher. I face-palmed.
"Is that your belief?" Aya asked. "That robot's are not beings worthy of respect. That we are without souls?"
"Aya I don't think that's what he was saying." Hal told her.
"Yah, I bet he's just in his dark mood right now and doesn't know what he's talking about." I said the last part with clenched teeth and I gave the best death glare I could give to Razer.
He was going to say something to me but stopped as Aya began to walk out. Razer looked at her and said. "You are different Aya, I didn't mean…" He faltered knowing she wasn't going to stop. Aya opened the door to the Elevator and walked in. She turned and said, "Your thought processes are clear enough to me." Then elevator door shut.
I leaned over the bed and punched Razer in the shoulder, really hard. "Ow, what-?"
"Mind your tongue." I said angrily. I walked towards the Elevator. "And while you're at it, grow a backbone." I walked into the elevator and had it go down to the hanger. Once the door opened, I flew out. I saw Aya walking down the stone stairs. "Aya! Wait!" She stopped when she heard it was me. When I caught up I said, "Aya, you know Razer didn't mean it that way. He just meant robots that were malfunctioned. You're different, you're an A.I."
"But if they are malfunctioned, isn't it better to fix were the damage has been done."
"Well yeah. We could try, but I don't think they'll listen. They're stubborn, they –"We heard a guitar play from somewhere in the forest. And then the ground started to shake. When it stopped, I asked, "What was that?"
"I was able to scan for the source of the movement. No sudden motion of tectonic plates to be considered an earthquake."
"From what I learned in school, the source is called the epicenter. Where was the epicenter located?"
"According to my scans, the location was not in one spot, but it had moved."
"Moved? Where did it move to?"
"I was last able to locate it two cliques down in this direction." She pointed down to a lake beyond a forest of trees.
"I know what should take your mind off this sad stuff." I grabbed her hand, "Come on." I flew with her to the lake and we landed on the shore. I saw Saintwalker sitting Indian style on a sandoon. He made a blue construct guitar and was playing a pretty tune. I recognized it from the sound I heard a little earlier. Behind the sandoon Saintwalker was on, was a huge, scaly red creature coiled up and sleeping. It looked like a huge dragon, the teeth stuck out from the bottom and horns. But it had no legs and wings, just a body like that of a worm. I squeaked a little and jumped back. Saint Walker stopped playing and the dragon worm picked its head up.
"It is all right, Sister." Saintwalker said to me, "The creature will not harm you." Saintwalker got up and walked to the creature, and then he scratched under its chin. The dragon's eyes rolled back in amusement and his tail wagged.
"He's so cute." I said walking up to Saintwalker. "He's like a dog. Does he have a name?"
"I have not come up with a proper name for him." Saintwalker responded as he sat back down on his doon.
I turned to Aya who I saw was sitting by a huge rock hill like the one were the Interceptor was parked by. She sat on a boulder and observed what I was doing. I called out, "What do you think we should call him?"
"Must the creature need a name?" she said.
"Of course, everything needs a name. It makes them unique." She nodded at what I said, than smiled. It's a good thing I found something to cheer her up, practically being called out as a robot by Razer. Damn it Razer! My thoughts were interrupted when the huge dragon stuck out its tongue and licked me. Because it was so huge, its saliva practically covered my whole body. "Ew, gross." I said, making a construct towel to clean myself. Saintwalker began to play again and the dragon worm made a gurgling sound in its throat. Its head swaid with the music until he finally laid it his head down on the ground again and closed his eyes. It hit me, "I got it! How about Strum Strum?" Saintwalker stopped playing and the dragon opened one eye.
"As in the strumming sound of the instrument?" Aya asked.
"Yeah, he seems to like music."
"He also loves to play fetch." Saintwalker added.
"Really?" I said looking at Strum Strum. I made a construct ball the size of a basketball. Easy for me to throw, easy for him to catch. Once I threw it, Strum Strum uncoiled and slithered away towards the ball. I laughed, he was like a cute puppy.
"Always the one to warm up to make new friends." I turned and saw Ganthet fly in on the scene.
"Well, it depends if they'll warm up to me."
"From the must unfriendly to the shy ones, you never leave anyone feel left out."
"Well, the shy ones have to be more willing to be less shy."
"And why would you say that?"
"Well, I meet someone who seems really left out, even though he hangs out with a group so unlike him. It seems like he keeps trying to fit in but I don't see any-"I was about to say Hope, but I knew that would be bad.
But Ganthet must have read my mind. "There is no problem in trying. He must hope for something good to come out of being with that particular group. I'm interested, though, in learning more about this person." Before I could start explaining I saw a shadow loom over me. I turned back to see Strum Strum drop the ball at my feet. I threw the ball again for him and I began to talk about Cody.
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Aya had left at some point that I didn't notice. A while after I finished telling them about Cody, Saint Walker and Ganthet left to attend to Blue Lantern business. I played with Strum Strum for an hour longer after that, but the sun started to set and Hal wouldn't want me out for so long. I left Strum Strum to do some more tunnel digging and headed back to the Cliffside. I saw everyone but Saint Walker and Aya sitting around a fire. It had a purplish hue to it which made it look odd. I sat down in between Warth and Killowag. "Where did you run off to?"
"I went to play with a giant worm."
"A what?" Hal asked. As he put some weird white thing on a stick.
"Oh look at the sky." I said changing the subject. The sun had set and the stars shined brighter than I've ever seen before. "Such pretty stars."
"Yes they do shine bright wen there isn't so much light around." Ganthet said. Hal leaned over the fire and had the whit thing on the stock hover over it.
"What is that?" I asked.
Hal laughed and looked at Warth. "Give Mary the basket, she's going to flip." Warth nodded and picked up a basket of white cottenball looking things.
"Did you say it's some kind of root?" Hal said to Ganthet. "I swear it taste just like marshmallow."
"Wait what?" I said grabbing the white balls and taking a bite. It does taste like Marshmallow. I must have made a weird face because Hal started to laugh at me. "See, what did I tell you?"
"Pass me a stick." I said getting up. Hal nodded and handed me a stick. I first used it to whack Hal upside the head. I giggled a little and even though it hurt, he still smiled. I looked to where Razer was sitting earlier, but I found the Red Lantern had left. Well sucks for him, he gets no Marshmallow.
As I sat back down, Ganthet began to say. "I've been meaning to ask, you were able to overcome the blockage of your healing abilities with the help of friends. But what was it that had stopped you?"
I sighed and took a deep breath. "It was, about my mother. I thought I was never going to get the mediation thing right, but I did, and it worked."
"Yes." Warth said, "Mediation works in great ways."
"You taught them too well Ganthet." I said taking a bite off my marshmallow. I went back to explaining. "After the fire that killed my mom, well, I wasn't a happy kid. But after seeing it wasn't doing any good for me, I decided to forget about her. Like everything about her. Because just bring her up, and the subject of death, it just always put me down. But the past can hurt, but I can either run from it, or learn from it. And I choose to learn from it."
"Ganthet." Warth said, "You described this young one as bright and cheerful, not strong and wise. She holds great wisdom."
"And at such and young age." Killowag grumbled.
I thought I heard Ganthet mutter something, "Just like her mother." My eyes widened and I almost chocked on my marshmallow. I was going to ask what he meant, but Ganthet continued on "Now, what was it like in Frontier Space?"
We started to tell him and Brother Warth about our crazy journey, from Star Sapphires and annoying Thanagarians. It went on for a while, and then I got tired. I yawned and rubbed my eyes. "Well, bedtime." Hal stated getting up.
"No, no, it's fine." I said, sitting down on the ground and laying my head against the log. I closed my eyes and rolled to the side.
"Well I'm not letting you sleep out here, that's for sure." I heard Hal say. I suddenly felt strong arms pick me up bridal style.
"No…Hal…" I said lazily. I wanted him to put me back, but I was too tired to force him.
"I'm going to hit the hay, too." Killowag said. Whatever happened next I didn't remember.
I just was transported somewhere else at that moment. Actually I was actually at the dinner table in my old house. I could smell tomato sauce in the air and I noticed the kitchen counter was a little dirty with some spilled marinara and some broken pieces of dry, raw pasta sticks. I turned to face the table to see Little Me again sitting at the table facing my mom who was sitting on the other side. Little me was rapidly chugging down the pasta and my mom was just taking her time. She said to little me, "If you eat too fast, you're going to choke."
"But I want to get upstairs and start the movie."
"Oh but you will get to it soon."
"But what if something goes bad now and…and…well what if something happens."
"Oh nothing bad will happen, my Cheery, it's just a movie."
"How would you know?"
"Just trust me."
The whole scene faded to black, and I just heard an echo of someone calling my name. "What?"
"Mary, wake up quickly." I heard Hal say, and I was shaken awake. I blinked and found that we were where the Interceptor was parked.
"What, wha-gah" I exclaimed as I felt him put me on the ground. I was still sleepy, so I wobbled little bit. I felt him grab me by the shoulders to keep me from falling, "What's going-"
"Relinquish the device responding with or increase power up." I shrieked a little and my eyes widened to see three glowing Manhunters flying over us. And by us I meant everyone except Aya. Where is she? Why are we all by the Interceptor and why are there Manhunters?
"Oh yeah, or what?" Killowag said as he started glowing green. Hal and I did the same and we channeled the power, also glowing.
"Alternatives not permitted." They held out their huge guns at us. "Destroy."
A.N: One: Razer what is your problem, it's like whenever you talk you doom the universe. Two: Yes, you read right, Ganthet said something that was supposed to be a spin off to the sequal. But now i'm just curious if i should just go ahead an make a sequal. Or pray to God to change the minds of Warner Bros. to give us another FREAKIN SEASON! Three: i named the worm after a sound becuase it could not just go on and be called worm all the time. Four: Anther flashback. And that about wraps it up. I'm KikaKatTIOI, peace out.