Okay, I know I said it would be revealed last chapter, but I got tired of typing so here it is.
Brian: No synopsis?
Karla: Do you want me to make you read a synopsis?
Brian: NO! Um... I-
Meggan: I'll do it!
Karla: I don't have one for this chapter.
Meggan: Oh. That's no fun.
Karla: I'll have one next chapter.
Meggan: Yay!
Kurt changed the room so that it displayed a three dimensional globe. He motioned for us both to come over to it.
"The Cloud War started here," He pointed to an unfamiliar land mass. In fact the whole globe was unfamiliar. "That used to be the United States. They took Canada first for it's resources, and then moved south. All of this was fought with the conventional weapons of the day, guns and whatnot. Later they branched out into other non-nuclear nations until they ran out of those. Having finally massed enough power, they went after the rest of the world. Pakistan and India sent nuclear missles at anything that moved. Russia attempted to follow suit and in that attempt, destroyed themselves because their missles backfired. Churnoble blew open and the toxic gasses spread everywhere. That was about it, except that the Americans always had a plan for it and they launched the ground we're now standing on."
"We're floating in the air?" I asked shocked. "How can we be, I mean, that's a lot of land to hoist up on what? Jet engines?"
"Kree technology. They saw their creations in trouble and came to help. They are the 'Industry' and they run everything." He explained.
"What about the language?" I asked. "I still don't know what a toxone is."
"A toxone is a hybrid word. You've probably heard a few. Toxone means toxic zone. It's where there was poison left over after the Cloud War. Calign, which you must have heard," I nodded, "is a hybrid of call sign. It's a sort of 'tag' that the Industry uses to keep track of it's people. Natface is a hybrid of natural surface."
"So now the big question is, why are you here?" 10 asked. "They really don't take to kindly to people from other worlds. They keep saying something about a butterfly flapping it's wings in China, but I don't think butter can fly and I know it doesn't have wings and where ever this 'China' place is, I haven't heard of it-"
"That's the chaos theory." I said accidentally interupting him. "it states that if you introduce a foriegn element into a system, the system will be comprimised and will no longer work. The particular example you're citing is if you create a weather prediction program and you forget to factor in the tiny breeze a butterfly creates flapping it's wings in China, then your weather program won't work."
"Why would you need to predict the weather?" he asked.
"To see if it's going to rain or snow or something." I replied.
"Rain? Snow? What's that?" He asked. he was looking more confused the more I talked.
"Rain. It's water that falls from the sky." I tried to explain.
"If water fell from the sky I'd either thank the Industry or run screaming because it burned." 10 said. "And what's 'Snow'?"
"Snow is just frozen water that falls like rain only in tiny crystals instead of drops." I said.
"All that happens here is the sun shines. You can't go out while it is, but I can show you what it looks like." He said. He led me to a window and opened it a bit.
The sky was crimson and there wasn't a single cloud in it. It looked so much like a sea of blood that I fell back like I'd been hit. 10 caught me and lowered me gently to the floor.
"Are you alright?" he asked.
"That may have been a bit to much for her to absorb all at once. Brittany, I'll take you along with me in the morning, since 10 here has a job to do. We are by the way, above cloud level if you were wondering why there weren't any." Kurt said. He led me to an even smaller room (assuming that was possible) with a bed in it. I fell asleep almost instantly.
So? Does everybody like? Cookies for anyone who says yes!
Brian: No synopsis?
Karla: Do you want me to make you read a synopsis?
Brian: NO! Um... I-
Meggan: I'll do it!
Karla: I don't have one for this chapter.
Meggan: Oh. That's no fun.
Karla: I'll have one next chapter.
Meggan: Yay!
Kurt changed the room so that it displayed a three dimensional globe. He motioned for us both to come over to it.
"The Cloud War started here," He pointed to an unfamiliar land mass. In fact the whole globe was unfamiliar. "That used to be the United States. They took Canada first for it's resources, and then moved south. All of this was fought with the conventional weapons of the day, guns and whatnot. Later they branched out into other non-nuclear nations until they ran out of those. Having finally massed enough power, they went after the rest of the world. Pakistan and India sent nuclear missles at anything that moved. Russia attempted to follow suit and in that attempt, destroyed themselves because their missles backfired. Churnoble blew open and the toxic gasses spread everywhere. That was about it, except that the Americans always had a plan for it and they launched the ground we're now standing on."
"We're floating in the air?" I asked shocked. "How can we be, I mean, that's a lot of land to hoist up on what? Jet engines?"
"Kree technology. They saw their creations in trouble and came to help. They are the 'Industry' and they run everything." He explained.
"What about the language?" I asked. "I still don't know what a toxone is."
"A toxone is a hybrid word. You've probably heard a few. Toxone means toxic zone. It's where there was poison left over after the Cloud War. Calign, which you must have heard," I nodded, "is a hybrid of call sign. It's a sort of 'tag' that the Industry uses to keep track of it's people. Natface is a hybrid of natural surface."
"So now the big question is, why are you here?" 10 asked. "They really don't take to kindly to people from other worlds. They keep saying something about a butterfly flapping it's wings in China, but I don't think butter can fly and I know it doesn't have wings and where ever this 'China' place is, I haven't heard of it-"
"That's the chaos theory." I said accidentally interupting him. "it states that if you introduce a foriegn element into a system, the system will be comprimised and will no longer work. The particular example you're citing is if you create a weather prediction program and you forget to factor in the tiny breeze a butterfly creates flapping it's wings in China, then your weather program won't work."
"Why would you need to predict the weather?" he asked.
"To see if it's going to rain or snow or something." I replied.
"Rain? Snow? What's that?" He asked. he was looking more confused the more I talked.
"Rain. It's water that falls from the sky." I tried to explain.
"If water fell from the sky I'd either thank the Industry or run screaming because it burned." 10 said. "And what's 'Snow'?"
"Snow is just frozen water that falls like rain only in tiny crystals instead of drops." I said.
"All that happens here is the sun shines. You can't go out while it is, but I can show you what it looks like." He said. He led me to a window and opened it a bit.
The sky was crimson and there wasn't a single cloud in it. It looked so much like a sea of blood that I fell back like I'd been hit. 10 caught me and lowered me gently to the floor.
"Are you alright?" he asked.
"That may have been a bit to much for her to absorb all at once. Brittany, I'll take you along with me in the morning, since 10 here has a job to do. We are by the way, above cloud level if you were wondering why there weren't any." Kurt said. He led me to an even smaller room (assuming that was possible) with a bed in it. I fell asleep almost instantly.
So? Does everybody like? Cookies for anyone who says yes!