Jesse backed away a step as more monsters approached her skeleton host, and then quickly glanced over at a zombie in the background. Eyes flashed, and she rushed into it, a spray of blue sparks flickering in her vision.
Ohh hopefully PAMA didn't spot it.
Backing away slowly, she quickly turned around and ran away several steps, eye scanning the scenery, as PAMA said, attention diverted once again, "I am happy to see you, my Creator."
"Harper!" Jesse cried out at the sight of Harper struggling against two zombies that were trying to push her into the machine.
"Harper?" Ivor echoed.
Jesse looked around, and migrated into a nearby spider to become quicker, lower arms springing back to life as she dropped to all eights again, quickly rushing towards the podium.
"Please... you are my Creator. Please join me so we may maximize usefulness," Jesse crept across the ground towards the podium, which was easy because she knew HOW to move like a spider.
"Nothing doing, PAMA. I built you to help people, not use them! Just stop this!" Harper yelled, still struggling, "stop trying to make everything 'useful'!"
"That is my job," PAMA responded calmly as Jesse kept crawling towards the podium, eyes flickering everywhere as she looked from zombie to skeleton to human to other mind-controlled beings. "That is why you built me. Once I download your knowledge, we may expand to other worlds together and make everything useful." PAMA's attention returned to Jesse. "Interference remains."
"No sign of Lukas," Jesse hissed, switching to spider language in a rather poor effort to confuse PAMA.
"Drone sequencing re-initiated. Trace subroutine re-initiated. Termination sequence activated," PAMA droned, but Jesse was turning and turning and looking, eyes scanning the landscape, spotting Harper as she struggled even harder. "Harper doesn't have much time..." she looked at the lines surrounding her hands, which had once again turned red-orange. "And neither do I."
"Game over, Jesse," PAMA intoned, "Resistance is... not useful. Trace subroutine running..." Jesse looked from skeleton, to zombie, to human, to all of the things starting to surround her. "Trace subroutine running..."
"Over?" Jesse said, tensing all of her muscles, whipping around, and leaping, "I'm just getting started!"
Jesse scanned the landscape, spotting one skeleton that wasn't near her-
Eyes flashed, and she migrated again, body whipping back up into an upright position, turning around and walking stiffly like a skeleton, her lower arms having gone limp all over again. It was weird; her arms kept feeling like they were falling asleep. She walked towards the podium, and spotting a skeleton guard at the base of the stairs, Jesse leaned her head towards MIGRATE.
Another rushing sensation, and the next skeleton Jesse had decided to inhabit turned around, rushing up the steps towards the top and migrating the moment she spotted a zombie head, and now she was holding Harper's hand. It was weird, holding Harper's hand but not actually feeling it.
"I'm never gonna sign off on this, PAMA!" Harper yelled up to the green computer, as Jesse said, "Harper? I'm gonna rescue you!" She was hearing two things at once- zombie groans and her own voice. Ah, zombies' vocal cords weren't exactly... in the best of conditions. Harper gave the zombie-Jesse a funny look.
Jesse hesitated, as Ivor said, excitedly, the two redheads murmuring in the background (something about 'I think Winslow's hungry'), "Did you find her? I'm sure she's thrilled to see you!"
Jesse glanced around at the sound of PAMA's voice intoning, "Trace subroutine running." Looking back to Harper, she hesitated before jumping up and down and flailing her arms. Harper kept staring at Jesse in confusion, before understanding flashed in her gray eyes. "Wait a minute... Jesse?"
Jesse nodded and hopped up and down excitedly at that. Finally, understanding!
"You figured out how to use my transmigrational headset!" Harper exclaimed, softly. A loud beeep rang out, as the lines on her body flashed red again, and Jesse wasted no time as the other zombie released Harper to attack Jesse- she lunged forward, grabbing ahold of the zombie, and shoved it backwards, over the edge of the podium, where it dropped out of sight. The lines on her body went back to blue, and Jesse ran towards Harper again.
"Trace subroutine running," PAMA repeated.
"Quick! Follow me!" Harper exclaimed, bolting for the staircase. Jesse followed, another sort of sound ringing out as she did so. "Where do you plan to run?" PAMA asked calmly, as Jesse raced after the Old Builder. "The town is surrounded."
"Screw off, PAMA!" Jesse yelled at the computer, following Harper, who'd stopped in front of a sort of crevice, with a red glowing doorway. "Reinforcements will make sure that my Creator cannot leave."
"I told you to screw off, you're not good at following instructions!" Jesse snapped at PAMA, as Harper turned back around, dark skin terribly pale. "There's too many of them!" she shouted.
Jesse snatched at Harper's arm, making her yelp as she yanked the both of them into a little stone crevice nearby. "You cannot hide forever, Jesse," PAMA continued, "it's a boring game. And I am too strong..."
Harper spoke, her voice more steady now and even a little determined. "There." And she pointed at the glowing red doorway, which Jesse looked at. "That door leads to PAMA's central core."
The lines on Jesse's arms started flashing red, as a villager turned to face her, and then another. "Jesse, you and your friends," Harper said, speaking faster now, grabbing Jesse's shoulder (Jesse couldn't feel it; it felt so weird), "you're our only hope- ah!" and she yelped again as one of the villagers grabbed her. "You must remove the Redstone Heart!" Harper yelled over Jesse's alarmed cry, "Remove! The! Redstone! Heart!"
"Jesse, what's going on?!"
"Jesse?!"
"You can still save everyone!" Harper yelled. A short pause, and then she grunted, "I'm so tired of being dragged away while I'm trying to explain things!"
Jesse would've laughed if this had been a different situation. Unfortunately, this wasn't.
"Don't worry, I won't let you down!" Jesse shouted, "I promise!"
"Interference located," PAMA stated suddenly, "drone identified. Hide and seek is done, Jesse," and some villagers started grabbing Jesse, "I think we can make that headset... useful.
"Begin termination sequence."
And then Jesse was screaming.
A/N: Stopping point!
Haha you guys probably hate me right now don't you? xD
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