Chapter 7- Pep Talk

Bruce came out of the council room and saw Ash sitting against the wall. He went over to her and sat down next to her.

"Sorry about that, but any other vote would have gotten me discounted and the majority declared anyway."

"That doesn't make it any better."

"I know, but at least this way I know that they know that I didn't want to put you though this fifty years from now."

"Nate, you're the seventeen-year-old cyborg twice savior of five dimensions, and the face of the most dangerous dimension known; you can stop thinking that anyone will forget your life anytime soon."

"Hey, who helped out the second time?"

"I did, but don't change the subject."

"Okay, just saying that no one will forget about you anytime soon either."

"I hope they forget this part"

"I hope so too, but I wouldn't bet on it."

"Can I get back to the Genetics Lab now?"

"What are you working on anyway?"

"That Human Enhancement project you set me up on, Mister Catholic."

"Hey, I don't like it either, but it will give us an edge and save lives…By the way, we got a letter from that girl we saved two weeks ago in LA.

"Autumn? The one that was in a car crash and parents didn't make it? Isn't she five?"

"Yeah, more of a drawing really, from what I can tell, I'm a muscle bound superman who ripped the entire car apart just to get her, and you're a female version of Nightcrawler with out the blue fur and tail."

"That's inventive, how good is it?"

"Better then anything I ever did in art. Speaking of art, wanna come to the play I'm in? The Punishment of Penthor."

"Greek?"

"Style, written about a hundred years ago in T1d.

"Sure, what time is it?"

"Right now, I've gotta go or it gonna be the understudy instead of me as Penthor."

"Then lets go."

Asu walked into the room the Petty Officer assigned her. Her hair was back to normal length and all the cuts were healed in a second by the woman doctor. The room was split into two sections, one for sleeping, one for eating, and had a bathroom at the end of the sleeping area. Two paintings and a vase of fake flowers where the only decoration. The sheets, while purple and obviously feminine, where also very plain. She picked up the only book in the room A Study of the Canine Brain Volume 2: Foxes by Lt. (jg) Jared Wonnacott. And set it on the nightstand where it would help her get to sleep. She then said to herself,

"I wonder where Nate is?"

"Commander Bruce is in the Amphitheatre," said a female voice from the ceiling. "For directions please pick up the PADD on the table and press "Directions".

She picked up the flat cup coaster like object and pressed the button near the bottom. She then followed the directions out the door.