Author: rainyday101
Rating: pg for now but it will most likely pg13 later on
Disclaimer: besides my cd collection, and my cat nos, I own nothing. This includes the Tribe and evrything affiliated with it.
Summary: while working on a project together jack starts to rethink his opinion of ram (ramjack) SLASH
a/n: sorry about the huge wait between chapters but im trying to get them out as fast as i can.
chapter six: evil overlords and bad announcements
Jack struggled to close his mouth and come up with anything resembling english that he could say to fix this disastrous situation.
Ram on the other hand quickly collected himself and gracefully rose up off Jack's lap acting as if nothing out of the ordinary had happened.
As if him and Jack groping each other was an everday occurance.
When people failed to see things his way Ram sent a harsh glare at everyone in the room and imperiously asked what Slade wanted.
"You told me to come by at nine to look at Megas new program, but clearly you had your hands full with other matters." It was obvious that it was taking every ounce of self control that Slade possesed to keep a sraight face while saying that.
Jack was so very not amused.
Ruby didn't seem to know what to say which Jack decided to take as a good thing, even though he knew that soon she would be sqealing 'I told you so, I told you so' over and over, probably in a very loud voice to.
Ram just glared harder, somthing Jack had'nt thought was possible. "Very clever Slade did you bring the parts I asked for or not."
Unconciously Jack put a hand on Ram's arm in order to calm him down. Ram looked over at him and immediatly his face softened. Jack really didn't know what to think about the fact that apprently he held a certain amount of control over Rams feelings.
When he remebered that there were other people in the room Ram immediatly retreated back to his imperious face, and was clearly three seconds from informing someone about how overwhelmingly incompetant they were when the computer started to make a loud beeiping sound.
Ram whipped around to stare at the moniter. After a few seconds of contemplation he looked up and impaitently motioned for Ruby and Slade to leave.
Apprently god was in a giving mood that day because they left without complaint, although Ruby shot Jack a look that clearly stated he was going to have a long talk with her later.
"Whats up?" Jack asked hesitantly.
"Mega's getting ready to send out a tv announcement, and that usualy leads to bad things." As soon as Ram was done saying that a screen appeared with a girl in a techno uniform with a bright smile, and an annoyingly fake voice, who announced that Amber would be giving an important message.
Seconds later Amber appeared on the screen looking sick to her stomach. "Starting today the city will be under lockdown in order to ensure your safety, there will be a strict seven o clock curfew, anybody not inside at that time will be aressted. Anybody caught trying to escape will be considered a defector and punished accordingly."
Here Amber paused and looked as if she could'nt go on until someone offscreen apparently signalled her becausse she pulled herself together and continued in a slightly wavering voice. "Anyone currently outside city limits will unfortunatly not be permitted back inside to due to security reasons."
At the end Amber's voice broke and Jack felt sorry for her, that she should have to be the one to give this message to the people. Mega was way out of line and at the rate he was going, he was bound to to somthing even more drastic and stupid soon.
Jack wasnt sure whether to hope that all of his friends were within techno territory or outside because either way bad things were bound to happen.
It would be practicaly impossible now to get in and out of the city undedected, which made project, defeat Mega a whole lot harder.
Also on a purely selfish level, Lex was curently in liberty and with the latest resttrictions it looked like he would be sticking around for longer then planned. Of course in the same respect Slade wouldn't be able to get into the city either which created a huge problem.
"Wait a second."
Jack looked over at Ram who was wearing a triumphant smirk, the kind he got whenever he got the best of someone. Not quite daring to speak and interupt whatever was going on in Ram's head Jack just sat and waited for the ex techno to explain why he was waiting.
"I can cut the power down from here. It won't exactly be subtle but it will make the people angry with the technos and make it so that we can get around easily."
"Ya but if we do that Mega's bound to want revenge and they are the ones with the weapons."
"Without the power the zootists will get into the city, and cause chaos which will cause more work for Mega, I doubt he'll have to much time for us."
"Which is another problem. There are innocent people there and if we take away the only thing keeping the crazies out then people are bound to get hurt."
"True, but in the long run this plan will save more people then it will hurt."
That was true, but Jack couldn't help thinking about Mouse and Brady and all his other friends. They were probably the safest people in the city, what with the mall but in the same vein they were also in the most danger since Zoot had died at the mall.
It seemed the crazies were getting more powerful every day, and if they didn't do somthing then Mega wouldn't be thier only problem.
It seemed that they couldn't be free insane people trying to tell them what to do. Just look at the past five years, Zoot, the guardian, Ram, Mega, and now apprently Zoot was making a comeback.
They had to figure out a plan and quick.