Roderick had finally gotten everything in its proper place in his living quarters, he then looked at the computer and decided it was time to upload an old friend into it, Roderick pulled out a CD and put it in the C Drive, on the disk were about up to 17 different programs, he clicked on the one that read: V_HELLSING.PROG/SETUP and uploaded it onto the computer, he quickly put on his headphones with a mic attachment…and waited for the upload to complete. When it did a virtual image of a blond haired man with spectacles and blue eyes appeared saying, "Roderick? Where am I? What is this new place?"
Roderick responded, "Calm down Hellsing, you may not remember but I downloaded your program when I ran away…but your memory should return in a few moments."
Hellsing settled down a bit, then he asked: "Where is the portal format, I remember it still being set up before I was here?" Roderick smiled slightly and replied, "It's in pieces, I had to take it apart when I escaped, but it's here now…I just have to wait for this guy named Jim to bring them up so I can put it back together and install the gateway program."
"Okay, but are you sure the gateway will be safe to use on this computer? I'm detecting that all the computers are connected onto the same server." Hellsing commented, Roderick responded, "Spare me your worries Hellsing, the gateway program is barely detectable by any anti-virus program…plus, I can disassemble the gateway before anyone saw it."
About a few minutes later Jim came up with the boxes, Roderick opened them and took out the parts and after Jim left, started to set it up. He was about near done constructing it when he heard a knock on the door. "Who is it?" Roderick asked, but there was no answer. Again he asked, "Whose there?" still no reply. Roderick then crept over to his suitcase and pulled out his gun, put on of the three clips in it, attached the silencer, and crept towards the door. He first thought: "No way they could've found me yet…I haven't been here that long?" He opened the door just a crack to see it was just one of the students, he quickly hid the gateway machine and hid his gun (with the clip removed) in his suitcase again.
He opened the door again and said, "Yeah, what do you want?"
The froze up when he saw the color of Rodericks' eyes, but regained his nerve and said, "I just want to welcome you here…name's Odd, I guess I'll see you around." Roderick smirked and said, "You probably won't…I'm just living here, I'm actually going to the High School. But when the weekend rolls around, who knows?"
With that out of the way, Roderick returned to the gateway machine…he looked at the his watch and noticed it was already noon, "Time for a quick Luncheon…and then back to setting this thing up." he thought.
He went out and bought himself some fast food, a hot ham and cheese sandwich w/ fries and a drink…as he sat down on one of the benches in the courtyard to eat, he was soon confronted by another person. "Hey there, friend of mine told me about you. I'm Ulrick." The person said, Roderick looked up from his food and said, "Roderick…and if you have any questions about my eyes then let me answer them like this: One, these are not special contact lenses these are my natural eyes. And two, yes other people have made comments on them too so get over it." Roderick finished with, "So is there anything else you wanted to say to me, or did I just speak for you?" Ulrick then said, "I was only wondering if you'd like to have lunch with me and some of my friends?" Roderick almost gave him a glare that made Ulrick think that Roderick was about to kill him, then Roderick said, "Lead the way."
Roderick followed Ulrick to a picnic table where he was introduced to two other people: Jeremy and Yumi, Odd he had already met…so there was no need for introduction. When Roderick finished his meal he just got up and left saying, "Nice meeting you…it's been a slice."
That night Roderick finally got the gateway program ready for it's test run, Roderick slipped on his headset and said, "Ready Hellsing?" Hellsing replied, "Whenever you are Roderick…just start up the activation process."
Roderick then hit the Enter key and said, "Portal Stabilization activated." Roderick watch as a ghost like doorway of white light opened behind him. "Portal Stabilization at 17 percent…22 percent…47 percent…" Hellsing announced, it was about around 71 percent that the portal destabilized and collapsed, Roderick closed the program and then shouted, "Damn it…Damn it, Damn it, Damn it, why won't the angels Damn it!" Roderick then looked at the program and asked himself, "What went wrong?"
His mind was the first to answer that, "Nothing…everything was set up like it was before? I don't get it, same frequency, same power output." Then it hit him, "The output here doesn't match the output of the gateway machine, it collapsed because the machine has to make one final surge of energy to stabilize the portal completely…but since the output is different here, I'll have to alter the program slightly."
Roderick looked at the clock, he decided to get some shut eye and worry about it tomorrow…after he came back from school…he hid the machine again, brushed his teeth, slipped out of his clothes and got into bed.