Herald of light: Well folks, here it is, the next chapter. I am sorry if you see some weird writing anywhere, but I wrote this chapter for a summer class, and so that should explain most of it.
Disclaimer: I don't own 009 or any of the other characters within. I do own 0021 though, and ask that the chracter not be stolen.
Chapter 6: ..you must force yourself to move on, and regain your glory.
Date: June 19, 2055
Location: Unknown
Jedi was sitting in the middle of the open prairie. It was not unlike that of his hometown. He could see the wind make its way through the yellow shoots of wheat that was going to be fed to the world soon.
"Now listen with your eyes, and see with your ears 0021." The petite blonde told him "Close your eyes and try to follow 009 as he accelerates around the area." It was 003, the Frenchwoman who, thanks to the cybernetic change-up that Black Ghost had given her, now able to live at just about the same age forever. She was the scout for the group. She had the ability to see up to a hundred miles away, and when she focused could hear even further.
Jedi sat silently and began to listen to the world around him. He could feel the sun beating down on his tanned skin. It was warm, not horribly so, but it felt good to have it back on him. The ground was wet with the dew of the morning, and could have been made into a good slide had he just pushed.
As he focused more and more on the sounds around him, he began to hear the caterpillars eating their leaves in the way that lawn mowers do. He could hear the heartbeats of the birds flying through the air, beating like little drums. That is when he heard it, a mechanical sound that didn't belong there. It sounded like someone was beating air with an eggbeater.
Jedi opened his eyes, and looked in the direction of the sound. He could see the sound waves as they reverberated off of the moss-covered rocks, and musty old oaks. One by one, the sounds began to fade as the young Cyborg focused on the sound that wasn't a part of nature.
"To the right about….300 yards. Heading is about 312, he is slightly inbound." He told 003, who checked with her own abilities.
"By Jove, I think he's got it!" she said as she pointed a small laser pistol in the direction and fired a stun shot.
"Did you have to make me look bad in front of her?" an annoyed 009 was griping. "I mean, I know that you were supposed to be new to all of this, but on the first try you not only pinpoint where I am, but you tell where I am going!? You are something unique that's all I can tell you 0021."
"Please, I don't like the numbers. Call me Jedi. Besides, it wasn't like it didn't take me a couple of minutes to read that section of my manual." Jedi was trying to be polite, but it really was failing.
"You had a manual! I wonder how they managed that one. Anyway, we aren't here to go over that. I am supposed to teach you how to use your acceleration mode. By the way my name is Joe. Now…"
"Oh that, that was the first thing I looked up. How do you think I was able to fit a decent night's sleep in among all of that reading? What you do is use your tongue.." And with that, Jedi went over the instructions on how to use the super speed that had been given to him.
" Okay. If you know it all, let's have a race, shall we? We are in the middle of the Amazon Rainforest, if you can make it to that little stream about 500 yards away before I do, you can skip straight to the agility, but if not…. 50,000 laps around the gym back at home, in normal mode!" Joe tried to test Jedi's confidence, but was rudely awakened when Jedi got down in the starting track position, and went, "See ya when I see ya. Three, Two, One!" And zipped off.
"Hey, that's not right!" Joe said as he began to zip off.
In the accelerated world, the rainforest looked more like it belonged in a museum exhibit than in nature. Birds were in mid-flight, but without strings. Monkeys were caught in mid song, holding the same note, but without producing a sound. This was the first time that Jedi had had the time to actually notice what happened when he accelerated. But now wasn't the time for that, he had a race to win.
Joe was slower in this world, but he was moving. "Must not have the same speed settings as I do. Oh well, all that much easier for me." Jedi thought as he began to run to the tree.
The tree that Joe had pointed to was surrounded on all sides by a beautiful stream. The crystal blue waters were wiggling their way worrying not what they took with them. Branches spreading to the heavens the tree poked its way out and beyond the canopy of the rainforest to the world beyond.
Jedi reached the tree first, and looked back just to see Joe finish the course. "Wow, you really do know how to use it, but is your agility as good as your speed?"
"I suppose so, I don't know. That was really the first time I was able to do any running since I was unfrozen." Jedi remarked as he began to think of the rock-like book that had told him most of his abilities, and how to use them.
"Well, I'll have to take you to the obstacle course sometime, but first you have to learn how to breathe underwater with 008, err, I mean…" Joe trailed off as the holographic projection of the rainforest began to disappear. The birds fell to the ground and then in a burst of white static, were gone.
Then the sirens went off. Loud buzzing noisemakers that you would have heard nowhere else except in a nuclear blast. These were accompanied by red flashing lights, appearing out of nowhere like the sun on a summer's day. A booming voice came over as though he were God over this little corner of the country.
"General quarters, general quarters. This is not a drill. I repeat this is not a drill. Cyborgs report to the General's office immediately. I say again…"
Herald of light: So the excitement begins hehehehehehehehehehehhehe.
