Future Bound
Chapter 5: Interesting stories at Breakfast
15 minutes until breakfast. The crew had decided to meet at the gate then go down together. Dylan was in his quarters spinning around, yet again, in a chair but this time holding his faithful basketball. He heard the door slid open.
"How you holding up?"
"Not bad," said Dylan, "still a little shocked."
"Trance is ecstatic," said Beka.
"I don't know what to make of this," said Dylan, "at least Trance does."
He stood up and threw the ball onto his bed.
"Any ideas?" he asked.
"How about," she started," that this is only one possibility and Will might not even exist in our world."
"My grandfather's name was William."
"It's a good name," said Beka," I think it suits him."
"He's a little hyper," said Dylan.
"Dylan he can probably be serious when he wants too, I mean come on he's your son after all," she said, "but he's having fun embarrassing your future self right now."
"He's got a good sense of humour too," she added.
"That sense of humour reminds me of Harper," said Dylan.
"You can ask when we go for breakfast," said Beka, "there's something else too isn't there?"
"I can't stop thinking about Sara," admitted Dylan, "what would have happened if I didn't get stuck in that black hole?"
"Don't take this the wrong way but you would have been killed by Neitzcheans and if you survived that, you'd be infested with Magog eggs, dying either way that's where." said Beka, "and we wouldn't have found you in the Maru, thus losing a one in a million chance of restoring the Commonwealth and bringing peace to the universe."
"You're probably right," sighed Dylan, "Will seems like a good kid though doesn't he?"
"Yeah he does," said Beka, "and he looks like you too."
**
Minutes later everyone was making their way to breakfast.
"Oh that smells good," said Harper.
They reached the Breakfast Hall. When they walked in, only Ft. Dylan, Rommie, Trance, Tyr, and a girl with silvery blonde hair were there.
"Everyone should be here in about a minute," Ft. Dylan said standing up, "have a seat."
"Thanks," said Dylan.
When everyone had been seated the rest of the future crew walked in.
"It wasn't a dream was it?" asked Ft. Beka.
"Great," said Will happily
"You get that from your father," said Ft. Beka
"What?" asked Will
"That 'great' thing," said Ft. Beka
Will just grinned. Dylan thought that he looked a lot like someone when Will smiled. The blonde at the table made a sound and wrinkled her nose.
"Terra," said Will
"Hunt," said the blonde.
"Is it just me or do I just have to walk into a room to make all the Neitzcheans on this ship annoyed with me?" asked Will.
"It isn't you," said Ft. Tyr.
"And that would because..." Trance ventured.
"I cut off his hair when I was six," said Will.
"A day I'll never forget," said Ft. Tyr.
"You shouldn't have fell asleep," said Will.
"Your stupidity makes you even more inferior," said Terra.
"I'm choosing to ignoring that,"
"And this would be...?" started Trance.
"My daughter," said Ft. Tyr.
"Daughter?" asked Beka.
"Well that's nice," said Trance uncertainly.
"Your mother?" asked Tyr.
"My mother is Freya of Orca Pride," said Terra, "she deemed to worthy through your ability to fool them all, betrayed or not, and I was allowed to live."
"She spent eleven years looking for me," said Ft. Tyr with a small smile
"She's twenty-one by the way," said Will getting glared at.
"You're already born in our world then?" asked Beka
"Anything's possible," said Terra.
"So why look for Tyr all that time?" asked Harper moving out of hitting range of the Neitzschean.
"I wanted to know my father," she said, "Dimitri told me the stories of how we were betrayed hoping to cause me to resent him but got pride instead."
"Pride?" asked Trance.
"He duped an entire Orca Pride," said Terra, "that makes him a worthy father for me."
"Are you guys hungry or not?" asked Ft. Dylan.
"Hey food!" said Will.
When all 17 people plus AI's were seated and Terra's speech was over breakfast was finally underway.
"So who wants to hear a story?" asked Will.
"Will, no, they don't want to..." started Ft. Dylan.
"Of course they do," he said, "don't make me get into my crawl space."
"Crawl space?" asked Dylan.
"Any nook or cranny I can get into, usually the vents," said Will smiling.
"You can't fit into them anymore," said Ft. Dylan
"Only the ones you know about," said Ft. Rommie
"Where?" he asked.
"That's confidential," said Will.
"Who else knows about this?" asked Ft. Dylan.
The entire future crew raised their hands.
"Why am I the only one who doesn't know about this?" asked Ft. Dylan.
"Because I don't trust you with knowing you might do something to prevent me from accessing them just like you would do with my secret chocolate stash that I'm not telling you about." said Will.
"I'm going to pretend I didn't hear that," said Ft. Dylan
"Can I ask you something?" Will asked Dylan.
"Sure," he said.
"You wouldn't happen to have a really thick book about the rules of Basketball now would you?" asked Will.
"I don't think so," said Dylan, "why?"
"HA! I knew it!" cried Will, "admit it Dad, you wrote those the very second that you found out Mom was having a boy!"
"No comment," said Ft. Dylan.
"And I swear I saw a rule in there that said 'Dylan can do this but Will can't' I know I saw that," said Will.
"There is not," said Ft. Dylan.
"Well you cheat anyway," said Will.
"Do not,"
"Dylan you held his head so he couldn't move," said Ft. Beka, "isn't that a fowl?"
"You should stop reading those rules," said Ft. Dylan
"Tsk,tsk, and to your own son too," said Ft. Harper.
"Hey you've done stuff to me too," said Will.
"Have not," said Ft. Harper.
"You told me that if I didn't bath the closet monsters would attack me in my sleep," said Will.
"That was YOU?!" said Ft. Beka.
"It solved the problem didn't it?" asked Ft. Harper.
"Ok, I've got 3 questions," said Dylan, "1) do you play basketball 2) why do you seem a bit Harper-like, and 3) what problem?"
"Here goes, 1) you taught me to play basketball and I am now way better that you (Ft. Dylan laughed), 2) Uncle Seamus was always stuck baby-sitting me and Ing, so I was bound to pick up something and 3) I hated baths when I was six and that brings me to a very funny story."
"So let's hear it," said Beka
"Please don't," said Ft. Dylan.
"Too bad," said Will, "Ok this happened when I was six and about a month or so before the whole scissor incident with Tyr's head (nasty looks from Neitzscheans)...so anyway Mom was trying to get me in the tub and I managed to squirm out of her iron grip. Now Dad was having a VERY important meeting when the doors of the room he and his clients were in, flew open and went streaking past them, butt naked with Mom chasing me with a towel. I was finally caught by taking the wrong turn and running head on into Rommie. Then she and Mom manhandled me back to the bathroom." said Will.
"You were the worst when you were six," said Ft. Beka.
"I know, lucky for me though that Dad's guest's thought the entire scene was hysterical and signed the charter anyway," said Will.
"The Commonwealth was still being built when you were six?" asked Trance.
"Yeah, I fought in it," said Will.
"7 years ago the Magog threat was peaking once again and that's when the universe started to fully co-operate. Training camps were built and allies became stronger and decided to forget old feuds." said Ingrid quietly.
"If you don't mind me asking," said Dylan to Will, "what were you trained in?"
"Ground, aerial, and spacial combat," said Will, "I was fighting at 15."
"It took almost 25 years to fully restore the Commonwealth and bring back peace," said Ft. Dylan.
"If you exclude the fact that some Neitzscheans are trying to kill our past selves that won't end up changing anything then everything is just peachy," said Ft. Harper.
"Yeah and our Andromeda kind of needs repairs too," said Harper.
"We'll get started today," said Ft. Harper.
"Kain shot you through the slip stream didn't he?" asked Ft. Dylan.
"You know that psychopath?" asked Beka.
"A dragon extremist, he does this every now and then."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~A/N and disclaimer: I just wanted to say that I now know the Andromeda timeline is somewhere in the 10000's but I didn't know that when I started due to lack of access to the internet. There won't be anymore references to the date anyway. Thanks to everyone for all those great reviews I really appreciate them.
Next Chapter: 'Ship repairs and Ancient Cities.' ~*Vee*~
Chapter 5: Interesting stories at Breakfast
15 minutes until breakfast. The crew had decided to meet at the gate then go down together. Dylan was in his quarters spinning around, yet again, in a chair but this time holding his faithful basketball. He heard the door slid open.
"How you holding up?"
"Not bad," said Dylan, "still a little shocked."
"Trance is ecstatic," said Beka.
"I don't know what to make of this," said Dylan, "at least Trance does."
He stood up and threw the ball onto his bed.
"Any ideas?" he asked.
"How about," she started," that this is only one possibility and Will might not even exist in our world."
"My grandfather's name was William."
"It's a good name," said Beka," I think it suits him."
"He's a little hyper," said Dylan.
"Dylan he can probably be serious when he wants too, I mean come on he's your son after all," she said, "but he's having fun embarrassing your future self right now."
"He's got a good sense of humour too," she added.
"That sense of humour reminds me of Harper," said Dylan.
"You can ask when we go for breakfast," said Beka, "there's something else too isn't there?"
"I can't stop thinking about Sara," admitted Dylan, "what would have happened if I didn't get stuck in that black hole?"
"Don't take this the wrong way but you would have been killed by Neitzcheans and if you survived that, you'd be infested with Magog eggs, dying either way that's where." said Beka, "and we wouldn't have found you in the Maru, thus losing a one in a million chance of restoring the Commonwealth and bringing peace to the universe."
"You're probably right," sighed Dylan, "Will seems like a good kid though doesn't he?"
"Yeah he does," said Beka, "and he looks like you too."
**
Minutes later everyone was making their way to breakfast.
"Oh that smells good," said Harper.
They reached the Breakfast Hall. When they walked in, only Ft. Dylan, Rommie, Trance, Tyr, and a girl with silvery blonde hair were there.
"Everyone should be here in about a minute," Ft. Dylan said standing up, "have a seat."
"Thanks," said Dylan.
When everyone had been seated the rest of the future crew walked in.
"It wasn't a dream was it?" asked Ft. Beka.
"Great," said Will happily
"You get that from your father," said Ft. Beka
"What?" asked Will
"That 'great' thing," said Ft. Beka
Will just grinned. Dylan thought that he looked a lot like someone when Will smiled. The blonde at the table made a sound and wrinkled her nose.
"Terra," said Will
"Hunt," said the blonde.
"Is it just me or do I just have to walk into a room to make all the Neitzcheans on this ship annoyed with me?" asked Will.
"It isn't you," said Ft. Tyr.
"And that would because..." Trance ventured.
"I cut off his hair when I was six," said Will.
"A day I'll never forget," said Ft. Tyr.
"You shouldn't have fell asleep," said Will.
"Your stupidity makes you even more inferior," said Terra.
"I'm choosing to ignoring that,"
"And this would be...?" started Trance.
"My daughter," said Ft. Tyr.
"Daughter?" asked Beka.
"Well that's nice," said Trance uncertainly.
"Your mother?" asked Tyr.
"My mother is Freya of Orca Pride," said Terra, "she deemed to worthy through your ability to fool them all, betrayed or not, and I was allowed to live."
"She spent eleven years looking for me," said Ft. Tyr with a small smile
"She's twenty-one by the way," said Will getting glared at.
"You're already born in our world then?" asked Beka
"Anything's possible," said Terra.
"So why look for Tyr all that time?" asked Harper moving out of hitting range of the Neitzschean.
"I wanted to know my father," she said, "Dimitri told me the stories of how we were betrayed hoping to cause me to resent him but got pride instead."
"Pride?" asked Trance.
"He duped an entire Orca Pride," said Terra, "that makes him a worthy father for me."
"Are you guys hungry or not?" asked Ft. Dylan.
"Hey food!" said Will.
When all 17 people plus AI's were seated and Terra's speech was over breakfast was finally underway.
"So who wants to hear a story?" asked Will.
"Will, no, they don't want to..." started Ft. Dylan.
"Of course they do," he said, "don't make me get into my crawl space."
"Crawl space?" asked Dylan.
"Any nook or cranny I can get into, usually the vents," said Will smiling.
"You can't fit into them anymore," said Ft. Dylan
"Only the ones you know about," said Ft. Rommie
"Where?" he asked.
"That's confidential," said Will.
"Who else knows about this?" asked Ft. Dylan.
The entire future crew raised their hands.
"Why am I the only one who doesn't know about this?" asked Ft. Dylan.
"Because I don't trust you with knowing you might do something to prevent me from accessing them just like you would do with my secret chocolate stash that I'm not telling you about." said Will.
"I'm going to pretend I didn't hear that," said Ft. Dylan
"Can I ask you something?" Will asked Dylan.
"Sure," he said.
"You wouldn't happen to have a really thick book about the rules of Basketball now would you?" asked Will.
"I don't think so," said Dylan, "why?"
"HA! I knew it!" cried Will, "admit it Dad, you wrote those the very second that you found out Mom was having a boy!"
"No comment," said Ft. Dylan.
"And I swear I saw a rule in there that said 'Dylan can do this but Will can't' I know I saw that," said Will.
"There is not," said Ft. Dylan.
"Well you cheat anyway," said Will.
"Do not,"
"Dylan you held his head so he couldn't move," said Ft. Beka, "isn't that a fowl?"
"You should stop reading those rules," said Ft. Dylan
"Tsk,tsk, and to your own son too," said Ft. Harper.
"Hey you've done stuff to me too," said Will.
"Have not," said Ft. Harper.
"You told me that if I didn't bath the closet monsters would attack me in my sleep," said Will.
"That was YOU?!" said Ft. Beka.
"It solved the problem didn't it?" asked Ft. Harper.
"Ok, I've got 3 questions," said Dylan, "1) do you play basketball 2) why do you seem a bit Harper-like, and 3) what problem?"
"Here goes, 1) you taught me to play basketball and I am now way better that you (Ft. Dylan laughed), 2) Uncle Seamus was always stuck baby-sitting me and Ing, so I was bound to pick up something and 3) I hated baths when I was six and that brings me to a very funny story."
"So let's hear it," said Beka
"Please don't," said Ft. Dylan.
"Too bad," said Will, "Ok this happened when I was six and about a month or so before the whole scissor incident with Tyr's head (nasty looks from Neitzscheans)...so anyway Mom was trying to get me in the tub and I managed to squirm out of her iron grip. Now Dad was having a VERY important meeting when the doors of the room he and his clients were in, flew open and went streaking past them, butt naked with Mom chasing me with a towel. I was finally caught by taking the wrong turn and running head on into Rommie. Then she and Mom manhandled me back to the bathroom." said Will.
"You were the worst when you were six," said Ft. Beka.
"I know, lucky for me though that Dad's guest's thought the entire scene was hysterical and signed the charter anyway," said Will.
"The Commonwealth was still being built when you were six?" asked Trance.
"Yeah, I fought in it," said Will.
"7 years ago the Magog threat was peaking once again and that's when the universe started to fully co-operate. Training camps were built and allies became stronger and decided to forget old feuds." said Ingrid quietly.
"If you don't mind me asking," said Dylan to Will, "what were you trained in?"
"Ground, aerial, and spacial combat," said Will, "I was fighting at 15."
"It took almost 25 years to fully restore the Commonwealth and bring back peace," said Ft. Dylan.
"If you exclude the fact that some Neitzscheans are trying to kill our past selves that won't end up changing anything then everything is just peachy," said Ft. Harper.
"Yeah and our Andromeda kind of needs repairs too," said Harper.
"We'll get started today," said Ft. Harper.
"Kain shot you through the slip stream didn't he?" asked Ft. Dylan.
"You know that psychopath?" asked Beka.
"A dragon extremist, he does this every now and then."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~A/N and disclaimer: I just wanted to say that I now know the Andromeda timeline is somewhere in the 10000's but I didn't know that when I started due to lack of access to the internet. There won't be anymore references to the date anyway. Thanks to everyone for all those great reviews I really appreciate them.
Next Chapter: 'Ship repairs and Ancient Cities.' ~*Vee*~