A few days went by but time flew quickly for a couple of reasons. One being the library. I checked it out and found it to have nearly every book I could ever dream of and I intended to read most of them. Another thing was the key card. My dad was right; it did get me in nearly everywhere. I explored some of the labs but was shooed out of most of them. I also met a lot of the guards, too. I hadn't seen "my" guard again, though, and I wondered where he was, or if I had already met him but hadn't placed his voice and face.
One day, while in the library, "my" guard came and told me my dad wanted to see me.
"What's your name? I mean you know mine, so I was just wondering if I could know yours..." I asked, wondering if from regulations maybe he wouldn't tell me. I had to nearly bribe the other guards into telling me theirs.
"I'm Jerry Libnav," He held out his hand and I shook it. I talked to him as we walked to my dad's office. He had 2 kids but his wife had died in an accident before the new "superman" had started saving people. He told me he was on this project so people wouldn't have to go through what he did. I really admired him. He also said his kids were on the ship and on one of his days off he'd let me visit them in the living quarters.
When we got there and went in, it all seemed calm. Jerry said he would like to accompany me to see Amira. My dad nodded as he got up and motioned for us to follow him. I guessed I was going to have to get more information out of her. They had been doing research and stuff on what Ziran had said from our first talk. I presumed he and his brother had died numerous times, if that is possible, because they hadn't found the place yet.
We went to her "room" again and Jerry went in with us. He said he had always been called in to restrain her, he had never seen her when she was calm. Well, erm, calmer. To me she seemed like she was always insane. I wanted to just talk to her. Not about where Ziran's body lay but about other things. Maybe if I did that she wouldn't be so volatile or at least maybe a little less insane. I didn't want to try it with my dad there, though.
She was curled up in the center of the room this time. I wondered what she thought about all day. She hadn't lived a normal childhood from what I had been told so I don't think she had much in the way of memories to think back on. If she did have memories, then I would think they weren't things she'd like to remember.
I looked at my dad and he nodded to let me know it was ok to go over to her. I saw Jerry tense as I turned and started walking towards her. She didn't look at me. She just stayed curled up like a scared little kid. Actually, she was.
"Amira..." I whispered gently, not wanting to frighten her. I felt she knew we were there but thought that just incase she didn't that I should let her know.
"He won't tell me...I asked him again..." She sounded depressed and like she had been crying.
"Did he yell at you?" I questioned gently, not wanting to provoke any tears out of her.
"Yes...he did..." She said with regret in her voice.
"Sorry, but the sooner he tells us the sooner we can get him out of your head. All we really want to do is help you get rid of him." I said this quickly, thinking she was crying already.
She looked at me, her deep blue eyes questioning what I was saying. I wanted her to tell her everything about life outside of these walls. I wanted share things with her, not to just try and get information my dad wanted out of her. With my dad constantly watching from the door I couldn't. I felt trapped. If I talked about such things he would probably yell at me, but if I didn't, she may not enjoy my company for much longer. Then, salvation.
"Excuse me General," a scientist said quietly behind him. My father moved aside. The lady seemed so short standing next to him; then again, my dad was rather tall. She talked to him and then motioned to Amira. My father nodded slightly.
"Amira, please come with me," the scientist said softly. One of the guards from the stairs came quietly into the room. Amira looked at me, almost desperately, like she wanted me to get her out of there. I couldn't and I looked at her just as helplessly to show her I was a prisoner of my dad, as well. The guard stood next to her and she held up her hands. The guard put handcuff looking things upon her wrists.
The guard then tugged on them and she stood up. Just then Jerry took the handcuffs from the guard and Amira smiled a bit. I guess she enjoyed Jerry's company, too. Jerry guided her slowly out of the room and my dad and I followed.
"Now you can see her in action," My dad said a twinkle in his eye. I didn't think that was a good sign but I followed him as he followed Jerry and Amira. We were followed by so many guards it seemed like a parade of some sort.
We walked a while before Jerry put a key card in a door. It opened to three different doors. My dad put a key in the one directly in front of us as the other two of our group went into the door on the left. As we walked into the room I saw a few large screens and one large window. The window showed the room that had been to our left. It looked like a launch pad. Jerry quickly took the hand cuffs off of her. I then saw another guard give Amira a small oval shaped piece of metal. She took off the lavender robe type thing she had been wearing to reveal her "battle" suit. This one wasn't ripped like the last one but I figured it would be before long.
She then put the oval on her waist almost as if it were a belt buckle. She walked over to the center of the launch pad as the guards went behind screens. Two metal bar type things came up out of the launch pad.
All of a sudden the armor suit our superman was known for seemed to be melting onto her. It seemed to be coming from the belt. After the suit was almost all the way on her, she grabbed the metal polls and loops wrapped around her wrists. I could see her profile and as the helmet started going over her eyes I saw them turning green. It must be the good Ziran taking over, since the evil one had orange-red eyes. At least this one won't yell at her I thought as a hatch started to open in the ceiling. I saw the vastness of space reflected off of her visor.
I saw her grip tighten slightly as I realized someone was counting down. When they hit one she suddenly was gone. I didn't see or hear anything. She was there one moment and in literally the blink of an eye, she was gone.
Quickly I turned around and saw her on the screens. She was in the famous superman pose. Arms stretched out in front in fists, legs straight, head up. The only thing she was missing was the cape and the "S" on her, um, chest.
Anyway, I could tell she was going through the atmosphere as she seemed on fire. I quickly turned towards my dad as I realized something odd.
"How can you get these camera angles with her moving so fast and entering the atmosphere?" I asked, baffled by this feat.
"I'll show you when she returns," he winked. I hated that. He loved to show off, that's why he hated when I got bad grades. He needed to be able to show off since he couldn't impress anyone with his military stories anymore.
I watched another screen as the picture changed. It showed an explosion of some sort of building. I guess it must have been something that was completely out of control if they were calling in superman.
The scene looked just like a normal fire, though, that any station could take care of. Then the camera pulled back, revealing a whole little city in flames. I wanted to know how it happened and how my dad could still be smiling.
Amira arrived and surveyed the scene before setting to work. She seemed to be floating when I noticed she had jets on her feet. She pulled out a sort of gun from one of the many pockets on the armor's belt and braced herself the best she could while floating in mid air. It fired a stream of cold water that nearly froze when it hit the fire. As this was happening she looked around for something. She found it.
Stopping to fly over to them, she took out another gun and gave it to some firemen who gladly accepted it. Spraying what flames she could on her way, she stopped at every fire truck she could giving them the guns. She gave the one she was carrying to a rather worried looking fireman and went off to a tall building. There were a lot of firemen around this particular building for some reason. She went down next to a fireman who pointed up to the building and said something to her. With that she was off towards where the guy had been pointing. She had been flying straight up this tall building when all of a sudden she curved out. Quickly she curved back in and plowed through a window. Fire enveloped the window after she had gone through it. There must have been people in it, why else would she go in there.
As minutes ticked by I began to worry.
Just then she came flying through a window but didn't have anyone with her. People below where she had come out moved away quickly to get away from the falling glass. She turned around and grabbed two people and quickly brought them to the ground near the rescue vehicles. She went back and brought down more people. After rescuing more than a dozen people she went down to the fireman from before and he pointed towards another building. Like a bee buzzing from flower to flower, she kept rescuing people trapped in the buildings.
The firemen were winning the battle against this tremendous fire. An explosion drew everyone's attention and as fast as she had taken off she was suddenly at that building. It was leaning over so she grabbed it and pushed it up as the people moved away from it. As I wondered why she was still holding it I saw that there was a person hanging from a window. How could she grab him and still hold the building, I thought desperately. A few moments later she was edging her way towards him hand over hand down the building. She reached him and grabbed him. After wards, she got him on her back and he clung for dear life.
Amira must have been stumped at what to do next. She floated there for a long time and the guy on her back started saying something. She perked up and looked down. She crept towards the middle of the part of the building she was holding. What she did next made my jaw drop.
Now, she being superman, this feat probably wouldn't have surprised many people, them thinking it was the suit doing the work and that a guy was behind the controls. I having seen her, the thin little girl she was, made me do a double take at her strength.
She lifted the building above her head. Now the guy was really freaking out and he nearly fell. Amira seemed to pause as he collected himself. After he seemed considerably calmer she started floating forward. Then we saw where she was going. There was a nice shut down highway nearby that looked just wide enough to accommodate the building if it was laid upon one side and that's just what she did.
Keeping the guy on her back, she went down toward a fireman to see what else she could do. I could see he was thanking him, I mean her, profusely. He then seemed to shoo her away.
Someone at the controls in front of me looked back at my dad. He nodded and turned back towards the screen. The person then told Amira to come back to the station through a microphone. I looked at the screen and saw her saluting everyone. Everyone, even those who were injured, saluted back.
A large jetpack thing came out onto her back just like how the armor had come on her in the first place. With that she was off, though not as fast as before. My legs were tired as that mission had taken more than an hour. I wanted to sit but my dad motioned for me to follow him back out the door.
She hovered over the spot she had taken off from then gently, her feet hit the landing spot. The second she was on the ground the guards were around her and the armor started melting off. She had a few burns and tears on the suit that was underneath but nothing that looked serious. She looked pretty worn out but then again considering what she had done I was surprised she wasn't winded.
Her eyes were sort of in between their original blue and the green they had been when she had taken off. I guessed that Z was letting her take control again. The guards gave her the lavender robe again and she put it on wearily. The metal ball was floating around like nuts and seemed to be taking everything in.
"Here's what got those camera angles," my dad said as the metal ball floated in front of us.
"It's a camera then?" I asked knowing the answer.
"Yes. There's a whole bunch of them. We call them CAO's." He seemed so proud of this statement. I didn't say anything.
I looked over at Amira. She started walking towards us with careful steps. She looked as though she was about to fall over and the guards prepared themselves to catch her if she did happen to fall. Jerry started for her to pick her up but my dad told him not to stop her.
She walked right up to me and just stared at me. She smiled. Her eyes were hers again, a deep, beautiful blue. I didn't know what she wanted me to do so I just stayed there. She blinked slowly and her smile faded. Her head bowed a bit and then she pulled it back up to give me one last smile.
She fainted right there. I caught her and held her for a second before she was ripped from my arms. The guards picked her up like she was nothing to them. 'She's a person!' I wanted to yell at them. She wasn't just some robot who ended up saving the world. She was a person who needed help. My help and no one else's.
I realized that I was what she needed then. No one else could reach her. How she had known this before me was a mystery but I knew now and knew I could help her. As the guards took her away, I couldn't wait for the next time I could talk to her.
My dad told me to go back to my room. I walked the long hallways thinking about what I was going to talk to her about all the way back to my room. I thought long into the night. I guess I eventually dropped off because when I woke up in the morning I didn't remember going to sleep.
I hope you guys like it so far -
I have another story with Ziran that I'm going to write. It's actually supposed to be the first one, not this one, but this one's easier to write.
Please give me constructive criticism!! (none of my friends have been giving me any lol)