Jesse looked around, eyes wide as a sort of smile came over her face.
"What's going on, Jesse?" Ivor's voice sounded tinny and distant. "Is it working?"
"I'm starting to see something," Jesse said, blinking as a sort of gray landscape came into her view. She was seeing zombies... chipped ones... and a small fence around her.
"Is PAMA there?"
Jesse looked around again, blinking and looking at her hands. "... I'm not in the lab," she said, somewhat slowly, "I'm... at the base of a giant mesa, from the looks of it." And she looked at her hands again. "I think I'm also a zombie."
"It's like some sort of... Mob-View or something," Jesse said wonderingly, looking around even more. If she could've seen herself, she was in a zombie right now- her eyes were glowing, not a dull red, but a clear blue.
"What a preposterous name. I love it," Ivor said, with a soft chuckle at the end.
Jesse looked around, feeling a big grin come over her face. "Oh my gosh, I wish you guys could see how cool this is."
She spotted something else nearby... it looked like a chipped spider. Jesse squinted at it, as suddenly an option that read 'MIGRATE' popped up above it. Jesse blinked, and then squinted at it, nodding at 'Migrate'.
A huge rushing sensation assaulted her body and eyes, and suddenly she dropped to all eights, looking around, blinking curiously. "Oh. Oh wow! Oh wow. This is awesome. I wish you guys could see how cool this is!" she repeated.
Soft footsteps, and then Ivor's voice was much closer than before. "How remarkable. How is this possible? I mean, I've always heard tales of what the Old Builders were capable of..."
"I'm pretty sure Harper would have to explain it specifically, but I think the headset lets me control things that are hooked into PAMA."
"Unbelievable."
Cassie's voice floated down to Jesse. "You said it. Is being a spider comfortable?"
Jesse thought about it. "Actually, I think it's better than being a zombie- I think my lower arms were... um, suppressed somehow. At least all of my arms can work as a spider."
"I have so many questions I wanna ask Harper! ... too bad she was captured. That spider- no offense, Jesse," Ivor's voice said hastily. It was weird, hearing a disembodied voice.
"None taken, I'm only half."
"That spider had to haul Harper all the way back to town," Ivor grumbled.
"Don't forget about Lukas, too, I gotta try to save both," Jesse said, looking around. "Holy crap this is seriously awesome," she added.
A short pause. Jesse had the general feeling that the two redheads and her mentor were sharing a look. "That's a great plan. I just hope they're not too far from your current location."
"Hm, Harper must be where they're putting on those... redstone mind-control chips, so I should go take a look there first." She paused, and then let out a low sigh. "Ahhhh, there used to be a stairway here. PAMA's smart... damn. I guess visitors aren't being encouraged. I would try to build a staircase, but I'm trying to NOT attract PAMA's attention, so that's not the best idea. I think the best thing for me to do is to try to stay as a spider, and switch when I absolutely have to."
"That sounds like a solid plan," Cassie said, "I'm sure you can do it."
Jesse smiled and glanced back in their direction. "Aw, thanks, Rose."
And crawling over to the wall of the mesa, she started to climb straight up, climbing, and climbing, and climbing, and-
Everything went black, flickered, and came back on. Jesse, who was at the top of the mesa by now, tightened her fingers on the ground violently, feeling her heart skip a couple of beats. "Whoa! Th-the signal just... um, blooped out there, for a second," Jesse said a bit shakily.
"Interference detected," spoke PAMA's voice, as Jesse pulled herself back onto solid ground, mentally screaming every single foul word she knew. "Drone sequencing initiated. Trace subroutine activated." A short pause. "Is that you, Jesse?"
Good thing Jesse had pulled herself to the top of the mesa- else she would've automatically let go in shock and then she would've had to find a different host. "PAMA?" she asked, looking down at herself- and yep, the faint, glowing blue lines she'd spotted earlier were glowing red and orange now. Damn.
"PAMA?" she could hear Ivor's voice in the background as Jesse looked around, shivering. "No..."
"Just what do you think you are doing, Jesse? This is a rather silly thing to do, don't you think?" Jesse's head snapped around. Skeletons, zombies, a couple spiders were approaching.
Migrate, migrate, migrate... Jesse scanned the landscape, tuning out PAMA's robotic voice, which was going on about something about its 'creator' being made useful and blah blah blah, we get it, shut up PAMA. She spotted a skeleton in the background, and concentrated as a fist hit her-
Another rush, and Jesse straightened back up abruptly, her lower legs hanging limp at her sides. She couldn't move them. "... okay, well, not dead... jeez, better hurry..."
And she started walking away as stiffly and monster-like as possible. "Technology is so awesome," she added.
"And you look so awesome while using it, I assure you," Ivor teased. Jesse stuck her tongue out at him and kept going, but then she heard PAMA's voice blare "Interference remains."
"Can you NOT be so omniscient, you- you- you piece of talking scrap metal?!" Jesse yelled in frustration, throwing her hands into the air, and broke into a furious run, as PAMA intoned, "Drone sequencing re-initiated. Trace subroutine re-initiated."
It took every bone in Jesse's body (both her new one and the one she was controlling) to not let out a loud torrent of swearing.
A/N: Stopping point!
Kaos Ruin: Yep lol xD
rebekahtpe: The creeper sized dragons, because dragons are awesome :)
RapidSammi: Aw, thank you :)
LittleAngelbun: I'm hyped up too!
SanstheSkeleton: Lol I'll try
TheRealRedGaming: Yup, I'm hyped :)
GuestPerson13: Lol xD
Toni42: We have a psychic on our hands! (wiggles hands at you)
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