Hello my fans! First off...I'M SO SORRY!!!!!!!! I beg that you all won't
kill me!!!! I didn't mean to have this long a space between updates.
Pleeeeeease don't hurt me! I didn't mean to but I just got carried away
with the musical and my orchestra concert and my transfer into high school
and all that other stuff. Not to mention a nasty romance which resulted in
one happy best friend my boy friend and a crying me. But I've gotten over
that all now and I'm back to my inspirational writing! It calms me. I will
try hard to update often. actually this story doesn't have too much more to
go anyway. Ok well I've kept you all waiting long enough.
Teach me to dream
Chapter five~ Perfect Machine
"Help me..." Melfina sobbed quietly.
"Oh come on." A voice floated around her and Melfina was suddenly snapped from the dark maze in which she had been trapped.
Melfina struggled to discern who was talking, and soon the face of Dr. Benson blurred into view.
Melfina didn't feel pain. She didn't feel sick. She didn't feel...anything.
'I feel so drained.' Melfina thought wearily. Even her own voice inside her head sounded tired. Was that even possible?
Melfina let out a small groan.
"Hmm, yes. Just as I thought. I am really sorry to put you through this Melfina but I'm afraid I must. I really don't enjoy hurting people you know."
Melfina stared blankly into Dr. Benson's eyes.
"What are you saying? What are you doing to me!?" Melfina whispered her voice hoarse from fear.
"I suppose it won't be any big deal if I tell you. After all since I am in a sense 'killing you' I suppose I owe you an explanation. But as I said before it will all be for the greater good you know."
Dr. Benson went over and pulled the only chair in the room from a corner and set it directly in front of Melfina. Once he was finally settled in the chair Dr. Benson looked at Melfina and began to explain.
"I suppose it started a little less than a year ago. This extremely rich and pathetic man came to me, and asked me to design something. You see Melfina a year ago some thieves murdered Dr. Johnson's daughter and so he came to me. The fool wanted a replacement for his daughter. This sad little man was willing to pour in millions upon millions of dollars so I could research a way to create the perfect machine. The perfect android. Now I've designed androids that were extremely realistic for years and years, but when this man examined them he said 'no, this one has to be perfect. I must not be able to tell that she is a machine.' That was a difficult task even for me. But then I figured out a way to cut the corners on my work, I invented a machine. A machine that transferred not only data from one android to another, but also their whole self-learning program. But the problem was I couldn't find a single android advanced enough. Until I heard about you. There had been a rumor about you going around us scientists for a long time. And now I've found you. I'm sorry but I must use you. Your data will now be her data. You have learned new things, and she will learn things."
"W-Why?" was all Melfina could choke out.
"Simple. Now even though our dear Dr. Johnson has 'given' me generous 'donations' if I used this android for my own purposes it will be much more beneficial. So now that I've betrayed Dr. Johnson and I've taken his precious Lydia for myself all I have to do now is get rid of the evidence." Dr. Benson said with a sarcastic smile.
"What will become of Gene?! And Jim?!" Melfina shouted once she realized what he was saying.
"Destroyed."
The simple word caused Melfina to freeze. Again. It had happened again, everyone was in trouble and it was all her fault.
"NOOOO!" she screamed struggling against the restraints of the chair.
Dr. Benson backed up, shock evident on his face.
"Please! Let them go! Please, they didn't do anything to you!!!" She wailed, tears sliding down her face. A beeping sound came from the corner and knobs and dials were spinning out of control on the computers.
"Alright! Alright!" Dr. Benson shouted. "I'll let them go!"
Melfina looked at him in surprise.
"But only if you do me a favor."
Melfina looked down for a minute then nodded.
******************
"WAH!!??" Gene shouted backing away quickly from the little girl.
"DEAD!? What the hell are you talking about!?" Gene shouted again.
"Calm down please. Melfina is in trouble." The little girl pleaded.
"Huh? Melfina?" Gene asked immediately getting quiet and listening.
"Yes." The little girl said staring at Gene with empty gray eyes. "And I'm afraid it's all my father's fault."
"Your...father?"
"Yes. Listen please. My name is Lydia Johnson-"
"WHAT!?" Gene interrupted.
"Let me finish. My name is, no was, Lydia Johnson. I was murdered about a year ago, by thieves on my father's ship. I was barely alive when my father found me. There was nothing he could do to save me, but he couldn't let me go.
My father was always the scientist type, inventing and such. So when he found me half dead he tried to do anything to save me. He managed to hook me up to his computer through wires he inserted into my veins through needles. He tapped into my memory through brain and nerve analysis and made a sort of back up of me. He put in my whole personality. It was like he put my whole soul onto that tiny little disk."
"That's messed up." Gene blurted out in spite of himself, but quickly covered up his mouth and muttered apologies to Lydia.
"I agree Gene Starwind," Lydia said with a sad smile. "And apparently so did whoever I go to in the afterlife. I've somehow been stuck here in this dark cold labyrinth for a year. And I think I'm going to be stuck here forever."
Gene looked sadly at Lydia, but before he could say a word Lydia interrupted him.
"Now. We have to help Melfina. When my father found Dr. Benson to replace me he didn't consider that Dr. Benson would betray him. But he has..."
"Obviously." Gene muttered.
"If we don't get Melfina off that machine she'll die!" Lydia snapped.
Gene looked at Lydia wide eyed.
"Look!" Lydia said pointing at her legs, which from the knee down were still normal. "That's Melfina. Dr. Benson is transferring not only Melfina's data but also her life force into me! If we don't stop him he's going to turn Melfina into a gray lifeless doll! And me into a mass domination machine!"
"WHAT!??" Gene shouted for the second time.
****************
"Dr. Benson? What are you going to do with Lydia?" Melfina mumbled.
"See this?" Dr. Benson asked suddenly holding up a thin gray disk, "this is Lydia's data. Not really data because when this was taken Lydia was a real person but I'm calling it data anyway. I was supposed to transfer this into Lydia's memory when I was done, to make the Lydia replacement complete."
Dr. Benson tossed the disk onto the floor, and then slammed his shoe onto it, breaking it into a dozen little pieces.
"Without this data Lydia is a lifeless little doll in which I can command to do anything. Now you may think that a little android like Lydia could do nothing. But with your advanced data and my advanced programming I could turn her into my perfect domination device. If I hook her up to a ships mainframe computer I could not only crash it but also make it do anything I wanted. I could do this with space stations, and even whole planets electric systems. I could hack into banks and government systems and do absolutely anything I wanted."
Melfina stared at Dr. Benson, her eyes wide with horror.
His words echoed in her mind.
"Anything I wanted."
"Now dear. Time to retrieve some more data." Dr. Benson said with a smile.
"No..." Melfina pleaded weakly, but it was to late.
****************
"And that is how he would control me. Actually now that I think of it, it wouldn't really be me at all. It would just look like me."
Gene didn't know what to do.
"Oh gene I know it's tough but you've got to figure out something. You ca- "
Suddenly Lydia stopped talking and her eyes, though it was hard to tall because of their color, or lack there of, became large and unfocused. She seemed to be in a trance until a loud shrill shriek filled the air.
"That's...Melfina!!" Gene shouted at last realizing who it was.
"What's Melfina doing here?" He asked Lydia, but she was still in a daze.
"Hey!" gene shouted, when Lydia suddenly began to fade into darkness.
"Hey!!" Gene shouted again charging at Lydia only to go right through her. He suddenly seemed to be falling.
"AHH!!" He screamed as he flew though the darkness.
"Gene.." he thought he heard Melfina whisper.
"Melfina." He said quietly.
"GENE!"
Gene awoke with a start.
"Gene?" Jim asked hovering over Gene. "Gene are you ok?"
"I'm fine." Gene said in a shaky voice. "But I have to get to Melfina!"
Turning to Dr. Johnson, who was now awake and stood awkwardly near by he said, "I need to get out of here!"
"There might be one way." Dr. Johnson said looking down.
**************
"Urgh." Melfina groaned.
"Well done. I suppose your feeling drowsier than usual but I want to speed this up so I decided to go ahead and speed up the process. I now have a little over seventy-eight percent. That's enough to get Lydia started."
Melfina barely processed this information, it hurt to think, to breathe, to exist.
Dr. Benson walked over to a computer and typed in a few numbers before pressing the send button. Suddenly a hissing sound filled the air, and a crack came from the right side of the room.
Melfina slowly turned her head and saw a small capsule like shape, where all the wires from the chair she was in went into. But now it was open, looking much like the suitcase she herself came out of.
A young girl stepped out and Melfina gasped, despite her weak state. It was the girl from inside the labyrinth, the sleeping girl. This was Lydia?
The girl opened her eyes revealing green irises and dilated pupils.
Suddenly, Lydia's eyes focused, and when she spoke it was loud and clear, not soft like Melfina had expected.
"Name: Lydia. Objection: Destroy this world."
WOAAAAH! Wait a minute. She'ssupposed to be Benson's tool, not a mass destruction thingy!. what's going on. Find out next time. on bumbumbum, teach me to dream. Please review to!
Arigatou! Mandy~Chan
Teach me to dream
Chapter five~ Perfect Machine
"Help me..." Melfina sobbed quietly.
"Oh come on." A voice floated around her and Melfina was suddenly snapped from the dark maze in which she had been trapped.
Melfina struggled to discern who was talking, and soon the face of Dr. Benson blurred into view.
Melfina didn't feel pain. She didn't feel sick. She didn't feel...anything.
'I feel so drained.' Melfina thought wearily. Even her own voice inside her head sounded tired. Was that even possible?
Melfina let out a small groan.
"Hmm, yes. Just as I thought. I am really sorry to put you through this Melfina but I'm afraid I must. I really don't enjoy hurting people you know."
Melfina stared blankly into Dr. Benson's eyes.
"What are you saying? What are you doing to me!?" Melfina whispered her voice hoarse from fear.
"I suppose it won't be any big deal if I tell you. After all since I am in a sense 'killing you' I suppose I owe you an explanation. But as I said before it will all be for the greater good you know."
Dr. Benson went over and pulled the only chair in the room from a corner and set it directly in front of Melfina. Once he was finally settled in the chair Dr. Benson looked at Melfina and began to explain.
"I suppose it started a little less than a year ago. This extremely rich and pathetic man came to me, and asked me to design something. You see Melfina a year ago some thieves murdered Dr. Johnson's daughter and so he came to me. The fool wanted a replacement for his daughter. This sad little man was willing to pour in millions upon millions of dollars so I could research a way to create the perfect machine. The perfect android. Now I've designed androids that were extremely realistic for years and years, but when this man examined them he said 'no, this one has to be perfect. I must not be able to tell that she is a machine.' That was a difficult task even for me. But then I figured out a way to cut the corners on my work, I invented a machine. A machine that transferred not only data from one android to another, but also their whole self-learning program. But the problem was I couldn't find a single android advanced enough. Until I heard about you. There had been a rumor about you going around us scientists for a long time. And now I've found you. I'm sorry but I must use you. Your data will now be her data. You have learned new things, and she will learn things."
"W-Why?" was all Melfina could choke out.
"Simple. Now even though our dear Dr. Johnson has 'given' me generous 'donations' if I used this android for my own purposes it will be much more beneficial. So now that I've betrayed Dr. Johnson and I've taken his precious Lydia for myself all I have to do now is get rid of the evidence." Dr. Benson said with a sarcastic smile.
"What will become of Gene?! And Jim?!" Melfina shouted once she realized what he was saying.
"Destroyed."
The simple word caused Melfina to freeze. Again. It had happened again, everyone was in trouble and it was all her fault.
"NOOOO!" she screamed struggling against the restraints of the chair.
Dr. Benson backed up, shock evident on his face.
"Please! Let them go! Please, they didn't do anything to you!!!" She wailed, tears sliding down her face. A beeping sound came from the corner and knobs and dials were spinning out of control on the computers.
"Alright! Alright!" Dr. Benson shouted. "I'll let them go!"
Melfina looked at him in surprise.
"But only if you do me a favor."
Melfina looked down for a minute then nodded.
******************
"WAH!!??" Gene shouted backing away quickly from the little girl.
"DEAD!? What the hell are you talking about!?" Gene shouted again.
"Calm down please. Melfina is in trouble." The little girl pleaded.
"Huh? Melfina?" Gene asked immediately getting quiet and listening.
"Yes." The little girl said staring at Gene with empty gray eyes. "And I'm afraid it's all my father's fault."
"Your...father?"
"Yes. Listen please. My name is Lydia Johnson-"
"WHAT!?" Gene interrupted.
"Let me finish. My name is, no was, Lydia Johnson. I was murdered about a year ago, by thieves on my father's ship. I was barely alive when my father found me. There was nothing he could do to save me, but he couldn't let me go.
My father was always the scientist type, inventing and such. So when he found me half dead he tried to do anything to save me. He managed to hook me up to his computer through wires he inserted into my veins through needles. He tapped into my memory through brain and nerve analysis and made a sort of back up of me. He put in my whole personality. It was like he put my whole soul onto that tiny little disk."
"That's messed up." Gene blurted out in spite of himself, but quickly covered up his mouth and muttered apologies to Lydia.
"I agree Gene Starwind," Lydia said with a sad smile. "And apparently so did whoever I go to in the afterlife. I've somehow been stuck here in this dark cold labyrinth for a year. And I think I'm going to be stuck here forever."
Gene looked sadly at Lydia, but before he could say a word Lydia interrupted him.
"Now. We have to help Melfina. When my father found Dr. Benson to replace me he didn't consider that Dr. Benson would betray him. But he has..."
"Obviously." Gene muttered.
"If we don't get Melfina off that machine she'll die!" Lydia snapped.
Gene looked at Lydia wide eyed.
"Look!" Lydia said pointing at her legs, which from the knee down were still normal. "That's Melfina. Dr. Benson is transferring not only Melfina's data but also her life force into me! If we don't stop him he's going to turn Melfina into a gray lifeless doll! And me into a mass domination machine!"
"WHAT!??" Gene shouted for the second time.
****************
"Dr. Benson? What are you going to do with Lydia?" Melfina mumbled.
"See this?" Dr. Benson asked suddenly holding up a thin gray disk, "this is Lydia's data. Not really data because when this was taken Lydia was a real person but I'm calling it data anyway. I was supposed to transfer this into Lydia's memory when I was done, to make the Lydia replacement complete."
Dr. Benson tossed the disk onto the floor, and then slammed his shoe onto it, breaking it into a dozen little pieces.
"Without this data Lydia is a lifeless little doll in which I can command to do anything. Now you may think that a little android like Lydia could do nothing. But with your advanced data and my advanced programming I could turn her into my perfect domination device. If I hook her up to a ships mainframe computer I could not only crash it but also make it do anything I wanted. I could do this with space stations, and even whole planets electric systems. I could hack into banks and government systems and do absolutely anything I wanted."
Melfina stared at Dr. Benson, her eyes wide with horror.
His words echoed in her mind.
"Anything I wanted."
"Now dear. Time to retrieve some more data." Dr. Benson said with a smile.
"No..." Melfina pleaded weakly, but it was to late.
****************
"And that is how he would control me. Actually now that I think of it, it wouldn't really be me at all. It would just look like me."
Gene didn't know what to do.
"Oh gene I know it's tough but you've got to figure out something. You ca- "
Suddenly Lydia stopped talking and her eyes, though it was hard to tall because of their color, or lack there of, became large and unfocused. She seemed to be in a trance until a loud shrill shriek filled the air.
"That's...Melfina!!" Gene shouted at last realizing who it was.
"What's Melfina doing here?" He asked Lydia, but she was still in a daze.
"Hey!" gene shouted, when Lydia suddenly began to fade into darkness.
"Hey!!" Gene shouted again charging at Lydia only to go right through her. He suddenly seemed to be falling.
"AHH!!" He screamed as he flew though the darkness.
"Gene.." he thought he heard Melfina whisper.
"Melfina." He said quietly.
"GENE!"
Gene awoke with a start.
"Gene?" Jim asked hovering over Gene. "Gene are you ok?"
"I'm fine." Gene said in a shaky voice. "But I have to get to Melfina!"
Turning to Dr. Johnson, who was now awake and stood awkwardly near by he said, "I need to get out of here!"
"There might be one way." Dr. Johnson said looking down.
**************
"Urgh." Melfina groaned.
"Well done. I suppose your feeling drowsier than usual but I want to speed this up so I decided to go ahead and speed up the process. I now have a little over seventy-eight percent. That's enough to get Lydia started."
Melfina barely processed this information, it hurt to think, to breathe, to exist.
Dr. Benson walked over to a computer and typed in a few numbers before pressing the send button. Suddenly a hissing sound filled the air, and a crack came from the right side of the room.
Melfina slowly turned her head and saw a small capsule like shape, where all the wires from the chair she was in went into. But now it was open, looking much like the suitcase she herself came out of.
A young girl stepped out and Melfina gasped, despite her weak state. It was the girl from inside the labyrinth, the sleeping girl. This was Lydia?
The girl opened her eyes revealing green irises and dilated pupils.
Suddenly, Lydia's eyes focused, and when she spoke it was loud and clear, not soft like Melfina had expected.
"Name: Lydia. Objection: Destroy this world."
WOAAAAH! Wait a minute. She'ssupposed to be Benson's tool, not a mass destruction thingy!. what's going on. Find out next time. on bumbumbum, teach me to dream. Please review to!
Arigatou! Mandy~Chan
