Daytime11:05am here and I throw a big HELLO to all of you who read and reviewed me. You are all so pretty. *hugs reviewers and readers.* Not you, Devenus …… unless Devenus wants me to *looks down at the floor and shuffles feet*. Oh and Senri if you are reading this read on and find out what 597-A is like.
Well, getting back to what's important, here's another chapter. It's a long one. The little voices in my head tell me to write faster.
Oh and by the way, I own the following; 597-A, 597-B, Zurc DeAlba, 379, A, Be, Jota, Equis, and Igriega. I own a bunch more stuff but I'll mention them when the time comes. Just so you know. Oh, and everything else belongs to my favorite movie company.......Disney.
Oh, one last quick note. *blah, blah* this means thought. "blah, blah" this means speech
So, sit back, relax, read, review, and enjoy the third chapter of………Trust and Love.
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Jumba took the phone and swallowed hard. He was becoming increasingly nervous as he held the phone. As he dialed the numbers, he began rehearsing what he was going to say in his head.
Meanwhile, in a distant galaxy, trouble was arising.
"Hey STOP that!! ... Leave me alone!!!" A small Stitch like experiment yelled as she ran down a laboratory hall. She ran around a corner and ran into a dead end. She turned around and waited for what chased her there. A red bunny with scales and glowing hands appeared from around the corner, laughing at the fear she elicited.
"I said stop. Didn't you hear me?" Asked the scared lavender experiment.
The red bunny chuckled evilly. "Make me, little one." She pointed at the Lavender experiment and red lightning came out. The lavender experiment screamed and jumped aside. The lightning missed her.
"You can't hurt me, if you can't see me." The lavender experiment said. She closed her eyes and concentrated on the color of the wall behind her. Her fur and jumpsuit she was wearing to the color of the wall. She kept to the gray wall as she quickly ran passed the red bunny. The bunny-dragon heard a gasp pass her ear.
"But I can still hear you, you weakling." She pointed at where she heard the sound and shot a bolt of lightning at where she heard the sound. She zapped the once invisible experiment and shocked the color right back into her.
The chase was on again.
"Zurc, Jota's being mean to me, again!" She yelled.
In another room, the call was heard. A scientist looked up from her computer and sighed in frustration. "Will I ever get my work done?" She stood up and headed in the direction she heard the shout.
The lavender experiment looked over her shoulder at her pursuer. The bunny pointed again and a small spark hit the lavender experiment's back. She screamed and held the spot. Her fur fluffed out as static ran through her fur. As she did this, she didn't realized where she was running and fell down a laundry shoot. She screamed again and held the walls to stop herself from falling. The bunny watched this all happen and began rolling on the floor with laughter. Little did the bunny-dragon know, someone was watching.
"Jota, why do you have to be such an irritant?" asked a deep voice. (Jota pronounced HOH-tah (Spanish))
The bunny turned around and saw a dark gray wolf like creature.
"No one asked you, Equis." Jota snapped back. (Equis pronounced EH-kees (Spanish again))
She pointed at him and shot lightning. Equis stretched his body so the middle part moved and dodged the spark. Jota stared angrily at Equis. Equis stared right back at her and walked to the shoot.
*All I wanted to do was train, like Zurc told me, and then Jota attacks me and I fall down here right when I'm about to start*
"Are you okay, 597-A?" He shouted.
"Equis? Watch out! Jota's up there somewhere."
"I know. She's not going to bother you anymore today." He stretched out his hand and reached for her. She leapt for his hand and he pulled her out. She gasped and hugged him.
"You okay?" He asked not really returning the hug. 597-A nodded, and let him go.
"What's going on here?" Dr. DeAlba asked just arriving to the scene. Dr Zurc DeAlba was a very attractive and curvy cat-like creature with dark brown hair down to her waist and a voice like an angel. She was working on an important project and didn't enjoy being disrupted. 597 and Equis looked at Jota.
Zurc let out a loud sigh. "Jota, this is the third time this week you picked on 597. I'm sick of it." She bent down and picked up 597. "You're lucky I'm very busy or I'd deal with you now, but since that is not the case I'll deal with you later." She turned and left to return to her lab with 597 in her arms. Equis looked over to Jota who had a very angry look on her face.
"Yea, like you could deal with me." She scowled after the doc.
"Funny, you say something like that only when the doctor has left." Equis noted. Jota growled at this and shook her fist at him.
"You wanna see what I'd do to her if she ever decides she has the guts to try to reprimand me."
Equis just stared at her and continued as if she didn't say anything. "You need to stop being mean to 597."
"Why? We're going to be alive for only a short time. I want to have fun, unlike a kill-joy like you."
"I'm just trying to keep this world from turning into utter chaos. And you are most definitely not helping."
"Oh, and you're just so wise, just ever so wise. I've been alive longer than you have. What makes you think you're wiser than I am?"
"Age is only a fraction of wisdom. I know I'm wiser because I observe things better than you do. I take can a step back and observe a situation and see the best decision to make."
"Well, I was created for accuracy and weather
manipulation. Wisdom comes with the
territory. Eco-systems hang in the
balance with every decision I make."
"Yea, it's too bad you're a blithering idiot." He said giving her the most serious look
imaginable. She boiled inside and was
about to send about a million volts up his ass, but when she looked at him she
decided against it. She knew that when
he had that look the conversation was over.
She grunted to herself and walked away to join the others.
Zurc had just entered her lab and had set 597 down on the floor.
"597, I would like you to stay here while I work. For some reason you don't seem to get along with the others."
"Yes, ma'am." She said. *The others.* She thought. *I never got along with them. They're different from the experiments Zurc created with Jumba. These were experiments Zurc created by herself. They were very different. They acted differently when they were first created. When Jumba's experiments were first created they didn't know anything and they had to be taught things, but her experiments knew everything, what they could do, their names, and even each other.*
Since everyone knew each other, 597 always felt a bit left out. She was even teased as you saw just now. Also, what didn't help was the fact that she wasn't nearly as powerful as any of them. Maybe if she was complete she would be, but she wasn't. She thought about becoming whole every now and then, but she also liked being herself. She also thought about the other experiments and hoped one day she could be with them again, at least find her friend.
597 sat on the floor. She felt at home in the lab for obvious reasons. She spent a lot of time there, because she didn't really fit in with the others. One of her favorite things in the lab was a stimulating game on the computer. 597 crawled into Zurc's lap and looked up at her.
"Are you busy? Can I play a game?" She asked in Native Turian. (By the way 597-A only speaks Native Turian until I say otherwise)
"Yes, I am." Zurc said becoming annoyed. "Please, 597 can you go do something else in here?"
597 looked down with sad eyes. Zurc noticed 597's favorite toy. She decided to play with 597 a bit.
"Oh my 597, what is that in the corner getting ready to devour us?" Zurc asked with sarcastic fear.
597 crouched in Zurc's lap. She slowly looked over Zurc's shoulder at the corner she mentioned and gasped.
"It's my ball." She said excitedly.
Her dark purple eyes caught sight of a bright blue ball in the corner. She trilled and sprinted to it. She growled and pounced on it. Zurc watched 597 growling and chasing it all around the floor out of the corner of her eye. She chuckled to herself. She was just about to get really into her work when she felt a tug on her lab coat. She sighed slowly, a bit annoyed and looked down at the lavender creature with a bright blue ball in her mouth.
"Let me guess, you want me to throw that?"
597 nodded her head. Zurc sighed and took the ball. "Oh look at it go." she said sarcastically. She unenthusiastically rolled the ball on the floor. 597 ran wildly across the floor after the ball. When she got it, she started practicing a few tricks, like spinning it on the tip of her nail, making it roll on her arms, and the most difficult trick of all, balancing it on her nose. She was working on trying to walk with it without dropping it. Zurc giggled watching her out of the corner of her eye. She realized she wasn't going to get any work done with her in the room. At the moment the phone rang.......
"…Phone…" Zurc said to herself. She looked at her computer and realized she had barely got any work done since her first interruption, which was about an hour ago. "597, can you get that? I really have to get back to work and I can't be bothered with vid-telemarketers."
"Yes, master." She said sarcastically. "Want your slippers, too?" The phone rang again.
"Yes and can you bring me the paper and my coffee and make breakfast and serve it to me in bed?" Zurc responded with a serious tone but was obviously being sarcastic.
597 grinned at Zurc. Zurc glanced at the phone, and then at 597, hoping 597 would take a hint and get the phone. 597 did the same gesture. The phone rang again.
"NOW, 597! Before they hang up." Zurc yelled.
597 hated being yelled at. She quickly scurried to the phone and pushed a button. A screen came up but there was no picture.
*Whoever it is must be using a really old phone.* 597 thought as she picked up the handset.
"Dr. Zurc DeAlba's residence. Who is calling?"
597 paused. She heard someone gasp on the phone. Then she heard someone whisper "say something".
"Hello?" She asked, beginning to get really curious about who was in the phone.
"Oh, yes, hello. Is this 597-A?" She heard another voice say. This one sounded familiar.
"Depends. Who is this?
"Oh, this is Dr. Jumba Jookiba. I don't know if you remember-"
"Jumba?" 597 cut him off, trying to make sure she heard right. Zurc turned her head when she heard the name. 597 squeaked happily and turned to Zurc.
"IT'S JUMBA!" She yelled excitedly. Zurc gasped and her chair fell over as she quickly got out of it to run to the phone.
"Hello, 597. You remember me. How are you?"
"Jumba, how could I forget? I'm doing fine, how about you?" 597 asked, happily.
Zurc ran next to 597 and asked for the phone.
"No, I'm talking." She said pointing to herself. "So, Jumba what are you up to?"
"Oh, nothing much. 597, I'll talk to you in a little bit. Can I…" Jumba stopped talking and started listening. He heard fighting. 597 and Zurc were fighting over the phone.
"Give me the phone, 597." Zurc ordered.
"No, you said you were too busy to be bothered."
"I'm not busy anymore." Zurc made a grab for the phone.
597 curled her body into a ball, keeping the phone in the center of it.
"Mine." 597 said.
Zurc stopped and sighed with a bit of frustration. She looked at the little fuzz ball curled around the phone. She saw a familiar spot on her back and poked at it. 597 screamed as she let go of the phone. Speck held the spot and looked at Zurc giggling. She was ticklish and Zurc had the phone.
"Hey, no fair." She said trying to suppress her giggles.
"Who said tickling wasn't fair?" Zurc said after telling Jumba to hold on. 597 playfully growled a bit.
"Meanie." She said under her breath.
"Hey, one more word out of you and I'll tickle you again. And, you don't want that, do you?" Zurc playfully wiggled her fingers at her. 597 squeaked and hopped off the table. She ran back to her ball and started playing with her ball again. Zurc returned her attention to the phone.
"Hello, Zurc speaking." She said into the receiver. Jumba hesitated.
"Hello." Her voice grew nervous. She hoped she didn't accidentally hang up on him. She heard some whispering, "stop not saying anything. She's going to think you hung up."
"Jumba, hello." She said hopefully.
"Yes…Zurc?"
"Yes." She sighed in relief. "Jumba, how are you?"
"I am doing fine. You?"
"Good. So, what have you been doing? Where are you? Are you in prison? Are you okay? Do you need me to bring you anything? Why didn't you call me sooner?" She asked rather quickly, getting a bit angry during the last question.
"Whoa, Zurc, heh, heh… I'm fine and not in prison, but I might as well be."
Pleakley elbowed Jumba for saying that.
"Where are you? What happened?"
"Well, is very long story...very long story." Jumba paused and began remembering his misadventure that led him to his new home on Earth.
Jumba heard a beeping noise. He also heard Zurc talking to 597.
"Hey, is that the last of it?...Oh no, 597 leave me some…If you drink all of it, I'll deactivate you." Zurc said.
597 poured half of what she was drinking in another cup.
"Good?" She asked.
"Yes, good girl." Zurc waved her hand at 597.
Jumba thought about what Zurc just said and it triggered something in his memory.
"Hey, Zurc are you still drinking coffee?"
"Yea, and somehow 597 got into my stash. Now, she's hooked on it worse than I am. It's such a pity. And, it's every expensive to import it from other planets."
"You know Zurc. Where I am living, now they are growing coffee everywhere and it is readily available."
"Where are you living? And, you didn't answer my question of "what happened to you?"."
"I am living on Earth and is too much of a long story to tell you how I got her over phone. You know long distance rates. Say, are you doing anything important now? Like any big projects in you career?"
"Well I haven't been doing very much of anything in my career. It's taken a turn for the worst. I'm kind of in between jobs at the moment, working off my life savings."
"Oh, I'm sorry to hear that."
"Yea, but I am working on a project. Why?"
"Well… I was just…uh… wondering if you could take sometime off and…uh, visit me."
"Visit…you?" Zurc's heart began pounding wildly at the invitation.
"Yes, you see, I live on Earth with tiny family….. And I was speaking of you… and I thought it would be fun if you came for a visit."
Zurc paused. Her heart sank
*Oh no, he married an Earthling and has a family. Oh well, I don't care. I miss Jumba and I want to see him, regardless if he has a family. I bet he has a beautiful family*
"Okay, I'll come and may I bring 597, too. She misses you tremendously."
"Of course. Oh, and come as soon as you can."
"Will do. I'll call you as soon as I'm close."
Zurc got Jumba's number and they said their goodbyes. She turned to 597 who was finishing the last of her coffee.
"597 start packing. We're going on a trip."
"Trip? Where?" 597 asked, sounding a little less than thrilled about it.
"We're going on a trip to a tiny planet in gamma quadrant." She explained as she placed a pile of papers in a folder and a bunch of folders in a suitcase. "The planet is called Earth. We're going to visit Jumba."
597 cheered and bounced around in happiness. She ran out of the room and to hers and started packing her favorite clothes, cookies, and blanket. Zurc packed her most Earth-style looking clothes. When 597 finished she went back to the lab to see if Zurc was finished. She wasn't.
"When are we leaving?"
"First thing tomorrow. Is that okay?" Zurc asked with a grin knowing full well how much 597 didn't like being with the others. "Oh, and by the way, make sure you get a lot of sleep tonight. You have to fly us there."
"I what?"
"I didn't fix that tiny glitch in the autopilot system, yet. I didn't get a chance to."
"Yea, you're to busy."
"Well, I am a scientist, and I'm in the middle of a big project. I'm this close to bringing "Y" to life." She held up her hand with two fingers really close together.
"Then why take this trip?"
"You don't want to see Jumba?"
597 stayed quiet.
"So, since the autopilot program is out, you're going to have to wear your training suit and let the computer read your maps."
"How long will the ride be?"
"Very long. Now, put your bag on the ship so we can leave early."
"Yes, Zurc." 597 sighed.
To clarify, 597-A is a color manipulating experiment. Along with changing the colors in her fur, she was programmed with a map of almost every galaxy known. 597 had to use her powers to put the maps on her fur. The bad news is if she has to keep a color that isn't lavender on her fur for a long time, she gets tired. The galaxies were colored a darker purple and empty space stayed lavender. The maps appear only on her back, not all over her body, and if she's somewhere for a long time she can create maps of that place. The suit she has to wear, but hates to wear, allows the ship's navigation computer to read her maps and get to where they want to go. It was safe to say, she wasn't happy about the work she had to do right after waking up.
She grabbed her suitcase and began heading toward the ship. As she walked down the long gray hall, she passed the room where Zurc's other experiments were kept. She stopped and stared at the door. She hated everything and everyone behind that door. She never wanted to see that door again. She growled at the door and began again down the hall, but before she could walk too far a thought nagged at her. She didn't hate everybody.
Equis stood on the second floor of the room 597 was staring at. He stood and watched over everyone. Everyone was busy doing something. Equis wondered, as he watched over them, about what Jota said. She said that they were here for only a short time. He wondered just how long they had. At that moment, he felt a presence behind him.
"Are you still here?" He asked, knowing who it was. "Aren't you going on a trip?"
"How did you know?"
"I know many things."
"I'm not leaving just yet. I thought I'd say good bye to you." 597 said, in a low voice.
"Well, you said it. Have a safe trip and don't fall asleep behind the wheel."
"What are you doing?" She asked trying to make a bit more conversation.
"Looking at everybody." Equis's answer was short and a bit cold. Kind of like his attention span when it came to a little lavender experiment.
"Oh,"
"Is the doctor working on any more projects?"
"Yea, she's working on "Y"."
Equis sighed. "If she succeeds, he'll destroy this world."
"What? Don't you mean she'll destroy the world? And, I don't think Zurc is going to destroy this world or any other world."
"I'm not talking about her."
597 was very confused. She usually felt this way after talking with Equis. He is very mysterious and well……confusing.
"…Then are you talking about Zurc's newest experiment? Cause I think "Y" is going to be a girl too."
"I know. Believe me, I know, and I'm not talking about her. Listen, don't worry about it. After all, none of them are." He said referring to Zurc's experiments.
"Do you know her? Like, what her name is?"
"Yea, Igriega. She's well known among us." He said, sadly. (BTW, it's pronounced ee-gree-EH-gah).
"Oh." 597 was disappointed to find out that she was "the last to know", as usual.
"Shouldn't you be going now?"
"No, I'm leaving tomorrow." 597 looked down at the first floor of the room and saw all the experiments scurrying around. "How many of you are there so far?"
"27, including myself." Equis answered. *But not for long.* He thought.
"27? But I've only counted 25… Come to think of it, where is "A" and "B"? A (Ah) and Be (Beh)? They were created right? I've never seen them."
"They've been created. You just haven't seen them. No one has…except for me."
"Yea, you're a special one, right? You see all." 597 said trying to make him feel embarrassed.
"Not all, just more than you."
597 looked at Equis. He hadn't really looked at her once during this whole conversation. Not that she really care if he looked at her, but she wondered why he was watching over the others so carefully. It's as if he knows something was going to happen to them. Deep down, 597 wanted something to happen to them, to everyone but Equis. He had been the only one of them who had been nice to her and looked after her when Zurc couldn't. She wanted to show him some sort of gratitude for being so kind. She walked over to him and hugged him. Equis rolled his eyes a bit.
*Doesn't she get it? I'm not a "hug" person.* He thought.
Then she did something that caught him off guard. She quickly gave him a peck on the cheek. His eyes widened. He never got kissed before, ever, and he had existed forever. He quickly regained his composure. She let go of him, grabbed her bag, and headed for the door. She stopped and turned to him.
"You know, I don't kiss everybody and I've only kissed two other people, Zurc and my friend, who is not here anymore. So, it's special."
*Maybe to you.* Equis thought. He didn't say anything. 597 walked to the door.
*Wow, Equis can be really sweet sometimes, but he can be a real GROUCH.* 597 thought. Equis grinned.
*And you 597, can be very cute sometimes but you are so naive.* He thought.
"Goodbye, Equis." 597 said, leaving.
"Bye, 597…..A"
He returned his attention to the others once again and heard the door close behind him.
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YAY!!! Another chapter done. Wow, that was cool. Please tell me if I went a little overboard with the mysteriousness of Equis. Oh and by the way, if you didn't catch it Equis can read thoughts. Okay. Now my imagination tanks need recharging.
I'll try to have the next chapter up as soon as I'm done alphabetizing my sisters (I only have 2).
The next chapter will include the following items; a pillow, Stitch's blanket, sleepiness, a planet, a perfect bed, and clothes that are a bit too small.
Bye bye for now. SYL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!